la-dee-da
I'm not really sure what to do in this space these days. I am not particularly funny, especially in print. I am usually pretty busy, and aside from the occasional NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE on my bicycle, things chug along at a steady pace with few lowlights and highlights. Over the long the weekend, my buddy got hit by a car and my brother got engaged. Ho-hum.
Do you like music? If you haven't purchased the Futureheads album yet, you should. I recently did after mp3ing the album since it came out. This guy is holding my Ipod ransom and these British boys deserve the dollar they get out of the $14 list price.
The Futureheads are like the Buzzcocks meets Braid meets the Beach Boys. Admittedly, the Beach Boys is a bit of lazy ingredient. Anyway, I was shocked by how different my farrago of mp3s were from the album cuts. All the guitars are super tubey and a lot of the vocals have additional and extraneous twirls. There are a lot more dropouts too, so the boys can single out their voices. This seems like it might be a good thing, but the songs lose the youthful chaos and working-class speed. They went from sounding like the sons of stevedores and nurses to 30-somethings living in Boston, with black leather couches and Diesel shoes. So I'm all surly, reading about Isl-1 for the second time, worried about whatever and sweating the wet reverbs and various unfortunate additions. And then "Hounds of Love" opens and I'm reminded of how good, regardless of the production sheen, this band is. And I'm like, fuck it, this is a great band. Sure this release is a bit slick, but the songs are great and the singing's superb.
Next week: my lunch with Roel Nusse!
Do you like music? If you haven't purchased the Futureheads album yet, you should. I recently did after mp3ing the album since it came out. This guy is holding my Ipod ransom and these British boys deserve the dollar they get out of the $14 list price.
The Futureheads are like the Buzzcocks meets Braid meets the Beach Boys. Admittedly, the Beach Boys is a bit of lazy ingredient. Anyway, I was shocked by how different my farrago of mp3s were from the album cuts. All the guitars are super tubey and a lot of the vocals have additional and extraneous twirls. There are a lot more dropouts too, so the boys can single out their voices. This seems like it might be a good thing, but the songs lose the youthful chaos and working-class speed. They went from sounding like the sons of stevedores and nurses to 30-somethings living in Boston, with black leather couches and Diesel shoes. So I'm all surly, reading about Isl-1 for the second time, worried about whatever and sweating the wet reverbs and various unfortunate additions. And then "Hounds of Love" opens and I'm reminded of how good, regardless of the production sheen, this band is. And I'm like, fuck it, this is a great band. Sure this release is a bit slick, but the songs are great and the singing's superb.
Next week: my lunch with Roel Nusse!
posted by dzusa at 2:30 AM
5 Comments:
i love that futureheads record so much
word!
"This seems like it might be a good thing, but the songs lose the youthful chaos and working-class speed."
I can't seem to grasp what exactly 'working-class' mean. I realize it should be representational of people "working" preferably something manual. Maybe the pace of auto worker welgin chasis in assembly line.
But does it mean the twirly mechanical sound of micro pippet motor is not 'working class' enough?
Another thing, what is the sound of manual planting of rice plant?
My point, I see your point that there should be some rythmic composition that relate/representational of 'working' class, as suppose to some cushy fluff in Boston burb. But what exactly are those rythm?
I bet it's a cool sound investigation.
Inquiring mind wants to know.
PS. Good musics. I love 'em.
Squashed,
What do you mean that you don't know what "working class" means? I would have assumed everyone was familiar with that term.
squashed, i guess by "working class," i was speaking mostly of the production value of the mp3s i came to the futureheads by. they must have been unreleased rough cuts or something. in this more unpolished state, and with the relatively high bpms, the tracks came across as more restless, hustling, human. in spirit, but not in sound, it kind of reminded me of some of the blue collar punk popular in new england.
Post a Comment
<< Home