New LP from the Shocking Pinks "Mathematical Warfare"

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I had a big ♥-on for Dance The Dance Electric, and just a year later there's another album. Does anyone know why the hell NZ imports are so blinking expensive?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Aw, crap.
I'll host it myself.

http://www.notempo.com/jpg/pinks.jpg

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

dude,

order it online if you can - it's NZ$27.95 from www.smokecds.com which works out at about US$20 or UKP10 (though I don't know if this makes it expensive!). Oh, you'll have to add postage I guess, tho it can't be too much more. In NZ, new CDs at full price are up to about $35, so it's not a bad price

― Bill E (bill_e), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, in context I guess it is a bargain. Is the cost of living in NZ really that high, or do they tax media items?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

haha, I guess it is that high! Apparently our CD prices are pretty much the highest in the world - I think they wholesale around $20. It's not like they (majors) manufacture many here at all either...

― Bill E (bill_e), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

I thought this was about Neil Young's rockabilly band!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

is one of the brunettes in the shocking pinks?
the brunettes are touring here, woo hoo. with the shins, blah, but i can always leave early.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

nick hodgson (aka nick harte) used to be the pinks drummer for a while. he's also the guy behind (tony valens and) the incisions, the cm ensemble and has been a big part in a ton of local christchurch bands.

haven't heard the new album yet, despite being a friend of nick's, but 'sway' - the limited edition cd-r he put out earlier in the year was quite cool, i hosted a track from that on my blog last week (its still up) - http://thebigcity.blogspot.com

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

sorry, the brunettes drummer. nick harte basically IS the Shocking Pinks, Flying Nun signed their contract specifically with him, and he hires Gareth, Tom and Herbert (who also plays guitar for the Leper Ballet, a band i filled in on bass for recently)

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Gareth just sent me a nice email saying that right now they only have distro throughout Australasia, but hope to get the cd to the US and Japan at some point in the not too distant future.

In the meantime, I guess I'll just do mailorder.

Keith, you lucky so and so. I'd love to see the Brunettes live.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

yeah i can't image Festival Mushroom / Universal not jumping on the positive press that Dance the Dance Electric got...

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

we probably won't get he full orchestrette, they probably won't even play denver but it's nice to possibly have something to look forward to.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

so keith, you going to show?

(the reduction agents demos sound like bressa creeting cake!)

― etc, Thursday, 14 April 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

i saw this band on my brief trip to wellington a couple of weeks back and they were really not terribly good. what is with the bowl haircut dude? he was unbearable.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 14 April 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

also on the subject of the brunettes, re: mars loves venus, why oh why have they distorted the vocals on virtually the whole album??

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 14 April 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

"the" show, bah. which band wasn't terribly good? so many haircuts to choose from! a brunettes-fan friend of mine tore his hair out re: the production on MLV, but I haven't actually heard it.

(btw, you were in NZ? didja stop by auckland?)

― etc, Thursday, 14 April 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

the pinks. i'd probably enjoy their records but i thought their live show was rough (to be fair they were playing a show where the headliners had cancelled and they probably weren't getting paid) and the bowl hair dude was worse than unnecessary.

(yeah i was there for a day when i got there and a day before i left! unfortunately not enough time to do very much...)

i can't compare the production on MLV to their other albums as it's the only one i've heard, but compared to their live show it sounds small and unfinished.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 14 April 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

I thought the Lp was called "Mathematical Fanfare" and was impressed at its BEAUTY/UNEXPECTEDNESS, oh well. "WARFARE"! As overused (just recently) a trope as can be imagined. We live in Nz, we are not at war. We WISH, tho.

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 April 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

I finally heard the lp... a serious step backwards.

And were they recording it in a bathroom? I've made 4-track recordings that sound better than this.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 14 April 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

re: bowl-hair dude - shaking a tambourine? he makes BoC-esque IDM music normally, I think. I don't think they need a frontman, really (or at least, they could get one of the guitarists to sing the tracks N. can't sing & drum simultaneously on).

"mathematical fanfare" is an exquisite phrase.

Johnny - if yr curious, I've got a 26 or so track cd of "b-sides" - stuff recorded after MW (more electronic), stuff from around DTDE, &c&c&c (including a hilariously blatant Jon Brion rip) - I can probably gmail/YSI them if yr curious.

― etc, Friday, 15 April 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

That sounds great, etc. I'd be very curious. If you're on slsk at all, my username is brasstax. Or you could do the YSI.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

i'd like to point out that the majority of mathematical warfare IS 4-track recordings, btw. nick did most of this at home, then spent a week or so adding studio vocals etc...

― chris andrews (fraew), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

the first thing that comes to mind when i think of 'mathematical fanfare' is brian eno's start-up sound for windows

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

x-post x something. I am going to the show. i am hoping the shins don't gouge me too much since i am not going to bother to stay to see them. i don't know about the distorted vocals, i love the album, it's produced differently than the first one just in that it's more dynamic and dense, the first one had that spector-ish template that it adhered to pretty faithfully. may is turning into a great month for shows here with trash can sinatras, brunettes, of montreal and now stereo total.

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Never heard of this band until I checked the DFA site just now (ordering H&LA). New 12", "Dressed to Please" - original is streamed from their myspace, sounds wonderfully claustrofobic. Going by that and the names of the remixers (Deepchord and Nathan Fake) I'm considering getting the 12" - anyone heard the whole thing?

― willem, Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:39 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

I love the DFA "album". What happened to them/him?

― Gukbe, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 21:32 (twelve years ago)

ten months pass...

I love the DFA "album". What happened to them/him?

― Gukbe, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 21:32 (10 months ago)

Putting out a 33-track triple-album on Brooklyn label Stars & Letters, apparently:

https://starsandletters.bandcamp.com/album/guilt-mirrors

― etc, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 22:12 (eleven years ago)

Blimey.

― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 22:27 (eleven years ago)

in spotify as of today.

― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 22:29 (eleven years ago)

ooh this is good so far

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 22:42 (eleven years ago)

(Hey, JF, do you still check the email address you used for the Madonna ballot? I can half make-good on my promise of ~8 years ago, heh).

Really liking this; reminds me more of the first album re: letting collaborators in, and the range.

― etc, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 23:20 (eleven years ago)

It's still active, but I don't check it unless I'm running a poll. My extreme interest has probably waned over the years, but if you get around to sharing that I'd make time to hear it.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 23:24 (eleven years ago)

Done!

― etc, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 00:53 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/shocking-pinks-announces-re-release-debut-lp-world-tour

Aus/China/continental EU + UK/US tour, remastered/released debut album, plus some new singles & videos.

― etc, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 06:40 (ten years ago)

Neato!

Also, belated thanks to etc for the odds & sods comp.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 07:35 (ten years ago)

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