Walls - Walls ( Kompakt 2010 )

Not to be all street-teamy but i really like this album. Warm bubbly analog arpeggiations, shoegazeish guitar drones and ecstatic oohing and ahhing. Lovely Kompakt house minus (mostly) the kick drums.

i realise i am way behind the curve, but yesterday i soaked up the epic kompakt threads (though they seemed to have quietened down of late) and so now have a need to hear more from this label.
on my return to civilisation next week, this album is the first thing i will be tracking down.

New album is better than the first.

Bit more percussion, maybe? Haven't listened to the debut in a little while. This feels more dancey, makes more sense being on Kompakt, perhaps.

really? first album was good

I liked it (quite a lot) but it felt a little bit too much in thrall to influences and ideas, to me. This feels a little more free, a little more groovy, a little more mature.

Sounds like they've massively upped their game on this. Tunes seem a lot stronger and bolder, definitely like it a lot more than the first.

Yeah, this is a much, much better record. Streets ahead.

Got kind of a Chemical Bros vibe to it in places maybe?

I'm listening to it in a flotation tank next week.

For real?

Record makes me wish the evenings were a bit longer still :(

For real. Looking forward to it immensely as long as no Altered States shit happens.

Ha that's great!

Ha, just reviewed it for you, John, and mentioned the flotation tank thing!

Ah, good stuff. <Utterly shameless self-boosterism/> It's named after something I wrote apparently. Which certainly puts my thanks on the sleeve notes to the Towers Of London album into perspective.

hahahahaha

aha, so john aint alone in the floating moodswing experience :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/oct/01/walls-ambient-kompakt-flotation-tanks

Pretty excited to hear this. Their debut was the album I was most futilely evangelical about last year. Now I can go through that disappointment all over again.

http://thequietus.com/articles/07129-walls-coracle-review

this is really nice. kompakt = so reliably good

i just got this in the mail today. gonna play soon!

how's the new Boratto on kompakt?

Doran, your piece on this was awesome btw and possibly my favourite bit of writing about a man having a bath since No One Here Gets Out Alive.

Thanks Nick, I really appreciate it. I think of myself as a man who looks like he will be discovered dead in a bath as it goes.