Daphne and Celeste

I like the fact that something came out of Max's weekly "hey [Twitter handle], work with me!", I like the un-compromisingly Max lyrics (stuff about synthesis, "The Third Policeman"), the high-heels as high-hats, the uncool chords, and so on, but it does sound kind of diluted, Max Tundra's standard level of weirdo would make for better girl-pop imo

what it loses in 'weird' for the sake of accessibility it makes up for in depth of craft and enthusiasm imo, but yeah I do hope for a whole album of this stuff, with moments of increased intensity

sounds kind of like sugababes meets metronomy. it's not really hitting me hard or anything but it's okay

Sounds good to me, sticks enough in yr branes and has enough about it to encourage repeat listens. Yeay!

Some of these comparisons are frankly painful

Metronomy!

It’s a thumbs up from me.

I can't believe we are talking about Daphne and Celeste in 2015

When I saw the revive, I truly thought "Oh, dear, one of them has died"

sounds kind of like sugababes meets metronomy. it's not really hitting me hard or anything but it's okay

― yeovil knievel (NickB)

It was bugging me that I couldn't think of who this reminded me of but it's totally Metronomy. https://youtu.be/9P2w_hq8YTk

daphne & celeste were streets ahead of max tundra.

The Max Tundra influence on k-pop is truly one of the examples of quality always finding a way to impact the world. A prophet always being disbelieved in her hometown and all that.

i'm rather obsessed with this now

a form i actually really love and relish the usually untapped potential of

jfc stfu "untapped potential"

song is inconsequential but NID that imago likes it

Where better to say something mildly trollish than on the Daphne & Celeste thread ffs lol

in your head to yourself

aw, that'd be no fun

I for one like this record quite a bit and am not trollingq

same, and i think it's really selling it short to explain its appeal as pc music-esque

(ftr d&c were on the more obvious part of the spectrum of pop that was successfully critiquing or poking fun at itself, i.e. what pc music has been trying and largely failing to do from afar)

^ otm

I think that all that was said was that some Max Tundra stuff is kind of a PC Music precursor, rather than the track is PC Music-esque?

Also, judging from his Twitter, he does seem to be a legitimate fan of the PC Music stuff as well.

i was sort-of responding to this: if anything, max tundra heard pc music and thought 'i can do this better'

but yes he does seem to be a fan, i read some of the joint interviews with him/daphne/celeste yesterday and he said that if he were to make a year-end top 10 for 2014 it would basically just be the pc music soundcloud >:|

http://static.gigwise.com/gallery/7138482_wenn12455.jpg

am I right in thinking that 'Brian' = Brian Molko? or am I mis-remembering

http://www.rayzell.com/daphne%20and%20celeste001-1.jpg

does Kerrang still publish Pandora?

P sure it's Molko, they kinda made fun of him once. Love this track, to the point I dloaded Stick You and UGLY today which ws interesting

You should have a go at full trollism sometime imago. Live your life to the full.

New track is out now and a release date of March 30 has been set for a full album with Max Tundra per his Twitter.

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

psyched

began grinning about three seconds in, remained grinning throughout

this collaboration is really just between two of the best kinds of annoying <3

Lol Imago is a pedophile

Daphne is 37 years old.

dear JB,

stick you

uh....hmmm

Needs more Celeste.

Happy to see them back together, though!

Yes! Really looking forward to this

Also, Mr Snrub, you recommended a track for 1899 but I couldn't find it anywhere, sorry.

oh! I know who these gals are

lmao they really were ahead of their time weren't they!!!

Rednex are touring this year too

pretty disappointingly bland to be honest, especially given the lyrics calling out lazy songwriting and this is mainly four chord dirge?

doesn't really take advantage of what daphne and celeste did and/or max tundra's ability. i would love this to be more like parallax error squeezed into a more of a pop sensability but still bursting at the seams. i can imagine something akin to a more "progged out" sophie?

also not into the fact that all the pretty clunky lyrics are so max tundra-ish. fair enough, he's probably writing, but it seems a bit disingenuous coming from two other singer's voice? much like that little shout-out section in you or i alone... that's clearly all in his voice right? or are daphne and celeste also fans of educating marmalade, ariel pink, infinite jest, black dice and captain beefheart etc. etc.?

i love the idea of this collaboration but so far it just seems like a bit of a wasted opportunity for me unfortunately

yeah i'm finding this one to be unmemorable and dull

also not into the fact that all the pretty clunky lyrics are so max tundra-ish. fair enough, he's probably writing

all the original Daphne & Celeste songs (bar covers) were written by the people that conceived the Daphne & Celeste project. D&C 2.0 is a Max Tundra project. so.

You and I Alone was good, and they said in an interview that they were fans of a lot of the things Tundra referenced in the lyrics too, but BB is pretty dull yeah

New song!

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

I think BB is not bad - the intro is clunky and awful, but the ooyeah-ooyeah-oohno harmony bit on the chorus is pretty wonderful, and I can't hate a song that uses the word 'heteronormative' in the lyrics. (actually it seems much better when the lyrics are on screen for some reason)

this is very pretty

BB was great, yall daft

good song, genius video

there are tour dates too:

Daphne & Celeste are coming to England to play a handful of tour dates and Max Tundra is in the band:

27 March: Boston Music Room, London
30 March: Hope & Ruin, Brighton
31 March: G-A-Y, Heaven, London
2 April: Firebug, Leicester
3 April: Rough Trade, Bristol (instore & signing)

love Tundra but this is a little trebly and hypersyllabic for me

The Gradual Disappearance from Max Tundra Records of the immense full-spectrum groove of "The Gradual Disappearance from Food Packaging of the Lettres Ornees Typeface Since 1960" since 2006

i like this quite a bit better but it never really breaks out into what i first imagined the collaboration to be like... just kinestic excited-by-itself "which song" type stuff.

i'm a sucker for those kind of maj3rd "bass" lines" though. just wish it broke into some project bassline silliness somehow?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US36PBh_jNY

"alarms" on loop. love it

Holy wow, this album is great. And I'm only at BB and reading this thread, and getting really, really excited!

16 Stars! I needed those synths

I was at that gig too Andrew! Scruffy bloke stood to the side, you probably remember me

This doesn't entirely narrow it down, but I understand there was a lot less of that than the average Max Tundra gig. And several ex-ILXors (with mark s)!

I can hear some of the criticisms of the record (though not of BB, whose only fault is that it stops at the point where it was about to really kick off), but it turns out this is the band that pushes me into the tedious "the record is only a crude effort at the songs, the real act is live" camp.

Leland Palmer in the dark!

if I didn't know this was made by Max Tundra I wonder how long it would've taken me to figure out. I'd say about 15 seconds.

linee's post about the two lead singles seems pretty otm to me. the album's way better than I would've guessed given those two tracks. nothing against them, they work quite well in the context of the album, but the wonkybonkers stuff like "ALTO" and "Alarms" is what I signed up for

thank god for this album

otm

"hyperventilating in the factory of sound"

critical indifference to this is predictable and irritating

it's really good; I feel like the critical indifference is mostly because it took so long since "You and I Alone"

surprisingly this actually gets better over time. love how it's a throwback not just in the traditional way but also in a stranger sense where it sounds like it's from an era when pop records were eccentric and strange. think "16 Stars" is my favorite track now. I love that "you could almost pretend to/see I'd always defend you" refrain

I really do love this album.

:)

it's 2018 and daphne and celeste have an album that lj cares about, what a world

it's an amazing record tbh but it's as much max tundra's big pop move as anything

yea I didn't know if it was gonna hold up after a few listens but it actually kinda gets better the more you know the songs

Yeah, I wasn't completely sold on this the first few listens, but I've really come round to. It's making a great summer soundtrack right now. I ended up ordering the vinyl as the prices have gone right down on Amazon/eBay. It was $11 including shipping which is an absolute steal.

BTW, does anyone know anything about CSS stuff for reddit? I have r/daphneandceleste - I made it ages ago, but have never done anything with it. So if you have a clue about that stuff...

this album is like if yasutaka nakata produced an xtc record so i have no idea how i didn't get into it when it came out

Listening party on Twitter tonight!

Tonight, unwind and listen to our maximalist adventure over at Tim’s @LlSTENlNG_PARTY 9PM! We’ll be joined by @MaxTundra
Let’s jump into an alternate reality where we all “Save The World” 🎉💖

— Daphne & Celeste (@Daphne_Celeste) January 28, 2021