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finally got this cd a few days ago. it's the best thing I've heard in ages. very very intricate, very subtle. beautiful changes in dynamics within tracks. great melodies. listening to this instantly makes me feel like it's summer already. |
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Fucking brilliant album, in heavy rotation in the mouse ears. Criminally underappreciated! |
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trying to find a copy of their first album now. :) |
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i <3 tokyo |
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lots of Dutch samples on "The Lemon..".. oh yes! the male vocal samples in nr. 4 (is it "bonanza"..?) are a Dutch voice. my guess is it's from an old dutch childrens program called "de fabeltjeskrant", but I'm not sure. |
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yes! has such a great build, great structure! this album makes me feel like stopping to make music myself. which is a good sign. :) |
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I like that they can play their instruments like crazy in the conventional sense, but they're not doing anything conventional and dull with those skills. They have found the secret path where music meets art without descending into anti-music... qrter, the first album is great too - is it still in print? If not I have VBR MP3s of it... |
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This cd is amazing, probably my favorite of the year. Everyone should try to find their first album... Thought For Food. I like it even better. |
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it's hard to find, as far as I can tell. I have ordered it at some huge online store, and they do sometimes find hard-to-find stuff, it only takes ages. maybe I'll have to take you up on those mp3's until I find it.. did you see the 7" they released too? supposedly two songs from the first album, I think. bought that too. they still have it at boomkat.com, I think. |
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id have to agree that Thought For Food is better.. |
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I'm fleetmouse on slsk - are you qrter, or do you use some silly made up name like Ian Noll? Tell me and I'll put you on my list. |
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I think Thought for Food was a more jarring impressive experience, being the debut of their sound and technique... I wonder if qrter will have the opposite experience having heard Lemon first... |
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Awesome album. |
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Glad that you got it, Alex. It's a favorite of mine. It's just plain stupid that there aren't more people talking about these guys. I like the first record, but this one is just right on. That Albert Einstein sample @ 1:16 in the track There Is No There is beautiful. |
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Anybody heard Zammuto's early solo work. Good stuff too. |
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I know of it, but I haven't heard any. I'm very interested, whether it's like The Books or not. |
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The "Willscher" album has some great bits where he's treating stringed instruments (guitar mostly I guess) as percussion, similar to some of the stuff he does on the Books albums but more abstract... not as exciting as Books but I like it. The other one I have is Solutiore of Stareau disk one. Very long ambient piece in 14 parts, some lovely textures but not for the impatient. Apparently you can order some of his early stuff on CD-R directly from him at the Books website. |
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I'm indeed qrter on slsk, mr. mouse. |
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stupid - the right word, mr. Jon. |
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i've heard this was excllent from other people too... i might go look for it today... would it be hard to find do you think? |
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ooh it's available at Amazon too, the first one I mean. |
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i just downloaded this album, and i must say it's goddamn incredible. the whole album is genious. |
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ok who has slsk and what are your user names? |
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how could i go about finding lyrics to this album? |
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i love "Don't Even Sing About It"... that and Four Tet's "My Angel Rocks Back and Forth" are the two crazy-beautiful folktronica songs that came out last year... |
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but does anyone know how i cann find LYRICS???? |
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doubtful... given that they're more regarded as electronic collage artists than singer-singwriter types... i wouldn't imagine you'd be able to find them anywhere... i suggest sitting down with the album and figuring them out yourself... then you can post them somewhere and the world will be indebted to you |
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hmmmm....maybbbeeee.... but STILL.if anyone knows where i could finn them... i'd be grateful. |
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i've not played it for ages - but yes it is a great cd - will play it on the way home from work .. toute de suite .. >E |
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thought for food is amazing. they have a very refreshing sound. |
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I think "lemon of pink" is a better album than "thought for food". TfF is okay, but it's too much a compilation of "stuff they did" - as a whole album the composition isn't that great. LoP works really well as a complete album. also I think they sound more subtle on LoP - it feels as if TfF is the step they had to take to be able to make LoP. |
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i think Lemon of Pink is waay better |
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still dont have either, too hard to get and I dont feel like paying a lot for them to import them. |
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I've finally acquired this on cd, and i have an uncontrollable urge to just let the world know how ReallyProperAmazing it is. Hence the thread bumpage. Really, if anyone hasn't heard this record yet, you must. That is all. |
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interesting and pretty good, but... not awesome either... i'd give it a 7/10 |
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...or maybe i just don't see the genius : ) |
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i'd give it about the same.. |
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great album. i posted a link to an interesting interview with them. one of the guys is a dutch cellist living in the states. i like "there is no there" a lot.. the pronounciation exercise one makes me laugh. |
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Heh, i was just reading that interview you posted when i was looking for an appropriate thread to bump. It is indeed interesting, especially the idea of having a huge library of places that they've "heard". That really appeals to me. |
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This is a Really Great album that I love <3 |
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Do I... Do I download this album? |
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you do. but do you also buy it? you do. |
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well, you can try if you want. : ) and buy it if you like it then. (never buy an album blindly) |
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It is good to give your moneys to The Books. |
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