the 1975

i like how matty's all what the fuck even was my existence before the blue nile arrived into my life. which is how we all feel.

fuckin SAME

the top comments underneath the youtube stream of hats right now are all versions of "matty brought me here i'm in love"

doing god's work

i got a little caught up in the whole lewis l'amour thing but then kinda realized you know if this guy could write songs and sing he would be the blue nile so why don't i pull out hats instead?

are those records worth it?

the lewis ones?
yeah kinda, interesting vibe i guess, and the story is cool

the blue nile records are the apex of some kinda 80s mournful staring out a lux apartment ennui

also recommended: escalator in an empty airport

driving Tom Cruise's parents Porsche in Risky Business around the empty freeways around downtown LA at 4am

crying with sandwiches tied to your feet in the absence of shoes

I've never actually listened to Blue Nile before, checking out 'Hats' - dumb name for an album - but this is pretty great. The Lewis stuff didn't grab me, but Gigi Masin reissue, which I loved, was mining a similar vibe (much more ambient obv.)?

'pretty great'

'never heard the apex of some kinda 80s mournful staring out a lux apartment ennui—just streamed on spotify though, decent!'

whoa thanks for the Gigi Masin reference, Wind is terrific!

lol deej u couldve pulled that trigger on a thousand godless vermin over the past week, why poor decent miko

"Hats- dumb name for an album " is killing me in fairness

tbh i think i confused miko with moka subconsciously

i like how matty's all what the fuck even was my existence before the blue nile arrived into my life. which is how we all feel.

― prolego, Friday, January 23, 2015 9:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^

Some things about that interview:

1. My bf thought the interviewer was cute and did a good job (not sure how much the latter pronouncement was influenced by the former). This reminded me that the only people older than us at the last concert was a bear couple in their late forties holding hands and swaying.

2. I think Matt did a fairly good job of explaining their liminal / gateway status between boyband and serious project (which turrican was trying to lampoon upthread). I was worried that his definition of pop was going to veer rockist but I think he was thinking more broadly than his specific explanation necessarily comes across.

3. Would be fascinated to learn whether he wrote "fallingforyou" before hearing The Blue Nile for the first time or immediately afterwards.

tried watching some of that interview but tbrr i dont think i've ever made to the end of any sentence of his

on the plus side tho it did eventually lead me to find this EXCLUSIVE photo of matt and tay togeths omg

http://img1.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/i/s/isx2uh01onbiu20i.jpg?djet1p5k

lol so exclusive I am 403 Forbidden.

bah

http://i.imgur.com/mGHQwtO.jpg

looooooooooool otm

haha yes

'never heard the apex of some kinda 80s mournful staring out a lux apartment ennui—just streamed on spotify though, decent!'

Damn, gotta work on my hyperbole round here!

Srsly though Miko just block out a week of your life to listen to Hats and A Walk Across The Rooftops on earphones while walking through the city, preferably stepping across rain puddles.

I have to admit, I had it on Chromecast running the YouTube stream while I was cleaning the kitchen. This is no way to live.

idk i listened to the lee gamble album like that during a 4am bout of insomnia, it seemed to me like the only plausible way to hear it (havent bothered again since) plus my hob was sparkling after

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-week-in-music-jessie-ware-is-still-pulling-all-the-strings-8970990.html

With Mercury and Brit nominations, Jessie Ware has had a stellar year. The singer is unveiling her latest song, written with the Blue Nile's Paul Buchanan, at the ASOS All-Nighter on 12 December 2013.

was this unreleased or..?

this song is an enjoyable bit of 1975 lite that's tiding me over in the drought

lisbon "native"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZGULuu1KOE

xpost: could it be "True Believers", which is the only unreleased song in the ASOS set online? It sounds like a Paul Buchanan song, too: http://youtu.be/skJp1zAvBFM?t=6m54s

excellent work, thank you

Walk The Moon are such a fascinatingly appalling 1975 rip-off band I can't deal.

thought they'd been around longer

Appalling band rips off appalling band.

still not as bad as ripping off alex in nyc though

for serious though I find this such an amazing car crash of a song / video clip / everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JCLY0Rlx6Q

could swear i'd heard of walk the moon before the 1975 but never had an idea of what they sounded like, so i assume this is bandwagon-jumping

imo this song is fascinatingly evil

i know right.

There's a WTM album that predates the 1975 but IDK what I've heard sounds like they were more post-DFA meets Gypsy & The Cat or something.

They seem really Australian to me? Surprised to learn they're from Ohio.

New album's been demoed.
People wanting a fix, should listen to this, produced by Healy and the drummer from the 1975.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LPNesOJ9KQ

figured someone would share the japanese house song. it sounds really nice, chorus is kind of a mess though

probably bc they're pulling from the same palette but there are some 1975 vibes on the new jam city record

Oooh is that out yet?

listening to the first few songs in this thread and getting real confused by the comparisons i'm seeing. (a better james blake??) 3eb is kinda fair (not debut-level, though, at least not the good songs off that), but for the most part sounds like just about any american apparel model band...what am i missing? someone show me the finesse

i knew them before as the band beloved by k-pop queen ga-in (reason i checked this thread), though...so good for them.

those songs probably aren't the most representative, especially of the EPs which is where that really nice late night Blue Nile vibe is strongest. see fallingforyou and Haunt//Bed for probably the best examples of that. i just wish his voice wasn't so yelpy, it can really clash with that, and sometimes the guitar tone feels just too thin?

Also "Me" which is not remotely yelpy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0xlyLwK7Q

monotony: the jam city record is streaming here http://hypem.com/premiere/jam+city

iirc "a better james blake" was a comparison someone made while talking about "head.cars.bending" so i'd maybe listen to that one

i guess "chocolate" is a pretty accurate portrait of how the album generally sounds, but also not really, what with "talk," "menswear," "m.o.n.e.y."

think the comparisons in this thread are less confusing than representative of the breadth of music this band has recorded, and also the richness even within their relatively narrow john hughes-y stuff

wow Walk the Moon totally sound/look like the Hip™ for Basics version of The 1975

Oh ha, they're mentioned 4 posts into that thread.