official i love music thread for AEROPLANE

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.

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?

Tom Jones on Good Riddance?

Sky Ferreira on "Without Lies"

I want to know how 'whispers' came into being, track before song I suppose?

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...

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

The Xtina record was disappointing, but no trainwreck. Before that? I dunno. Can't think of anything.

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.

a co-writing credit.

Didn't he do the arrangements

he made his name as a producer/arranger/svengali dude, rather than a hip-hop DJ, off the back off the album

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.

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'.

Except that until this, their 12'' singles and remixes have generally been fantastic..

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.

i for one am going to blame them

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.

Bits of this album remind of me of the Phil Oakey & Giorgio Moroder record.

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.

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.

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

Not a single thing on the Aeroplane album as nice as that Gatekeeper track.

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.

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::

ah the old human after all story

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.

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.)

not heard this at all but i'm really struggling to match up these descriptions.

Does the idea of "Jesus Christ Supernature" fill you with dread or vaguely nostalgic goodwill? This will shape your response to this record.

the ost & kjex album is much better, i might start a thread on that at some point.

Excited about this.

Not quite as bad as I was expecting after reading all the comments upthread but still a pretty poor album with some real wtf moments.

New version of Caramellas seems kind of pointless and pales in comparison to the original.

I think I would have been stunned hearing this 18 months or so ago but not so much now after having my expectations slowly eroded by their/his run of monthly mixes. Still surprised at how bad some of the tracks are though.

i found the previews pretty skippable. i've been losing interest in aeroplane lately - still love most of the 07/08/09 stuff but that breakbot remix is muck. really hate it. i also don't like the sound of the rerecorded caramellas.

on another note, picked up that ost & kjex album last week, should give it a listen...

haidooo!

I found some of them skippable, but there was enough to hold my interest in the others. And even the ones that were o_0 horrible, I was kind of curious, from the snippet, what the hell kind of context those moments would work in a song.

OK, now you lot have got me wondering what ost & kjex is, so I'm going to google.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihq9KZglcQI

OK, now you lot have got me wondering what ost & kjex is, so I'm going to google.

― The Milkman's Wife (Masonic Boom), Monday, 26 July 2010 12:24

You'll probably know this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihq9KZglcQI&feature=related

Ooh, make a wish Davek

i'll probably give it a proper listen when it leaks. hmm. still do love paris.

i first heard this ost & kjex track on tama sumo's panoramabar mix last year and it's one of the best on the album (which is pretty varied, lovely sounding and a lot of fun)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLLBAgavQ1Y

Yeah, I'm listening to their MySpace right now. This is fun, guys.

Kind of minimal Norwegian version instead of the maximal Belgian version of a similar thing.

I think that's what's gone wrong with Aeroplane, they started throwing the kitchen sink at their productions, instead of keeping it clean and minimal and got fussy instead of elegant.

Wackster post-balearic euro blokes fight:

Aeroplane vs Mungolian Jetset vs Ost & Kjex vs Ronny & Renzo

Yes, I like Continental Lover. Hard to put my finger on what it reminds me of..maybe Prince fronting Marc Romboy??

Haven't heard the whole Aeroplane album but the snippets were nowhere near as bad as you guys were indicating. Although, I can see the approach being very off-putting for the people who adored the remixes.

The Mungolian album was so slept on it's untrue...breaks my heart.

Go ahead, start that poll as an alternative to all the blah blah boring rock canon polls, pls. ;-)

(I'd probably pick Mungolian Jetset but need to listen to some more Ronny & Renzo first.)

You'll wish you'd been there for the Ronny & Renzo thread

The Mungolian album was so slept on it's untrue...breaks my heart.

time for a big'ol "OTM!" shout out.

i never liked the mungolian album, the ost and kjek remix i heard first had me initially excited tho, weird how i never bothered checking them out as a result.

I'm the opposite, I loved that Mungolian Jet Set album but the Milano Model remix always annoyed the shit out of me.

I got four tracks into the Aeroplane album at lunchtime and was thinking it was fine, not as great as I wanted it to be, but not terrible, certainly not particularly unexpected, then I Don't Feel started and suddenly I understood the gasfaces.

yeah the minute that started i basically gawped at my speakers in shock but it actually turned out to be good! the real horror is still to come.

ok fish in the sky

right