loved Binasu, so i'm stoked for this one! for some reason для FOR did nothing for me
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
the second track (Du Na) has a strong jon hassell thing going, beyond the sound of the treated trumpet
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
Holy crap it’s out?? I forgot completely
― Evan, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link
"Sayonara - Full Moon Version", now that's a jam. especially the back half
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
New album is monumental
Brings to minds bits of YMO, Laurie Anderson, Jane Siberry, and more recently Glasser
Yep, I'm also reminded of Nona Hendryx's Skindiver and Letta Mbulu's In The Music The Village Never Ends.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 06:47 (three years ago) link
The new album is fantastic.
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
Everyone otm here--album is hitting all my pleasure centers. Picking up very strong Mariah - Utakata No Hibi vibes.
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
This is officially my album of the summer. It gets more interesting with each listen, I love getting bowled over out of the blue by new music!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
Be sure to check out Binasu too! The new one is better (more consistent) I think, but Binasu has some great moments as well
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
whoa! so a couple things. first of all, i just learned there's a nicolas godin (air guy) that came out recently. some of it is really good! and some of it i don't like so much - a lot of depends on the guest singers all over the album.
but whoa, kate nv guests on one of the best tracks! i didn't realize she was on it, and when the song started i assumed my spotify had somehow jumped over to the kate nv album (which i really like but am still getting to know). it's really good imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AmYEohZIfk
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 27 June 2020 01:19 (three years ago) link
I was getting Linda Di Franco vibes from this, really enjoyed it and a lot more than any of her previous music
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 27 June 2020 07:56 (three years ago) link
i'm not sure any description i read of this record actually prepared me for it
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 28 June 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
yeah, i think it's a good argument against genre
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Sunday, 28 June 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
i would describe this album as very cool. it sounds so cool to me
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 29 June 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
see, if "cool" was a genre then genres would be fine
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 June 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
https://daily.afisha.ru/music/15927-odinokaya-luna-kak-kate-nv-zapisala-samyy-optimistichnyy-russkiy-albom-goda/
Interview in Russian highlighting some of her influences. Reads fine through Google Translate.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
this album is soooo gooood. "Ça Commence Par" and "Telefon" <3
― Roz, Friday, 3 July 2020 11:31 (three years ago) link
It is! The influences are glaringly obvious (though i've not translated that Russian article so can only assume) but she manages to transcend them.
― stirmonster, Friday, 3 July 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
Just got the CD, which has a couple of bonus tracks. Like the old days!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 4 July 2020 03:30 (three years ago) link
Hour long podcast with her on Resident Advisor:
https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=523
― this is my clean tone (NickB), Friday, 4 September 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmbYo7ZLqck&feature=youtu.be
I assume this is what the Cats movie was like?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
whatever that is, it won't play for me :(
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
It's not playing for me either, but I assume it's the video for Lu Na. Very cute "80s art-pop" vibes. Album is on track to be my AOTY. So much fun!
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
is there a term for when you only know one musician from a certain country and they happen to be super eccentric so you subconsciously assume everything that comes out of that country is like that. maybe "Bjork syndrome" or something
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
ok I'll tell you what I dig about this: I used to go to this club that would always be projecting weird performance art videos against one of the walls while the music played. it was exactly shit like this and I loved it
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 October 2020 04:40 (three years ago) link
been listening to Hosono's Philharmony a lot lately and I'm starting to think she's gotten a few ideas from this record
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 December 2020 05:16 (three years ago) link
okay - this tune in particular
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKca6co0PCM
could have been translated pretty much wholesale onto any of her albums
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 03:28 (three years ago) link
what’s so lovely about this album is how relentlessly 20th century it seems without just being retro. It’s like some synthesis of so much that was good before digital ... or something. it seems personal but also outward looking, none of the hedonic depression synth-weed haze clogging up the proceedings
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link
Hadn't noticed this thread but dig Room for the Moon. These observations during the 2020 poll rollout (“Telefon” at #24, w00t!) were intriguing:
Kate NV just sounds like pretty accurate soviet bloc 80s pop to me, all the way through to the kind of thin production.― emil.y, Friday, January 29, 2021Agreed, this sounds like very obvious pastiche of Russian schlager of bygone era. Never liked that sound too much in the original form, so this isn't impressing me either, but I guess it's nice to have pastiches of other than American genres on the list for change. :)― Tuomas, Friday, January 29, 2021
Agreed, this sounds like very obvious pastiche of Russian schlager of bygone era. Never liked that sound too much in the original form, so this isn't impressing me either, but I guess it's nice to have pastiches of other than American genres on the list for change. :)― Tuomas, Friday, January 29, 2021
Any soviet era pop recommendations? :)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
this probably wasn't what emil.y or tuomas were referencing at all but zvuki mu ftw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1phklC8tOA
― mage uluk (NickB), Friday, 29 January 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link
(i definitely think kate nv shares some of their absurdist tendencies btw)
― mage uluk (NickB), Friday, 29 January 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
lmao really love all the shots of the audience bored out of their minds
― frogbs, Friday, 29 January 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
Haha I know! amazing scenes
― mage uluk (NickB), Friday, 29 January 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
if you didn't see the "Telefon" video posted on the countdown, I encourage you to give it a watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAFNH-V4R3s
not sure what's going on with the wardrobe here, it looks like they all just put on random stuff from old comedy sketches. I can't take my eyes off the bald clarinet wizard robe dude
― frogbs, Friday, 29 January 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag!
My brain is absolutely dead right now but remind me to come back to this sometime and I will give you some.
― emil.y, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
Not Soviet pop, but Ann Steel is clearly an aesthetic touchstone here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23r5qqqVOu8
― J. Sam, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link
wow Telex covered this song! I had no idea
― frogbs, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:27 (three years ago) link
Love KATE NV, highlights like "Kata" from her first album sound a lot like 80's Japanese pop to me (can't quite put my finger on who she reminds me of... maybe Haruomi Hosono?), more than Russian pop but they're both obvious references on her music and they mix pretty well aesthetically tbh.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 January 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
I definitely see Ann Steel in it, yes! I really don't know why I slept on Kate NV, not sure if there was some completely arbitrary thing that put me off at some point, because right now I'm totally getting into it.
― emil.y, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B05axTlKTKA
Роза Рымбаева гр. Арай
― saer, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
Love KATE NV, highlights like "Kata" from her first album sound a lot like 80's Japanese pop to me (can't quite put my finger on who she reminds me of... maybe Haruomi Hosono?)
Miharu Koshi. whose three best albums were produced/co-written by Hosono.
I posted this tune upthread, it's Hosono ft. Koshi on vocals, definitely feels like something she was very influenced by
― frogbs, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
yeah she's clearly drawing on hosono a lot
― ufo, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
She did some red bull academy study placement thing in tokyo iirc, so I wouldn't be surprised if she's got a pretty good knowledge of Japanese stuff. Someone upthread mentioned mariah, I think that's a really apt comparison. Definitely hear some yasuaki shimizu in there
― mage uluk (NickB), Friday, 29 January 2021 17:08 (three years ago) link
ok maybe I'm getting off base but she also reminds me a lot of Mecano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLujb3iwu9g
perhaps because they have the same haircuts. but its more than that
― frogbs, Friday, 29 January 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
Man, that bass player has no concept of personal space. Step back, floofy boots!
― mage uluk (NickB), Friday, 29 January 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
he does, however, also have the same barber
― frogbs, Friday, 29 January 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
lol that's Nacho Cano he's the main composer of all Mecano songs.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 January 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
yeah he just wanted to make sure she was singing it right
― frogbs, Friday, 29 January 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
Okay, my brain is still dead but I figured I would go for some super-obvious Ex-Yu/Soviet pop for you. None of this sounds exactly like Kate NV, but it's among the stuff that 'Telefon' reminded me of, like, a sort of 'in the blood' thing.
Sizike!Sladjana!Alliance!Denis x2!
There were a couple of other things that I can't remember the name of and have disappeared from my youtube lists, blargh.
― emil.y, Friday, 29 January 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
Eeep, that sizike song is amazing! Thank you!
― mage uluk (NickB), Friday, 29 January 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link
kate did a mix for late junction on bbc radio 3: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hbpb
in case you can't be bothered to click on that, the tracks she played were...
Shiina Ringo - StoicismUrbangarde - Commercial SongAphex Twin - Bucephalus Bouncing BallNobukazu Takemura - Murmur of the DayKatamari Damacy - Original Video Game Soundtrack Macdonald Duck Eclair - Ya...Pa Pa!Momoe Yamaguchi - Koi no Hotline
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:38 (one year ago) link
wonkee formatting lol oops apols
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:39 (one year ago) link
oh wow i hadn't heard macdonald duck eclair before and they sound like a very emil.y band :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4MIe0PRA04Macdonald Duck Eclair - Mac Teenage Riot (2004)
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:51 (one year ago) link
getting very off-topic but this track of theirs is gorgeous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE0UDfM-vm4Macdonald Duck Eclair - The Yellow Go
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link
yesss Macdonald Duck Eclair are excellent, plus they have a Longmont Potion Castle name
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 February 2023 22:00 (one year ago) link
yeah i like what they got goin'!
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2023 22:03 (one year ago) link
Wow is upon us! Sounds good, if mostly back in not-actual-pop-songy territory, just as the previews were suggesting.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 3 March 2023 04:57 (one year ago) link
huge Rainbow Islands vibes from "confessions at the dinner table"
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 3 March 2023 11:50 (one year ago) link
Love this
― nxd, Friday, 3 March 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
yeah it's exactly what I was hoping for given the preview tracks. no real songs but a lot of nice sounds. I know this comparison is lame but you know how all the animals and people in Katamari are only capable of making weird wordless noises? well this is like if you put together a barnyard jam band there
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 03:28 (one year ago) link
this is lots of fun. love the pings and pops, tho at times they did make me think i was getting a work notification lol
― avatár the way of watár (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
first album from her other project due in June
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/decisive-pink/ticket-to-fame/
that's pretty quick but I am pretty sure nearly all of WOW was recorded before Room for the Moon. in fact you can hear proto versions of those tracks on here if you listen closely. so I guess it makes sense that her actual "new project" is actually something upcoming and not this.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link
yeah her instagram post for Wow's release says it was made around the same time as Moon
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 15:39 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8vDsOJSpxQ
this album's gonna be real good I think. vocals remind me a bit of Stereolab
― frogbs, Monday, 24 April 2023 19:38 (eleven months ago) link
yeah, i'm more excited for this than the Kate NV album. which is saying something.
― alpine static, Monday, 24 April 2023 22:01 (eleven months ago) link
Completely missed these posts - I had not heard them before and they *are* a very emil.y band. Loving this.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:09 (eleven months ago) link
xp All the Decisive Pink preview tracks so far have been great. Wish the album were coming out sooner!
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:29 (eleven months ago) link
Love this new project.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:05 (eleven months ago) link
So Ticket to Fame is out and it's a lovely treat.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 June 2023 17:01 (ten months ago) link
Lovely treat is exactly right, especially "Cosmic Dancer." Optimistic space-pop perfection. Also love the flute throughout--shades of early Kraftwerk.
― J. Sam, Sunday, 11 June 2023 21:04 (ten months ago) link
I like this!
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 12 June 2023 15:32 (ten months ago) link
oooh yeah. this is something ILX needs to hear. in the sense that it reminds me of a lot of things that ILX likes. and yeah it totally has that Ralf & Florian/Autobahn sound! would be a shame if this didn't get the attention that WOW did, I mean I'm a fan of everything she does but this one I think makes good on the promises of her best stuff
― frogbs, Monday, 19 June 2023 03:07 (ten months ago) link
yeah this is very good stuff, easily my favourite album she's been involved with
― ufo, Monday, 19 June 2023 09:01 (ten months ago) link
a bunch of this album reminds me of this Telex song in particular
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKZB09aUzI
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 03:03 (nine months ago) link
Decisive Pink euro touro announced:https://www.instagram.com/p/CuXGShMNCT6/
Bizarrely they're playing here in the tiniest pub (capacity 100!), just a mile away at the bottom of the hill from where i live. Am completely losing my mind about this, holy heck
― NickB, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:51 (nine months ago) link
i mean, this is what the stage looks like in there:
https://brightonsource.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/5-The-Rosehill-Tavern-Brighton-SOURCE-Ashley-Laurence-Time-for-Heroes-Photography.jpg
― NickB, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:55 (nine months ago) link
Only two UK dates and one at the Rose Hill? Bloody hell!
― emil.y, Friday, 7 July 2023 13:11 (nine months ago) link
wow, that's crazy. I was really close to seeing her in Chicago but that's kind of a drive and I couldn't make it work. but the show seemed to just be at some bar/coffee shop, would've been super cool
― frogbs, Friday, 7 July 2023 14:24 (nine months ago) link
Ticket booked for the Brighton show. Pumped!
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Saturday, 8 July 2023 06:12 (nine months ago) link
Decisive Pink London show cancelled!
― mmmm, Monday, 6 November 2023 20:00 (five months ago) link
any idea why?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 6 November 2023 20:16 (five months ago) link
None at all. I just received a Dice notification. I was looking forward to it :(
― mmmm, Monday, 6 November 2023 20:49 (five months ago) link
Weird! Can't find any further info online. Still tickets available for brighton though, so don't think that's affected.
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 6 November 2023 20:56 (five months ago) link
(come hang out with us if you fancy it!)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 6 November 2023 20:58 (five months ago) link
something i did find during my investigations though...
Wassily KandinskyDecisive Pink1932 pic.twitter.com/Q5sYnFjUFV— Silviavers (@Silvia39217738) November 3, 2023
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 6 November 2023 21:04 (five months ago) link
Would love a trip to Brighton but can’t make it work unfortunately… have fun and report back please!
― mmmm, Monday, 6 November 2023 21:11 (five months ago) link
Sad to say it looks like the Rose Hill show is also cancelled. I saw visa issues mentioned.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 16:48 (five months ago) link
huh. i went as surrealism for halloween and as part of that i wore a tank top with a kandinsky print on the front.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 17:18 (five months ago) link
i used to have a cd called "live at the knitting, factory, vol. iii" and this piece called "kandinsky" was on it. i like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8N2CBMA6KA
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 17:19 (five months ago) link
so shit, who the fuck even benefits from not granting a visa for this?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 17:52 (five months ago) link
I meant to listen to this and maybe go to the gig but forgot until tonight, then I was like oh shit the gig was tonight wasn't it? but turns out it wasn't anyway. oh well. I am going to too many gigs this month already anyway. my ears still hurt from Slowdive last week
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 9 November 2023 22:03 (five months ago) link
from her social media just in case any fans here missed it: "Playing at Lincoln center, nyc, march 14th, free entrance"
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 10 March 2024 23:24 (one month ago) link
ok this in a surround sound environment is super cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhasBUClmC0
― frogbs, Saturday, 30 March 2024 04:07 (three weeks ago) link