In order to put an end to the ‘Worst Case Scenarios’ era, the biggest hit off the album has been uploaded to different music players on the internet.
Please enjoy this small scale swan song.
February will see the beginning of serious works on second album. Mac based, of course!
Google the one you love will be released next sunday, so be around to check it out. You know where: Last.fm, Dogmazic… and Jamendo, well, since it has turned to shit, I can’t assure you…
This is a very significant release: the last of a string of poorly produced amateur pieces. Next thing you’ll hear from The Kiss (I guess 2011, second album) should make you reconsider everything you thought you knew about this “band”.
Bye.
Finally, I’ve made a choice.
Google the one you love will be released as a digital only single before the end of the year. The tracklist goes as follows:
1. Google the one you love
2. Nefarious
3. God found dead
4. Between attitude and pose
More info on dates soon.
Good afternoon everybody.
Although I have a fetish with CD singles, it seems that the world doesn’t share my passion, so the release of Google the one you love single is hanging by a thread. Don’t get me wrong, TKTTAT is way above trends and does as it pleases, and the reason is more mundane: J-case sellers are NOWHERE to be found, and I’ve already had my share of searching for them, to no avail. So, why bothering?
Given that the songs are finished since the Worst Case Scenarios sessions, they will be released one way or another, but I still have to figure it out. Probably, a cardboard limited edition (10 copies?) which will include the tracklist I already had in mind, plus a song specifically recorded for this (almost) last blow of WCS.
Why ‘almost’? Because This is the furthest I’ve been from you is sweeping and kicking all kind of asses, so it will be the ‘virtual’ last single off WCS, ie, it will be uploaded as the front song in all my internet sites. Its success deserves it.
All of this means DELAY. So Google the one you love will see the light of day before the end of the year. Paradoxically, this ill will bring some good: no wasted time until TKTTAT’s transition to Macintosh and Logic Studio, beginning in january 2010. BE WARNED: THAT will be a huge step up.
In the meantime, you might get some Victorian Bug stuff.
Bear with me.
The Kiss just wishes to announce that ‘Google the one you love’ will be the second (and last) single. Aiming for a late august / early september release.
Third single and remixes have been scraped. I’m still in need of the proper technology. On the other hand, Spotify will start SOON, and a handful of TKTTAT songs are already being played in clubs, hotels and a short film. Wow. Or something.
See you soon.
By the way, a big thank you for the great response to the stuff by that undescribable tiny creature called Victorian Bug.
Hi to all The Kiss people everywhere…
It’s been a small eternity since last post: no WCS release commentary, no new fake interview, no nothing. Anyway. The Kiss is everything but dead. The reason behind the wait is that I’ve been thinking hard on a variety of issues I want to address. Here we go:
WEB PRESENCE
When TKTTAT was taking its first steps, I started opening accounts in every social network on the Internet, and let’s face it: many of them are now dead, and the world has kept changing fast. The Kiss wants to be ahead, on the forefront, so I’m going to focus in the future (which is Jamendo) and some sites that are woth conquering (say Spotify and iTunes). I will keep Last.fm, MySpace, iLike and the Facebook ‘group’, but the rest are GONE. Fuck ‘em for good.
SECOND SINGLE
There’s a second single from WCS in the works. Aiming for summer. Fighting to include outtales and… remixes.
THE KISS… GOING MAC?
The process of making better sounding music reveals itself as more and more frustrating as time passes by. I cannot sonically outdo the shittiest amateur project out there because of budget limitations, but I’m going to put an end to that. I don’t know when. Maybe next year, maybe 2011, maybe even later… but I plan going Macintosh. Just be ready.
VICTORIAN BUG
Since I was born, my interest in noise and drones has been legendary (to myself, the only one who knew). And, as much as I love TKTTAT as a main project, I need room for making music who, simply put, can bleed the ears of the listener. You already know about ‘Always In The Wrong Mood’, the apocryphal collection of records from good old Patuquitos whose first volume saw the light of day almost two years ago (and expect many more to come). It tries to be a showcase of my abilities making music rooted in other genres, in order to let people listen to some tunes I think are worth, or just for fun. But I needed a non-miscellaneous label to put a continued body of work, totally devoted to ultra-experimental, freeform abstract noise, not just one AITWM volume.
Think of Glenn Branca, Sunn O))), Throbbing Gristle, Acid Mothers Temple, Windy & Carl and metal Machine Music by Lou Reed mixed in a demonic razorsharp blender, and VICTORIAN BUG, my new project, will pour out of it.
It will be entirley web-based. No physical releases. No compromises. No established rules. All bridges will be burnt… EVERYONE IS INVITED TO JOIN.
That’s it. I’m OK and getting bigger and stronger.
Did I told you that the physical copies of Hi, America! see the light of day tomorrow?
Of course I did.
Although you’ve been able to download the single since last week, now you can enjoy a beautiful CD with glossy presentation.
Cheers.
You’ve read the story: it’s pretty hard to know what to expect from Worst Case Scenarios, so entering this highly secretive first listen for the musical press is, no two ways about it, an exciting experience.
The only cues to date are the words from the man himself: “I’m ecstatic about it. In the beginning, I was very concerned with the goal of making an album that truly sounded like an album. A record with sections, evolving sound, but cohesive and with an unmistakable feeling. I think I made it. [...] It’s not heavier or rockier, it’s just more emphatic. I’ve added guitars and drums that run the gamut from simple autopilot grooves to awkward inadequate pounding. It takes more time for the music to deliver quietness. [...] I would say it’s elevator rock.”
The first impression is purely technical: this album sounds better. Period. Still short of sharpness and clarity, but it sounds better.
The record opens with a harmless intro. Its straight message (via field recording) makes up for its conventional nature, something you don’t have to worry about with track two. ‘Yours is a fitting name’ revolves around a bouncy and playful melodic synth pattern, mixing electronica and post-rock with ease. Imagine a less dramatic ‘Binary soul’, more suitable for cocktail drinking and aimed for catchiness. Things slow down to classic guitar post-rock with ‘This is the furthest I’ve been from you’. Brushed drums and three intertwining guitars shaping a mutating theme that recalls Explosions In The Sky playing for elderly people. It sounds shiny, impeccable, shamelessly claiming the credit for the (maybe) last drop of the post-rock drying lemon. ‘Mary Ward’ and ‘Hi, America!’ are the closest The Kiss has been to making a traditional rock song. The first is a long midtempo that borders melancholy without never really stepping on it, and it’s the first sonic proof of some influences Trello has quoted in the past (hint: A-Ha). The latter is the most anthemic song The Kiss has produced, so its first single status is no wonder. Probably not the best by The Kiss That Took A Trip, but its nonrelenting drums and sharp guitar tones echo the late 80s, U2 and distorted Depeche Mode, so the doubt crosses your brain.
With ‘Google the one you love’, a slight change in direction is noted. Whereas the previous four songs (although pretty diferent from one another) share tricks and spirit, ‘Google’ is admirable in its defiant structure (continuous start-stop) and weird choice of instrumentation. Using celesta, organ and vibraphones, the song manages to still rock and be more than the sum of its parts. There’s even room for short organ soloing and a synthetic voice that debuts the first TKTTAT lyrics ever. More descriptive than anything, and not pretending deepness of any kind, the words use the music as a background. If there’s a surprise in this album, it’s gotta be this. To close the imaginary A-side of WCS, a song many could misinterpret as filler, ‘One trick pony’, reveals itself falsely quiet and, along ‘Google’, they are the first two songs using repetition in true TKTTAT fashion.
A reworking of the intro comes next, giving way to the epic-sandwiched second half. ‘City in decay’ is an elephant of slow moving downtuned guitar figures and martial drums, with few deflections from the main theme, that releases tension only towards the end through solo strings and gentle guitars. It reminded colleagues around me of something from Godspeed’s first album, only way more direct. The next songs try to sound vulnerable and allow the listener some relief. ‘Tha ahteists lament’ is the first actual ballad, all about pianos and string sections, self-corrupting with dissonance the purity and accesibility of an universal tune. ‘Tiananmen’ is a low profile song, minimalistic and playing with strange chords, but sweeping strings make glowing appearances too. The triad ends with ‘Demerol’, the most electronic and chillout we’ve heard from this musical project. The song seems to have not much going on in it, but it’s all a masquerade.
What takes us to the huge finale in a state of unreadiness. ‘Who goes there…?’ starts ominous and almost sexy. As instruments make their appearance, the song raises the menace bar and, about 3:00 mutates itself all of a sudden, looking for beauty instead. This second build-up explodes at the middle of the tune, giving way to an agonic third build up that finds its end in the only possible way: collapsing under its own weight in white noise cacophony. After almost 11 minutes, this monster feels like an hybrid of Massive Attack and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and the most logical conclusion possible to the record. It sounds like a summary of it, too. It has all the ingredients of Worst Case Scenarios put together. And, maybe going too far, it sounds career-defining, even if we’re talking about a debut album. I have the feeling that this song will remain a measure stick for this man for years to come.
All in all, well over an hour long, the thing never drags (OK, maybe a couple of times, “One trick pony” and “City in decay”), and you couldn’t tell the running time. For those liking TKTTAT as a niche of synthy repose, this album would be a serious test. For those finding TKTTAT too “sad”, this might be the answer to their prayers. But, as always, if you like TKTTAT because it’s consistently changing but being truth to its identity, you know what you’ve got to do.
Hi, world.
As I love to look up to my releases like serious all-time classics, Worst Case Scenarios won’t be an exception, so expect some singles off it. In fact, I’d like you to know that Hi, America! will be the advance one. Both digital and physical releases will exist.
Hi, America! will include two juicy unreleased extra tracks:
1. Hi, America!
2. Gone the way of flesh
3. (Heads shaking in) Disbelief
This time you can hold your breath.
Just blogging to let you know it’s 100% done.
A lot of news on the way.
Follow my steps closely, people.
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