James. Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
para-para-parrotdies Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Well, someone beat me to it... ...and Thom confirmed it! :o :dance: Also some of Thom & Nigel's responses on Reddit are absolutely hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gloaming09 Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Can't stop listening to the song AMOK Top 3 favorites would be: Before Your Very Eyes, AMOK and Reverse Running Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolverwin Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Top 3: Before Your Very Eyes, Reverse Running, Ingenue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getithom Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Reverse Running, Amok and Judge, Jury and Executioner are so good. This whole album is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Italian Plastic Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 ive started skipping Judge, Jury and Executioner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny and the cake Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 ive started skipping Judge, Jury and Executioner it's my favourite lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 According to a dude on another forum I visit, "Amok" is terrible and should be avoided. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
para-para-parrotdies Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 According to a dude on another forum I visit, "Amok" is terrible and should be avoided. Thoughts? The album is good. What albums does this guy think is worthwhile? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnspieler1012 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 It's a giant bowl of ice cream and cheesecake for me. Listening for the 4th time as I type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 The album is good. What albums does this guy think is worthwhile? I'm not really sure. That's the only post I've seen him make when it comes to this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gloaming09 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I'm not really sure. That's the only post I've seen him make when it comes to this year. Amok as in the song or the album? Either way you should listen to it! it's great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corkus Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 "Before Your Very Eyes" is fantastic. The rest of the album is pretty good, but nothing else quite lives up to the first track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getithom Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Does anyone else really like Stuck Together Pieces? it's incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
para-para-parrotdies Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Atoms for Peace Sign Up for BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix As Mixmag report, Atoms For Peace will contribute to BBC Radio 1′s long-running Essential Mix series next month. The show, which will broadcast on March 2 at 1.00am, will give Yorke and Godrich two hours to play with. Previous Yorke mixes have featured the likes of Blawan, Four Tet and Actress, plus the occasional exclusive to boot. No doubt they’ll be hoping to follow in the footsteps of Nicolas Jaar, whose sprawling session was named Essential Mix Of The Year. [ame=http://soundcloud.com/dazedandconfused/exclusive-thom-yorke-mix]Thom Yorke ? exclusive Dazed Digital mix by Dazed Digital on SoundCloud - Hear the world?s sounds[/ame] http://www.factmag.com/2013/02/19/atoms-for-peace-sign-up-for-bbc-radio-1-essential-mix/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Amok as in the song or the album? Either way you should listen to it! it's great! The album. Yeah, I was gonna listen to it, anyway. I heard a cut of it on NPR's "All Songs Considered" and really liked it. (I think it was "Before Your Very Eyes," as they said it was the opening track.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldplaymom Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 With Atoms For Peace, Thom Yorke Becomes Aphex Twin’s Coldplay 02.19.13 Michael Tedder C hris Martin once told Newsweek Magazine that he has an unrequited love affair with Thom Yorke, a man who once dismissed Martin’s band Coldplay as lifestyle music. “I’m in love with a lot of things. Some of those things love me back. And some of them don’t — and one of them is Radiohead.” I am not in a position to say to what extent marrying a movie star, befriending Jay-Z and leading one of the most popular bands in the world can salve the sting of one of your heroes dismissing you, but I am in the position to say that Martin’s clear need to win the respect of Yorke (and to a lesser extent, Jon Pareles) ended up making his band a lot more interesting. You don’t write songs with elliptical titles like “Death And All His Friends” if you don’t have something to prove. Yorke has never weighed in on Coldplay‘s new direction, but he probably understands the impulse. Thom Yorke has his own Thom Yorke. His name is Richard D. James, better known as the pioneering musician Aphex Twin. Yorke has frequently called him his favorite musician on the planet, and recently told Dazed & Confused that “he burns a heavy shadow. Aphex Twin opened up another world that didn’t involve my fucking electric guitar.” But it turns that everybody is somebody’s lifestyle music; James has said of Radiohead: “I heard about five or six songs and considered them really crappy!” Yorke is not as revealing of an interview subject as Martin, so I don’t know how much the James snub bugs him. Regardless, he’s been a dutiful student of the serene and chaotic tracks that Aphex specialized in. As great as their sophomore album The Bends was, Radiohead truly caught fire when they started blending their anthemic, yearning songwriting with non-rock influences; the undulated, scrambled pulses of “Everything In Its Right Place” and the elegiac swirl of harmonies of “Let Down” were Radiohead showing the world how to incorporate DJ production techniques into guitar-rock without coming off like a nightmare from the Spawn soundtrack. And now with Amok, the debut album from his new project Atoms For Peace, Yorke has made his most pure mash note yet to the defiantly minimalist tracks that James and his peers in Matmos and Autechre perfected back when people still used the term Intelligent Dance Music. “It’s the type of album that at first provokes feelings of admiration more than love, at least at first.” Atoms For Peace started when Yorke recruited a backing band consisting of longtime Radiohead producer/multi-instrumentalist Nigel Godrich, Beck drummer Joey Waronker, percussionist Mauro Refosco and (to the surprise of many) Red Hot Chili Pepper bass-slapper Flea play his 2006 solo album The Eraser on tour. Pleased with how it came out, Yorke had the band record three days of jam sessions, which he and Godrich chopped up and tweaked around for two years between Radiohead projects. The result is a series of thick, rubbery grooves and deep-in-the-pocket fills torn apart and sewed together sideways, and then ladled with a series of sine waves and guitars treated to sound like dial-up laptops. Amok doesn’t really sound like the work of five musicians playing poly-rhythmic syncopations in a room, but there’s a give-and-take, a slow-rolling vibrancy feel here that’s missing from many modern clubland maestros. You can feel the pulsing heart, even if it’s surrounded by a deep chill. (It should also be noted that with the exception of “Stuck Together Pieces,” you wouldn’t be able to tell Flea was on this thing if you didn’t know it going in, which is probably to his credit.) As vocalist and arranger Yorke mostly pulls back, confident that the morse-code beats and arctic bass are all the hooks necessary for this thing to work. None of these songs go for the cleansing awe-climaxed that Radiohead have mastered, and the vocals are blended into the mix like one more wave of uncut sound. It’s the type of album that at first provokes feelings of admiration more than love, at least at first. But given enough time, details start pop out from the immaculate wash, such as the lightly plucked guitar and looped handclaps of “Judge, Jury And Executioner,” or the two-note Atari purr of “Ingenue.” And then the odd logic of these compositions makes sense, and everything snaps into its right place. Once you’ve spent time with Amok, “Before Your Very Eyes” becomes negative-image copy of Talking Heads’ “Born Under Punches,” and “Reverse Running” endlessly swirls and sighs. But most of this is not dance music qua dance music. Neither was most of what was regrettably titled IDM. At their best, James and his peers felt like they had found a way to reach their hands directly into your skull and lightly tap on your brain until you were suitably transfixed. Yorke might bring more firepower than his idols did, but the hypnotic bliss he achieves is ultimately as potent. He won’t be, but James should be proud of what he’s inspired. Amok is out February 26 via XL Recordings. http://www.mtvhive.com/2013/02/19/atoms-for-peace-amok/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny and the cake Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 ^i'M LAUGHING SO HARD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Its funny seeing the snobs take Aphex Twin's quote to heart. Especially after Richard D. James confessed to trolling the media with his anti-Radiohead comments. Here's the interview posted on the Aphex Twin forums. http://forum.watmm.com/topic/68649-new-afx-interview-september-2011/page-4 i love this comment from the aphex twin boards.... '' its ok to like radiohead again everyone'' :laugh3: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyan Kat Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 I really like Ingenue atm and a few others I'm sure the whole album will grow on me like Eraser did and now that's one of my favourite albums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumbersGirl Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 I'm going to patiently wait until the official release date to listen to it. Yip. Well, they are starting to announce tour dates. YAY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainplay Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Same here! I'm waiting til I have the CD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Italian Plastic Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 When the synth comes in in Before Your Very Eyes... :dead: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny and the cake Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Default is starting growing on me, at first i didn't like it but now i think it's one of the best songs on the album Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shred Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Listened to Default and I really liked it. Didn't think I would so I was pleasantly surprise. Will catch out their album... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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