wow, not metal at all is a departure i wasn't expecting. particularly given the album seems on the surface to be thematically in sync with the other albums in terms of that colour thing and all.
― charlie h, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 12:44 (eleven years ago) link
hmm i think going not metal was always gonna happen. Theyve moved away from their diy punky metal beginnings (and im gonna annoy phil by saying those 2 eps are still the best thing they did again)
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
Saying there is no metalness to this whatsoever is not entirely accurate.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.spin.com/reviews/baroness-yellow-green-relapse
I reviewed it :D
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
I'd love to read it but every time I click on it it gets usurped by what looks like the homepage after about two seconds
what the actual fuck
― if you are a false nine don't entry (DJ Mencap), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
you need to update your browser
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
sorry abt that
Baroness is Faith No More photographed in their underpants (but not the Red Hot Chili Peppers photographed in their underpants)
this is gold
― j., Monday, 16 July 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
The deluxe hardbound version of this is gorgeous, next best thing to get if you aren't getting the vinyl.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
"...encore of an Alice in Chain gig, where they endlessly cover Asia and Toto deep cuts."
Would be in the front row for this gig, btw.
was gonna say. would spend more time listening to metal if there were more room for big, cheesy harmonies and strong, clear vocals in the genre. that's what i liked so much about that ghost album from a couple years back. haven't heard the new baroness, but i loved the more accessible stuff on the last one, "steel that sleeps the eye" and like.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
There's no shortage of cheesy harmonies in most Victory Records/Bamboozle/Hot Topic teenybopper deathcore. It's that Ghost and Baroness are smartypantses too!
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
probly, but i don't know what hot topic teenybopper deathcore to listen to. ideally, it should have a lot of skulls on it.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
You're in luck
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
I've reviewed shit-tons of Hot Topic teenybopper deathcore for Alternative Press. Lemme go through my clips and find some recommendations for you.
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
Totally hate this. Not for failing to to be metal, but for sexless slickness and cornball harmonies. LIke being trapped at the encore of an Alice in Chain gig, where they endlessly cover Asia and Toto deep cuts.
I don't hate Baroness like you do, I just don't really care about them, but this is the sort of hilariously cutting remark Whiney'd love if he hadn't decided Baroness rules
― tallarico dreams (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
"would spend more time listening to metal if there were more room for big, cheesy harmonies and strong, clear vocals in the genre."
!!!!!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
for a start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_metal_bands
killer show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB2g60oQD4w
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
― scott seward, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 6:05 PM (42 minutes ago)
i know, i know. i listen to tons of that shit, both new and old. i really meant that i would listen to more of the metal you read about in new wave magazines if it wasn't all cow man mooing noises and giant beards.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
though i like that stuff, too, sometimes. thrones!
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
haha it's the alice-in-chains remark that is thus far preventing me from checking this out
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
there's actually a pretty big surplus of metal bands with awesome clear vocals & harmonies right now however I think the key thing that metal bands who want to get that non-specialty press nod do is hire non-metal producers: Baroness has been with Congleton since early on, his style's pretty "sure, we'll cover this"-friendly*, and another crossover act, Mastodon, has always been attentive about whether the people they're working with provide them with a bridge to non-specialty press/audiences.
*he's also a very good & capable producer, don't get me wrong, but the chances that a metal band goes into a session w/him & comes out with a straight-up metal album seem slim to me
― tallarico dreams (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't know until tonight that their singer does all their artwork. And lots of other album art, too, I guess. Love that Nouveau vibe.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
I don't (or didn't) hate Baroness at all. Blue was top ten of the year for me, and The best parts of Red got the apocalyptic feel of Killing Joke into southern prog. But I'm never too keen on harmonies. I don't really hear the 90s alt, except the bits that were filtered through late UK prog like that bee girl song. This record has this brainlessness that makes it the biggest disappointment for me since the Entrance follow up to Prayer of Death.
― bendy, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
They've lost what was odd about them.
― bendy, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
I really want to enjoy these guys, but their production choices are a big distraction that keep me from really getting immersed in the music. I wish they'd bring down those big thuddy drums a bit and crank up the guitars. At least on this one, the drums and guitars sound more like they exist in the same sonic space than they did on Blue.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
cow man mooing noises and giant beards.
yup
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 08:31 (eleven years ago) link
dude I swear the chorus of march into the sea is identical to something on killjoys, the last mcr album. I don't have it on hand so I can't say which song, but i will try to figure it out later for my own peace of mind.
― marc iv, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
"bulletproof heart"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
i hear a strain of j. robbins (jawbox / burning airlines / channels) on (if i'm getting the title right) 'take my bones away'. the voice.
super, super big alt-rock-radio vibe.
― j., Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
this is so borrrrring
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
i kinda feel sorry for you if you find this kind of thing boring.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
ok?
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
i kinda get the nickelback thing
ti's got it's moments musically but yeah feels like basically an extremely high functioning FM "active rock" format 00s band w/prog tendencies
but i'm diggint it overall
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
that came off more snarky than i intended it to be. i can totally see this not being your thing, but i think they're hitting this sort of anthemic strain of alt-rock that i don't really associate with "boring".
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't like mastodon v. much once they cleaned up their sound and got "accessible" either, i guess it's my prob
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
some of these songs are pretty pokey, like "eula" for example....
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i'm hearing a LOT of midtempo when i pick my way through this.
also do not like how the rhythm guitar sounds.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
almost done w/first disc
i dunno i might have a to take a break and listen to the undertones or motown or something, this is all so manly
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
This is pretty good radio rock but it's a shitty Baroness album.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
^^^
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
"almost done w/first disc"
jesus, how many are there!?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
2!
18 songs total but quite a few are long-ish
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
yeesh. you would think THEY were blind guardian. i wish all these metal bands turning into classic rock bands were more...classic.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
hey are the ppl who like this really fucking w/disc 2?
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
on initial listen, dudes voice just does not work for what they are trying to do at all.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
is it a good thing or a bad thing that I didn't impulse buy this in the record store today
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
i can't tell if you would like it? i think you might?
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
ftr I didn't buy it because I hated the cover
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
Favorite 3:Yellow ThemeCrown and AnchorStrechmarker
― calstars, Thursday, 27 December 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
Reminder: This album is awesome.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
Finally got into this after a couple of years of not being able to get over the yarliness of the vocals. But damn these are some well-crafted songs.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
couple of years
Ha, it hasn't even been out for a couple of years.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
it's been out a year and nine months ... i think that's close enough to say what you said
― alpine static, Friday, 25 April 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
i was listening to a lil eula, like, this morning i think
― markers, Friday, 25 April 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
Back Where I Belong is my favourite.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
Listened to this just this past week for the first time in over a year. Great record.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 27 April 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
Straight up love it now. Listened twice today already.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 16 October 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
Great record.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
Theory: Baroness would be bigger than Mastodon right now if their bus hadn't crashed a month after Yellow & Green was released.
― alpine static, Thursday, 16 October 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
They've still got time to be bigger than Mastodon, I reckon they might be after the next album (they're poppier!).
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 17 October 2014 09:31 (nine years ago) link
mastodon has kind of sunk into a rut of "consistently-decent-sometimes-really-good-but-not-really-extraordinary-anymore" so baroness's time would be now.
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 17 October 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
I kinda agree with this, but in the world we actually live in, I feel like their moment has passed. The crash cost them a ton of momentum, plus they've had so many lineup changes over the years that now it really is just John Baizley and some sidemen; "band identity" has been lost (as represented by the tracks on Y&G that clearly feature drum machines).
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 17 October 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
Purple out 12/18. Advance track agreeably Skynyrd-meets-Pumpkins imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhS0j3WxfWY
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 28 August 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
god part of that sounds like weezer
― call all destroyer, Friday, 28 August 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link
I can never get into this band, but as long as their album covers continue with the theme of naked women continue to cuddling with sea creatures and murdering birds, they are alright by me.
― how's life, Friday, 28 August 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
Not sure I'm particularly into this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYF5FCu_M-k
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 4 December 2015 14:17 (eight years ago) link
Best New Music via pfork
― how's life, Thursday, 10 December 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link
hey i think i love this record. surprising bc i was pretty indifferent to yellow and green. sorta sounds like thrice crosspollinated with qotsa
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link
i revisited yellow and green and this is way better than yellow and green imo
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 18 December 2015 06:24 (eight years ago) link
Their new drummer is very...demonstrative
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 18 December 2015 07:08 (eight years ago) link
Listened to this yesterday, and again this morning. I'm liking it a lot more than I did when I streamed half the promo a month or so ago. There are a couple of moments that are blatantly stolen from other bands - there's one riff that's pure Mastodon, and another that's total 70s Pink Floyd - but they're not the main riffs of songs, they just pop up for a second and then disappear again, which is weird and kinda great.
I thought it was interesting that they streamed one track from the album on each of 10 different websites this week - felt bad for Rolling Stone Australia, who got to premiere the 17-second funny-voice outro.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 18 December 2015 13:12 (eight years ago) link
the chord progression in the chorus of "shock me" is just catnip for me, the way it never stops moving
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 18 December 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
Time has been kind to this album.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
purple made me go back to this a lot and yeah, it's so good
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
This revive brought to you by wondering when the hell they're gonna announce The Other Black Album or whatever, those rehearsal videos from awhile back were exciting.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
oh, nevermind. from June:
the next Baroness album has been written and the band has tracked in the studio. Baizley wouldn’t give up too much information, other than to say that Baroness are in the mixing/mastering process and the new record will break from tradition, not being named for a color.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
They haven't made a bad album yet. (I don't really like their early EPs much.)
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
Y&G turns 10 this weekend. I wrote about it for Stereogum.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 14 July 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link