S/D: Captured Tracks

electricsound otm re: the Heavenly Beat record, one of my least favorite Captured Tracks releases of the year.

i've really come around on holograms though after being a bit meh about it initially

Now that one I really liked instantly.

wow, the dignan porch lp is a huge step forward from their earlier stuff. really good. and i'm digging the chris cohen record a lot too

the naomi punk album on the other hand sounds like shitty grunge demos of one song they never quite remember how to play the same way each time

the Chris Cohen record is INCREDIBLY good. can't recommend it enough.

"the naomi punk album on the other hand sounds like shitty grunge demos of one song they never quite remember how to play the same way each time"
lol. yeah i'm not entirely sure how i feel about it right now. i feel the Pacific Northwest vibe, but i'm not sure if it's anything really remarkable.
that said, the new Chris Cohen and Mac DeMarco have made this a pretty great fall for this label in my opinion.

so i should get that chris cohen record? cobo you got that shit on colored vinyl to sell?

u should it is very good

describe chris cohen please.

sounds like a lost popsike classic.

i feel like buying this without hearing a note.

i like the chris cohen album, at first i was like "huh this just sounds exactly like microphones" then i was listening to it every day

it reminds me a lot of Emitt Rhodes' first couple of albums - less Beatles-y but same level of homespun songcraft. there's seriously not a bad moment on it. legit one of my very favorite albums of 2012.

Judging by the DIIV performances on Pitchfork right now they're awful live and I'll avoid that and just stick with the record.

CT embarking on a flying nun reissue program i see

http://pitchfork.com/news/49042-captured-tracks-and-flying-nun-partner-for-expansive-reissue-series/

awesome, i will buy a lot of that

Gonna buy the SHIT outta that stuff!

About fnunning time!

BTW the Blissed Out Fatalists record on the new CT sublabel Body Double? Great. Like early J&MC and the Fall and some American noise rock style.

Looking forward for this as well. Look Blue Go Purple better be on the reissue list.

Isn't Flying Nun already reissuing much of their older titles already? Either way I am excited to see the results of this.

FN are shit at reissuing their own stuff as far as i'm concerned

that bird-dog was out of print for so long is testament to that

Widowspeak's 2013 album Almanac hasn't been discussed on ILM yet. My first impressions are that its a big jump in production clarity, and a lesser step in songcraft, up from the debut.

Worth checking out for fans of Beach House, Speck Mountain, Trespassers William etc.

Kind of surprised there hasn't been more talk about that one, actually. Listening to it again right now and it's definitely one of the year's early stand-outs for me. They manage to take a pretty simple formula but vary it up enough to keep things really interesting. The real star, for me, is Robert Earl Thomas and his guitar lines. Just love the way they slink into so many of these songs and steal them away. My only, relatively minor, complaint is the way they stick a little too close to the Almanac theme with the lyrics, sometimes this turns into a game of "spot the folk adage!".

bona drag reissue is kinda fun, reminds me of a trashier dolly mixture in parts

bona dish obv

lol bona drag

yeah i like this a lot. p snappy lookin too

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/86811529/Bona+Dish+l.jpg

the singles from the upcoming lps (minks, holograms, medicine) are encouragingly good. the soft metals single is a major disappointment though, it's like they've gone backwards. also they *really* need to be paired with a sympathetic producer

I really thought that was Brian Peppers up there for a second.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v707/sorts/Picture_2_zpse95a3daf.png

I need to hear that release.

This label has to have the worst distribution of any label going.

how so

We can't order their stuff for our store and the other store across town can't, either. They seemed to briefly run through one of the main one-stops but now that seems to be done.

is it as bad for the other secretly canadian distro stuff?

According to their website in the US they go through ADA, which just makes it odder as most of the ADA stuff is easy to get. Oh well.

oic

You can't get it through AEC?

Nah, we use a different one-stop and a few random smaller distros (mostly punk or garage oriented).

AEC kind of sucks but I think at least a few titles from CT are order-able through them.

quite like this Minks album but in its own way it is perhaps one of the most ridiculous things I've heard all year

the new one?

the two tracks i've heard from it so far are nice though neither seem any great improvement on the previous stuff

it feels like a musical adaption of a photostory from an early 80s magazine for British teenage girls

listening to the minks now, i really like it, it doesn't have anything quite as ace as 'kusmi' from the last one but it's nice, makes a change from how disappointing i found the new soft metals one

really getting into the saada bonaire reissue. the pop stuff is fun and interesting. some of the more leftfield tracks in it out-NNF NNF except twenty years earlier

it's probably going to get lost amongst all the perfect pussy hype but the axxa/abraxas album is quite lovely pop

perfect pussy (god i hate that name) is an odd signing for captured tracks. doesn't seem to match the label's fairly distinctive aesthetic. but it's interesting! and captured tracks is a great label.

How would you define the captured aesthetic?

dark, reverb and echo-heavy post-punk that sounds like it was recorded in a cave. they're a throwback to late-70s and 80s labels that established their own scene, like factory and 4AD. to be fair, there's a fair bit of diversity on this label, like wild-nothings, who don't sound much like the other c/t acts, but even the label owners seem to acknowledge that there's an artistic aesthetic at the label.

this overlong video kind of gets at it, i think.

haha this quote, from the label owner:

music people are horrible, horrible people. all of them. myself included. the worst. take the weirdest people that burnt all their bridges from high school, who never really matured, and were never cool. and now create a social hierarchy for them while they're in their late 20s to their early 40s. we're setting up the worst high school ever, except it's old people. you know? it's terrible.

lol