Interference Random Music Talk Pt XVI - Post-Cool Double Rainbow...WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

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Black Keys are another band I hear a lot of people talk about and yet I don't think that I've heard a second of their music. Being a lover of Motown, perhaps I should check them out.

LM, do you think someone who loves Motown but is not a huge White Stripes fan will enjoy?
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Yeah, I think you'll get a lot out of it. Brothers, anyway. It's a very soulful record, but it has a backbone that isn't seen in a lot of soul outfits these days. Also, if you want a fantastic pure soul album, check out this year's I Learned the Hard Way by Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings. Really great stuff, feels completely authentic.

Not to ruin it for you, but as I was going up to see Hot Chip on Friday, this extraordinarily high, dirty man rec'd me the Black Keys and said I "wouldn't regret it." Frankly, he was right. Hot Chip was fine, but Black Keys would have owned.
 
He didn't just rec you the Black Keys.

He walked up to you and practically grabbed you by the shoulders and asked where you were going. And when you said you were going to see Hot Chip, he shook his head in disgust and said, "No, no man. You've GOT to go see the Black Keys."
 
LemonMelon said:
Yeah, I think you'll get a lot out of it. Brothers, anyway. It's a very soulful record, but it has a backbone that isn't seen in a lot of soul outfits these days. Also, if you want a fantastic pure soul album, check out this year's I Learned the Hard Way by Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings. Really great stuff, feels completely authentic.

Not to ruin it for you, but as I was going up to see Hot Chip on Friday, this extraordinarily high, dirty man rec'd me the Black Keys and said I "wouldn't regret it." Frankly, he was right. Hot Chip was fine, but Black Keys would have owned.
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Thanks, and I will check out the Sharon Jones album as well...I've seen some Youtube clips of she and the band performing and, they leave it all on the stage, that's for sure......
 
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He didn't just rec you the Black Keys.

He walked up to you and practically grabbed you by the shoulders and asked where you were going. And when you said you were going to see Hot Chip, he shook his head in disgust and said, "No, no man. You've GOT to go see the Black Keys."
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If there's any band you'll ever regret seeing live, it's the Black Keys.
 
ha, cool. I just found out that Neko Case was singing backing vocals with the Dodos when I saw them on Sunday. Can't believe I didn't recognize her, especially since I'd just seen her the day before.
 
I was going to say "MySpace still exists??" but then I remembered how I long I held out before going over to Facebook, which I still think is lame by comparison.
 
lazarus said:
THE COURT!

Adam Claycourt speaks to Shuttlecock.Com in Turin

I have a hard time imagining an EP from this band, but nice to see they're thinking outside their conservative box. We know they can still put at least 6-7 good songs on an album, it's just a matter of whether or not they get the right ones.
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Just watched this.

I don't want to read too much into some off the cuff remarks made by a recovering alcoholic in a bedazzled T-shirt, but:

I very much like the idea that they're reluctant to "go away for a while" and then come back again with the full-on, 5 nights on Letterman, balls to the wall promotion machine. They don't need to do that shit anymore. That makes me happy, and bodes well for us not having to wait until 2012 or 2013 to hear new studio stuff from the band.
 
coolian2 said:
the miracle is how sexy he still is :adam:
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It's been a great night of music listening for me. Just finished listening to Wild Nothing's Gemini for the second time (the first listen was interrupted many times by wifi crashing) and it's definitely a top ten album of the year for me. One reviewer said it sounded like The Cure, Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine, but with a fresher spin. That was pretty much an accurate description, though I'd leave out the Cure.

And this is a fucking awesome song.

YouTube - Wild Nothing - Gemini - Drifter
 
Yeah, agreed. It's not fresh at all, IMO -- a few bands a year break through with albums like this, whether it be M83, Pains of Being Pure At Heart, or The Horrors -- but I think Gemini hits the spot. The song you posted is probably the best, although you can't go wrong with first single Summer Holiday.
 
By fresher I didn't mean original, just something that didn't sound like it came out in the late 80s/early 90s.


Modern, I am told, would be the word I'm looking for :doh:
 
I liked it until the vocals came in. A bit too buried and muddled for me. Just not really my bag, in the vocals department. But I don't mean to be a party pooper. Could just be a combination of YouTube and my shitty speakers right now.
 
GirlsAloudFan said:
I very much like the idea that they're reluctant to "go away for a while" and then come back again with the full-on, 5 nights on Letterman, balls to the wall promotion machine. They don't need to do that shit anymore. That makes me happy, and bodes well for us not having to wait until 2012 or 2013 to hear new studio stuff from the band.
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The problem is that (and I posted this in the New Music thread in The Place That Shall Remain Nameless) the band shouldn't need to go through that giant monster promo machine for an album, but that doesn't just mean releasing a dinky EP, either. They can just ride the current wave of being in the public eye and put something out a la Cockropa, or for a more modern comparison, In Rainbows. Even if it's minus the digital only/pay whatever model. The point is that Radiohead had very little advance notice and just dropped the shit. Didn't need a music video, all the other advertising bullshit, etc.

So my point is that there is a middle ground the band can (and should) explore. I doubt the band would really agree on an EP anyway.
 
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