new supergrass

Supergrass are to release their first new album in three years later this summer.

And ’Road To Rouen’, out on August 15, is said to showcase a new sound for the band.

The follow-up to 2002’s ’Life On Other Planets’, recorded in a converted barn in Normandy, features zithers, ukeleles, brass, strings and ‘the model of drum machine used by Sly & The Family Stone.’

The LP is preceded by a single, ’St Petersburg’, on August 8.

So, uh, Diamond Hoo Ha has leaked, and it's wonderful. Very rocking compared to Road to Rouen, hooks galore, and one of their best closers in forever, "Butterfly." The production is warm and unobtrusive, which always works in their favor.

Haven't paid attention to Supergrass for years; have they got better since their boring, ploddy mid-period? I still listen to I Should Coco occasionally and really enjoy it, though I'm don't expect they've gone back to playing that kind of stuff.

I'd say the closest comparison for the new one would be In It For The Money,, i.e. Life On Other Planets with less fussy production.

whoah, didn't see the terrible cover coming
http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/avaxhome/2008-02-21/folder_861.jpg

Yeah, the cover is rough.

I always disagree with people who use words such as "ploddy" or "plodding". That is usually just a good thing, because it shows they are paying more attention to other and more important aspects.

If it is faster that "Road To Rouen" doesn't matter, but it shouldn't be much faster than "Supergrass".

which one fell out of a window?

Gier, your opinions really do contain extraordinary multiple levels of bizarreness. Stuff can be fast, tight and intricate all at the same time. Also, when I say ploddy it's not about speed as much as lack of interesting stuff going on (to my ears). I like lots of slow and fast music.

There's more interesting stuff going on in those later albums. Like some fantastic backing vocal harmonies, for instance.

I'm-a rank me some Supergrass albums right here. Hard to say where the new one will ultimately end up:

1. In It For The Money
2. Life On Other Planets
3. Diamond Hoo Ha
4. Road To Rouen
5. I Should Coco
6. Supergrass

Until the last one, which was slightly weaker than "Life On Other Planets" (but still great), I had them ranked in the exact opposite order of their release. I like all of them apart from "I Should Coco", which I consider average only.

I'm liking this on first listen, some really great organ sounds tossed all over the album.

Okay, I really love the, like, four false beginnings on "Whisky & Green Tea" - big horns! wait, huge guitars! wait, spacey keyboards!

I'm gonna switch #3 and #4 on my album ranking list above, but I still do really love this album. I cannot get over "Butterfly." I want to see these songs live, which is highly unlikely, considering that they come to Portland once every three albums or so.

I Should Coco is their classic. Other opinions are welcome to fuck off.

ah I its a fan of supergrass since I hear to it only note if it to be only out it to be well?

it is, as you say swings to song into the little

= )

"I Should Coco" gets kind of nice towards the end. But before that it has way too much crap like "Caught By The Fuzz" and other too fast songs.

so, according to the review in Mojo the album cover art has changed.
and not for the better by the looks of it.
i actually liked the mannequin-esque imagery above.
as for the record itself - well i'm loving the glammed up groove again.
its nothing too radical of course, but still, its very enjoyable.

ah ha ..
looks like Mojo actually used the image for the 7" single next to their album review.
I, like Mojo, should have checked Amazon first.

Interesting album, because the two singles are pretty mediocre songs (the first two songs on the album), but the second half is surprisingly strong, especially the closer, 'Butterfly'. So not bad than, but still it can't get close to the first two albums, both of them were masterpieces, since '97 they haven't released a really good album unfortunately...