World's End Girlfriend

he also goes by worlds end boyfriend. he has a new album coming out under the name of worlds end girlfriend.

got Seven Idiots in the mail and am really impressed by it. just bonkers really. but also that undercurrent of super-melodic lite-classical strings and things (faux-satie piano stuff) approach that seems to be this guy's fave mix technique (bonkers + melodic). anyway, can see why the post-rock crowd loves him so much. dig seven idiots way more than most schizo-core stuff. like it way more than any Sigh album as far as over the top stuff goes too. the whole album can be a bit of an endurance test if you aren't in the mood, but i wss definitely in the mood tonight. at various times i was reminded of severed heads, young gods, zorn, drum&bass, gabba, various tape splice cut-up modern electronic stuff, various prog shredders, various idm dudes, and jeez probably a lot more on top of all that. but it works. this is actually one of the more normal tracks from the album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfG_G2O2q40

this guy also did the very lovely score for Hirokazu Kore-eda's Air Doll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrC1YlYzxB0

and basically the big plus with this album is that the overt post-rock godspeed/mono-isms are barely there. love the heavily produced cut-up action. i WISH more people would use the rock base or the acoustic base and fuck with it more. i mean, people do, but i like when its done well. electroacousic rock music. remember really liking the point album by cornelius and this album is like waaaaaay next level in comparison. its an evolutionary leap forward. some of the live clips with saxophone i dig, but again when it starts climbing godspeed mountain i bail. the stuff on youtube with the beats and noise is really the best stuff. so, there is genuine progression from the old stuff on this latest album.

saw these guys live last summer and it was really, really weird music- they played at a giant outdoor rave-ish festival in the japanese countryside- I swear they did a "cover" of Autechre's "second bad vilbel" at one point- good! strange!

he has his face blurred out intentionally in this live footage!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxjKSaoz380&feature=related

that live clip is a tad bit on the crescendo-rock side of things but it gets really good about 9 minutes in if you hang out that long! plus, i dig the sax.

this is on the noisier side. but still the strings!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNqu6g_uFOI&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=MLGxdCwVVULXfOxnea3ukiNx0CAf623ZCe

and this is definitely the noisiest/most chaotic thing on seven idiots. really like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_UC3agrzBc

this seems like l0u1s jagg3r catnip

yeah, totally. he digs good stuff though. i don't know what the hell is up with that cardiacs band, but what the hell, i listen to tons of questionable shit.

This is a pretty cool album. The comparison with Cornelius is fair but if you are talking about Senuous-era I think the C-man is way out in a league of his own sonically speaking. Also there's a lot more going on in WEG than Cornelius usually bothers with. I put it alongside Jason Forrest's last album - it's a mash-up/IDM/Breakbeat album with crescendos amde of rock guitar riffs, massive cymbals and big bass drums. It made me think of Mike Oldfield's Amarok album too.

I listen to quite a bit of the heavy side of techno/breakbeat so I was kinda expecting it to go there sooner or later but it never really did, which surprised me a bit.

It's certainly my favourite album of this kind of thing that I've heard in a few years.

its well done. and well made. and interesting to listen to. when you have that wide mix of stuff going on its easy for things to become a mess or less than compelling. but the whole album holds together well. its very definitely an "album". or a piece.

Usually with things like this there is one or two really outstanding tracks that catch my interest and the rest just follows along. I've only listened a few times and it's difficult to think about the tracks seperately (so far). I think that's why it's kind of like Amarok - it's like one big long thing.

Yeah I dunno folks. It's got some good tracks but it's not connecting as a whole.

And I appreciate Scott's enthusiasm and all but man, didn't the whole feeling of "here's ANOTHER quick cut/speed-up/frenetoedit wowyouweren'texpectingthatwereyou!" get a little tiring?

Usually with things like this there is one or two really outstanding tracks that catch my interest and the rest just follows along.

In fact this is actually what I think about it! My three takeaway tracks would be "Les Enfants du Paradis," "Helter Skelter Cha-Cha-Cha" and "Unfinished Finale Shed." I'll give it another listen tonight to be fair, though.

I haven't listened to the whole thing since I posted two weeks ago so that perhaps shows that I agree with you. The two tracks that ended up impressing themselves on me were totally different though - Teenage Ziggy and Galaxy Kid 666. I put them in a mix, jammed between stuff like Anamanaguchi and DJ Technorch and they sound great. But yeah, over a whole album the effect is lost as your senses get bludgeoned with crescendos and breakdowns. I'm a sucker for this kind of thing (I hesitate to call it a "genre" since it covers a pretty wide range of styles) and it seems to almost always about tracks, not albums. If an album that is undeniably fresh-sounding only has three of four superb tracks then it's still an outstanding album in my mind because the newness/novelty quotient is more valuable to me than consistency over 40 minutes.

Quite like the video for Les Enfants but really can't see the appeal otherwise.

Another listen with a different pair of speakers definitely helps (more bass, for one thing). But yeah, this is definitely a 'tracks not albums' deal here -- good tracks, though! I admire Scott's ability to let the full thing connect over 75 minutes.

yeah, but i don't know many times i could do it. i do admire it as, you know, a piece of work. but its not the kind of music i listen to very often. whatever you would call it.