el perro del mar - love is not pop sarah assbring rasmus hagg studio

what the fuck are they putting in the water in sweden

luv this

yeah i cant get enough of this album, just an incredible job all around--not just the songwriting or production but even the engineering and recording is fantastic (to my ears at least); the whole thing is so smooth and beautiful.

rasmus just bringing it on the basslines, too

its funny how stuff like this and studio is so readily comparable to the new lindstrom & PT album or the montee album despite having not very much in common except for high production values and technical competency--i think maybe thats the real hallmark of nu-balearica (besides marijuana); the terrific sounds all these guys are getting in the studio. like maybe theres just this one scando engineer whos the secret daddy of all this shit.

it really does kinda feel like there's a fairly singular vision tying a lot of this stuff together, maybe they have regional summits

swedish music lately seems to fit in with the pizza and sex theory

the more pizza you eat, the more sex you have

^^^

is the copy i downloaded wrong or does this actually only have 6 songs + a one second ending "song"

The earliest leak had the 7th song cut off. Keep looking.

this sounded kind of slight tbh - def pretty & good mood music but... idk. not as good as taken by trees i dont think.

better than jj tho!

Jordan totally OTM.

Oh, I like this way more than both the Taken by Trees and jj albums.

love is not pop > east of eden >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> jj no. 2

i noticed that sarah assbring is credited with backing vocals on east of eden but i can't really place a specific track or anything

also has anyone heard the newer release with the remixes? can't wait for the lsb remix of "l is for love"

heavenly arms is a jam

like, i appreciate dude from studio's basslines & stuff but i think i would just listen to "out there" - maybe i'm being rash tho

i don't think this ep really has the same type of appeal as studio tho, even if there are some obvious similarities with the basslines they're working in a much different/far more AOR context

yeah--i think the bass work is terrific but its hardly the only thing appealing about the album! the studio sound and the sound of this are related for sure but they seem to be reaching for two different things--im actually totally impressed by rasmuss ability to maintain a certain aesthetic coherency between this and the stuff he does in studio without making this just sound like studio w/ female vox

L Is For Love is my favourite, then Let Me In - as it stands this isn't even getting into my 20 favourite albums of the year tho :o also i would still like Assbring to expand her songs lyrically

"change of heart" is beautiful

definitely think the songwriting is better than taken by trees or jj

for sure

^ yea the songwriting is definitely better.

so this got an official us release in the past month or so, with a couple remixes- both of which are pretty awesome. the low motion disco (not lsb) remix of "l is for love" is definitely as good or better than i was hoping for

this is up there w/ real life is no cool and II as fave of the year for me.

Really? I like it, but not that much.

OTOH, the Nhessingtons remix of Let Me In is one of the best songs I've heard this year.

real life is no cool comes out next yr

oooo youre right this nhessingtons remix is pretty great also

i'm with max here - top 10 this year easy, maybe top 5

I'm so happy this record has a thread! I thought everyone was kind of indifferent about it but I've been in love with it for months. Probably my favourite Balearic-type release of the year.

Studio should work with female vocalists more often.

We should have some sort of Balearic WorldFAP in somewhere like Majorca where all we do is sit around getting high and drinking beer and watching the sea while listening to shit like this.

balearic bro down

relocating there after next election tbh

i would spend all my money to go to Balearic WorldFAP

we could probably pool enough money to have studio sit behind us on the beach & dj

Can I come to this FAP if I get my fake beard on?

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs243.snc1/9021_529102562206_14500014_31489977_4065735_n.jpg
http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs243.snc1/9021_529102577176_14500014_31489980_34184_n.jpg

^^^ lets just go to croatia

This totally looks like the best festival in the world.

we missed it by like 3 days when we went this year

'Change Of Heart' video

http://videos.antville.org/stories/1939784/

hadn't heard the bonus remixes on this til now - they are great

live show any good?

We should have some sort of Balearic WorldFAP in somewhere like Majorca where all we do is sit around getting high and drinking beer and watching the sea while listening to shit like this.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Friday, November 20, 2009 5:42 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hows the organizing of this coming matt--havent received my invitation yet

Touring with Taken by Trees. Wish they would have Studio on tour with them since the reason their albums are so good is the involvement of Lissvik and Rasmus. Watching live clips on youtube of the tracks produced by the Studio guys reveals the failure of the live musicians to capture the beauty on the original recordings. I'm going to see them next week anyway, but i fully expect the show to be disappointing compared to the records.

so that's a no

EPDM appears on the Pacific! LP which is pretty good generally (didn't see mentioned elsewhere?)

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2010-09/1283371723_cover.jpg

Btw. Taken by Trees / EPDM tour was terrific.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxnlKp7_A1Y

I posted this in my 21st Century synthpop/new wave thread last week, but didn't think to put it here. Der.

I remember giving this album one listen through when it leaked, but either I wasn't paying close attention or I just completely missed this track. It's so wonderful.

I have never heard any of this music, but Sarah Assbring is a wonderful name.

The Pacific album is very good! "From Lips Divine" is fantastic.

The last EPDM album has somehow crept up from being "something I quite liked" to "one of my all-time favourite albums ever" in the past year and I'm not sure how or why. She doesn't really develop her lyrics but there's something about them that gets really stuck in my head, plus as has been noted the production on this is superb. There's a bit in A Better Love where she sings the line "caused you so much pain" and it just gets me every single time. I really hope she sticks with Rasmus Hagg or at least this vibe because I think it suits her very well.

i listen to this as much as, if not more than, the studio album. its just the best!

heavenly arms is a jam

― just sayin, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 07:51 (1 year ago) Bookmark

new track up: http://soundcloud.com/el-perro-del-mar/what-did-you-expect

as far as i can tell with google translate, her new album 'pale fire' is also produced by rasmus hägg (!!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MplA4Wr-zu8

hm... that's kind of not very good :\

you think? sounds great to me, rly looking forward to hearing her songy songs with that production vibe.

idk, sounds more generic in that dark, witch house-y style that has become popular for indie songstresses

There's not much to this song besides the sound of it, which is a sound I'm partial to. Hopefully other new songs will have some more substance.

never fail to lol @ "assbring" whenever this thread is bumped

I do really like the mood of this new track but it bothers me, because the one problem her songs have always faced is that they could with being fleshed out ever-so-slightly, not reduced to production effects and vocal mutilation. The EPDM of Love Is Not Pop is very different to the one of the first two albums, and it's that one I love - I can't fault her for wanting to try something different and push herself artistically again, but that album is so brilliant that it's hard to see a departure from that style as a better move.

some nice synth sax on this one: http://soundcloud.com/el-perro-del-mar/walk-on-by-radio-edit

this is really really nice

really

never fail to lol @ "assbring" whenever this thread is bumped

― carly rae (flopson), Tuesday, June 19, 2012 11:19 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think this new album is really good, it totally makes sense that Saint Etienne have remixed the lead single which interpolates "Unfinished Sympathy" because those are the two most obvious influences on this, i.e it is very 90s. Not quite the change of direction I feared upthread - there's still all the Fleetwood Mac and lush sunset vibes - but still enough to be a pretty distinct prospect from Love Is Not Pop.

So nobody else really cared about this follow-up, which is kinda sad

i cared, it is really great. it is not even a follow up; what preceded it is a run up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7V5lnCA7DM

not really feeling this tbph

I've always been a fan of her sense of poise and restraint but this just feels underwritten. That said, the last two were the definitions of "growers" so who knows with this one.

this tracklisting is a little ominous

1. Endless Ways
2. KoKoro
3. Breadandbutter
4. Clean Your Window
5. Ging Ging
6. Kouign-Amman
7. A-Bun-Dance
8. Hard Soft Hard
9. Ding Sum
10. Nougat Mind

New album "KoKoro" is her most joyful work yet.

max really was an innovator in suffixing long strings of proper nouns into thread titles

i mean everything about this album appropriates and fetishizes asian culture to an astounding degree so

Josh is right about the new album, but it's still surprising it got zero traction. There's some nice songs, but it's not a great record.

i love it when the assbring thread gets bumped

Sad her last rec got discredited purely on appropriation

One of the few artists to carry the st etienne torch