Modern artists with a nostalgic sound? BoC, Stereolab, ...

[egbdf]

For a class I'm writing a paper on music with nostalgic elements. So far, I've got BoC, with their 70's/80's TV sounds, and Stereloab, with their lounge music influences.

Preferably someone who has some interviews I can find where they might mention these influences?

Thanks

[nordheim]

For a class I'm writing a paper on music with nostalgic elements. So far, I've got BoC, with their 70's/80's TV sounds, and Stereloab, with their lounge music influences.

Preferably someone who has some interviews I can find where they might mention these influences?

Thanks

look up the british label "ghost box" and the artistic concept of "hauntology" or "retro-futurism" hope those help.
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[rainier]

Broadcast

[Treefingers]

In another way, Grouper. Her music doesn't hearken back to any particular period as such, but Liz makes use of very lo-fi recording / production techniques to make her music sound like a sort of mysterious found artefact.

Definitely have to second Broadcast, too. Especially their collaboration with the Focus Group (a guy who himself is heavily involved with Ghost Box, I think he might be the founder).

I guess on a similar note to (particularly) Broadcast and Stereolab, bands like Laika and Pram have done similar stuff.

[Treefingers]

I also want to mention Hype Williams (they've mess around with their identity a few times, so they've released stuff under other names). Their stuff occupies a similar space to Boards of Canada and hauntology (intentional lo-fi / samples alluding to childhood, specific periods of the recent past, etc.), but with a more absurd sense of humour / irony.


(released as Dean Blunt, ft. Inga Copeland)

In this interview, Dean Blunt talks about how his relationship with music is largely based around memory (about 1:20 in), which could be useful.

[nordheim]

Broadcast

OH YEAH... this one! how could i mention focus group yet forget about one of my favorite bands ever?

[The Telepathic Kid]

I do not feel Stereolab are nostalgic in any way.

They have lounge influences, sure, but they're pushed to such a futuristic place that they no longer feel old, or new, just kind of in some sort of suspended animation which transcends time.

that's why I love Dots & Loops, it's one of those few records which feels as old as it does new, it will constantly be relevant and interesting.

It's perfect.


I guess that wasn't the point of the thread, right? Just offering a dissenting opinion.

Nostalgic for me would be ... I guess artists of that actual particular time.

Maybe Tame Impala? The way they have a beautifully produced psychedelic haze sounds like it couldn't be from any other time than today though.

[Patryk Ludamage]

Bibio
Seefeel
Tangerine Dream

[Keeoaddi]

Daft Punk are masters of nostalgia

[rainier]

In another way, Grouper. Her music doesn't hearken back to any particular period as such, but Liz makes use of very lo-fi recording / production techniques to make her music sound like a sort of mysterious found artefact.

For some reason Grouper came into my mind too, even though it doesn't exactly fit the bill here. I think her sound has that feeling of nostalgia for a time that doesn't really exist rather than a specific time period.

I'm not too familiar with their stuff but maybe Ladytron? I'm thinking of that song Blue Jeans specifically. And Aislers Set, though they're more 60s.

[El Camino]

Most of Animal Collective's stuff evoke strong nostalgia for me, also a lot of Ween reminds me of childhood but i guess that's probably because i grew up listening to them.

[bearhead]

Anything Mark Kozelek has ever written.

[Betterthanyourkids]

Daft Punk are masters of nostalgia

Kinda, Daft Punk harkens back to disco and pop, which isn't my era, even though I like listening to it. So yeah, they are masters of nostalgia, but for an older audience. I just like them 'cause they're funky as fuck!

[jcnporter]

The journalist Simon Reynolds has written an book that's (kind of) on this very subject, called Retromania. I can thoroughly recommend.
I've been a bit obsessed with stuff on Ghost Box recently, particularly The Advisory Circle - by far the best at pure 70s/80s public information film pastiche in my opinion.
Epic45 and July Skies are two more great bands that invoke a sense of nostalgia in their music, particularly regarding the countryside and nature.

[Treefingers]

Epic45 and July Skies are two more great bands that invoke a sense of nostalgia in their music, particularly regarding the countryside and nature.

I'd recommend Hood if you like those two bands. Similar Super-8-y pastoral, nostalgic feel -- kind of like some of the Bristol post-rock scene of the 90s in a way (Flying Saucer Attack, Movietone)...

[jcnporter]

Epic45 and July Skies are two more great bands that invoke a sense of nostalgia in their music, particularly regarding the countryside and nature.

I'd recommend Hood if you like those two bands. Similar Super-8-y pastoral, nostalgic feel -- kind of like some of the Bristol post-rock scene of the 90s in a way (Flying Saucer Attack, Movietone)...

Cheers, I've heard Hood mentioned in relation to them before, but haven't got round to checking them out yet.
What album do you reckon I should start with?

[m_thomp]

I'd chuck in a fairly unheralded one: Trans Am.

Anything off their Sex Change album evokes a period in the early 80s when rock bands (Rush, etc) started to embrace the synth. It evokes a similar era for me as 84 Pontiac Dream, which, I guess would be around 1984

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[Weekend_Warrior]

Com Truise has a sound that seems very reminiscent of the mid to late 1980's

The Budos Band also have a great funk/jazz/soul vibe that sounds straight out of the late 60's/early 70's

[Jonse]

What's a "nostalgic sound" in this case? Everyone's "nostalgia" is subjective.

[WeHadNormality]

I'd chuck in a fairly unheralded one: Trans Am

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