04. Jacquard Causeway (6:35)

SciFire · Post by **SciFire** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:05 pm

Has anyone made the connection to the Giant's Causeway yet? Lot's of lovely Hexagons over there...

F. · Post by F. » Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:38 pm

Amazing place!

herxagernsurn · Post by **herxagernsurn** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 9:16 pm

soundxplorer wrote:I love this song, every moment of it. Love the drum sound. This sounds a lot like a COIL song to me, or BoC remixing COIL.

I have been meaning to check out more COIL for a long time now. That's a good sign if this is evocative of COIL.

Jacquard Causeway seems to keep unfolding for me. The last time I listed closely I realized there are two different "ticking" noises in the drums. They both sound mechanical but they are in different times. I also hadn't previously noticed what sounds like a hi-hat as well coming in at a certain time. It started to sound like some sort of deeply psychedelic clock. This track also has a kind of deep sadness to it. It strikes me as a lament for humanity with the high pitched synths sounding like crying.

NorthcutTAmnestY · Post by **NorthcutTAmnestY** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 4:22 am

Yeah I've said it before and I'll keep saying it, but it sounds like death to me. I don't really know how to word it, but it puts me in the mind of someone/something experiencing it's last moments.

The actual beat is very mechanical, and reminiscent of labored breathing.

mc10101 · Post by **mc10101** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 8:40 am

NorthcutTAmnestY wrote:The actual beat is very mechanical, and reminiscent of labored breathing.

Interesting analogy, particularly when taken in the broader sense of society as a whole

NorthcutTAmnestY · Post by **NorthcutTAmnestY** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 3:02 am

Exactly.

I'm waiting for other people to catch on as well, they will eventually I guess, but it's really hard to get this image of a decaying and dying society out of my head when I hear it. It sounds so mournful, but hopeful towards the end with the synth washes. Like something dying and then seeing the metaphorical light or what have you - so perhaps it is an allegory of death and dying and transition, but not wholly without embracing this death somewhat.

Fireal420 · Post by **Fireal420** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 4:40 am

herxagernsurn wrote:
soundxplorer wrote:I love this song, every moment of it. Love the drum sound. This sounds a lot like a COIL song to me, or BoC remixing COIL.
I have been meaning to check out more COIL for a long time now. That's a good sign if this is evocative of COIL.

Jacquard Causeway seems to keep unfolding for me. The last time I listed closely I realized there are two different "ticking" noises in the drums. They both sound mechanical but they are in different times. I also hadn't previously noticed what sounds like a hi-hat as well coming in at a certain time. It started to sound like some sort of deeply psychedelic clock. This track also has a kind of deep sadness to it. It strikes me as a lament for humanity with the high pitched synths sounding like crying.

thats exactly it

the song to me sounds like a deeply psychedelic clock

also, right from first listen, everytime i hear the song i picture myself in the back room at my aunts house. which isnt all that strange since i usually picture different places and scenes when i listen to music.

nameeman333 · Post by **nameeman333** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 10:39 am

Jacquard Causeway seems to keep unfolding for me. The last time I listed closely I realized there are two different "ticking" noises in the drums. They both sound mechanical but they are in different times. I also hadn't previously noticed what sounds like a hi-hat as well coming in at a certain time. It started to sound like some sort of deeply psychedelic clock. This track also has a kind of deep sadness to it. It strikes me as a lament for humanity with the high pitched synths sounding like crying.[/quote]

Upon listening to the vinyl I heard the sounds also, maybe a metronome or grandfather clock, they are not in time with the music but their beats sync with the other beats. My 3 year old daughter started looking around the room sort of confused then started yelling at the speakers "STOP IT!" There are definitely a lot of different time signatures used in this song.

SciFire · Post by **SciFire** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 2:48 pm

This track has never done it for me as i feel it's like an incomplete song. But as it would turn out, it mixes very well with Aphex Twins SAW II #3. No key fiddling Required. Give it a go!

I won't post here, but PM for a 1min sample. i should warn: i've not quantisized properly. Still, the out-of-timeness suits the track aesthetic i think..

mondaysleeper · Post by **mondaysleeper** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 4:24 pm

SciFire wrote:Has anyone made the connection to the Giant's Causeway yet? Lot's of lovely Hexagons over there...

Or a causeway on fair isle

nick47 · Post by **nick47** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 1:40 pm

^ As a geologist, those columnar/pillar basalts are so sexy

Goiter Sanchez · Post by **Goiter Sanchez** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 5:59 pm

Jacquard Causeway feels like a track that BoC have been building toward making since the onset of their careers; juxtaposing many of their melodic trademarks against a chugging, clanky 3/4; a bizarre waltz indeed. Chopin would be proud (or sick to his stomach).

Cyclosa · Post by **Cyclosa** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 7:02 am

I was listening to this track last night while going to sleep, and always had a hard time not feeling annoyed by the analog synths
Last night i suddenly thought of those synths as birds singing in the morning of a nuclear dawn.
Feel free to try it, the track has become very eerie to me

Maxima · Post by **Maxima** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:08 am

Cyclosa wrote:I was listening to this track last night while going to sleep, and always had a hard time not feeling annoyed by the analog synths
Last night i suddenly thought of those synths as birds singing in the morning of a nuclear dawn.
Feel free to try it, the track has become very eerie to me

I always had a very similar impression. Jacquard Causeway and Uritual utilize very similar synth motifs that, to me, convey a sort of profound longing and desperation - like a ship lost in space sending out a rescue beacon on repeat in the hopes that (by some infinitesimally small chance) it will be heard.

egbdf · Post by **egbdf** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:17 am

Maxima wrote:
Cyclosa wrote:I was listening to this track last night while going to sleep, and always had a hard time not feeling annoyed by the analog synths
Last night i suddenly thought of those synths as birds singing in the morning of a nuclear dawn.
Feel free to try it, the track has become very eerie to me
I always had a very similar impression. Jacquard Causeway and Uritual utilize very similar synth motifs that, to me, convey a sort of profound longing and desperation - like a ship lost in space sending out a rescue beacon on repeat in the hopes that (by some infinitesimally small chance) it will be heard.

My friends and I have a word for that aesthetic: "chat". Long story why it's that. Anyway I definitely get what you mean. Telepath definitely evokes that as well.

Goiter Sanchez · Post by **Goiter Sanchez** » Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:51 am

Apologies if this has been mentioned, but I recently noticed that this track is somewhat similar in terms of melodic structural approach to the Bibio track 'Saint Christopher'...

re-phaelam-ed · Post by **re-phaelam-ed** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 5:59 am

dunno why...but this track reminds me of driving around the Hollywood hills on a hot summers night. partying in a frank lloyd wright house. Miss those days.

hate san francisco

Group Hex · Post by **Group Hex** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 6:18 am

re-phaelam-ed wrote:dunno why...but this track reminds me of driving around the Hollywood hills on a hot summers night. partying in a frank lloyd wright house. Miss those days.

hate san francisco

Ugh. Love LA, Love SF. But this reminds me of the part of Los Angeles that I loathe.

egbdf · Post by **egbdf** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 7:00 am

Group Hex wrote:
re-phaelam-ed wrote:dunno why...but this track reminds me of driving around the Hollywood hills on a hot summers night. partying in a frank lloyd wright house. Miss those days.

hate san francisco
Ugh. Love LA, Love SF. But this reminds me of the part of Los Angeles that I loathe.

Frank Lloyd Wright house in Hollywood?

re-phaelam-ed · Post by **re-phaelam-ed** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 6:55 pm

egbdf wrote:
Group Hex wrote:
re-phaelam-ed wrote:dunno why...but this track reminds me of driving around the Hollywood hills on a hot summers night. partying in a frank lloyd wright house. Miss those days.

hate san francisco
Ugh. Love LA, Love SF. But this reminds me of the part of Los Angeles that I loathe.
Frank Lloyd Wright house in Hollywood?

yep...SICK! top of the hill.