I was driving into downtown Austin last week via I-35 and there was a giant billboard for this album on the side of the highway. It was kind of a scratch your head type of moment.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
when they had that, imo shitty, song on youtube and it said in the name that it was from the soundtrack to a twilight film i was a bit like wtf.
― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I was driving into downtown Austin last week via I-35 and there was a giant billboard for this album on the side of the highway.
they had it up around sxsw time but without the text -- just that glob of playdough brains -- and even more confusing then.
― city worker, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
"ice cream" is really fucking cool, like two entirely different songs coming to blows and then deciding they'd rather make out
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
nah i think thats just a sample of two people having sex & grunting
― flopson, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
lawl
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm betting the track from the Twilight soundtrack was from their aborted record--it sounds about as mediocre as they described the tracks from it.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
it's weird - "ice cream" sounded so strange and disjointed to me the first time i heard it. not bad at all, but baffling. now that's i've listened a few more times, it sounds perfectly natural, like a rock band rocking out. i'm constantly surprised by this, the ways that context and time spent can change the sound of music.
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
just heard "ice cream" for the first time—strange and disjointed indeed. the album better step it up imo
― ilxor running, w/ laptop in hand, checking ILX as he sprints (ilxor), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
ice cream sound pretty rad, wish the vocals were higher in the mix, the video is cool
― mizzell, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
since it got posted in the el guincho argument thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsvMyQeC-Q&feature=player_embedded
― always have time for the crystalline entity (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
uh, vaguely NSFW
not nsfw enough, needs more boobs.
― mh, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
relative to other canada videos, it is sadly boob deficient
― always have time for the crystalline entity (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Streaming from Primavera on WFMU as I type. Sounds good.
This is a great running album, btw.
― john. a resident of chicago., Saturday, 28 May 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Granted this is pretty much advertised right from the start given the lead single and the colorful album art but while I'm really enjoying this on first listen, I'm feeling like this one is a little too "fun". I miss the hints of darkness and mystery creeping in around the corners of Mirrored.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Seeing them tonight. I've purposefully avoided hearing Gloss Drop. I'd like to make my mind up after seeing them play.
― mmmm, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think this is materially different from Mirrored in tone at all.
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
Seriously? There is definitely more playfulness this time around.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
Actually "playfulness" might not be the best description for the difference I hear between the two, because there was a lot of that last time. I think this one is just a lot more quote-unquote fun sounding, a lot of brightness and sunshine as opposed to moments of doubt and creepiness last time around.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
"Sweetie & Shag" is the first one I've encountered that makes me think of brightness and sunshine and it comes across as a straightforward song drawn from the same inspiration well as "Ddiamondd".
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
You don't hear brightness and sunshine in "Ice Cream"?
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
I hear hints of creepiness in the guitar interjections in that song.
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
"ice cream" a bit of an anomaly on this record tbf
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 10 June 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, I'm not saying it's a doomy, unhappy album... but neither is Mirrored!
Oh I wasn't saying Mirrored is dark or doomy, they are both relatively upbeat experiences. I just find the new one to be a little more bright and shiny.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
found a copy of this at home and it's great!
i'm in the didn't really connect with mirrored but think the eps are incredible camp
― Crackle Box, Friday, 10 June 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
Do you live in a record store?
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
mirrored is awesome. love this too. can't wait to see this stuff live
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
this album is fantastic from front to back and i'm surprised by all the grousing upthread. love the tropical touchstones, the relative emphasis on pop, lightness and groove. the band are still going at it like motherfuckers, but rather than making jaw-dropping complexity the focal point, they let the machinery serve the tunes & propulsion ― a good strategy, imo. "futura"!
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Friday, 10 June 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
heading to see them on sunday!
― mh, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
they're really great live even though I think they fall flat on record
― relentlessly googling hipster (Hurting 2), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
I think this is the... fourth time I'll see them live? I love the new record, though.
― mh, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
should be seeing them on saturday if i'm in town
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
Are they still using the big twin monolith video screens to project various singers (bar Eye) onto?
Apart from Gary Numan (looking like the Goth Dot Cotton, as my friend pointed out) I didn't think this worked and preferred hearing Sun Dome without a weirdly outsized, messianic Japanese dreadhead peering over them. Although it was a good idea in theory, I hope they ditch it.
― Rebekah Brooks Hardsonned My Hamster (Doran), Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
I will let you know!
― mh, Friday, 15 July 2011 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
P.s. So far Futura is my favorite album track on this one
― mh, Friday, 15 July 2011 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
numan track is the best http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― beaster eggs: a thread for rad sugar puns (dave cool), Friday, 15 July 2011 06:58 (twelve years ago) link
Futura is def my fav but the vocal tracks are all awesome too (save Numan's). I'm liking how Gloss Drop focuses on pleasant guitar tones over intricate math-rocky sounds like Mirrored.
― The Sunspots In Your Eyes Are Actually Cataracts, Mr. Rudich (AWALL), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
That's mad. Numan's vocals are brilliant.
― Rebekah Brooks Hardsonned My Hamster (Doran), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 08:30 (twelve years ago) link
Not literally mad. It's just a vaguely different opinion to my own.
Sundome is the best track on here imo.
― Rebekah Brooks Hardsonned My Hamster (Doran), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 08:31 (twelve years ago) link
numan track sounds sort of like queens of the stone age
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:13 (twelve years ago) link
love the entire album so so so so much, but ice cream is the track that gets me madddd excited.
― i'm not a lawyer, but i play one on a messageboard (stevie), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
Its funny because I found myself creating a playlist that skips just that track and I love the entire album even more then.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
I guess with me being a die hard Numan fan since the early 80s, I may be slightly prejudiced.
― Rebekah Brooks Hardsonned My Hamster (Doran), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
been ignoring this band since overly math-y stuff usually bores me to tearsbut saw the Ice Cream video randomly last night and totally loved ithmmm
― you will always be wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 September 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
They are very humorous! It's like math rock but with silliness.
― mh, Friday, 9 September 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
yeah they're very fun, totally not your usual po faced post rock
also this video is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkgQ88G8Hj8
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 9 September 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
feeling "wall street" these days. still miss tyondai
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
Saw these guys live last night, fantastic show, a lot more playful and freeform than the last time I saw them (which was a really "by the note" faithful repro of "mirrored"). Lots of segues and jamming and the neat trick of keeping the guests vocalists in with the screens. Loved it!
...my perforated eardrum HATED me last night tho :( ow.
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Saturday, 28 January 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link