Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting

i just got the Blake album & played Woon a week ago or so, i think the Blake album has both higher highs & lower lows, if that makes sense

Don't get the comparison at all tbh. There's not a single song on the James Blake album that doesn't make me want to punch a baby, whereas the Woon album is close to flawless.

punching babies not cool; you should settle for punching blake's baby face

If I had a baby and it had Blake's face I'd punch it, that wouldn't be natural.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_4AxzvhCPY

There is no way he has got a baby face.

Student Face more like.

I wouldn't compare the two mind, I mean if you throw Woon and Blake together you may as well throw in Katy B. It just doesn't work yeah they all have a bass thing going on beu they all come at it diffrently. Katy B big girl next door pop anthems, Woon electronic indie/soul song writer material, Blake looped-out electronic freakery. Woon and Blake use a simular pallet, Blake sings but doesn't try to make songs, woon has been attempting to make songs for ages as some London free indie mic spot monkey untill he found the bass scene. Nowt wrong with any aproach really but they all have a difference no point comparing them to me at least. They do diffrent things.

Loving this album.

Where are we finding this? Usual sources not turning anything up...

mailed u

me2

do u guys not have google toolbars?

if you google mirorrwriting (with the typo) you shld find it...

oh. i didn't know it was a typo. perhaps that is why. I was searching "mirrorwriting" and "jamie woon"

mirrorwritting too

ha i obv had no idea about the misspell

idgi re: google toolbars

I really like this album and the track that's standing out to me the most is the one that has the line 'you can try on anything for free'. I've been playing it while i clean and unpack so I haven't really followed song titles yet.

Oooh I like this album.

oh this is EXTREMELY impressive!

(so far, track 6)

The leak is only 128k right?

my hangover's giving this the thumbs up so far

'middle' in partic is different gravy

do u guys like ladyluck tho?

I do.

plax, i likr it but it sounds totally amazing as part of the album

likr like

hmm

oh you

jesus the vocal on gravity is just beautiful. i find this genuinely exciting.

Really, until further notice, this is my favorite album of the year.

The leak is only 128k right?

not a dud on it. really accomplished song writing. great vocals & production. wow!

Really, until further notice, this is my favorite album of the year.

Like, I get as excited listening to this as I did by Portishead's Third and that remained my favorite album for all of 2008.

i really enjoyed this when i listened to it. hangovers help, yes

I'm intrigued and all but the one thing nobody's said much on the thread is...exactly who is this guy? Meaning did "Night Air" come out of nowhere or had he already been building a rep?

he was a guardian reader folk singer i think, his version of wayfaring stranger got a big hyped burial remix around the time of the first burial album and then this collab

From what I gather, he'd been toiling in obscurity for a couple years before Burial agreed to work with him on "Night Air" and then he went FULL AWESOME and now can't be stopped.

i'd heard of him a while before that, just as a random soul singer about town doing vox on uk urban underground tunes (like fatima, ahu etc) - this actually remains one of his finest tracks imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dw1PTtu2dE

idk if i'd call it toiling in obscurity, as with katy b i think he always meant to build up to this - what both of them did for a few years prior to their breakthrough was more like build up a portfolio

Your ear is closer to the ground in that sector than a lot of us, though. I had no idea who he was until about six months ago.

i actually had read about him in the guardian but w/e

dude just has an awesome, distinct voice & some solid songwriting chops

sometimes i get kind of worried the song is gonna veer into barely-there territory but he'll save it w/ a little melodic flourish

i've been aware of him since 'wayfaring stranger' a few years ago (although i assumed it was part of an album, not just a single). at the time i figured he was the next jamie cullum or whatever, who was lucky or had enough $ to get a burial remix.

immaculate album but i must reiterate i strongly feel 'middle' is the track that resolves the whole

gonna give it a day and hope no one else dares in the meantime in case i clown myself with the proclamation i was just about to make

is Middle the last track? I sort my library by date added so i generally listen to albums 'backwards' since the last track is the most recently imported. I always hear Middle first. Don't love it but it don't mind it either.

No, middle is the fifth track - scroll up in this thread about two weeks for the tracklist (just above tge cover artwork)

tge -> the

when's the official release date for this?

April 11th I think.

dude was supposed to play toronto w/ mt. kimbie on friday but dropped out at the last minute. i'm not sure about why he couldn't make it, but it's a shame because i was really looking forward to hearing what he's like live.

Yeah, Montreal was supposed to be last night but he bailed. Between that and the cancelled Kingdom/Girl Unit/Bok Bok gig Friday I am less than pleased.

ok so this is much better than I expected it to be - still not convinced by "lady luck" but anyone who's heard the early acoustic versions of "spiral" and "gravity" knows that these versions are so much improved with the electronic flourishes. amazing sound.

(srsly, "Gravity" = sexxx)