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I got the link to download around 12:40 while I was chatting to JC (yay for it not getting lost like the confirmation email!) and while there are some tracks that need another listen to fully sink in, I reallly LOVE what they did with 'Nude'. it's been one of my fav. unreleased songs since I started listening to them.
Of the other tracks, 15 Step, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, All I Need, House of Cards, Jigsaw Falling Into Place (oh mayyn, I never heard this song in any form in my life and it rocked me!) and Videotape (I liked how they kept it simple) hit me the first time.
That's a pretty nice amount considering I'm one of the few fans who disliked Kid A and most of what they've done this decade (as I've probably mentioned before; maybe when I posted the Thom Yorke solo album? or maybe when HTTT came out? ..ahah). I think it's 'cause I secretly (okay! not so secretly! at least a year or two after it came out, it wasn't a secret. I did pretend to like it then) liked the bootleg versions of those Kid A tracks. at least this album does it all justice!
Anyway, now I really can't wait for that bonus disc in December.
This album got me pumped!
[Edit: Second listen... 'All I Need'.. the beat sounds like a Boards of Canada track, yes or no? roygbiv perhaps? I need to get it out later and compare
Alright, done with second listen, compared BoC to it and... not quite, but it does have that same sound if not the same melody, okay? I swear it!]
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I got Pole's 'steingarten' album in the mail today. from the whole name to the snow capped mountains on the cover, I did indeed expect cold german electronica even before reading the one amazon review it got naming it as not as cold as the rest, but still creating a distance from its audience. I figured it was obviously supposed to create that coldness and distance. It turns out I just suck when it comes to the knowledge of certain audio equipment: "Structurally, the music of Pole is based on abstract, irregular rhythms created by a defective analogue sound filter Betke uses, namely the 'Waldorf 4-Pole' filter. These rhythms principally are defect frequencies full of interference (in audio terms commonly referred to as 'noise'), not unlike the crackling sounds of vintage vinyl, except for a harder, purely digital quality, which makes them very immediate." [source: Matador Records: Pole Biography -- which was the first relevant google result when trying to find out more about Pole] I still say there could be a double meaning! During my first listen, I was reading some unrelated metafilter post and someone linked this. there are robots in it. I didn't turn the volume up, so I have no idea if it had music; I figure so. Anyway, this Pole album went with it just as well... I could imagine choreographing (okay, if I knew how!) various people doing the robot to this music. this isn't bad in any way. I think I've watched too much So You Think You Can Dance (I'm going to miss that show... I admit, I still read up on them over at TWoP sometimes) though.
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