Dominique Leone is fucking amazing (insanely melodic art-pop-centric)
One of the best Pitchfork writers, and as it turns out one of the best musicians to come out of America in a long while. This is the opening track of his new EP, which is available for free on Soundcloud:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eew38kFQtUY
I think it's absolutely wondrous - I've described it as "pretty much how I WANT Animal Collective to sound in my fantasy dreamworld if they by some chance discovered one (1) melodic sensibility" and "like musical crack to me" - it's one of my absolute stone-dead favourite tracks of 2010.
If you like it, search 'Dominique Leone' on Spotify, and listen to both his albums. They're brilliant. The guy worships XTC, The Beach Boys, Cardiacs, The Boredoms, Max Tundra and all manner of art-rock groups - consequently his music is both challenging and utterly listenable, a hard trick to pull at the best of times.
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people who describe music as challenging
song's alright there
The dude's stuff IS quite challenging at times!
Makes more sense after a few listens, y'know.
hahaha I have burned all the CDs now
and last night I even said I hadn't forgotten! (on the People Who... thread)
don't sweat it dude
No! But remind me...I think I liked what I heard...
Are they like The Display Team?
Right, here's a link to the Denseland album for me to enjoy
http://www.myspace.com/denseland/music/albums/chunk-15266885
and here's a link to The Display Team's shiz
http://www.myspace.com/thedisplayteam
as you can see, their musical interests are relevant to this thread
BUT NOT NEARLY AS GOOD
probably - I haven't listened to them in a while either, but I'd like to hear their album
There's a whole host of twisty joyful 'Cardiacs-family' music out there - Stars In Battledress, Camp Blackfoot, most things named in this thread, Ultrasound, even Lapsus Linguae (by default)...unsurprisingly I kinda love it all
Cardiacs themselves were very varied - which tunes have you yet heard? I need to fire these CDs off ASAP don't I?
Denseland so far sounding awesome - really dark, arrhythmic, CHALLENGING (lol) material - loving it
hahaha Denseland is a bit like
Tom Waits having a fight with Captain Beefheart in Einstuerzende Neubauten's studio
but completely its own thing as well :D
ok listened to the whole album
it's great, would recommend it to any open-minded listener
Both albums are incredible - AE more focused and consistent maybe
and DL more schizoid (Nous Tombons Dans Elle and The Return are mind-melting though)
AE is just plain art-pop brilliance. Sometimes You've Got To Be Happy is pretty much as good as any song XTC ever wrote, the rest ain't far behind (my god, Happy New Year and Nellie McKay, my god)
He's just won music
won it. like, actually gone in and come out victorious
http://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/album/january
one track for every day of 2013. and if that wasn't enough on its own, THEY'RE ALL FUCKING AMAZING. 'february' is if anything even better than 'january'. it's just astonishing, wide-eyed ecstasy. my mind is blown and my breath taken. listen to it. drop what you're doing. listen. please.
oh, jebus
I like the song you linked to in the OP, but a 31 track "album" is just too much.
Challenging? Well, in the sense that it would be bloody difficult to find time to sit down and listen to all the songs.
yeah cheers acoleuthic, we already know
( :D )
(I am intrigued by that massive thread on ILX tho).
Some of this is preeeeeeetty rad. gotta say.
Seems ha has a lot of ideas.
he does
and beyond 'keyboard hypermelody' he doesn't seem bound by trifling things like genres either
the quality control is astonishing, as is his love of hitting you from outta nowhere with something completely inspired
this thread is putting me right off listening to him
Acoleuthic <3
This is like all things he loves thrown together in a stew so you'll have to excuse his excitement.
fucking DiS
every day I hate this place a little more. fortunately this project exists. listen to 'uses' (ulrich schnauss verse-lift notwithstanding), 'you can never, ever stop me from loving you' and 'wish you could be here' from 'february' and then join me in the happy world of dominique leone, away from this shower of fucking negativity and sub-nasal horizons
o and <3 shipment obvs
turns out ilx was just much better all along, weird how i didn't realise this until recently
you're wasted on this place, dear boy
X
might listen to this laterrrr
then again I might not
how'd ya like that, louis
die
:(
sorry, anal
vaudeville carry-ons and DiS can't mix
at least give those 3 songs a swirl before I go full brusma
I'm actually listening to january right now
I was wildly impressed by the first song - hyperactive, quite aggressive, strangely poppy, with an amazing guitar sola.
not quite enjoyed the rest of them as much so far, but there's definitely a lot to like in here
cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djyCyaYDick