just don't ask me what this french circus bowie thing is, okay?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGZjBr3I9vs
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 October 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9rmjVvPAUA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prSCRrk1JFs
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 October 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
you have to see the french ziggys in the ziggy clip though...lol...
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 October 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
Irl lol at first french ziggy
― niels, Thursday, 22 October 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
is her boyfriend JOHNNY HOSTILE still around?
i still can't get over a dude in the 2010s rolling around w/that quincy punk name
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 October 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
New single, new video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ZpPsaMNMM
― Bitch I'm in the 2112 (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 15:39 (eight years ago) link
I really, really dig this band from top to bottom
― you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link
oof, ol' cheekbones kills me every time. they are kinda the Interpol of my dreams. they should re-do old Interpol songs and make them better.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
how long till David Fincher casts her in something I wonder
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 16:59 (eight years ago) link
anyway great song
they are kinda the Interpol of my dreams. they should re-do old Interpol songs and make them better.
I endorse this idea
― you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link
The Kiss of feminist post punk revivalism: a great band let down only by their lack of many good songs.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
holy shit this is incredible.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 22:49 (eight years ago) link
Excellent!
― seb mooczag (NickB), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 23:12 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, this is really quite astonishing. The amount of build on it, plus the false ending -> big triumphant (but dark) finish is so, so perfect.
When is the next album out? Their first was so perfect that I didn't think that they were going to be able to keep that mood going, but singles indicate that oh yes they can and they will.
― Liebe ist kälter als der Todmorden (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 7 January 2016 08:55 (eight years ago) link
The new album is out Jan 22.
― Bitch I'm in the 2112 (cryptosicko), Thursday, 7 January 2016 13:11 (eight years ago) link
This new song reminds me of The Glee Club, a one-and-done 4AD band from the 90s.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 7 January 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
Everything I've heard from this album suggests it's going to be way better than the debut.
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 January 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
Here, you’ll get a different side of firting ("I’m not gonna hurt you/ 'Cause I'm flirting with you/ I'm not gonna hurt myself"), the messiness of love ("This is what you get when you mess with love"), lust ("Sleep with me/ And we'd still be friends/ Or I know/ I’ll go insane"), sexual fluidity ("When I take a man/ Or a woman/ They're both the same/ They're both human"), sexual discovery ("When I'm with you/ I want to do/ All the things that/ I’ve never done”), sexual power ("When I take a man/ At my command/ My love will stand/ The test of time"), jealousy/threats ("If you don't love me/ You don't love anybody")
some truly, truly terrible lyrics here
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
I've listened to the new album a couple of times and it's... just ok. Fairly monochromatic, the title track is an early favorite but there's a number of tracks that make no impact at all.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 02:33 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, the first three tracks released (all on Spotify) have pretty thoroughly un-sold me on them.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 02:39 (eight years ago) link
I love Adore, but on this new album doesn't really grab me by the jugular like the first one
― seb mooczag (NickB), Friday, 22 January 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
On spotify now btw
― seb mooczag (NickB), Friday, 22 January 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
Just listened, and had the exact same reaction. "Adore" is the clear standout, but it is all a bit...drab?
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Friday, 22 January 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link
That's a shame to hear. A forgettable second album can be a career killer.
― Evan, Friday, 22 January 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link
FWIW, the reviews have been strong so far, though the gist of the ones that I skimmed from Pitchfork and AV Club were both "good, but no Silence Yourself."
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Friday, 22 January 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
Solid reviews are one thing but if there isn't any buzz around it I wonder how long it'll take before everyone's moved on.
― Evan, Friday, 22 January 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
Huh -- I haven't listened closely yet but over the course of a few distracted commuting plays I've been finding it more interesting than the first. I'll have to give it a better listen this weekend but at least with the first one I had to hear it a dozen times or so before I decided it was worth buying, whereas I already know I'll be picking this one up. So much of the buzz last time around seemed to revolve around their live performance -- if they can maintain that intensity and keep touring I think they'll be fine even if the consensus comes out against this album (though I just took a peek at Metacritic and both the critic and reader scores are currently higher for this than Silence Yourself).
― early rejecter, Friday, 22 January 2016 18:50 (eight years ago) link
OK so the second half does drag a bit. Overall I dig it though.
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
i really don't understand why i don't like this band a lot more than i do
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:05 (eight years ago) link
here's a post punk throwback band I love, Oaks
https://modernradio.bandcamp.com/album/animal-life
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:08 (eight years ago) link
> the first one I had to hear it a dozen times or so before I decided it was worth buying
I'm impressed, there's no way I'd give a dozen listens to anything I was on the fence about. Unless it was more of a case of something in the back of your head kept pulling you back, but even then... kudos for your perseverance. I'm sure I've missed out on things that simply required more time.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:38 (eight years ago) link
I think the first album is much more immediate than the second, largely because the drums feel muffled to me on the second album.
― its subtle brume (DJP), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:39 (eight years ago) link
> I'm impressed, there's no way I'd give a dozen listens to anything I was on the fence about.
Generally I wouldn't either but I loooved the 1st single and all signs pointed to it being something I should like. Plus most of my listening time these days is during my relatively long commute or in the office where I'm trying to get reading or work done at the same time, so I can easily play a new album a dozen times over the course of three or four days and still not have a great sense of it. Probably took me close to that many plays to realize I loved the last New Order album which I thought was terrible during the first listen.
You may be right that you've missed out on things that required more time, but I've probably missed out on just as much by giving things more time than they deserve when I could've been trying something else.
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 20:10 (eight years ago) link
Same. As my friend quipped when I took him to see the band a few years back, "I've shopped in that used record bin already."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
Never heard the band before but I checked out the new album on Spotify and it's great!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 17 March 2016 03:44 (eight years ago) link
I was ambivalent at first, but it finally clicked with me. "Adore" is still the standout, but song for song, I probably like this just as much as I liked the debut.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 March 2016 03:50 (eight years ago) link
I still like the debut more but this is a fun album.
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2016 14:18 (eight years ago) link
Saw them last night. Furious energy, charismatic and the guitarist makes beautiful Belew noises.
― dinnerboat, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
holy shit the performance tonight at Glastonbury was something else, just *shockingly* good.
it'll be up here at some point http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewcj5v/videos/p03ybmmv
― piscesx, Saturday, 25 June 2016 00:14 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KMLyQjI5mI
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
disgusting band― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, June 1, 2012 2:44 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, June 1, 2012 2:44 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Tell me who sends these infamous .gifs (bernard snowy), Thursday, 8 September 2016 11:41 (seven years ago) link
she has too many h's in her name
― j., Wednesday, 4 January 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
really liking the kite base album (ayse hassan's other band). kind of a cross between young marble gientsy sparseness and an update of the sort of thing too pure were putting out 20 years ago (e.g. laika, early peej)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESnYCvwBxUk
― del esdichado (NickB), Friday, 26 May 2017 12:46 (six years ago) link
more from ayse hassan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkWNyDFqrro&feature=youtu.be
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 10 May 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkWNyDFqrro
Suddenly struggling to hear "Adore" without imagining Morrissey singing it.
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 6 December 2018 05:45 (five years ago) link
Man, this band dropped off my radar really quickly. Dug the first album, ditched the second, and I never had that itch in the back of my head making me play their stuff.
I'm hoping a third album produces something different.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
Goat Girl have the missing ineffable thing that kept this band from sticking for me.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
I'm not very familiar with band outside of the music on its first album - which I love - so I had no idea Jehnny Beth had been acting in films. I only discovered this at a screening of Anatomy of a Fall (the Palme d'Or winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival) and I thought "that caretaker looks very familiar, where I have seen her before?"
― birdistheword, Thursday, 30 November 2023 05:19 (four months ago) link