Recent CDs bought & your reviews

[soupman]

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On first couple of listens it hasn't really grabbed me. First few songs may take a few listens but towards the end they are ok. I'm sure they will grow on me but at this point I can't help wondering that if it wasn't Radiohead would I bother.

[LostDoggy]

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On first couple of listens it hasn't really grabbed me. First few songs may take a few listens but towards the end they are ok. I'm sure they will grow on me but at this point I can't help wondering that if it wasn't Radiohead would I bother.

I've had on an loop all day and I'm feeling very differently. Maybe you need a few more listens. At the moment I feel it is a better collection than In Rainbows but I'll need to get more perspective before I'd stand by that.

[soupman]

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I've had on an loop all day and I'm feeling very differently. Maybe you need a few more listens. At the moment I feel it is a better collection than In Rainbows but I'll need to get more perspective before I'd stand by that.

In Rainbows is my favourite Radiohead album. The worst song on it is Faust Arp, and thats ok. The rest are good to great (the best being "Weird Fishes").

After two more spins it's growing on me. The second half is much stronger. I'm just not getting "Bloom" or "Morning Mr Magpie". I certainly found all the other albums were more instantly likeable though (Kid A had "National Anthem", "Everything in it's Right Place" and "Optimistic" that were easy to like, Amnesiac had "Pyramid Song" which is an amazing song.)

[LostDoggy]

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In Rainbows is my favourite Radiohead album. The worst song on it is Faust Arp, and thats ok. The rest are good to great (the best being "Weird Fishes").

After two more spins it's growing on me. The second half is much stronger. I'm just not getting "Bloom" or "Morning Mr Magpie". I certainly found all the other albums were more instantly likeable though (Kid A had "National Anthem", "Everything in it's Right Place" and "Optimistic" that were easy to like, Amnesiac had "Pyramid Song" which is an amazing song.)

"Bloom" is definitely more esoteric and hence an interesting choice for first track. "Feral" is my biggest question mark. "Morning Mr Magpie" isn't my favourite track but I'm still enjoying it a lot.

I'd struggle to name a favourite album as I mostly listen to them on a random rotation. Consequently I focus more on songs than albums and I find their output very consistent (though a few friends strongly disagree especially regarding "Hail to the Thief") and think KoL fits right in.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Recent CDs bought & your reviews

In Rainbows is my favourite Radiohead album. The worst song on it is Faust Arp, and thats ok. The rest are good to great (the best being "Weird Fishes").

After two more spins it's growing on me. The second half is much stronger. I'm just not getting "Bloom" or "Morning Mr Magpie". I certainly found all the other albums were more instantly likeable though (Kid A had "National Anthem", "Everything in it's Right Place" and "Optimistic" that were easy to like, Amnesiac had "Pyramid Song" which is an amazing song.)

Oh that's funny -- Bloom and Morning Mr Magpie were my instant likes. The second half of the record was a lot more old-school/conventional, and I'm quite meh about convention (not to say that they are bad songs at all). The first two tracks, with their assymetric yet tight beat patterns, break-up sampling, arabesque wailing etc., exactly the kind of music I've been talking and thinking about and making with others for the last couple of years -- very current (if not exactly groundbreaking). I love inaccessible, intelligent music, and Radiohead probably balance that with actual musicality better than anyone.

[LostDoggy]

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"Bloom" is definitely more esoteric and hence an interesting choice for first track. "Feral" is my biggest question mark. "Morning Mr Magpie" isn't my favourite track but I'm still enjoying it a lot.

I'd struggle to name a favourite album as I mostly listen to them on a random rotation. Consequently I focus more on songs than albums and I find their output very consistent (though a few friends strongly disagree especially regarding "Hail to the Thief") and think KoL fits right in.

See, I loved Feral straight up! I guess I'm a bit of a fan of underground electronica/post-funk/berlin-trance type stuff, but stripped of its 'clubby'/dance edge so that it's more about the actual music.. this is the exact sweet-spot for me in terms of intensity and beat complexity. It's like sitting in on a D&B dub session minus the actual D&B low-end (leaving only the syncopations and tracking beats) and halving the tempo from 180. Half-finished, raw, spacey, rather than the slick, straight lines of commercial dance music. More Cy Twombly than Roy Lichtenstein, you know. Hey, but that's just me.

Like the Lotus Flower video clip? (I thought it was cool)

I haven't listened to mainstream radio in fifteen years, but I'll always listen to a new Radiohead record.

[chef]

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Oh that's funny -- Bloom and Morning Mr Magpie were my instant likes. The second half of the record was a lot more old-school/conventional, and I'm quite meh about convention (not to say that they are bad songs at all). The first two tracks, with their assymetric yet tight beat patterns, break-up sampling, arabesque wailing etc., exactly the kind of music I've been talking and thinking about and making with others for the last couple of years -- very current (if not exactly groundbreaking). I love inaccessible, intelligent music, and Radiohead probably balance that with actual musicality better than anyone.

Have you recorded anything?

[chef]

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The Strokes waited five years to release the new album. The first single sounds very much like what they were doing five years ago.

I've read that they didn't start writing songs for this album until 2009.

[LostDoggy]

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Have you recorded anything?

geez, wrote a long post and computer conked out on me.

Anyway, hi chef -- short answer is 'too much', although recording may be the wrong word, more producing/programming etc., pulling a whole bunch of people through the studio and dropping beats, concepts etc. not really songs as such (the last thing I wrote that could remotely be called a 'song' would be a cello solo for a friend's wedding two years ago, and that ended up in a D&B sample anyway haha). Will be sitting down with a couple of guys while I'm up here to sort through stuff and parcel it out -- nothing particularly commercial in the pipeline though. (Europe/UK is really the natural home for the kinda stuff I'm involved with, and my childhood best friend has somehow made himself into a pretty big-time producer up here, both commercially as well as underground, so there are always interesting opportunities/projects/shows floating around).

[chef]

Re: Recent CDs bought & your reviews

geez, wrote a long post and computer conked out on me.

Anyway, hi chef -- short answer is 'too much', although recording may be the wrong word, more producing/programming etc., pulling a whole bunch of people through the studio and dropping beats, concepts etc. not really songs as such (the last thing I wrote that could remotely be called a 'song' would be a cello solo for a friend's wedding two years ago, and that ended up in a D&B sample anyway haha). Will be sitting down with a couple of guys while I'm up here to sort through stuff and parcel it out -- nothing particularly commercial in the pipeline though. (Europe/UK is really the natural home for the kinda stuff I'm involved with, and my childhood best friend has somehow made himself into a pretty big-time producer up here, both commercially as well as underground, so there are always interesting opportunities/projects/shows floating around).

Do you have a My Space page? Would love to hear your music.

http://www.myspace.com/deathrabbitboutique/music

Here's my brothers band(one of them anyway, he's in a couple), he's the drummer.

[LostDoggy]

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Do you have a My Space page? Would love to hear your music.

http://www.myspace.com/deathrabbitboutique/music

Here's my brothers band, he's the drummer.

Haha no, no Myspace, nothing like that (WOOF is my one online indulgence) -- the next few months should hopefully see some of this work take some shape, will shoot you a couple of tracks then (nothing worthwhile now unless you want countless hours of unedited/uncompressed files, or 8-bit concept samples!). I mean, I've got heaps of tracks that have seen some club airtime, but I hate looking back at old work (I find it largely embarassing, especially since I have such a short attention span -- some things from even two years ago sound totally alien to me) -- if you're still somehow interested, PM me your address and I'll see if I don't have an old tune I don't hate lying around.

ps. looking forward to listening to death rabbit boutique (love the name)

[chef]

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Haha no, no Myspace, nothing like that (WOOF is my one online indulgence) -- the next few months should hopefully see some of this work take some shape, will shoot you a couple of tracks then (nothing worthwhile now unless you want countless hours of unedited/uncompressed files, or 8-bit concept samples!). I mean, I've got heaps of tracks that have seen some club airtime, but I hate looking back at old work (I find it largely embarassing, especially since I have such a short attention span -- some things from even two years ago sound totally alien to me) -- if you're still somehow interested, PM me your address and I'll see if I don't have an old tune I don't hate lying around.

ps. looking forward to listening to death rabbit boutique (love the name)

Sounds good mate, I'll PM you.

[chef]

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Almost finished the first listen of The Strokes new album. Sounds pretty awesome so far.

[hujsh]

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Almost finished the first listen of The Strokes new album. Sounds pretty awesome so far.

3 tracks in. Can't judge it until another 2 or 3 listens in but it's exciting to finally hear it

[chef]

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Really getting into Skrillex's second EP 'Scary monsters and nice sprites'. Some of his beats are just mad and I recommend any technohead to download this and his previous EP 'My name is Skrillex'. Can't wait for him to make a full album.