Journal For Plague Lovers remixes press release

[Lone Architect]

Those remixes ranked:

Excellent:
- 'Me And Stephen Hawking' - British Sea Power (cute and quirky)
- 'This Joke Sport Severed' - Patrick Wolf (moody and emotional, love the instrumentation)
- 'Journal For Plague Lovers' - Optimo/Espacio (bleepy, twisty and very O/E whilst also using the vocal neatly, love the massed backing vocals)
- 'Jackie Collins Existential Question Time' - St Etienne (you need a heart of stone not to like this one)
- 'All Is Vanity' - Errors (evil and sinister, suits the vocal perfectly, hence I think the use of almost all of it)
- 'Virginia State Epileptic Colony' - Fuck Buttons (mmm, yummy, menacing, danceable (about the only one on there) and hilariously devoid of elements of the original)

Good:
- 'Pretension/Repulsion' - Four Tet (very Four Tet-ish, short and sweet)
- 'Marlon JD' - New Young Pony Club (nice enough, but not exceptional, still manages to be better than all but two of NYPC'c actual recorded output thus far)
'Bag Lady' - Joanthan Krisp (whispy and I like the bass)

Passable:
- 'Peeled Apples' - Andrew Weatherall (bit bland, but the parts from the original song are good enough to carry it, doesn't need to be seven minutes long)
- 'Facing Page: Top Left' - Adem (it's ok, very Adem, but I've never really fallen for his toy instrument style)
- 'William's Last Words' - Underworld (nice enough, but I don't really like the effects on Nicky's voice, was better clean, bit lightweight)


Awful:
- 'She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach' - Pariahs (adds nothing, the sort of boring generic 'indie remixing indie' remix which wastes everyone's time)
- 'Doors Slowly Closing' - The Horrors (hilarious reactions aside, this is rubbish)