Kelley Polar - Love Songs of The Hanging Gardens (Environ CD05)

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it has leaked

― manuel (manuel), Monday, 17 October 2005 03:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha, I am not on personal terms with them at all! I was just passing along what I've been told.

I will expect all of you to call Bjork "Ms. Gudmumdsdottir" now.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 17 October 2005 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link

and Mr. Selzer, Mr. Gill.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 17 October 2005 06:18 (eighteen years ago) link

There shall be no more first names on this thread, ever.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 17 October 2005 07:57 (eighteen years ago) link

this certainly did l34k.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link

how did i miss this?!

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link

it is maybe the greatest music of all time? have i gone to heaven?

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link

heaven is the discotech in your mind.

― tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

swooooooon.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

...does it remind anyone else a TINY bit of Jimi Tenor?

― Munki (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link

tiny. way smoother/otherwordly.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i listened to this three times tonight!

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Does anyone know when the 12" KPQ sampler that's mentioned on the front page of Environ is going to be released? It says October, but there's no set date.

― Kevin H (Kevin H), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Lisa says 'Manhattan Transfer vocals' but I still say it's great.

― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Glad to see people with the same initial reaction I had, it's such an immediately swoon inducing album!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link

If people are having difficult with the lyrics...keep listening!...some of the vocals seemed a bit awkward(a few still do) but for the most part I got settled with it and haven't stopped listening since. I found myself getting really into the beatless bits. "Matter into Energy" is absolutely gorgeous. It really is on some completely oddball, new-age romantic, pop-ballad lovelyness. I commend Geist and Polar both. I think the Environ penchant for quality control plays a strong role here. Every single song is a winner.

― buboclot, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link

#1 SEXY-TIME ALBUM OF 2005

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I like "Ashamed Of Myself" - haunted by the ghost of Timbaland.

― Mun K.E. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link

"Ashamed of Myself" reminded me of Prince a bit. Might've just been how those keyboards get all wiggly.

― mike powell (mike powell), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

That would also explain my love for it.

― Mun K.E. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link

my personal favorite is "im time"

love the vocals stylings.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

weird about the cover!! the shalabi album is awesomeness!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

so is the album all new tracks? tracklist?

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry, my first question was answered in the opening post (answer: all new stuff)

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

― unconscious, honey (FE7), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

pretty much my album of the year so far! i dont even mind the superpitcherness of the vocals

― unconscious, honey (FE7), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

This is good but the vocals are a tad "functional" for me, they don't seem to have the personality the music deserves.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i think the vocals are fuckin brilliant! unaffected but breathy.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

kelly polar v. isolee album of the year fite!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

if anything the vocals are a little affected for me! i dont get the functional argument at all.

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

kelly polar v. isolee album of the year fite!

Chelonis

― Jazz Funeral in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

roisin murphy

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

who can actually sing

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

*ducks*

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

unaffected but breathy.

This is definitely accurate.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

xp, I also found the vocals to be the most "difficult" part of the album. Beautiful harmonies, but on the first 10 listens or so I found them a little precious. I understand it's part of the package, etc.; they do make sense on the album, but they can be a little much. RE: album of the year, I dunno, but I do think this blends a lot of great dance-y elements (not to mention sterling production) with great musical mechanics (harmonies, melodies, etc.). It's as much a pop album as it is a dance album, and I think in this respect it'll probably have a wider reach than either Isolee or Chelonis. Am I being a philistine?

― mike powell (mike powell), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link

he is mostly just talking with some melody sneaking in. it seems he could be sitting down on a couch reciting these lyrics, with some lines of cocaine available.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

(which i like)

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I think Chelonis is some sort of vegan.

― Jazz Funeral in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

ok i have this now. i am going to listen later. at night.

― tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

all night.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link

OMG junior boys 64

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link

i really want to hear this :(

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm k-jealous of people who have them album - have been thrashing the 12"'s & "Here In The Night".

― etc, Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link

It's as much a pop album as it is a dance album, and I think in this respect it'll probably have a wider reach than either Isolee or Chelonis.

Mike OTM. I'm surprised by how much I'm liking this, given that I either don't know or don't flip for most of the artists that Mr. Polar is being compared to.

I also don't know who Chelonis is. So wider reach by one.

― JC-L (JC-L), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link

speechless...

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 21 October 2005 05:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean it's fucking amazing, but i feel ph34r for you if you have to write about this. fuccck, it's like the soundtrack to the best john hughes movie ever while it renders most of electro-house impotent. the second half destroys me. couldn't imagine it without the vocals.

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 21 October 2005 05:58 (eighteen years ago) link

by which i mean that the vocals are integral.

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 21 October 2005 06:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i was listening to off the wall before i remembered that i had this and somehow the transition was just perfect.

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 21 October 2005 06:12 (eighteen years ago) link

totally reminds me of michael jackson in places

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 08:48 (eighteen years ago) link

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― thinkmanship (sleeve), Monday, 22 August 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link

Excellent album!!!

― Tim F, Monday, 22 August 2022 09:23 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

yessss so pleased this exists

― nashwan, Monday, 12 September 2022 13:35 (one year ago) link

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