The The “Hyena”

What a trip, I cannot recommend this highly enough.

Fantastic fully formed tracks rather than just vignettes.

Almost perfect as far as I’m concerned.

The The “Hyena”

Released on CINÉOLA March 6th 2015

http://www.thethe.com/shop/

he's apparently in the studio for a full-fledged legit The The album right now as well...

killer movie killer soundtrack. streaming in full here:

I had absolutely no idea that this existed, and even less that there was any interest in The The on WATMM. I've loved his stuff since I was a teenager, but over the years I've always been drawn to the naivete of the earlier releases (4AD stuff, The The Infected). Naked Self was a definite return to form but I've never been fully sold on these soundtrack albums. Will buy it of course though, it's The The and the packaging of the last two CDs has been mint.

I'd still sooner hear the very early unreleased stuff. Wish Matt Johnson would put some energy into restoring that.

  On 5/17/2015 at 2:50 AM, Caretstik said:

I had absolutely no idea that this existed, and even less that there was any interest in The The on WATMM. I've loved his stuff since I was a teenager, but over the years I've always been drawn to the naivete of the earlier releases (4AD stuff, The The Infected). Naked Self was a definite return to form but I've never been fully sold on these soundtrack albums. Will buy it of course though, it's The The and the packaging of the last two CDs has been mint.

 

I'd still sooner hear the very early unreleased stuff. Wish Matt Johnson would put some energy into restoring that.

There's a great podcast up on the Radio Cineola site from the 30th anniversary of Soul Mining interview DJ Food did with Matt. Dunno if you've heard it but well worth a listen.

He mentions at the end that he's recently began baking all the old tapes with a view to restoring and releasing 'pornography of despair' etc...

Mind you as with everything Matt says has to be taken with a pinch of salt as to whether it really will see the light of day this time!

http://www.thethe.com/shop/radio-cineola.html

  On 5/17/2015 at 5:47 AM, smokebelch said:

 

  On 5/17/2015 at 2:50 AM, Caretstik said:

I had absolutely no idea that this existed, and even less that there was any interest in The The on WATMM. I've loved his stuff since I was a teenager, but over the years I've always been drawn to the naivete of the earlier releases (4AD stuff, The The Infected). Naked Self was a definite return to form but I've never been fully sold on these soundtrack albums. Will buy it of course though, it's The The and the packaging of the last two CDs has been mint.

 

I'd still sooner hear the very early unreleased stuff. Wish Matt Johnson would put some energy into restoring that.

There's a great podcast up on the Radio Cineola site from the 30th anniversary of Soul Mining interview DJ Food did with Matt. Dunno if you've heard it but well worth a listen.

He mentions at the end that he's recently began baking all the old tapes with a view to restoring and releasing 'pornography of despair' etc...

Mind you as with everything Matt says has to be taken with a pinch of salt as to whether it really will see the light of day this time!

http://www.thethe.com/shop/radio-cineola.html

 

I think he's mentioned baking the old tapes before, quite a while ago I think, so like you I'm remaining a little sceptical until any actual releases surface. I've been tempted by some of those podcasts in the past, especially for the tracks from Spirits and Gun Sluts but have been a bit too tight to shell out for them. Might check out some of the free ones though.

I wonder if this might be of interest as well if you haven't seen it already:

http://www.20000daysonearth.com/item/494/

Not had the chance to immerse myself in this yet, but I sure will!

The The / Matt Johnson is one of my fav ever musicians, his paradoxical song writing really hits the spot for me!

I don't think there are any weak tracks on Soul Mining. Life - changing record for me.

  On 5/19/2015 at 5:39 PM, Caretstik said:

I don't think there are any weak tracks on Soul Mining. Life - changing record for me.

Agreed!

all three of those Cineola LPs are great.

also this:

https://vimeo.com/83488768

  On 5/19/2015 at 2:48 PM, samfez said:

Not had the chance to immerse myself in this yet, but I sure will!

 

The The / Matt Johnson is one of my fav ever musicians, his paradoxical song writing really hits the spot for me!

 

- my fav of his!

Love that DJ Food mix, been wanting to pick up the recent Giant 12" for a while but it's really expensive everywhere I look.

Love Soul Mining (Giant esp) but struggled getting into the other albums.

NEW ON VINYL -

http://www.thethe.com/news/hyena-double-disc-vinyl-now-on-sale/

  On 7/10/2015 at 1:17 PM, AWW said:

NEW ON VINYL -

http://www.thethe.com/news/hyena-double-disc-vinyl-now-on-sale/

And thank you again! Ordered this wihout hesitation. Still need to get into this album, but the vinyl will sit nicely alongside the Soul Mining box and Infected torture sleeve.