Disco Inferno Again

I think I was expecting D.I. Go Pop to be hyperactive, and it isn't (well, on songs like "A Crash at Every Speed" it is, but now as much as I thought it would be...I was expecting a sampledelic Nineties variant of Mark Stewart and the Maffia's As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade, I suppose). If you removed the samples, though, it'd mostly be as calm as Durutti Column's Another Setting (although that album and D.I. Go Pop certainly have moments of intensity).

I finally heard some of the EP songs the other day...makes the album look *gulp* a bit dreary!

Having just heard Technicolour for the first couple times... I'm inclined to say it's the better DI record, the one they were always meant to have put out. Now I love DI Go Pop dearly & the EPs as well, but when you throw those 100% full on pop songs into the mix while keeping the experimental aesthetic of the other albums in tow? C'mon now, this is clearly their best work.

Reminds me of the difference between AR Kane's 69 and i -- the latter is just that much better for its actual songs.

Thoughts?

... am I starting to sound like Geir a bit?

songs and production on di go pop and the eps are just better than whats to be found on technicolour, which is still great. nothing grips me on that album like their other stuff does -- i like DI when they evoke this apocalyptic, frayed-wire sense of the garish ruins of civilization while still managing to find the beauty in the smoldering buses, packs of wild animals, and broken glass

Just bought Technicolour on spec, having chanced upon it and not realised it existed before that moment - already somewhat smitten... (is it really better than DI Go Pop though? Not that many things are.)

i've had 'technicolour' lying around for a while but only got around to listening to it this week. amazing album

Might as well link this on this thread too:

http://crumbsinthebutter.art.officelive.com/DISCO_INFERNO.aspx

reading that font then returning to ilx = o_O