i still wanna know if tim f. digs any M83 stuff. he won't tell me. does a ronan dig any M83 stuff? who listens to it anyway?
― scott seward, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
my overall take on Kaputt was "music for people who like the idea of Pet Shop Boys but find them too aggressive"
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, February 7, 2012 3:29 PM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
cheap slam, but half fair. kaputt is p obviously a mood piece, album-oriented, not would-be chart pop in a PSB vein. aggression is hardly the point. and are we really reduced to ridiculing music for its perceived lack of aggression, like 80s alt people sneering at "safe" radio pop?
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
the sales staff at b&b italia, two hungarian office cleaners, the middle classes (xp)
― BJ O (Lamp), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
I totally dig M83!
xp: contederizer dude, please keep up
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
for me dinner parties are almost always jazz then when everyone gets drunk it's house or disco.
x-post to scott, i only like those few older m83 remixes, where's that new yorker jpg when you need it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsC5Ecy5vio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR7gQV9vdTM
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
all the destroyer hate reminds me of the m people hatred. Destroyer = M People. Tasteful boring music that you could neither love or hate.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
i just love kaputt because it takes a lot of elements of dance music and pop music like synths and "out there" production techniques but it does it with songs that are so much more *intelligent* and well-crafted than what you hear in the top 40
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
i hate m people
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
actually tho the main thing i'm realising here after putting on that m83 remix is that superpitcher is way better than any of this music.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
this album is kinda like if you combined the best elements of the smiths with the best elements of katy b
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
so do i, ronan. But im just at the wind up now :)
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
It's possible to say that e.g. The XX is perfect and archetypal dinner party music for university educated indie listeners (and I know because I've been at these dinner parties) and still really like the music (in fact my fondest XX listening experience was at a beach bar in Nice where it was played on shuffle with Sade's Greatest Hits - what does that say?), and still really like dinner parties for that matter!
yeah sure, i agree with you there. i'm objecting in a general sense to the tiresome, self-aggrandizing disdain so often directed at "indie" on ILX, itt and elsewhere.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
destroyer fucking wishes he could write a hook as strong as "moving on up" or "one night in heaven"
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
WHY would you feel the need to put anything to do with the smiths within a 10 mile radius of katy b, leave her alone ;_;
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
m people is to simply red as destroyer is to pj harvey
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
genuine pity in my heart for u guys
mixed with a tinge of contempt of course
like a Destroyer song
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
the new m'shell ndegeocello album has some stuff that reminds me of kaputt, those are some of my favorite tracks on that album tbh, i wouldn't mind seeing a bejar/mshell collabo :)
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
The Destroyer album is like From The Choirgirl Hotel crossed with Aaliyah, only 10 times better than either.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
The reason it's better is that it's not manufactured or kooky, it's really intelligent and thoughtful.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
superpitcher, yeah. there's the dance thing again. its not even really a fair fight. any of those kompact dudes could make sweet 80's sounds and i wouldn't have to hear the destroyer dude singing and i would want to play it over and over again. so i guess that's really where i stand. there is just better/more enjoyable stuff out there. still would play an instrumental version of the destroyer album and probably dig it a bunch. might not play it over and over though.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
Abigail's Party has a lot to answer for.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
have you heard john maus, scott?
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
destroyer fucking wishes he could write a hook as strong as "moving on up" ― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend),
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend),
yeah Screamadelica is awesome!
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
hey, tim, what do you think of M83? (third time's a charm) okay, promise i won't ask again. he probably likes the early remixes too.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
xp: contederizer dude, please keep up]
pfft. i'm dancing as fast as i can...
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
i can't believe primal scream covered m people :(
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost Sorry Scott missed your first reference to this.
I quite liked the album before the recent one. Haven't heard the recent one. Should I?
Of the earlier stuff I liked it but (predictably) preferred the remixes as well.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
okay lol at this.
no, i don't think so. i get him confused with deadmaus. i'll look him up.
x-post
― scott seward, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
oh boy
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
not sure what type of lol tho
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
at, not with
― Tim F, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
we are descending into a troll/counter-troll vortex and it is totally awesome
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
oh i just wondered, tim. i don't really listen to M83 much. just on youtube. i think some of it is interesting. and i like some of the old/new blends that the guy gets. i think he's often successful at it. but, like i said earlier, i think the french are really good at the 80's.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
Most tedious thing said by worthless VHS idiot JOHN MAUS in p4k interview
― buzza, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
i think the french are really good at the 80's.
sébastien tellier >>>>>>>>>>>>>> m83 who are pretty much just raw material for superpitcher to make great
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
i will say that i like this destroyer stuff more than any ariel pink i've heard. i've never heard any ariel pink that ever made me want to hear ariel pink again. some of it sounded really terrible to me. felt like the lex whenever he hears, uh, stuff the lex hates. the smiths or something.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
oh god even i like destroyer more than ariel pink, at least it doesn't suffer from that "recorded in a drainpipe" thing
fucking wish i could shove ariel pink and his ilk inside a drainpipe
the smiths are even more repellent than all these people
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
dear god, i entirely missed that john maus interview/thread :/
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
ariel punkd
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
hey scott i know you didnt ask me but i like M83 less and less w/ every album but that said i still like them a lot!
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
I can't get past Gonzalez's voice.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
That third album was very much "so much useless 80s ephemera" but in a very pure way that I thought I might grow to love if I put effort into it. I probably would have listened to it more but in honesty I find it hard to really devote myself to albums like that which I hear only after they're p4k-etc. feted, even if I like them; maybe it's some weird sense that these albums don't need my opinion </backdoor bragging>
I would like more stuff with that really gauzy atmosphere I suppose, like Bon Iver's "Beth/Rest" only not Bon Iver??? Also AMO1's "Freefall".
― Tim F, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
never really been able to get the hang of M-83. i liked a few songs off dead cities once upon a time, especially "run into flowers", but the album bored me, overall. subsequent flirtation with anthemic 80s pop left me cold, though the sounds were often beautiful.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
not that anyone asked...
how can anyone not like 'kim and jessie'
― iatee, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
its woozy small hours music, too much coke, walled into yourself. i want you to love me, you send me a coffin of roses. i guess avalon is a fair reference, but it misses something. its music influence by avalon in the same way that life sometimes feel like its being refracted through movies. it feels cinematic inasmuch as sometimes it feels like you get lost in being somebody else in the dark. bringing a cigarette to your lips, watching the smoke billow up through the lights in the club. this is it though, the glassy surfaces. everything is an image. how hard it is to feel things sometimes. its not empty though, its just half numb, playing itself playing at someone else.
i think this is a pretty strange album though. it doesn't help to just tell people that it sounds like steely dan, or late pet shop boys or al steward whatever. you think we're idiots? we've heard year of the cat. the album works differently, yeah its heavily influenced by those artists, but it seems really obvious that it wants to use them in a different way than to try and emulate them, or make an album in that tradition. there's a sense in which some music is "about" loving other music, or maybe not even loving other music but about the experience of other music. and so the way the appropriation of that language is functioning seems entirely different to how people want to characterise it here. that is, the comparative criticisms sort of miss the point entirely. yeah things are off, the guy has this wobbly croak of a voice, everything sounds glassily self contained, obsessively neat but weirdly off. a strange lens, the perspective doesn't work. something. but its not a failure at emulating Hats or Gaucho. it directly recalls those records, as records. as sound worlds that can be only re-accessed in this artificial way. a set of surfaces, images, movie scenes.
― judith, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
nabisco OTM
oops
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:28 (twelve years ago) link