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Post by neige on Feb 4, 2021 19:37:02 GMT
I'm a big fan of Tom Ze's weirdness, but he doesn't seem need my love here.
A, on the other hand, is new to me and totally up my street
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Post by DarknessFish on Feb 4, 2021 20:32:21 GMT
I think the studied cool of the video to A has put people off here, the font, the clothers, the rug, everything. It's a shame, because it's a nice stripped back bass heavy thing, which is much more minimal than the likes of Stereolab or Broadcast executed in a similar sphere. The drumming is almost Silver Apples-esque in its repetitive funkiness, too.
B has a more natural element of cool, this is the kind of laid-back suave latin sound that you get in many an advert hoping to tag a vision of cool onto an item of footware or sugary drink. It seems to stutter along in a disjointed kinda way though, almost like the song was never really completed, and has been patched together in a rush.
Not a bad tie this, but I'll throw A a bone.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2021 22:34:16 GMT
which is much more minimal than the likes of Stereolab or Broadcast executed in a similar sphere. You say that like it's a good thing.
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Post by oleandermedian on Feb 5, 2021 13:26:23 GMT
A was OK and I listened with pleasure. Tom Zé bats it out of the park, however. The bits where the rhythm section ups the temperature are wonderful.
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Post by daveythefatboy on Feb 5, 2021 20:51:38 GMT
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Post by rayge on Feb 6, 2021 15:42:24 GMT
Don't know anything about either of these, but all the comments above, both postve and negative, have made me apprehensive. Like dayodead, I'm not sure why this is so hated. It's pop music, yes, and of a more modern vintage than I'm used to, but it burbles by in a mildly pleasant fashion (greatly helped by not watching beyond the first few seconds of the unpleasant video, and perhaps by not being particularly familiar with Stereolab), and it's not far removed vocally from a lot of post-punk stuff I enjoyed in the 1980s. 5.5/10
Lasted less than a minute. Hated it. My apologies to the picker: I'm sure it has its virtues, but I've never enjoyed Latin music particularly, and in this instance I found it literally painful to listen to on headphones. No mark
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Post by clive gash on Feb 7, 2021 15:17:21 GMT
Bree is ok but this kind of record collection rock does demand a bigger injection of personality to raise it above pastiche.
I like to pretend to enjoy this kinda foreign muck so it’s B
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2021 17:17:07 GMT
Dayodead 5 Nolamike 14
Tables to come later in the evening.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2021 17:48:38 GMT
Didn't lose by double digits, so there's that, I guess..
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2021 20:41:33 GMT
Can't believe we had all these replies and no one gave in to the temptation of calling Bree a bit 'cheesey'
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Post by nolamike on Feb 8, 2021 14:34:01 GMT
Thanks y'all! Zé was such a kook. I love how he cheekily snuck the cover of the album by Brazil's censors at the time - the title is "All Eyes," and the cover *does* look like a weird sort of eye... but it's actually a marble balanced on an asshole. Zé's grew up as a poor nobody from a podunk town in Brazil, went to a fancy conservatory on a scholarship, and then decided that he hated everything about how "formal" his instructors viewed music - so he decided that he'd spend his life trying to blow up everythiing within those structures. You can hear it in this track - yes, it seems at points to be traditional, and then you have those weird guitars that are just slightly "off," and the bonkers percussion bubbling up from time to time in the background, and a certain restrained psychedelic wooziness to the track overall. Great stuff!
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