Please talk about: "Buffalo Stance" by Neneh Cherry

does anybody know who directed the Buffalo Stance music video? is it the same person who did this Sinead O'Connor/MC Lyte vid? are there other music videos from this era that are in this style?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W7u7g7oV68

yeah, same guy. he did loads of Sinead videos, from Troy for a decade or so onward. The No Clause 28 video is totally in the same style, as was Neneh's Kisses On The Wind, but in black & white.

the two videos from Jamie J Morgan's solo album might hit the spot for you, too.

(No Clause 28 is by Boy George, and Jamie J is the Morgan of Morgan / McVey.)

I was looking up the genesis of Lara Croft after seeing the new film and the Wikipedia entry mentions that Neneh Cherry was one of the models for her. Which seemed odd.

the links in the second and third paragraph of that review made me get a very late start on actual work today. Now I know tons of stuff about Ray Petri, Jamie Morgan, and The Face magazine.

so dont. you get fresh with me.

No style rookie
You better watch don’t mess with me

Don't remember this thread---great to see the love on here for The Cherry Thing as well as Raw Like Sushi. Saw collection of TCT remixes on discogs; anybody heard those?
I liked The Blank Project Deluxe, which does incl. mixes, though it's overall chilly (in the creepy Ballardian sense, incl. murky allusions verbal and aural) *and* tending to fairly lengthy tracks in medium tempo, that I've never really warmed up to it---overall, but for instance opener "Across The Water," which might be about her kid, got me right away.

I've still got Rip Rig & Panic's I Am Cold and Attitude somewhere---need to dig those up and get more RRP and related:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/27501-Rip-Rig-Panic

This review of Mark Springer's 2017 collection looks promising:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jul/13/mark-springer-circa-rip-rig-panic-review-fascinating-freeform-jazz-that-never-loses-its-way

new song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efTqhft8yCk

produced by Four Tet and 3D of Massive Attack

You can certainly hear 3D's input. Track would have fitted right in on Mezzanine.

new album broken politics out october 19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGrXaPLX0PU

and you may find yourself listening to "Shot Gun Shack"

Great news! Blank Project still one of my faves of the decade.

Out today! Get thee to a record store.

album rules. way more actively pretty than blank project which i'm into

I've got something longer going up soon but I gotta say it disappointed me compared to Blank Project, which now sounds like it didn't just presage this cultural moment but is OF this moment.

I agree with Alfred here. Blank seems more urgent to me and just generally better. I like the new one, just not as much.

I was half-listening to it the other day while reading and the sudden air horn cracked me up

"Natural Skin Deep"? That's one of the good ones. I blasted it this morning.

I like this a lot. Agree about the urgency, it feels altogether more worked over / less spontaneous than Blank Project, but in a way that the instruments (vibraphone!) require. The albums feel like opposites in many ways, or maybe complementary. I feel like something interesting would happen if you played them simultaneously.

It's quieter than Blank Project (and Brad is right about it being "actively pretty") - I was expecting from the pre-release leak tracks an artier version of Homebrew whereas it's more like an artier version of Man: perhaps that album if more of the Tricky collaborations and less of the MOR-gestures had made it on there. It's very dense and layered and involving.

Not enough chatter about this LP. OK, literally everyone good has put out something in the last 2 weeks. Even so.

"Slow Release" is, accidentally or not, a good summation of the whole.

i love “black monday” and “faster than the truth”

A few live tracks from her, at Le Guess Who festival in Holland:

- https://soundcloud.com/leguesswho/sets/neneh-cherry-live-at-le-guess-who-2018

nice, someone posted an aud recording of her in LA a couple months back to dime, i've had it in my "to listen" queue

Hope they record together:

Energized by Neneh Cherry's great set -- with guests Denardo Coleman and @angeltheoracle -- at @BlankForms' benefit. We want more more more pic.twitter.com/CeFS4vxXcv

— David Grubbs (@blackfaurest) November 19, 2021

I'm still trying to get my hands on the stems for this so I can do an hour long Prins Thomas-style extended remix of this song.

Just the outro looped for 15 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1foECnRUuyM

on first listen: completely superfluous but my goodwill toward robyn means it's at least not offensive? no idea why she thought slowing it down was a good idea. somehow this is the first time I realized the line was "no style rookie".

Slowing this down was a ruinous mistake.

Very superfluous. Totally not smokin’.

The only way slowing it down makes sense would be if it was slowed waaaaaaaaay down, like 4 times as slow and turning it into a drone poem

this would be a perfectly fine second b-side.

it's ok but no thanks. i've been caning the original lately. that guitar figure in the coda is one of my favorite things about it.

oh man...

well, i'm listening to the original now. which probably wouldn't have happened today otherwise.

yeah i was excited about this until I heard it.

No slow version could be my lover.

the original is unimprovable but they could've at least tried

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLb3AbgBTbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwbrJDGgu64

I've always loved that bonkers Swamp Thing album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r93bmuogf5s

This song would seem impossible to re-interpret, but then I would have said the same thing about "Accordion"

Cherry Thing was ten years ago!

The Versions, 10 covers, collaborative project of female artists, out June 10, according to Republic Records Media:
Tracklisting:
Buffalo Stance (Robyn feat. Mapei)
Manchild (feat. Sia)
Woman (feat. ANOHNI)
Buddy X (feat. Greentea Peng)
Kootchi (feat. Jamila Woods)
Sassy (feat. TYSON)
Heart (feat. Sudan Archives)
Kisses On The Wind (feat. Seinabo Sey)
Manchild (feat. Kelsey Lu)
Buddy X (Honey Dijon Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT1egmJkP0s

Was excited about the prospect of a new Neneh Cherry album, but I doubt I need this. The Robyn cover, as noted upthread, was meh.