The good folk over at the Hype Machine are streaming the brilliant debut album from Clock Opera called Ways To Forget . I'm not sure how much longer the stream is available for but check it out immediately. This is definitely one of the best pop records I've heard this side of 2012. Full of choppy synths and electronics, this experimental album is so much better than it should ever be.
Monday Music's the one weekly post where Some Of It Was True! drops its London-only focus. Dirty Gold - California Sunrise Ahhh, is that ocean spray on my face? No, its mild acid rain. BUT I CAN DREAM. San Diegan Dirty Gold's California Sunrise has that hazy, happy summer sound, with seagulls (literally, seagulls squawking. Nothing beats the power of suggestion) and sand being kicked in your eyes as you skip over dunes, laughing, smiling, having fun. Until you fall and land on [...]
Nothing about Clock Opera is effortless. If there's anything bad to say about frontman Guy Connelly, it's that he tries too hard, but in the same way Grizzly Bear tries too hard—the perfection throughout some songs is so striking you actually feel weighed down by how much effort went into crafting them. Like eating ice cream prepared with liquid nitrogen, you find yourself asking, "it's good, but is it so good it was worth all the trouble?" After listening to their new album, Ways to Forget I'd say yes. Calling it a [...]
Clock Opera - 'Ways To Forget' (UK Release: 23 April '12) // Words: Saam Das In November 2009, I described Guy Connelly as potentially the next Tom Vek . Over the next few years, he broadened and honed his skills with three other fine musicians, including producing the odd jaw-dropping remix in his spare time. The wait is finally over and Clock Opera 's 'Ways To Forget' is one of the finest debuts of the year thus [...]
According to an excellent interview with singer and main man Guy Connelly by Londonist , Clock Opera 's latest single Man Made is partly "constructed from a story in a 50p magazine about a beauty pageant in a Siberian women's prison, whereby the winner was granted parole". This case history aptly demonstrates the breathless inventiveness of this fourpiece, and that fact's also loudly, proudly on show in the newest offering. For here are vintage Clock Opera touches: jangly and catchy up-tempo beats, a powerful video and vocals packed with emotion and feeling. [...]
Gabriel Bruce I'm no fan of the deluxe reissue trend - at least not with respect to an album that came out less than a year ago - as it tends to punish the biggest fans, those who would have bought the original issue and most want whatever bonus materials are applied to the reissue. So while I don't greet the news that Emmy The Great is doing this with last year's Virtue - one of my faves of 2011 - I at least appreciate that some [...]
Listen to Clock Opera 's debut album "Ways To Forget" below. Clock Opera 's anticipated debut album "Ways To Forget" , which is bound to bring some great stuff their way, comes out next week, but you can listen to it in its entirety right now thanks to The Hype Machine . The record is full of the synth-heavy anthemic tunes that previously releasd tracks like "Man Made" and "Once And For All" [...]
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Next week Clock Opera will release their impeccable debut album Ways To Forget . It's packed full of musical innovation and playfulness. It's hard to put a label on what it is because it ticks so many of the boxes in the case of genre and beauty. Lucky for us, the band have offered up a full stream of the album via Hype Machine . Check it put below and be sure to pick up the album when it drops on April the 23rd via Moshi Moshi / Island Records. You can pre-order it over [...]
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we been hailing about Clock Opera since their day one now here is the huge milestone, their debut LP Ways To Forget will be out on April 23rd via Moshi Moshi
I was looking forward to this! The Hype Machine are hosting a full-album stream of Clock Opera 's album debut Ways To Forget , out next week via Moshi Moshi/Island . From the Clock Opera content I've put in previous posts, I already absolutely love a bunch of songs on this album, but I still don't know them all yet. Just about to dive in, you? Also, here's an album sampler/teaser the band put on their website a few weeks ago.
Posted in Play-This-List Soundbite Serious contender for pop album of the year? I think so. (via hypem)
Very happy to share this with you: a stream (thanks Hypem ) of Clock Opera 's long-awaited debut album Ways To Forget , which is out next week via Moshi Moshi/Island. I expected it to be amazing and it simply is amazing from start to finish. You could call it synth-pop but it's actually so much more - Clock Opera have evolved from a one-man project to the quartet they are now, which you can definitely hear in their sound. The Sunday Times calls Ways To Forget " one of the undisputed masterpieces [...]
A vaguely dissonant and withering vocal chord gives the distinct impression of early TV On The Radio, quickly includes a hooky, hopeful melody from Lost Lander on single "Cold Feet". It is a buzzy and spacious arrangement featuring the most lyrical bass guitar of 2012, an instrument very nearly speaking its own language and on its own accord, an insistent and monosyllabic tongue. The synths,
Cat Stevenslores The general assumption as to whoy Teenage Fanclub release albums so infrequently - 20102s Shadows was just their third effort in the 21st century, assuming you count 2000 as part of this millenium - is that despite having three superb songwriters in their ranks, they just work very, very slowly; if this is true, then clearly bassist Gerard Love isn't the limiting factor. Based on Electric Cables , the debut album from his solo project as Lightships , he has no shortage of [...]
B3SCI took to the streets of Austin in March for the 25th annual South by Southwest. We braved/raged through the musical flurry of performances, ridiculous entourages, grid-locked streets, fantastic rumors and more while covering some of the world's top breaking talent. Below are some choice highlights from our experience (during festival highlights here ), including our most recent Virgin Mobile Live broadcast featuring tunes from festival acts as well interviews with Fast Years, Tashaki Miyaki, PAPA and Saint Motel tracked on the streets of SX. Full set list here . ______________________________ _ [...]
Two more weeks until Clock Opera unveil their astonishing debut full-length Ways To Forget , yet they tease us a bit more with a Daytrotter session. The band play Belongings , Man Made and Once and For All (which you surely heard by now ), plus a previously unheard song The Lost Buoys .
Their set featured: Belongings Lost Boy Man Made Once & For All Download all tracks here. Clock Opera recently performed in Brooklyn. Like Clock Opera on Facebook. MP3: Blood Orange - Champagne Coast (Clock Opera Mix)
Anyone who paid attention to our 2012 South by Southwest coverage will be aware of my glowing CoSign of British chop-pop act Clock Opera . Offering a dazzling live show, complete with the clanging of old silverware, the band has made the harrowing transition to an equally captivating record of synth-powered gold with their debut, Ways to Forget . For relying so heavily on synths, the album is neither overly technical and gloomy nor glitchy and bubbly. Instead, the group has found the perfect balance between intricacy and sheer abandonment. "Lost Buoys" is [...]
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