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only heard a few songs but it somes off to me as quite twee-py (in a good way)

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 8 November 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago)

get the album.

― doomie x, Monday, 8 November 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago)

What Doomie said

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago)

yup.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago)

it's pretty good

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago)

it's just ok

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago)

it's as if margo tenenbaum had a sister and they started a band; if keren ann was from the upper east side went to art school & dropped out; if the langley schools kids had been forced to cover songs from sebadoh's first album & memphis minnie albums instead of the eagles & neil diamond; etc.

― stokely, Monday, 8 November 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago)

it's one word - Cocorosie.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:33 (twenty years ago)

it's ok for a few songs at a time.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:34 (twenty years ago)

i got through waves...
i hated it at first
then for a while i was really into it
now i struggle to get through one song
voices are a "you have to be in the right mood" kinda thing i guess

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago)

"you remind me of baseball, tow-trucks and movies"

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago)

rentboy pretty otm. I thought it was pretty great the first few listens, and then it suddenly became irritating. It's worth a couple listens, I guess.

― Lingbert, Monday, 8 November 2004 23:36 (twenty years ago)

I could barely make it through one listen -- they're just too precious for me.

― JC-L (JC-L), Saturday, 13 November 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago)

You really need to be in the right mood for it - it's very summer, dreamy, crackle of one voice against smooth of another, little found-object sounds, oddly claustrophobic and secret-language-y. A few songs feel self-indulgent, saw them live & were kinda un-good because so much of the charm of the album is in how it's recorded and, er, stuff. But I definitely like.

'by your side' is fucking gorgeous.

― cis (cis), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago)

that was 'like & recommend' obv.

― cis (cis), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago)

i think it's intercapped.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago)

by your side = oh my god!!!!

― piscesboy, Thursday, 18 November 2004 13:02 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

somebody who thought i'd like this made me a copy last week - for the most part, it really is pretty much unbearably precious, though 'by your side' with it's DIY kanye-isms (= chipmunk soul and clicky clacky drums) is rather cute and track 7 (i think that's the one) is a very very pretty guitar instrumental with toy motor car noises on top (that remind me a little of the motorbike samples on that one disco inferno song). but as for the rest - this is what happens when you let your kids lick the icing off the bowl.

― jermaine, Saturday, 19 February 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

i heard about them from friends in paris. they're in paris too, right?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 19 February 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Actually, it's great.

― stupid fuckign carpet thing (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

i was listening again the other day, it does have its moments.

― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

but is it cool that 2 white girls use racial slurs in their songs? not really

― breezy, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

It was cool when Patti Smith did it.

― stupid fuckign carpet thing (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

and...errr, Nina Gordon!

― stupid fuckign carpet thing (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

racial slurs? i suppose i havent been listening v closely at all.

― jermaine (jnoble), Thursday, 14 April 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

isn't that a traditional song that they covered though?

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 14 April 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

someone so needs to remix/re edit/ rearrange BY YOUR SIDE so that, say, the verse and the chorus arent actually over one another at points, and they could have a number one with that thing.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 14 April 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

yeah, which song has the slurs?

― Lingbertt, Thursday, 14 April 2005 07:34 (twenty years ago)

the third track

― stupid fuckign carpet thing (nordicskilla), Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

it's traditional racism though.

― stupid fuckign carpet thing (nordicskilla), Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

the album was in my top 5 of 2004, for definite. Absolutely weirdly compellingly lovely. And they're interesting live, too.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

it may be them covering a song, or it may not be either way, it's more offensively lame than straight up offensive, but I know people that have taken offense to it

― breezy, Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

hmmm... why is it offensive? i wouldn't expect this reaction here. i mean, i guess it's possible, but it's not very likely that they are racist, is it?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

it's presumtuous I think

― breezy, Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

i quite like "noah's ark" and the "ohio" cover (i haven't heard the original, maybe it's better, prob not). sure, the same one formula for everything - shittily recorded backing beats + affected 'folk' twang + yearning, but it's quite relaxing working music

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Just saw them live and I have to say that I wish I didn't like their music, because the degree of overwhelming artifice that they front triggers every rock crit issue I have. For fuck's sake, they had a dvd playing a kaleidoscoped Care Bears movie in the background while a guy from Paris beatboxed and girl 1 played the piano with bare middriff howled operatic arias and girl 2 did that downsouth Anticon drawling hiphop. And yet, the music sounds good. From now on, I stick to the album.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

I have to stop posting now as I have a light buzz and I'm being roughly incoherent.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

no, no, that was very clear. like a really bad trip. the only thing missing was yoko.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

Okay: I wanted to like this, but I absolutely, nails on a chalkboard am bothered by it, the skygreen leopards are precious and ethereal, but really beautiful. This just. Listens souless.

― Feminine HI GENE!, Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

have they a new LP out?

― piscesboy, Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the 'Noah's Ark' LP.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

forks. i love how you are calling them out. they have MEGA TUDE too.

― breezy, Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm of the opinion that they're going to be seen as IMMENSELY influential in a few years; they're already starting to snowball in popularity. In many ways, I think a new generation of po-mo Britneys and Xtinas may take the "naive artist route" and a wave of 'Mainstream Art Pop' (with a likely hollow center) may not be too far off in the future.

Me: "Hi, I'm a fan!"
Sierra: "Oh."

Again, I wish I didn't like the music... but that kind of cognitive dissonance is helpful to shake up preconceptions, right? Right?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

i asked them what they thought of people writing them off as a gimmick. they're fine with that, they don't see the big difference between their gimmick and 50 Cent's gimmick. and they're right, the music's good and that's what matters

― rizzx (Rizz), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

i don't mind their music, but i do think they are tremendous bitches, and that doesn't help me like the music, no matter how hard I try and forget it. i also think their "gimmick" is really insincere, and pretentious.

― breezy, Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

they have an attitude, but saying they're bitches is pushing reality. i've interviewed them 3 times and apart from the usual "we didnt know we had an interview" shit they were just nice

― rizzx (Rizz), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I thought their live show in London a couple of weeks ago was immensely entertaining. Personally, I wish i liked their music more.

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

The "tremendous bitches" comment is the nastiest comment on the internet if you google on the phrase "cocorosie are". The next worst thing I could find anyone saying about the Casady sisters is that they're a bit twee. Which I suppose makes Breezy a tremendous bitch.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

The funny thing is that I still like them.
I just don't think I will see them live again, thank you.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 July 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

nastiest comment on the internet? surely you haven't been using it for that long....

― breezy, Friday, 29 July 2005 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

Well, is there some substance behind your remark about the sisters, or were you just in a nasty mood? Isn't this what Popbitch is for? (But even they'd want an actual story...)

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

It's the same deal with Avril Lavigne and Alison Goldfrapp. Every time I see them on TV (or read an interview), I find my ability to unreservedly love the music kicked in the knees a bit. *sigh*

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

I know what you mean, the "4 real" carved into women's arms turns out, all too often, just to be scrawled lipstick.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

In genres like punk, rock, electronica and indie/avant stuff, part and parcel of being a "true woman" seems to be an inferiority-complex-fuelled hyper-attitude. Compare this with exemplars in other genres (Beyonce, Christina, Kylie, Nellie McKay, Norah Jones) and it's pretty darn annoying.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Friday, 29 July 2005 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

wouldn't sharing such an incident be even more bitchy?

just rest assured it's not fabricated

― breezy, Friday, 29 July 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

Who knew?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:17 (fifteen years ago)

Dear Subpop,

I would like to be your new A&R guru. Clearly whoever's at the helm right now isn't working out.

Love,
Johnny F

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:23 (fifteen years ago)

lol @ M0sur0k first-response hall of fame contender

http://www.subpop.com/channel/blog/sub_pop_signs_cocorosie

― HIDEREggerian Philosophy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:24 (fifteen years ago)

HA!

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:25 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/facepalm.jpg

― swag surfer blood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 17:22 (fifteen years ago)

I love this band :(

― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 17:37 (fifteen years ago)

five months pass...

ewww I just heard a song played and liked it...and it was Coco Rosie...

― bloody Health and Safety (admrl), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

"child bride" is not bad

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 15 March 2013 02:59 (twelve years ago)

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