official i love music thread for AEROPLANE

"good riddance" is definitely in the conversation when it comes to the o_0 worst track

Is Good Riddance the Tom Jones one or the awful soppy Fleetwood Mac one?

Oh god no, now I'm doing it. :-(

I do actually have to hand it to them, that they have made such an *over the top* album. I mean, there's no halfway here. There's no way you can say that this album is boring, and that is quite an accomplishment. I mean, to be honest, a polite but perfectly boring "here is some nice polite nu balaeric beats" would have been a far worse result.

It is comically over the top and ridiculous, but it seems like sometimes that does actually work.

My two favorite tracks are the least confrontational ones. Maybe I'M boring.

And by favorite tracks, I mean the ones I'd consider not deleting.

"good riddance" is the tom jones one

and yeah so many dance artists end up making perfectly ok albums that you can't really remember any track on. this is...not like that, at least :/

stiff competition but i think "without lies" is the worst thing on here, it's embarrassing. a couple of the non-vocal tracks are okay but not great & caramellas was better before.

haha no i love it, what's to hate about it? "when i eat cake...i prefer the cherry"

yes, that!

apparently it's a cover of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFJMTQP8Ctw

and if that's really sky ferreira singing, that makes it even better

(have we IDed all the vocalists? merry clayton on "i don't feel", sky ferreira (?) on "without lies"...maybe the remaining ones would prefer to stay anonymous.)

Mark Hollis on "Fish in the Sky".

Oh no, wait, its the guy from Poni Hoax it's just that they sound exactly the same.

Correct responses to the Aeroplane album:

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I think the vibe I wish they'd gone for is something closer to the Allez Allez and Grace Jones remixes, kind of camp but still terrific and still really hands-in-the-air disco.

I think the only out-and-out keepers here are We Can't Fly and the closing track. My Enemy is okay but it feels a bit... cheap? Sort of Asda ad disco. Original version of Caramellas >>>>> the original. Saturday isn't bad, will probably give it another listen. Everything else can fuck off.

what's the last record with a bit of buzz that ILMers wanted to like* that went down in a screaming heap like this?

Maybe the most recent thing I can think of was Wiley's See Clear Now which had pretty high expectations after Wearing My Rolex and seemingly had no defenders whatsoever when it came out. That didn't have 18 months worth of build and anticipation though.

Plus Wiley puts out a new album every 6 months.

I haven't heard this but these days dance producers really get only one shot every half decade to put out an album and do it right.

They should put out a Misch Masch style collection stat.

i don't think xtina's latest album has any real defenders, bar a couple of tracks. m.i.a., maybe - it has its very vocal defenders but i still get the impression that most were disappointed by it. when see clear now dropped it was abundantly clear from the mark ronson and daft punk singles that preceded it that it was gonna be a dog.

They should put out a Misch Masch style collection stat.

Funny you should say that, Tiefschwarz were the other act I thought of, if anything they had an even richer selection of remixes under their belt, their remix collaboration was one of the best releases of 2004 and the album dropped and it was such a limp change of direction. That was disappointing rather than actively awful though.

Trying to think of great recent remixers/producers who have successfully made the transition to "proper" songwriters... Trentemoller's the only one who comes to mind right now.

Tiefschwarz was the first example I thought of where prolific DJ/remixers stumble in the transition to album artists. Black Strobe too - loved their remixes, but the album was full of horrible vocals and goth melodrama.

Equally, though, there's Rex the Dog who put out a solid collection in the vein of his singles (even including his best moments) and that just disappeared. It's a tricky transition.

Haha I quite liked the Black Strobe album, and becoming a proper schlocky goth rock band wasn't that far outside their comfort zone.

rex the dog did it about 3 years late, and his style was always one that was destined to sound dated eventually.

jacques lu cont fits in here somewhere - post-confessions he wasn't exactly trying to be an album artist, but he definitely fell off in a similar way.

I think mroe often than not it's a case of writer's block and overthinking things though - all of these are examples of artists who could churn out amazing remixes (that were mostly their own ideas) on a weekly basis but suddenly freeze and take two years to work on an uninspiring album.

JLC doesn't fit here, he just started working with bad artists with shit songs.

but in JLC's jesus period he did a ton of sow's ear/silk purse tracks - "mr brightside" for heaven's sake!

Zoot Woman's a prime example. I disagree that his remixes fell off dramatically. They became more generic but not bad. The Muse and Depeche Mode ones are fine.

but in JLC's jesus period he did a ton of sow's ear/silk purse tracks - "mr brightside" for heaven's sake!

Yes but Mr Brightside doesn't fundamentally change the song, just the arrangement, it's essentially a good tune that the Killers dealt with hamfistedly. He couldn't do that with the songs the Killers came up with on their third album because they weren't as good, and the likes of Frankmuzik just couldn't write songs in the first place.

In fact all of JLC's sow's ear/silk purse tracks are pretty much examples of fixing the things that are wrong with half-decent tunes. He should have stayed away from Starsailor though.

No the Starsailor remix is the most extreme example of awfulness --> brilliance surely.

JLC stopped trying I think: his productions (and remixes) for the Madonna album are basically the last time he really tried to pull out all the stops with that whole tsunami of sound thing. He's had decent remixes since (like his remix of Sneaky Sound System) but they're just not as all-encompassing sounding.

"silver screen shower screen" was pretty transformative

important point:

were the song titles on this actually PROPHETIC?

first of course 'we can't fly' -> they can not 'fly' as solo artists

'the point of no return' -> have they reached this 'point'

'i don't feel' -> many people seem to be saying '"i don't feel" this album'

'good riddance' -> now that they have broken up, many listeners seem to be wishing them 'good riddance'

'we fall over' -> are they saying they have 'fallen over' as artists

please discuss

Yes! It's a concept album about being shit! Brilliant concept.

I think Silver Screen Shower Scene is a bit different to the others given it's a remix of a certified club banger rather than a remix of a bogstandard bit of major label indie.

A+++

xp

ya but one that really changes the song in a way that remixes of club hits most often don't... it basically becomes a whole new thing.

his finest hour imo

i'm listening to this now and i really do not know what to make of this thing

'fish in the sky' just started and i liked the first 5 seconds and was like what's the big deal but then the rest of the song happened

'my enemy' kind of sounds like abba. 'save all your love for me'

'caramellas' -> no one 'cares' about the '(m)fellas' in aeroplane now

The new Milky Disco comp is out!

Listening to this album gives me the same creepy feeling I had when I saw the Vice guide to North Korea documentary.

this sounds like Goblin

a very disjointed album. the french, '70s obscurist, disco dancin, suspirial metaller part of me revels in this. But the sensitive, british, bullshit-detecting part of me's just fidgeted by intrusive vocals and wet wet wet guitar solos.
The first half, at least the first four tracks, are relatively familiar territory; there being relatively few tracks this year that I've enjoyed as much as We Can't Fly. Then I Don't Feel bursts in like Loleatta Holloway fronting the Jam, destroys the whole mood of the album thus far, and has a job trying to build it back up again. But it does manage, somehow turning into pure moments of hypnotic disco shimmer. It's pretty wobbly from then on - moments of ooh! see-saw with moments of arggh!! It's really not a terrible album at all, but with the hype around Aeroplane at fever pitch for a while now, I'm left questioning whether this is the best quality work they (now he) could have done.

ok WOW @ this ost & kjex album. i'm the type that tends to overstate things/get a little too excited sometimes, but i might like this better than the lindstrom & christabelle album! the production is effing amazing, and they actually know how to write pop songs! starting to think they deserve their own thread.

go ahead! i was going to but i hate starting threads on new artists, they always seem to end up in tumbleweeds

weird

http://i18.tinypic.com/6ki7x3t.jpg

xp, at least you and tim will show up for the party...

this new OST & KJEX album makes me really happy.

" late for the July Mix ! Trying to do something a bit different... Ripping vinyls ... Will be there by the week end ! All my apologies..."

perhaps everyone here is just behind the curve. maybe zane lowe really does know: "‎" Superstar " played by Zane Lowe yesterday on BBC Radio 1. Comparing it to Alan Parson's " The Raven " or " an heavy version of AIR " or even compared it to Muse !! With no irony I want to thank him for really understanding that song !"

also sounds like he's had it rough the last few days. poor vito.

Well, to get Alan Parsons' The Raven when you're expecting Proxy's The Raven is a bit of a stretch.

wonder if WOS will package the album with an extra cd of remixes, even if its just a limited run.
that way, its a guaranteed seller.