Search: Aix Em Klemm; Mosquito Dream; The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid.
Destroy: well, none so far. A Peripheral Blur is a bit lame, except for the last track.
― jot eff pe, Friday, 10 January 2003 19:03 (10 years ago) Permalink
Search: Labradford (esp. first four records)
― hstencil, Friday, 10 January 2003 19:08 (10 years ago) Permalink
― gi66y, Friday, 10 January 2003 19:13 (10 years ago) Permalink
Search: Dadamah
― hstencil, Friday, 10 January 2003 19:15 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― hstencil, Friday, 10 January 2003 19:19 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― gi66y, Friday, 10 January 2003 19:39 (10 years ago) Permalink
Oh yeah:
― hstencil, Friday, 10 January 2003 19:40 (10 years ago) Permalink
― marcg (marcg), Friday, 10 January 2003 19:40 (10 years ago) Permalink
― hstencil, Friday, 10 January 2003 19:48 (10 years ago) Permalink
― gareth (gareth), Friday, 10 January 2003 20:02 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 10 January 2003 20:18 (10 years ago) Permalink
― jot eff pe, Friday, 10 January 2003 20:21 (10 years ago) Permalink
― marcg (marcg), Friday, 10 January 2003 20:30 (10 years ago) Permalink
Quite right. You people, having this thread without me. ;-)
Search: oh, everything except for...
Destroy: ...a certain collective of cockfarming Canadian bastards.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 January 2003 20:43 (10 years ago) Permalink
That's what I always say about Mosquito Dream...
― jot eff pe, Friday, 10 January 2003 20:48 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 10 January 2003 21:03 (10 years ago) Permalink
Destroy: GYBE, Low, Bowery Electric.
― charlie va (charlie va), Friday, 10 January 2003 21:18 (10 years ago) Permalink
as people, they totally suck, and i was a little disappointed when the likes of kfw / outhud signed to them. apparently there was some huge blow up with gybe (about $, surprise) and they left. i think the new gybe is distro only through constellation...
― marcg (marcg), Friday, 10 January 2003 21:40 (10 years ago) Permalink
― hsetncil, Friday, 10 January 2003 21:50 (10 years ago) Permalink
― marcg (marcg), Friday, 10 January 2003 21:58 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:08 (10 years ago) Permalink
last year's pan american record was excellent.
the labradford records are the class of the label, and all of the low stuff is great too.
ignore gybe.
― dan (dan), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:10 (10 years ago) Permalink
― todd burns, Friday, 10 January 2003 22:40 (10 years ago) Permalink
i still dig the outhud release... pan american... labradford... and the one gybe ep i have ... looking forward to charlambides...m.
― msp, Friday, 10 January 2003 23:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
Um, whaddaya expect from a label named Kranky?
The two Spiny Anteater albums they put out are fine, under-rated gems that you should search out.
― Vic Funk, Friday, 10 January 2003 23:42 (10 years ago) Permalink
S: _Gravitational Pull vs. the Desire for an Aquatic Life_, Stars of the LidD: Everything past the first Godspeed album. One of the rare cases where Ned can summon more bile and invective than i can...
-Matt, who can't wait until their catalog is bought by Nike.
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Saturday, 11 January 2003 00:39 (10 years ago) Permalink
Anyway, search up through KRANK 024 or so. Particular faves: Dadamah, Labradford's self-titled, Bowery Electric's self-titled, both Magnog albums, first two Jessamine albums, the first Dissolve, Roy Montgomery, Windy And Carl, Low, and Stars Of The Lid.
Destroy: most of the other stuff
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Saturday, 11 January 2003 01:28 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Curt (cgould), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:01 (10 years ago) Permalink
Destroy: Low - "Embrace" from _Things We Lost In The Fire_
― Clarke B., Saturday, 11 January 2003 06:37 (10 years ago) Permalink
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 11 January 2003 10:42 (10 years ago) Permalink
Destroy:Fontanelle, Amp, Low, Out Hud.
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Saturday, 11 January 2003 14:11 (10 years ago) Permalink
Cheers
― André Fontes (André Fontes), Saturday, 11 January 2003 16:39 (10 years ago) Permalink
Comments:
-- I like OutHud on compilations but still see no need to buy one of their albums
-- I'm not sure what to make of Clear Horizon (Jessica Baliff + Dave Pearce) ... the first half of the song is pleasantly Jessica Baliff, then it's all "cue Flying Saucer Attack" and there's an abrupt shift to an FSA droning thing. It's good, but it feels stapled together more than an actual collab. Interesting choice of track ... I'd like to hear the album so that I can judge properly
-- Why don't I own any Stars of the Lid albums? How can this be?
-- Two Pan.American tracks, which are both excellent, but I always find that PA albums drag.
Anyway, it's a very mellow comp overall ... worth my ten bucks with plenty of room to spare. Has anyone else heard it?
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 31 October 2004 19:58 (8 years ago) Permalink
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― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 1 November 2004 00:40 (8 years ago) Permalink
One of the unreleased tracks was a SotL song from their upcoming album. It's very much like the "Tired Sounds ..." material (judging from "Requiem for Dying Mothers Part II", also included on the comp).
The entire compilation is more drone/ambient (and psych-folk) than rock (or post-rock(!)). There's nary a percussive beat to be found.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 1 November 2004 00:52 (8 years ago) Permalink
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 1 November 2004 00:53 (8 years ago) Permalink
― dlp9001, Monday, 1 November 2004 02:03 (8 years ago) Permalink
Forgetting what music you have is a sign that you either have too much music, or aren't keeping track of it properly. Or both.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 1 November 2004 02:08 (8 years ago) Permalink
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 1 November 2004 02:38 (8 years ago) Permalink
They're astounding live, too, but I'm sure you already know that.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 1 November 2004 02:58 (8 years ago) Permalink
― etc, Monday, 1 November 2004 03:01 (8 years ago) Permalink
Search: Nearly everything, especially SOTL, Dead Texan, Aix Em Klemm, Growing
Destroy: Outhud's second album. Ewww...
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 19 November 2006 00:52 (6 years ago) Permalink
d: dunno, i'm not really a big bird show fan
― if you ain't got the yolk, you can't emulsify the hollandaise (fauxhemian), Sunday, 19 November 2006 01:37 (6 years ago) Permalink
Destroy: Hmm.. I don't know enough about the Kranky roster to play.
― Sir Echo (Sir Echo), Sunday, 19 November 2006 02:41 (6 years ago) Permalink
Magnog are still great, v. underappreciated.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 November 2006 02:54 (6 years ago) Permalink
Really fond of Jessamine, but I wonder if they got overlooked a bit due to vocals (which were kind of ordinary indie-schmindie compared to their sound). Totally amazing drummer, whose name I don't know. I still play "You Have Ugly Talents, Martha" and "You May Have Forgotten" and "Pilot-Free Ignition" on a regular basis.
― dlp9001, Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
new Belong record on kranky is really really great
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 21:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
YES! New Belong! <3 I´ve only heard the one song they released online, I´m waiting for the vinyl to arrive!
Is the album pretty much like that song, ´Perfect Life´?
This band is so criminally overlooked. One of my greatest musical discoveries of the last decade I think. Somehow they found a place between all existing music and made it so uniquely their own. I know no other band that sounds like them, not on a deeper level.
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
I caved and downloaded the album. All your fault Ilxor! ;-)
Enjoying the shit out of this. Cannot wait for the vinyl!
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
hah nice, i have done my good deed for the day!
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah loving the belong album. quite difft to the EP of theirs i have. like a more gentle soft moon
― fried egg on my mind (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
wow i am listening to this song
http://www.futuresequence.com/article/review-belong-common-era/
goddam this is great
― what do it take to be a legend like noz is? (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
WOW,thanks for this recommendation, the part at 2:15 on the very first song ("Come See") blew me away. new shoegaze that doesn't suck, and doesn't feel like a lesser copy of some antecedent. sold.
― Z S, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah it's really good! glad everyone's latching on so easily. every year there's basically 1 or 2 great shoegaze/dream-pop albums. this year it's Belong (for me anyway)
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Thursday, 17 March 2011 00:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's odd but I've never really linked Belong to shoegaze, not directly. For me they emerged mostly out of noise and reverb-drenched pop echoes on previous records. Seems that pace-wise they are stepping it up on this record though, it's less "druggy and slow, and suddenly it really is very shoegazey. Amazing.
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 17 March 2011 08:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
just listened last night. very good!
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
will order this tomorrow night.listening to Kranky Kompilation now, what a consistently kickass label
― CharlieS, Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
my full thoughts on new Belong album here
this is highly OTM:
Somehow they found a place between all existing music and made it so uniquely their own.
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
Thanks. That's a great review ilxor! The Cure reference makes total sense too.
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
thanks! people can say "shoegaze" til they're blue but the main touchstone i hear is '80s cure :)
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Monday, 21 March 2011 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
which is total ilxor-bait but hey...
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Monday, 21 March 2011 17:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
ilxor otm - I gave this a quick listen today (it's now up on Spotify), and the Cure was one of the first things I thought of. Need to hear it again, but this does sound like a big step up from their previous.
― ka£ka (NickB), Monday, 21 March 2011 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
what did the pitchfork reviewer get wrong?
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15235-common-era/
― j., Tuesday, 22 March 2011 06:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
if he wants them to retread October Language, he might as well just put on October Language again, iirc
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 13:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Really enjoying this Implodes album on first listen. Anyone know anything about them?
― ridic beau (NickB), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 11:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
Loving this, and probably preferring it to the Belong album, although it's not all that dissimilar. Hearing traces of Slowdive and Flying Saucer Attack and Low and good stuff like that.
― ridic beau (NickB), Thursday, 21 April 2011 13:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
...but duh it is on kranky after all
― ridic beau (NickB), Thursday, 21 April 2011 13:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
saw em live about a year ago and was kinda ....boredthe record sounds much better though im not quite sold on the vocals yet
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Implodes includes Matt Jencik from Don Cab and Hurl
― felldownawell, Sunday, 24 April 2011 05:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dunno why it took me so many damn years to find this out, but this first Jessamine album is just fucking great.
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 23:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Damn right.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 00:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
My cd copy of it skips :((((((
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 20:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Their whole catalog is on Spotify.
― john. a resident of chicago., Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah it's great! What's people's favourite one? And what do the Jessamine folks do these days?
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fave Jessamine release is the Another Fictionalized History singles compilation. Great great stuff. The two team-up albums with Sonic Boom are also well worth tracking down (especially the A Pox On You EP)
After Jessamine, Andy (keyboards) and Rex (guitar) went on to form Fontanelle (couple of albums, also on Kranky). Andy also records as Southerning. Dawn Smithson (bass, vocals) has a couple of albums out too.
Unexpectedly, just about all of Jessamine has been part of Sunn O)))'s touring band at one point or another. Couple of them appear on Monoliths & Dimensions
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks Chris!
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 22:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
The two team-up albums with Sonic Boom are also well worth tracking down (especially the A Pox On You EP)
funny, i thought Pox was the only one! hmmmm
first Fontanelle album is excellent
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 28 July 2011 03:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
enjoying the new disappears record. no massive departure.
― the majestic ned? (electricsound), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
my favourite label circa 99/02.
been digging some of it's older releases these past few weeks (trip down memory lane?). tho some of it hasn't aged that well (1st dissolve record, amp, bowery electric, etc), there are still a couple of underated gems in there : doldrums, flies inside the sun or pan american...
never heard the first jessamine. only ones i have are 'don's stay too long' and 'long arm of coincidence'. don't recall them that well (same with spiny anteaters, also).
― rusty_allen, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
First Jessamine rules. First Kranky release I picked up.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, Jessamine had a great sound. Listen to "Royal Jelly Eye Cream" off that first record, it rules.
― grandavis, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hey now, I'm STILL an Amp fan. Had a new album this year and everything.
Agreed on the worth of Jessamine.
Also! Magnog have reunited and are playing out. Dana Shinn's on Facebook and the band's on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/magnogmusic
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just gonna go ahead and post this to encourage any wavering souls to give it a listen, such a cool guitar sound:
― grandavis, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Really excited to hear this, loved the live thing they did with Steve last year.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Love the one song I've heard from the new Disappears album. I love both their other albums and, so far, don't really mind if they keep refining the same sound.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Saturday, 25 February 2012 03:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
dreamscape do some pretty sweet dream pop, even if their drum machine sounds a bit too secret shine-ish
― booger pickup (electricsound), Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:25 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, I just read this, had never heard of them before:http://www.factmag.com/2012/07/06/kranky-to-issue-retrospective-of-long-forgotten-shoegaze-combo-dreamscape/
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Friday, 6 July 2012 16:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
hahaha, they really wanted to release an EP called "greater than god," didn't they?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 6 July 2012 18:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
lool i was totally unaware it was secret shine related
― booger pickup (electricsound), Friday, 6 July 2012 23:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
totally enjoying implodes atm -- arrived via ken camden, who has become my default walk-to-work spaceout go-to.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Friday, 5 October 2012 04:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
Any thoughts on Loscil's Sketches from New Brighton?
― djh, Monday, 8 October 2012 18:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
i bought it on yesterday and really enjoyed it- it hits that spot- it's weird to compare it to the previous records, it's a softer midrange sound, but the same DNA is there.
― the tune was space, Monday, 8 October 2012 19:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
bought it / put it on oops
― the tune was space, Monday, 8 October 2012 19:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
^ new Implodes album out in April
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Thursday, 7 March 2013 17:20 (3 months ago) Permalink
new song here: https://soundcloud.com/kranky/implodes-scattered-in-the-wind
closing section is beautiful, stellar guitar sound will get you right between the eyes
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Thursday, 7 March 2013 17:25 (3 months ago) Permalink