It’s a thumbs up from me.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 30 March 2015 13:27 (nine years ago) link
I can't believe we are talking about Daphne and Celeste in 2015
When I saw the revive, I truly thought "Oh, dear, one of them has died"
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Monday, 30 March 2015 13:37 (nine years ago) link
sounds kind of like sugababes meets metronomy. it's not really hitting me hard or anything but it's okay
― yeovil knievel (NickB)
It was bugging me that I couldn't think of who this reminded me of but it's totally Metronomy. https://youtu.be/9P2w_hq8YTk
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 30 March 2015 14:21 (nine years ago) link
daphne & celeste were streets ahead of max tundra.
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 30 March 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link
The Max Tundra influence on k-pop is truly one of the examples of quality always finding a way to impact the world. A prophet always being disbelieved in her hometown and all that.
― Frederik B, Monday, 30 March 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
i'm rather obsessed with this now
― dyl, Monday, 30 March 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
a form i actually really love and relish the usually untapped potential of
jfc stfu "untapped potential"
― lex pretend, Monday, 30 March 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
song is inconsequential but NID that imago likes it
― lex pretend, Monday, 30 March 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
Where better to say something mildly trollish than on the Daphne & Celeste thread ffs lol
― u have wiked together fiords (imago), Monday, 30 March 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link
in your head to yourself
― lex pretend, Monday, 30 March 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
aw, that'd be no fun
― u have wiked together fiords (imago), Monday, 30 March 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
I for one like this record quite a bit and am not trollingq
― katherine, Monday, 30 March 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
same, and i think it's really selling it short to explain its appeal as pc music-esque
(ftr d&c were on the more obvious part of the spectrum of pop that was successfully critiquing or poking fun at itself, i.e. what pc music has been trying and largely failing to do from afar)
― dyl, Monday, 30 March 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
^ otm
― katherine, Monday, 30 March 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
I think that all that was said was that some Max Tundra stuff is kind of a PC Music precursor, rather than the track is PC Music-esque?
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 30 March 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link
Also, judging from his Twitter, he does seem to be a legitimate fan of the PC Music stuff as well.
― MarkoP, Monday, 30 March 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
i was sort-of responding to this: if anything, max tundra heard pc music and thought 'i can do this better'
but yes he does seem to be a fan, i read some of the joint interviews with him/daphne/celeste yesterday and he said that if he were to make a year-end top 10 for 2014 it would basically just be the pc music soundcloud >:|
― dyl, Monday, 30 March 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
http://static.gigwise.com/gallery/7138482_wenn12455.jpg
am I right in thinking that 'Brian' = Brian Molko? or am I mis-remembering
― soref, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 06:56 (nine years ago) link
http://www.rayzell.com/daphne%20and%20celeste001-1.jpg
does Kerrang still publish Pandora?
― soref, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 07:03 (nine years ago) link
P sure it's Molko, they kinda made fun of him once. Love this track, to the point I dloaded Stick You and UGLY today which ws interesting
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 09:27 (nine years ago) link
You should have a go at full trollism sometime imago. Live your life to the full.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 10:09 (nine years ago) link
New track is out now and a release date of March 30 has been set for a full album with Max Tundra per his Twitter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQzLlQLFuZs
― fffv, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
psyched
― imago, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
began grinning about three seconds in, remained grinning throughout
― imago, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
this collaboration is really just between two of the best kinds of annoying <3
― imago, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
Lol Imago is a pedophile
― JB, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
Daphne is 37 years old.
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
dear JB,
stick you
― imago, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
uh....hmmm
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
Needs more Celeste.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 8 February 2018 11:56 (six years ago) link
Happy to see them back together, though!
Yes! Really looking forward to this
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 8 February 2018 11:57 (six years ago) link
Also, Mr Snrub, you recommended a track for 1899 but I couldn't find it anywhere, sorry.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 8 February 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link
oh! I know who these gals are
lmao they really were ahead of their time weren't they!!!
Rednex are touring this year too
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 February 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
pretty disappointingly bland to be honest, especially given the lyrics calling out lazy songwriting and this is mainly four chord dirge?
doesn't really take advantage of what daphne and celeste did and/or max tundra's ability. i would love this to be more like parallax error squeezed into a more of a pop sensability but still bursting at the seams. i can imagine something akin to a more "progged out" sophie?
also not into the fact that all the pretty clunky lyrics are so max tundra-ish. fair enough, he's probably writing, but it seems a bit disingenuous coming from two other singer's voice? much like that little shout-out section in you or i alone... that's clearly all in his voice right? or are daphne and celeste also fans of educating marmalade, ariel pink, infinite jest, black dice and captain beefheart etc. etc.?
i love the idea of this collaboration but so far it just seems like a bit of a wasted opportunity for me unfortunately
― linee, Saturday, 10 February 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
yeah i'm finding this one to be unmemorable and dull
― dyl, Saturday, 10 February 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link
also not into the fact that all the pretty clunky lyrics are so max tundra-ish. fair enough, he's probably writing
all the original Daphne & Celeste songs (bar covers) were written by the people that conceived the Daphne & Celeste project. D&C 2.0 is a Max Tundra project. so.
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 11 February 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
You and I Alone was good, and they said in an interview that they were fans of a lot of the things Tundra referenced in the lyrics too, but BB is pretty dull yeah
― ufo, Sunday, 11 February 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link
New song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhfvUxvdwk
I think BB is not bad - the intro is clunky and awful, but the ooyeah-ooyeah-oohno harmony bit on the chorus is pretty wonderful, and I can't hate a song that uses the word 'heteronormative' in the lyrics. (actually it seems much better when the lyrics are on screen for some reason)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 15 March 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
this is very pretty
BB was great, yall daft
― imago, Thursday, 15 March 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
good song, genius video
― Jeff W, Thursday, 15 March 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
there are tour dates too:
Daphne & Celeste are coming to England to play a handful of tour dates and Max Tundra is in the band: 27 March: Boston Music Room, London30 March: Hope & Ruin, Brighton31 March: G-A-Y, Heaven, London2 April: Firebug, Leicester3 April: Rough Trade, Bristol (instore & signing)
love Tundra but this is a little trebly and hypersyllabic for me
The Gradual Disappearance from Max Tundra Records of the immense full-spectrum groove of "The Gradual Disappearance from Food Packaging of the Lettres Ornees Typeface Since 1960" since 2006
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 15 March 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
i like this quite a bit better but it never really breaks out into what i first imagined the collaboration to be like... just kinestic excited-by-itself "which song" type stuff.
i'm a sucker for those kind of maj3rd "bass" lines" though. just wish it broke into some project bassline silliness somehow?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US36PBh_jNY
― linee, Friday, 16 March 2018 05:31 (six years ago) link
"alarms" on loop. love it
― massaman gai, Friday, 16 March 2018 09:02 (six years ago) link
whoa this is nice. definitely my favorite of the three so far. I'm only a minute in though
kinda clear that Tundra is trying to get these ladies on the radio again and not just appeal to his own weird fanbase. I think it'll be very good even if it isn't gonna scratch the same itch left by having no new Max Tundra albums in 10 years (what does this guy do all day??)
― frogbs, Friday, 16 March 2018 12:57 (six years ago) link
tweets
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Friday, 16 March 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
are they good tweets
― imago, Friday, 16 March 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
they're good tweets, Brent
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 March 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
The gig was great, if you get a chance to see them then see them, they are fucking delighted to be on stage, and they light up the stage, and they are as good at the new stuff as the old (and BB is a complete banger live) and bizarrely as good at the old stuff as the new.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
kinda clear that Tundra is trying to get these ladies on the radio again
I like what I've heard a lot but if so he's doing a really shitty job in both sound and marketing
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
otm
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
"hyperventilating in the factory of sound"
― linee, Monday, 7 May 2018 10:25 (six years ago) link
critical indifference to this is predictable and irritating
― imago, Monday, 7 May 2018 10:30 (six years ago) link
it's really good; I feel like the critical indifference is mostly because it took so long since "You and I Alone"
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 7 May 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
surprisingly this actually gets better over time. love how it's a throwback not just in the traditional way but also in a stranger sense where it sounds like it's from an era when pop records were eccentric and strange. think "16 Stars" is my favorite track now. I love that "you could almost pretend to/see I'd always defend you" refrain
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 June 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link
I really do love this album.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
:)
― imago, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
it's 2018 and daphne and celeste have an album that lj cares about, what a world
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
it's an amazing record tbh but it's as much max tundra's big pop move as anything
― imago, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
yea I didn't know if it was gonna hold up after a few listens but it actually kinda gets better the more you know the songs
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I wasn't completely sold on this the first few listens, but I've really come round to. It's making a great summer soundtrack right now. I ended up ordering the vinyl as the prices have gone right down on Amazon/eBay. It was $11 including shipping which is an absolute steal.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 23 August 2018 02:42 (six years ago) link
BTW, does anyone know anything about CSS stuff for reddit? I have r/daphneandceleste - I made it ages ago, but have never done anything with it. So if you have a clue about that stuff...
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 22 September 2018 08:06 (six years ago) link
this album is like if yasutaka nakata produced an xtc record so i have no idea how i didn't get into it when it came out
― ufo, Saturday, 22 September 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
Listening party on Twitter tonight!
Tonight, unwind and listen to our maximalist adventure over at Tim’s @LlSTENlNG_PARTY 9PM! We’ll be joined by @MaxTundra Let’s jump into an alternate reality where we all “Save The World” 🎉💖— Daphne & Celeste (@Daphne_Celeste) January 28, 2021
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link