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Heard this track a few times on the radio this past week or so, apparently it's some bods from Roots Manuva's band who have a solo deal, naggingly addictive it is too.

Video is here:

http://www.mtv2europe.com/videos.jhtml

Anyone else liking this?

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

me.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

love em.

interview to appear soon @ usual place.

and if you cant be arsed with MTV branded places
.. then the video is also linked from :

http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/extras.html

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

It's definitely a state of the now pop song, ie, "it's 1985 but it's not."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

the second track on the single is even better though.

this track really grew on me.. it's that synthy bit at the end

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

I think it's quite a risky track despite the pop/electro-y dressing it's got quite gnarly little guitar riffs, and a very loose post-rocky guitar ending.

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

FYI :

fluxblog posted a fine remix of this that was apparently rejected but bloody ace

- the mix was done by James ford .. whoever he is (he's also remixed dapartures newbie into a groovesome beast)

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

I think it's quite a risky track despite the pop/electro-y dressing it's got quite gnarly little guitar riffs, and a very loose post-rocky guitar ending.

Hmm, I guess I don't see that as surprising at all a combination! Not after things like "Sk8er Boi" et al (as for the loose ending, that just struck me as the emo nod).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Makes sense, Departures are another EMI band.

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking mainly about the guitar sections in the verse, without getting to musicologistic, some are pleasingly dissonant.

As for the emo nod, I hear you, it's the context thats interesting to me.

They should do a track with Craig Wedren!

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

Heheheh. That would be amusing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

on the way home from work i remembered .. i posted a track from the bands limited ep from last year !

htt://ireallylovemusic.blogspot.com

like i said .. i kinda think they are fun stuff.

lots of devo influence.

which is lazy comparison i know .. but hey ..

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

doh.

http://ireallylovemusic.blogspot.com

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

hrvatski did a pretty good remix of this track. Not sure if it's 'out in the wild.'

― caspar (caspar), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

is james ford from simian?

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Friday, 15 April 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

ah ha .. i guess it is ..

i wonder - is this a different offspring from the "Simian Mobile Disco" remixes that are knocking about (ie new Fans of Kate new single for example)

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 15 April 2005 08:48 (twenty years ago)

OK, this is ever so slightly great.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 17 April 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

interview posted with the lads :

http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/q_and_a.htm

ta.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm allegedly to review this for Plan B.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

what my interview !??

(soz.)

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

*beats Mark E for no good reason*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

anyone else heard the album yet ?

dangerzone is ace.

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 10 June 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

You guys never even mentioned the damn song title!!

I picked up the Clor "Love + Pain/Magic Touch" 12" from Juno records just because i previewed the Joakim remix and thought it was ace.. then I heard the actual single for "Love + Pain" and was blown away! It's like this extremely dorky indie/Perry + Kingsley electro pop song with weird chord changes everywhere, and then this gateway of pretty guitar icing to early Super Furry Animals style rock chorus bliss.

It's one of my singles of the year.. "Magic Touch" sounds more tedious than "Love + Pain" but Joakim thankfully savages it with his remix. Hrvatski remixes "Love + Pain" and, while I usually like Hrvatski remixes, this one doesn't do the original version justice.

― donut e-g (donut), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

wait till you hear 'outlines'. new single. tis more aceness than i can handle.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 30 June 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

They were amazing at Glastonbury, really brilliant.

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 30 June 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

arse. rub it in. i missed em.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 30 June 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

the only thing that slightly irks me about Clor is the male singer's proximity to the Arcade Fire's singer's timbre (i.e. the Thomas Dolby meets Isaac Brock meets wild turkey "I'm CraAaAaAziLy SiIiInGiNg GoOoOoOble GoOoOoOble GoOoOoOble" thing).. thankfully, it's not really that close.

― donut e- (donut), Thursday, 30 June 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

I loved Love and Pain and I'm really looking forward to seeing them live. It's a funny one Love and Pain - it tricks you into thinking it's less heavy than it is.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 30 June 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

they were really good at Glastonbury yeah, a promo of the new single "outlines" came into work this week, and I promptly took it home, very good, nice remix too on one side.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 30 June 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

I had the one with the Joakim remix but hadn't bothered to listen to the Clor track on it until the last few days!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 30 June 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

as i mentioned above - the album revolves the centrepiece that is 'dangerzone' all the usual clor elements, but with that little extra oomph that just makes me go all tingly ..

surely someone else has heard it by now ?

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 30 June 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

is dangerzone the one with the fairly strong electronic backing? there was one definite standout track at Glastonbury.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 30 June 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

i guess that could have been the one .. it does have a heavy electronic throb thing going on ..

so it wasn't an acoustic set like i saw mentioned prior to the show ? as that kinda put me off trekking over.

bigger arse and shite fuck up by me as per usual. (saturday late afternoon became a strange twilight zone period for me. booze and playlouder were to blame - but that story is for another day)

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 30 June 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

clor are terrible. they remind me of yet another whacky beta band rip off signed to trendy emi's regal.

― doomie x, Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

it wasn't an acoustic set, and it was the highlight of glastonbury for me (though i found pickings quite slim this year).

have you listened to the album, doomie? to me, it sounds absolutely nothing like the beta band.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

the album's ace. and can't wait till i get to see them again in July!

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

its nothing like beta band. devo - yes. beta band - nope.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 30 June 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

and a fair bit of sparks.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 30 June 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

i had the single. i just thought it was really incredibly dull. dull music that wasn't bad but because it was dull it equalled terrible for me!

― doomie x, Thursday, 30 June 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

I'm with Doomie on this. I got the albuma few weeks ago and ym over-riding impression was "cynical EMI post-Junior Boys Beta Band replacement". Can't deal with his voice either. No discernable melodies. Not good.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 30 June 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

how are they like the Beta Band or ANYTHING like the Junior Boys???

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

This album came out today. Great stuff.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

Wide Eyed and Open Mouthed.
You Look a Little Lost and Found.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

"Dangerzone" is my favourite one. the Joakim mix of "Magic Touch" is cool too.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm loving this album.

Do people really think that EMI care enough about Beta Band fans to actively search a replacement. Oh dear.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

Good band, but this album needs a few more listens... I like it, but I have a bit "progrock" feeling with some tracks.
And I haven't found even the smallest similarity with the Beta Band.
Also, please don't mention the Beta Band and the dull Junior Boys in the same sentence.

― zeus, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

it's definately a grower..

liked it at first, but thought there were some duff tracks, now I love the thing

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

if it's a grower i might have to go back but sounded pretty generic on first listen

― rizzx (rizzx), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

I think it's a very good example of a very generic kind of music.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Of the 8 people who are queued up to dl stuff from me at the moment, 7 of them are after the clor album.

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Most of the album is quite impressive. But I don't see the point of track 5, "Gifted," a stripped down indie tune. And track 9, "Making You All Mine" is a bit weak. Tracks 1-4 are just perfect, and tracks 6 and 10 are great Devo-esque kickers.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

hmm. i know what you mean.

the mp3 i posted @ my blog was absolutely hammered.

doesn't anyone buy music in 2005.

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Well the album is only out in the UK, and it just came out on Tues.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

i was glad to see people were interested.

i'm not complaining .. was just amazed at the obvious demand on their songs ..

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

I like the album a lot. It's not a world breaking album, but it has very catchy tunes. Yes! I love it!

― Nicole (StarShine), Friday, 29 July 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Well, track 5 sounds like The Zutons, but apart from that the album is all good to my ears. "Love and Pain" is almost unbearably catchy.

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Friday, 29 July 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

The thing that irritates me is that the very first press release I got about them was wittering on about CAN and Eno, and they sound fuck all like either in any way, aesthetic or spiritual. Plus the guy's voice is fucking horrible. And the production's way too busy and seems to be a distraction method for the lack of songs.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 29 July 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

What do Clor sound like?

I have read this thread but I still do not know.

The Guardian says their gig is the most important of the week.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 30 July 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.clor.co.uk/Vid_Outlines.htm
http://www.clor.co.uk/Vid_LandP.htm

― Nicole (StarShine), Saturday, 30 July 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Devo.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

This album sounds like somebody made the Poster Childen fifteen percent better.

― nabiscothingy, Saturday, 30 July 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

This is some good stuff.

― van der who (van smack), Saturday, 30 July 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the heads up ILM. Along with this thread and Fastnbulbous, I thought I should check this band out.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Sunday, 31 July 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Long overdue, but I got the CD, and it's much much better than I expected... "Love + Pain" is still possibly the single of the year, and certainly the highlight of this album, but -- excepting the kinda pointless "Gifted" -- everything else here is quite fun. The trick is to not skip ahead to the next track even after three minutes.. as these songs just tend to go apeshit when you least expect it.. even it's on the last 45 seconds.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 16 September 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

Between this, the new Cripples album, and the Dudley Corporation's debut album, it sounds like there's plenty of very fun stuff in the "indie rock" category to chew on without having to rely on Benadryl prescriptions from certain major indie music review websites.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 16 September 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

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― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Thursday, 10 November 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

Yes I am. Not you, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

My friend Jamila was a girl named "Unique-way" for Halloween.

I don't know where the fuck I have been, this has completely avoided my radar and I'm loving every single song of theirs.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

They're more Gary Numan than Devo, by the way. And their singer sounds a little Bauhausy sometimes! Their rhythmic ethic comes from the same herky-jerky place Devo's does, and their singer sometimes adopts a staccato kind of yelp that reminds me of Devo, but they're more.. goth than that. Their production is amazing, too, and filled out with extra details in a way that these days I associate with British bands. Are they English?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

There are some songs where I wish the singer really busted out instead of squeezing his voice down in that way he does. Maybe that's the whole "everybody's squeezed so close together in Britain that singers can't get practice really using their voices without fear of being shouted at from downstairs" syndrome that dave q was talking about.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

They remind me more of Severed Heads and Capitol K than they do Gary Numan or Bauhaus, but I can see where you coming from there. I guess having seen one of their videos, there's something more "alien electronic twee" about them.. like a more angular Bis if you will (if we're talking the new wave era of Bis, but with a more nerdy singer)

― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Thursday, 10 November 2005 07:58 (twenty years ago)

And the singer does try and do a falsetto on "Magic Touch" a la Prince, breaking his voice often.. so I think this is just a case of the singer just having an innocently low range. (the rhythm of "Magic Touch" is very much like Meat Beat's "God O.D." or whatever that song samples.. The Joakim remix isn't as much of a departure as I initially thought.)

― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

There's more than a hint of Cardiacs about them too, esp if you see them live, the guitarist is a dead giveaway.

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 10 November 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

album = still ace.

― mark e, Friday, 12 July 2013 17:03 (twelve years ago)

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