Howlin Rain - Magnificent Fiend (Finally, Some Of Those Nu Dope Weirdos Make An Album I Can Get Behind!)

good tip scott. this one might be even better than the first one. prime mix of choogle choogle and psych

The new album, made with a revamped band behind Mr. Miller, is smoothed out, almost commercial by comparison.

Translation: Compelled to fire band by major label. Hired some journeymen or ringers and they can play better.

He sings lines like “the wind calls the hangman to my name” and “Ruby, I chased your laughter with elephant wings,” a slurry of stoner poetry

Translation: If you listen to the lyrics you won't be able to suppress your tittering, spoiling the mood of the music. So don't listen to the lyrics. Did anyone listen to the lyrics to "The Magician's Birthday"? I don't think so.

pretty good live shows. my bro bros down with these bros.

the new band are locals from his hometown

local bros

sound on this is bad, but they look like they would be fun to see live. especially if you were good and drunk. and i mean that in a good way:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2QSI85G3MDM

this is good too. better sound also:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ikr8OovhsNs

hey i listened to two songs off this album on their myspace and boy it's pretty nice, i like it...

is this coming out on vinyl? seems like a vinyl type of album

Well-- They didn't play Calling Lightning when I saw them a few months ago.. What's the point then? The noise needs to stay man.

its already out on vinyl

cool

It mines a shallower level: second-tier mannerism and cliché.

that sentence is pretty much right on.

will they be dropped after this one or the next one, do you think?

<i>local bros</i>

<i>hey i listened to two songs off this album on their myspace and boy it's pretty nice, i like it</i>

Best damned-by-faint-praise thread in a couple months, easy. As Mr. Hand once said, "Are you on dope?!"

i just got another copy of this record today in the mail. now i have two. maybe they will send me the vinyl next month.

Someone has to bring it up: Not only damned-by-faint-praise but double-duty as hard rock for those not liking of hard rock, with the usual handful of exceptions to the rule.

Yeah, the New York Times -- good review, mediocre notings or pans -- knows hard rock. And I'm Ernest Hemingway.

It makes a type of music you may have heard in bait-and-tackle shops

Bait-and-tackle shops in Manhattan. What're they fishing for? Mercury-poisoned sea robins?

When's the new Wolfmother come out? If I were in promotion at their record company I'd be a little worried. Usually, there's only one major league charity case dispensation every couple of years made for retro attempting bigtime outside of CMT. Before Wolfmother there was Kings of Leon and that appears to be ending in tears.

the times is always pretty snooty. i expect nothing less from my paper of record.

i have no idea if this album will hit or miss. i don't really care. it probably will miss. most rock records do these days. i still find it enjoyable. it's not as good as the last five horse johnson album though. now THAT was a great record. i really do like the comets guy's vocals a bunch on this record. have to say it again. he really does go for it. someone somewhere compared him to the singer of widespread panic. but i've never heard them.

AND DON'T WORRY GOTT PUNCH THEY HAVE A NEW RECORD COMING OUT *JUST* FOR YOU YOU FREAK FOLKER YOU:

"Along with Lee Ranaldo, Magik Markers, Charalambides' Tom Carter, Bardo Pond, and a few others, Howlin Rain will contribute a disc to Three Lobed Recordings' "Oscillation III" subscription series. Howlin Rain's offering, titled Wild Life, features a pair of tunes clocking in at a quarter-hour or so. The first is a jam on the song by Wings (you know, the band that made Paul McCartney famous) that the set is named after, while the second is a "completely improvised piece with heavy jazz fusion and free, Latin jazz rock overtones" titled "Black Sangria"."

i think i'll pass on that one myself.

Sample lyric: Hold the dogs at bay/Your laughter was a lover that ran today/I tried to wield a greater blade/But all you lions can keep your bloody pride.

Platitudes are the Sundays of stupidity, someone once said.

We can all have a big laugh a year from now at this puffed-up line from the altie press.

Magnificent Fiend condenses the struggle among good, evil, and otherwise — one that's been repeated from the Bible down on through Michael Douglas movies — into one of 2008's most essential records.

This shit's so awful and over the top, it's difficult not to read it as satire.

I think I'm going to do a Lexis trawl for a Google stink bomb of purple prose and quotes singing the praise of Howlin Rain. Like with Wolfmother, the machine's in motion and unstoppable now.

And I thought highly of Drunk Horse once.

wtf are you even talking about?

He's in georgeworld again

Totally forgot Birdman was a major subsidiary and so didn't clock that that might factor in anything. I like this record for what it is, though, based on first couple of plays

wtf are you even talking about?

From you and Lethbridge-Stewart, I'll take those as compliments.

Here, see if you can get this one, it's much better than "fuck you": There's been a great feast of languages but you've stolen only the scraps.

woah

anyway, i dont think howlin rain make tunes for dudes like you, gorge.

people be angry

ANGRY ABOUT ROCK MUSIC

dudes!...let's not forget that Howlin Rain is comforting and good-timey...

(Ethan Miller would be very disappointed that we've stooped to such levels)

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^^^glad this post wasn't totally in vain

haha