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i wouldn't have listened to an album of 80s r&b instrumentals!

but now you have the chance to! anyway, i get the criticisms of the album as a whole, but there are songs on there i think deserve to be heard in their own right. like, that kingdom track bankhead is one of the best things night slugs ever put out, and i consider those jam city songs of a piece with that. anyway, the new album seems to come with some ridiculous conceptual baggage but im hoping the actual music doesnt pay too much attention to it.

i wouldn't have listened to an album of 80s r&b instrumentals!

― lex pretend, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 4:32 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0IwtsLgmFc

Despite the press materials dressing this up it is essentially an "angry and disillusioned young man rallies against society" album, the kind of thing that has always existed, just done differently and well.

I think Classical Curves makes more sense now its influence has entrenched itself in contemporary dance music. Not to say that it is singular and unique - there were plenty of acts doing similar things - but it exists at a very specific intersection of zones that seems a lot less unnatural now.

classical curves def took a lil while to click for me but when it did, hoooo boy

Is this different in any significant way from the usual NS clanking murk or should I just not bother?

it's completely unlike anything on NS to date. on paper it's even less my thing but idk, the alienation and disillusion aren't just in the press materials, they're in the very good lyrics as well, and it's ultimately a very optimistic album

relevant to interests

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02m9pn5

i like this new jam city a lot

same, pretty groovy

very wavey

I really disliked this on first listen.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

can't please everybody, i guess

This sounded amazing walking through my town centre at 6am this morning while everything was quiet and serene.

one listen in, liking it a lot. possibly fucking miiiiiles off here, but there's kind of a late 80s boyband as produced by andy stott vibe, also a murkified beachy thing happening too.

It just reminded me of any number of sadsack laptop dudes who can't really sing. I really hate that big aluminium synth all over this as well.

People I know were comparing it to Disco Inferno which just made the disappointment more acute, feels like he's just gone from one pole of lameness to another.

also a murkified beachy thing happening too.

yeah made me think of strategy

xp how rockist of you, matt dc

I can hear the DI thing actually, slight shades of 'The Last Dance' with that guitar.

I can totally see the sadsack laptop dudes thing but even despite that I still think this is really great. The two things it really reminds me of are last year's Dean Blunt and Maria Minerva albums (which were my two favourites of 2014). NickB's description is spot-on.

the lyrics give this an emotional heft beyond the usual sadsack laptop dude thing

i have never heard of disco inferno tho

wtf are you even a real ilx poster

jokes - but that's just too good.

not that i expect you to like disco inferno!

there are loads of 80s indieish bands i've always seen old-skool ilx reference (scritti politti, blue nile too). never heard any of them apart from one scritti politti song

The Blue Nile aren't indieish.

Disco Inferno are indieish though and you will probably hate those aspects of them.

This shit (Jam City) sounds good on random soundcloud listen but I'd need to sit with it a lot more to know for certain (and who sits these days).

Here is classic DI if you want to test that proposition though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BFNX78vZE8

This sounds like something you'd play at an indie ren faire I'm into it

lex doesn't know "cupid & psyche 85" WTF

how is that surprising

this is not night slugs but i couldn't figure out where else to put it up

http://soundcloud.com/a-k-paul/landcruisin

searching "jai paul" in posts gives some funny results. point/counterpoint starring lex & rev.

this is very prince-y.

yes

lol I hate Jai Paul, I was just trolling lex

what's there to hate?

everything pretty much

He must be friends with virtually everyone in the media and the music industry. It's the only reason to think of for such continuing interest and anticipation around a dude with such a shoddy and minimal output. It's, what, five years since he was first hyped and you still read "Jai Paul might finally release his debut album this year!" articles on sites that should know better.

By this point they might as well be repping for Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong.

Oh wait, this is his brother. Might give this a listen on the offchance he's the talented one in the family.

sick burns everyone *golf clap*

new comp sounding pretty okay

https://www.residentadvisor.net/feed/97057

https://jam-city.bandcamp.com/album/pillowland

new jam city album

It's more like current AG Cook than his old stuff and found it mostly pretty annoying as a result.

Is Night Slugs defunct?

also new Jam City (on Earthly / Mad Decent tho) https://ra.co/news/78713

the track I've heard from the new Jam City album is purposely I think kind of corny but it still sounds really good to me

I think Night Slugs is just swinging back into gear for their 15th anniversary. Not sure if they're gonna do new releases or just parties and reissues.

Voila, new Night Slugs

https://music.zaida-zane.com/album/boy-eyes

lol/sick/you're welcome

new Jam City is in my top 20 albums of the year for sure— ridiculously good