New Blonde Redhead-23
 

So...it's leaked. Has anyone heard it yet?

What do you think? Do you like it as much as Misery (which was fantastic, IMO).

It's really shoegaze/late 80's early 90's 4AD sounding (which makes sense, given that they are on 4AD).

have not but I am glad a new one is coming out!
I love the redhead. Misery was crazy good.

If you liked Misery then you will prob. like 23. It takes the ornate song writing of Misery and marries it to a guazy,shoegazey sound. I'm really digging this record. Can't wait to see it performed live.

I thought Misery is a Butterfly sounded really shitty live though. From the way you're describing the new material, unless they change their tactics I don't see this being much different.

I think BRH is one of the best live rock band I've ever seen! Their songs become raw on stage, which gives a sort of parallel second existence to their albums: there's the studio version and there's the live version! I listened to "silently" it makes me think of "in particular"! I love it!

I've not heard much by them and never seen them live, but what I have heard hasn't really done it for me. Maybe I should give them another go.

I really liked seeing the Misery material played live. They do tend to pare it down a bit. It really does become rawer and more like their older material.

I really think the 23 stuff is going to be amazing live. I hope they try and pull anMBV and really crank up the the volume so you can physically feel the layers and texture.

I'm downloading this as we speak. If you're a demonoid user, here's the link...

www.demonoid.com/files/details/1027937/11197494

excluding the first couple tracks ( quite classic-straight forward-kazu driven-melodic brh") it's pure pop geniuses at work. "The Publisher" is one of the best proper songs I heard in years. Very layered record, and i love how the sounds of instruments/keyboards/voice/samples work together. Melodies are great. Golden songwriting. The only drawback is that there's NO WAY to pull it off this good in a live set... but I hope they'll pleasantly surpass my expectations live (last time i saw them they were not too good...).

To be honest, I found this record to be mediocore at best. All songs except one were decent. IMO, the shittiest track on this album is, "Silently".

All in all, I'd give it a 4 out of 10.

Yea, Silently is not the best thing they've ever committed to tape, but, Spring and by Summer Fall, 23, Dr. Strangeluv and a few other ones whose titles I can't remember are doing right by me. I hope this record gets the band the larger audience they rightly deserve, but, I'm not holding my breath.

who has my you send it?

Yeah, but I thought the songs on Misery worked because of the lavish arrangements and tight production value. Without that, the songs just sounded skimpy live. In my opinion of course.

After a first listen I'm also very disappointed by the new record, it sounds uninspired compared to their previous two records which were masterpieces.

Well, after a second listen it's not that bad :o But I still think it's not as good as Misery.

While I strongly believe that this record is 10x better than any mainstream type record, it's not the type of record that put's a group on the map. If that made any sense. But, I do wish Blonde Redhead would get more appreciation. They do deserve it.

Dunno, it's more pure pop sounding than misery, but the "layering" is still there, and that's what , in my opinion, makes this a good record too: even the most melodic songs have an amazing "research" in sounds and composition... I think "the dress" , "publisher" (its hook is simply amazing), "sw" and a couple other songs are way better than the songs sung by kazu on misery ( in my opinion amedeo's tracks were much better than kazu ones on misery)..but I'm not trying to persuade anyone, just expressing my opinions, eh?

maybe you should wait until it comes out on vinyl and listen to it as it was intended. everything sounds shitty and lame on MP3

No, you're right. 23 is not the album that would give BRH more "mass appeal". I don't even know if they could make that kind of album. BRH just seems like the type of band that is always going to be really underrated; a real cult band. I liken BRH's situation to Unwound's or Polvo's: Bands who release a string of increasingly great albums but, for one reason or another, pleteau (spelling?).

im so behind with BR. im riding slsk like a bucking pony right now.