Only just found out how good Lullaby of Clubland is.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
I always liked the cover of Love Not Money.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
― piscesx,
a sad earworm is hard
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
“Lullaby of Clubland” feels like a much bigger hit/anthem then it ever was - like, dropping it in the middle of a club set should have the same “wheeling out a classic” vibe as dropping “The Future of the Future” would.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
That song acquired a life of its own the moment the album dropped. Everyone I know who bought the album loved "Song 8"
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
!
wonder what it's going to sound like
― ufo, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
Is there any survey of critical appraisal of Ben Watt’s post-EBTG career in dance music? Around 1999 I was getting into both UK progressive house and IDM, and by comparison I found the timbres and flow of the particular tunes that Watts had chosen to take up, clumsy and plodding. Was my disappointment shared, or were people really moved by his new thing?
― Melomane, Friday, 4 November 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
His 'Buzzin Fly' label and house adventures were very basic and plain to me, but it was very popular. His more recent solo stuff has been great but only so much acoustic guitar I can take. Hopefully this album is fully electronic but i'm going to guess it will be a mix of electronic and acoustic sounds, after all, the future of the future still contains the past.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 4 November 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
god temperamental is so fucking awesome
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 04:08 (one year ago) link
otm
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 13:27 (one year ago) link
I played the video for Five Fathoms on repeat during the Covid lockdown. It was a beautiful reminder of the city nightlife we were missing.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
Ok, nearly there now! Really excited to tell you that the new Everything But The Girl single is out tomorrow - it's called "Nothing Left To Lose" and you can hear it for the first time on @laurenlaverne's show on @BBC6Music - listen in from 8.30am GMT 😍🔥🍾— Tracey Thorn (@tracey_thorn) January 9, 2023
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Monday, 9 January 2023 13:07 (one year ago) link
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Monday, 9 January 2023 13:27 (one year ago) link
Oh wow, return of an old friend.
― that's not my post, Monday, 9 January 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOF2pjm9_IE
― giraffe, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 09:05 (one year ago) link
"worth the wait, sounds great" sez my sister (had to text her first thing). i agree!
― fleeting art that floats! (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 14:29 (one year ago) link
great video now, too
― fleeting art that floats! (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
I love her smokey voice.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
Her voice has changed, though this is to be expected after such a long time - 24 years since the last album. It sounds deeper (in more ways than one).
― giraffe, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link
sorry i'm this guy-
funny that all it takes is one classic band releasing something new to remind me how shit most other music is.
way too early in the year for such a definitive banger.
kiss me while the world decays.
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link
p sure ben + tracey live on this street
https://i.imgur.com/NOp1ZaQ.jpeg
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
Wow this sounds great! Her voice has changed slightly - yeah a bit deeper - but I actually think it sounds better.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
when her voice first hit, i have to admit i was a taken aback. it's changed a lot, even since record - but that was over 4 years ago (unbelievably!).
― kiss me while the world decays (Austin), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
but she sounds absolutely beautiful on this. my god.
― kiss me while the world decays (Austin), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
Perfect return. So classy and understated. Can't wait for the album.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
Awesome.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
I love it.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
wanted to sing "tessio" over this as it played which means it's about as good as music can be
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
well i can't listening to anything but everything but the girl today
love that charles hayward plays drums on eden
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
Love the new single, it’s like the pop song each member of The XX has been trying to make for 10 years
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
I played their Back to Mine mix last night and when Stars All Seem To Weep came on I thought it sounded so much like EBTG, and in particular, Hatfield 1980 and the Temperamental album. I've just gone to look at the details on The Stars All Seem to Weep and it appears Ben Watt is credited with 'Beats', so yeah, explains why it sounds so much like EBTG.
New songs is fantastic, had it on repeat for about half an hour this morning.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 22:12 (one year ago) link
This is a nice surprise
― calstars, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 04:22 (one year ago) link
it's pretty good but it's funny that it sounds like what they would have made about a decade ago if they'd never gone away
― ufo, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 04:54 (one year ago) link
Love it. Tracey’s voice has evolved. I’m not sure I would have recognized her if I just heard the “kiss me while the world decays” bit. We’ve waited 24 years but they could hurry up already with the whole album.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 05:27 (one year ago) link
I'm v impressed.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 06:05 (one year ago) link
I wasn't familiar with the band at all, but one week was all I needed to listen to Amplified Heart, Eden, Temperamental, and Walking Wounded. Easy quality listening. Now I have the missing link between Bossa Nova and Roisin Murphy. With a little bit of Sade too.
― Nabozo, Friday, 13 January 2023 13:51 (one year ago) link
speaking of bossa nova: beautiful mid-90s live version of Corcovado recorded for Red Hot & Rio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA8Pv_gTjLg
― that's not my post, Friday, 13 January 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
approximately 30 seconds into that new single i realised this will win the '23 albums poll, and there's nothing any of us can do about it
― imago, Saturday, 11 February 2023 11:31 (one year ago) link
(i like it tbf! i wouldn't have said that if i didn't)
― imago, Saturday, 11 February 2023 11:32 (one year ago) link
(but it does tick every single ILM box in triplicate lol)
― imago, Saturday, 11 February 2023 11:34 (one year ago) link
Saw the video for the new song. The cynic in me wants to call out EBTG for using these young people in the video, as if to conceal the fact that the artists themselves are in their seventh decade.
― Melomane, Saturday, 11 February 2023 13:57 (one year ago) link
Shoot a fan edit and move the setting to a retirement home
― calstars, Saturday, 11 February 2023 14:17 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEK6U2nRO24
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link
lol are they allowed to be doing this???
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link
LET ME IN
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
nice
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link
i like it even more than "nothing left to lose" and when it gets to the reprise of "all the stars aligning, shimmering shining" ... okay, yeah. they clearly did.
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 15:14 (one year ago) link
Not as keen on this one so far but NLTL was great.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link
And I'm sittin', sittin' at the top of the stairsAnd you're cryin' out on the towpath by the riverWith all the swans and all the people walking by
And all of a sudden I'm stuck with an urge to unlock a doorWith a key that's too big for my handsAnd I drop it, and it falls at your feetCome on, come on, it's there at your feet
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link
and I neeeveeeerrr
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 21:17 (one year ago) link