― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 7 October 2002 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 October 2002 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)
― alexfack, Monday, 7 October 2002 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 7 October 2002 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)
― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 7 October 2002 23:07 (twenty-three years ago)
so, anybody got the new album yet? i bought the single today - "loneliness shines" and "no modest bear" - and it's magic. more cheerless self-pitying miserablism, but this time with added disco squelches. i'll pick up the album next time i do a round of record-buying.
i'm sure i saw a post round these parts recently about how the refrain from "loneliness" sounds like "my woman is shite". which it does. but i'm fucked if i can find it.
[sits back, waits for thread to disappear swiftly from view]
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)
― leonard (tk), Friday, 24 June 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)
wonderful, wonderful stuff. better than arab strap have been for quite a long time (there, i've said it).
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)
― wmlynch (wlynch), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 September 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)
but "into the woods" is squirmworthy for me. i like the sound of it, but the lyrics - gruh. self-loathing in a really uncomfortable way. middleton doesn't do that self-analysis with the same charming bravado that aidan does.
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 8 September 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)
also, on a rather more basic level, i prefer the tunes on "into the woods" to the ones on "hug and pint".
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 September 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)
lol at Middleton mentioning Jacob's creek on blue plastic bags!
It's quite a nice song, too.
― W4LTER, Friday, 15 February 2008 08:22 (seventeen years ago)
Anyone heard the new one yet? Because it opens with this crackerjack song called "Red Travellin' Socks" that's the second coming of rushed and smart indiepop to my ears -- almost made me think of folk era Fad Gadget/Frank Tovey meets the Wedding Present, kinda!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 August 2009 05:04 (sixteen years ago)
Am intrigued by his collaboration with Mira Calix. It's unfair but I kind of hope that Ms Calix was bossier in the studio.
― djh, Monday, 3 August 2009 12:51 (sixteen years ago)
Off his website:
28th May - Some reviews of Waxing Gibbous.
"If you’re not a fan then that’s a shame"
"a mainly excellent album is lagged down with some rather depressing and uninspiring numbers"
"Opening track “Red Travellin’ Socks” is a very long song"
"All this from a man" "Malcolm Middleton spent a decade in an important band named after a sex toy"
"some of Middleton's lyrics are not upward looking"
"Middleton’s breakthrough album"
"an almighty two fingered salute?"
"he has again produced something"
― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Monday, 3 August 2009 13:02 (sixteen years ago)
xD
― wilter, Monday, 3 August 2009 23:53 (sixteen years ago)
Just heard him kill a cover of Joan Osbornes "One of us" on this Sacred Songs for Worrying Times comp thing. First post-Arab Strap thing I've heard from either of the two.
― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 03:38 (sixteen years ago)
I think all his post-arab strap albums are def worth a listen.
― wilter, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 03:40 (sixteen years ago)
lol I thought this thread title read Malcom Middleton - "5:14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine" - C/D?
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 04:39 (sixteen years ago)
Mystic.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 04:40 (sixteen years ago)
^^awesome review btw Ned
― wilter, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 10:19 (sixteen years ago)
heard his collaboration with mira calix?
― djh, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 10:54 (sixteen years ago)