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"the faint horizon" on the new one is all sorts of aztec cameria wonderfulness
― kamerad, Saturday, 7 November 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago)
I wish I liked their recent music. :(
― Turangalila, Saturday, 7 November 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago)
have you checked out the latest one yet though? at least give "you never loved this city" a listen. "recovery position"'s pretty good too and "exit"'s a perfect closer
― kamerad, Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah. The arrangements are a bit better on this new one.I don’t find anything particularly objectionable about their new music. But the PM I love isn’t a Joy Division/Durutti Column tribute band, I guess is what I’m trying to say? It used to be about alien, sparse musical backdrops with evocative narratives/pretty vocal harmonies on top. Now it’s kind of generically niceish and sounds like a different band altogether?
― Turangalila, Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago)
Also I really don't like his singing voice. :-S Especially when I know Suzy Mangion's just a phone call away.
― Turangalila, Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:33 (fifteen years ago)
this new one's more new order cloning, but i'm not minding that much at all. "you never loved this city" develops a pretty evocative narrative if you should care to check it out
― kamerad, Saturday, 7 November 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago)
I love 'The Troubled Sleep Of...', quite like 'Disaffected' (esp. the New Order bits) but thought 'Part Monster' was mostly pretty but inconsequential wheelspinning - in fact some of it sounded excellent but since it was always stuff they'd done previously and better it didn't draw me back much.
Will I like the new one?
― Tim F, Sunday, 8 November 2009 09:43 (fifteen years ago)
i like the sound of all the post-4AD albums but not one of them have contained a song that stayed with me in the way that the early singles and most of artists rifles have
― frank bananarama (electricsound), Sunday, 8 November 2009 09:45 (fifteen years ago)
It's funny that you say that because I think The Troubled Sleep Of... is my favourite from a songwriting perspective but a bit behind Low Birth Weight, Bliss Out (those two esp.) and Artists' Rifles on a sound level.
Love this line: "You turn on your side/like you have to face north/or else you can't sleep/the unwritten law."
I don't even know why but it's one of my favourite lyrics ever.
― Tim F, Sunday, 8 November 2009 09:50 (fifteen years ago)
idk Tim, maybe you'd dig his solo album ("Details Not Recorded") that came out earlier this year?
From the title track: "You are sleeping with the singer/though the drummer fucked you twice."
― Turangalila, Sunday, 8 November 2009 10:41 (fifteen years ago)