linebaugh
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Try isnt anything, that one may be more in your lane
"Emotionally Charged Electronica" & The Ineffable Sadness of Woops
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woops
is not like other people
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
haven’t heard this is aeons, multiple rewinds
woops
is not like other people
just stick on the whole album its all wicked
woops
is not like other people
have a dig in and say what you think. the write ups have got very minimal again but the whole point of the thread is to explain how i got from listening to guitar bands -> guitar bands with synths -> electronica -> idm (also when i started liking some rap tracks) the reason it's hard to get to 100 is about 2002 i became too skint to afford to buy any records and started making my own music and listening to stuff, basically demo tracks by people i know, 99% of which i don't have anymore and isn't available anywhere.
I was playing I Can Hear The Heart… the other day, after long time no listen, and thinking yeah still great, still hits, still works. Twas their peak, everything came into focus with that one. After that, tweeeeee nocturnal purrings forever, ie biting too hard on just one of the sounds on this wondrous record.
Love the sugarrush noiz-pop-rock on it too: ‘Sugarcube’ ‘Deeper Into Movies’ etc, Ira’s melt-y caramel, clotted-candyfloss guitar pouring indecently all over the place. The latter like gulping SY/MBV with viciously syrupy concentration…epic but dragging and subfusc, psychedelic but not genre-bound big p psych, kicks all yr flaming lips and elephant 6 types into touch imo.
I’m neither a nuum guy particularly or a gig chap overmuch, I’m a techno in da club kid cos hardly any of the gigs ever really ignited and the club experience made so much more fucking sense. But one of the few that did was seeing Yo La Tengo at King Tut’s Glasgee around the time this album was released. They did purrrfect lil neo-Beach Boys 3 part harmony things, acapella but for the fat chap hitting a lil wooden perc thing, then Hubley back behind kit hitting krautish grooves with incredible traction, Ira turning himself inside out over his noizmaker. I was high on sleep deprivation and beer with head-tingles all gig long. The next day I interviewed Alan Rankine (Associates) for my shitty zine. A good weekend.
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Yeah short for indie schmindie. But I am in no way deriding. Cannot be if I come out as YLT fan on freaking Dissensus!
Btw Blonde Redhead went big and went shit on 4ad, with crappy windblown advert broth prod, “wistul longing” organ stop permanently out, Audi freedoms in ocean spray vibes. Awful.
But I’m sharing this gig I found which is them at their peak, best tracks from recently released Melody.. coming out with more bite and definition, but all peak Touch & Go era material (minus poss couple from 1st two). Try it, it completely fucking kills I fell in love with them all over again!
Btw Blonde Redhead went big and went shit on 4ad, with crappy windblown advert broth prod, “wistul longing” organ stop permanently out, Audi freedoms in ocean spray vibes. Awful.
But I’m sharing this gig I found which is them at their peak, best tracks from recently released Melody.. coming out with more bite and definition, but all peak Touch & Go era material (minus poss couple from 1st two). Try it, it completely fucking kills I fell in love with them all over again!
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I might, when the right time comes, we also interviewed Dempsey in his posh multi-storey Chelsea townhouse.