soft pink truth, castanets, efterklang, ariel pink, tim sweeney, all remixing grizzly bear? wild (another pfork story, i'm on a roll)

this is the safety scissors remix. as i've said on another thread, i have a personal bias with this band, but that doesn't take away from the fact that they're completely brilliant. this mix is a bit more like a cover, though despite the sonic differences from its source material (the original is a moody, murky, sad folky dirge from some future where most of the instruments got broken and there's a constant environmental drone emanating from someone unknown point in the distance, and the vague sad clacking of decomissioned filing cabinets punctuates the rhythm track as the nuclear wind whooshes across the flattened landscape), they are certainly coming from the same place, and somehow arriving at the same place, though at a different time of day, season, year, or maybe in 2 different rashomon recollections of the same event. this mix plays like the sad dance ballad of walter mitty. there's equal parts confusion, anger and sadness in the lyrics, which are surreal and dreamlike in both renderings of the song, but in safety scissors' version they read like the bitchy notes of a tv reporter coming to you live from the scene, as accompanied by a robotic skiffle band at a jazz club on coney island. this remix is easily his strongest since his dntel remix, which it shares much in common with-- all spring loaded action figure beats, slinky stuttering synth bursts and squawking digestive basslines. He has re-recorded the vocals, and sounds like the confident singer he's always threatened to become.
This is possibly my favorite song I've heard all year. If people are interested in this, maybe i'll post the dntel mix too. But these guys are good people and they deserve your hard earned money too, so buy it when it comes out in November.

i just got the castanets one and am a bit dissapointed with that, would have expected more from them

firstworld?

contrary to my earlier post
final fantasy did well

Haven't heard any of these, but I'm surprised to hear that they'd work. My main problem with the album is that it seems to predate their fantastic live show, in kind of a bad way; it's very guy-screwing-around-in-apartment sounding, as opposed to the really clear, precise, well-harmonized stuff they do on stage. So I'm surprised the sound is there to mix with -- I'll be looking forward to their recording something clear and precise and cleaned-up, and hearing that get rearranged.

eppy must be on crack or like fiery furnaces or something

1stworld -- I meant that the track listing I just saw has your music-moniker on it!

I'll wait for the recorded output I think, it'll be easier to focus on the apparently existant song structure, although I did listen to the Safety Scissors remix and was bored out of my mind.

Looks like it was December 2.

i mean remixes are weird, nobody is going to like all remixes
I usually don't

but their live show sounds nothing like it
nothing out yet

have no idea when either

Yeah, that's exactly what my problem is! Seriously: the album sounded okay to me in spots, but mostly just like someone sitting in his living room getting all into his own tape hiss and line effects -- it didn't work so well for me at all. Seeing them live changed this dramatically. So yeah, it seems like exactly the wrong time to do remixes: what we need from them is to sit down and record a really clean, focused-sounding record (as opposed to the "oh, so I've been working on some stuff at home, it's kind weird" record), at which point I think a lot of people will really come around to them.

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=3638

http://www.slate.com/id/2132571/

and then the current issue of the wire compares the band to beatles white album.

that good???