david kilgour's best, poppiest songs

And we have full new song/video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3WpVgSixm4

itunes tells me i have listened to "Christopher Columbus" over 100 times in the last month and a half or so.

it's an awesome song. Left by Soft struck me as very Byrds-ian, and CC is Byrds-ian too, but in an almost entirely different way. Like I feel like the song kind of captures the sort of mood of pastoral folk-rock but I feel like Kilgour is deftly avoiding the usual folk-rock vocabulary. To these ears, he's doing something quite different here.

New DK video! And new album on the way in August!

http://youtu.be/k8WXo_CzaAE

got the promo yesterday - sounds great on first listen. (but this guy can pretty much do no wrong imo). would be great if he could tour the states with the 8s.

Jealous of your promo action!

DK+H8's will be playing the Merge 25 thing in late July, so maybe they'll tour after that?

that would be great. haven't seen him in ... seven years now? eesh.

Tyler, how does it rank in with his solo albums? The lead song from the vid sounds great.

oooh a tour!! would totally go!!

he is the best.
xp need to have it sink in a bit, but it sounds of a piece with the last few records. some nice 12-string electric action happening.

Been pretty hooked on "Waveboarder" lately. "Push it on! Little fool!"

David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights - 2014 Tour Dates
Jul 25 Carrboro, NC -- Cat's Cradle (Merge 25)
Jul 30 Portland, OR -- Bunk Bar
Aug 1 San Francisco, CA -- Rickshaw Stop
Aug 2 Los Angeles, CA -- Los Globos

The Clean - 2014 Tour Dates
Aug 18 Chicago, IL -- Schubas
Aug 19 Detroit, MI -- Trinosophes
Aug 22 Brooklyn NY -- Glasslands
Aug 23 Baltimore, MD -- Metro Gallery
Aug 25 Carrboro, NC -- Cat's Cradle - Back Room
Aug 26 Atlanta, GA -- The Earl
Aug 27 Birmingham, AL -- The Bottletree Cafe
Aug 28 Memphis, TN -- Hi-Tone Cafe
Aug 29 Nashville, TN -- The Stone Fox
Aug 30 Asheville, NC -- Harvest Records Transfigurations II

saw the announcement yesterday, so excited about this!!! who are the boogarins?

Brazilian psych/tropicalia band. I caught them at Psych Fest. Not super into it, if I'm being honest.

oh :-/
well whatever
the clean will be playing!

so jeal

blurgh. hoping that maybe there'll be some more heavy 8s shows filled in there?

Me too.

Texas is between LA and Chicago, someone tell David Kilgour

I'd really rather see the Heavy 8s than the Clean, but I ain't complaining.

looks like i'm going to portland.

new one is really, really good. really, my only complaint is that it should be longer!

Tix to Memphis gotten!

...and the perfect excuse to quit putting off getting the new one.

come to london

pls

My god, how have I not listened to this guy until now? I've been really into flying nun for a couple years now, but never really liked The Clean too much so I didn't bother to check out Kilgour's solo stuff. It's way more summery and psychedelic than anything else from that label. Sugar Mouth and Here Come the Cars are easily the coolest records I've heard from the early 90s.

Damn right. So looking forward to seeing him Saturday.

Here Come the Cars is an alltime album f'sure

new album's up! http://www.wonderingsound.com/news/album-premiere-david-kilgour-heavy-eights-end-times-undone/

what a surprise this is awesome

really is great. just heard hamish's new one too -- equally good.

Oh really? Does Hamish sing? Is it like a variation on The Clean?

yeah, this is his first "solo" recrod, but he's been doing his own stuff as Mad Scene for a while now. Worth checking out!
Here's a track from his new one: https://soundcloud.com/badabingrecords/hamish-kilgour-crazy-radiance/s-Tu4e3

yeah, this is really nice.

i've never listened to kilgour/the clean either, i dunno what it was, something about NZ music has always seemed kinda indistinct when i've checked it out in general, never sussed out a way in.

Man, the Christopher Columbus-Crow-Dropper sequence is a damn fine stretch of rock and roll, damn fine.

Not sure if it's been mentioned elsewhere, but Hamish Kilgour's put out his first solo album on Ba Da Bing.

Yeah I need to check that out. I was reading an article about him just recently

Not sure if it's been mentioned elsewhere, but Hamish Kilgour's put out his first solo album on Ba Da Bing.

― etc

Oops, had been mentioned by tylerw a few posts above me; shouldn't post when I'm that sleep-deprived.

Video: http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/news/8788/Video-Hamish-Kilgour---Strength-Of-An-Eye-UTR-Premiere.utr

David has a new album out, another collaboration with Sam Hunt:
http://flyingout.co.nz/products/sam-hunt-w-david-kilgour-the-heavy-8s-the-9th-cd

The previous one, "Falling Debris", is really nice. Listening now, I had forgotten this gem.