04. Jacquard Causeway (6:35)

[SciFire]

Has anyone made the connection to the Giant's Causeway yet? Lot's of lovely Hexagons over there...

[F.]

Amazing place!

[herxagernsurn]

I love this song, every moment of it. Love the drum sound. This sounds a lot like a COIL song to me, or BoC remixing COIL.

I have been meaning to check out more COIL for a long time now. That's a good sign if this is evocative of COIL.

Jacquard Causeway seems to keep unfolding for me. The last time I listed closely I realized there are two different "ticking" noises in the drums. They both sound mechanical but they are in different times. I also hadn't previously noticed what sounds like a hi-hat as well coming in at a certain time. It started to sound like some sort of deeply psychedelic clock. This track also has a kind of deep sadness to it. It strikes me as a lament for humanity with the high pitched synths sounding like crying.

[NorthcutTAmnestY]

Yeah I've said it before and I'll keep saying it, but it sounds like death to me. I don't really know how to word it, but it puts me in the mind of someone/something experiencing it's last moments.

The actual beat is very mechanical, and reminiscent of labored breathing.

[mc10101]

The actual beat is very mechanical, and reminiscent of labored breathing.

Interesting analogy, particularly when taken in the broader sense of society as a whole

[NorthcutTAmnestY]

Exactly.

I'm waiting for other people to catch on as well, they will eventually I guess, but it's really hard to get this image of a decaying and dying society out of my head when I hear it. It sounds so mournful, but hopeful towards the end with the synth washes. Like something dying and then seeing the metaphorical light or what have you - so perhaps it is an allegory of death and dying and transition, but not wholly without embracing this death somewhat.

[Fireal420]

I love this song, every moment of it. Love the drum sound. This sounds a lot like a COIL song to me, or BoC remixing COIL.

I have been meaning to check out more COIL for a long time now. That's a good sign if this is evocative of COIL.

Jacquard Causeway seems to keep unfolding for me. The last time I listed closely I realized there are two different "ticking" noises in the drums. They both sound mechanical but they are in different times. I also hadn't previously noticed what sounds like a hi-hat as well coming in at a certain time. It started to sound like some sort of deeply psychedelic clock. This track also has a kind of deep sadness to it. It strikes me as a lament for humanity with the high pitched synths sounding like crying.

thats exactly it

the song to me sounds like a deeply psychedelic clock


also, right from first listen, everytime i hear the song i picture myself in the back room at my aunts house. which isnt all that strange since i usually picture different places and scenes when i listen to music.

[nameeman333]

Jacquard Causeway seems to keep unfolding for me. The last time I listed closely I realized there are two different "ticking" noises in the drums. They both sound mechanical but they are in different times. I also hadn't previously noticed what sounds like a hi-hat as well coming in at a certain time. It started to sound like some sort of deeply psychedelic clock. This track also has a kind of deep sadness to it. It strikes me as a lament for humanity with the high pitched synths sounding like crying.[/quote]

Upon listening to the vinyl I heard the sounds also, maybe a metronome or grandfather clock, they are not in time with the music but their beats sync with the other beats. My 3 year old daughter started looking around the room sort of confused then started yelling at the speakers "STOP IT!" There are definitely a lot of different time signatures used in this song.

[SciFire]

This track has never done it for me as i feel it's like an incomplete song. But as it would turn out, it mixes very well with Aphex Twins SAW II #3. No key fiddling Required. Give it a go!

I won't post here, but PM for a 1min sample. i should warn: i've not quantisized properly. Still, the out-of-timeness suits the track aesthetic i think..

[mondaysleeper]

Has anyone made the connection to the Giant's Causeway yet? Lot's of lovely Hexagons over there...

Or a causeway on fair isle

[nick47]

^ As a geologist, those columnar/pillar basalts are so sexy

[Goiter Sanchez]

Jacquard Causeway feels like a track that BoC have been building toward making since the onset of their careers; juxtaposing many of their melodic trademarks against a chugging, clanky 3/4; a bizarre waltz indeed. Chopin would be proud (or sick to his stomach).

[Cyclosa]

I was listening to this track last night while going to sleep, and always had a hard time not feeling annoyed by the analog synths
Last night i suddenly thought of those synths as birds singing in the morning of a nuclear dawn.
Feel free to try it, the track has become very eerie to me

[Maxima]

I was listening to this track last night while going to sleep, and always had a hard time not feeling annoyed by the analog synths
Last night i suddenly thought of those synths as birds singing in the morning of a nuclear dawn.
Feel free to try it, the track has become very eerie to me

I always had a very similar impression. Jacquard Causeway and Uritual utilize very similar synth motifs that, to me, convey a sort of profound longing and desperation - like a ship lost in space sending out a rescue beacon on repeat in the hopes that (by some infinitesimally small chance) it will be heard.

[egbdf]

I was listening to this track last night while going to sleep, and always had a hard time not feeling annoyed by the analog synths
Last night i suddenly thought of those synths as birds singing in the morning of a nuclear dawn.
Feel free to try it, the track has become very eerie to me

I always had a very similar impression. Jacquard Causeway and Uritual utilize very similar synth motifs that, to me, convey a sort of profound longing and desperation - like a ship lost in space sending out a rescue beacon on repeat in the hopes that (by some infinitesimally small chance) it will be heard.

My friends and I have a word for that aesthetic: "chat". Long story why it's that. Anyway I definitely get what you mean. Telepath definitely evokes that as well.

[Goiter Sanchez]

Apologies if this has been mentioned, but I recently noticed that this track is somewhat similar in terms of melodic structural approach to the Bibio track 'Saint Christopher'...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvSYMdlSTpU

[re-phaelam-ed]

dunno why...but this track reminds me of driving around the Hollywood hills on a hot summers night. partying in a frank lloyd wright house. Miss those days.

hate san francisco

[Group Hex]

dunno why...but this track reminds me of driving around the Hollywood hills on a hot summers night. partying in a frank lloyd wright house. Miss those days.

hate san francisco

Ugh. Love LA, Love SF. But this reminds me of the part of Los Angeles that I loathe.

[egbdf]

dunno why...but this track reminds me of driving around the Hollywood hills on a hot summers night. partying in a frank lloyd wright house. Miss those days.

hate san francisco

Ugh. Love LA, Love SF. But this reminds me of the part of Los Angeles that I loathe.

Frank Lloyd Wright house in Hollywood?

[re-phaelam-ed]

dunno why...but this track reminds me of driving around the Hollywood hills on a hot summers night. partying in a frank lloyd wright house. Miss those days.

hate san francisco

Ugh. Love LA, Love SF. But this reminds me of the part of Los Angeles that I loathe.

Frank Lloyd Wright house in Hollywood?

yep...SICK! top of the hill.