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Trentemøller - Into The Great Wide Yonder (new album)
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| SYSTEM-J |
Why the has nobody even mentioned this?
Tracklist:
01 The Mash and the Fury
02 Sycamore Feeling
03 Past the Beginning of the End
04 Shades of Marble
05 ...Even Though You're With Another Girl
06 Haxan
07 Metamorphis
08 Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider Go!!!
09 Neverglade
10 Tide |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Which critics? None of the major sites have covered it, and there are no reviews coming up on Google either. I've only seen the Mixmag review for it. This album is get a shockingly small amount of coverage. |
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| KrisA |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Which critics? None of the major sites have covered it, and there are no reviews coming up on Google either. I've only seen the Mixmag review for it. This album is get a shockingly small amount of coverage. |
Ah sorry. I was referring to national media. Various newspapers, magazines and major websites/portals have generally given it some positive reviews.
He was interviewed about the album among other things last week. He talked about saying "no" to perform with Kanye West, stepping back from doing club remixes and the title of the album. |
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| Redd |
| Yeah I've heard just about nothing about this. How is it? |
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| SYSTEM-J |
It's a lot more shoegazey than The Last Resort. It's still very atmospheric and downtempo, but this time the techniques and instruments sound a lot more post-rock than techno and house. There's virtually no clubby percussion at all. To me it sounds like Andres is aiming for the indie crowd rather than the club crowd. In a way that makes it more baffling that there hasn't been more interest from the blog circuit.
On first listen I'd say it's definitely not as good as The Last Resort, but The Last Resort was a bit of a grower for me. I definitely prefer clubby influences over post-rock ones, but for me there are a lot of bands out there doing this kind of electronic-shoegaze sound. It doesn't sound distinctively Trentemoller. |
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| Guest |
| i had no idea this release existed. thx for heads up |
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| Kismet7 |
I heard this on whatpeopleplay, not exactly what i'm into, but I think its a good show of his talent and his artistic vision. As far as the response, I think people enjoy his work for dancefloors. Particularly, his music that blurs the line between artistic expression and functional viable dancefloor music. Which is quite difficult and respectable when pulled off. And he has pulled it off many times.
The question is, does Trentemoller have to create dancefloor music? Or would he rather make something more purely expressive, artistic, and not cater to the dancefloor and the limitations it creates when making music. I don't think he is in the struggle to build his name through making club music. Given the direction of this album, he probably wants to build himself as an expressive artist, because he can afford to now, and sees making accessible club music as limiting. Especially these days, where DJs are playing easy to mix grooves instead of music with musical, emotional, harmonic content. |
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| KrisA |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kismet7
and sees making accessible club music as limiting. |
He hasn't mentioned that as far as I know. He said that this album 'just happened' and he didn't have a sort of plan of how it should be shaped. He's also learned to play a lot of instruments which became a part of the record. That and the fact that he has been a part of a rock band in the past, probably has a lot to do with how it turned out stylewize. |
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| Jeremy H |
| Haven't heard anything about this release. Thanks for the heads up! |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kismet7
The question is, does Trentemoller have to create dancefloor music? Or would he rather make something more purely expressive, artistic, and not cater to the dancefloor and the limitations it creates when making music. |
I don't think The Last Resort was dancefloor music. It was certainly influenced by dance music, but most of the tracks were too slow, too ambient, DJ-unfriendly. What he did was take those clubby sounds and influences and made a brilliant, listenable album. I also don't think this one is more expressive or artistic just because he's traded in dub techno for post rock. |
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