apparently the drummer has been shot? http://earlboykins.blogspot.com/2008/07/tim-dewit-from-gang-gang-dance-shot.html
― mizzell, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
That's insane
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
tim's already bragging that he is off painkillers btw and he maintains thats a great bar too
― noizez duk, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahahahaaa
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I should have included this in my anticipation thread, dagnabbit. From Uncut:
"Saint Dymphna is a kind of super-produced, precision-tooled, pop and dancefloor-primed rebooting of tribal psych. I’ve been playing it all week, and the constant ebb and flow makes it quite tricky to identify separate tracks. But on the other hand, it is a record that lends itself to a great landslide of references.
So amidst all the contrasting beats, from the fervid drum circles to programmed sputters that recall a goth-tinged Timbaland, various bits of “Saint Dymphna” make me think of contemporary New York bands like Outhud, or a friendlier Black Dice. There are elements of Bjork, quite late Can, Yoko Ono, and a fantastic grasp of how variegated global rhythms can mix with ultra-modern western electronica that makes me think of the Sun City Girls on DFA (or, God help me, the sort of fusion that Transglobal Underground always strived for).
The outstanding track, though, is called “Vacuum”, and features a prominent melody that seems to closely echo the siren riff from My Bloody Valentine’s “I Only Said”, hazily reconfigured over a backing that’s somewhere between ambient dub and kosmische synthprog. The hyper-creative drift of “Saint Dymphna” as a whole is pretty gripping, but this one’s the keeper."
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 12 September 2008 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Excited. When is this coming out?
― Alex in SF, Friday, 12 September 2008 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
this album is going to be a big one
― Surfboard Pre (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Friday, 12 September 2008 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
this album is really fucking good.
― Creeztophair, Friday, 12 September 2008 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
have ppl downloaded that song w/ tynchy stryder?
― t_g, Saturday, 13 September 2008 01:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Excellent record - very close to the live GGD experience sonically. My only complaint is the seemingly reduced presence of Lizzie B's vocals throughout. Otherwise fucking rad.
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, 13 September 2008 05:01 (fifteen years ago) link
live ggd experience minus all the things that make it really awesome = me sitting at laptop with headphones listening to saint dymphna thinking about the girls that go to ggd shows and being pissed off but also kinda happy that im listening to pretty rad new music from original ish band from nyc
― Surfboard Pre (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Saturday, 13 September 2008 06:13 (fifteen years ago) link
is surfboard = nu-nu-nu ilx steve shasta?
― ian, Saturday, 13 September 2008 06:23 (fifteen years ago) link
― t_g, Friday, September 12, 2008 9:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
it's on gorilla vs bear.
― mizzell, Saturday, 13 September 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
This album is pretty amazing. My first exposure to them and I'm absolutely loving it. It's all over the place, but in the best possible way. Outstanding production as well.
― Chris in Belfast, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 09:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, this is totally brilliant.
― Tim F, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I don't get the people complaining about this record at all. It's fantastic. As good as God's Money if not better.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
keep meaning to pick up the album, the tinchy track is sick
― lex pretend, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Parts of this are suspiciously Excepter-ish... people are talking...
― ▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 27 October 2008 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
About what?
― Alex in SF, Monday, 27 October 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm intrigued by it. House Jam is cool. Liked God's Money and one or two other things. Like some Excepter as well. Have they finally hit their stride on the new album?
― Treblekicker, Monday, 27 October 2008 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm so amazed at how beautiful this album is. It's like driving through a rainforest hard up against a coastline, and every time you turn a corner you come across an amazing new vista. Except that happens every twenty seconds or so.
Right now this is duking it out with The-Dream and Luomo to be my album of the year. I think it might win.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
What is The-Dream?
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
i have a dream that all artists will get threads titled solely "LP"wherein the actual LP in question just changes over time
― noizez duk, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
hmmm is it really that good? should i try to slsk?
i have spent some time with GGD and they are great people, but i can sense some of what others say about them-- ie, that Lizzie and the guitarist are fashionista scene-climbers who care more about being cool than anything else. (of course, this criticism is suspect, as it comes from the mouth of former collaborators with the two of them. ahem).
anyway, does anyone love Angelblood as much as i do?
― the table is the table, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link
this album is so well sequenced and very listenable. the ebb and flow mentioned upthread is very otm. you have spent time with josh and think he cares about nothing but being cool? dude is so nice.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 02:05 (fifteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1
The very late December 2007 r'n'b release by Terius "The-Dream" Nash, songwriter and producer known for "Falsetto" on his own cd, and for co-writing "Umbrella" among other songs.
Interesting recent Melena Ryzik feature on Gang Gang Dance in the NY Times-- It says they still have trouble paying their rent and they want to get their music heard by a wide audience-- "Ms. Bougatsos is ready for the attention. “There’s no such thing as selling out in my mind,” she said, adding that she would love to have her music featured on a TV show soundtrack: “A Jeep commercial, a tampon commercial, anything,” she said. “We’re a band, we make music, and that’s what we want to be known for.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/arts/music/21gang.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
i dunno, i listened today again and liked a few songs, but i'm not ready to crown them yet. perhaps repeated listens will help.
― Kevin Keller, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait there is a coronation coming up?!?!
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 04:02 (fifteen years ago) link
not from me!
― Kevin Keller, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 04:15 (fifteen years ago) link
"First Communion" is great. The Hot Chip remix of "House Jam" is interesting in that you can hear her lyrics much more clearly. They're... hippy-ish. Anyway, love it.
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
One of the best of the year!
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i can't even imagine that being said about Josh. but for serious, the Tinchy Stryder track shoulda been a b-side.
― beta blog, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
the tinchy song's great!
― t_g, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, the only dud is the spoken word piece.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Seriously, one of my favorites for the year.
― Bomb Bomb Iran (san frandisco), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
A handy pop cousin to Eric Copeland's 'Hermaphrodite'. Totally acecakes.
― Mister Craig, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
“A Jeep commercial, a tampon commercial, anything,” she said. “We’re a band, we make music, and that’s what we want to be known for.”
this is sad.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
what do you do for a living that's so incredibly noble, internet poster Shakey Mo Collier?
― Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I work for an energy efficiency engineering firm during the day and play music by night. Because music doesn't pay. And that is sad. That's all I was referring to.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
it would be a pretty rad tampon commercial though shakey
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I got what Shakey meant: good luck to Gang Gang Dance (and they may well make excellent radio jingles) but the implication is that their desire to do commercials has been forced upon them by their financial circumstances.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
ah, sorry for the snark, shakey!
― Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
haha yeah fair enough!
I'm just saying you can look at the downward trajectory of how musicians make a living in the 20th century and its fairly depressing - at first you could make a living by playing live constantly (weeklong engagements, gigging nightly, etc.), then you could make a living selling records/tapes/CDs, etc. Now the only way to make a living is to attach your music to some shitty product.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
seriously. even touring is cost-prohibitive thanks to gas prices. if any band sells out, more power to them, IMHO.
― Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, and even that's for just one song's worth of download money anyway. It doesn't seem right that genuinely talented musicians have to do it as a hobby instead of a profession.
― matt2, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
itll be awesome when theres a band w/gang gang dance/excepter style sensibilities that has more conventional awesome songs and singing - this is by no means a criticism of said bands - btw are there any bands like that
― 888 (ice crӕm), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
so this new Gang Gan Dance LP strangely sounds a lot like http://www.greenplanetmusic.com/images/TheLostScrollsOfMoses.jpg
― 888 (ice crӕm), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Animal Collective?
― Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
And GGD is def moving in that direction. There's some super SONGS on this rekkkkkid.
― Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
so this new Gang Gan Dance LP strangely sounds a lot like: mad professor - the lost scrolls of moses
― 888 (ice crӕm), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
"other people definitely like to say that but i have no idea where those artists get their inspiration from. i'd like to think that we have contributed to the general landscape in some way over the years though yeah. I do remember Grimes once saying Lizzi was an important vocalist."
― stoker (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 08:38 (five years ago) link
these Beatles, they sound just like Oasis
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 29 June 2018 12:35 (five years ago) link
boy i really like this record
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
Yep, i’m also reminded of the swooshy first discs of Northern Exposure 1 and 2.
― Tim F, Saturday, June 23, 2018 4:12 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh my god otm
One of the best records this year easily. Lush and gentle but with the trademark weird interludes this band is good for. When the record started I was like “oh shit, gang gang!”
― Rhubarb (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
lol also this album reminds me a bit of Bel Canto circa Magic Box.
― Tim F, Sunday, 1 July 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
never heard of that band or album but now I want to
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 1 July 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
this is the hazy sound of my summer
― ogmor, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 10:54 (five years ago) link
spoiled by riches with music this year but this may be the best record i've heard this year. perfect length, delivers in every way sonically...so good
― Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
Would anyone happen to have a spare DL code for this :)
I've been loving the tracks on YouTube, need to hear the whole thing properly.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 08:43 (five years ago) link
I know a way you can do that without ripping anyone off
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
ysi?
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 13:29 (five years ago) link
Lol Noel. Could probably help you despite paying for the record - share the love iirc
― Ross, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
I'm dithering over buying the FLAC on Bleep because it doesn't cost much less than the CD, and I'm put off buying the CD because it doesn't come with a download, unlike most CDs they stock, which feels a bit mean in this day and age.
So I'd just like to hear it and get enthused enough to go for one or the other.
Ross, thanks. Hit me up with an email if you feel so inclined.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
hey Noel, just saw your post (sorry)
i could likely help you if this is still needed, let me know (no computer at home but can do this at a friends this weekend)
i still think these are valid points
kazuashita title track sounds like enya/loreena mckennitt mashed with drum and bass, or something like delerium would do but more gnarly
sounds like a logical extension from beeDEEGEE and eye contact
especially the beat programming which is a lot like beeDEEGEE
-- im interested in how their sound evolved when their equipment was stolen years back, and possibly a thread about that at some point. Saint Dymphna seems like an outlier in their career now, but there are definitely sounds on that which seem to pop up on the new one
― Ross, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLrbPDhuaFs
― Ross, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
Ross, did you see this? https://www.stereogum.com/1994986/gang-gang-dance-2018-interview/franchises/interview/
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 18 October 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
no, thanks :)
― Ross, Thursday, 18 October 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
this is a really great record
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 October 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
I wrote off Kazuashita when it was first released; it seemed so slight compared with the absolute mindfuck of Eye Contact. That was a big mistake. I've relistened several times in the last couple of days, and Kazuashita really is quite a beautiful album. Lotus has such an enveloping atmosphere.
Anyone know what GGD have been up to in the ensuing four years? I hope they have some new music coming. I need this in my life right now.
― The Ghost Club, Thursday, 6 October 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
They're on a track with Meditations On Crime and Harper Sound called 'Crime Seed' released a few months ago. It's OK - A+ yalping from Lizzi tho
― nashwan, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
(Harper Simon)
― nashwan, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
they played in nyc during the omicron wave and i chose cowering at home to going out and checking it
seems pretty obvious in retrospect that they were light years ahead of their former contemporaries. All their stuff holds up really well, in general for 10+ year old records, and specifically compared against some other records from that timeframe …
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 6 October 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
kazuashita was a very good follow-up to eye contact, it's a similar vibe just chiller overall
― ufo, Thursday, 6 October 2022 23:47 (one year ago) link
Thanks for the intel nashwan and vapor. Glad they're still making music!
Just listened to Crime Seed, it was pretty inconsequential imo.
― The Ghost Club, Friday, 7 October 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
A recent-ish (December last year) performance here: https://issueprojectroom.org/video/gang-gang-dance
― Position Position, Friday, 7 October 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link