Pantha du Prince: This Bliss [Dial]

^ uh you guys talking about the new one?

I was talking about Diamond Daze. Haven't heard the new one yet

oh, ok then! i thought maybe...

but anyhoo, This Bliss is fantastic.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. This Bliss reminded me why I like music in the first place.

errr... like

Oh man, that is an actual bad album cover.

I *really* like it, since I already imagine Pantha du Prince as a Teutonic Alpen thing.

It looks like a Thomas Kincaid painting!

It doesn't!

I'm going to listen to Saturn Strobe right now, just to spite you!

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/images/stories/easygallery/thumbs/46/pantha-main.jpg

Whatever happened to faceless techno bollocks?

RA News: Pantha Du Prince preps Black Noise
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=11370
Rough Trade will release Black Noise on February 8th, 2010. article includes interview

going to see him live in glasgow tomorrow.

^jealous

not going to see him live in glasgow tomorrow because i suck and didn't know he was playing and now have plans (>_<)

has this bliss showed up on any of these best-of-decade lists? because it oughta. (i imagine it'll place on the inevitable ilm poll.)

yeah dude the album is incredible.

jim, he's not playing til midnight or so. he's playing at men and machines in stereo which opens at club time (11.00?)

I hate to interrupt all the speculations on why his new album is going to bear a panda-bear filled disaster, but you can listen to his new single

Could very have very well been on This Bliss, which is obviously not a bad thing. I hear some Walden in there, too. Nevertheless, I'm still of the belief that Pantha can do whatever he goddamn pleases after making TB.

FACT had This Bliss at No. 8 on their best albums of the decade list. Well done them.

As kind of scattered as their list was, This Bliss is no doubt one of the best albums of the 00's.

Can't believe I left Dial out of my one published "Best of the decade" list. I hang my head in shame ...

not going to see him in glasgow cos I didn't know he ws playing. how ws it?

and here's the pandabear track: http://iguessimfloating.blogspot.com/2009/12/mp3-pantha-du-prince-stick-to-my-side.html

That's pretty good actually, Panda Bear hardly gets in the way at all.

I like this Pantha/Panda Bear song. The soft little explosions of noise add drama and depth to all those plingy, pinging sounds. And the vocals give the song a nice focus (songs like this too often become background music for me when they are instrumental tracks).

I too scared to listen to the Panda Bear track. Listened to The Splendour this morning and it just made me want to get onto the first half of This Bliss.

I really was disappointed with Behind The Stars - lacked the prettiness, iciness of This Bliss and went on for too long. I'm fearful for my mood if the Panda Bear track fails.

Not quite the disaster that I was expecting (something on the level of the Notwist hooking up with Anticon was). It's nowhere near as good as the "Peacebone" remix was, but it is better than "Behind the Stars."

not going to see him in glasgow cos I didn't know he ws playing. how ws it?

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i texted you the day before the gig!

it was okay. guy with laptop etc.

handsome guy with a laptop, slightly better.

i like this new album! it doesn't have the iciness of the last one, per se, but is still pretty glassy...

that said, i've only listened to it on repeat while writing a massive term paper.

just... no. panda bear ruins this track for me. his vocals are way to prominent in the mix. they might have got away with it if they were more ambient or chopped up or unrecognisable. but i suppose, why get some flavour-of-the-week if you're not going to take advantage of it

some music really should stay instrumental

"the splendour" is nice, but feels like a this bliss outtake. just makes me want to go back to that.

not gonna touch this panda bear track until i absolutely have to...dude has one of the worst voices i've ever heard, the only way he could avoid fucking this up is by remaining silent.

am i being thick? is that track linked above or is everyone on this board a journo who has advance copies of everything?

i suppose vocals could have been really nice over the top of this, had they been decent vocals, but this is just completely the wrong vocal for the music. seriously, don't listen to it, lex pretend, his voice is inescapable

my mobile is borked right now, jed, sorry : /

I dunno, maybe Panda Bear's vocals are more prominent on the MP3, and it was just the stream quality that made them sound airier than they really are.

"Glassy" is a such a perfect word to use to describe Pantha's music, although I find it warm rather than icy, especially compared to most minimal of the time.

Agree "glassy" is more apt then my use of "iciness"

i REALLY LIKE 'Stick to My Side.' i'm reviewing this album for the next issue of XLR8R, think i'm most likely going to give it big ups.

and i don't really understand this hatred of panda bear's voice... i lost my AC fanboy status many moons ago (haven't consciously heard a track since 'Feels,' which might seem odd, but i just have no interest), but his voice can be rather charming, i think.

that said, 'Behind the Stars' is just okay, imho

(okay i love the way it ends, but the first half is a bit snoresville)

drip

when's the new LP out, again?

it's 'out' now if you have the google skillz.

It's pretty fucking good, too.

yeah it really is. wasn't too keen on the panda bear vocal and i like panda bear. so peeps whose mileage varies will be sure to hate it.

Can't say I enjoyed that song, but the rest of the record worked like a charm. After one listen, anyway...

i know i've said that i liked the Panda Bear track here.

but i also want to say that whenever i play that track for friend, they're really into it. they're not techno-heads, most of them, but have very good taste. so i'm wondering whether the difference is that those more 'invested' in the genre might not dig that track specifically, whereas those who might not be technofied might be really into it?

Yeah, many technofied people are most likely coming to with preconceived ideas about what it's supposed to or should sound like, idea that don't take kindly to Pandabearindiefuxxorwhatever. I'm pretty sure a lot of people are more offended by the idea of Panda Bear than his vocals themselves (case in point this thread). That said I don't actually like the vocals, but do think they'd have worked quite well if they were further buried in the mix, made more abstract/harmonic.

Woah strawman-building ahoy. Fwiw this sounds almost exactly how I expected it to sound.

I like this album, the Panda Bear vocals do get in the way a bit but they aren't terrible. It doesn't feel like the track should need vocals in the first place though.

i like this album except the panda bear song, but it doesn't really feel like it builds on this bliss in any way - it sort of reprises those sounds to satisfactory but slight-less-gorgeous effect.