Argh! Nobody told me there was a new Plaid CD/DVD out!!

my bad, it's not out till the 26th, but still - holy shit i did not know!

anyone?

not really interested, not really interested, nah.

it's only out today (oh, you said that).

video samples:
http://www.warprecords.com/greedybaby/

audio samples here:
http://www.bleep.com/?bleep=WARP139CDD

I remember hearing about this when I was talking to one of the guys from Plaid after a show last November or something. Sounded interesting. I don't have 5.1 though and I'm unsure as to the likelihood of a Glasgow promoter putting the audio visual show on here (though I may be pleasantly surprised).

damn - i have no money till tomorrow. I've givent he album a cursory listen but I think I'll wait till I can get the DVD.

I tried really hard to like Spokes, and it just never happened, despite the fact I've loved every other Plaid release since Not For Threes and that I thought Double Figure was the best thing they've ever done. So I'm tending towards unexcited on this, although the talk of strings and choirs might be promising, maybe. I guess I'll give it a go.

Hmm, having just watched that wee trailer, I'd say that visually this looks completely MEH. So fuck the dvd. Guess I'll still try out the cd, but if it's just going to be a literal soundtrack to the film (with dialogue and sound effects and things) then I expect that's going to annoy me as well.

i agree - spokes was passable but not a patch on their previous two. if the dvd is anything like the live show they gave at glasto 2004 then i'll be happy.

It's pretty good though. Nice visuals with a strange Mexican wrestling superhero cartoon in the middle. But musically I like this way better than anything they did before.

Super Barrio!!

My wife's a fan. Thanks for the tip.

Plaid were at Glastonbury in 2004? Damn, didn't know about that. I'll bet I was watching bloody Muse or something instead.

yeh i think it was 2004... yeh it was. they played in the little gladey bit backtoback with squarepusher who was also good.

that said, their visuals actually completely outshone the music.

they should have worked with pleix on the dvd, this looks crap.

what's pleix?

(that "birds" video is incredible)

It's incredibly dull, dog.

hmmm... mixed feelings about this release now i have it. the music really isn't "all that" is it? it doesn't really contain a standout track nor any big bright moments like on Restproof Clockwork nor the beauty of Double Figure nor the fractured kaleidoscopeia of "Spokes". So what do we have instead? A few downtrodden soundscapes, unbeguiling mood pieces, a couple of half-arsed attempts at catchiness which leave no particular impression on the mind.
The videos are hit and miss. Things like the Super Barrio animation are visually exciting and I remember being very affected when I saw it live. The flaws shine through on the DVD and I found that the music rarely fits the mood of the video-piece. The Super Barrio cartoon is let down by a sparse down-tempo piece of music that hardly connotes the victory of a cartoon superhero beating down the tyrrany of an oppressed political state.
Many of the videos are incredibly dull too, especially the first three - the first song proper being a sort of spinny view of some empty doorways and windows which, while going in time with the music does not present an interesting enough subject-matter to hold interest.
The next video looks like a really boring Winamp plugin and does very very little compared to, say Autechre's awesome Gantz Graf video.
On the other hand I did enjoy the one witht he infinite amount of birds flying around and also the extra track with the CNN footage cycling through very fast.