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this is excellent.. current standout 'the lisbon maru'

kinda samey more ravey less screamy

Why does your display name imply that the Atlas Sound disc may not come out this year? I thought it was confirmed for next month.

(BTW, very much looking forward to the F--k Buttons disc, too)

parody of the ILM thread name

I don't expect this new one to reinvent the wheel ... but fuck it, I wouldn't want it to either.

Am seeing them in Glasgow next week (as long as I remember to go and buy a ticket). They were epic supporting Mogwai in Edinburgh and I expect great things in a smaller venue.

I like this new one.

more ravey less screamy

Haven't heard the new one yet, but can say I would be satisfied with a subtle push in this direction.

Wow, it really does (in places, anyway). I mean I hate to damn stuff I dig with unfathomably uncool reference points, but first track is like "oh hey, Everything Is Wrong piles on the fuzz-bliss". Just me? Or alternatively, stop pussyfooting and admit it's just as much later Moby, but we can't talk about that in public?

I missed them live last week for some really stupid reason. Maybe I was just scared that they wouldn't live up to the excellent previous occasion.

They were excellent in Glasgow, albeit hampered slightly by the venue's shite acoustics. (Same place I'm seeing SunnO))), which doesn't bode well at all. Unless they totally redesign it and sort out its sound-design, stat.)

Andrew Hung was hanging out by the T-shirt stall as we made our way out, so I collared him and said what a top gig it was. What a lovely dude: he genuinely seemed delighted to meet fans, and appeared to really give a shit what people thought. Huge respect.

Heh, when I saw them at a festival I bumped into him later watching a pretty much unknown band (this in itself impresses me as most bands there seemed content to lurk backstage apart from their set) and told him in rather incoherent terms that FB were awesome and he seemed genuinely pleased and friendly, yes.

I wish I'd gone now! Really not quite sure why I didn't.

This is so great - Flight of the Winged Serpent (or whatever) is an amazing closer. It's the big thumping Underworld-style beat that does it.

Well done Andy Weatherall for introducing them to the concept of a groove.

fuck me

this album

Out today. Amazing reviews across the board including album of the week from the times, the observer and a bunch of others. Great stuff.

Disney Hair

I wasn't too impressed by their debut but I'm really liking what I'm hearing on the new album. Space Mountain is fucking beautiful.

Can't get past the mammoth first track yet, but it's good enough to be top ten single of 09 no doubt

These guys really know how to start an album, don't they?

This album is fucking massive. Been playing it all week since its release.

this on headphones btw

yup yup

Not sure i like it as much as street horrsing but its prolly a lot more consistent.

bits of SH with all the sparkly bells were kinda shit but then i think mebbe i was missing the point

OMG @ Rough Steez tho

This Reminds me of the last Growing alb and Broken Ear Record mainly

Rough Steez reminds me of a noisier, more expansive version of Ratatat.

i don't know who that is

a pokemon, i think

makes sense, Olympians reminds me of that Chris Brown song abt michael phelps a bit

an awesome pokeman

Some of this still sounds like Merriweather Post Pavillion to me, but I still love it

this is excellent.. current standout 'the lisbon maru'

kinda samey more ravey less screamy

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Spot on. I can't stop listening to this.

The Lisbon Maru (for those who didn't know) was a Japanese transport ship sunk in 1942 by a US ship - it turned out to have been carrying 1800 allied POWs, most of whom died. A tragic but very interesting story. I don't know what that means about ravey noise bands but it's an interesting story. ( http://www.lisbonmaru.com/ )

what Ben said about "The Lisbon Maru" when i interviewed him for emusic:
"My granddad was a survivor and he escaped. He was shipwrecked for days, but he managed to survive."

yes, this could be album of the year for me.

^^^

blown away by this. am listening to it every chance i get.

You guys have any idea what that instrument is making the higher-pitched sounds in the middle of Olympians?

Glass organ? Flute? (both, sampled and thrown together?)

yes, this could be album of the year for me.

It really is pretty much uniformly fantastic, isn't it? At the moment I'm all about the bubbling noises in Phantom Limb.

Olympians is peak for me bcos its so fucking funny, reminds me of some of the shitty new age music i was dling from blogs for like a week of this summer.

uh actually come to think of it, it reminds me off of Dan Deacon's last album.

Thanks StanM, either of those would make sense.

I'm still not feeling this as much as Street Horrrsing, but it seems to be revealing more of itself with every listen, so ...

This is awesome, getting a similar but arguably more consistent kick out of this as the Field's last album earlier in the year.

I could see Kate adoring this.

I have no idea of what people are hearing in this.

Layers and layers and layers of gorgeously beatific fuzz plus some truly uplifting military-esque drum patterns.

first song sounds a little like someone strapped black dice to the front of a freight train made up of power chord synths

i'm hearing people who listen to this respond either rapturously or disgustedly; not much in between.

tbh, i wld prefer a version of black dice that was MORE aggro, not less

I would prefer a version of Black Dice that played shit that sounded like Creature Comforts for about 8 hours straight, but that's neither here nor there.

At its worst, this sounds like a more accessible, dancey version of recent Black Dice. At its best (SURF SOLAR, LISBON MARU), it sounds like a freight train made up of power chord synths exploding angel vaginas.