Let's anticipate Blondes' debut LP

This albums!

Lover is a great song, but Pleasure is where it really starts kicking off.

Do agree with this from the first post though:

But their best work is still "Moondance" from 2010

I think the Blondes-Talabot link is so clear, they're very similar albums texturally as well as structurally.

ha, yea i was surprised at how well that robert miles remix turned out but i def wouldn't say it's my favorite of the bunch. the teengirl fantasy mix is p striking, and i'm also really feeling stirmonster's remix of "lover" that plays the melody from don cherry's "brown rice" against the original song's meredith monk sample.

this is definitely one of my favorite releases of the year so far, along with the talabot disc. i don't remember "pleasure" for the piano lines per se but more because of the somewhat unexpected lissvik-style balearic synth-guitar flourishes that pop up and make me sad that this is probably the closest we will ever come to another "life's a beach". tho that sadness quickly dissipates because it's an incredible track in it's own right

this album is LOVELY.

i have no idea how i hadn't even heard of them until yesterday when a friend recommended them in response to a "where is all the decent music this year" whinge - though a search did reveal that i'd just ignored the press email and d/l links a few months ago, presumably due to the boring name or maybe the douchey press release. this is so much more anonymous than i'd have thought and all the better for it

finally listened to this all the way through (via trans-pacific flight). It's really really nice, but I kind of wish it was a little more of a continuos, monolithic thing (instead of 8 separate tracks) it's like, so close. def one of the best things I've heard all year though.

gotta dip in to the remixes next.

Do check out Touched if you haven't heard it yet!

http://open.spotify.com/album/7v19RUyMR3I1J2wOFsXZ0p

Great music, awful name

still need to hear the album in full. will rectify this today.

I think "Gold" is my favourite track at the moment but they are all so so so good. Just marvelous.

i think it's a great name and also cannot recommend the live show enough, it was awesome

Actually maybe I mean "Wine".

they all sound pretty much the same so you probably mean both

In fact I just checked and I do!

Absolute top tier: "Business", "Pleasure", "Wine", "Gold".

So close as to barely matter: everything else.

Yeah, Wine is my fave.

Absolute top tier: "Business", "Pleasure", "Wine", "Gold"

Do they have other tunes called 'Yachts', 'Cocaine' and 'Secretaries'?

Actually, each of the original 12" gathered together in the album was arranged by a ying/yang theme: lover/hater, business/pleasure, water/wine, gold/amber.

^gets the concept

cocaine/secretaries

cocaine/ketamine

action/romcom

gr8080/lex

...

Now I'm loving this. Between this, Todd Terje and the new John Talabot, the house scene is really spoiling us.

So far it's the opener, lover, that hits me most - that gapped chanting with all the reverb on it - inspired programming!

That's a sample from a Meredith Monk piece btw.

http://s1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee461/ruthsaxelby/?action=view¤t=MM_Blondes1.jpg

l-r: Meredith Monk, Blondes

well shit, that didn't work

The Bicep remix is on repeat at my house - awesome album from start to finish

Really enjoying this, it's very 'Days of Mars' with added acid house revivalism, not what I expected at all.

siiiick album

I am very slack in not listening to this, it seems.

im into this also, for the record

The Wine-Water pairing is definitely my favourite. Wine sounds like Layo & Bushwacka's Love Story refracted again and again and again, it's such a corny everyone-hug-each-other dancefloor moment but it completely works.

solid album
if you press play, no return allowed

"a little more chill, a little more swirly, a little more… stoner-y?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR0r1oDPO3g

There is also a 'boring' video for the track Amber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiBWBCgH8Ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tr4mGR36RQ

kids these days

Really enjoying this, it's very 'Days of Mars' with added acid house revivalism, not what I expected at all.

― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, February 24, 2012 12:55 PM (1 week ago)

^^

There's something about these guys that reminds me of one of Lex's posts from last year where he was wishing for a dancier version of Emeralds. They don't quite have that depth or complexity to their sound (and heck, no Mark McGuire in the band either), but maybe this is a manifestation of that sort of way of thinking?

Picked this up last night.

it took me a while to work out why this album massively impressed, but seemed like a bit of a drag.. it's because the second half is so much better than the first, so takes a while to get going. I only really listen from Wine onwards n/days

it's because the second half is so much better than the first, so takes a while to get going

^ this is definitely true - think the record is possibly arranged in chronological order???

y'all don't like "lover"?

and starting the record after "pleasure"... hrm. you guys must get something completely different out of this than i do, that is far and away my favorite track

the sounds on this album are just dazzling...like that moment when you're momentarily blinded by the sun shining off water or glass

I keep revisiting this album, or at least have been in a constant visit since seeing them live back in June. It translated well to a live act.

New album streaming on Dummy:

http://www.dummymag.com/news/2013/06/25/actually-listen-to-an-an-actual-new-blondes-album-right-now/

Uh actually I guess that isn't any sort of exclusive, it's all on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAkQ6su1CN0

rein is brilliant

The section from around 32min to 41:30 is crazy.

New record 'Warmth' out 11th August!

'KDM' streaming on their bandcamp now:

https://blondes.bandcamp.com/album/warmth

^^^^ out today, enjoying it so far

really good blend of prettiness + intensity

oops it does get progressively less pretty, back half reminds me of silent servant - that same sort of voyage into the darkness

oh i'm finally getting around to this and those three nickb posts are very encouraging

wow this is really really great

I totally forgot to add to the enthusiasm of NickB after playing this. It's not got anything as good as "Elise" on it but I think this might be their best full album yet.

their best since their self-titled at least

Elise is a total classic track

New album is amaze, but I find it interesting how much its concision feels like a reaction to the expansive drift of Rein. There’s something almost “right, let’s get to it” to the way they start and finish the tracks.

Also feels very “if you only buy one Blondes album...”

i could live in this album

falling in love with "wine" all over again

warmth is still so sick

revisited the blondes catalog this week, what a body of work

It really is.

One of my favourite albums of this year is Puscha’s Etterath, which despite being less beat driven has a very pronounced Blondes feel.