{"id":332,"date":"2012-02-06T03:07:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T10:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/?p=332"},"modified":"2012-02-06T03:07:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T10:07:38","slug":"the-big-pink-hit-the-ground-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/2012\/02\/06\/the-big-pink-hit-the-ground-superman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Pink \u2013 Hit the Ground (Superman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is one of my Favs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Big Pink - Hit The Ground (Superman)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j9_xniHg8pc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From their album:<\/p>\n<p>The Big Pink \u2013 Future This (2012)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/magiska.vlsweb.net.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/folder2-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Album Review:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking noise\u201d was UK duo Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze\u2019s initial remit, with Furze\u2019s former alliance with Berlin techno-punk \u2018terrorist\u2019 Alec Empire hinting at a possible template. So The Big Pink\u2019s wall-of-sound pop classicism over synchronised, stomping beats came as a shock. Perhaps the fact they\u2019re named after\u00a0The Band\u2019s iconic 1968 album that and Cordell\u2019s dad is famed 1960s producer Denny showed there was more to The Big Pink than rampant modernism. And the brilliant Dominos \u2013 a single and the highlight of 2009 album debut\u00a0A Brief History of Love\u00a0\u2013 showed they had a natural propensity for pop rather than a dose of X Factor mimicry.<\/p>\n<p>Future This \u2013 this time named after a 1980s skateboard advert \u2013 underlines The Big Pink\u2019s status, as an old-fashioned synth-pop duo with added guitar scuzz, sub-bass growls and caffeinated energy. Not \u2018noise\u2019, but definitely loud, like a post-feedback\u00a0Jesus and Mary Chainwithout the surf-pop fixation. With Paul Epworth (Adele, Florence, Plan B) producing and Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails) mixing, the album sounds fantastic \u2013 a gleaming, towering aural edifice. But the album\u2019s construction \u2013 the pair began with beats and samples, then added instrumental layers and vocal melodies \u2013 is too easily transmitted; the tunes aren\u2019t as memorable or, in some cases, are arguably born out of consolidating that debut album success. Welcome to Difficult Second Album syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s there in the first single and opening album track, Stay Gold, an obvious \u2013 and not as great \u2013 copy of Dominos. Rubbernecking follows the same pattern while 1313\u2019s admirably chunky electro is also saddled with the now-generic Big Pink terrace chant. It\u2019s left to the arrangements to carry the can this time. A spacier, swooning Hit the Ground (Superman) rubs shoulders with Give It Up\u2019s robo-soul, built on a tweaked saxophone sample. The pizzicato motif of The Palace rubs strings with Lose Your Mind, which carries a distinct echo of 60s pulp classic Days of Pearly Spencer. Closing track 77 is one of the most striking here: mournful rather than brash, it\u2019s evidence of a big pink heart and of these musicians\u2019 ability to transcend their beats-based mindset. In other words, time for the boys to really future this.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #13260d;font-family: arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/musicfromthebigpink.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is one of my Favs&#8230; From their album: The Big Pink \u2013 Future This (2012) Album Review: \u201cMaking noise\u201d was UK duo Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze\u2019s initial remit, with Furze\u2019s former alliance with Berlin techno-punk \u2018terrorist\u2019 Alec Empire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/2012\/02\/06\/the-big-pink-hit-the-ground-superman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20,30,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-rock","category-favorites","category-indie-rock","category-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}