i think they're about to become quite popular, at least in the UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-M1AtrxztU
― pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
Previously
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VvILRC6QAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd0cT7Dnpt8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdfL2nY-Xs8
― pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
was thinking of starting this thread, love this lot
― mile.y (wins), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 23:42 (ten years ago) link
I'm pretty baffled by the way they continue to combine elements that should not operate well together in ways that are tidy and attractive
cf. the 1975? haha
― pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Thursday, 16 January 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
i mean, the latest single is only a few steps away from what adele could conceivably sound like in 2014 (esp. considering sandé is the heiress apparent to her, and she's featured so heavily on stuff w/ rudimental and has done loads of work w/ naughty boy), but i don't find it cloying or horrible?
― pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Thursday, 16 January 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
cover of "Royals" today on R1:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/eccdgw
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 January 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
+ (somewhat inexplicable) interpolation of "walking in the air" !
― pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Thursday, 16 January 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
So they got the #1, and still leading on iTunes ahead of Gorgon City as far as I can tell.
― pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
it's getting rinsed on kiss, heard it about 30 times at work today. No complaints, it's massive.
― wins, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
It was the clear standout track when I saw them live last autumn; delighted to see it do so well.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 27 January 2014 20:22 (ten years ago) link
It's really such an odd track, they're like the UK pop house mungolian jet set.
― Tim F, Monday, 27 January 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
It's a great song and the idea of a Clean Bandit/Gorgon City/Katy B top three is immensely pleasing.
― Matt DC, Monday, 27 January 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
They might actually be the UK pop house Vampire Weekend.
― Matt DC, Monday, 27 January 2014 21:10 (ten years ago) link
Haha I do see it
― Tim F, Monday, 27 January 2014 21:12 (ten years ago) link
#1 for 2 weeks running, debut album New Eyes out May 12th.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1/1505448_10151985479838576_225746296_n.jpg
01 Mozart's House02 Extraordinary (feat. Sharna Bass)03 Dust Clears04 Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)05 A+E06 Come Over (feat. Stylo G)07 Cologne (feat. Nikki Cislyn & Javeon)08 Telephone Banking (feat. Love Ssega)09 Up Again (feat. Rae Morris)10 Heart On Fire (feat. Elizabeth Troy)11 New Eyes (feat. Lizzo)12 Birch (feat. Eliza Shaddad)13 Outro Movement III
― pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Monday, 3 February 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
a friend of mine went to Cambridge with them, they are the only band - outside of Coldplay/Deskmond Dekker/Manu Chao - that I have ever heard him mention since we were 11 years old. I'm going to assume that they are terrible.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 3 February 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
really disappointed by "rather be", horribly twee and fussy in the way that "dust clears" somehow wasn't
― lex pretend, Monday, 3 February 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
and completely completely bloodless
― lex pretend, Monday, 3 February 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
kind of in 2 minds about that assessment - perhaps writ larger here maybe but it's nothing that hasn't been innate in everything they've yet done i'd say
otoh though the thrilling/terrifying prospect of them having a track called TELEPHONE BANKING feels like a tru reckoning alright; dreadful thatcherkid mondeo pop corporate kowtow for cloying whimsy advert spot (better yet - hold music) or insurgent 'penthouse & pavement' style flash of fangs? (i. oh god i knew i'd sink into marcelloblivion someday) (ii. should probably take mdc's hint and finally listen to vampy weeks if only just to accrue ammunition) (iii. hey don't suppose anyone else has ever wondered about all the sophistipop mnek could conceivably cover no ok i'll see myself out)
either way - as iirc was suggested on the dumont thread - the opinions of those for whom whose aesthetics are outright vexed or consolidated by this lot will not be relevant ultimately
― r|t|c, Monday, 3 February 2014 19:55 (ten years ago) link
btw last year may have brought back the one hit wonder vibe but consecutive weeks at the top now feels a v notable diff kettle of fish imo
― r|t|c, Monday, 3 February 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
oh yes and
http://www.planetnotion.com/2014/01/23/botw-premiere-clean-bandit-rather-be-royal-t-remix/
(you really rather want his remix of route 94 'my love' (also purportedly featuring jess glynne, only this time sounding like a goat) instead though)
― r|t|c, Monday, 3 February 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
Kinda want to elaborate on the VW comment upthread now I've listened to everything that's out there, and yeah I agree there's something in the new single that was latent in them all along. This sense of tidiness, of fussed-over arrangements, they're kind of the *prissiest* dance act ever, and I'm eagerly anticipating to the inevitable handwringing from continuum bores.
Like, considering their obvious and overt pop sensibility, they're such a weird band, just the sheer oddness of building a dance act out of a string quartet, this mix of Fisher Price house music and chamber pop. They're kind of the apogee of the Grange Hill rave thing I was talking about re: the Rudimental album. There's almost zero danger in this end of the Black Butter stable, none of the grit *or* the glitz of UK funky, just a kind of primary coloured collaborative virtuousness. Even the ruffer end of Black Butter has a kind of soft play boshiness to it.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 14:09 (ten years ago) link
Best thing about them is their way with a tune and an out of the blue sonic juxtaposition, like the one where she's bouncily singing "get down low to Rihanna on the stereo" and there's this dolorous solo violin in the background.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 14:11 (ten years ago) link
I suddenly like this "Rather Be" much better than the first time I tried listening to it. I think I like it more without the video.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 14 February 2014 05:17 (ten years ago) link
"rather be" has the most streams in a single week of any song on UK spotify ever
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 14 February 2014 12:23 (ten years ago) link
4 straight weeks at No.1!!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 February 2014 11:11 (ten years ago) link
Started to catch on in Australia as well, entered at #15 this week and is currently #4 on iTunes.
― pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Monday, 17 February 2014 11:16 (ten years ago) link
Whatever that means these days (xp).
No idea what Matt DC’s going on about, as usual – hey, no offence, I’m fifty, I’m allowed not to give a shit – but all I hear from “Rather Be” is formula. Chris Martin soundy-likey vocal? Check. Beats enter in second bit? Check. The only thing in the current top five that’s even more formulaic is “Shot Me Down.” And HE’S going to be 47 this year. Who’d have thought I’d start feeling nostalgic for the sodding Audio Bullys?
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 17 February 2014 11:19 (ten years ago) link
for some context, marcello, the only songs in 2013 to stay at No.1 for this long were "get lucky" and "blurred lines"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 February 2014 11:24 (ten years ago) link
Things have gone downhill rapidly and/or there’s not much else out right now.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 17 February 2014 11:33 (ten years ago) link
A week late but that's a great post Matt
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Monday, 17 February 2014 11:39 (ten years ago) link
i have gone from being disappointed by this to full-on hating it. they sound like incredibly annoying people, too, middle-class nice'n'twees get out of my life
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 February 2014 11:57 (ten years ago) link
can you actually imagine any of them in a club???
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 February 2014 11:58 (ten years ago) link
or DANCING??
like, some thought disclosure were a white ppl version of garage/house but they had no idea how much whiter it could get
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 February 2014 11:59 (ten years ago) link
feel like their album cover should come with a KEEP CALM AND LISTEN TO TWEE HOUSE sticker on the front
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 February 2014 12:00 (ten years ago) link
Just put a donk on it, lex
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 February 2014 12:01 (ten years ago) link
Sort of shocked there isn't a big jackin remix of this. "There's no place I'd rather - BWONK BA BNNG BNNNNNNNNGGG"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 February 2014 12:02 (ten years ago) link
Their album will be called Sticking To Our Long-Term Plan and will be marketed as House music for hard working families.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 17 February 2014 12:10 (ten years ago) link
I feel like all the things dance purists were unfairly saying about Disclosure can be accurately applied here.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Monday, 17 February 2014 12:13 (ten years ago) link
they sound like incredibly annoying people, too, middle-class nice'n'twees get out of my life
It's always good when you can take a break from the coal mines to join these discussions.
― imago bands and their discontents (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 17 February 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
oh i didn't realise they were white. should have known it wasn't a asian singer but rather the classic exotification of japanese culture in a pop video trope
― prolego, Monday, 17 February 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
rewatching the video again and the japanese dude pulling off his face at the end to reveal the white singer probs gives it away. i feel dumb.
― prolego, Monday, 17 February 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
Maybe so, but what dance music purists think about pop-dance acts like Disclosure and Clean Bandit feels pretty close to irrelevant, don't you think?
Jess Glynne's voice lends it a nice bit of rawness; without that I doubt it would have gone anywhere tbh
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 February 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQgljrdZbDQ
Question and answer: What is a rapper doin when he starts at hardcore, but can't sell enough records to remain in the record business?
Answer: He goes pop. This answer is not set up to diss anybody who starts at pop, but for the rappers who started out hardcore, and now makin weakass dance music, cause they couldn't stay down with the hardcore.
I just got a question for you: How does it feel to wake up every morning, and look in the mirror, and realize that you're a fuckin ho?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 February 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link
This from an album whose lead single was weak ass dance music based on the Tubular Bells theme.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 17 February 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
are you talking about "mozart's house"? i didn't think that was weak-ass at all, the beat was appealingly clumsy and boshy, a counterpoint to the fiddliness, which is lacking in the current thing
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 February 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link
"dust clears" was terrible though, with a truly unforgiveable video that i had managed to avoid til now
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 February 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
in fact that video may have turned me against them permanently :(
I was wondering how long it'd be before anyone called them out for being middle class. Not that it matters given that the UK dance scene is absolutely fucking FULL of Oxbridge educated yuppy types but because they're making nggggggggggggggh daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark bass music no one gives a shit.
― Matt DC, Monday, 17 February 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link
If Dicslosure = Basement Jaxx then Clean Bandit = Groove Armada.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 13:28 (ten years ago) link
sub-carmody at best
xpost
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
Seems like they forgot to write a hook for this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40nFOYGVJtY
― all is fair in love and womp (monotony), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 10:42 (ten years ago) link
With the exception of Rather Be and the earlier singles, the album is DIRE.
I mean this was always a distinctly plausible scenario. Telephone Banking somehow manages to be even worse than its title suggests.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMKsR_wUSfA
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
Hey, this "Rather Be" song is rather all right!
― jaymc, Monday, 27 October 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
i think it's lovely. sometimes when i hear it a little tipsy i get rather emotional.
they (recently?) put out another jess glynne collaboration and it is... not very good
― dyl, Monday, 27 October 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah idk why i was hating on it earlier in this thread
dope song
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
Somehow I missed this when it came out at the beginning of the year but I've heard it a few times recently and have really fallen for it.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
it's one of my most played songs of the year. i don't really understand how anyone could hate on it.
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin), Monday, 10 November 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
Ooh, there's a Pentatonix version! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPWPa-HMpj8
― jaymc, Monday, 10 November 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
(Paging DJP.)
Wondering how popular this song has become in the U.S. after hearing it on the radio for the 2nd time tonight. Made it to #10 at one point and 23 weeks on the chart.
― timellison, Saturday, 22 November 2014 04:23 (nine years ago) link
love this song
― k3vin k., Saturday, 22 November 2014 04:28 (nine years ago) link
And, what do you know, just heard it for the 3rd time. My 13 y.o. daughter knows this song.
― timellison, Saturday, 22 November 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
This song should be a hit everywhere.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 22 November 2014 13:19 (nine years ago) link
it pretty much was
― 504 Gateway Timeout Boyz (some dude), Saturday, 22 November 2014 13:42 (nine years ago) link
missed the top 40 in Japan but that's about it
― 504 Gateway Timeout Boyz (some dude), Saturday, 22 November 2014 13:43 (nine years ago) link
ha that's perfect
― r|t|c, Saturday, 22 November 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
japan rejecting the orientalism :)
― lex pretend, Saturday, 22 November 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
this song is v boringly pleasant
― I Love Makonnen: New Answers (The Reverend), Saturday, 22 November 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
the one dropped snare in the middle of the chorus is everything imo
― 504 Gateway Timeout Boyz (some dude), Sunday, 23 November 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
I remember this song
was a good song imo
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Sunday, 23 November 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
Rev otm
― deej loaf (D-40), Sunday, 23 November 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
the one dropped snare in the middle of the chorus
It's almost not even a chorus. It sounds like a pre-chorus but then there is no chorus, just the vamping on the title words. I think it's a beautiful construction.
― timellison, Sunday, 23 November 2014 02:22 (nine years ago) link
Oh, I just heard the dropped snare! You were talking about the vamping part as being the chorus.
― timellison, Sunday, 23 November 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
That also suggests that the part before ("If you gave me a chance..." etc.) is a pre-chorus.
― timellison, Sunday, 23 November 2014 02:26 (nine years ago) link
there's some interesting ideas going on in the newest single with jess glynne but i'm not sure if it really comes together as well as it ought to
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Sunday, 23 November 2014 02:43 (nine years ago) link
i just think of it as a chorus with multiple parts. is it really a vamp if it appears with every single chorus?
― Murghan Troidor (some dude), Sunday, 23 November 2014 04:32 (nine years ago) link
I think so. I don't think the term is only used to describe situations where improvisation is going on.
― timellison, Sunday, 23 November 2014 05:00 (nine years ago) link
The chorus is "No-no no-no / No place I'd rather be"
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 11:13 (nine years ago) link
The rest of this album has faded but Rather Be sounds better than ever.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 24 November 2014 11:44 (nine years ago) link
I played out a remix of this on Friday night as the last song of the evening and it was joyous.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 11:53 (nine years ago) link
I don't really get the 'boringly pleasant' tag it's been given. There are so many different hooks, and as is alluded to above, it's hard to tell which bit is the chorus. I also like the casual cheesiness of 'with every step we take/Kyoto to Dubai'. And the way the little 'dadalada-da-dah / dadalada-da-dah dah' vamp gets passed on from instrument to instrument. And that missed snare. And the way it drops out and comes back in with 'yeah-e-yeah-e-YEAH-E-YEAH-E YEAH YEAH!'. I like it all really.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 11:57 (nine years ago) link
oh and the almost-clumsiness of those club-marimbas on some of the phrases where they sound like a fumble, but it's def on purpose.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 11:59 (nine years ago) link
and the italo-house pianos and how they land and mimic the rhythmic pattern of 'it's a shot in the dark but I'll MAKE. IT.'
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 12:00 (nine years ago) link
Can we go back to the "Chris Martin soundalike vocal"
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 13:06 (nine years ago) link
aka 90% of British chart pop in the last 10 years
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
you made me laugh, cortana!
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Monday, 9 March 2015 09:41 (nine years ago) link
went to school with two of these absolute dullards, i have latterly realised. one of them was so indistinct i didn't even know him, and i made a point of knowing who everyone was
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Monday, 9 March 2015 09:42 (nine years ago) link
That advert really makes me want to punch them all, hard.
― emil.y, Monday, 9 March 2015 11:20 (nine years ago) link
clean bandit sounds like some sort of no-brand cillit bang
― we reward the hake (NickB), Monday, 9 March 2015 11:29 (nine years ago) link
we're far enough from the EOYs to say with some impunity that everyone who voted for them is a literal disgrace
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Monday, 9 March 2015 11:43 (nine years ago) link
Don't give a hoot who they are or where they come from. Rather Be's still a jam.
― nuumerykah (dog latin), Monday, 9 March 2015 11:56 (nine years ago) link
Agree 100%, even hearing it on the radio every day for the best part of a year hasn't killed it.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 9 March 2015 12:24 (nine years ago) link
I'm glad people get so much joy from it, cannot fucking stand it personally.
― Paul Johnson asks: Do homosexuals like John Major (Tom D.), Monday, 9 March 2015 12:29 (nine years ago) link
Their non-"Rather Be" tracks are terrible.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Monday, 9 March 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
"Their non-"Rather Be" tracks are terrible."
this is true =\
and the "rather be" video is horsewaste, too. still was the best thing all over radio last year
― soyrev, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 01:44 (nine years ago) link
enjoyed the first 5 seconds of water before the music started
― saer, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
seeing the advert they feature in is the closest i've come to putting a boot through my tv since david cameron was announced as uk prime minister.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link