I'm really liking this album at the moment, it's kinda how I'd imagine a supergroup made up of members of Teenage Fanclub and The Boo Radleys to sound like...
https://soundcloud.com/it-hugs-back/sets/recommended-record
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Monday, 15 July 2013 00:19 (twelve years ago)
Matt's also in Wire!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 15 July 2013 03:31 (twelve years ago)
this album is almost unbelievably good
― twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Monday, 15 July 2013 04:44 (twelve years ago)
i was right into their first three or four singles but it had been diminishing returns from there for me. seeing as the last album was bordering on the completely anodyne clearly they must have switched something up to be provoking these reactions
― electricsound, Monday, 15 July 2013 05:05 (twelve years ago)
it's completely anodyne if that means "really good"
― twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Monday, 15 July 2013 05:10 (twelve years ago)
the last album
i.e. not this one, which i'm yet to hear
― electricsound, Monday, 15 July 2013 05:34 (twelve years ago)
I just love the range this album has: the short, snappy 'Big Sighs', the psychedelic 'Sa Sa Sa Sails', the drony/krauty instrumental ('Piano Drone'), and they still have room for the beautiful 'Waiting Room'. I suspect I'll be spinning this one for quite some time.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Monday, 15 July 2013 14:06 (twelve years ago)
web of association:
big neu!-via-stereolab prinz all over the opening tracks, in a good way. sometimes feels like a lost elephant 6 recording, other times beatnik filmstars with a budget. love the manic velvets/lovers guitar that closes "sometimes"! and does "big sighs" kick off with a deliberate mudhoney nod?
they've got psychedelic pop smarts at or above tame impala levels, but are nowhere near so tediously willing to settle for niche nostalgia. not to say they never look back. much of this would slot in comfortably on early 90s college radio rotation.
overall, too exuberantly digressive/noisy/spacey to fully deserve the "anodyne" dismissal, though they do frontload the experimentation. as things go on, it becomes increasingly clear that the basic blueprint isn't too far off, say, teenage fanclub or super furry animals. while that undercuts the initial thrill of discovery, even the borderline-saccharine "skateboard rhythm" makes room for an extended space odyssey.
― twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Monday, 15 July 2013 15:17 (twelve years ago)