Maya Jane Coles - Comfort

This fucking album

http://www.clashmusic.com/features/maya-jane-coles-interview-album-stream-app-exclusives

So immense and immersive and GORGEOUS

i need to come back to this one, heard it the other day and seemed to get lost in progressively samey murk after the (iirc excellent) first four tracks

Terrible DJ hope her record is better

i think she's a great dj! too close to the hot natured sound for you perhaps?

definitely did not get any sense of a fall-off over the album - murkier maybe, gothier certainly, more internalised probably, but i think the roster of guest vocalists she starts to bring in means it avoids the samey feeling. relistening now and it's one of my favourites of 2013 already...

i listened last night and really enjoyed it - it has that 2 in the morning blurry introverted sound like you say. a couple of the vocals i didn't really like, can't remember which tbh, but the overall sound of it is lush, it sucks you in

Her DJ Kicks was really good but I've never heard her out, I would assume she would be good based on that?

I really like the single that has the Knife soundalike vocals.

i think she's a great dj! too close to the hot natured sound for you perhaps?
--lex pretend

I'm being unfair and shouldn't have posted, I don't much like the kind of stuff she plays but that doesn't make her a bad DJ

Loving this album. It's murky, yes, but it's a warm, enveloping kind of murk, and I agree the rotating cast of vocalist keeps things interesting, only the Thomas Knights one maybe falls flat. Excellent use of Tricky as well, large bits of the record seem to capture that Maxinquaye crackle and smoke while not sounding like it at all.

Yes. In my review I said it had the feel of Maxinquaye or Massive Attack without imitating the sound. It's another permutation of murky British soul. I think I like best the ones that Maya sings herself. One sounds so much like The xx that I got to thinking that this is how the second xx album should have sounded - atmosphere and subtlety, yes, but muscle too.

It's like cooly g (nite version)

yeah this is pretty great

Had been waiting for dan to get on this!

love this. love this

Just hitting "Everything" now; the grooves are placid but not boring and make for great work listening. I really look forward to playing this when I can really pay attention and on speakers with good bass.

Been waiting for this one

haven't gotten all the way through the album yet but so far my first-listen standouts are "Blame", "Everything" and "Wait For You"

progressively samey murk after the (iirc excellent) first four tracks

^^this seems crazy to me, if anything this record gets better AFTER the first four tracks. so gorgeous.

nah. i'm right

that first four have a modern and lissom poise, light and dark perfectly intertwined, shadow for undertow

the rest is leaden dredge of 1997 cut-out bin - blood simple western neo-noir, goth triphop, some shit that sounds like underworld, tricky. withdrawal into thumbsucking clumsy

the cover art too, nuff said. unkle doing army of the twelve monkeys?

bizarre how little coverage the new Maya Jane Coles album is getting -- you'd think after Nicki Minaj sampled her there'd be an interview a minute

the album is great, but that isn't surprising

I listened to it, part of it, the other night. It's looooong. But very nice.

Still digesting this. Some of it is too much a throwback to a 90s sound I don't especially care for (Darkside being a good example--I also don't like the guest vocals on that). I had been enjoying the Won't Let You Down EP though.

Is this thing going to deviate from leaden trip-hop even once over it's frankly bewildering 24-track duration?

heh rtc called it leaden trip hop upthread 4 years ago

Except the first album got a lot of mileage out of exploring that overlap between house music and 90s Bristol. It still felt like body music rather than monging music.

I got bored and gave up about a quarter of the way in but I guess it takes off at some point? Like is it worth starting at the half way point?

Saw her late Saturday night (2:30 a.m.) DJing for about 75 people in Chicago and had a great time.

Have to say, she seems to have the enviable life -- must have some good mailbox money from "Truffle Butter" and Katy Perry's "Swish" and Lady Gaga's "Sour Candy" (all sampling "What I Say") without having to even incorporate that into a club set.

er, make that "What They Say"

It's sweet that you think that, but she made $350 last night. I guess that her hotel (+ under?) was paid. Depressing.

Surprised at that based on the cover charge. Anyway, great set, and felt lucky to see her in a smaller crowd.

New single's going on my 'EZ Elliptical Jams' playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkXmgAsJMf4