good grief, this is magnificent!
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 25 September 2014 14:05 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
This is real top ten AOTY stuff for me.
― Doran, Saturday, 27 September 2014 01:11 (nine years ago) link
incredible
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Saturday, 27 September 2014 01:16 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (five 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