Clark - Body Riddle

the "ceramics is the bomb" ep is excellent as well, the album after that was too long and serious for me. (luckily its best track "slow spines" is on the ceramics ep)

totems flare

this is crazy

July 21st. am waiting impatiently. ysi?

i should listen to body riddle again. seemed kind of like a retread of a lot of other warp acts (and amon tobin & µ-ziq) and didn't pull it off quite as successfully as those other artists

thought that it came about 10 years too late... but it's been a while since i last heard it

Any thoughts on The Last Panthers soundtrack?

body riddle and turning dragon were cool

body riddle sounded bangin' in my friend's rental car. "this music reminds me of squarepusher in it's rhythmic complexity but exceeds sqrpshr [sic] as it flows gradually, with detailed textures and subtley growing melodies. the drum patterns are sort of jazz-y and a few of the tracks ascend into vibrant swells of dense sound patternin's. the melodic elements are characterised by dry, chimey sounds, strings, and a variety of affected and percussive sounds. recommended if you like richly-detailed and polyrhythmic, pulse-oriented music."

it doesn't sound like autechre or boards. "Herzog" is cool

listened to body riddle this morning, it's way more chaotic than i remembered! most of the tracks descend into noise by the 2/3rds mark and then eventually re-coalesce into an intro for the next track. he doesn't really let his music lock into a groove for long.

the huge swells in 'frau wav' and 'matthew unburdened' are the most memorable bits for me

Signed to Deutsche Grammophon, apparently.

This is nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoTV7ArMF34

I'm sure I could just go and play it somewhere on the internet but ... is the new Clark album any good?

I've only heard the singles/tracks up on Bandcamp. Production is quite lush, dynamic and powerful, actually - really good stuff, but Clark's vocals are on everything. Seems to be pop/vocal driven FWIW. Thom Yorke executive produced and sings/contributes on a track. On first blush, if there's a past comparison it's Irradelphic, but without acoustic guitar.

Part of me wants to pass on this somewhat because this dude's tracks with lyrics always seem to fall flat with me, yet the production on this is pretty next level for him, lush yet intense with his signature percussion textures, perhaps the Yorke oversight will help these tracks have some vocal/lyrical staying power his previous attempts failed at? I definitely am enjoying Dolgoch Tape, for instance. I have a lot of bias here - an instrumental version of what I've heard so far would be smash with me, but I'm sure this will def appeal to people without my biases much differently.

body riddle and turning dragon were cool

― ciderpress, Saturday, March 19, 2016 11:58 AM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

revisited both of these again last week, still cool

Really enjoying this. I don't *love* the vocals but I think they're fine to pretty decent. As a very casual Radiohead appreciator, I like Yorke on this much more than usual.

Richard Spaven is eating up that 6/8 on drums