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Krakken is beautiful.

― mountain person, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm in the US, is this out here yet? where can i buy it online?

― shaky, Friday, 10 February 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I order it off Amazon.co.uk. I wouldn't suggest purchasing it unless you really want to support SFA's label. The packaging is pretty spartan.

― enjoy bell woods, Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

I've given this about four listens now and it's really come alive for me. I'm kind of surprised it wasn't discussed more last year, but I guess not too many people have really heard it have they?

― Billy Pilgrim, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Omni?

― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i miss that magazine

― latebloomer, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

It seems like something a lot of people on the board would really like if it weren't automatically associated with SFA.

The natural audience for a record like this would seem to consist of (a) people who already pride themselves on not listening to guitar music and (b) people who want to listen to music that people who pride themselves on not listening to guitar music like. Alas, the SFA connection is likely a turnoff for both of those cohorts -- to paraphrase Homer, you don't win cred with '90s bands' electronic side projects.

It's a great record, though, so I hope I'm just being overly cynical and people really do find this album and embrace it.

― marc h., Monday, 12 March 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a good album, though I'm not sure it's quite excellent. I can't expect too much out of Cian since it seems like SFA is working on a new album the second they release a new one.

I think Omni is just as good as that one Isolee album, but I don't think Placid Casual (the label) or Cian really have high expectations for a project that's been around since SFA formed.

Cian is capable of some amazing sounds. I hope he and SFA can explore that aspect further on future releases.

― enjoy bell woods, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I'm an SFA fan so I don't fit either of those cohorts, but I wasn't in a huge rush to listen to it because "electronic side projects" don't seem like the best investment of time full stop. But this is pretty good. There are several tracks where the Super Furry connection is apparent, but a few, like Krakken, where you would never know. Those latter few are actually my favorites.

― Billy Pilgrim, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

― Billy Pilgrim, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I just put on Krakken to test out my assertion and those drums and keys are totally SFA-sounding. Never mind, but I still like it.

― Billy Pilgrim, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

"Bowl Me Over" was a great single, perhaps better than the last couple SFA singles. There's one track on the album that begins with the same music as a track on Mwng.I believe this was the fabled SFA techno album that never saw release.

― enjoy bell woods, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

My AMG review -- a nice little album, I should dig it out again.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I really want to hear this, but for all the wrong reasons. :(
I thought that one single was garbage and the cynic in me doesn't believe a WORD of the claims made for this....

Um... YSI?

― fandango, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

except Ned's words, which make it sound nowhere even close to Isolee or Ellen Allien(wtf?)...

― fandango, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

The single is the only poppy track.

― enjoy bell woods, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J33Zb0G1zh4

― enjoy bell woods, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I wasn't in a huge rush to listen to it because "electronic side projects" don't seem like the best investment of time full stop

Billy, I think you've just explained the lack of buzz about this record much more succinctly than I did above! (hangs head)

― marc h., Monday, 12 March 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

hey... thanks for that youtube link! :)

it does sound... exactly like I'd expect it to have, no offence intended, there seems to be a severe disconnect of sorts between the descriptions/praise coming from SFA fans and those from more (to me) trustworthy, objective sources. They're all saying it's good mind you! but I'll stick with my instincts here (sorry)...

― fandango, Monday, 12 March 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Great album indeed. Nice and twisted. Was totally unaware as to the SFA connection (apart from the obvious title)!

Just got The Aliens album as well, "Astronomy For Dogs" (former beta Band member's new release). Haven't listened to it yet, but looking forward to it.

― Rikard Fortworth, Monday, 12 March 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I put another song from this album up this morning if you feel like having a listen.

― Billy Pilgrim, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

THEY STOLE MY BAND NAME! BEFORE IT WAS A BAND! DAMN THEIR EYES!

― Jamie T Smith, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link

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