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

Amazing place!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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..

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

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

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).

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

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.

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.

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'...

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

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.

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?

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.