julio bashmore - knockin' boots

yeah i like 'father father' people were freaking out about it here when it came out, which is why was so surprised there was no mention of this album yet. honestly i think the songs on the new album are even better

xp- ur right i could have been more extreme, rare for a house album to not be 95% boring

Not listened to this album yet but I'm hoping it's more "Battle For Middle You" than "Au Seve", I like both very much but for very different reasons.

thought this album was a disappointment tbh, really characterless & with none of the pop moments like "au seve" i'd expect from bashmore going pop-house

thought he was a much more distinctive producer in the batty knee dance ep/"battle for middle you" days - stood out from a lot of awkward wonky bass stuff by cramming so many more ideas and hooks into his stuff, but post-"au seve" he hasn't done that vis-a-vis pop-house

I was surprised by this - I like the album, and disagree that it's characterless. In fact, the reason I checked it out was after hearing "Holding On", and thinking that harmony in particular was weird for a house track. Almost bi-tonal, with the root chord brushing up against this III chord -- not sure if intentional, or just a by-product of how the synth patch or vocals trail off. Not to mention the verse melody emphasizes the tritone! I thought it sounded pretty unique, and the album as a whole strikes me as an off-kilter take on what Disclosure has made "basic" (aka characterless).

thought this album was a disappointment tbh, really characterless & with none of the pop moments like "au seve" i'd expect from bashmore going pop-house
--lex pretend

every song on the album is poppier than 'au seve' though?

as in vocals and choruses? "au seve" is a zillion times catchier tho

Holding On is incredible.

'Rhythm Of Auld' is lovely but in general he wears his influences too on the sleeve without doing enough to escape pale imitation or the lacklustre middle ground between it all.

as in vocals and choruses? "au seve" is a zillion times catchier tho

― lex pretend, Monday, October 12, 2015 10:41 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah the album is crazy catchy, indelible hooks out the waz. revisit it you'll see what i mean. 'au seve' is great but the best tracks on the alb are as good or better

loving this so much. kinda ridiculous it's going to be in shadow of Jamie XX's LP for at least a while. The whole Bashmore brand seems to be ill marketed this side of the atlantic, he deserves a crossover success IMO. I am not familiar with this scene, I discovered him thanks to Jessie Ware.

Finally got around to this and it's really good! I feel like he uses voices and samples to better effect than most his peers.

there's been a real glut of this stuff over the past couple of years

The only recent (at a push) things this has explicitly reminded me of are KiNK's "Hand Made" and Tom Trago's "Use Me Again." Have I not been paying close enough attention or is there a lot more out there that sits at this specific intersection of disco, deep house and slightly retro anthemicness?

not that i recall this well enough other than to side-eye it but marquis hawkes' social housing is akin but good

Oh synchronicity - read this while listening to Marquis Hawkes "Fantasy", from said LP.

thx for the tip, this sounds p good and yeah exactly the same retro samples pop house style

despite my frantic proselytizing itt for the bash album not amounting to much i still think it's a masterpiece. feel like ilx uk dance partisans just got a bad whiff about it from the wrong corners of the music press or something. Dominique OTM about bizarre harmony on 'holding on'