I was surprised by this - I like the album, and disagree that it's characterless. In fact, the reason I checked it out was after hearing "Holding On", and thinking that harmony in particular was weird for a house track. Almost bi-tonal, with the root chord brushing up against this III chord -- not sure if intentional, or just a by-product of how the synth patch or vocals trail off. Not to mention the verse melody emphasizes the tritone! I thought it sounded pretty unique, and the album as a whole strikes me as an off-kilter take on what Disclosure has made "basic" (aka characterless).
― Dominique, Monday, 12 October 2015 13:59 (eight years ago) link
thought this album was a disappointment tbh, really characterless & with none of the pop moments like "au seve" i'd expect from bashmore going pop-house --lex pretend
every song on the album is poppier than 'au seve' though?
― flopson, Monday, 12 October 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
as in vocals and choruses? "au seve" is a zillion times catchier tho
― lex pretend, Monday, 12 October 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link
Holding On is incredible.
― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 12 October 2015 14:43 (eight years ago) link
'Rhythm Of Auld' is lovely but in general he wears his influences too on the sleeve without doing enough to escape pale imitation or the lacklustre middle ground between it all.
― nashwan, Monday, 12 October 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
― lex pretend, Monday, October 12, 2015 10:41 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nah the album is crazy catchy, indelible hooks out the waz. revisit it you'll see what i mean. 'au seve' is great but the best tracks on the alb are as good or better
― flopson, Monday, 12 October 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
loving this so much. kinda ridiculous it's going to be in shadow of Jamie XX's LP for at least a while. The whole Bashmore brand seems to be ill marketed this side of the atlantic, he deserves a crossover success IMO. I am not familiar with this scene, I discovered him thanks to Jessie Ware.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 5 December 2015 01:48 (eight years ago) link
Finally got around to this and it's really good! I feel like he uses voices and samples to better effect than most his peers.
there's been a real glut of this stuff over the past couple of years
The only recent (at a push) things this has explicitly reminded me of are KiNK's "Hand Made" and Tom Trago's "Use Me Again." Have I not been paying close enough attention or is there a lot more out there that sits at this specific intersection of disco, deep house and slightly retro anthemicness?
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
not that i recall this well enough other than to side-eye it but marquis hawkes' social housing is akin but good
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 01:01 (seven years ago) link
Oh synchronicity - read this while listening to Marquis Hawkes "Fantasy", from said LP.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
thx for the tip, this sounds p good and yeah exactly the same retro samples pop house style
despite my frantic proselytizing itt for the bash album not amounting to much i still think it's a masterpiece. feel like ilx uk dance partisans just got a bad whiff about it from the wrong corners of the music press or something. Dominique OTM about bizarre harmony on 'holding on'
― de l'asshole (flopson), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link