oh god it opens with that 'electric piano' patch that's on every cheapo keyboard
this is gonna be monstrous in some way or another
― ciderpress, Sunday, 25 July 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
this is all a big running inside joke right guys? haha can't wait till we actually hear the record and have a good laugh about it
― al gore vidal gore (s1ocki), Sunday, 25 July 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe this explains why one of them abandoned ship.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i have been meaning to check these dudes out since forever and today is the first time i've actually openned this thread lol
― young monet (samosa gibreel), Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
this is all a big running inside joke right guys?
I wish :(
― skip, Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
someone should have sat them down in the initial stages and told them that they can't write songs and that they should forget that and put ten good tracks together. i wonder who wrote the lyrics, them or the singers? because they have to be written by someone who can't speak english well.
having said that i enjoyed boggling at this.
― jed_, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I might listen to this one or two more times in December, when I have to craft some kind of paragraph to award it WORST ALBUM OF THE YEAR.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
did you take any joy at all from it? because i laughed two or three times.
― jed_, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I probably just cringed at the things you laughed at. It's why I have a hard time watching embarrassing situations in tv shows like the original BBC The Office or whatever. I hate feeling that uncomfortable, and this album is that feeling magnified.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
lol guys stop ur beating this joke to death
― kim cardassian (s1ocki), Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I got an email last week saying this was beyond terrible, so maybe it's not a joke :/
― Matt DC, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i know, i'll shut up until more people have heard it.
― jed_, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Where are you people getting this alleged abomination from anyway?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
lmgtfy
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
what?cd
― jed_, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
man is this a shitty (2000s-style) indie pop record. i want to like it SO BAD, but i can't get down with anything other than "we can't fly" (which i still think is great). UGH. i know these guys are pop fetishists, but how did they not have the good sense to realize that they SUCK at doing it themselves. i probably would have jumped ship too if a record like this was going to be associated with me in any way
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Sunday, 25 July 2010 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
In this interview he goes on about feeling freed of the constraints of making dance music.
― Vasco da Gama, Sunday, 25 July 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
keep waiting for someone to swoop in and defend this
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 25 July 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
At first I wanted to use Mark Hollis from Talk Talk, but we couldn’t find him at all. But then I heard Poni Hoax’s “Antibodies” and their lead singer sounded exactly like Mark
!!!
― jed_, Sunday, 25 July 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Because what is Aeroplane? It’s slow BPM, melodic music…and when I’m DJing people don’t really want to hear that, I have to up the tempo. So I need these kind of uptempo tracks that still suit the Aeroplane feel, and it’s so hard to find suitable records. I spoke to Erol (Alkan) recently, and he said ‘why don’t you just make your own’, which is a good idea – I will probably make some music just for DJ sets which is slightly different form Aeroplane as you know it. In that respect, I have a couple of concepts ready, but I can’t say too much else just yet.
glimmer of hope?
― I DIED, Sunday, 25 July 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
This is like a really, really shit delorean album. Where is the lushness? Makes me wonder if they even, like, listened to their own remixes.
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 July 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Taken on its own and not as a follow-up to their previous material, there are only a couple truly WTF moments and I'm still not sure I'm not missing something. "I Don't Feel" is one of the most bizarre tracks I've heard all year but has something of Ariel Pink's "Round & Round" to it, which I hated initially and now love. Things actually get quite good around the 2-minute mark when the backing track starts to take over. "Good Riddance" is more lame than [i]bad<?i>, while "Fish in the Sky" appears unredeemable but is so weird that it's hard to know for sure.
BTW who are the vocalists?
― skip, Sunday, 25 July 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Tom Jones on Good Riddance?
― Vasco da Gama, Monday, 26 July 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Sky Ferreira on "Without Lies"
― I have an iTunes playlist called "That Feeling" (Tape Store), Monday, 26 July 2010 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to know how 'whispers' came into being, track before song I suppose?
― Vasco da Gama, Monday, 26 July 2010 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder who wrote the lyrics, them or the singers? because they have to be written by someone who can't speak english well.
“Then we found Nicole Morrier – who has written songs for Britney Spears – and got her to write the lyrics because I am very bad at that.”
There’s half an answer
“Where they are two ways I can go…I can stay in the shadows a bit, and focus on writing and composition, and maybe try to do something like Mark Ronson did with Amy Winehouse. Or I could keep doing albums as Aeroplane, I could sing on them, play live on my own…”
Maybe he should have made this decision slightly earlier...
― Has admitted to being awesome in order to have sex (sic), Monday, 26 July 2010 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
this has a new version of 'caramellas', is that any good?
kinda lolling @ this reaction. what's the last record with a bit of buzz that ILMers wanted to like* that went down in a screaming heap like this?
* - not indie landfill hype
― tea wrecks electric warrior (haitch), Monday, 26 July 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
The Xtina record was disappointing, but no trainwreck. Before that? I dunno. Can't think of anything.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 July 2010 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't understand the winehouse thing - is he implying that mark ronson wrote back to black? because he has a writing credit on one song on that record.
― jed_, Monday, 26 July 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
a co-writing credit.
Didn't he do the arrangements
― kim cardassian (s1ocki), Monday, 26 July 2010 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
he made his name as a producer/arranger/svengali dude, rather than a hip-hop DJ, off the back off the album
― Has admitted to being awesome in order to have sex (sic), Monday, 26 July 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
listened to this and while i will never (of my own choosing) listen to it again, i wasn't too surprised or shocked by how it sounded. it sounds VERY belgian to my ears and bertrand burgalat's input is blatantly apparent. i can imagine it having far more resonance with a european audience than with the average ilm poster and reckon it will be huge. if it wouldn't result in me having a contract taken out on my life i'd upload the demos of the album that were recorded around 18 months ago. even back then it was apparent (from the demos) that the album would take this kind of direction rather than that of the singles or remixes.
― stirmonster, Monday, 26 July 2010 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
this is maybe that classic good remixers/ bad original work or bad remixers/ good original work thing. seems to have been quite common in dance since forever. sasha/fatboy/justice/simian/soulwax/oakenfold/jaxx... they can do one of the 2 things really well but never both.
Mixmag have heard it and seem to be liking it. the quote in the feature is 'best album of the summer'.
― piscesx, Monday, 26 July 2010 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Except that until this, their 12'' singles and remixes have generally been fantastic..
― matt damon & the jb's (the anephric project), Monday, 26 July 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
The album version of Caramellas is good, as are London Bridge and My Enemy. It's clearly not that they have forgotten how to make the kind of music that made us all like them--they just don't seem interested in doing that all the time any more. Can't blame them, but you also can't blame fans for responding negatively.
― skip, Monday, 26 July 2010 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i for one am going to blame them
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 July 2010 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
The strange thing here, as stirmonster points out, is that all these songs were written and demoed before the Aeroplane buzz started - by early 2008, according to Vito - so this album was being slowly put together at the same time as the big remixes and singles. It's just that nobody knew about them, so it seems like a drastic transition from one sound to another. Odd record.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 26 July 2010 06:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Bits of this album remind of me of the Phil Oakey & Giorgio Moroder record.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 26 July 2010 07:29 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda lolling @ this reaction. what's the last record with a bit of buzz that ILMers wanted to like that went down in a screaming heap like this?
I don't think I can actually think of one that had this level of virtually unanimous goodwill followed by this level of virtually unanimous "this is shit".
Still haven't heard it but I really want to out of some sort of morbid fascination.
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 July 2010 08:41 (thirteen years ago) link
this album isn't that bad! and mostly not even that surprising. there are a few, uh, curveballs, a couple of which are really horrific, and the more traditional aeroplane moments aren't as all-out blissful and immediate as their remixes, which was expected. bits of it remind me of a weaker version of gatekeeper's optimus prime ep, it has the same sense of ludicrousness.
the ost & kjex album is much better, i might start a thread on that at some point.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 26 July 2010 09:03 (thirteen years ago) link
actually that gatekeeper ep is super good. a youtube, as i think it would pertain to the interests of most reading this thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZaB3Jxmygo
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 26 July 2010 09:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Not a single thing on the Aeroplane album as nice as that Gatekeeper track.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 July 2010 09:20 (thirteen years ago) link
this is an interesting i/v w/r/t aeroplane - http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2010/07/20/interview-aeroplane/
actually i think this album's best track is "i don't feel", merry clayton's vocals on that are awesome.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 26 July 2010 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm still convinced that you lot are listening to some crap demos that they leaked to punnish internet downloaders and leakers and when the REAL album comes out it will be super amazing of the sort of thing we expect from Aeroplane.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
::sticks fingers in ears and sings la la laa la la::
― The Milkman's Wife (Masonic Boom), Monday, 26 July 2010 09:25 (thirteen years ago) link
ah the old human after all story
― the tape store called... (cozen), Monday, 26 July 2010 09:26 (thirteen years ago) link
OK, my curiosity got the better of me. "I Don't Feel" is flat-out amazing. I'll probably buy the album when it comes out, just to get my hands on that.
That said, the majority of the clips are downright skippable.
I think this album has been so long in the making and so highly built up that whatever they came up with would be a disappointment. I can see some of the points being made in this thread, but it's not like this is the Second Coming levels of awfulness or anything.
― The Milkman's Wife (Masonic Boom), Monday, 26 July 2010 10:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah ah hahahahah, OK, I've figured out how to work the Juno Player to play it in order.
Just as I was getting to the end of the first song and thinking "Jeez, who let Andrew Lloyd Webber in here? This has gone a bit late 70s Disco-Rock Opera..." and then the next song is actually called Jesus Christ Superstar.
It's kind of cocaine nightmare in places, but in quite a funny way. It just sounds like it shouldn't have been allowed to have the production budget it did, because I wish it sounded as organic as a Prins Thomas record rather than this sheen, but still.
It really is kind of Jesus Christ Superstar as rewritten by Cerrone, and I mean that in... well, I'm really not sure whether I mean that in a good way or a bad way. (I mean, I grew up on Jesus Christ Superstar, so that's got good signifiers to me.)
― The Milkman's Wife (Masonic Boom), Monday, 26 July 2010 10:57 (thirteen years ago) link
not heard this at all but i'm really struggling to match up these descriptions.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Monday, 26 July 2010 10:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Does the idea of "Jesus Christ Supernature" fill you with dread or vaguely nostalgic goodwill? This will shape your response to this record.
― The Milkman's Wife (Masonic Boom), Monday, 26 July 2010 11:04 (thirteen years ago) link