(picked up new buffalo's about last night ep at the same time - gorgeous packaging on both from modular. what else do they do, & is it all as gorgeously aussie post-avalanches pop as these two releases?)
― etc, Saturday, 23 October 2004 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link
http://members.aol.com/DragonCounty/graphics/fineartus.jpg
http://www.australienbilder.de/grafik/cd-cover/living3.jpg
http://umbrellamusic.com/images/large/rev_evandando.jpg
http://www.modularpeople.com/03/wolfmother/cd.jpg
http://www.novoselic.com/adrift/cover.jpg
http://www.hmv.com.au/product_images/646174.jpg
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 10:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 11:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link
that Wolfmother EP is joining with the other images to illustrate "what else [Modular] do, & [that it's] all as gorgeously aussie post-avalanches pop as these two releases"! I haven't heard the whole thing, but I've got the Woman promo, and it confirmed what I thought when I saw them play a few months back: this is much more fun than it ought to be but oh my goodness I can't imagine it translating to record and convincing radio-listening kids across the globe.
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mil (Mil), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Lino have disappeared, yes - one of them died, and Andrew Lancaster is in the Polaroids now.
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Haaaaaitch (haitch), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link
I'd love to hear that Lino remix, any good? The VHS or Beta one might be easier to seek or acquire, seeing as it's new.
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 28 October 2004 10:07 (nineteen years ago) link
saw 'em live a few weeks back @ ding dong in Mel. Good, but I couldn't believe they weren't in catsuits a la the Darkness, I couldn't take them seriously. Some people were taking them very, very seriously.
― jayque, Friday, 29 October 2004 02:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 31 October 2004 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link
I love this.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Barima thanks for the info on the Numbers ep.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― OCP (OCP), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 04:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 04:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 10:28 (nineteen years ago) link
very, very little from what I can see.
― OCP (OCP), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
I find this statement really funny because it's hard to imagine such an extreme TS opinion between these two rather similarly pleasantly poppy groups!
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Does anyone know if Kitsune might pick the album up? I know they put out Future as a single from the Midnight comp.
― Mil (Mil), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link
i've heard though that things may be tentatively starting to roll in the UK now..... would love to think so.
― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Last week I recorded the Future and Saturdays 12"s to laptop so I can listen to them at work! THE WAR CONTINUES.
― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 28 November 2004 02:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Friday, 3 December 2004 03:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:20 (nineteen years ago) link
particularly annoying as I listed everything I already have
might go and see them in a pub on NYE
― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 10:02 (nineteen years ago) link
They're playing at the Hopetoun with the Presets on NYE, right?
― C0L1N B, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― etc, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 03:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Thanks everybody.
I'm sure that if can just stroll into a record store in London and pick up a copy off the shelf, then somebody - Beggars Banquet maybe? - must have signed it up and are preparing to push it with a 'proper' release sometime in the new year?
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 24 December 2004 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Friday, 24 December 2004 03:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 24 December 2004 04:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B3CK3TTT, Friday, 24 December 2004 04:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 24 December 2004 07:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― C0l1n B--KETT, Thursday, 6 January 2005 06:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 6 January 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Need more of this Tango in the Night moment imo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4PpWWun53o
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i like the new song!
are you sure about the "waiting for tonight" thing... i mean i can KIND OF hear it but only if i squint my ears
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
ohh-oh-oh
― challop and a muff (deej), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i knew that's the part but stillllll... ok fine i believe you
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
What part and what about `Waiting for Tonight`?
― altered boners (rennavate), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
new album coming, single here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr67qC1IusQ
"Cold Water" is a song originally conceived in winter in Copenhagen, during a record cold fortnight of weather where I barely left my apartment (a time that feels strangely paralleled to now). Channeling the inhospitable conditions outside and using a few small pieces of instruments I had lying around, an idea for a song emerged. Then last year we managed to complete that idea in the studio together with the band. "Cold Water" is a song that felt significantly different from what we’d done in the past, and got us so excited that we wanted to build a group of songs around it in this new direction. And that’s what we did, also enlisting the help of Christoffer Berg (Fever Ray, The Knife, Depeche Mode) on mixing duties. The end result was our forthcoming album titled Freeze, Melt which will be released later in the year.
The end result was our forthcoming album titled Freeze, Melt which will be released later in the year.
― time is running out to retweet boing.gif (sic), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
Hah, just noticing I never even heard their 2017 record. This one sounds promising based on that track.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
New album out today.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 August 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
My copy arrived today, I really like it. A bit more downbeat than the last couple of records.
― michaellambert, Friday, 21 August 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
Running in the Grass is so super good. I have had it on repeat for the last hour. Overall this is a very solid album. Doesn't have the pop hits, but it's a cohesive listen. Enjoying it all, but Running In The Grass is the one i'll be playing the most.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 22 August 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
So far this whole album sounds like the great underappreciated second side of an album that everybody gravitates to for the crowd pleasing first three tracks.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 August 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
After 5 days of playing this on a loop, I’m ready to say this is my favorite album of 2020 so far.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 27 August 2020 04:12 (three years ago) link
I've only listened to it once and it kind of passed me by. I'll definitely be sticking with it though as they're one of the most reliable bands going. The last album was really underrated.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 27 August 2020 04:17 (three years ago) link
This is the first album of theirs I've mostly enjoyed since In Ghost Colours
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Thursday, 27 August 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
It's an album you need to play a few times. Not many tracks leap out as the 'hits', but it's so solid and coherent. I have to start at song 1 and let it play the whole way through.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 27 August 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
Ok yeah, you're right. I just put it on for a third listen on a walk in the sun and it sounded glorious. It felt too slight at first, but it's already starting to grip me with how it maintains that beautifully chilled out mood.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
I love "Zonoscope," but this is definitely the one that's drawn me back the most to listen to again and again since that one.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 August 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
Zonoscope is so great (if you take off Where I'm Going). I know a lot of people didn't rate it, but I thought Free Your Mind was great too. It's probably helped by seeing them on that tour and it being one of most fun shows I've ever been to.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
I guess I should give this a listen, but this is something that has definitely changed in my listening life. Like, I don't have the time / patience / bandwidth to sit with and listen to an album 3 or 4 times that doesn't immediately grab me, to allow it to sink in any more, unless I have some real motivation to do so? (And I'm not sure what that motivation would be.)
Casual listening of bands I like, but don't really *love*, has kind of fallen by the wayside again. Which I feel is kind of a personal flaw, but also maybe that filtering process is necessary?
― Extractor Fan (Branwell with an N), Friday, 28 August 2020 07:56 (three years ago) link
If you have to listen to an album by a band like Cut Copy three or four times for it to sink in then it's not doing the job properly. If they're not about the instant rush then what on earth is the point of them?
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 August 2020 09:13 (three years ago) link
Love this. The verses of "Like Breaking Glass" kinda sound like Eno/Cale's "Spinning Away" to me
― willem, Friday, 28 August 2020 09:15 (three years ago) link
I guess it depends on how one sees the band - like, are Cut Copy just a happy, funtimes pop band for dancing to, or have they become something more introspective and deeper which requires and rewards more attention? (I guess I'm thinking of the comparison of Perfume Genius, where I *do* feel that there is something deeper to them, that I should persist in trying to reach, even if the hit is not immediate.)
If a band has changed, but one's own perception of them has not shifted, maybe more listening it required to bridge the gap. But if they've changed to something that just doesn't appeal, or one's own desires have shifted (do I already have enough introspective bands in my life, and I just want happy fun party music now?) then it's not worth it. I'm trying to work out what the difference is, but I guess it's not important.
I'm listening to Like Breaking Glass right now, and there are lots of the interesting synth sounds and wurbles that I used to really love about their earlier pop singles? (But the tempo is quite slow and the melodies aren't as sugary, so.)
― Extractor Fan (Branwell with an N), Friday, 28 August 2020 09:32 (three years ago) link
I think if on first listen you don't like it, you won't like it. But if on first listen you do like it, on listen 3 you might light it a lot more. I don't know if there is anything newly deep about the group, but there is an air of melancholy to this one in particular that sounds different and perhaps demands a bit more commitment. Relatively speaking, of course. I was listening last night and for some reason kept thinking of Portishead's Third. This is not that, but it does present new facets of a group that had a pretty definable sound.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 August 2020 12:12 (three years ago) link
I guess i'm not really the kind of person who seeks out and values immediate sugary pop singles. Cut Copy already has a long list of pop hits you can shout along to, so i'm not that interested in them producing more of the same. I'm sure if they did put some of those kinds of songs on this album, people would be complaining about them treading water or just repeating themselves. Anyway, lots of music to listen to in the world, so convincing someone to like something you like is a waste of time.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 28 August 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
This sounded very immediate to me on first listen, it's very pretty and eager to please, it's not a collection of festival bangers but it doesn't strike me as something that's especially difficult to get into at all. Probably enjoyed it more than any of their records since In Ghost Colours.
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 August 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
I have so much I want to listen to, but I keep coming back to this album.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 20 September 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
First headphone listen today revealed to me that this album is at the very least impeccably mixed (by the guy who mixes the Knife and Fever Ray). Close listening to a song like "Stop, Horizon" was pretty revelatory, and also just pretty.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 October 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
yeah i love this, at least after my first listen. wasn't too hot on their last album. Free Your Mind is probably my favorite of theirs. can't wait to revisit this one soon.
― DT, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 08:30 (three years ago) link
the song that sounds like pacman at the start is fuckin baller
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 20 November 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link