Why does Europe love CocoRosie so much?

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unless I already did that, it's kinda late here

― Hans Rott, Friday, 30 March 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

the Natural is fucking classic. Fucking classic.

― max, Friday, 30 March 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

wow, new album only gets a 2.3 on pitchfork. way to go guys, take a BITE out of RACISM

― modestmickey, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:28 (seventeen years ago) link

It's really sad to me that white people always have these "vague" and "complicated" "relationships" with black people, and yet they very rarely live in an area that has a significant black population at all, and probably never will.

― filthy dylan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

^ lol

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Way to generalize, filthy.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

CocoRosie is Pfork's new Joan of Arc?

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

UH doesn't CocoRosie live in NYC

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh, it's not like NYC has a uniformly significant black population. It's plausible that CocoRosie could live in the city 24/7 and avoid any meaningful interaction with people who are not of the hip-oisie.

― mark 0, Friday, 20 April 2007 07:32 (sixteen years ago) link

That pfork review is appalling. "Think Joanna Newsom with shittier pot and nobody to edit her"? Fuck off.

― Ben Boyerrr, Friday, 20 April 2007 07:37 (sixteen years ago) link

fuck you. at least i explained WHY i don't like him. or more specifically his voice. and his shitty film work. what do you got? "randy pwnz, you suck". dillweed.

-- scott seward, Friday, March 30, 2007 11:56 AM (2 weeks ago)

classy

― gershy, Friday, 20 April 2007 07:49 (sixteen years ago) link

It's something like Vitamin C's 1999 Top 40 hit "Graduation (Friends Forever)", only with neighing horses, buzzing synths, and Sierra's operatic soprano instead of Pachelbel-derived orchestral Radio Disney pomp/circumstance.

This sounds fantastic to me. Seriously, I would have bought the album on this quote alone.

But, I've been going to a lot of concerts in Belgium and of the people I've seen (LCD Soundsystem, Andrew Bird, Joanna Newsom, Akron/Family, Deerhoof, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Air) The only band that's been recognised more than once is Cocorosie. And everybody has been very jealous about that one. It was sold out. I mean, as far as I can tell, they're more famous than Air here.

― I know, right?, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:33 (sixteen years ago) link

That quote is from the Pitchfork review btw.

― I know, right?, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:33 (sixteen years ago) link

i've been on the fence because i've thought in the past that they had interesting ideas which at some point they might do something with, but the new album is just so...mediocre, so amateur, so comfortable in its refusal to make any kind of artistic progress, so hokey.

― lex pretend, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Really? I think it has a kind of frazzled eight year old psychedelia that comes over really well.

― I know, right?, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link

I think, rich kids in the attic, awaiting a genuine crisis, making fey and pretty tunes before the deluge. I should know. After the deluge, if they're not too rich to cushion it, we'll see what they've got. In the meantime, cute, fatuousl, smug.

― moley, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:08 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah it has this air of..."sigh. do we need to write a melody here? make an effort to convey anything in our voices? hire a producer? ...nah, whatever."

― lex pretend, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:18 (sixteen years ago) link

Who edits Joanna Newsom? I could do that job.

― braveclub, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link

"Editor-at-large, Joanna Newsom"

― braveclub, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:55 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I quite like the new album. The serious sister's vocals reminds me of one of the female vocalists on the Bows album a lot - and a lot of the music has that same ornate papery trip hop vibe too.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link

and isn't their last name Casady?...(not exactly the Bows LP title, but you get my drift)...

― henry s, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

http://hypem.com/track/550970

― danbunny, Sunday, 18 May 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.concertgebouworkest.nl/nieuws/nieuws-detail.asp?id=355&cnt=3

― danbunny, Sunday, 18 May 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link

ummmm

― RabiesAngentleman, Sunday, 18 May 2008 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah,,umm

― danbunny, Sunday, 18 May 2008 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link

so maybe it's better that Cocorosie at least kinda engage with (their weird blackness issues)

^^^kinda seriously questioning this

― RabiesAngentleman, Sunday, 18 May 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link

engage
enrage
engorge
dislodge
hodgepodge
resolve
implore

― danbunny, Sunday, 18 May 2008 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link

i like th look of some of th orchestra players faces in that dutch video

― danbunny, Sunday, 18 May 2008 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link

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