New Basement Jaxx

really love Supersonic too

i think the best track on Scars is probably one of those mellower Latin/Brazilian-sounding ones at the end - can't get excited about the Kelis and Santigold contribs much at all

I like "Hush Boy" much more than the overly cutesy "Take Me Back To Your House", though it did take me a while to warm fully to the former after previous 1st singles had been so startling.

Like Scars a lot more than I thought I would, but this and Crazy Itch strike me much more as straight pop albums than dance albums. Not at all a bad thing, but there's something about it that feels funny.

Sam Sparro's vocals are annoying on Feelings Gone.

Sam Sparro is annoying? Gee golly whiz.

Well, I enjoyed his album, so I don't typically find him annoying.

This album is pretty ropey stuff - why on earth would you go to all the trouble of getting Kelis on a track and then give her something that weedy to work with?

count me in as another baffled crazy itch lover - this album is beyond dismal though.

I also love the Robyn track on CIR, esp. the part where it breaks down with the slow horns and ramps back up all klezmery and awesome.

it really is almost darkly impressive on this the way every appalling guest they bring in is just the most savagely extreme sabotaging of every relevant jaxx element you'd previously enjoyed, one by one. tender guitarry moment - lightspeed champion! rococo tuba romp - paloma faith!

ha so this is their "fuck you, fans" album?

okay I'd forgotten that I actually fucking love the song "Scars"

Am I the only one who LOVES this new album? Top ten placement of the year, easily.

Masterworks, all:

Scars
Raindrops
She's No Good
Feelings Gone
Twerk
Day of the Sunflowers (We March On)
Stay Close
Gimme Somethin' True

The singles don't stand up to the Remedy/Rooty era (aside from "Raindrops," maybe their best EVER) but those albums were packed with filler as well. I think Scars is their most consistent this side of Kish Kash.

"Raindrops," maybe their best EVER

whoa, there

The singles don't stand up to the Remedy/Rooty era (aside from "Raindrops," maybe their best EVER) but those albums were packed with filler as well. I think Scars is their most consistent this side of Kish Kash.

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haha this post makes no sense -- convinced ilxor is a sock

I'm serious! Most of the filler tracks on Scars hold up just as well as "U Can't Stop Me" or "Don't Give Up" or "Broken Dreams" or "I Want U," if not better.

There is really no filler imo in either Remedy or Rooty.

Most of the filler tracks on Scars hold up just as well as "U Can't Stop Me" or "Don't Give Up" or "Broken Dreams" or "I Want U," if not better.

These are all classic tracks, you should be ashamed ilxor.

The idea that Remedy has filler and/or "drops off" in the second half is totally a bizarro myth with no basis in reality.

only wack track on Remedy is "Same Old Show"

'same old show' is amazing!

sorta spins me out that remedy is 10 years old.

"where did our youth go", etc

"only wack track on Remedy is "Same Old Show""

Rev this is the wrongest thing i've think I've seen from you.

Sorry, it makes me feel claustrophobic and uncomfortable. My dislike of it is very physical.

If that makes sense.

It does, but at the same time I think "Same Old Show" is basically a purified hit of what was so amazing about basement jaxx circa 1999. I sort of feel like they've forgotten how amazing a vibe and friction you can generate just by looping a few carefully selected elements over one another.

'Same Old Show' is probably my least favourite track on 'Remedy' fwiw tho Tim otm about why its a good club track (not quite as much as 'Set Yo Body Free' and a few more of their earlier deep club tracks tho - but then these probably wouldn't have worked as well on the album for that very reason)

tbh if the Jaxx released an album that was 45 minutes of "Samba Magic" I would wholly and unreservedly call them the greatest musical act I'd ever heard

maybe u should check the airto song it samples?

I am and it's awesome!

Somehow I never heard "Samba Magic" until I sought it out yesterday and it completely owned me.

ftr the Airto sonf deej mentions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zUNmoKU9UE

song, even

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDfDp-e9t0w&feature=related

btw, annoying clipping aside this is pretty awesome; like this lady's vocals a ton

best track off CIR still 'Smoke Bubbles' for me

that one is also pretty hot, yeah

still hate "Raindrops" btw

okay playing this now

5 songs in and only "Scars" is actually worth listening to. "Weedy" is exactly how I would describe my listening experience; it's almost like they cut the core out of every song as part of the mastering process.

wholly awesome art tho

"My Turn" is decent, actually! So that's two songs out of 6 that I like plus one that is okay ("Saga"), two I never want to hear again ("Raindrops", "Feelings Gone") and one I actually can't remember even though I just heard it ("She's No Good").

never been able to hear "Smoke Bubbles" as its own song because of how much it rips off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNajx1cD5T4

u of all people should understand the difference between sampling/interpolating & 'ripping off' -- same guitar part but totally diff tracks

In theory, yeah. Sometimes it's hard to dissasociate these things in practice, though.

listening to their Zephyr EP thing now - seems to be a more laidback experimental affair

i think this album was drastically underrated

There are only 4 songs on it that I really ever want to hear again ("Scars", "My Turn", "Twerk", "Day of the Sunflowers (We March On)").

I forgot how completely insane the Yoko track is

xpost. Add Raindrops to that list and I'm with you.

no way, that song is garbage

"Raindrops" is pretty awesome imo

? No accounting for taste I guess. It just seems like a classic BJ song in every way. Anyway, 4 or 5 awesome tracks on an album isn't that bad these days. Plus, that pretty much describes their last three albums in my opinion, so pretty much par for the course.

took me a while to realize that