and I like the female vocals
― ENBB, Monday, 7 February 2011 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I really really love this. The vocals are definitely the weakest link, but I'd rather hear the female vox than the guy.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 February 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ the closing track making me think of The Black Swan
― gr8080, Thursday, February 3, 2011 1:06 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark
That doesn't happen to be B.S.E. does it? In which she sings "Black Swan Event" (BSE)? :-)
― LBI clearly believes the cat is gone (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, February 5, 2011 12:19 AM (2 days ago)
No, I see what gr8080 is talking about. The final track, the title track, has lyrics like "feathers push through my skin", "creature of change", and "I am shapeshifting". I can totally see what he was getting at.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 February 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i mixed 'peripheral visions' into a set last wknd & it went ovr p well
still not ~totally~ sold on this but i think its got some really great tracks at least
― cowboys_defeats_magic_earth2.jpg (Lamp), Monday, 7 February 2011 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
For what it's worth, within like 5-10 listens to that first posted track, we have everything, the vocals have gone from "eh" to perfect.
― EDB, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Female vocalist strikes me as a mixture of Annie Lennox, Pat Benatar and early Sarah McLachlan - not amateurish!
― Tim F, Friday, February 4, 2011 10:25 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
she sounds like the chick from the cranberries!
― max, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway i think i might like this more without vocals. this & the new destroyer & the new cut copy are all terrific albums getting dragged down (for me) by irritating (to me) vocals
― max, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I agree about all of those LP's. On all the music is great but vocals grate too much to repeat listens. Wonder if this will be the next pthfrk bnm to complete the trifecta?
― du mein bestie (micarl), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
why does this trend for indie balearica exist. don't want it, won't see it.
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 08:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Lex, you do realise that the first balearic revival thread on ILX was actually the Studio thread, right?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Between Studio and A Mountain of One, balearic revivalism was always already indie.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i never liked a mountain of one precisely because of the vocals :(
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:07 (thirteen years ago) link
but there's so much balearic/nu-disco stuff without bad vox, without any indieness, that it's quite obvious why i don't think of it as indie
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i think destroyer might be my first big war of 2011
Balearic was always the indie circle on the space disco / beardo disco / balearic venn diagram.
Maybe you really just like space disco and disco revivalism with balearic elements?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i love the amo1 vocals
― max, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I dug them on the collected works (for the most part) and esp the first EP, but I haven't been able to sit through Institute of Joy.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess? i never really paid attention to the taxonomy of any of this. i like lindstrøm and d. lissvik instrumentals and everything touched by permanent vacation and that amazing disco re-edit in your thread and the latest magician mix and aeroplane when they were good and todd terje. does this mean i have to stop using the word balearic :(
but c'mon for real destroyer are the actual worst in both theory and practice
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean really if i could pick the thing i LEAST WANT in this music it's THAT FUCKING INDIE VOICE. why is this happening? why are people suckers for that shit?
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Well if you want to avoid inadvertently referring to stuff you might not like, yeah.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Lex have we checked on your opinion of Steely Dan (excluding Tori covers of same) before? I feel like we have but I can't remember what the conclusion was.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:25 (thirteen years ago) link
since when did "balearic" refer only to the indie shit and not to the good stuff, anyway? is this a just-ilm thing or did some disco revivalist committee decide on this at some point
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i like the two steely dan songs i've heard (but not as much as the tori cover), i have a steely dan album in my itunes that i've been meaning to listen to for i think 3 years now*, i like the idea of them in my head but if they're anything like destroyer i am definitely just going to delete it unheard
*record holders are can - i think i've had TWO albums by them in my itunes for four years now but i still haven't heard a note of either
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:29 (thirteen years ago) link
since when did "balearic" refer only to the indie shit and not to the good stuff, anyway?
it doesn't, but nor can you separate balearic from "the indie shit". In particular, "balearic" has heavy historical grounding in effete white pop-rock, which lends itself to indie revivalism as readily as disco revivalism.
Steely Dan don't have similar vocals to destroyer, but I'm just curious as to the limits of your aversion to (in this case only slightly) whiny white male vocals.
you listened to destroyer before can??
― Tim F, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:33 (thirteen years ago) link
the latest magician mix
do you mean BEANS? cause that one is amazing and balearic in many ways (including containing divisive indie elements waha)
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i like the two steely dan songs i've heard (but not as much as the tori cover), i have a steely dan album in my itunes that i've been meaning to listen to for i think 3 years now*, i like the idea of them in my head but if they're anything like destroyer i am definitely just going to delete it unheard*record holders are can - i think i've had TWO albums by them in my itunes for four years now but i still haven't heard a note of either― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Monday, February 7, 2011 11:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Monday, February 7, 2011 11:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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― gr8080, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i prioritise stuff that's current, as ever
yes! entire thing was awesome.
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
it doesn't, but nor can you separate balearic from "the indie shit"
i find i can separate the stuff i like very very easily from the indie shit
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:39 (thirteen years ago) link
How did Destroyer/Dan Bejar infect this thread? Keep that shit in its own place where I never have to hear about it.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 09:46 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ This is kind of what I was getting at upthread.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Also this. And a bit "crap Sinead O'Connor". It's all a bit self-consciously late-80s early 90s etheral warble.
The guy's vocals aren't actually significantly different from the guy from the Junior Boys or that Twin Shadow dude. But the songwriting isn't really up to Junior Boys quality.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I've always thought that encoded in the concept of "balearic" was a kind of aesthetic redemption of certain kinds of stylistic "failure" - which is perhaps the most anti-Lex notion I can concoct (at least excluding notions about whiny white male vocals). Expounded on this here and here.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
She sounds a bit like Shakira to me fwiw.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
the moment (on "blown minded") when she pronounces the words 'sublime intuition', it's like 1996 all over again
― proso_Opopoeia (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 11:52 (thirteen years ago) link
― Matt DC, Tuesday, February 8, 2011 5:12 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
dude's vocals aren't junior boys quality, either
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
This sounds pretty good to me today. Even the over-singing, melodramatic chicks vocals aren't annoying me.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 10 February 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been loving this album the past month or so (helped by the great weather we've been having in the UK) but whenever I listen to it I'm inevitably left with a sense of yearning for Yearbook 3 and I don't think that's ever going to happen :(
― groovypanda, Thursday, 21 April 2011 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
With the dawn of summer, this album gets better and better. Beach music, imo.
― failure to recognize semi-ironic 'faggot' (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 20 May 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
this album is god damned excellent
― you penis-curling she-devils (jamescobo), Saturday, 21 May 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
they are happy parents!
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 21 May 2011 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
So good!
http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2013/01/23/premiere-young-galaxy-pretty-boy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GVSB+%28gorillavsbear.net%29
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
The bigger tracks on the new album are spectacular, world conquering songs. In particular "Fall For You" which sounds like a more strident (lol this is young galaxy) take on The Tough Alliance's "A New Wave".
― Tim F, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
See also "Fever", "Out The Gate Backwards", "Sleepwalk With Me".
"Out The Gate Backwards" is on that Studio go Happy Mondays tip in a way nothing has been since the actual Studio album.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
Mssr Lissvik still produces? Keen to hear this, though might have to salt it away until summer.
― etc, Thursday, 11 April 2013 10:54 (eleven years ago) link
I've pre-ordered but have been looking almost daily to see if it's leaked as this is possibly my most anticipated album of 2013. Loved Shapeshifting and the little I've heard of this so far sounds great.
I really wish Studio were still together.
― groovypanda, Thursday, 11 April 2013 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
Definitely living up to expectations so far
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 10:13 (eleven years ago) link
I really like "Pretty Boy"
― monster_xero, Thursday, 18 April 2013 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
'new summer' is my fav so far
― ciderpress, Thursday, 18 April 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
Really hope the Peaking Lights remix getting a vinyl release
― du mein bestie (micarl), Thursday, 18 April 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
Every time I put this album on it makes me so happy.
― Tim F, Monday, 22 April 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago) link