New Warp Signing - My Best Fiend

WARP's got a new signing, "My Best Fiend" - you can download a free track as well as listen to another off their debut album. Sorta sounds like MGMT at times, but nothing remarkable (IMO).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P61iJ_I4i8&feature=player_embedded#!

pants.

meh

  On 1/5/2012 at 7:19 PM, Joyrex said:

Sorta sounds like MGMT at times.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P61iJ_I4i8&feature=player_embedded#!

Enough info for me to NOT Download!

This gives me hope. Hope that I can get signed to Warp, if their signing any old shite.

  On 1/5/2012 at 7:58 PM, chassis said:

This gives me hope. Hope that I can get signed to Warp, if their signing any old shite.

they have been for a long time! but this takes the biscuit.

like the cover, tho

Cover made me think it was gonna sound like boards.

aye

yikes

It's okay. Nothing to scoff at, but you'd think Warp would want to sign stuff that isn't generic. Since that's supposed to be their M.O.

RIP

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:17 PM, Candiru said:

It's okay. Nothing to scoff at, but you'd think Warp would want to sign stuff that isn't generic. Since that's supposed to be their M.O.

their M.O. at the moment seems to be 'stay afloat'

let's be honest - IDM is dead, and has been for a long time. only a few stalwarts are putting stuff out on Warp that is regarded as IDM. the label has changed focus, and we're not the target audience anymore.

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:03 PM, chassis said:

Cover made me think it was gonna sound like boards.

I thought it was boards the first time my eyes glanced over it.

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:25 PM, oscillik said:

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:17 PM, Candiru said:

It's okay. Nothing to scoff at, but you'd think Warp would want to sign stuff that isn't generic. Since that's supposed to be their M.O.

 

their M.O. at the moment seems to be 'stay afloat'

 

let's be honest - IDM is dead, and has been for a long time. only a few stalwarts are putting stuff out on Warp that is regarded as IDM. the label has changed focus, and we're not the target audience anymore.

I didn't mean they should just have IDM on their roster, the novelty wore off long, long ago. I guess lots of us overestimate how much clout Warp really has the independent music world.

Edit: Actually they do have some clout, and they're probably doing what any of us would do if we owned a label.

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:25 PM, oscillik said:

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:17 PM, Candiru said:

It's okay. Nothing to scoff at, but you'd think Warp would want to sign stuff that isn't generic. Since that's supposed to be their M.O.

 

their M.O. at the moment seems to be 'stay afloat'

 

let's be honest - IDM is dead, and has been for a long time. only a few stalwarts are putting stuff out on Warp that is regarded as IDM. the label has changed focus, and we're not the target audience anymore.

however, they're still mostly an electronic / experimental label, so wtf is this shit.

they really put out some odd stuff every now and again. and this isn't odd in a good (interesting) way.

they are, like you say, just trying to stay afloat and current, which for most electronic/experimental/IDM fans makes them shit.

Thats how a new BoC cover will look like.

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:25 PM, oscillik said:

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:17 PM, Candiru said:

It's okay. Nothing to scoff at, but you'd think Warp would want to sign stuff that isn't generic. Since that's supposed to be their M.O.

 

their M.O. at the moment seems to be 'stay afloat'

 

let's be honest - IDM is dead, and has been for a long time. only a few stalwarts are putting stuff out on Warp that is regarded as IDM. the label has changed focus, and we're not the target audience anymore.

IDM in name only is dead, it's spirit lives on

sounds ok to me. would like to hear it in the context of a full album.

I was going to listen to this and feel depressed, but I just realized the "pun" in the band name and now I can't even click on it. Groans, shoots self in face, etc.

boring

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:08 PM, psn said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60VmOYNvY1k

best part of the thread.

wow, kinski with the butterfly...

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:59 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:25 PM, oscillik said:

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:17 PM, Candiru said:

It's okay. Nothing to scoff at, but you'd think Warp would want to sign stuff that isn't generic. Since that's supposed to be their M.O.

 

their M.O. at the moment seems to be 'stay afloat'

 

let's be honest - IDM is dead, and has been for a long time. only a few stalwarts are putting stuff out on Warp that is regarded as IDM. the label has changed focus, and we're not the target audience anymore.

 

IDM in name only is dead, it's spirit lives on

this this and this

  On 1/5/2012 at 9:01 PM, chaosmachine said:

sounds ok to me. would like to hear it in the context of a full album.

Yeah it's quite lovely but completely deviod of anything interesting or novel musically - sounds like something I'd hear, check out online, then kind of forget. I'm curious to hear the rest just to see if this is a safe "single" and therefore an exception. Probably not though. When it comes to Warp signings, this is probably more of a Born Ruffians signing than say a talented group like Battles or even Grizzly Bear

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:46 PM, sirch said:

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:25 PM, oscillik said:

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:17 PM, Candiru said:

It's okay. Nothing to scoff at, but you'd think Warp would want to sign stuff that isn't generic. Since that's supposed to be their M.O.

 

their M.O. at the moment seems to be 'stay afloat'

 

let's be honest - IDM is dead, and has been for a long time. only a few stalwarts are putting stuff out on Warp that is regarded as IDM. the label has changed focus, and we're not the target audience anymore.

 

however, they're still mostly an electronic / experimental label, so wtf is this shit.

they really put out some odd stuff every now and again. and this isn't odd in a good (interesting) way.

they are, like you say, just trying to stay afloat and current, which for most electronic/experimental/IDM fans makes them shit.

I dunno...doesn't really seem that way to me, from my perspective. But that's just me.

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:59 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:25 PM, oscillik said:

  On 1/5/2012 at 8:17 PM, Candiru said:

It's okay. Nothing to scoff at, but you'd think Warp would want to sign stuff that isn't generic. Since that's supposed to be their M.O.

 

their M.O. at the moment seems to be 'stay afloat'

 

let's be honest - IDM is dead, and has been for a long time. only a few stalwarts are putting stuff out on Warp that is regarded as IDM. the label has changed focus, and we're not the target audience anymore.

 

IDM in name only is dead, it's spirit lives on

I suppose that one is probably a subjective thing? Where does the iddum spirit live on?