I JUST WANT YOUR FULL ATTENTION

give it your full attention?

i just want you for your texture

(my laptop speakers suck)

This is just one of those songs that I cannot figure out why it's such an earworm. It's just so much more than the sum of its parts. Kind of 90s DnB drums, grinding dubstep bass, kind of Massive Attack malevolent strings but I guess it's the vocal riff that pulls it all together, like she is so insistent and compelling it earworms like crazy!

I shouldn't keep bumping this thread coz I get it in my head every time I even see the title.

yeah, it's amazing. it's easy to think that the appeal is primarily a product of the vocal, but the track is great too. thrown into relief by let me be the one, where the track is all that, but the vocal isn't quite there.

Listening to the a capella, and I think I've figured it out.

It's the subtle minor harmonies in the backing vocals that really highlight the bittersweet sadness of the main vocal riff.

Kinda buried in the song under all the wub and wobble, but when they're pulled out, it's like... wow. Just such proficiency and emotion. That there's this big, bouncy pop hook with all these undercurrents of sadness and yearning under it.

Let Me Be The One is finally out

http://butterzrecords.bigcartel.com/product/br010-terror-danjah-let-me-be-the-one-tp

Apparently he's got an album dropping soon?!

not terror danjah but ruby lee ryder and royal-t - too good to get lost in the rolling thread

http://open.spotify.com/track/1Gm3JnVdK4MjILXqRLn3t8

this songgggggg

I'M RECORDING YOU
JUST SO YOU KNOW

http://www.xlr8r.com/reviews/royal-t/rinse-presents-royal-t

The LP does have its weaker moments, namely "You're Saved," a radio-friendly crossover collaboration with songstress Ruby Lee Ryder

SMFH @ this idiot

heh

just read the song title and it's stuck in my head again

thread title, I mean

the magnetism of ruby lee ryder

That Royal T track is immense, been caning the album all week.

It's especially great in the track sequence after Space Cowboy.

i thought the album was a bit patchy tbh - i wasn't massively enthusiastic until THIS FUCKING SONG came along in the home stretch. i mean there were some nicely aggy tracks but i kept thinking "why is none of this as good as the cheryl cole remix"

What is a "songstress"?

word that student-level journalists use when they think "singer" isn't glamorous enough

i need ruby lee ryder's voice all.over.everything.

Can we start calling ppl like Ed Sheerhan and Chris Martin, um, "Songsters" then? I think this is a term that is needed.

Anyway, I'll give the Royal-T album a listen if Ruby Lee is on it.

the other highlights for me were "cruel to be kind", "don't call me baby" and "music please"

Inside The Ride is ace as well. Not sure so much about the section where it gets a bit heads-down, from Gully Funk through to Missing Aurora.

I'm not as crazy about the Cheryl Cole remix as others but that's largely the song's fault rather than the remixer's.

"inside the ride" was a single a few months ago and the full version of "cool down" was the AA-side and all i could think, then and now, is how pointless and boring "inside the ride" is in comparison. why is "cool down", ie royal-t's masterpiece, not on this btw?

OK, no there IS a Terror Danjah album coming out on Hyperdub.

I will def check out the Royal-T album tho.

There's a collabo with Champion on the TD album!

The 'Dark Crawler' single with Riko is big, there will be two other versions of the riddim on the album and I'm excited.

But then again, it seems like everyone who signs to Hyperdub lately puts out dark, thoughtful nightbus albums you can't really dance to, and I don't want Terror Danjah to do one of those. :-(

He's already released an album on Hyperdub, two years ago. It's... okay, mostly the sort of dark spiderweb grime instrumentals he usually trades in. It could probably have done with more vocalists.

Everyone seems to consciously make their sound more boring for Hyperdub but Terror Danjah is probably a better fit for them than most. They're highly unlikely to release the overdue album of R&G bangers though, admittedly.

mostly the sort of dark spiderweb grime instrumentals he usually trades in

this is what this one is as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSinYZCW-s4

'dark crawler' was typical hyperdub cringe. riko on the b-side however... woof

The more pertinent question is when there's going to be a Ruby Lee Ryder album, or at least a solo career or some sort. If Jessie Ware and Katy B deserve one the same goes here. Even Roses Gabor has a mixtape and a solo release coming out so the lack of movement around Ruby Lee is indefensible.

Oh, was Undeniable on Hyperdub? Doesn't sound like it. I thought he was on Planet Mu or Rephlex or something like that, but maybe that was a previous release. I'll shut up now.

I would like if Ruby Lee Ryder put out an album that followed in the footsteps of Katy B but I really don't need any more Jessie Ware or Emile Sande polished, electronica-flavoured ~thoughtfulness~ thanks.

roses gabor is p fun, why the 'even'

No she is pretty fun, but just seems lower profile than the others. I probably like 'Stupid' more than any collaborative track featuring any of the others, except the three big Ruby Lee tunes.

"spend is dough" is even better than "stupid" imo

I didn't get into that one at all.

'spanish inquisition' ft jammer is funny and v good from what i recall

'you're saved' is probably one of if not the most interesting central conceit i can think of in years but the whole thing is kinda halfbaked wan back of the bus singsong when it should crush ominously. bit of a shame really

i do like ryder generally but tbh there is something so crashingly boring about you lot automatically wibbling about the rarefied tremulous marmoreal diva, it is mad offputting yo

When Champion ft. Ruby Lee Ryder's "Sensitivity" comes out we can maybe turn this into the general Ruby Lee appreciation thread.

― Tim F, Saturday, August 27, 2011 8:30 AM (1 year ago)

AKA the point of this thread.

There's also a side-order of eyerolling about the prospect of Terror Danjah releasing ANOTHER album of Hyperdub instrumentals when he could at least have the good grace to rope in a shedload of MCs like the good lord intended.

there are three "interludes" of MCs over the dark crawler beat, plus two r&g-style tracks with singers (meleka and ruby lee), and then a ton of instrumentals

haha i just looked at ryder's twitter and she's busy teaching the grime scene how to be vegan

aaahh she really is!

Ruby Lee- Ryder ‏@RubyLeeRyder
@JmeBBK maybe I can help :D, I make vegan meals everyday, jerk tofu-curried lentils, stirfry greens with garlic and chilli, beany burgers..x

Ruby Lee- Ryder ‏@RubyLeeRyder
@JmeBBK..wat else.. Sweet potato curry, dumping and scotch bonnet, chilli and rocket pesto pasta, roast veg and roast potatoes... :)

Ruby Lee- Ryder ‏@RubyLeeRyder
"@JmeBBK: THIS IS TOO FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE"- its ok..its ok..all the chain supermarkets stack piles of shite for u to eat..go to wholefoods xx

Ruby Lee- Ryder ‏@RubyLeeRyder
If u think you can't go vegan...I will be your personal vegan chef for a week... for free...to @JmeBBK and anyone else who wants to try x

also i guess from that "lee" is one of her surnames rather than one of her first names/middle name?

I thought you were talking one or two tweets but good grief there is virtually nothing else for ten days.

Lol.

heh is this the twitter again

still want that full length album?

Todays Facts ‏@Todays_Facts 20 Sep
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually the scent released by plants in distress.
Retweeted by Ruby Lee- Ryder

~ sensi-tivi-tyyyyyy ~

#BUNCHOFTWATS

vegans eat plants though right?

lol rtc

pretty gushy turnaround for the royal-t lp lex, sarah souljah didnt send her ammunition heavies over did she?

I've sort of become obsessed with the Riko version of Dark Crawler since the last revive, to the extent I don't want to even hear any of the other versions.

xp i just listened to it a few more times and then wrote the review in too much of a rush to tease out its relatively minor flaws

i've never communicated with sarah souljah! what label head would possibly try to get pissy about these matters though

(the rush was because i was on my way to tory conference. my life was very hard in those few weeks and no one seemed to understand)

but yeah, great album, not AOTY level but a superior 2012 release for sure

i wasnt being serious about ss

on the subject of that roses gabor solo career btw, it begins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5mNrUEKil4

it's nice but i'm craving bangers more than vibes right now. come with another "stupid" or "spend is dough"!

http://www42.zippyshare.com/v/359249/file.html

have a go on this, i cut it out of her agreeable but inessential mixtape from earlier this year

and i don't wanna link no girls that are gassed
cos they CAN'T COME AROUND FOR A CIVILISED VISIT!

Champion ‏
@Champion_DJ
Just listening to Sensitivity again - i need some more vocal tunes like that!!

an excellent turn on the p money album from ruby lee ryder

https://kingpmoney.bandcamp.com/track/contagious-feat-rubylee

I immediately thought of Full Attention when I heard that (possibly because Terror Danjah virtually recycles the beat).

The whole album is fun even though P-Money is one of those MCs who is constantly operating at full throttle without ever sounding dextrous or memorable. Rhyming 'eski' with 'Emile Heskey' OTM in that context.