The Soft Pink Truth - Do You Party?

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I'm mildly surprised there hasn't been a thread on this yet (correct me if I'm wrong)... but I went out and bought it today after accidentally stumbling upon Marcello's Church of Me review. Not really sure what to think at the moment... so you lot - sublime microhouse/electro fusion or awkward fannying around that doesn't groove quite as much as it should do? Discuss.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Funkiest album since Mr. Oizo's Analog Worms Attack.

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

sublime microhouse/electro fusion. me likee

― Ben Williams, Monday, 17 March 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i was going to say something but there's something so final about JoB's post

― zemko (bob), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Does that mean you're in agreeance, Zemko?

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

um, am i missing "the funk" here? sounds like typical glitch-click stuff with a bit more "playfulness". (the vanity 6 cover is pretty good, tho.) all these wire reviews and such playing up the mutant disco/ze sound connections are really overstating the case.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 17 March 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't think "the funk" is particularly why i like it... i think the funk is there more as an abstract reference point than an actual force... (which is still more funk than most glitch-click has)... it does have nice chunky bass noises tho...

― Ben Williams, Monday, 17 March 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

When I say "funk" it's those bass noises I'm talking about.

(i havent actually heard all of this yet, but Im really looking forward to it)

― Adam A. (Keiko), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

it's nice, potentially a grower a la the N*E*R*D record, which I didn't quite get at first but grew to enjoy a lot. similarly thin feel that thickens w/repeat listens. still, I'm too far behind on other stuff to give it much attention, something also true of far too many records right now.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I was expecting way more funk, given all the talk: much of it just sounded as if he'd done with house and electro the sort of thing Prefuse did with hip-hop, only without the cohesion or solidity or grooviness -- i.e., more glitch-listening than body-affecting movement. I still quite liked it, though, despite spending much of the first listen being surprised that it wasn't at all what it'd been billed as. So I imagine I'll be reasonably fond of it in the end.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 17 March 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

JoB no. i'm not sure what i meant to be fair

if they'd left it at two 12"s, then classic. flinging it all onto one cd forces it to be something it's not, and if anything serious repeat listens weaken the case. who are they trying to appeal to?

'funk' is such a lumpen word. it's glitches are, um... wittier than yr average

― zemko (bob), Monday, 17 March 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

the vanity 6 thing was really fun but kind of a shame in comparison with the incredible original

― zemko (bob), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

haha why are the only decent things about so many wire-friendly beat records this year vanity 6 tributes/covers?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

there's another?

― zemko (bob), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i was thinking of the only decent track on beauty party

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah yeah. i'd forgotten about that fucking album already

― zemko (bob), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone know if the Soft Pink Truth full-length is out in the U.S. yet?

― david allen, Tuesday, 18 March 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Can we turn this into a Soft Pink Truth vs Data 80: FITE!!! ?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i agree with nabisco, jess, etc - the wire made this sound like a really groovy record, but it's just standard microhouse stuff from what I can tell. It's decent and all, but Drew's Dry Hustle 12" was better.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

is Data 80 the same as Hakan Lidbo?

― Nik (Nik), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

also - doesn't Drew Daniel write for The Wire?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I have the "Soft Pink Missy" 12" from a while back, and that is the good stuff (exactly 50%) is really really good..

apparently Drew Daniels made the album/tracks when Herbert dared him to make a house album.

I was really looking forward to getting the album; the good stuff on the 12" is glitchy deep n'low cutup house music, with lots of vocals messed with, and kinda Prefuse 73 doing house music.

― Nik (Nik), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

is the album out in the u.s. yet!? i looked at other music in nyc but i couldn't find it!

― mark stanley, Tuesday, 18 March 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I love this record! There's not a trace of po-facedness on it and the funk is fake, but that's part of its appeal (to me anyway and some (all?) of the basslines are undeniably ass-shaking and twisted). The Data 80 suggestion is pretty prescient as this album sounds like it comes from the same desire to move glitchy laptop music into more accessible territory. Maybe it's the American version of the Digital Disco? But I think it's macrohouse, baby. :)

The video for Promofunk is here.

― disco stu (disco stu), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, Data 80 is Hakan Libdo...

― disco stu (disco stu), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

really really overrated. drew can micro edit but he doesn't have the funk. oh - cite me the easy pickins bassline on big booty bitches if you like but seriously - like you yourself couldnae have come up w/ something as good? - you could! the guy does NOT KNOW how to do PROPULSION. this is stilted science music pretending to be cute and FAILING. it is a very painful listen to these ears

― bob snoom, Tuesday, 18 March 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

1 Everybody's Soft: that's a funky bassline
2 Gender Studies: funky guitar and even funkier bassline
3 PromoFunk: cut-up funky
4 Make Up: not funky but it is a Vanity 6 cover
5 Coat Check: gets funky at 3'27''
6 Soft On Crime: OK, this is not funky
7 Satie: reasonably funky, considering
8 Soft Pink Missy: some funky synths
9 Big Booty Bitches: I don't care what you say that beat is funky
10 Over You: a little bit of funky vocal science

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

if you got funk you got style

I may buy this afterball, JoB

― Nik (Nik), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Styling all the while, that's right.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I picked it up for a couple of quid. It's nice listening but hasn't been demanding repeat plays. I don't think it has 'the funk' or anything like that but neither have I.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I'm with Jess on this one - I now like it very much, but I still feel as if the whole groove aspect has been overstated. I was expecting something more along the lines of MRI or even Akufen. That said, a lot of the glitchy stuff is lovely (there are some fantastic wibbly squelchy noises going on there), but it does annoy me somewhat whenever you hear a great groove appear and then the track wanders off in a "let's see what's over here..." manner before it really has a chance to get going.

Big Booty Bitches is marvellous though.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

funk is unnecessary. like comic relief and pizza.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 18 March 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Marcello there are two things wrong with that statement.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I count three.

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Pizza is desirable though, as is funk. I don't think anything is necessary. Comic Relief is just kind of meh.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

funk is undesirable. like rugby league and sharps bins.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

What about rugby union? And what's a 'sharps bin'?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

apparently they are also things afraid of the middle of their bodies

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

Anyone care to revise their opinion of this album? Tom -- if you're still not impressed, post the CD to me and I can see if I like it ;-)

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

it's still crap.

― jed (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

the idea that funk is unnecessary is still crap

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

well it is on a "funky" album. *shiver*

― jed (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i like it

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

so, has anybody heard the new one?

― manuel (manuel), Friday, 1 October 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Gender Studies" was great.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 1 October 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Funk is unavoidable, actually. The Runaways just got funky w/out even meaning to (I suppose) towards the end of this 5 and a half minute powerballad, after all.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 1 October 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

CHUCK EDDY? WTF?

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Friday, 1 October 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

This is such lurker bait. You should be ashamed for yourselves.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 1 October 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Drew

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 1 October 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It's possibly one of my favourite things this year, actually. For 'Do They Owe Us A Living?' alone

― DJ Mencap0))), Friday, 1 October 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I finally stumbled across the Soft Pink Truth remix of Bjork's "It's In Our Hands." I generally don't even like Bjork, but this track is huge. A++ / Search.

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

This new one is *amazing*. Admittedly I don't know any of the originals, though. I'm surprised it isn't being talked about more.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Die Kreuzen! Good lord.

― Andy K (Andy K), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

the L VOAG cover is fuckin brilliant. yay drew.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 8 October 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

just heard it, i like it!

― manuel (manuel), Monday, 11 October 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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