Let's talk about Factory Floor

This album is great!!!

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/01/216819962/first-listen-factory-floor-factory-floor

:)

omg omg omg

Loving it on first listen. <3 these guys so much.

'relevee' (carl craig rmx) - deep house trappings + more aggro synth settings = this record.

that is a hell of a recommendation

this is awesome

Really looking forward to this.

Ditto. Is it out physically on Monday or just digitally?

digitally. physical in October.

or at least for the vinyl. not sure about the CD

Streaming on the Guardian. The comments were pretty much all abuse when I checked. Not that that's any indication.

just took a look at the comments and was expecting "what is this crap it's not music!" and instead got "this sucks, I only like their early stuff!" guess I underestimated the hipness quotient of the Guardian audience.

all the comments complaining that they bent too far toward a run-of-the-mill DFA sound are off base to me but I guess I could see it if you prefer their industrial side to their dancey side

So this thing's up on Spotify today, excellent so far imo.

Ditto. Is it out physically on Monday or just digitally?

― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, September 4, 2013 8:12 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

digitally. physical in October.

― dmr, Wednesday, September 4, 2013 12:44 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or at least for the vinyl. not sure about the CD

― dmr, Wednesday, September 4, 2013 12:46 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

weird, I guess they moved it up or something, I did end up doing the pre-order and in the email with the digital download it says the vinyl will ship later this week. on the webpage where they're selling it it still says it ships in October, haha. I've heard that getting vinyl pressed up in the U.S. is kind of a moving target nowadays as far as getting a solid date.

none of the singles worked for me entirely on their own but for some reason i'm really loving the album

oh god, this is so gorgeous. How could anybody say this way boring? It is beautiful.

*was

yeah im loving this

It's just so bleepy bleeping. My favourite of all types of music probably.

Still don't think I ever heard anything by these guys but I guess I should now.

Also I want to know what electricsound's initial posts were about! Um, if he wants to share.

shiiiiiiit this track 'C Side' on the release with Peter Gordon, blissful.

cosmic yacht rock.

THIS RECORD

I listened to this once and wasn't quite feeling it but I probably shouldn't have listened immediately after the new NIN. Think I need to get into more of a Carl Craig mindset with it.

I love it. Don't understand the naysayers at all. Lots of fun.

worked from home this morning and took the opportunity to blast this really loud. it sounded dope.

sorry neighbors

Elton John is feeling it - http://www.nme.com/news/elton-john--2/72681

So I can't really get my head round this band, but feel like I might not be listening to the right stuff or something... I'd certainly like to give em another go. Can anyone recommend a top 10 tracks?

I'd say listen to the album. They are harsh and industrial, the DFA thing but more experimental. I never not find "fall back" to be exhilarating tbh.

What I've heard so far sounds like late-80s/early-90s industrial rave, a bit like Cabaret Voltaires but I wasn't sure what it was supposed to be much beyond that.

Go and see them live. They're probably pound for pound the best consistently good live band I've ever seen. Certainly at the dancier end of things that's true... it's impossible to make a reasonable comparison to, say, Public Enemy or SunnO))) for example.

I like the FF record ok, but MAN I like the Carter Tutti Void one a bit more. What a classic.

I agree with that.

Can anyone recommend a top 10 tracks?

― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Friday, November 1, 2013 11:07 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

their entire discography is like tops 25 tracks and they just released an album...

someone had to say it

This is certainly a difficult record but it's winning me over. The singer was in KaitO, a real good guitar band from about 10 years ago.

I don't know, I tried with this but I think they're really boring. Just flat, one dimensional, seemingly using a lot of presets. To say it quickly runs out of steam would be an understatement. They barely seem to be trying by the end of the album.

this album is probably good in some way

obviously a little biased here as i put it out but "beachcombing" with peter gordon never ceases to take me to strange and bewitching places. i really hope they do another collaboration with him.

i'm still undecided about the album but that's partly because i don't really engage with albums very much. however, "how you say" blows me away and sounds monolithically great on a dancefloor.

"how you say" is the highlight for me too by some distance.

Doran, I was at the quietus show but had to leave just as they started cos of the last train. Really regret it

Not sure what "presets" you get on drum kits, guitars and home built modular synths tbh.

I found the album a bit of a bummer at first. Having been a cheerleader of theirs for a few years, I was pretty underwhelmed initially but I've got to say I love it now. I get the impression that a lot of people I've seen moaning about this album on tQ or DiS or wherever (not here) seem to be disappointed because they didn't turn in some indie friendly dance thing that sounded like F*** Bvttons meets Cut Copy or whatever. This album is pretty severe and works in the same way that a lot of minimal music works... loud, on drugs, on the stereo when you're not doing anything else, in a club, driving... I can't think of a worse album to have on shitty PC speakers at work or in the background while you're doing something else.

However, out of all of my favourite albums of this year so far, this is the one where I have most sympathy with people who hate it. I totally get why they do.

man i pound this album, listen to it all the time

to the point that my bf is like "again? really?"

That should say "works well in the same settings under the same conditions that a lot of minimal music works well in/under..."

XP: Ha ha ha. Suck it up The Tune's BF.

Can anyone recommend a top 10 tracks?

All of their stuff sounds good to me but

Two Different Ways
Fall Back
How You Say

If you don't like those, give up, imo.

I think maybe a lot of the vaguely confused handwringing about this album has come about from like 18 months of weird awestruck hype from a certain kind of rock hack. Maybe you have to see them live to appreciate that kind of fervour but it always struck me as over the top. But as a result a lot of people were disappointed with this when it turned out to be "just" a collection of really good Carl Craig rips.

BTW anyone who was hoping this would turn out to be rockier/more EBM might get a lot out of the Gesaffelstein record, which I've been caning alongside this all week.

loved the live clips at the top of the thread. feral, chaotic, hypnotic and cool as hell. disappointed to hear them box it up in such a timid fashion.