Comments on: Does anyone else love Lacquer?

Question: Does anyone else love Lacquer?

4ster — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:55:05 -0800

I have fallen in love with the song "Behind" by the band Lacquer. If I love this song, by this (thus-far, by me, at least) hard-to-locate band, who else would I enjoy listening to?

Thanks everyone for your help.

By: wuzandfuzz

wuzandfuzz — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:14:31 -0800

I think knowing a little bit more about what you like about it might help. Is it the vocals, the beat, the mood it evokes?

Off the top of my head, there's the obvious Postal Service, maybe Figurine or Phoenix.

One of my fave Phoenix songs (bad video though): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhwufCg7THM

By: TayBridge

TayBridge — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:23:54 -0800

Cosmo Vitelli did a great remix of this very song that would definitely be worth hunting down. From there, you might be interested in French touch/ filter house in general. There was a good thread about it here a while ago.

By: Phire

Phire — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:20:03 -0800

If you're in the US, you should have access to Pandora, which will let you put in a song and then play a radio of songs they deem to be similar based on lyrics, music style, etc. You can then rate songs up and down and the radio will continually "learn" your preferences based on this. I totally recommend this service, even if it's no longer available to me due to geographical reasons.

By: disillusioned

disillusioned — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:38:22 -0800

Something like Cherry Blossom Girl by Air might work?

By the way, that band IS hard to find anything on, and that's an amazing video and great song.

By: disillusioned

disillusioned — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:40:31 -0800

(As per You Tube's warning, that video is apparently totally NSFW as I'm finding.)

By: disillusioned

disillusioned — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:01:04 -0800

Also, hit me up if you'd like a clean copy of the song in MP3 format.

By: clearly

clearly — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:24:07 -0800

I'll give it a shot. That sound is pretty unique. Some similar songs you might like...

MGMT - Kids and Time to Pretend
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Telepopmusik - Breathe
Thom Yorke - Black Swan
Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe

Seconding The Postal Service. If you haven't already heard them, check out The District Sleeps Alone Tonight and Such Great Heights.

By: rongorongo

rongorongo — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:15:45 -0800

LastFM auto computes two "connected groups" and a bunch of "similar artists" for you.

By: rongorongo

rongorongo — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:25:44 -0800

...but seems to leave off "Röyksopp" which sounds similar to me. A chance to post a link to great video of "Remind Me" anyway.

By: rongorongo

rongorongo — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:56:50 -0800

....and finally you could either look at his playlist about his influences on his MySpace page.

By: adamrice

adamrice — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:59:30 -0800

Lots of good tips here already, I think. Here's a few other artists that occur to me:

dZihan & Kamien
Everything but the Girl
Digitalism (this is a more electro-clash)
Daft Punk's "Discovery" (if you don't already know it)

By: Pressed Rat

Pressed Rat — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:07:30 -0800

pandora

By: 4ster

4ster — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:18:45 -0800

Everyone,

Thank you, thank you, thank you for these suggestions. I have really enjoyed listening to these songs, and you are all pretty well spot-on with what I was looking for.