Nothing that I can place, but can I just point out the similarity between "Atom" and Buzzcocks' "Everybody's Happy Nowadays"....
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 5 June 2008 09:20 (fifteen years ago) link
N.B. Weirdly considering my usual antipathy to This Kind Of Thing, DYLRM? has become my second favourite album of the year to date.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 5 June 2008 09:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah? I'm still not feeling it much, certainly not compared to the previous record, which I still love a lot.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 5 June 2008 09:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I totally cained it for a few weeks in January but haven't listened much since. It is very good though, certainly better than Open Season for my money. Still tremendous live too.
― Chris in Belfast, Thursday, 5 June 2008 11:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I am quite enjoying MAN OF ARAN!
― Everybody Wants To Shag King Boy Pato (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I heard The Great Skua in a trailer on Sky Sports last night. Epic. Haven't heard Man Of Aran - what's it like?
― Chris in Belfast, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link
They have this annoying habit of releasing b-sides on vinyl-only. I had no idea they did an unironic cover of "I Am A Cider Drinker" and a nifty 10" for "No Lucifer". Their latest is a cover of The Cure's "A Forest" which is solid.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I heckled them in concert requesting "I Am A Cider Drinker" and they glared at me. Wankers.
Anyway, I am enjoying their new EP which apparently is their offcuts from the next album.
― Ain't Gonna Play Sim City (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 9 October 2010 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
They glare at everyone. It's ace, especially "hidden" track 8, Returning.
― Duran (Doran), Saturday, 9 October 2010 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link
It's really different, isn't it? "Zeus" doesn't exactly feel cohesive but it's full of interesting aural excursions, not all of which work but all of which make you think, and are ultimately enjoyable. Frankly it reminded me alot of The Fall in terms of sheer experimentation and mixing brilliance with driving-off-the-cliff oddness.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 10 October 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
It's what we call a "fun romp". Especially with a song like 'kW-h', which sounds atypical of them but is good!
― Ain't Gonna Play Sim City (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 10 October 2010 10:59 (thirteen years ago) link
They're at their best when they're pretending to be icelandicbandmum though, aren't they?
― djh, Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Ok, "Zeus" just keeps getting better and better with each play. Any lucky soul already heard the forthcoming "Valhalla Dancehall"? I'd hate to think these are the more interesting bits that didn't fit, leaving us with a more cohesive, safe, ultimately uninteresting record.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 7 November 2010 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Ok, how is it that "Valhalla Dancehall" hasn't leaked yet?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 13 December 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^
― generally, like all white girls in my experience (King Boy Pato), Monday, 13 December 2010 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
british sea power: by white ppl, 4 white ppl
― salvia divanorum (nakhchivan), Monday, 13 December 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
And that's a problem?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 13 December 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Can someone *explain* British Sea Power?
Sometimes quite like them - indeed, like the Man of Aran soundtrack a lot - but have a sense that I'm missing something.
Is there a socio-political angle that I'm missing aside from one of them birdwatches and they've appeared on Country File?
― djh, Monday, 13 December 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
white haters gonna hate white people
― generally, like all white girls in my experience (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
ghostface h8r, 4real
― salvia divanorum (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
is it true that british sea power is basically drownedinsound indie but with extra references to the hebrides, obscure fauna, naval history etc?
― salvia divanorum (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
It is not true.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 01:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, fuck off.
― generally, like all white girls in my experience (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
true ime
― salvia divanorum (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
there needs to be a bsp vs iliketrains poll amirite
actually quite looking forward to hearing this new stuff. y'all have gotten me interested. only really 'carrion' and 'lately' have really caught my attention of the bsp i've heard
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 09:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes this is exactly what they are. They're occasionally pretty good at it (Carrion, most of the second album) and often ropey (the whole third album by and large). Their music isn't as distinctive as the rest of their aesthetic.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 09:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess if you're determined to be cloth eared then that's your call but DiS and BSP don't really see eye to eye given that DiS has an American/P4k garage rock/lo fi/Williamsburg leaning aesthetic.
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 11:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah DiS is basically P4k-in-Englande-but-with-more-dubstep if we're being reductive
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 11:16 (thirteen years ago) link
although British indie still does pretty well on the messageboards (wouldn't have thought BSP are a band everyone would bang on about though - they're a bit too austere and subtle)
2nd track of the EP is really good :)
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe I'm working on an outdated definition of Drownedinsound indie. They were very Brit-centric around 02-05, ie the period encompassing the first few BSP records.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Indie has kinda fragmented since then. Yer xxes and James Blakes and whatnot are the hot new electronic sound and guitar-rock while fondly regarded in some quarters has been marginalised by its own dissipation from that (tiresome) 00's centrality
hence, I predict some pretty exciting things coming out of British guitar rock in the early part of this decade, possibly by re-integrating electronic sounds and textures into something more progressive and wild (he hopes)
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Like...BSP have survived through their period of trend conformity, which is why I expect them to get much more interesting now - they're on their own now, in a way
Brighton buddies ESP meanwhile have realised their time is up as ESP, and Thomas White is now free to make the music he wants to make, which is miles better than ESP ever was (yeah, really) although there's still Brakes, hovering, somewhere (I don't suppose they've got too much left in the tank although perhaps they will evolve!)
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 11:27 (thirteen years ago) link
'Bear' is awwwwwwesome
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
like, if that's an outtake...
but then all of Suede's best songs were b-sides
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link
ok this EP is by a *country mile* the best thing BSP have ever done, beyond any scintilla of doubt
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 11:39 (thirteen years ago) link
is there some way SNA can say after a thread title "22 New Answers (but it's acoleuthic and nakhchivan so don't bother)"?
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 11:41 (thirteen years ago) link
would significantly improve my ilx experience. thx.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
</3
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, God forbid we should actually have to read posts by someone who seems to know what he's talking about... getting in the way of all the toe-curlingly unfunny 'zings'.
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 12:38 (thirteen years ago) link
yer gang never did get back to me about subediting btw, I think my Salem comment must've done for me :P
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, God forbid we should actually have to read posts by someone who seems to know what he's talking about... getting in the way of all the toe-curlingly unfunny 'zings'.― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Tuesday, December 14, 2010 12:38 PM
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Tuesday, December 14, 2010 12:38 PM
this post has incredible layers. i mean, at its simplest, it works as a subtle but strained zing on acoleuthic. but then if you take it at face value it has this great irony with Doran claiming that acoleuthic knows what he's talking about - which you can make an argue against in general but in this specific context he basically admits he doesn't know the band well, and then affirms that with what he says about the EP - so Doran himself doesn't know what he's talking when he talks about someone knowing what they talk about. and THEN you have the self-referential loop of the unfunny 'zings' part, where it is either an unfunny zing against me, or at the most generous reading, possibly at acoleuthic.
it's like an Escher painting. magnificent.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 13:22 (thirteen years ago) link
dude I think you should go for a bracing walk + get some air
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
extra references to the hebrides, obscure fauna, naval history etc?
This is what I like about them . . .
― djh, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
have now decided upon listening to 'man of aran' that 'the south sound' might be their thus-far pinnacle
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
it's certainly the best thing GY!BE have put out in a while
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Arf! You watching the film or just listening to the soundtrack? The full experience is a thing of beauty.
We put them on at Union Chapel in London. It really was something.
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 10:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm just listening to the soundtrack! It's lovely but yeah I really want to see the whole thing. I take it in that church in Norway they played it live to a video-screening? If so, awesome.
Sorry to have missed out on that - next time I'll be along. Have heard wonderful things about the live-show and clearly the music's getting better and better.
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 11:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Valhalla Dancehall has finally leaked, release on 1-1-11
Tracklisting:"Who’s In Control" - 3:14"We Are Sound" - 4:47"Georgie Ray" - 3:48"Stunde Null" - 2:39"Mongk II" - 4:49"Luna" - 4:17"Baby" - 5:47"Living Is So Easy" - 4:01"Observe The Skies" - 3:23"Cleaning Out The Rooms" - 7:11"Thin Black Sail" - 1:46"Once More Now" - 11:14"Heavy Water" - 3:42
― World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 05:23 (thirteen years ago) link
finally leaked, release on 1-1-11
leakers need to be more on the ball than this
― poppagemoose (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Agreed! But wisely they released a limited edition with a bonus EP so I already ordered it. But listening sooner is better than later!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link