Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality

http://i31.tinypic.com/2woyf14.jpg

Me too! Is there a tracklisting yet?

tracklist:

01 Roche
02 Kilometer
03 Look
04 Divine
05 Pomme
06 Une Heure
07 Sexual Sportswear
08 Elle
09 Fingers Of Steel
10 Manty
11 L’amour et la Violence

there are YSI's on the other thread.

http://www.recordmakers.com/sebastientellier/index.jpg

<3

i was actually reading a profile of him in the new fad3r today and this is either gonna be really great or a monumental disaster

when does it come out

i know we're on to 'sexuality' now, but the videos on record makers' youtube channel for 'politics' are hilarious. they mostly consist of him ranting in french wearing a fringed leather jacket, huge sunglasses, and a sombrero. he's insane. i love it.

It is really great, very italo synth heavy and strangely moving vulnerability. Darker and much more melancholy than 'Politics'

I think I had this guy mixed up with someone else .... then one of his older tracks showed up on lovefingers and I was like "wow." got some catcihng up to do

this is either gonna be really great or a monumental disaster

Hmm, I don't think of Tellier as trying to create something that *could be* a disaster. It's already kind of a disaster right? He doesn't confound expectations because he's already told us not to have any. "Wonderafrica" contains lines like "lady love on the lam" and something about flamingoes and another song sounds like the chorus during the Haunted House ride at Disneyland.

The pictures with Guy-Manuel are like an inverted robot version of these:

http://members.aol.com/jesusimages/ImagesJun06/frenchhorn.jpg

interview with FACT

Son of a Magma member, interesting...

He looks like a French Vincent Gallo, who bases his music around the theme of being perverted.

he's way uglier than gallo and seems to have a better sense of humor. tellier >>>>>>>>>>> gallo

so like if someone who had the leak wanted to email me a rapidshare site where i might be able to find it i probably wouldnt get mad at them

yeah, I can't find it either :-)

For real, please help us.

"roche" is killing me right now

OK, this album is amazing.

It sure is. I just got my tickets to see him in May.

ah ! I'll see him at the end of the month.

where can this be got? is it out?

Not yet - it comes out late feb

Sexual Sportswear 12" is out since oct2007 (on Record Makers), new album will be available at the end of the month. xpost

ronan u can find it on slsk

(or email me)

also spencer OTM--i am lovin kilometer right now

loving this right now. it's kind of got an electro-balearic vibe that im really diggin. also, from what i can hear this record has a major cross over appeal which wasn't necessarily the case with his earlier work.

his best yet i think!!

I was totally into this after one track and kind of bored after six or seven. Maybe I'll give it another go.

I just bought the vinyl this afternoon. What a cover.. Can't wait to play it.

comes out on Monday 25th Feb in uk
gonna see him at ICA tonight

White vinyl!

i love 'divine', kind of reminds me of hall & oates or something.

Yeah, and the vocals are very "Good Vibrations".

It really makes me think of Denim, more than anything else, in a pretty good way.

The synth wash-out at the end of "Look"

vinyl is on sale at phonica now uk people

the chicken's got a certain, sex-u-al-i-ty!

love love love kilometer

so i like this album but does anyone else find the drums/hi hats a little flat sounding? it bothered me in the sorcerer album too, like 'kilometer' has this big, uh, expensive sounding synth-hook and then some really cheap drums that sound all CASIO

I'm pretty sure the cheap drums are deliberate.

After playing this a few times over the weekend I now unreservedly love it. It makes me want to go out and buy a tigerskin rug and an enormous watercolour featuring naked Amazonians cavorting in front of an epic sunset on Venus.

i think i dont have a sense of humor about drums :-/

Great feature on him today in one the big French dailies. Apparently, before making music he had a) been a construction worker, b) worked in spare parts warehouse c) voluntarily signed into a mental ward

i like that all it really takes to 'get' his image is a gis
http://a572.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/120/l_f213fd6a9bfba28455daec7d36800a6b.jpg

by image i mean abstractly obv

got a link to that french daily?

album art
http://i.imgur.com/gNQre.jpg

I really need to hear this album soon. Really like both the singles so far, hope the rest is as good.

the video for cochon is pretty wtf/fun !

He really captured perfectly that whole 70s new age sect aesthetic I'm just not sure I dig the music that goes with it

love the band's outfit (this side of the atlantic, not KKK but old spanish religious : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capirote)
the track itself is not great but fun dancefloor stuff and I like the sound.
he looks so crazy !

lol @ beyonce underwear

Liberté, égalité...

i would enjoy that video a lot more if there weren't all those shots of men hitting women, i know the video doesnt like 'support' that stuff and is meant to be some sort of parody of decadence and depravity but i still hate seeing that esp in a fun music video context

Just listened to the samples of this on Amazon. My first thoughts are it sounds like he's made a prog record. A lot of the songs seem to have the same pace, Cochon Ville seems like the only upbeat song. I hope the it's better than the clips would suggest, Sexuality is probably one of my top five albums of the last five years.

@s1ocki : yeah, I totally see your point but as you say I think it doesn't support that at all, obviously (including the woman with the gun in her mouth) and on the other hand, there's also a guy with something about to blow in his butt...
basically it's just "fun" !

:|

well, I may have not expressed myself very well or else and anyway, I can totally understand if you think the video is not ok at all !

yeah i was sort of half-paying attention to the video, so the first time i just noticed the "fun", like the naked dancing and the bottle rocket in the butt. but then i sat down to watch it again paying closer attention and i got a little grossed out by the choking and slapping.

but the thing is the video, the song and the whole album, I guess, are about the excesses and crazy things that happen in sects with the guru, the cheesy/creepy religious outfits, the fanatic members, the sex scandals...

The first two tracks are amazing.

The ones here. Haven't streamed the whole thing yet.

I've been told he's pretty good live. Anyone seen him? He's only got one gig planned in London.. hoping to get tickets for that.

He is indeed pretty good live. He's a killer guitar and piano player and will probably be chugging wine onstage.

yeah, on a good day, he's brilliant on stage. the talks betweens songs are key !

one of the best moments of his previous tour : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UetofCspA0

this one is also great : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dylwj7mbSGI

huh, doesn't seem to work ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dylwj7mbSGI

these are great

wow would go see

this is prob a stupid question but does he talk in English or French?

i imagine he talks, in french.

When I saw him he was using (extremely charmingly) broken English. He was such a bizarre and charismatic presence though that it wouldn't really have mattered. To start the show he had a body double come out on stage after lights lowered for about 30 seconds, got applause, immediately handed guitar to real Tellier.

Am once through the new LP and not quite sure what to think...seems to sag in the middle a bit, much more varied stylistically. But the tracks that stick out immediately (mostly the first 1/2) are amazing.

where are you listening to it??

seems to be available via 'usual sources'. Although I guess it's legitimately out via French iTunes? I am not using French iTunes.

I've been told he's pretty good live. Anyone seen him? He's only got one gig planned in London.. hoping to get tickets for that.

― mmmm, Monday, April 16, 2012 5:57 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is this the Eurostar-sponsored thing or is there a standalone gig?

so far my impression is that this guy is better at link bait than actual music

ur crazy

tracer that is nuts.

if you're not familiar with the most beautiful song ever recorded in the history of the world then i demand you drop what you are doing for the next seven and a half minutes and have your life immediately changed for the better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fUPHfn3J6Q

otm

the most beautiful song ever recorded in the history of the world?

nice, pretty, a bit dull. dgi.

Try these, maybe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr2j-j7DNSw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O_TEADsr3Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppzikI4KrNo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly80OS_-EGk

^^^all beautiful, all inferior to La Ritournelle

HEY THIS A GREAT FUCKING SONG

― max, Sunday, September 2, 2007 4:18 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is basically for driving next to a beach at dusk, probably in a really nice car and wearing a suit (seersucker? probably a one-button coat, cut low--no tie; the shoes are the most expensive part of the outfit anyway) with your chick next to you (in a really nice dress, hair up & back) and everything's blowing in the wind

― max, Sunday, September 2, 2007 4:22 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

awesome bass line too

― max, Sunday, September 2, 2007 4:28 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^think abt that post all the time

ha thats kinda disturbing but also p otm

sorry 4 heteronormativity

Yeah, he has a real presence live and it's far more instrument based than you might expect- he often pays for a full piano. He also picks up local players to fill out the band, and rumour has these are chosen largely by their shoes.

sorry 4 heteronormativity

― max, Monday, April 16, 2012 7:59 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u have changed so much in 4 years (u r a chick now)

xpost - seandalai. It's the Eurostar thing w/ Gilles Peterson etc. They are releasing another batch of tickets soon according to the website. I'd rather see him on his own.

seen him three times - varied from awesome to "interesting" (ie. the last time I saw him on the tail end of the Sexuality tour, when you could feel he was starting to get bored with the material)

inconceivable

Agree with the earlier posts about La Ritournelle being the most beautiful song ever recorded, this version is quite special.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zub1-8l0bnU

Broadway is almost as good too, especially the "I feel I'm losing you" bit, which breaks my heart everytime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lBF8dZGJMU

So the new album is good but sadly not in the same league as the last two albums. The production is amazing but by about track eight I started getting bored of him using that same drum beat for almost every song. I'm not too worried as it took me a long time to really fall for Sexuality.

Anyone know when this actually comes out in the UK? I think the April 23rd release date is just for France.

so far, the little I've heard seems unremarkable/bad. but I just listened to it once... I will wait till I listen to the whole thing properly some times before I make my mind up.
for instance, I thought "cochon" was quite meh at first but now I kinda like it !

Cochon sounds even better on the album as it's one of the few songs that actually has a different beat. I was just expecting a lot more from this album.

its v atmospheric and groovy, even by tellier standards, itll prob reveal itself in time

well I might have a nice surprise then because I'm expecting something quite bad after the first few reviews I've read...
I've had the synth riff from "cochon" stuck in my head quite often lately !

i need a 7 minute version of chochon ville asap