It's not just musically they've developed. Sarah has turned into an amazing lyricist seemingly overnight.
btw there will be physical editions of the album, but not shipping until mid December according to this:https://www.polyvinylrecords.com/product/time_n_place
But do scroll down and read the full press blurb - very insightful for once.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 12:49 (five years ago) link
also Flamingo has 21 million youtube views, when did that happen wtf― ufo, Tuesday, October 2, 2018 12:16 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ufo, Tuesday, October 2, 2018 12:16 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Maybe this guy had something to do with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcnygxZoyaQ&t=70s
― daavid, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
That didn't work :(
It's a guy (ID: acai) playing guitar hero version. He seems to be pretty popular.
― daavid, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
xxp the press blurb is very interesting, thanks for the link. completely agree that sarah's lyrics are really fantastic on this album
i'm definitely going to try to find a tracklist that coherently combines TOTEP with Time 'n' Place, it shouldn't be too hard to fit
― ufo, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 04:28 (five years ago) link
I mean you can be pretty free with it, almost every track is so self-contained and ends with a sudden whoosh of noise
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 04:43 (five years ago) link
Saw them last night in Brighton. A very charming gig with most of the audience singing along. Would like to see them again in a year if they keep gigging to see a tighter performance.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 11:08 (five years ago) link
Would suggest that anyone more into their earlier stuff check out the Kane West LP as it features 2/3 members and is probably better than Intro Bonito― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, October 2, 2018 5:21 AM (yesterday)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, October 2, 2018 5:21 AM (yesterday)
boy did I misread this the first time
― alpine static, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
yeah, the name and artwork for that project are obviously (pretty funny) trolling
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
More goodness!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSuINZdJBk8
― daavid, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link
Saw these guys in Atlanta last night and it was the most fun I've had at a show in years. The crowd was super hyped and you could tell the band were really feeding off their energy. I thought they did a great job of re-working the old songs in the live band format. Go see them if you have the chance.
― woman in the dunes, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
I had slept on Time 'n Place until this week but wow, what a fantastic record. It's very melancholy--I'm hearing a valiant struggle to stay positive in the face of existential boredom and/or tragedy. There are also so many gorgeous melodies and textures throughout, like in the bridge to Time Today, which might be my favorite bit of music from last year.
Does anyone else get Trish Keenan vibes from Sarah's vocals? To me, they both share a kind of wistful British stoicism, though both bands obviously come from different places aesthetically.
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
We released a new song today, "The Open Road". Taken from the upcoming Swimming/The Open Road 7" single.https://t.co/t8lXSlRbvf pic.twitter.com/Tnrsz5EQ2p— Kero Kero Bonito (@KeroKeroBonito) February 25, 2019
― Jeff W, Monday, 25 February 2019 10:51 (five years ago) link
is good
― imago, Monday, 25 February 2019 10:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQDcNRqjQZo
i like the new EP well enough
― ufo, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
Ooh didn’t know they had something new
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:58 (four years ago) link
Pleased that they seem to have got the RAAAWWK out of their system. The EP still has the odd noisy moment, but it's all synth-led. It's a bit prog in places actually! I particularly like "Battle Lines".
― Jeff W, Monday, 7 October 2019 13:13 (four years ago) link
I didn't know what the hell they were going to do next.... this whole EP is very fun... in a new way
― maffew12, Monday, 7 October 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
Loving "The River"!
― daavid, Monday, 7 October 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
Is raaawwk still more or less what they're doing as a touring act? I was thinking of seeing them when they come through Minneapolis.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Monday, 7 October 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
It’s Bugsnax!
https://blog.playstation.com/2020/06/26/anatomy-of-an-earworm-inside-kero-kero-bonitos-toe-tapping-bugsnax-theme/
― Jeff W, Friday, 26 June 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
damn was hoping they would have put a proper version of it up :(
― devvvine, Saturday, 27 June 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
Now they do!
We released the full-length version of our song for Bugsnax: https://t.co/VNBBGTyrw3 pic.twitter.com/9ljWEXkfj4— Kero Kero Bonito (@KeroKeroBonito) July 20, 2020
― Jeff W, Monday, 20 July 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
hell yeah
― devvvine, Monday, 20 July 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
Summer jam
― jmm, Monday, 20 July 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
I'm way too addicted to this damn song.
― jmm, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 01:38 (three years ago) link
🎵 kind of bug and kind of snack 🎶
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 7 August 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Aa9F0h0VM
civilisation ii ep out in april. this single is fine but not really on the level of their 2018 material which is how i feel about the first civilisation ep these days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9__MSNKRTtY
also found they were regularly covering u2's "vertigo" on their last tour lol. about as deliberately an uncool song as possible which i guess was the point
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 08:39 (three years ago) link
Welcome to Tim's Twitter Listening Party for our 2018 album Time 'n' Place. #timstwitterlisteningparty pic.twitter.com/ESXxHW31DX— Kero Kero Bonito (@KeroKeroBonito) February 19, 2021
this is a good read about the making of time 'n' place
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 09:02 (three years ago) link
xp nice, finally! I can't say I'm any less psyched for Civ II than I was a couple years ago. As much as I'd love them to keep exploring the introspective sugary noise-pop of Time 'n' Place (probably my favorite album of the past five years, period), I think this electronic post-apocalyptic world-building thing they're doing now is a brilliant way for them to evolve. I love that they're an "eras" band that completely switches things up sonically and conceptually from album cycle to ablum cycle, which is something I associate more with art-pop "auteurs" like Björk and PJ Harvey than bands like KKB
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 13:08 (three years ago) link
they say in that twitter thread that the concept behind the civ eps is keeping things entirely hardware-based which is a continuation of what they did on time 'n' place, except that they're not working in the band format they did there. the results so far have been decently interesting, probably their most overtly video game soundtrack-esque music, but i don't love it as much as time 'n' place and totep.
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 13:19 (three years ago) link
i guess i like the sound of the civ stuff but the songwriting hasn't grabbed me anywhere near as much as what they were doing in 2018
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 13:24 (three years ago) link
Yeah musically the Civ stuff didn't appeal to me as immediately as the Time 'n' Place era stuff, but it's grown on me hard. The production is more sophisticated and darker than anything else they've done (though the video game music timbres help maintain a whimsical aura), and the way the lyrical focus has shifted from the personal to sci-fi/fantasy storytelling is really cool.
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link
Man I love the new song already. Freestyle-ish beat, lush melancholy synths, wispy chopped-up vocals: yes, please
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
AND WE WILL BE. WELL. RESTED.WHEN THE ASCENSION COMES
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 13:17 (two years ago) link
My 13-year-old son's favorite band, he plays them in the car all the time. I enjoy it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
A young man of taste he is. Civilisation II EP is out today, absolutely slays as expected. "Well Rested" is a legit 7-minute deep house odyssey
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
A young man walking the one true path. Yeah this new one's great
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
This does sound like video game music, in a way I can't appreciate or enjoy. And why are their tunes so aimless now, when they used to be all about catchy melodies (to the point that they had a song about how great they are)?
This band is clearly going places artistically, but they left me behind a while back. Oh well
― best time to call is friday and saturday afternoons! (morrisp), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link
yeah "well rested" rules
― ufo, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
"well rested" is massive!
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Friday, 23 April 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
This might be my favorite thing from them. 21/04/20 is also great and it’s coincidentally the same birthday as my significant other.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 23 April 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
Well Rested is the best PSB song since Love Is A Bourgeois Construct
― imago, Friday, 23 April 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
What does PSB stand for?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 23 April 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
think of London's previous, um, house band, WHOSE MANTLE IS BEING PASSED
― imago, Friday, 23 April 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
thinking of sarah's deadpan vocal style being in the same lineage as psb makes me appreciate it a lot more overall
― ufo, Friday, 23 April 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
Kero Kero Bonimperial phase
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 23 April 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
Oooh Pet Shop Boys... yeah I kinda hear the comparison
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 23 April 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
Especially the vocal style and the fact it's called 'Well Rested'! But KKB's laid-back pop/house investigations have always had a certain PSB-y feel to them imo, albeit a few hairs more indie
― imago, Friday, 23 April 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
yeah i definitely hear that
i'm really excited to hear where they go next bc it kinda feels like they're just getting started really
also what the hell "flamingo" has 76 million youtube views when did that happen
― ufo, Friday, 23 April 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
Re: the tradition of deadpan British vocals, Sarah constantly reminds me of Trish Keenan
― J. Sam, Friday, 23 April 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link