― Steven M, Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:33 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:48 (twenty years ago) link
sadly the album doesnt maesure up. i excpet her next one to be the bees nees though.
― :|, Thursday, 15 April 2004 12:39 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
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― Lingbert, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Lingbert, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Ha ha - she's like an ILM boy's wet dream.
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lingbert, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― bulbs (bulbs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link
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― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Thursday, 13 January 2005 05:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Francisco Monar (fmonar), Thursday, 13 January 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
(it is adorable.)
― cis (cis), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― :| (....), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 09:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.soulseduction.com/common/item_detail.php?ItemCode=B182867
backwards guitar figures and music boxes, there's something untried by the ambientelectroacoustic set! still, sounds pretty, and i'm willing to forgive colleen a fair bit.
and it turns out her real name is Cécile Schott.
― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyone else digging the new one?
― baaderonixx, Friday, 1 June 2007 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link
i haven't given it a proper listen. the album this thread is about is easily the weakest colleeen album imo.
― jed_, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I have no problems calling it the best.
― MRZBW, Friday, 1 June 2007 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
playing in church in Hull in two weeks! should be vey twinkly... http://www.myspace.com/seedsandbridges
― fandango, Saturday, 2 June 2007 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link
"Les Ondes" is really wonderful stuff, and I'm annoyed that I didn't find out about her until recently when eMusic promoted it. Reminds me a bit of some of Simon Fisher Turner's stuff (e.g. the Nadja soundtrack) without the special effects. She was on Active Suspension at one point, right? Between her and Konki Duet, I'm getting the impression that I need to do some serious research on the French electronic-acoustic scene.
― dlp9001, Sunday, 23 December 2007 01:48 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.colleenplays.org/NEWS/news_r23_c6.gif
― A Mermaid... Doing It With Captain Morgan (Leee), Monday, 22 February 2010 05:19 (fourteen years ago) link
http://colleenplays.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/kiska-in-the-sun-2-small-e1316868322905.jpg
― daschund derrida (Leee), Monday, 14 November 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
her ears are pointier than i pictured
― latebloomer, Monday, 14 November 2011 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://kibitzers.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/colleen_thomas.jpgeveryone alive wants answers
― Obama's metrosexual cool (crüt), Monday, 14 November 2011 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty eye-opening account of the trials of the indie artist:http://colleenplays.org/2011/08/07/test/#more-296
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 7 September 2012 08:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://colleenplays.org/2012/12/27/new-album-out-in-may-2013/
― SOPA Middleton (Leee), Friday, 18 January 2013 06:09 (eleven years ago) link
She emailed me! :0 ^_^
― Leeeyoncé (Leee), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:33 (eleven years ago) link
what did she say?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 08:48 (eleven years ago) link
I emailed first about how transcendant one of her shows was to me, and that hopefully she will be able to make it to the US again. Unfortunately, the logistics don't look good.
― Leeeyoncé (Leee), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
I have to say I'm not that familiar with her music but I found her writing on her blog quite inspiring
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2013/04/04/colleen-prepares-striking-new-album-for-londons-second-language/
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
Good news! That's a lovely cover too.
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
btw I would totally recommend Julia Kent to people who want to find more good cello stuff in the same sort of ballpark as Colleen
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
It's a lovely cover indeed. The write-up by Fact makes me highly curious to see what direction she turns next with the new LP. The album this thread is named after has been a steady fave of mine ever since it came out, but I do enjoy how she comes up with something really different every time.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 4 April 2013 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
Title track is something else.
― R = J - L (Leee), Saturday, 20 April 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/colleenplays/
(serving the lazy)
― Ludo, Monday, 9 October 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/12/556934263/first-listen-colleen-a-flame-my-love-a-frequency
― djh, Monday, 16 October 2017 10:15 (six years ago) link
ooh that cover is pretty
― rob, Monday, 16 October 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
An old Colleen album is an almost perfect soundtrack for painting a wall Hague Blue (At the weekend, Hood's "Cycles of Days & Seasons" actually *was* the perfect soundtrack for staining a fence in the autumn sunshine).
― djh, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 09:21 (six years ago) link
new one is a beaut
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 20 October 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
she is the gd coolestshe posted on facebook about how she started making her own clothes and made all of the clothes for her new tourwhat an inspiration!! i love colleen.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 20 October 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
New album is great.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 20 October 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
Yeah the album is fantastic, just letting it sink in. And she's one of the very few I follow on FB. She's an inspiration. And chose to live in San Sebastian <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 20 October 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
This is very nice yeah
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
and last I heard she teaches/taught English! She is playing here but I have to teach that night ;_;
Someday I will see her. Never thought I would become such a Colleen fan but she keeps being awesome and making music I like so I have no choice.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 20 October 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
New one is really good. Extension of elements of the last I loved, but something different entirely. This is probably going top 5 of the year for me.
Textures remind me of a semi-broken music box...underwater. In a great way.
― dronestreet, Saturday, 21 October 2017 03:45 (six years ago) link
Loving this (Didn't hear the last one ... Should I?)
― djh, Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
absolutely!! i really love Captain of None. it's more overtly groovy than any of her other stuff imei got the new one on saturday and listened to it twice in a row. it was one of those days when i totally disconnected from my life and just chilled out and colleen was 100% there when i needed her.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
Captain of None rules
― nomar, Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
by groovy i mean songs like this -- the groove is implied, not necessarily heavy drum/bass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XuAMyAcwwY
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
^^i found a new copy of that LP in the discount bin of a local record store that i think is mostly staffed by fans of Beatles imports and which has a Beach Boys surfboard on the wall for 100k. Colleen slipped through the cracks there.
― nomar, Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
captain of none is her best
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 27 October 2017 04:24 (six years ago) link
Haha, weird, I scored Captain of None from a discount bin, too. While wandering through Maine. Great record.
― dronestreet, Friday, 27 October 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
The new album is really something else. For optimal results total silence is required (in/around the house and in the mind), boy... It's gorgeous. Like swimming with dolphins. "Summer Night (Bat Song)" is the center piece, the be all and end all, both literally and metaphorically. It's one of the harder Colleen lp's to get drawn into, but once she grabs a hold and pulls you under, there's a world down there you couldn't have dared to dream. So beautiful.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 13 November 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
It's quite minimal isn't it, with subtle shifts. I really like it, but *so far* not as much as the gorgeous Captain of None.
― giraffe, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
It's very minimal! Echoes of her first couple of albums in that respect, utilising a specific sound and using it very sparsely. Except sound-wise it's totally different from her early days. I'm loving it.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
I'm not getting into the new one, or any of her "happy" albums. I preferred her achingly lonely and melancholy stuff more.
― Entree 3000 (Leee), Thursday, 16 November 2017 00:27 (six years ago) link
https://colleencolleen.bandcamp.com/album/the-tunnel-and-the-clearing!
― giraffe, Thursday, 4 February 2021 09:31 (three years ago) link
'the golden morning breaks' is one of the most heart wrenching records ive ever heard... i want to like the new stuff, but it's too cutesy :/
― maelin, Thursday, 4 February 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
i love captain of none -- it's so subtly groovyi guess i am into happy colleen! i followed her on fb and a while ago she was posting all of these cute outfits she had sewn for herself. little matching tops/shorts. i love her!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 4 February 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
Wait which Colleen albums constitute "happy colleen"??
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 4 February 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link
I like all her albums but the last three (Weighing of the Heart, Captain of Love, A flame a love a frequency) are all exquisitely classic. Are those the Happy Colleen albums?
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 4 February 2021 23:21 (three years ago) link
New album is brilliant.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 21 May 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
^wow, it is. Listened to it while waking up in bed this morning, it's gorgeous and mesmerising. Only faintly familiar with Captain of None, looking forward to catching up with the albums since then.
― willem, Saturday, 22 May 2021 06:24 (two years ago) link
It's really good, but I went back to some of her older, dubbier records and still prefer those
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link
New one is very minimal, which is the mode of hers I like the most.
― The Banshees of Ed Sheeran (Leee), Sunday, 17 September 2023 19:02 (seven months ago) link
These days it seems like I find out about records as often as not by thinking "I wonder if so and so put out an album this year? Oh they did, and I didn't see it anywhere." So I'm looking forward to checking out the new Colleen record today (sorry I missed your thread bump Leee).
https://colleencolleen.bandcamp.com/album/le-jour-et-la-nuit-du-r-el
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:52 (four months ago) link
New Colleen is good but not my favorite. It’s fully instrumental and gets a little samey as it goes. I miss her flat vocals.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:49 (four months ago) link
"I wonder if so and so put out an album this year? Oh they did, and I didn't see it anywhere."
Yes, this feels familiar to me!
― djh, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 18:37 (four months ago) link