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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: kosmo vinyl on May 18, 2004, 11:47:00 am
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Anyone know how long we'll have to wait for the new Ash record to come out stateside? Or will I end up with two copies like "Free All Angels"... Cause ya know the UK and US versions will be different. So anyone pony up for the import? I see CD Wow has it for $17, but it's not the limited edition version with bonus live disc... Other than CD Wow, which UK sites ship to the US without including the VAT.
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well it maybe awhile before this cd comes out here....
From the Ash website.
ABANDON SHIP
20 April 2004
Kinetic Records unfortunately folded on Friday 26th March. We'd like to say a big thank you to Steve Lau who showed great faith in us helped us establish a solid underground fanbase. Tav is currently in negotiations with interested parties and we are still hoping for a US release later this year.
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Thanks for the info kosmo.
That's terribly annoying. I think I'll check for the import at Amoeba this week and get back to you.
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while trying to confirm this info, the kinetic records website is alive an well, i found out that the guy that ran kenetic was the sax play in the ocean blue... trivial yes but i do love my connections :D
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annoying is it exactly... this is the third ash release in a row that has delayed due to not having a us record company to distribute it. it also means a tour may not even take place depending on who they sign with. :p
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$22.99 at Amoeba with the special live CD.
I'll be in DC next weekend. Kosmo, let me know if you want me to pick a copy for you.
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it wins the award for most irritating packaging I've ever seen - the two CDs are in seperate paper sleeves, there are a few other extraneous bits of paper in the middle and it all goes into a flexible plastic case.....
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Originally posted by brennser:
it wins the award for most irritating packaging I've ever seen - the two CDs are in seperate paper sleeves, there are a few other extraneous bits of paper in the middle and it all goes into a flexible plastic case.....
Is that what that is? It looked odd as hell when I picked it up, but I didn't purchase it. Comes in a vaccum sealed soft plastic casing, kind of like beef jerky.
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Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by brennser:
it wins the award for most irritating packaging I've ever seen - the two CDs are in seperate paper sleeves, there are a few other extraneous bits of paper in the middle and it all goes into a flexible plastic case.....
Is that what that is? It looked odd as hell when I picked it up, but I didn't purchase it. Comes in a vaccum sealed soft plastic casing, kind of like beef jerky. [/b]
yup, thats it :mad:
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Originally posted by vansmack:
$22.99 at Amoeba with the special live CD.
I'll be in DC next weekend. Kosmo, let me know if you want me to pick a copy for you.
yes please, thats a great price
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i found the album online, just search around, unfortunately nothing as catchy or quality as on "Free All Angels"
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Well thanks to smackie I've be blastin' the Ash since Saturday night... It's caused a little competition with the new Burning Brides CD as the Summer CD of '04. But the Division of Laura Lee CD is also quite a stunner as well. And with the new Hives out soon, its going to get quite interesting.
On a couple tracks you hear can hear the early Iron Madien cover band roots showing through. It's a bit like the younger louder brother of "Free All Angels" but it's still got the goods and I can't wait to hear the stuff live. Even though the bands plays their instruments fast on a couple tracks flawd still won't like it.
Charlotte the bands guitarist has a slow record in the works you can download the first single "Kim Wilde" from www.charlottehatherley.com. (http://www.charlottehatherley.com.) The single has a 80's new wave feel updated for the new century.
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hmmmm, you like it that much eh? I was a little dissapointed but am still getting used to it
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it's a summer record, probably wont stand the test of time like "free all angels", but it rocks and makes me feel all warm inside when it's cranked up. it has the feel of being a bit of a "free all angels" leftovers album, with some more foo fighters like production. it's a formula i like at the moment...
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They have it at tower for $20 I think, but i haven't yet splurged. I'm surprised you like the Laura Lee album. I don't have the new one yet, but the first one was a bit harder that what i imagine you liking...
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Originally posted by redsock:
the first one was a bit harder that what i imagine you liking...
it also sucked balls, sorry, but they put on one of the worst shows i have seen in the last couple of years
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I bought it based on this CMJ review and it's living up to my expectation... varied it certainly is
DIVISION OF LAURA LEE: Das Not Compute
Anyone needing evidence of the power of geography as a marketing tool need look no further than Division Of Laura Lee, who crashed American shores via the 2002 Swedish garage-rock invasion, while boasting almost none of the one-dimensional swagger and far more mystery and torment than countrymen like the Hives or ??Demons.? Two years later, those bands work on writing the same song 11 more times while D.O.L.L.??s latest, Das Not Compute, makes the stylistic schism even more apparent by cranking up the post-millennial angst and shifting tempo and atmosphere on nearly every track. In the space of a mere three songs, guitarist/ vocalist Per Stålberg hops from Wire-y paranoia (??Endless Factories?) to Jesus And Mary Chain-style creeping beauty (??Breathe Breathe?), ending with the grime of ??Dirty Love,? its hedonist chorus asking ??What can I do to get you off the dancefloor?? Tracks like ??To The Other Side? present the band??s take on heartfelt balladry and as such don??t pack the same urgency, but D.O.L.L. gets hip points for drenching a song in distortion, delay and reverb and calling it ??Loveless? for a proper My Bloody Valentine homage. Meanwhile, the punk-meets-Stone-Roses drive of ??All Street End? alone could send the band??s Nordic peers scurrying back home.
- CHAD SWIATECKI
the review (http://www.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=547177)
have the old d.o.l.l. via emusic and haven't given it many listens to form an opinion
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If you're talking about the gig with Burning Brides at the Black Cat, then I'd have to agree.
Originally posted by pollard:
they put on one of the worst shows i have seen in the last couple of years
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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
If you're talking about the gig with Burning Brides at the Black Cat, then I'd have to agree.
yes i am, I did not stay for long
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i like dvsn maybe partially because my name is laura.. but i was kinda confused when i listened to the new album and got to the last song and said wow this sounds familiar. maybe there is a point behind it, but they use the line
footprints in the window
from someone whos my friend
that will be my doorway
when im back again
in two different songs. i just havent figured out the point yet.