I'm only familiar with them through brief appearances on Beastie Boys and Dan the Automator related projects. I recently heard their song "White Pepper Ice Cream" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nNi3nqixh4. Pretty dope IMO. Is the rest of their material similar to this? Any side projects worth checking out?
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1. "Was going to post about the new album" In response to Reply # 0
It's about everything I'd expect from a 2014 Cibbo Matto album. I don't know how to characterise it. Like if Beck didn't take himself too seriously. That's my description of them from back then. Listening to the new one made me want a new Deelite album.
2. "ha! at a new Deelite album" In response to Reply # 1
i feel the new Cibo Matto single tho
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5. "i've come to appreciate the musicality in early 90's kitsch" In response to Reply # 2
like it's easy to dismiss deelite as fluff pop, but there were layers to their shit that made it fantastic. it's crazy how good pop today means quantizing all of the chords to hit exactly on all of the kick hits. *sigh*
10. "oh no, i like Dee-lite" In response to Reply # 5
i couldn't imagine you listening to it
man if Dee-lite dropped in 2014 the album would be >>>> that Daft Punk album last year
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4. "Matto Production >>>>>>> Automator in 2014" In response to Reply # 3
go ahead and cry. Do I even need the 2014 disclaimer? Sure over a decade ago you would have thought the notion absurd. But Cibo production shows a shit ton more skill and ability than the trite automator tries to get over on.
9. "RE: Matto Production >>>>>>> Automator in 2014" In response to Reply # 4
Maybe so…lol…why you so mad? To be honest, haven't heard much new Matto production….it's mostly the voice ish that I don't dig, to each there own. Lighten up….god is good...
13. "RE: How does The Lesson feel about Cibo Matto?" In response to Reply # 0
Been revisiting Stereotype A. Has to be one of the most genre-blending albums I've heard. Heavy guitar riffs, bossa nova, raps, pop hooks all in the same album, and none of it sounding forced. I put them in the same category as Gorillaz & N*E*R*D
16. "It's like they made a bet that hipsters would champion the least effort" In response to Reply # 0 Wed Apr-16-14 03:30 AM by Clarence Clarke
they could conjure.
My hipster friend who hates pop music is in love with them.
Most of the stuff I've heard by them is very "meh" to mediocre.
I haven't heard anything by them that makes me want to hear more.
Even this track you posted is like..... ok. It's literally someone speaking over something that sounds like the theme to a latenight music video show. I hear their shit, and I'm like..... "Is that it?"
Maybe the appeal is that they don't do traditional song structure and will do things like talk over a throwaway track... but there is a difference between being innovative and just being lazy; releasing the first gibberish you create and putting forth zero effort. This is a true manifestation of hipster culture.
22. "RE: What do they have to do with G I R L and why would I be "mad&qu..." In response to Reply # 19 Sun Apr-20-14 10:06 AM by Nick Has a Problem..
It was just a joke fam. Nothing more. We were going back n forth about Pharrell's latest LP. Then we agreed on Cody. Now we're disagreeing on Cibo Matto so I said we'll always have Cody.
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20. "Ok, so I discovered a song by them that I really do like..." In response to Reply # 16
I asked my friend once and for all, to tell me THEE thing by them that I should listen to. She suggested "Pom Pom: The Essential Cibo Matto", which is a compilation of the work across albums. I quickly realized that all of the songs I liked came from the same album (Stereotype A). I maintain that the music from "Viva! La Woman" is vastly garbage (that's the album the song you posted comes from). It's their debut, and I think most of the music I'd heard from them came from that album. Anyway, here's the song I thought was fantastic... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYvH49xTxK8
21. "Kudos for didding deeper..." In response to Reply # 20
...and allowing your opinion to evolve.
There is innate value in music that always sounds fresh, but one must also consider the time in which something was realeased. When their first album, Viva la Woman dropped, it did some very fresh things with sampling that weren't being done at the time, and the aesthetic of the lead vocalist was super-fresh, too. Later albums were more advanced musically, but there is a quality on Viva that was only on Viva. Also, it's an album to take as a whole, not singles to be dissected.
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