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

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