Daphne and Celeste

they're good tweets, Brent

The gig was great, if you get a chance to see them then see them, they are fucking delighted to be on stage, and they light up the stage, and they are as good at the new stuff as the old (and BB is a complete banger live) and bizarrely as good at the old stuff as the new.

kinda clear that Tundra is trying to get these ladies on the radio again

I like what I've heard a lot but if so he's doing a really shitty job in both sound and marketing

yea it'll be interesting to see if this thing gets any hype at all. D&C are a bit *too* obscure at this point. I guess that's the whole point though.

I was at that gig too Andrew! Scruffy bloke stood to the side, you probably remember me

Happy Easter, pop fans!

Album is so good. The run from A.L.T.O. to Golden Doldrum in particular.

yeah it's great!

I pre-ordered but no deliveries on good Friday.

Are you guys all gay?

That's the only justifiable excuse I can think of for middle aged men going to Daphne & Celeste shows in 2018.

good post

Think it might be the shittest trolling I've seen on here, well done there FB.

Or JB

Or BB

Or FP

a lone bottle of piss has been flung o to the daphne and celeste thread

and yet...the music plays on

Got my record just now. It has a cover of kandy korn by Captain Beefheart! It has an alternate sleeve, and i think I prefer the original...

damn, he got me, I'm a middle-aged gay man

Enjoying this album greatly.

this is so good

if andy partridge had written 'song to a succulent' i reckon he'd have been quite proud

Max making me so proud

^^^the third part of this great comeback

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/39358/1/daphne-celeste-review-year-2000-pop-hits

Looking back, though, I think the most exciting thing playing shows around that time was there was a real run-in between Stereophonics, Travis, and Coldplay. No one could tell which one of those very similar bands was gonna come out on top. I’m still surprised Coldplay won that one, I thought it was gonna be Travis.

Album is so good. The run from A.L.T.O. to Golden Doldrum in particular.

― Jeff W, Friday, March 30, 2018 2:44 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That does the last three tracks a disservice! And I think BB is awesome. Which leaves only Sunny Day as less than perfect, but it's still lovely

cant stop listening to Song To A Succulent.

a.l.t.o. to taking notes is a great run... 16 stars and paint can especially. still not into bb; weird that the two more leaden tracks were the lead-off singles (though i like you & i alone, moreso in album sequence)

main complaint is how their voices are euthanized into anonymity. bothers me a little less if i just think of it as a max tundra record with other voices on it. same with with the lyrics which i've already gone on about.

it's pretty great though :)

little nod to apt 3a at the end of 16 stars?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RI30lDutfw&list=RDuKlU4dscE8c&index=2

try that again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RI30lDutfw

BB haters appear to be ignoring the amazing final minute of the song at the very least. The way the main synth line changes up!

Holy wow, this album is great. And I'm only at BB and reading this thread, and getting really, really excited!

16 Stars! I needed those synths

I was at that gig too Andrew! Scruffy bloke stood to the side, you probably remember me

This doesn't entirely narrow it down, but I understand there was a lot less of that than the average Max Tundra gig. And several ex-ILXors (with mark s)!

I can hear some of the criticisms of the record (though not of BB, whose only fault is that it stops at the point where it was about to really kick off), but it turns out this is the band that pushes me into the tedious "the record is only a crude effort at the songs, the real act is live" camp.

Leland Palmer in the dark!

if I didn't know this was made by Max Tundra I wonder how long it would've taken me to figure out. I'd say about 15 seconds.

linee's post about the two lead singles seems pretty otm to me. the album's way better than I would've guessed given those two tracks. nothing against them, they work quite well in the context of the album, but the wonkybonkers stuff like "ALTO" and "Alarms" is what I signed up for

thank god for this album

otm

"hyperventilating in the factory of sound"

critical indifference to this is predictable and irritating

it's really good; I feel like the critical indifference is mostly because it took so long since "You and I Alone"

surprisingly this actually gets better over time. love how it's a throwback not just in the traditional way but also in a stranger sense where it sounds like it's from an era when pop records were eccentric and strange. think "16 Stars" is my favorite track now. I love that "you could almost pretend to/see I'd always defend you" refrain

I really do love this album.

:)

it's 2018 and daphne and celeste have an album that lj cares about, what a world

it's an amazing record tbh but it's as much max tundra's big pop move as anything

yea I didn't know if it was gonna hold up after a few listens but it actually kinda gets better the more you know the songs

Yeah, I wasn't completely sold on this the first few listens, but I've really come round to. It's making a great summer soundtrack right now. I ended up ordering the vinyl as the prices have gone right down on Amazon/eBay. It was $11 including shipping which is an absolute steal.

BTW, does anyone know anything about CSS stuff for reddit? I have r/daphneandceleste - I made it ages ago, but have never done anything with it. So if you have a clue about that stuff...

this album is like if yasutaka nakata produced an xtc record so i have no idea how i didn't get into it when it came out