See, I find this record paper thin and nothingy and I've listened to it at least twice and found nothing at all entered my memory about it at all. I don't understand.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
It's a really good record, I played it a lot in the darker days at the end of last year. The production is way better than you expect from a lot of these bands, even if the lol-ethereal vocal lines can drift into gothic self-parody at times.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
I'm responsible for the initial ILX sandbox recommendation. To parallel Lex's complaints about it not garnering much support after lobbying, I'll cop to discovering it perusing Any Decent Music? where it was one of 2011's critical "high-scorers" in electronica.
The album is very nicely poised between Lisa Gerrard and Fever Ray, so total Sanpaku-bait, but the second half definitely drags compared to the first. I envy the ILXers that call Brighton home, as it seems Elizabeth Walling doesn't tour elsewhere much.
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
i own this on vinyl and coincidentally it owns me~~
― omar little, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
i love how she make such towering, brutalist sounds out of such a small sonic palette - the way the beats and synths grind up against each other is kind of awe-inspiring
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
Nice drum programming. Predictable chord + melody choices though, unsure whether to embrace full-on "religious doom" or to keep things pop; ends up sounding like lobby music for a boutique hotel.
― real life is no dave cool (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
A belated head's up:
http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/133/570/13357010/600x600.jpg
The Entire City Remixed (Jun 4, 2012)
1 Nest (Flint Kids Remix) 2 Changelings (John Foxx & The Maths Remix) 3 Men Like Gods (Maya Postepski Remix) 4 I Am Shell I Am Bone (Scanner Remix) 5 Bell Tower (Bernholz Remix) 6 Men Like Gods (Nedry Remix) 7 Obelisk (Alphabets Heaven Remix) 8 Changelings (The Enormous Shadow Remix) 9 I Am Shell I Am Bone (ERAS Remix) 10 Men Like Gods (Zebra and Snake Remix) 11 The Entire City (Alteria Percepsyne Remix) 12 View of a Mountain (Soccer96 Remix) 13 Men Like Gods (Ghost Eyes Remix)
I've heard only the samples, but will advise when my emusic sub rolls over.
― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Monday, 16 July 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Nifty Wire cover here - http://thequietus.com/articles/11005-gazelle-twin-wire-heartbeat-cover
She's also done some cool work with John Foxx, gonna have to check out her album.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
The Mammal EP (2013-01-28) preview on SoundCloud.
― Chinchilla! Chinchilla! Chinchilla! (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 04:46 (eleven years ago) link
Just dl'd for a very reasonable $3.43 from emusic. The Kuedo remix of "Turn My Arm" is the immediate standout - 2013 track poll material, as might be the Clint Mansell remix of "This is My Hand" given more listens. The remixes are aesthetically coherent with the GTs own aesthetic, so the whole thing holds together fairly well vs. most eps w/remixes.
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Monday, 28 January 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUr4BXSy5PA
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Monday, 28 January 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
new single. liking it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH94d-uw4N8
― lex pretend, Friday, 28 February 2014 12:01 (ten years ago) link
http://www.spin.com/articles/gazelle-twin-anti-body-stream-ep-unflesh/
Obsessed with Belly of the Beast. Love the new one, too.
― I sleep with my enemies. They're the ones with passion for me. (Turangalila), Friday, 2 May 2014 04:29 (ten years ago) link
the new album is really awesome. completely different to the entire city, a lot harder work but worth it. no ethereal vocals, just a lot of grinding industrial beats and darkly muttered vengeance. captures ill health and body horror better than just about anything i've heard.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 12:13 (ten years ago) link
terrifying video for "anti body":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMiPD6EqbyQ
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 12:14 (ten years ago) link
good grief, this is magnificent!
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 25 September 2014 14:05 (ten years ago) link
just got back from seeing her/them. very simple presentation - guy on synths in a red hoodie (her husband?), EB in a blue hoodie and that stocking facemask, the merest puff of dry ice - but was all pretty compelling imo. just played stuff off the new one afaict (have only heard it a couple of times though so could be wrong). maybe this is a terrible comparison but it kind of reminded me of the paranoia of PMT-era tricky or the massive attack of inertia creeps - the bass kick convulsing like a panicked heart, starving the songs of oxygen - but it's obviously not an unease fed by skunk or what have you, it's more the claustrophobia of an outsider that's trapped on the inside. excellent stuff anyhow
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 26 September 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
This is real top ten AOTY stuff for me.
― Doran, Saturday, 27 September 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link
incredible
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Saturday, 27 September 2014 01:16 (ten years ago) link
really enjoyed her interview in the quietus as well
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Saturday, 27 September 2014 01:17 (ten years ago) link
Even though the lyrics are a little on the side of "goth-princess cliche" I am really feeling this. It sounds so dark and brittle and her delivery is so convincing. What really strikes me about this is that Gazelle Twin doesn't seem to just like unusual sounds or timbres, but really understands why those production choices work and integrates them into the songs themselves - this album couldn't be imagined differently on a piano or a guitar, it is so bound up in its claustrophobic industrial atmosphere.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 27 September 2014 10:50 (ten years ago) link
I am 15 seconds into "Unflesh" and this is fucking incredible
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Monday, 29 September 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
maybe this is a terrible comparison but it kind of reminded me of the paranoia of PMT-era tricky
yeah this is a good comparison, and actually it's specifically "vent", bc the paranoia is all centred around body horror really
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 September 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
i don't hear much goth-princess cliché in the lyrics at all. it feels v much like a horror film, the whole album seems to be recoiling from itself at all times
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 September 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
this is basically a stripped-down Pankow album
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Monday, 29 September 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
this is fucking amazing
― katherine, Monday, 29 September 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
yeah its good
― call all destroyer, Monday, 29 September 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
exorcise, anti body, premonition, belly of the beast... hard to pick a favourite here
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 29 September 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
weird album though, half the time i'm really not sure that i should be enjoying it as much i am
but i suppose it's fascination more than it is pleasure
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 29 September 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
idk a bunch of these songs have really fun beats, so far it doesn't seem "fun" per se but it's def pleasurable
― call all destroyer, Monday, 29 September 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
true and live there was dancing and all, but listen to the lyrics and uh eek
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 29 September 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
putting the -ick back into lyric
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 29 September 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
It's a weirdly good exercise album
Exercise, exorcise
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 September 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
I love the second half of the record but a huge chunk of the first half drives me batty. The slower, creepier stuff is astounding but the more beat driven songs annoy.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 September 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
Gazelle Twin did a limited split EP with Tara Busch (under her I Speak Machine alias) last year, covering Ultravox & solo John Foxx songs. Lyrically, it seems to have contributed to Unflesh.
Walling appears unmasked on the first vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JcLBvmYKqo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jbb5VtwfFw
― Felt up by Adam Smith's invisible hand (Sanpaku), Monday, 29 September 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
On review, that may be all Tara Busch on the I Speak Machine track. Still, I think the touring/openning for John Foxx & the Maths had some influence on the industrial turn of GTs album.
― Felt up by Adam Smith's invisible hand (Sanpaku), Monday, 29 September 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
did anyone hear sofia hardig's album from 2006 or so? this reminds me of it
― katherine, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 00:50 (nine years ago) link
Great recommendation, katherine. It's The Need To Destroy, at most digital retailers. The other Hardig albums aren't comparable, AFAICT.
― Felt up by Adam Smith's invisible hand (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
yeah that's the one
― katherine, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
1. Unflesh 2. GUTS 3. Exorcise 4. Good Death 5. Anti Body 6. Child 7. Premonition 8. A1 Receptor 9. Belly Of The Beast 10. Human Touch 11. I Feel Blood 12. Still Life
I've only just put this on but the tracklist is nothing if not thematically consistent.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
great review in the quietus lex!
also, more people should listen to this
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
The live show seemed to be really something, although on the night I was running late and so managed to miss all but three songs of it.
This album is really sticking with me.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
Just got it today.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
God imagine being really baked and wandering around a dark and unfamiliar place with this on. Shit is genuinely creepy and unsettling, not in a lazy slow creeping dread way, it's like being *pursued* by something.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
Brian Wilson cover for *The Walking Dead*:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUlVo-jvG1o
― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
ha i've been listening to that brian wilson album a lot lately
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link
She's doing an audio-visual thing at the Barbican in November. It's in the cinema (!), and given it's entitled 'Fleshed Out' I'm anticipating traumatising levels of body horror.
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 September 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
The unflesh remix album is rwally good
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Sunday, 7 August 2016 11:11 (eight years ago) link
Heads up, new album out of nowhere:
https://gazelletwin.bandcamp.com/album/kingdom-come
Also, another album next year.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 November 2017 05:02 (six years ago) link
And here is that new album, out in September.
https://gazelletwin.bandcamp.com/album/pastoral
Look for a story around release time...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
Here's that story!
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/09/05/gazelle-twin-pastoral-interview/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link
Nice one! Very much looking forward to the new album.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link
seeing her at the album launch next week.
https://roughtrade.com/events/rough-trade-east-gazelle-twin
Hope its in full trickster adidas regalia, but that might actually give me the fear.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Thursday, 20 September 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link
oh shit this new one!
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Friday, 21 September 2018 08:48 (six years ago) link
This is seriously FIRE. Really digging this musically and lyrically.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
Absolutely. One of my albums of the year.
― stranded, Thursday, 13 December 2018 09:16 (five years ago) link
Want her to collaborate with Scott Walker.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 December 2018 09:57 (five years ago) link
this falls into the 'almost great' category for me
― imago, Thursday, 13 December 2018 13:29 (five years ago) link
Anyone else enjoying 'Deep England', the reimaging of 'Pastoral' with NYX, self-styled 'electronic drone choir'?
https://nyx-edc.bandcamp.com/album/deep-england
Well, I am. Seems like a fine meeting of minds to me. Strong folk horror vibes, and says something striking about the way the clammy hand of the past still has a grip on present in this place.
― J-Lo Biafra (Rob Mitchell), Saturday, 2 October 2021 10:42 (two years ago) link
It’s very good. NYX’s own stuff is lovely too.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 3 October 2021 12:56 (two years ago) link