Playground Hustle is kicking my ass. Say what you will about the timing but I like this new wave of confident polyrhythmic blundering. Starts off srsly jacking some go! team (pastiche squared) but then flips it and gets on this quiet swinging boogie under the childlike mutterings of a 50's TV couple. "On My Side" is just country Joanna Newsom except really dumb. Good band or not?
― tremendoid, Saturday, 1 March 2008 10:26 (sixteen years ago) link
They can hold a groove when they want to, the lead singer and the band miss each other alot but when they click it's dynamite. i hear some stonesish funk in there on several occasions.
― tremendoid, Saturday, 1 March 2008 11:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Excellent. I'm waiting for an import copy to arrive. Dispatched from amazon.fr on Monday. I know quite a few people freaking on this.
― Scik Mouthy, Saturday, 1 March 2008 11:04 (sixteen years ago) link
One track sounds like a female Eminem backed by a brass band. Singer's otherwise generally a bit Cardigans, almost. I'm hearing Lisa Left-Eye Lopez, Iko Iko, Mouldy Peaches, PJ Harvey, loads of stuff.
― Scik Mouthy, Saturday, 1 March 2008 11:08 (sixteen years ago) link
god i hear feist, joanna, nellie mckay, lisa bonet and shit
― tremendoid, Saturday, 1 March 2008 11:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Really nice, natural drum tones.
― Scik Mouthy, Saturday, 1 March 2008 11:12 (sixteen years ago) link
They're proper jazzers, aren't they? Or the dude is, by training, I think.
― Scik Mouthy, Saturday, 1 March 2008 11:13 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/thedoband
Influences: Bela Bartok, Jimi Hendrix,Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Nico, Igor Stravinsky, The Who, Bird, The Last Poets, Coltrane, Bjork, Monte !, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Mingus, Eminem, The WuTangClan, Lauryn Hill, Betty Davis, Queen, The Beatles, Tom Waits, Art Pepper, Toumast, Frank Zappa, Young marble giants, Duke Ellington, The White Stripes , Peaches, Michael Jackson, BECK, Joanna Newsom, Patti Smith.
― Scik Mouthy, Saturday, 1 March 2008 11:14 (sixteen years ago) link
At Last kinda reminds me of Os Mutantes being very, very chilled out.
― Scik Mouthy, Saturday, 1 March 2008 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i forgot bjork. lauryn hill? curious.
― tremendoid, Saturday, 1 March 2008 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
lead singer rides the song 'Tammi' like a chariot of wind. On the edge of ecstatic surely, can't tell if they cross the line.
― tremendoid, Saturday, 1 March 2008 11:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i liked the rap ok, that track is goofy fun.
― tremendoid, Saturday, 1 March 2008 11:20 (sixteen years ago) link
the cardigans first records are back again, and i'm more than ok with it.
― Zeno, Saturday, 1 March 2008 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link
This is fucking great.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 7 March 2008 11:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Bump. Please kids, give this a listen.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 7 April 2008 12:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Also is there any chance of a mod sticking the album title ("A Mouthful") in the thread title so this thread can be searched?
I need to check this out. By now, they've become pretty big in France
― baaderonixx, Monday, 7 April 2008 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/3151052
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 10 April 2008 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Alright, I like the music on this but can't stand the voice
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 10 April 2008 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
My girlfriend's not keen on the voice. I love it. One of those things, I guess.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 10 April 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I like the woman's voice the same way I like tongueing the gap left by a newly missing tooth.
― DavidM, Thursday, 10 April 2008 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, yeah, that's about it!
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 10 April 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Or pulling bits of hard skin off your heel, or biting your nails down too far so they hurt.
Their new(ish) album, which I guess is their third but the first one I've heard, is really good. I gather it is more synthpop than previous records. They were my one big surprise discovery at Bonnaroo, wandered past as they were playing a post-midnight set -- they were great.
Anyway, here's a few tracks. "Trustful Hands" has been on constant repeat for me for the past 5 days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAXmgId3NTQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8RO_nDq1NU
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Friday, 19 June 2015 13:08 (eight years ago) link
All three Dø albums are great, but yeah, this one's their most synthy.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 19 June 2015 22:39 (eight years ago) link