[kj] MMXII first listen:

[Neil Perry]

Nice blog post Alex and to a degree I'm with you - my girlfriend always
asks why I don't just
download a new LP from itunes instead of adding yet another ugly plastic CD
case (or even
more space-consuming vinyl LP) to the
groaning shelves - and my answer is always the same, I want the physical
product with
the artwork etc etc. Why? I don't really know, my only answer being that
I'm old and this
is what I've always known. Talking to my 17-year-old nephew, who finds it
hilarious that
I still buy vinyl, is always an interesting experience - he loves music (he
is quite an
accomplished guitarist and is in a band) but the actual physical music
products he owns
can fit into a shoebox.
But as for waiting for the official release date and excitedly running home
with a CD/LP
as I once used to do, I guess those days really are over, at least as far
as KJ and a handful
of other bands are concerned. It feels like months since I placed my order
for MMXII and
I've been itching to hear it. Getting to hear the early snippets I equate
with the days when I used
to hole up in my bedroom listening to the John Peel show hoping that he'd
play a new song
from one of my favourite bands a few weeks before the single/album was
actually released -
if I could have gone to Amazon back then to hear a 30-second clip, I would
have.

And I also experienced the same emotions upon seeing the Adorations sleeve
for the first time...

n


On 27 March 2012 15:07, Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:


>

> As I've been laboriously documenting in some recent blog posts (notably

> the two linked below, if you give a flying fuck), I'm becoming more and

> more Luddite-ish and resentful as I grow older, lamenting the old days when

> we'd anticipate a new album and then finally get our hands on it (as a

> tactile artifact), and then immerse ourselves in it, track by track and in

> the chronological order as was intended by the band. Nowadays, everything

> is about immediate gratification and uber-convenience. God forbid you

> should have to wait for anything or take your time to experience something

> in its uninterrupted wholeness.

>

> As such, I've resisted downloading the leaked record. Sure, I've heard

> "Rapture" and the mighty "In Cythera," but I've managed to eschew hearing

> anything else. I really want that pristine experience wherein I am able to

> enjoy the album from back to front while holding the artwork in my hands.

> Call me old fashioned. I don't give a fuck.

>

> But, as I go through my e-mail, I can't help but read some of the comments

> from those who have listened. I think it's indeed a testament to the

> versatility of Killing Joke that opinions are so divided. After all,

> consider the relatively vast shifts in style and sound within the band's

> own catalog -- from stentorian guitar crunch and barely human vocals to

> elegiac melodies, danceable rhythms and the graceful tolling of "the bell."

>  Unlike, say, AC/DC, Motorhead or the Ramones (great bands, all), Killing

> Joke have never simply been about one solitary thing.

>

> I'm trying to shut out the opinions until I get my hands on it and hear

> for myself ... but hear it the right way.

>

>

> http://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2012/03/retromania-and-the-return-of-the-joke.html

>

> http://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2012/03/the-virtual-line.html

>

> Alex in NYC

>

>

>

>

> On Mar 27, 2012, at 8:54 AM, Neil Perry wrote:

>

> oooh, harsh words... ;)

>

> Have been blasting it for most of the day and I'm liking everything to

> varying

> degrees aside from Pole Shift and Fema (finally coming round to Glitch). A

> few tracks

> are stunning, a few are great and some are ok. But I'm enjoying the

> variety - AD was

> many versions of the same song plus ESS and Ghosts - whereas this is coming

> from many different directions. Half of these songs and half from AD would

> have made for

> a stunning album -  for my tastes, anyway. For now, Trance, Primobile,

> Hallows, Cythera and Colony are

> on heavy rotation, songs that I think piss all over most of the last 2

> albums.

>

>

>

> On 27 March 2012 14:24, Stephen Robinson <

> heiferboy at robinsonworld.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>

>> Weakest album since Democracy, there, I've said it.

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