fart said:
la foret, another day on earth
i'm trying to form impressions of the two. maybe it's just my mood right now, but i think both are just too subdued. the albums have their highlights, but i don't know...
I kind of agree, but I really haven't listened to La Foret in a while. I'm hoping that I'll listen to it again during release and fall in love with it.
I honestly didn't expect the follow-up to Fabulous Muscles to be as good as their previous material, but it would be nice if it did. Something like Xiu Xiu can't possibly last indefinitely, and I think they reached the limits of their sonic terrain on their last album and the singles/splits that followed. La Foret is definitely good, but it doesn't have an OMG GOOD song like Apistat Commander, I Luv the Valley, Suha, or Jennifer Lopez.
The good news is that the Ten in the Swear Jar collection is out either this month or next. That material is excellent, for the most part. If they could do a decent job of remastering it, it could be Xiu Xiu quality.
EDIT: Eno. . .early impressions - The album is front-loaded. The first couple of songs are great, but then he goes into mostly textural territory. Not a bad thing, per se, but this waws being hyped as his big return to vocal albums. I would've listened to it more but I got a Violent Femmes boner and it's not going away.
Everything's been boring and uninteresting lately. It's rather depressing.