I was high on "You & Me" for a couple days.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
^would make a good jessie ware lyric
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
wot, no emeli sandé?
― cozen, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
feeling this album a lot more than i expected to - the trackier stuff really works as a counterbalance
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 17 May 2013 09:58 (ten years ago) link
weepy version of "latch" that i am surprisingly into
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUK6HlzNWEg
― monotony, Friday, 17 May 2013 14:35 (ten years ago) link
so this is out there and HOLY SHIT
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Saturday, 25 May 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
This is a bit too samey for my liking and a lot of it hinges on how strong the guest vocalists are, so it doesn't really pick up until nearer the end and there isn't anything as strong as "Control" or "Boiling". Having a track called "Grab Her" is a bit uncomfortable when it doesn't have any lyrics that expand on those two words.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 27 May 2013 09:38 (ten years ago) link
is there a version out there with all the tracks yet?
― monotony, Monday, 27 May 2013 09:44 (ten years ago) link
Having a track called "Grab Her" is a bit uncomfortable when it doesn't have any lyrics that expand on those two words.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 27 May 2013 10:38 (24 minutes ago) Bookmark
seek therapy
― r|t|c, Monday, 27 May 2013 10:06 (ten years ago) link
rest of your post otm though i reckon. 'control' and 'boiling' definitely a notch above
lex's "the trackier stuff really works as a counterbalance" is absolutely correct in general, only on first blush this album features the weakest yet examples of this - not just in terms of wider ukg mixes and stuff but of their own bits too, 'lividup', 'whats in your head', 'intention is war', 'tenderly' (wiley and j2k version on this is a good look missed) all previously having had a lot more oomph and contextual vivacity
― r|t|c, Monday, 27 May 2013 10:27 (ten years ago) link
although i suppose a charitable man could always construe leaning back too far on your full length album as the ne plus ultra of garage homage
it does have the unfortunate and possibly fatal vibe of some forgotten 99-02 promo cd given a spin out of the bargain bin
― r|t|c, Monday, 27 May 2013 10:33 (ten years ago) link
"Defeated No More" is lovely, like a housier version of the early Vikter Duplaix singles. But nothing else of the new material really jumped out at me on first listen.
― Tim F, Monday, 27 May 2013 10:34 (ten years ago) link
The album form isn't really optimal for them, given their primary appeal normally is how much more sparkly and pearly-pert their productions sound than anything else around; running so many together makes it sound too easy and a bit boring.
― Tim F, Monday, 27 May 2013 10:38 (ten years ago) link
i agree that's been the case but not to the extent where i've thought the album format was something anywhere near out of their reach either. this was misconceived is all
'defeated no more' is a standout ya. also thought mmjw distinguished himself on 'january'
can't seem to decide on the ware cut, kinda dope kinda cluttery
― r|t|c, Monday, 27 May 2013 11:06 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MacVlup80mc
srsly though this isnt even some big classic or anything but it would've vibesed this album up a treat singlehandedly
― r|t|c, Monday, 27 May 2013 11:12 (ten years ago) link
gruesome cover art not doing this any favours either it must be said
― r|t|c, Monday, 27 May 2013 11:17 (ten years ago) link
― monotony, Monday, 27 May 2013 10:44 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
this is a point though tbf. perhaps 'intro' will be a track so wholly, devastatingly satisfying in every possibly way that the rest of the record will take on a new clarity in lambent post-coital bliss
― r|t|c, Monday, 27 May 2013 11:22 (ten years ago) link
or just the unadorned vocal sample from the following track
― Number None, Monday, 27 May 2013 11:26 (ten years ago) link
i'll still need to hear it just to be sure
― r|t|c, Monday, 27 May 2013 11:32 (ten years ago) link
Deluxe edition bonus tracks 15. "Boiling" (featuring Sinéad Harnett)16. "What's In Your Head"17. "Tenderly"18. "Running (Disclosure Remix)"
yeah see this record is p much the gold standard for the "what is album in the modern age" pickle
Intro was one of the best tracks on The xx album so it wasn't beyond the bounds of possibility
― Number None, Monday, 27 May 2013 11:55 (ten years ago) link
Leaning toward cluttery on the ware cut.
Would have preferred her to guest on "my intention is ware"
― Tim F, Monday, 27 May 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
― Number None, Monday, May 27, 2013 4:26 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I listened to Zane Lowe debut "When A Fire Starts To Burn" on his show and I can confirm the above to be true, unless he played an exclusive intro to the aforementioned track or something.
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 06:00 (ten years ago) link
lol at them mentioning the piece i wrote for vice that mentioned them in their interview with Dummy this week
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 09:10 (ten years ago) link
lol yes i saw that. tbh that older brother sounds like a dooooouche
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 09:48 (ten years ago) link
i'm just waiting for someone else to post the other cuntroversial disclosure thinkpiece that's ringing out on the e-corner right now
wouldnt want it to look like i have a vendetta or anything y'see
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 09:55 (ten years ago) link
All this stuff appears to have completely confused and wrongfooted a lot of Reynolds disciples/Dissensus types who have been paying zero attention to house music for a decade and have gotten used to treating it as an antiquated backwater.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 10:13 (ten years ago) link
What's the other one?
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 10:15 (ten years ago) link
Blackdown, but he´s scoffed at just as much, if not more, at Dissensus as over here (not just me either!). Just as well, that was such a dreadful post I wouldn´t want to give it any more attention than it deserves.
― Benny B, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 10:32 (ten years ago) link
It makes me want to like the album more than I do.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 10:50 (ten years ago) link
this album, whilst still not being particularly demanding of either senses or intellect, seems quite satisfactory for a sunny day with light to medium breeze
think it can go to four stars from three, just about
― r|t|c, Monday, 3 June 2013 12:32 (ten years ago) link
i think this album's undemanding nature is why i was pleasantly surprised by it - i'd always got a vague and non-specific try-hard vibe off disclosure before but really this album is just very pleasant and unassuming, it's nicely sequenced and peaks in the right way at the right time etc. apart from the ed macfarlane one, he seems to be the token random horrible indie singer for the ed sheeran market
who is the singer on "f for you" and why don't they get a credit?
― lex pretend, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
really like help me lose my mind
― max, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
presume it's one of the brothers xpost
― Number None, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
yeah they sing on that one
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 June 2013 20:24 (ten years ago) link
nice to see them giving props to Seal by Seal in that Vice piece; the last of the classic run of Trevor Horn albums.
― piscesx, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:35 (ten years ago) link
apart from the ed macfarlane one, he seems to be the token random horrible indie singer for the ed sheeran market
― lex pretend, Monday, 3 June 2013 21:06 (23 minutes ago) Bookmark
oh come on you silly sod that is patently the a+ (new) jam of the record and he is only distinguishable as indier than anyone else on there cos u read it somewhere
― r|t|c, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
i don't know who he is! but i don't like his voice at all
― lex pretend, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
then u must surely be going off the name cos there is literally nothing in how his voice sounds to suggest otherwise
― r|t|c, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
and besides, it is far from the boundaries of reason to imagine that even sheeran could be made useful here
― r|t|c, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
Yeah he sounds nothing like an indie singer here (if he is one)! As I said above he really does sound like Vikter Duplaix which is such a good look for Disclosure.
― Tim F, Monday, 3 June 2013 21:32 (ten years ago) link
Also re Sheeran, that version of "Could Just Be The Bassline" with him and the female vocalist in duet is still one of the best things.
― Tim F, Monday, 3 June 2013 21:39 (ten years ago) link
how did that classic duplaix jam go again, 'looking for indie in all the wrong places' or something
― r|t|c, Monday, 3 June 2013 22:11 (ten years ago) link
Prefer his later work on 'Mellifluous Milquetoast Journeys Vol. 1' tbh
― Tim F, Monday, 3 June 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
Good stuff, this album.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 June 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
quite like the one with mister friendly fires tbh
suggesting that people that listen to that band are the same sort of people that listen to ed sheeran is a little moronic
― monotony, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
excited to dig into this album; they're playing central park this year with TNGHT and i think it's something to look forward
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 07:03 (ten years ago) link
I haven't seen them live but expect they'd be ace, their sound is very vibey.
Among other things "Defeated No More" really nails what is so sonically appealing - their love of upfront swingy beats not just an in-itself but also for how the beats provide this really strong framework for the synth work to dance around, chords like solar flares glimpsed through a lense that keeps shuttering and unshuttering.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 07:14 (ten years ago) link
ohhhhh ed macfarlane is from friendly fires
that explains it
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 08:06 (ten years ago) link
"My High" rules pretty hard
― billstevejim, Friday, 30 October 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
Ces n'est pas for me. That song rips and exhibits production and arrangement perfection.
― octobeard, Friday, 30 October 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
i really like this as a whole for sure. it'll probably place in my 10 or 15 for the year. idk why but a lot of if reminds me of post-blackout britney spears.
― billstevejim, Monday, 9 November 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
i feel like if any random "pop artist with stans" had released this exact album it would probably have its own thread by now.
― billstevejim, Monday, 9 November 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
it's pretty good and they have good instincts on how to pair their guests and beats. Birthday is prob my fave track.
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 November 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
love this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1zN-sEUc68
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Friday, 29 July 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link