yeah I get the meaning but its just pretty wtf to see this so-called genre already referencing its forefathers. Guess I'm just old.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
The new album is really good.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
man, i played a show with this dude like five years ago. i kinda liked the record, but his live show was alot of him slapping his ass yelling "pee pee doo doo."
If you would have pulled me aside and said, "In 2010, all indie rock will sound like this," I would have stared a dagger into your soul.
― swag surfer blood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
hope his full time band means the live show has improved (just bought tickets for the mercury lounge show).
― mizzell, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
actually last time i saw him, on the tour with cass mccombs, he was pretty good.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw him at SXSW in 2005 (I think) and the show was transcendent. His show next year at SXSW was awful (embarrassingly so since I dragged a few people to witness the glory). And so it goes...
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Youtube evidence would lead one to believe that the band is pretty tight imo.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
saw him with I guess the new band in Dublin last year, tight as fuck (apart from AP himself who was shambolic in a v charismatic way - apparently his rider called for an enormous quantity of weed, most/all of which was consumed pre-show).
― p-dog, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
― swag surfer blood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, April 6, 2010 12:18 PM
does all indie rock sound like this in 2010?
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, April 6, 2010 12:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yeah this is funny! Forefather meaning someone around 5-6 years ago...
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
he was good at Music Hall of Wburg last year, I was skeptical going in cuz his live reviews are pretty mixed but it was a tight show
― dmr, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw him in Miami and his band was really tight, as some people have indicated above, but they were also boring, and they concluded the show with the worst freak-out jam of all time. Ariel was really high, trying to compete with Ida No, who fell off stage into the bar.
Sound check was three hours and doors opened really late. You couldn't tell at all that they'd put so much work into it, and the bass hurt all the audience's ears.
I'd rather have seen him with a guitar and keyboard and sampler and CDr set up, going solo like in those early shows which have been described as terrible. Ariel's drummer carried a lot of the weight, and his voice seemed to be higher in the mix than Ariel's. Ariel looked really old and a bit like the troll under the bridge from "Three Billy Goats Gruff."
I liked the CDs, especially the pop stuff, despite the occasionally plagiarized tune, but that show put me off for years. To the present, really.
That single up above sort of reminds me of when Beck decided he was a real singer and had to sing pretty, and started putting out (even more) boring records The production and voice clash. Also, the production haze of the earlier recordings is like a trick to get around how harsh hi-fi recordings often sound. Only in theory do I like the AM smooth pop aesthetic.
What did I just do. Post stuff. Give opinions.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
He was AWFUL at Primavera last year...still, pumped for the new record, 'Round and Round' sounds wick.
― Dwight Yorke, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
three hour soundcheck?
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes. We put the chess board away, but could've played two more games. I was pissed!
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Not that the sound guy and opening bands couldn't have been blamed. And the management.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
disappointed to find out he's a stoner. weed is boring. was hoping he was either a pillhead or totally clean and just naturally mental.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
WEED is AWESOME-
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
The cover kinda reminds me of Lou Reed's 'Take No Prisoners' album...kinda like it...
― sonnyboy, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
disappointed to find out he's a stoner. weed is boring. was hoping he was either a pillhead...
wow
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 6 April 2010 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
"Gettin' high in the morning" iirc
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
<img src>http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/SFm0KyVUivI/AAAAAAAAJqk/O23jZ-92Fus/s400/killing+joke</img>
― uptown churl, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
damn sorry for the wack html
Wait, how is it a surprise that he's a stoner?
― how is abbott formed (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
he was terrific and totally pro when i saw him 3 years ago (with band). new single sounds ok. i agree w/bamquern re: the vocals. same situation with that recent-ish (?) glass candy single where ida no's vox are devoid of much reverbhaze and just don't mesh. weed is awesome, btw.
― hobbes, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
add lucifer's friend s/t to the stack of "waht does this cover look like"
― hobbes, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought of Ramones meets Ziggy Stardust covers
― Zeno, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
this is some of the weirdest I-demand-a-certain-image-from-the-artist stuff I have ever run across
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
xposts didn't mean to out him as a stoner (if indeed i did), thought it was well-known/obvious tbh...
― p-dog, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
wow - he's the first person ive ever heard of who smokes weed!
― Zeno, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
everyone in california smokes the doobage. even your mom.
― Spinspin Sugah, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I really wasn't serious, no do U care what drugs the dude does tbh. I'm just saying Miley Cyrus is probably a pothead. It's so normal these days that to hear stories about how he smoked a dump truck full of weed before a show is just kind of... mundane. I demand juicier drug details from my weirdo artists!!
― richie aprile (rockapads), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf? that should be *nor do I care*
no do U care
lol u were high as a motherfucker when you wrote that
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm getting a sort of cross between Ziggy Stardust and What's THIS For by Killing Joke...
― Gavin in Leeds, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
xpostsit was a pretty mundane story, sorry! :) anyway it was a superb gig, his band were seriously chops-tastic, and the new song is grrreat. love that moment about two minutes in when the multilayered voices singing "Hold on!" break thru the haze. to paraphrase what someone said upthread about the album cover, it makes me feel nostalgic for something that I can't quite place, and that may not have ever actually existed. excited about the new album.
― p-dog, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Cover reminded me of Desmond Child and Rouge
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vINIsD7pL.jpg
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh sorry so huge
oh man. wkiw ^ xp
― hobbes, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh i hear AP is crazed w c0c@1n3 but more broadly i dont care
― 69, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
cocaine? pfft, nowadays i don't listen to anyone on anything less potent than dmt
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
just echoing the love for round and round
never really dug this dude before but this joint is ill
― max, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
wkiw = ?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
that song sounds like Washed Out(and i like it)
― Zeno, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
would kick it with
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
ah thanx
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
agreed
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 7 April 2010 13:07 (fourteen years ago) link
― max, Tuesday, April 6, 2010 7:26 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
have you heard Can't Hear My Eyes? u gotta
― dmr, Thursday, 8 April 2010 04:47 (fourteen years ago) link
leaked, btw.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 April 2010 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, and the album is aswesome.the production of it is the best thing i've heard in awhile, which i guess is even a bigger achievement for him as a lo-fi artist (till now).as for the tunes: a little more accessible, but the weird-psych is still going on with full power for most of it, and thank god for that.
every song sounds a somewhat different, though they all share the same vibe as a whole:animal collective, mercury rev (little wig), stereolab (bright lit), air, fleetwood mac/chicago (can't hear my eyes). actually 70's softrock all over the place.gotta love it.
― Zeno, Thursday, 8 April 2010 08:19 (fourteen years ago) link