i do like this album but it's still not blowing me away in comparison to "nuits sonores", "wires" etc
― lex pretend, Sunday, 8 November 2015 11:08 (eight years ago) link
"Silhouettes" is the big keeper here; the rest makes a very good Sunday morning soundtrack, and sometimes that's all I need.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 8 November 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
Listened to King Bromeliad/Montparnasse and Nuits Sonores this morning. Very nice indeed.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 9 November 2015 13:08 (eight years ago) link
only heard bits of this but just made me think of old 4hero
― StillAdvance, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:01 (eight years ago) link
"Nuits Sonores" is gorgeous and lush. Very happy to have finally heard this guy. The album's obviously very different to the singles, but I'm very glad that both aspects of what he's doing exist.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 10:19 (eight years ago) link
I'd like to like this album but it's pretty dull really.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 14:31 (eight years ago) link
ARP3 is his real classic.
― ewar woowar (or something), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 15:16 (eight years ago) link
still haven't heard this but maybe i need to!!!
he's doing the essential mix this weekend
― the late great, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 00:04 (eight years ago) link
tlg plz listen to it
― gr8080, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link
really digging elaenia -- parts of it definitely drop out of my consciousness/fade into the background if I'm not paying deliberate attention, but not in a bad way. Love the way so much of the album just gradually and smoothly evolves along.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 12 December 2015 05:18 (eight years ago) link
I think the fusion guy it actually reminds me of most is jan hammer
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 12 December 2015 05:20 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU7b1l6zGKY
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 12 December 2015 05:21 (eight years ago) link
so this is the shit, huh?
― the late great, Saturday, 12 December 2015 06:20 (eight years ago) link
definitive soundtrack to my long late evening dog walks for the last 4 weeks.
― gr8080, Saturday, 12 December 2015 07:31 (eight years ago) link
Holy shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWukZiutO6Q
― Evan, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link
This is so incredible
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Thursday, 4 February 2016 19:55 (eight years ago) link
just discovering this stuff -- elaenia is pretty amazing!
― tylerw, Thursday, 4 February 2016 20:00 (eight years ago) link
that's a very impressive live performance too!
― niels, Saturday, 6 February 2016 14:20 (eight years ago) link
new EP Kuiperhttps://soundcloud.com/floatingpoints/kuiper
starts out like it might be a variation on the last album's sound, but this one is more krautrock/post-rock. (Or radiohead rock.)
― Dominique, Thursday, 19 May 2016 01:53 (seven years ago) link
FUCKING LUSH
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 19 May 2016 08:11 (seven years ago) link
This is exactly what I was hoping there'd be more of on the album last year, after Peroration 6 was the first thing I heard. Super pleased.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 19 May 2016 08:28 (seven years ago) link
Last five minutes goes a bit Dave Gilmour but I can totally forgive that for the 13 minutes of jazz techno kraut that precedes it.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 19 May 2016 10:02 (seven years ago) link
Getting quite a Where You Go I Go Too vibe from Kuiper.
― Matt DC, Monday, 13 June 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
anyone know if he plays w live band on current tour?
― niels, Monday, 27 June 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link
yeah, played with a band at the festival I saw him at last weekend
― Number None, Monday, 27 June 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
nice, hope to see him live this week
― niels, Monday, 27 June 2016 23:32 (seven years ago) link
New EP's quite nice, think I like it more than the album.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 June 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
Agree w/Ned, and it feels more like a mini-album than an EP to me. B-side is great too, would absolutely not mind more in this vein
― Dominique, Friday, 29 July 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/tv/35-pitchfork-music-festival-paris/1909-watch-floating-points-full-set-from-pitchfork-music-festival-paris-2016/
― it me, Saturday, 3 December 2016 06:18 (seven years ago) link
So his new thing is out today - Reflections Mojave Desert. 5 tracks over 27 minutes recorded in the mojave desert as a 5-piece band. Two long (7 and 10 minutes) psychedelic prog jazz grooves, and three ambient-y explorations of what happens if you fiddle with an organ in the desert and approach it as a post-doc field recording project.
Ordered it weeks ago from his site and it arrived yesterday. Silurian Blue the 7-minute track, got a bit of play on 6music a while ago, and is pretty indicative (of course; there are only four other tracks!).
Headphones, though, wow. This sounds like nothing else I've ever heard. Not like a live album, not like a studio record. It's pretty slight in many ways (and he really is just doing instrumental prog now), but I also wouldn't want it to be any longer.
Comes with a DVD of s short film of the band playing and Sam wandering around with a field recording mic in the desert, which I've not watched yet.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 30 June 2017 05:45 (six years ago) link
The 10-minute track, Kelso Dunes, reaches somewhere he's not quite been before, whilst also being a logical kin to Kuiper etc.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 30 June 2017 05:46 (six years ago) link
I'm having difficulty reconciling the two halves of this paragraph and tbh your description doesn't riveting tbh, he doesn't need to go any further in that direction.
I had this all queued up for my Friday morning commute but that's prime listening real estate so I'll give it a go on Sunday morning instead.
― Matt DC, Friday, 30 June 2017 08:11 (six years ago) link
new album is the best thing he has done IMO. less brainy but all the better for it. one of my favourite things ive heard this year. lots of daft punk style synth work (i dont know the exact synth but they used it a lot on RAM), and some gorgeous guitar. not seen the film but its very replayable. also perfect for summer.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 6 July 2017 10:56 (six years ago) link
OK this meddle/dark side shit on "reflections" is AWESOME. what a champion.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
New track out today, download and (weird) 12". Ratio. 19 minutes. Which is why it's weird on vinyl, cos it's split somehow? Anyway, it's long, it's proggy, but it's NOT krauty / jazzy like the Reflections or Kuiper; it's much more house-y again, like a fusion of the early singles with Elaenia. Very nice indeed off a couple of listens. He's very tasteful, isn't he?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 19 October 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
And why not? Said song:
https://soundcloud.com/floatingpoints/ratio-full-mix
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 October 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
Might be the best thing he’s done.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 19 October 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
His new Late Night Tales is good fun. Very much in the, well, 'late night' section of late night in that it's practically beatless.
Tracklist: https://latenighttales.co.uk/products/floating-points
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Monday, 1 April 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
that looks great. plus Lauren Laverne reading Emily Bronte!
― brimstead, Monday, 1 April 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
New stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8fFo4REHOE
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
Quite a lot of it is so ambient that you could do that without realising for a long time.
this is my issue with it really. floating points' last few singles haven't been dancefloor-oriented either but there was just so much going on in them, 11-minute tracks that really made full use of the running time. this is def a lot more subdued, maybe more subtle but also less engaging
― lex pretend, Sunday, November 1, 2015 1:36 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Wonder if lex is pleased with this new one!
― Evan, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
New album 'Crush' arrives mid-October.
Crush:
01 Falaise02 Last Bloom03 Anasickmodular04 Requiem for CS70 and Strings05 Karakul06 LesAlpx07 Bias08 Environments09 Birth10 Sea-Watch11 Apoptose Pt112 Apoptose Pt2
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 6 September 2019 09:21 (four years ago) link
I loved Ratio and LesAlpx so I am psyched for this. Not a band release, just him making more dancefloor stuff, I understand.
The new stuff I've heard seems pretty next-level to me.
― sock fingering, baby (rushomancy), Sunday, 8 September 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
I was hoping he would go further into rhodesy space-fusion territory after Elaenia--like something with Mwandishi-esque sidelong jams--but the new tracks are pretty cool. Getting strong Aphex vibes from Last Bloom.
― J. Sam, Monday, 9 September 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
This new album is quite good.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/arts/music/floating-points-crush.html?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 18 October 2019 04:34 (four years ago) link
yeah on a couple spins it's one of my favorites of the year so far. The singles are nestled perfectly about the album, surrounded by some really incredible orchestral and synth driven songs that step through many different transitions and progressions over some relatively brief track times!
― octobeard, Saturday, 19 October 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
His new Late Night Tales is good fun. Very much in the, well, 'late night' section of late night in that it's practically beatless.Tracklist: https://latenighttales.co.uk/products/floating-points🕸
― willem, Saturday, 19 October 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
quite like this but a lot of it sounds like a worse, less ambitious drukqs
― ogmor, Sunday, 20 October 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link