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jsem

July 28, 2011, 02:16:19 PM
Help. I think I have just fallen in love with this artist.

I can't be bothered looking for an already existing thread (if there is one) so I'm just starting a new one.

Discuss. Appreciate.

LeeHarveyKennedy

#1
July 28, 2011, 02:17:36 PM
She's pretty good. I love Getting Scared off her first album, and haven't heard much else, though I remember liking her latest (Ellipse, I think?).

Ravenheart

#2
July 28, 2011, 02:18:40 PM
Brilliant woman. I've been putting off making a thread about her, so you beat me to it.

Of her 3 studio albums, I like Speak for Yourself the most. I haven't gotten around to listening to any of her new songs yet.

Zantera

#3
July 28, 2011, 02:35:36 PM
I have Speak For Yourself on my comp, have not listened yet though.
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jsem

#4
July 28, 2011, 02:40:05 PM
Quote from: Zantera on July 28, 2011, 02:35:36 PM
I have Speak For Yourself on my comp, have not listened yet though.
Now.

jonny108

#5
July 28, 2011, 03:51:16 PM
Speak for Yourself is an amazing album...no idea why I haven't picked up the rest yet.  Haven't listened to it either in yonks!  Going to now.  :)

sneakyblueberry

#6
July 28, 2011, 03:59:32 PM
Ellipse is pretty great.  I love Speak for Yourself.  Hide and Seek <3

ReaperKK

#7
July 28, 2011, 06:45:58 PM
All I have is Ellipse and I really enjoy it, I need to pick up some her other work.

SoundscapeMN

#8
August 12, 2014, 03:23:24 PM
bump.

like Kimbra yesterday, Imogen's new album "Sparks" is now up to stream in full.

And like Kimbra's new record, it is released next week.

https://www.npr.org/2014/08/10/338018328/first-listen-imogen-heap-sparks

I'm already liking it more than Ellipse. Digging the world influences among many other parts of it.
"I have facility enough that I can throw down something, and play it, and play it correctly, and play it in time, but that doesn't make good records.  What makes good records for me, is when you capture a performance or you get some feeling that you get on tape and that you know you can't plan for it" -Kevin Gilbert

jammindude

#9
August 12, 2014, 03:36:04 PM
Quote from: SoundscapeMN on August 12, 2014, 03:23:24 PM
bump.

like Kimbra yesterday, Imogen's new album "Sparks" is now up to stream in full.

And like Kimbra's new record, it is released next week.

https://www.npr.org/2014/08/10/338018328/first-listen-imogen-heap-sparks

I'm already liking it more than Ellipse. Digging the world influences among many other parts of it.

Ya...Ellipse seemed to take the mellower, poppier elements of Speak for Yourself that I didn't care for and make an entire album out of it.   I Megaphone is still my favorite album, and I'll never forget how addicted I was to that album when it first came out.   I was working in a CD shop, and I could not for the life of me get people to believe me when I said she was amazing.     I liked the darker stuff from Speak, but most of the lighter stuff didn't do anything for me. 

SoundscapeMN

#10
June 20, 2019, 05:55:31 PM Last Edit: June 20, 2019, 06:05:14 PM by SoundscapeMN
super old  bump.

wonderful new tune "The Quiet"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqotisxynq8
"I have facility enough that I can throw down something, and play it, and play it correctly, and play it in time, but that doesn't make good records.  What makes good records for me, is when you capture a performance or you get some feeling that you get on tape and that you know you can't plan for it" -Kevin Gilbert

ReaperKK

#11
June 20, 2019, 06:08:38 PM
Man I haven't listened to Imogen Heap in a long time going to check out this tune.

SoundscapeMN

#12
February 28, 2021, 11:06:52 AM
bump.

she did a live stream for a making of a new VR-themed video for her song "Last Night of an Empire"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijLtHHPE09k

also she released that new song in December
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu62jPmGa04

as well as "Phase and Flow" back in June
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS8eMaNcUwk

looking forward to that new video, and hopefully a new album finally. Although with her history over the last decade, she seems more content with releasing singles, but I recall sometime in 2018, there was a quote about a new album coming. But it's been over 2 years now, so who knows.
"I have facility enough that I can throw down something, and play it, and play it correctly, and play it in time, but that doesn't make good records.  What makes good records for me, is when you capture a performance or you get some feeling that you get on tape and that you know you can't plan for it" -Kevin Gilbert

SoundscapeMN

#13
April 08, 2022, 04:58:47 PM
"I have facility enough that I can throw down something, and play it, and play it correctly, and play it in time, but that doesn't make good records.  What makes good records for me, is when you capture a performance or you get some feeling that you get on tape and that you know you can't plan for it" -Kevin Gilbert

nick_z

#14
April 09, 2022, 08:57:29 AM
Quote from: SoundscapeMN on April 08, 2022, 04:58:47 PM
bump.

New Frou Frou tune "A New Kind of Love"

https://open.spotify.com/album/484SKRaXGq7m9VV0rmSyeb?highlight=spotify:track:3fuyYaLhZ2RoP9eWpvfP1H

https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGDS5YDA87/

Frou Frou! Wow, that takes me back...what was that, 20 years ago? Cool song, recaptures that early 2000s mood...

Speaking of Imogen Heap - BIG fan of Speak for Yourself when it came out. Despite how popular it was back then, I was actually never a huge fan of Hide and Seek. My favorites from that record are Have You Got in You?, The Walk (that ending!) and the hauntingly beautiful closer The Moment I Said it (to me, it kinda sounded like Tori Amos was guesting on a Chroma Key album, or something)

SoundscapeMN

#15
April 09, 2022, 09:54:04 PM
Quote from: nick_z on April 09, 2022, 08:57:29 AM
Quote from: SoundscapeMN on April 08, 2022, 04:58:47 PM
bump.

New Frou Frou tune "A New Kind of Love"

https://open.spotify.com/album/484SKRaXGq7m9VV0rmSyeb?highlight=spotify:track:3fuyYaLhZ2RoP9eWpvfP1H

https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGDS5YDA87/

Frou Frou! Wow, that takes me back...what was that, 20 years ago? Cool song, recaptures that early 2000s mood...

Speaking of Imogen Heap - BIG fan of Speak for Yourself when it came out. Despite how popular it was back then, I was actually never a huge fan of Hide and Seek. My favorites from that record are Have You Got in You?, The Walk (that ending!) and the hauntingly beautiful closer The Moment I Said it (to me, it kinda sounded like Tori Amos was guesting on a Chroma Key album, or something)

yeah I have also often got a Kevin Moore/Chroma Key vibe from The Moment I Said it.

I guess the new Frou Frou track "A New Kind of Love" is a tune that Immi had played live going back more than 10 years ago. But it's cool to hear it done with Guy Sigsworth as a Frou Frou tune.

I'm anxioius to hear a new record from Imogen Heap, but maybe we'll be getting a Frou Frou record sooner?..I know she's kept out of the album release/demand of the industry, really since dealing with the discomfort and stress of it with Ellipse. Her last record "Sparks" I really enjoy, and that was now 8 years ago, so it brings up always when will another record come? songs/singles have, but it's 1 of those every year things where could it come out this year? or might it be another 5 years, if ever? I know she became a mother since Sparks, so that has contributed to working and even touring a lot less.
"I have facility enough that I can throw down something, and play it, and play it correctly, and play it in time, but that doesn't make good records.  What makes good records for me, is when you capture a performance or you get some feeling that you get on tape and that you know you can't plan for it" -Kevin Gilbert

LithoJazzoSphere

#16
April 09, 2022, 11:50:44 PM
It has a 2000s vibe because it was recorded back then, it's not actually new.  It's been on YouTube over a dozen years as an unreleased track, but for whatever reason they're just reuploading it officially now. 

Imogen has been a really frustrating artist for me.  Speak For Yourself was monumentally important to me, in terms of kicking into overdrive a fascination with electronic music, an interest in female singer-songwriter-instrumentalist types, and it's still one of my favorite albums of all time.  But it set the bar so high that nothing else she's done has been able to live up to it.  Ellipse is very good, but a big step down for me, and I just haven't been able to get Sparks or her other assorted releases since then to resonate nearly as deeply. 

jammindude

#17
April 10, 2022, 08:16:51 AM
Personally, I love I Megaphone. Much darker album.

I remember getting a demo of that when I worked at a CD shop and I became obsessed with it. Played it constantly in store. But after I left that job, I never heard her again and I thought for I long time that I was one of the very few human beings who had ever heard of her.  It wasn't until 7 years later that SFY was even released, and I didn't even know it existed until at least a year later.

Even though I still like I Megaphone best, it's hard to compare it to the rest of her work because it's SO different. But I love the Frou Frou album. They keep teasing that they might release new material in the future but it never seems to happen.

I didn't like Ellipse at first, but now I find it quite enjoyable. I love the songs individually when they come up on shuffle, but the album doesn't rank as high for me as the others. I've still never heard Sparks.

nick_z

#18
April 10, 2022, 08:26:02 AM
Quote from: LithoJazzoSphere on April 09, 2022, 11:50:44 PM
It has a 2000s vibe because it was recorded back then, it's not actually new.  It's been on YouTube over a dozen years as an unreleased track, but for whatever reason they're just reuploading it officially now. 

Well, that explains it, then  ;D

Quote from: LithoJazzoSphere on April 09, 2022, 11:50:44 PM
Imogen has been a really frustrating artist for me.  Speak For Yourself was monumentally important to me, in terms of kicking into overdrive a fascination with electronic music, an interest in female singer-songwriter-instrumentalist types, and it's still one of my favorite albums of all time.  But it set the bar so high that nothing else she's done has been able to live up to it.  Ellipse is very good, but a big step down for me, and I just haven't been able to get Sparks or her other assorted releases since then to resonate nearly as deeply.

Feel pretty much the same. I was never able to really get into the albums following Speak for Yourself

LithoJazzoSphere

#19
April 10, 2022, 10:15:36 AM
Quote from: jammindude on April 10, 2022, 08:16:51 AM
Personally, I love I Megaphone. Much darker album.

I remember getting a demo of that when I worked at a CD shop and I became obsessed with it. Played it constantly in store. But after I left that job, I never heard her again and I thought for I long time that I was one of the very few human beings who had ever heard of her.  It wasn't until 7 years later that SFY was even released, and I didn't even know it existed until at least a year later.

Even though I still like I Megaphone best, it's hard to compare it to the rest of her work because it's SO different.

It's not nearly on the level of SFY either, but I do quite enjoy that album as well, it's more like angsty Tori Amos or Alanis Morissette.  "Come Here Boy" and "Angry Angel" were both on regular rotation for me in particular. 

nick_z

#20
April 10, 2022, 10:33:46 AM
Quote from: LithoJazzoSphere on April 10, 2022, 10:15:36 AM
Quote from: jammindude on April 10, 2022, 08:16:51 AM
Personally, I love I Megaphone. Much darker album.

I remember getting a demo of that when I worked at a CD shop and I became obsessed with it. Played it constantly in store. But after I left that job, I never heard her again and I thought for I long time that I was one of the very few human beings who had ever heard of her.  It wasn't until 7 years later that SFY was even released, and I didn't even know it existed until at least a year later.

Even though I still like I Megaphone best, it's hard to compare it to the rest of her work because it's SO different.

It's not nearly on the level of SFY either, but I do quite enjoy that album as well, it's more like angsty Tori Amos or Alanis Morissette.  "Come Here Boy" and "Angry Angel" were both on regular rotation for me in particular.

Yes, exactly. I enjoy it too, but SFY was definitely more in my wheelhouse.

SoundscapeMN

#21
June 03, 2022, 06:30:43 PM
New EP "Off Cuts" out today which is some old demos.
https://open.spotify.com/album/40GhVTFmwALOmlnK8M2XEA
"I have facility enough that I can throw down something, and play it, and play it correctly, and play it in time, but that doesn't make good records.  What makes good records for me, is when you capture a performance or you get some feeling that you get on tape and that you know you can't plan for it" -Kevin Gilbert

SoundscapeMN

#22
December 02, 2022, 12:29:29 PM
"I have facility enough that I can throw down something, and play it, and play it correctly, and play it in time, but that doesn't make good records.  What makes good records for me, is when you capture a performance or you get some feeling that you get on tape and that you know you can't plan for it" -Kevin Gilbert

SoundscapeMN

#23
August 14, 2023, 04:00:15 PM
bump.

today she posted some shorts on Social Media about how excited she is about a new song and video..best in a long time, etc.

Coming in November I guess.
"I have facility enough that I can throw down something, and play it, and play it correctly, and play it in time, but that doesn't make good records.  What makes good records for me, is when you capture a performance or you get some feeling that you get on tape and that you know you can't plan for it" -Kevin Gilbert

LithoJazzoSphere

#24
August 14, 2023, 05:22:52 PM
I just wish she would release a normal new album again, it's been nearly a decade.  I should revisit Sparks to see if it's grown on me. 

jammindude

#25
August 14, 2023, 06:08:19 PM
Did she ever do that Frou Frou reunion that she had hinted at awhile back?

SoundscapeMN

#26
November 21, 2023, 08:44:56 PM
bump.

"What Have You Done To Me?" song/video coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV5GIM2Jpyw
"I have facility enough that I can throw down something, and play it, and play it correctly, and play it in time, but that doesn't make good records.  What makes good records for me, is when you capture a performance or you get some feeling that you get on tape and that you know you can't plan for it" -Kevin Gilbert

SoundscapeMN

#27
May 24, 2024, 06:34:56 AM
bump.

new tune

"Last Night Of An Empire (Loko Velocet Remix)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQpMwJ-WhQE
"I have facility enough that I can throw down something, and play it, and play it correctly, and play it in time, but that doesn't make good records.  What makes good records for me, is when you capture a performance or you get some feeling that you get on tape and that you know you can't plan for it" -Kevin Gilbert

LithoJazzoSphere

#28
May 24, 2024, 09:53:49 AM
I'm generally leery of remixes, but that one is actually pretty interesting, and is making me relisten to the original, which I've been really underrating.

Still want a new full album though, Kate Havnevik has been making the albums I wish Imogen would have been in the past dozen years or so. 

SoundscapeMN

#29
October 30, 2024, 03:38:10 PM
bump.

"What Have You Done To Me?"
https://ffm.to/whydtm-presave
"I have facility enough that I can throw down something, and play it, and play it correctly, and play it in time, but that doesn't make good records.  What makes good records for me, is when you capture a performance or you get some feeling that you get on tape and that you know you can't plan for it" -Kevin Gilbert

SoundscapeMN

#30
November 01, 2024, 03:54:17 PM
"I have facility enough that I can throw down something, and play it, and play it correctly, and play it in time, but that doesn't make good records.  What makes good records for me, is when you capture a performance or you get some feeling that you get on tape and that you know you can't plan for it" -Kevin Gilbert
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