The Future Sound Of London are a bunch of selfish bumholes.
By my reckoning, they've had seven album releases in the last 12 months. Seven. I don't think I achieved seven of anything in the past year.
I probably had more than seven poos, but that's about it.
Here's the evidence. They started with the Pulse EPs, an album-length rerelease of old things they did under different names before Coolio was in the charts.
Secondly, they continued the blowing-off-the-dust theme with From the Archives Vol. 4, which boasted more than a smattering of tracks from old LPs (ISDN, Dead Cities and Lifeforms).
Environments, their long-awaited album in July, was a shuffling of old material that did a pretty good impression of the classic KLF album Chill Out.
About the same time, Amorphous Androgynous released The Peppermint Tree And The Seeds Of Superconsciousness. What's that got to do with Future Sound Of London? They're the same band.
The fifth album of the year was Yage's world-music offering The Woodlands Of Old, featuring an ex-Propellerhead on drums. Yage is FSOL's engineer. Except Yage isn't, because Yage is actually the guys from FSOL pretending to be their engineer. Confused yet?
They followed this up with the fifth volume of From the Archives Vol.5, alongside a second volume of Environments. That's seven albums, people. They are the James Pattinson of the music world.
I think they are being selfish. Hogging a whole year like that.
They also released a recording of oscillators that reacted to the movement of clouds across the Sun. They are working on a musical remix of a film directed by an Oscar-winning animator. And their gig later this year, as I mentioned in my recent 2009 preview, opens up the possibility of them performing their first new live material for 12 years.
Despite all this, I still think the only guaranteed pleasure in life is having a poo. Think on, FSOL.
mpSunday: In the latest of a series where I give away free music (now not necessarily on a Sunday), get your teeth around this Wipeout 2097 classic. PING! This mpSunday has now expired.
I think I still have the wipeout 2097 album somewhere, has some great tracks on it.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I kind of lost touch with FSOL after, eh, Accelerator. Perhaps I should check some of these recent albums.
I've still got the game *and* a working PS1! I think the fact most of FSOL's releases are based aroud polishing up old recordings suggests their best times may be over.
ReplyDeleteThe archives series are effing awesome. I guess it's a case of too much of a good thing, which i certainly wont take for granted. Go FSOL!!!
ReplyDeleteSteve, you ended that comment sounding like a cheerleader. Maybe that's what FSOL need - a FSOL cheerleader. Give me an I!, give me an S!, give me an D!, give me an N!...
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