TS: Ellen Allien's Orchestra of Bubbles vs. Kelley Polar's Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens

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This is not my area at all, so I'm not sure I'm prepared to say anything particularly insightful, but I have these two albums grouped mentally. Kelley Polar seems pastoral if not folky, while Orchestra of Bubbles is primarily instrumental. Or to put it another way, Ellen Allien is a spacewalk in the vacuum, while Love Songs is beaming down to an unknown (but inhabited!) planet. I still can't decide which one I prefer.

What do others think?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Apples and oranges, in my opinion.

― business up front, party entrance at side door (mike h.), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

both are good (surprisingly because I was thinking Ellen & Apparat's album would be boring because the European electronic dance scene is mostly repeating itself. Kelley Polar on the other hand is a fave of mine since I like the Environ/Metro Area etc. sound better. Objectively I think they are up to par with each other, however I prefer Kelley's.

― mersenne twister (mersenne_twister), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

It all depends on my mood...Polar is definitely much more jazzy to my ears, more smooth. I feel like I could play certain tracks next to Sade or something. Ellen? No way, but Orchestra is one of the more beautifully structured melancholic dance albums I've heard this year. I guess Apples and Oranges, then?

By the way, I'm friends with a guy who has done spray-paint commission work on Kelley Polar's truck. Pretty awesome.

― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

both albums feature electronics

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

oh, singing also

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

both available on CD!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

and both are albums I personally own

(except Ellen Alien)

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Kelly Polar= a bit naff VS. I drove all the way to SF today and BOUGHT Orchestra of Bubbles.

― cs (cs appleby), Friday, 30 June 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

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