TWO NEW SONGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt8wR8CagQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMr51844ybw
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 February 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
Trying that first embed properly:
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 February 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
Sez the man on Twitter:
Video for The Riverbed by Eva Michon and stars my uncle Jim. Lyric video for On A Path by Steve Kado and stars some things around my house
Plus, this article:
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/listen-up-will-owen-pallett-win-an-academy-award-this-sunday/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 February 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
Holy shiiiiiiit "The Riverbed" is fucking incredible
― "Jiggle It" - 2 in a Zoo (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
^^^^
― Frederik B, Friday, 28 February 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
Fuck me that's AMAZING.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
Just listened to The Path and my head is really full of conflicted and OMG, do I listen to this with proper respectful Serious Ears, or do I just give in to the overwhelming temptation to just lay back and go into ~full-on squealing fangirl ladyboner flapping~ because not to give into the latter feels like a dishonest expression of my experience of the music and my excitement over it. But to do so in any way would be REALLY. SERIOUSLY. AWKWARD. around here.
But mostly, y'know, just "this is too full of amazing sounds for me to intellectually process how great it is" at the moment.
Hot damn.
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:45 (ten years ago) link
awesome song and video. uncle jim has a great look!
― call all destroyer, Friday, 28 February 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
WAIT TIL YOU LISTEN TO THE RIVERBED HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
hE'S SO GOOD AT MUSIC
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Oops caps.
No, I'm sorry I can't do this, because one half of my head is going "oooh, listen to those waves of distortion, interesting production choices there" and the other half is going "ALKDSFJAJA ;LDKF A;DFJ AKLDSFJ A;KDJF DJAOIDJFM LKDJFKLAJF;LAJ SJK FK;AJ DSJKFGNA KFJ OMGOMGOMGOMGMGOGMGOMG MOAR MOAR MOOOAARRRRRR" and it's hard to balance these feelings with any degree of objectivity.
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
objectivity is overrated, especially with regards to first impressions
― Wahaca Flocka Flame (DJP), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
My ability to even *can* is entirely too compromised right now. This is just truly awe-inspiring music.
Now I'm going to back off this thread before DL shouts at me for making any comments about how cute Owen's haircut is.
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
Sod objectivity. Sometimes visceral, emotional reaction is absolutely fine. Objectivity is a lie.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
(It is a very cute haircut.)
Kidding! So excited to hear the rest of the album now.
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
OP is magic. Fantastic songs.
― emil.y, Friday, 28 February 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
On first listening, I love the arrangement (dense but not overcrowded) on "Riverbed" (which is an amazing song in other ways as well), and I'm really excited for the full album.
― one way street, Friday, 28 February 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
OMG I love Owen for putting his Mox Jet in a video <3 <3
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
These new songs are very pleasing. Wish it was May 12th already!
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 28 February 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
he keeps getting better
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 28 February 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
i be going to the Glasslands show in Bklyn
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 February 2014 18:39 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I'm enjoying these. I'm excited. I played Heartland to death.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 28 February 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
holy fucken shit 'the riverbed' is extraordinary
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:14 (ten years ago) link
'on a path' also very very good but...my word
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:15 (ten years ago) link
I actually like "On a Path" a little more so far.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 1 March 2014 03:20 (ten years ago) link
continually topping himself, tbh. didn't think i could be hit in the feelings more than I was by Heartland and...well, yeah.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 1 March 2014 04:13 (ten years ago) link
^^this. I still play Heartland regularly, cannot wait to play In Conflict to death over the next decade or so.
― Roz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 04:20 (ten years ago) link
I gave these links a listen on my phone this morning which was a terrible injustice. Just now I've played both on cans without the clips and yes, this is brilliant. I fear YT is squashing the sonic quality, but yeah I love both of these and I love the clips too.
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Saturday, 1 March 2014 07:30 (ten years ago) link
It's very nice of Owen to release this just before my birthday when I have the week off to decorate and bike ride.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 1 March 2014 09:21 (ten years ago) link
And go to gigs.
thanks for the new display name, Alex!
― continually topping myself (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 1 March 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
Bwahaha, A+!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 1 March 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
Better than continually popping yourself... ;)
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Saturday, 1 March 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
Holy shit @ "The Riverbed!"
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Saturday, 1 March 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
I think the thing I love most about all your work Owen is how *immediate* the beautiful melodic lines are, they stick in my head right away and stay there happily. It is making me more enthusiastic than ever to keep firing up my own kboards/gear and keep writing music.
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Sunday, 2 March 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
Awesome interview:
http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9358-owen-pallett/
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 12:27 (ten years ago) link
New song and new video.
http://youtu.be/vr_SbrFIuKA
This album is sounding so good. Looks like it might have been pushed back to May 26th now.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
Def my favourite of the new songs.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I love this one.
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 03:23 (ten years ago) link
This just came up on Facebook.
The album release date for "In Conflict" has been pushed back to May 27th. This is due to a backup at the pressing plant; Record Store Day was a tall order this year. We will be selling CD and vinyl copies of the album at all May tour dates, prior to the "street date".
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 03:32 (ten years ago) link
Agree that this is the best song of the three. Just another month to go.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 03:33 (ten years ago) link
all of these songs are great. i think the riverbed is my favorite although i am still a bit irritated that we never learn what happens between uncle jim and the young toughs
― très hip (Treeship), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 04:23 (ten years ago) link
I am just kind of in awe of the arpeggios. It's that kind of True Faith era New Order trick, of having this gorgeous, bubbling arpeggio, but then at the top of the filter sweep, it bursts into this flourish of violins. It's like the aural equivalent of a fountain. Very lovely, I fall for it every time.
― Branwell Bell, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 08:16 (ten years ago) link
whole album is good btw lads
― online hardman, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 08:23 (ten years ago) link
argh i want this album sooner
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 11:41 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I've had a chance to hear the whole thing -- it's a beaut.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
wow that's fabulosu
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
it mangled my spelling w/its beauty
:D
I'll wait for the outtakes and rarities comp, would imagine you've got a decent one in store!
Fully acoustic is intriguing as well. Roll on next year...
― imago, Monday, 3 July 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
Stoked!
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 3 July 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
it's all happening!!! excited as shit, and for remixes/remasters too.
― sean gramophone, Monday, 3 July 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
Ilx pre-covers one of our own is on the cards ;)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 3 July 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
well, fuck me into space!! 2018 looks better all the time
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
I am beyond excited for this one. I actually revisited In Conflict last month, playing it a lot, and it only made me more hungry for new Owen stuff.
― mthrn, Thursday, 6 July 2017 10:06 (six years ago) link
owen produced this, and plays on one of the songs, "self-help": https://tomberlin.bandcamp.com/album/at-weddings-2
self-help is my favorite after one listen but it's all really good. i'm bad at musical references but it's generally acoustic, sometimes reverbed out, sometimes like grouper but not always.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 September 2017 03:56 (six years ago) link
i love owen p so much
― seven mambas (m bison), Friday, 1 September 2017 04:03 (six years ago) link
i enjoy the empty space in "february", too
someone i almost marriedis doing that this monthand i'm ignoring my reading and living like a ghost
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 September 2017 04:07 (six years ago) link
Thanks for the heads up, this is very good.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 1 September 2017 09:21 (six years ago) link
"i am not afraid" is my theme song this week. what a good album.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 September 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfjtI_72VmQ
just discovered that a recording of Songs From An Island from March last year was uploaded in October. loving this and excited for whenever the album emerges
― ufo, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 08:24 (five years ago) link
I wish someone out there would tell us when the heck this is coming out!!
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:23 (five years ago) link
I heard a rumour about next January but the source was pretty sketchy
― imago, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:29 (five years ago) link
Maybe your source was me, but if not, lemme corroborate. :) At least it's what Owen said after the concert in Calgary. I guess the current state is pre-release PR planning and the like. To say I'm hyped is an understatement. The new material has a real strong emotional charge to it, that's for sure.
― TangoWhiskeyman, Sunday, 9 September 2018 02:32 (five years ago) link
I wonder if this is a way one could find out
― Cruel Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 September 2018 04:35 (five years ago) link
Wondering the very same... Stoked though obv.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 9 September 2018 11:19 (five years ago) link
hadn't seen this show from 2015 online before - with band guys matt and rob + extra strings
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Monday, 24 September 2018 06:12 (five years ago) link
would help to post the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbDJylzAFuA
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Monday, 24 September 2018 06:13 (five years ago) link
just watched this a couple of weeks ago. daaaaaaaaaaaaamn
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 24 September 2018 10:45 (five years ago) link
<3 <3
― Roz, Monday, 24 September 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
I've been absolutely stanning the emerging Westerman this year, so how come this lovely bastard of an album slipped through my net four and a half years ago!?
On A Path, oh my days, oh my days. <3
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:35 (five years ago) link
I've just been listening to this again this morning for the first time in ages and it's hit me like a ton of bricks. My god, The Riverbed :(((((
Also everything i've heard of Westerman so far I've loved, especially Confirmation.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 20 December 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link
Any news of Island?
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 1 February 2019 09:17 (five years ago) link
got a good pair of headphones for really cheap, fanciest pair i've owned and a small desktop DAC/headphone amp....anyway this is such an amazing fucking *recording* just stunning sounding
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link
like it's not square enough to get there but it should totally be one of those records that audiophiles use to test systems
When I taught recording and engineering, I used "The Riverbed" for frequency-recognition ear training practice and tests.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 23:33 (three years ago) link