― Scourage (Haberdager), Monday, 21 August 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
aside from the kitschy artwork, it has a really bad font.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 01:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316895016.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpghttp://www.willesdenbookshop.co.uk/sections/section11/images/sect11image19.jpg
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 01:41 (seventeen years ago) link
(Damon Albarn, 1986)
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 08:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link
plus lame cover art and promo shots
the only thing she's got going for her is the VDP associationwhich she paid for FYI
― kevin barking (arghargh), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link
but Van Dyke Parks arranging? damn..
― oh, wrinklepaws! (Wrinklepaws), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 02:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 02:06 (seventeen years ago) link
ehhhh oh well. i am still anticipating it highly. hopefully it'll all make sense once we hear it.
― Emily B (Emily B), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― rizzx (Rizz), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Jim O’ Rourke
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link
http://eil.com/newgallery/Alan-Stivell-Renaissance-Of-Th-261086.jpg
― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link
What, you mean like how men are back and rock is always back and all that? Thanks Jim.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Jim O'RLY
― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Saturday, 2 September 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 3 September 2006 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link
She is really sharp.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 3 September 2006 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tape Store (Tape Store), Sunday, 3 September 2006 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Ha! I actually really like this album, although irrespective of the 11-minute average track length, she has done more interesting things with her voice and lyrics than with the music
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 3 September 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link
That might actually be why it's good.
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 3 September 2006 08:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Still . . . VDP
― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Sunday, 3 September 2006 08:43 (seventeen years ago) link
I've never understood the appeal of VDP's arrangements. He always sounds like he's transcribing Fairport Convention solos. I wish Newsom had considered Jon Brion or Wolfgang Rihm.
― Owen Pallett (Owen Pallett), Sunday, 3 September 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Wikipedia entry on 'Ys'
Also, someone on the K Records message board has posted a list of many more albums Pitchfork supposedly leaked:
I already know that this link to said post won't last forever, though
(I hope those links work.)
I'm not saying that I really know anything or have any real sources, I'm just saying that words are going around, is all. But, if any of this is true, I'd love, love, love to see Pitchfork go down. Fuck those bitches (save Nitsuh).
― blood bitch (blood bitch), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link
And dleone & Tim Finney.
― Turangalila (Salvador), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:50 (seventeen years ago) link
It's all enough to make me pine for an acid house revival. This "weird America" folkiness has to stop NOW. But the kitschy hubris of the Joanna Newsom sleeve might just do the trick. Hippies are always their own worst enemy. Ha ha ha.
― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― genital hyphys (haitch), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link
All right, Hot Hot Heat.
...An acid house revival would rock the shithouse, though.
― blood bitch (blood bitch), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― blood bitch (blood bitch), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I hope there's something there I'll discover in forthcoming listens, but at the moment: WTF?
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link
This is an album of really gorgeous moments (so far, still percolating) but I'm still quite dubious of her whole damn thing really.
― bad hair day house (fandango), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link
there's definitely a sort of blandness to the actual sounds though, despite how well they move here.
― bad hair day house (fandango), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link
It's so gorgeous..."and all those lonely nights down by the RIIIVERRR"
― Tape Store (Tape Store), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― JMMMusic (Jimmy M), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link
The movement between parts reminds me of the randomizing systems used by Eno in "Three Variations on Canon in D," except that here there seems to be an element of mutual inspiration between the words and the music. None of the songs ever achieve resolution, but simply peter out when the time is right.
The whole thing is pretty syrupy and smooth, but I think that her poetry is strong enought to overcome the lack of edges. And it's full of absolutely gorgeous melodies.
― JMMMusic (Jimmy M), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link
If you wanted it to sound like Rufus Wainwright... then yeah, I guess.
― Turangalila (Salvador), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 06:31 (seventeen years ago) link
... maybe, but the fact that it's the first track on the most famous HARP album in modern folk music is surely no coincidence
― Ich Ber Ein Binliner (Dada), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link