Let's give Ada's "Blondie" it's own thread...

On the Areal thread I equated her repackaging of 3.5 tracks to laziness/complacency. If ever I, personally, were given the enviable opportunity to release an actual album, I hope I would have the patience to increase the ratio of "GREAT" vocal/mellower/softer instrumental tracks to average tracks rather than squander said opportunity by repackaging one third and pedestrianizing another.

(For example, Ada's two 2rabimmel... contributions alone suprass more than half the tracks on Blondie.)

I know. This is one of those rare albums that makes all kinds of people stop and ask what it is.

I'd hope this will receive more 'widespread interest' when she (potentially) blows it out of the water with her next record!

This is unstoppable to the half-way mark, goes quite a bit pear-shaped after that but is so charming that it's really very forgiveable. The first two minutes of "Cool My Fire (I'm Burning)" are such sweet, unbearable tension. I feel like I've had this album a year already.

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http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/1207153-02.htm

"close your eyes and wet your lips"

http://static.flickr.com/3/6744682_7748306773_m.jpg

"yes please"

i love this album too much. cant believe it took me 2 years to buy it. both cover versions are awesome (esp the blindhouse one). i think "who pays the bills" is the only tune i dont like

i wouldnt mind an ada greatest hits. i agree that the 2 rabimmel tracks are great

If I had to choose, escaping a not very urgent housefire, a girly, songy & charming electro-techno type record from 2004 it would still be Sylvie Marks & Hal9000 "Krazeee" (also far from perfect, but wins on breadth).

But Ada is still fab, I sorta hope she breaks a bit away from the Areal sound (or takes it somewhere else) next though, she's great at what she does, but some more range in her music would be nice.

I'm still surprised that I haven't seen/heard about Ada in more places. It might be because the distribution in the US is pretty minimal outside of Forced Exposure and a handful of shops, but it's one of those albums I think *should* be carried in a lot of indie record stores. Maybe it is and I just haven't been to enough places. Everyone I've had listen to the album has expressed at least some interest in a copy...

yes, "each and every one" is my secret fave on this album (although, strictly speaking, I like the first three tracks as much or more). The organ! The snare attack at the end!

5 years since 'Blondie'?!

Wow. Lovely LP.

new compilation (adaptations) reviewed on pitchfork today!

is that getting talked about anywhere on ilm? i'm really loving it. the best part is there might not be a single handclap sample on the whole thing...

i spoke too soon...but that's ok

lol

coincidentally, i played blondie earlier this week. still great. must check out the mix

yeah, adaptations is lovely

There doesn't seem to much talk about Meine Zarten Pfoten, Ada's latest album that came out last year... I got a copy a few days ago, and I think it's quite good!

I wasn't that impressed with Blondie, but I loved Adaptations, so at first I was a bit disappointed how very chilled out the new album is; not many dance beats on it, and plenty of "girlish" vocals. But after a few listens, I really began to like it. There's a mellow, embracing, almost womb-like mixture of sweet synth sounds and acoustic guitars all through is length... "Happy Birthday" could've done without the semi-irritating vocal effects, and the last track (not counting the hidden track) feels a bit extraneous, but other than that there aren't many flaws to it.

I guess it's a bit weird that an album (not a mixtape like Adaptations) credited to Ada starts with what is essentially a remix of a Luscious Jackson tune, but listening to the original, she has only taken the vocals from it, and everything else is new, so it still sounds like an Ada tune. There a two other tunes credited to other acts on the album, but I think they are cover versions and not remixes of the original? Though it doesn't matter what the source is, Meine Zarten Pfoten still feels like a coherent whole.

yeah i liked it quite a bit - more pastoral than i was expecting, it didn't blow my mind like blondie, but always nice to hear from ada.

my favourite things she's done are the most grinding and driving - "i love asphalt" and "arriba amoeba" in partic

What ever happeend to her? Blondie still holds up

Beautiful recent comeback (only two tracks but listed as an EP?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1w76liAzIU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07iZsOgcKQc