DI Go Pop

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DI Go Pop
Studio album from Disco Inferno

Publication
(s)

1994

Label (s) One Little Indian US
Rough Trade
Bar / None

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Post-rock
experimental rock

Title (number)

8th

running time

33:26

occupation

production

Charlie McIntosh

chronology
Open Doors, Closed Windows
1991 		DI Go Pop In Debt
1995

DI Go Pop is the second studio album by Disco Inferno . It was released in 1994 on Rough Trade Records in the UK and Bar / None Records in the US.

style

The use of samples and found sounds that were incorporated into the music was typical of the band. This style began on EPs A Rock To Cling To and The Last Dance and then peaked on this album.

The album's melodies are often carried by Paul Wilmott's bass lines, while an imaginative amount of samples (like running water, breaking glass, car accidents, or fax machines) are incorporated into the music to create large acoustic collages. Unlike most other post-rock bands that include Disco Inferno, the music on DI Go Pop was harsh and precise, while Crause's lyrics (often just softly mixed in with the sound) revolve around frustration and worry.

Cover

The album cover features a photo of a British landscape with the band's radar sign mounted on it. The cover was designed by Fuel , the photo is by David Spero. The same style (photos with radar signs) can be found on EPs Last Dance and Second Language .

reception

The album is considered to be groundbreaking for the post rock genre , along with other albums such as Spiderland by Slint or Soundtracks for the Blind by Swans .

On June 3, 2004, Scott Plagenhoef wrote on Pitchfork Media as part of his 9.3 / 10 rating:

"Like the misleading title, DI Go Pop is an album full of contradictions: foreknowing heavy ballads like" Even the Sea Sides Againnst Us "and" A Whole Wide World Ahead "ricochet off the potential cruelty of human nature, but are bound by one aching, unbalanced beauty. For most of the album, Crause's bitterness and aggression seem to be trapped in the hustle and bustle of larger sounds, his voice and fears fight back, to be heard under the noise of abstract noise and the weight of the world around him. "

- Scott Plagenhoef

Track list

  1. "In Sharky Water" - 4:40
  2. "New Clothes For The New World" - 2:00 am
  3. "Starbound: All Burnt Out And Nowhere To Go" - 4:01
  4. "A Crash At Every Speed" - 4:43
  5. "Even The Sea Sides Against Us" - 3:44
  6. "Next Year" - 4:04
  7. "A Whole Wide World Ahead" - 4:40
  8. "Footprints In Snow" - 5:29

All titles from Crause, Wilmott and Whatley.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Engl. Original: Like its misleading title, DI Go Pop is an album of contradictions: Prescient, uneasy ballads like "Even the Sea Sides Against Us" and "A Whole Wide World Ahead" recoil from the potential cruelty of human nature but are tethered by an aching off-kilter beauty. On much of the album, Crause's bitterness and aggression seems trapped in a swirl of larger sounds, his voice and fears struggling to be heard or comprehended above the dins of abstract noise and the weight of the world around him.
  2. ↑ http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2556-di-go-pop-technicolour/

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