The Juan MacLean (RFI)

is "charlotte" a totemic name for veteran trendy dance producers making straightforward bangers? am reminded (not sonically obv) of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SsT8J-7Jks

I preordered so hopefully the mp3s show up soon. Need this for my commute home.

Download link appeared in my inbox 3 hrs ago. All fired up and ready to go for tomorrow's commute

Oh, I guess I had it in my inbox already. Ended up ordering both the blue vinyl and the test pressing.

Not feeling this yet cuz I don't love Nancy Whang like you guys do.

didn't like her Classixx track either

When I realize I don't like somebody, I stop listening to their music. Diff strokes and all that, I guess.

it's like the best song the Mary Jane Girls never recorded

ugh i am so psyched to get to this song

rev otm

this album rules

that track is good but idk dudes i'm not loving the rest yet

"Running Back to You" sounds more like a Catherine Wheel outtake, i.e. DFA stuff circa 2005.

Simple Design is fucking fantastic.

"the sun will never set on our love" is my favorite

"Love Stops Here" is a great late-era LCD Soundsystem homage/ripoff

lol that bands that are on the same label and have overlapping members and have toured together and whose lead members used to be in a band together can rip one another off

Murphy was sometime soundman for 6FS, never a member afaik

he also produced an album but sure. it defnitely seems like they influenced eachother quite a bit regardless

James Murphy was in Pony same time as 6FS. I saw them in Bloomington and have their 7".

Whoa!

http://pitchfork.com/news/56751-nancy-whang-of-lcd-soundsystemjuan-maclean-releases-covers-donna-summer-parliament-kiss/

more direct link

http://www.gomma.de/2014/09/12/the-nancy-whang-casablanca-reworks-gomma203/

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― The Reverend, Friday, 19 September 2014 19:33 (47 minutes ago)

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The Etienne de Crecy take on "Like An Eagle"/"Comme Un Aigle" is working a lot better than the Audiojack one.

album of the year candidate for me. simply gorgeous.

Same here. I went on a trip last week and it was all I listened to for two days. Played maybe ten times and just did not get bored of it. There may be a couple of higher highs on The Future Will Come but I think I prefer this one overall.

loving this more with each listen. weirdly charlotte is the song that took the longest to warm to, but now I love it. This is a top 5 DFA record, easily.

What a perfectly charming record.

"The Sun Will Never Set On Our Love" is such a good look.

i feel like there's nothing to say about this because it's so exactly what you expect and it's just john & nancy doing what john & nancy do but every moment really hits the spot so perfectly

yeah that's how I feel too m/l

I've grown to like much of it except when he starts to sing.

SITP needs a juan vocal-less edit, it sags so badly when his hot chip voice tramples all over the disco.

I know I'm talking shit because I like Phil Oakey.

ha, i am usually pretty alert to the problem of the unwanted male voice galumphing in but i felt this album dodged that pitfall

Right now only "The Sun Will Never Set On Our Love", "A Simple Design" and "Running Back To You" feel like all-time essential tracks to me. Not that there's anything bad here, though maybe the strike rate is a bit lower than on The Future Will Come.

I need to listen to this album but I am always hesitant to dwelve into a new one because of his voice, despite mostly adoring their previous albums.

Keep getting "Little Lies" uncanny valley moments with "You Were a Runaway".

John's vocals have bothered me a lot before but not at all here.

christ this album is amazing innit.

it really is! i can't think of a single interesting thing to say about it but it has given me a ton of pleasure lately.

me too. it's so good it makes me feel like a jerk for not giving enough time to earlier releases. i need to revisit!

'ive waited for so long' is ace

Finally ordered this

still not really feeling this much, someone point out what i'm missing (besides "running back to you")

fwiw I discovered yesterday that it almost becomes a different album when listened to on good headphones

does MacLean's voice improve?

He's only noticeable on a couple of tracks anyway iirc? Thought he was more distracting on the previous album (which I still love).

How are John (Juan? idk) and Nancy live? They're coming to town and I don't think it's just a DJ set (or else I wouldn't bother even thinking of going).

It's almost certainly a DJ set; they haven't played live since Jerry died AFAIK, although Juan says he wants to get a new band together soon.

(I saw 'em touring Happy House with Holy Ghost as the rest of the band, and they were phenomenal. There's a killer 19-minute live version of HH on vimeo w/ Jerry & Eric Broucek (iirc) that you should totally watch.)

Two DJ sets.

Did Jerry Play on The Future Will Come at all? I'm thinking about the drum rolls all over a track like 'Tonight', and how they really add to the emotional drive of the song, and how some of the songs on this new one would have been improved here with similar attention to rhythm. I do like it, but it feels a bit by numbers.