so what of fujiya & miyagi, then?

the vox in collarbone are fucking brilliant!

so british, that pronunciation.

"we only pretend to be japanese"!

it sounds just like ... the bridge of ... some other song from 1993-1995?

Also v british. Don't think anyone else says "jazz mags".

i want to say it sounds like the bridge of a song by heights of abraham ("the cleric"?) but i gotta go home and rifle through the crates

those lyrics sound like rather rote postpunk to me.

THIS ALBUM SOUNDS LIKE 1/3 UNDERWORLD, 1/3 FOLK IMPLOSION, 1/3 NEU

an ideal, then

oh yeah, i really like those fujiya and miyagi tracks that sound like formless 20-minute tape manipulation experiments, spacious jazzy third world jams, furious riffing and tribal pounding and screaming. those tracks.

It crossed my mind, but I'm too scared to now. Vahid, you shake me to my core.

if anybody puts this on a year-end top 10 list i am going to shit my pants w/ indignation.

20-minute tape manipulation experiments, spacious jazzy third world jams, furious riffing and tribal pounding and screaming

WTF are you talking about? This band only exists in the part of your mind that wishes it was a music critic.

tk, are you travis/tk disco. i came up to you at rx gallery and asked if you were gonna play disco.

and I said "hell no".

just kidding

bump!

anyone going to the Luminaire gig tonight?

NYC: free at South St Seaport this Friday eve.

No, but I can't wait for them to come to Electric Picnic, right now the only people ruling my world this much are Junior Boys and buoyed on from the Sonic Youth Poll, Sonic Youth, esp. the Whitey Album and Bad Moon Rising.

This Uh single is driving me crazy too, in a good way.

By the way they kicked ass at this. But they only had a set that lasted forty minutes despite being timetabled for an hour. When they realised the crowd new all the words they actually had to come back on, and do ankle injuries for a second time! It was so cute!

i downloaded some shit off this cuz ppl said it sounded like can & neu & cluster but it just sounds like one of those fuck-around albums that a vinyl toy artist would release on mush records with a sleeve by kid acne

-- and what (ooo), Sunday, January 28, 2007 9:31 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Link

bit contrived, i reckon.

yes, it is. but that's not necessarily a bad thing. i think it's a great wee album.

It's a great album and they're great live.

i still love it.

I love it loads. There's loads of kickass Damo frontin' Stereolab pop singles on the album

I can dig it out at least once a week, and I'll listen to it from start to finish a few times and still love it. I've been listening to it regularly for about a year and I'm still not bored of it. Any of it.

I know!

Anyway, this just in from Pitchfork:

The Brighton trio played five songs from their upcoming record, which they're now calling Light Bulb (apparently it's undergone some grammatical changes since we first reported on it almost a year ago). The band also announced that it will have expanded to a quartet for the new LP (still no word on a release date), having added a drummer ("Lee") to their studio-- and, eventually, live-- lineup.

Which is unfortunate. I can't imagine them without that perfectly streamlined drum machine sound.

Still though, new album!!!!! : )

ho! actually, i think getting a drummer is a perfect second-album progression for them. i can't wait for this.

So, any other news on this?

Suckerpunch is like the best possible version of One More Night ever.

no news then...

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/51224-fujiya-miyagi-turn-on-ilightbulbsi-on-new-album

well, yes then, actually news

I heard some new tracks last weekend at Melt! festival. They played a few songs with the new drummer, and the set was awesome. "Knickerbocker Glory" is a great new song.

Saw them at Mezzanine in SF, a small mostly electro club. Great setting for them - I was drunk, they played loud, and it was fun. I also love their album and new stuff, as unvaried as it is. Very, very enjoyable.

fujiya, miyagi, ooo I wanna take you
to bermuda, bahama, come on pretty mama
key largo, montego, baby why dont we go

skygreenleopard, you musta been drunk because mezzanine is anything but small

Lightbulbs is hella tyte so far

i saw the ghost of lena zavaroni

So this baby's out, isn't it?

Homogenic. Trite. Not as good as I'd expected it to be. Dissapointing really... after a very good step last year.
Same goes for Destroyer and Islands.

Not as good as I expected, not as varied and the lyrics don't grab me quite the same way, Nickerbocker is the most notable exception there though. It's still pretty great and I'd be happy if Stereolab produced something like this at this stage. When I saw them play about a year ago, they didn't have enough songs and had to play Ankle Injuries again.

Their singer sounds a whole lot like the Flight of The Conchords guy, no? I can't stop thinking about that when I listen to the album.

Okay, you've just ruined this band for me.

Not being an arsehole, I don't really know anything about FOTC, so I'm not judging them, just that I really don't like that implication.

Ugh, I knew I disliked his vocals for a reason.

I really really really liked the album artwork for it (been seeing it everywhere) but was v. disappointed when I listened to the tracks on the MySpace. So the album is a no-go, then?

Well, if you didn't like it, I would imagine so! The other one took ages for me to get into. I got obsessed with Ankle Injuries, still their best song I think, and gradually came round to the rest of the album until I really loved it. Give Ankle Injuries a decent try and if not, then I'd say they're not really for you.

Lyrics are too easy to hear I think, I preferred it when you just got these snatches of words, photocopier or heterosexuals, really odd words for pop songs. Pitchfork review for transparent things was really good, I remember.

Well, it's frustrating because I don't have anything by them. But about six months ago, I was having dinner at a bandmate's house and we had last.fm on in the background, and this great minimal motorik stereolabby sort of song came on - I remember clicking it (bookmark or love or whatever) to check it out in the future.

And then of course forgot about it, and now that band have sacked me so I have no way of accessing their last.fm to find out who it was.

All I remember was that the name of the band was "X and Y" where x and y were Japanese sounding names. So this totally fits the bill, except the songs I heard on MySpace sounded nothing like what I remembered the song I heard sounding like.

I shall have to look for this "Give Ankle Injuries" track to see if that was it.

Not being an arsehole, I don't really know anything about FOTC, so I'm not judging them, just that I really don't like that implication.

― I know, right?, Tuesday, September 16, 2008 3:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the implication that a band sounds liek a band you don't know anything about is enough to ruin it for you??

No, I know what they sound like, radio and such, I just meant I'm not saying "well I can't like it if it sounds like that shit" type of stupid post. I just thought it came across that way. But, the joking sleazy thing is really naff if you stick it into this.

Sounds fair enough to me. FOTC are so godawful that you don't have to know anything about them to have them ruin anything that gets compared to them. But, yeah, Moka's right above. Album is a complete let down and snoozer. Transparent Things did take me some time to get into but after a few listens to the new one I don't even think I'm going to bother.

Pickpocket is really annoying.

It's really good this album, but there was something vaguely magic about Transparent things.

probably a dumbo question, but the chorus on sore thumb-- that's from another song, right?

so does nobody know or was the question just too dumb?

but seriously that "my favourite song is strange tongues" bit sounds WAY familiar, i have heard it elsewhere only less... whisper-y

I don't know if it helps but he’s referring to an obscure 1974 song by Vivian Stanshall.

New album trailer (a bit late for the party as Halloween's passed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPbGkoh4uhA&feature=player_embedded

Previous one did little for me, still love the shit out of Transparent Things when I occasionaly (dosing is key I think) play it. Will of course check out the new one.

does "sixteen shades of black and blue" sound like a really focused momus to anyone else?