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it's weird because it's probably less disorienting to people who don't listen to sightings, but having heard all but one of their albums it's very, very disorienting to me.

michigan haters and arrived in gold are my overall faves w/r/t their sound. have you heard absolutes, cause there's some scrapin' there.

LOUT OF ICHOR (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:54 (fifteen years ago) link

I've only heard through the panama, end times and absolutes and absolutes is my favourite of those, probably.

what U cry 4 (jim), Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Although listening it to it right now with this hangover perhaps isn't the wisest.

what U cry 4 (jim), Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link

I have not heard absolutes, although a mysterious unmarked CD-R i found inside a different box has the track 'Canadian Money' on it, which i understand comes from that album? You might be right about the scrapin' because it fukken rages!
Aufgehoben are a group that are doing it for me atm re: scrapes. oh god they are so awesome. Actually, i'll spell it 'skrapes' in the interest of distinction.
xxposts

siskin/skulls, Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Canadian money is track 5 on absolutes, yeah.

what U cry 4 (jim), Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

damn that new track is good. it's like a hi-fi take on dead c

sonderangerbot, Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link

Where is it from? Sounds like a very good thing.

grandavis, Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link

new album out later this year. sneak peak here, kudos whiney

sonderangerbot, Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link

Sightings interview with Kid Millions on the Brah Records site

Trip Maker, Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link

Wait, here it is

Trip Maker, Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link

like that new song

El GarBage (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh hey, thanks a bunch. Wish more bands were like this.

grandavis, Thursday, 11 February 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link

<3 this band

united arab amirites (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 11 February 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link

like, the better and crazier this band gets the less people pay attention. or am i just imagining that?

international slackness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link

Nah, it's a bummer. They deserve some righteous enthusiasm fer sure. Definitely gonna buy the new one when it comes out. This new track is very cool, really like the progression of it. Sound is great on it too, love the way the percussive attack shifts throughout the song. Great interview with Kid, too. Love those interviews on the Brah site.

grandavis, Friday, 12 February 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link

I was just listening to "Michigan Haters" a few days ago and wondering what they were up to these days. Ask and ye shall receive.

Robert Necrofrost, Friday, 12 February 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link

don't stop
make it pop
sightings blow my speakers up

tramp steamer, Friday, 12 February 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link

Last night I was we were having a conversation about these guys. They are totally a "musician's band." Like, for the most part, their only fans are other bands, it seems. I had an opportunity to set up a show for them in town on this next go round, but none of the clubs will touch it (shitty clubs in this town, tbh) and I don't think that the DIY spaces are equipped for their technical necessities. I certainly couldn't engineer their set.

Trip Maker, Friday, 12 February 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link

But hearing this new stuff is making me wish I'd put in some extra effort.

Trip Maker, Friday, 12 February 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link

these guys rule live and I've seen them a couple times now but I've never checked out a record. pretty dumb.

original bgm, Friday, 12 February 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link

4/16 Providence, RI ASS200

lol

鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 12 February 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

New sightings is on Jagjaguwar?! Whoa.

DISASTÜR ZÜN RHINE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link

Well, Brah. They did it at the Ocropolis.

Trip Maker, Friday, 12 March 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link

i've only heard 'Tar and Pine' from the new one, but i've had it playing on loop on several occasions since I downloaded it. awesome groove.

gnarly sceptre, Friday, 12 March 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link

leaked ya'll

samosa gibreel, Friday, 12 March 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link

holy shit "sky above mud below"

i don't think i've been this excited since the last track on "arrived in gold."

DISASTÜR ZÜN RHINE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link

i listened to this album the other day while watching a dozen police break some dude out of his car then arrest him in the middle of the street-it was awesome!

samosa gibreel, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

this album is brilliant, i'm really starting to crack into it. these must be the most gorgeous guitar tones in noise rock ever, some moments where he's just peeling off layer after layer AAAAAHHHHHHHH. plus it's really groovy, they're so in control of every throb and pulse.

i saw them live last monday and this is probably the uncoolest opinion but it was maybe too much of a mindfuck? i like how even in the depth of freakout they're weirdly contiguous, the bass is kind of tucked away on the record, it's there but just sort of rumbling away weirdly locked in with the drums. anyways the live mix had the bass loud as fuck and at some points i just felt like i was watching three people play three different songs at the same time and i think i busted my brain trying to make sense of it all.

imma sb (samosa gibreel), Monday, 26 April 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

the world would be a nicer place if a yamatsuka eye remix of "sky above mud below" existed

original bgm, Friday, 4 June 2010 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link

two years pass...

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/04/sightings_new_album_qa.php
They're BAAAACK

Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link

Man, I loved the last record. "sky above mud below" was so fucking good that I return to it the most, I hope they included a similarly triumphant rager like it somewhere on the new one.

grandavis, Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:07 (eleven years ago) link

sightings rules.
i wish i still had all my sightings records :(

i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

Cause I am listening to it RIGHT NOW I must once again say: "Sky Above Mud Below" is the damn best. It is like an anthem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wR7Yo45pzI

grandavis, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link

ten months pass...

Final record coming out on Dais soon. Damn good song from it, but at this point they are all golden:

https://soundcloud.com/daisrecords/sightings-1982

Anyone heard Silk Purse? Curious as to how far it deviates from Sightings since both Mark and Richard are in the fold.

grandavis, Thursday, 21 May 2015 15:13 (nine years ago) link

Everybody in this band is a damn champ on their instrument. What a great group sound.

grandavis, Thursday, 21 May 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link

Full album available for streaming! Have at it: http://www.factmag.com/2015/06/04/noise-rock-greats-sightings-go-down-swinging-on-their-final-album-stream-amusers-and-puzzlers/

grandavis, Thursday, 4 June 2015 17:25 (eight years ago) link

This is great.

grandavis, Thursday, 4 June 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link

Also, "Syllabus of Errors" is a fantastic name for a song by Sightings. Going out in primo fashion.

grandavis, Thursday, 4 June 2015 17:54 (eight years ago) link

wait what, they split up?

sonz of a croup da croupier (NickB), Friday, 5 June 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link


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