the ae lads never dismissed Amber. in fact if you're really embarrassing you know that they were actually PLAYING tracks from Amber in dj sets around when they supposedly trashed it.thought they were twats when they dismissed Amber as "cheesy"...
yeah that was me, i said it in a way that was easily misinterpreted. a classic case of assuming someone knows what your on about and them not at all.
it was in relation to incunabula i guess. lol no shame at all, i still rate these releases, i mean they're the first stuff to fully come out.
it meant a lot to us to actually have an album on a brilliant label. i think what i meant was (in the context of the original interview, as the journo was commenting on the striking differences between old and ((then)) newer work) i think i was trying to say how they were perhaps more simple, but not in a shit way.
Amber is great but is brutally compromised by the U2 cover.
also genuinely stand by the idea that pop music works better as samples than as full songs on the most immediate level.
I have a slightly similar feeling toward old grime and dubstep, there's a lot of it that I spent years listening to as grubby radio rips from Rinse or wherever so nowadays there are tunes which just don't sound right without the shoutouts, mistakes and so on from the rip.
yeah definitely know that feeling, though I think it's maybe a different dynamic than just wanting to get to the best part of a pop song, or the best song on an album. more a matter of accepting "imperfections" rather than wanting to get them out of the way.
yeah my version's less cool but I used to spent a pretty substantial amount of time listening to the previews on itunes. might regret admitting this but I've still listened to a ton of canon albums only in that format lol.There's the sample over the full song thing too though, a 50-second Rinse rip can sometimes sound more complete and satisfying than the full track. I've noticed the same thing with people previewing stuff on Insta, I often end up preferring those clips to the actual release.