Kelley Polar - Love Songs of The Hanging Gardens (Environ CD05)

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i was listening to off the wall before i remembered that i had this and somehow the transition was just perfect.

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 21 October 2005 06:12 (eighteen years ago) link

totally reminds me of michael jackson in places

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 08:48 (eighteen years ago) link

1. Cosmological Constancy

2. Here In The Night

3. Tyurangalila

4. My Beauty In The Moon

5. Vocalise (From Here To Polarity)

6. Ashamed Of Myself

7. Rooms In My House Have Many Parties, The

8. Matter Into Energy

9. Black Hole

10. In Time

― c7n (Cozen), Saturday, 22 October 2005 10:01 (eighteen years ago) link

P00: in time.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 22 October 2005 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link

jvsus, one listen into this & it's album-of-the-year! "black hole" needs yr love!

― etc, Saturday, 22 October 2005 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link

On some tracks, the vocals remind me Elliott Smith's multi-tracked self-harmonies (as on "I Didn't Understand")!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Another odd indie-rock comparison: the first 8 seconds of "Tyrungalia" = the first 5 seconds of Sufjan's "Chicago."

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:15 (eighteen years ago) link

JAYMC STOP MAKING ME NOT WANT TO LIKE THIS

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:17 (eighteen years ago) link

HAHAHA

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Jaymc is just descibing why this album will eventually achieve indie crossover domination!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:22 (eighteen years ago) link

doubt it

― c7n (Cozen), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:24 (eighteen years ago) link

The Sufjan comparison is very trivial, it's just a similar sequence of ascending notes. As for Elliott Smith -- well, it's really just a reliance on choral-like vocal harmonies, but there's actually very few precedents for that sort of thing in recent pop music, so Elliott was the first person to come to mind. But I mean listen to the opening of "My Beauty in the Moon" -- it's, like, fucking Chanticleer or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Does saying On some tracks, the vocals remind me of "Scritti Politti" help? Or is that semi-covered by "The Junior Boys" references? Hint, you are allowed to want to like this.

Xpost x 4

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link

The indie comparison I would use it Kevin Tihista, but I don't think many people outside of Chicago would know who he is.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:39 (eighteen years ago) link

is he the red terror guy?

didn't they have a semi-big (indie "big") rec?

― c7n (Cozen), Sunday, 23 October 2005 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link

anyway I googled and yeah

― c7n (Cozen), Sunday, 23 October 2005 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link

This is incredible, everyone on earth needs this album, can't actually believe this! I am actually thinking of all the friends who are going to go crazy for this record and want to invite them around!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 23 October 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Instant Classic.

― snowballing (snowballing), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

but I don't think many people outside of Chicago would know who he is.

Ha, I know who he is, in the sense that I've read articles about him and seen his name listed on bills around Chicago, but I've never actually heard his music.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link

i've been reading this thread with increasing disbelief at what i assumed was pure hyperbole but i'm listening to this now and.... WOW.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 23 October 2005 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

From the artist bio at Environ: "Recently expelled from Juilliard for the 'riot' during his Master's Recital..." ???

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 23 October 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

can someone ysi anything else, please? i can't seem to find anything on soulseek. what's the danciest song on the album? all i've got is Vocalise and Here in the Night... please?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 23 October 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

please YSI this album

― biz, Sunday, 23 October 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

leechers, the lot of you. use p2p like honest people!

― unconscious, honey (FE7), Sunday, 23 October 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Ronan OTM!

ha, I'm breaking my brane trying to think of what the vocals around 0:47 in "my beauty in the moon" remind me of, but I keep getting distracted by the awesome "empire state human" beat!

― etc, Sunday, 23 October 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

slighty deviant here, but if anyone cares, I just discovered Metro Area 6 is on iTunes now. F**k a vinyl rip and support!

― buboclot, Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

god i wish itunes had better bitrates available

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah why has that not been petitioned to hell or just flat out changed? either way a 160kbps cd version is better than a vinyl rip for me.

― buboclot, Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Rumor has it that the Environ catalog will be up on Bleep soon.

― jeffery (jeffery), Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link

From the artist bio at Environ: "Recently expelled from Juilliard for the 'riot' during his Master's Recital..." ???

There was a lot of laughing going on. It was very difficult to stop.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:15 (eighteen years ago) link

A+

environ = still batting a thousand

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link

actually, i'd prefer to buy it tonight on Bleep.com than download it for free. i'd rather go to the shop and buy it there but i have to wait. if it's done and it's on Soulseek, why can't i get it in the shops. this, more than downloading, is losing the recording industry sales.

― biz, Monday, 24 October 2005 05:09 (eighteen years ago) link

OH MY FUCKING GOD "MY BEAUTY IN THE MOON"

Get it from Fluxblog if you haven't yet, it is the business. It's settled, I am buying this the day of release. I will knock over nuns and the elderly in my haste.

― telephone thing, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 00:39 (eighteen years ago) link

oh the remixes are going to be hot.

― jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

It is very good, though I'm not sure I'm quite as excited about it as a lot of people on this thread.

― Movie Shoot in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 01:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Not that I intended it as a direct comparison, but as I said above, for a really well-produced vocal house record, I would pick the Chelonis R. Jones album over this every time.

― Movie Shoot in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 01:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmmm. It certainly sounds stunning, but weirdly static & sterile too. Maybe not for me.

― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 04:38 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe the people who are super excited haven't heard the kelley polar EPs? weren't paying attention to metro area? i still like the metro area LP better than this, and i like "rhythm touch / castrovalva" better than metro area. this is very very very good but not mindblowing. also, they lost the dance a bit, which sux.

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 05:47 (eighteen years ago) link

If Metro Area sounds like this, but a little more danceable I am suddenly a lot more interested.

I'll confess I had Metro Area lumped in with that Italo-disco revival thing as a name, I had no idea they were even contemporary! How's the Morgan Geist solo stuff (been having a quick lookup on discogs y'see) should I ever happen to bump into it?

― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 05:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Lost the dance a bit on purpose, it's a pop album.

Geist's solo stuff is fantastic, and 90% of it sounds nothing like Metro Area. The stuff he's done since starting Metro Area, I sometimes like more then Metro Area, because Darshan ruins everything he touches. Seriously though, the Super EP is, well, self-explanatory.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link

FWIW I own the Metro Area album, the last 2 singles, and one of the Kelley 12s. But I guess it's irrelevent, enough people on ILM like this now that Vahid can't.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 09:42 (eighteen years ago) link

i was extremely dull on the radio last night ("internet hype and arctic monkeys" stuff), but i had planned to mention this record as a contender for the Next Blog Thing. didn't get the chance.

i was quite enjoying it in the rain yesterday, but i'm curious about how the people who are OVER THE MOON are listening to the record... How do you hear this? Something sexy for when you're with your boy or ladyfriend? Something close coolhot and reassuring in the dark/rainyness? wax-faced dancefloor stunna? Something else? It seems similar in -function- to the Junior Boys record, but the enthusiasm here seems rather more, I don't know, active. I'm wondering not about what appeals to people, or what the precedents/sound-alikes are, but whee/when/how it's bringing you the crazydeep pleasures.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link

"because Darshan ruins everything he touches"

please elaborate?? I don't think Geist's solo stuff post-Metro Area differs much at all from the Metro Area itself. I've always been curious to hear some solo Darshan stuff to sort of pick out his influences in the Metro Area sound. But honestly, I'm curious to know what your talking about. What's ruined on the M.A full length!?! shit is perfect to me.

― buboclot, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:27 (eighteen years ago) link

x-post

"stick it in yr ears" (trad.)

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I posted a song from this album yesterday and none of my readers seemed to care. That was disappointing.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link

as much as our readers act like hipsters, matthew, ear to the motherfuckin' misshapes ground (and yours more than mine, probably, cos i get all the lovely "indie yuppies"), they seem to act with total ambivalence to anything outside their usual sphere. kelley polar gets no peeps, nor does damian marley. so it goes.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link

"That's what killed Dennis Day: contempt for the audience."

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 11:39 (eighteen years ago) link

if that was meant for me, yuou're right, and now i feel sad and guilty. :(

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I like this record a lot, especially the more baroque, multi-tracked vocal songs, but wonder again at the post-JBeez tendency for people to say "with the addition of fey vocals and drippy lyrics this electronica is now a POP MASTERPIECE!". It reminds me a bit of fey and drippy mid-80s synthpoppers like China Crisis and Fiction Factory. But I say that affectionately.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I wasn't big on the Junior Boys really, not compared to this anyhow.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:01 (eighteen years ago) link

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