BLACK STROBE - BURN YOUR OWN CHURCH

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― Matt DC, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

I've gone from being 'it's okay' to 'OMG THIS IS HOW YOU FUCKING DO IT* BLOG HOUSE LAMERZ!' in the space of about 24hrs. So it deserves its own thread.

*ie by doing pretty much what made you awesome in the first place and just piling a load of heavy drums and guitar riffs on top of it. Rather than going "ooh what mid-range noise can I use to make this sound most like guitars?" Also the best track on it has virtually no house influence whatsoever.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

I am pleased by this description.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

im not going to like this, am i?

― 696, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I will even. I'm assuming it's just those 11 minute Arno jizzfests "let's see how many layers of faintly Eastern European sounding clangy synths I can pile together"

― Ronan, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

oops, Arnaud, not Arno

― Ronan, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

Aren't Black Strobe without Ivan Smagghe a bit like the Rolling Stones without Brian Jones?

― StanM, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

...meaning that they're about to record some of their most popular and widely enjoyed work yet?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

Er... I er, why yes!

― StanM, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

i deleted this nonsense off my computer last week

― lex pretend, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

i just sent you some proper music lex

― 696, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Does it have melodies?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think either Gareth or Ronan will like this. They've essentially stopped being a house act altogether although there are residual elements of their sound there, mostly with the faintly Eastern European synths clanging together.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 12 May 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

'Shining Bright Star' sounds like NIN meets !!!

― blueski, Saturday, 12 May 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

It is good, that song. I like how scary the first song is, and "Last Club on Earth" is now one of my favourite things by them but a lot of the wanky stuff in the middle is uh yet to grab me.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Saturday, 12 May 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

ooh yeah i forgot how much you enthused about this last night, matt/ downloading now. what's the best track, then?

― toby, Saturday, 12 May 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

ok, it's an awesome first 3 minutes, anyway.

― toby, Saturday, 12 May 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

My favourite is I'm A Man, purely for a) that massive riff and the bit when it lurches upwards near the end b) Arnaud spends the entire song trying to sound BELLOWING and MASCULINE and CARNAL and AMERICAN then ruins it by going "they can't resist" in this broad, arch sounding French accent.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 12 May 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

That's the only song he actually sounds good on though - I spend the rest of the vocal tracks wishing he'd drafted a proper singer in.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 12 May 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

i can't believe i didn't bother with this before because of the smagghe quitting thing. nothing i like as much as nazi trance fuck off, but it's pretty great goth-rock nonsense, all the same.

― toby, Saturday, 12 May 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

^^^ ok well thats clinched it for me

in the bin

― 696, Saturday, 12 May 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

Good lord, "I'm a Man" just sounds like an unfun Electronicat track!

― nabisco, Saturday, 12 May 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

ok i didnt realise that this was basically a lite industrialrock nine inch nails type deal. its not my thing, but i dont mind it for what it is. quite like the first song, after that it disappears into, as toby says, schlocky gothrock territory, which is fine, just not for me

― 696, Sunday, 13 May 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

I was really into to the description, but yeah it turns out it's very much like bad Death In Vegas. Or 12 Rounds. Or when the Blue Man Group try to play rock songs.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 13 May 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

Not that the Blue Man Group rock tour wasn't awesome. Because it totally was.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 13 May 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe Black Strobe should throw some fucking marshmallows at each other or something.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 13 May 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

death in vegas! lol@myleatherpants

― 696, Sunday, 13 May 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

lol@tracerhands leatherpants

― 696, Sunday, 13 May 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

have they done anything like that Playgroup remix recently? just loved that for the lush synth-strings.

― blueski, Sunday, 13 May 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

Just discovered this album. Totally mind-blowing. It's like Murder Ballads-era Cave stuck at a mid-90s rave in Detroit. I think it's pretty safe to say the French are putting out pretty amazing shit these days (Ed Banger, Record Makers, etc.)

― Sam, Monday, 6 August 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

bet i'm the only person on the planet listening to this album tonight.

just right for a dark stormy night.

(truthbomb : found it today in the £2 pile in fopp .. )

― mark e, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 19:33 (thirteen years ago)

Hah, I might dig this out and see if I still like it.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 19:36 (thirteen years ago)

.. at least the world benefited a little from the existence of playlouder ..

― mark e, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 19:48 (thirteen years ago)

seven years pass...

... and here we go again.
it really is an amazing opening track whatever happens after it ..

― mark e, Thursday, 27 February 2020 22:04 (six years ago)

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