The Focus Group - Stop-Motion Happening

coming july 14th

p.s. i wonder why group is misspelled on the cover

Intriguing. No SoundCloud I take it?

samples won't be out for a while

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We Are Groop

i thought stereolab was "the groop"

where's this news from? i can't see any updates on the Ghost Box facebook or website.

The Focus Group is my favourite project on the label and i loooved The Elektrik Carousel, so i'm psyched!

It was in their recent email to subscribers

reference to stereolab?

That would be really fucking cool were it to be some sort of collab with the 'lab, though as I understand it they've been on indefinite hiatus for a hwhile

https://soundcloud.com/ghost-box/sets/stopmotionhappening

Nice to see House trying some different design directions since his style gets copied a lot these days.

Bleep and Ghostbox have pre-orders for this now.

So I've listened to this a couple of times today. I ended up just springing for the digitals. It's a pretty decent album mostly because it's full of lots of ideas. The tracks are mostly very brief indeed - and that provides some of the album's charms.

yup. listening to this all day (well, kinda all night) but it's a ping pong full of ideas. don't know what to think? it's really like nothing i ever heard? someone help me

Out of the two "main guys" on Ghost Box, I think Jon's noodlings and library tracks are superior to Julian's. This just seems really disparate, although the two albums he did with Broadcast are some of my favorites.

  On 7/14/2017 at 11:35 PM, Nebraska said:

yup. listening to this all day (well, kinda all night) but it's a ping pong full of ideas. don't know what to think? it's really like nothing i ever heard? someone help me

  On 7/15/2017 at 12:41 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Out of the two "main guys" on Ghost Box, I think Jon's noodlings and library tracks are superior to Julian's. This just seems really disparate, although the two albums he did with Broadcast are some of my favorites.

I dunno. I really quite like this new work. The brevity of the tracks means that none of them really out stay their welcome.  I sort of think the album is like a compilation of soundtracks from imaginary 70s British movies that never got made or pieces of music that exist in some alternate past that we never knew. They've got an unfinished, unpolished quality to them that is really intriguing.

^^^ i agree. i love the sound of the songs being unpolished and random. like you're switching channels betwix children programming and odd-nod sci-fi. 

i love how julian has kept his sound the same yet new and fun. 

i love the short tracks he does. it's like having a whole album of BoC's 'microtracks'.

the new album sounds great. it could equal The Elektrik Carousel given a few more spins!

  On 7/15/2017 at 11:37 AM, QQQ said:

i love the short tracks he does. it's like having a whole album of BoC's 'microtracks'.

 

the new album sounds great. it could equal The Elektrik Carousel given a few more spins!

I've found that the very few tracks that don't work for me are the longer ones. The shorter tracks are disorientating with a sinister undercurrent - the qualities I always enjoy most about Ghostbox.

One comes away from this album with a sense of wondering just what you've actually been listening to.