this is excellent.. current standout 'the lisbon maru'
kinda samey more ravey less screamy
― LEGOS by Atlas Sound (coming eventually, 2009 or 2010) (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Why does your display name imply that the Atlas Sound disc may not come out this year? I thought it was confirmed for next month.
(BTW, very much looking forward to the F--k Buttons disc, too)
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 16 September 2009 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
parody of the ILM thread name
― LEGOS by Atlas Sound (coming eventually, 2009 or 2010) (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't expect this new one to reinvent the wheel ... but fuck it, I wouldn't want it to either.
Am seeing them in Glasgow next week (as long as I remember to go and buy a ticket). They were epic supporting Mogwai in Edinburgh and I expect great things in a smaller venue.
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 17 September 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I like this new one.
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 19 September 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
more ravey less screamy
Haven't heard the new one yet, but can say I would be satisfied with a subtle push in this direction.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 19 September 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, it really does (in places, anyway). I mean I hate to damn stuff I dig with unfathomably uncool reference points, but first track is like "oh hey, Everything Is Wrong piles on the fuzz-bliss". Just me? Or alternatively, stop pussyfooting and admit it's just as much later Moby, but we can't talk about that in public?
I missed them live last week for some really stupid reason. Maybe I was just scared that they wouldn't live up to the excellent previous occasion.
― ein fisch schwimmt im wasser · fisch im wasser durstig (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 27 September 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
They were excellent in Glasgow, albeit hampered slightly by the venue's shite acoustics. (Same place I'm seeing SunnO))), which doesn't bode well at all. Unless they totally redesign it and sort out its sound-design, stat.)
Andrew Hung was hanging out by the T-shirt stall as we made our way out, so I collared him and said what a top gig it was. What a lovely dude: he genuinely seemed delighted to meet fans, and appeared to really give a shit what people thought. Huge respect.
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Monday, 28 September 2009 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Heh, when I saw them at a festival I bumped into him later watching a pretty much unknown band (this in itself impresses me as most bands there seemed content to lurk backstage apart from their set) and told him in rather incoherent terms that FB were awesome and he seemed genuinely pleased and friendly, yes.
I wish I'd gone now! Really not quite sure why I didn't.
― ein fisch schwimmt im wasser · fisch im wasser durstig (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 28 September 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
This is so great - Flight of the Winged Serpent (or whatever) is an amazing closer. It's the big thumping Underworld-style beat that does it.
Well done Andy Weatherall for introducing them to the concept of a groove.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 October 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck me
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Sunday, 11 October 2009 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
this album
Out today. Amazing reviews across the board including album of the week from the times, the observer and a bunch of others. Great stuff.
― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 12 October 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Disney Hair
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 October 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I wasn't too impressed by their debut but I'm really liking what I'm hearing on the new album. Space Mountain is fucking beautiful.
― Moka, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't get past the mammoth first track yet, but it's good enough to be top ten single of 09 no doubt
― "Keep Tweeting", Raged Roger The Kindly Hippopotamus. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
These guys really know how to start an album, don't they?
― mh, Thursday, 22 October 2009 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link
This album is fucking massive. Been playing it all week since its release.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 23 October 2009 12:08 (fourteen years ago) link
this on headphones btw
― plax (I know, right?), Friday, 23 October 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
yup yup
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 October 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure i like it as much as street horrsing but its prolly a lot more consistent.
― plax (I know, right?), Friday, 23 October 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
bits of SH with all the sparkly bells were kinda shit but then i think mebbe i was missing the point
― plax (I know, right?), Friday, 23 October 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG @ Rough Steez tho
― plax (I know, right?), Friday, 23 October 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
This Reminds me of the last Growing alb and Broken Ear Record mainly
― plax (I know, right?), Friday, 23 October 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Rough Steez reminds me of a noisier, more expansive version of Ratatat.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 October 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't know who that is
― plax (I know, right?), Friday, 23 October 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
a pokemon, i think
― k3vin k., Friday, 23 October 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
makes sense, Olympians reminds me of that Chris Brown song abt michael phelps a bit
― plax (I know, right?), Friday, 23 October 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
an awesome pokeman
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 October 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Some of this still sounds like Merriweather Post Pavillion to me, but I still love it
― kshighway1, Friday, 23 October 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
this is excellent.. current standout 'the lisbon maru'kinda samey more ravey less screamy― LEGOS by Atlas Sound (coming eventually, 2009 or 2010) (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 16:55 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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Spot on. I can't stop listening to this.
The Lisbon Maru (for those who didn't know) was a Japanese transport ship sunk in 1942 by a US ship - it turned out to have been carrying 1800 allied POWs, most of whom died. A tragic but very interesting story. I don't know what that means about ravey noise bands but it's an interesting story. ( http://www.lisbonmaru.com/ )
― Suggest Gandhi (onimo), Saturday, 24 October 2009 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
what Ben said about "The Lisbon Maru" when i interviewed him for emusic:"My granddad was a survivor and he escaped. He was shipwrecked for days, but he managed to survive."
― beta blog, Saturday, 24 October 2009 08:48 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, this could be album of the year for me.
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 25 October 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^
blown away by this. am listening to it every chance i get.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Sunday, 25 October 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
You guys have any idea what that instrument is making the higher-pitched sounds in the middle of Olympians?
― kshighway1, Sunday, 25 October 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Glass organ? Flute? (both, sampled and thrown together?)
― StanM, Sunday, 25 October 2009 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
It really is pretty much uniformly fantastic, isn't it? At the moment I'm all about the bubbling noises in Phantom Limb.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 25 October 2009 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Olympians is peak for me bcos its so fucking funny, reminds me of some of the shitty new age music i was dling from blogs for like a week of this summer.
― plax (I know, right?), Sunday, 25 October 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
uh actually come to think of it, it reminds me off of Dan Deacon's last album.
― plax (I know, right?), Sunday, 25 October 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks StanM, either of those would make sense.
― kshighway1, Monday, 26 October 2009 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm still not feeling this as much as Street Horrrsing, but it seems to be revealing more of itself with every listen, so ...
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Monday, 26 October 2009 12:40 (fourteen years ago) link
This is awesome, getting a similar but arguably more consistent kick out of this as the Field's last album earlier in the year.
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 26 October 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I could see Kate adoring this.
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 26 October 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I have no idea of what people are hearing in this.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 26 October 2009 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Layers and layers and layers of gorgeously beatific fuzz plus some truly uplifting military-esque drum patterns.
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 26 October 2009 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
first song sounds a little like someone strapped black dice to the front of a freight train made up of power chord synths
― mh, Monday, 26 October 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm hearing people who listen to this respond either rapturously or disgustedly; not much in between.
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 October 2009 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh, i wld prefer a version of black dice that was MORE aggro, not less
― plax (I know, right?), Monday, 26 October 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I would prefer a version of Black Dice that played shit that sounded like Creature Comforts for about 8 hours straight, but that's neither here nor there.
At its worst, this sounds like a more accessible, dancey version of recent Black Dice. At its best (SURF SOLAR, LISBON MARU), it sounds like a freight train made up of power chord synths exploding angel vaginas.
― from alcoholism to fleshly concerns (contenderizer), Monday, 26 October 2009 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been hammering this album for days to an extent that I now have loops playing permanently in my head. This has gripped me much more immediately than Street Horrrsing, which I enjoyed but never really got into, though I must revisit it with my new-found Fuck Buttons loving perspective.
― Suggest Gandhi (onimo), Monday, 26 October 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link