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Out January 27th. Michel Colombier wrote strings. Here's the tracklisting:

Venus
Cherry Blossom Girl
Run
Universal Traveller
Mike Mills
Surfin On A Rock
Another Day
Alpha Beta Gaga
Biological
Alone In Kyoto

I am so very anticipatory.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope to hear this soon.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa - I just realized they named a track "Mike Mills". Mike Mills? How funny would it be if it was the R.E.M Mike and not the designer/filmmaker Mike?

Anyone know what the direction is on this record? The last one was all about reviving old digital instruments for their sound, as opposed to the Moogs and Solinas of Moon Safari . Have they gone Glitch? Country? Guitar heavy?

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Matos has heard it and sez it sounds more goth/less cheese, which is more than all right by me!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope the songs are shorter and have better hooks. I liked 10,000 Hz Legend but I rarely listen to it because it exhausts me.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Matos has heard it and sez it sounds more goth/less cheese

Right on! + no "special guest stars", I presume? Also can't wait to hear how Nigel Godrich's involvement has affected their sound.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 17 November 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Nigel Godrich! I'm going to like this album.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 November 2003 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i hope they do another 4 cd essential mix to promote the new one. i love love love my "decks safari" bootlegs to death.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 17 November 2003 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

on the other hand - "mike mills"? the last thing graphic design needs is more props. i'd like to complain more about the daft titles but hey, i liked "wonder milky bitch" (the song, not the title).

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 17 November 2003 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

this has just inspired me to play 10,000 Hz Legend. I still maintain that the middle section of 'Radian' is some of the most beautiful music ever.

I'd forgotten about Air; I'm now very excited for this!

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 17 November 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Is the title a reference to a Serge Gainsbourg song?

I can recall him using the phrase in a song "New York...." I think.... anyway it's on Colour Cafe... a collection of the great Serge's early 1960's stuff. (Think lounge-y with Django-ish guitars.

― jayque, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Wouldn't it be nice if, in the year after 'freedom fries,' a French pop group made an album which wasn't 'the most gothy dance French pop group album ever' or 'the gothy dance French pop music desensitizer'?

I will cheese up gothy dance French people with a bunch of, oh, well, nevermind, bad joke I s'pose.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha!

I copped an advance. Listened to it once when it was sunny out and didn't feel much. I'll listen to it again now that it's quarter to two.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha! I copped an advance.

Why youuuuu!!!

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i figure it's going to sound like the Colder album (aren't they also French?)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

It's now possible to find it on Soulseek.
Listening to it right now, seems pretty good, a lot more digest than the latest one, and also very dark...

― snowballing from paris, Thursday, 27 November 2003 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

it's excellent. before this I'd only heard the virgin suicides score (brilliant, but uneven as an album), and some of the singles (which I liked alright, prolly need to hear them again though since I can't remember them). talkie walkie is currently blowing my mind. plus one of the songs (alone in kyoto) is in Lost in Translation which I'm currently obsessed with, so that helps :-). Oh, and as for the title, "Talkie Walkie..." um, that's jsut how they say "walkie talkie" in france. :-D

as for the sound... hmm, there's one song that sounds exactly like this one radiohead song (off Kid A I think...), some of the other songs approach Virgin Suicides-era Air, although it doesn't quite get there. Hmm I'm on the track "biological" right now, and there's a banjo! yeah, i dunno, jsut go dl it! http://canna.freeweb-hosting.com/airpromo.htm

― digidistortions, Sunday, 30 November 2003 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

only heard it the once yet it sounds mighty fine to me.

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Sunday, 30 November 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

it's also on @ suprnova.org (torrent) full album. Talkie Walkie has to be a Serge reference, surely.

― kinski (kinski), Sunday, 30 November 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

This album is amazing. Really. Lush, robotic, melodic, weird but not scary and barren like the last one.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

it's also got lots of tunes you can whistle along too, which is nice

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

they've gone Air!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

it's really pretty

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

it goes without saying this is a k-great makeout record

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

it totally is. it's also a perfect simulation of what it's like to be on painkillers after a major operation (this is meant as a compliment really)

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

damn. can't wait to hear it!

I was thinking that maybe "Talkie Walkie" was a reference to or using "Verlan" (sp?), the French slang in which syllables are juxtaposed (verlan = á l'envers). Maybe one of the french posters (Jourbon!) knows if this is the case?

― willem (willem), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

No, this is how you normally say it in France. For some reason, the words are inverted.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

l'academie frenchfries

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i've only heard it once so far but it sounded pretty great. when "venus" started my jaw dropped, i really really like that track (though i've only heard it 1.5 times). i put it on during dinner so i didn't listen to the rest as closely but i bet some of it's just as good.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 5 December 2003 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

god I'm lovin' this! amazing headphones-on-the-late-night-bus album!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaaargh!! How can Ihear this NOW ?!!?
(explodes)

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

what it's like to be on painkillers after a major operation

when i had my wisdom teeth cut out of my head last year i spent three days in bed, gobbling pills, drinking milkshakes and listening to 10khz legend and Dark Side of the Moon. it was maybe the best three days of my life.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 5 December 2003 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Cherry Blossom Girl" is very Kevin Shields sings the Beatles, which is pretty cool.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 December 2003 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to know what Dave Q thinks

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

'Alpha Beta Gaga' clears bad moods in an instant. Silly yet sublime, with that whistling melody (& handclaps & banjo & strings...yep). 'Venus' and 'Surfin on a rocket' also are the bizznizz.

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

'Surfin On A Rocket' reminds me of Opal.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Vahid,

Exactly! When I had my wisdom teeth out, in a percoset haze, I absorbed 10khz legend and BoC's Geogaddi.

blissful memories!

― paul c, Friday, 5 December 2003 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"run" sounds a bit like a damaged cd of 10cc's "i'm not in love" sticking and repeating again and again. in other words, quite fab actually.

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Saturday, 6 December 2003 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaaargh!! How can Ihear this NOW ?!!?

wait a fe months and youll be hearing it in every bar, shop, restaurant and mates house you go to. I just heard "run" - it has 5 seconds of good gong sounds at the beginning.

― jed (jed_e_3), Saturday, 6 December 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I just heard "run" - it has 5 seconds of good gong sounds at the beginning.

ok. 5 seconds of gongs?!!? Record o' my dreams, perhaps? I truly can't wait to hear this. plus I just received an Astralwerks press e-mail that says the first run of cd's will come with a 35 minute DVD. What what?

Now, if they would only collaborate with Guy-Manuel and Thomas, all the planets would align and wars would end.

(sorry. li'l drunk n' sleepy)

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 6 December 2003 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Cover art:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00013RC9I.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

What the hell is the deal with all the algebra, the leather gloves, and the JC Penney catalog poses?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 6 December 2003 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

that's not algebra, johnny, that's calculus

― geeta (geeta), Saturday, 6 December 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

note several notations of d/dt up top: they are masters of differentiation

i like it: besides, guys who are into math are totally, totally hot

― geeta (geeta), Saturday, 6 December 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

s1utsky, what app did you use to "borrow" this? Fuck this mac shit!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 6 December 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

bit torrent baby! it's changed my life!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 6 December 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't figure out how it works. Convert me (maybe on another thread).

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 6 December 2003 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

it's simple once you figure it out--I'll explain it for ya soon

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 6 December 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

that's not algebra, johnny, that's calculus

Calculus? I never made it that far in math. I barely squeaked through Algebra II.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 6 December 2003 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

that cover is fantastic.

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 6 December 2003 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

If I knew any girls who thought math was hot I so would have taken calculus in high school (instead I underachieved and took "discrete math" senior year). I cold rocked Alegbra II (though I'm worthless geometrywise).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

easy there tiger

― jones (actual), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

woah sorry

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I downloaded it and I think it's okay. It took the last one awhile to click with me too, so I look forward to falling in love with it. The cover art makes me want to love it even more. I'm getting a C+ in finite math. I think that's pretty impressive.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

(sorry anthony i was only fooling around)

― jones (actual), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

(ditto! I just got a bit excited when I remembered how well I did in that class - a rare occasion)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I kicked ass in finite math! but it was a night class and very weird!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 7 December 2003 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

2 tracks to listen to one here:

http://www.tangmonkey.com/blogs/music/

for what its worth.

this blog is great btw.

― jed (jed_e_3), Sunday, 7 December 2003 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Alone in Kyoto is truly gorgeous; Run is marred by horrible vocals, though that ain't the only problem with it.

― jed (jed_e_3), Sunday, 7 December 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

it also has horrible synth washes.

― jed (jed_e_3), Sunday, 7 December 2003 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"Cherry Blossom Girl" is very Cocteau Twins circa Milk & Kisses

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 7 December 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

*listening to said song right this second* Indeed it is. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 December 2003 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

What proportion of tracks have vocals?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 8 December 2003 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

about half?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 8 December 2003 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i agree that the cover is fabulous.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 8 December 2003 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

the air on the right doesnt look nearly as good as the air on the left

― Vic (Vic), Monday, 8 December 2003 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Finally!

Scored a copy today. Have only heard "Venus" and that alone sounds great. Can't wait to get home, pour a glass of Fernet and
listen to this!

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Revive!
I've been spending last night trying to figure out which big 80s song 'Alone in Kyoto' rips off. But the more I think about it, the further away I get..
Anyway, TW sounds pretty good. They're mostly using the sound & textures of 10,000Hz in a 60's pop context.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

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― mikko (mikko), Friday, 5 May 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

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