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Indeed, that Horse Lords record is great. Hope I get to see them live soon, all reports suggest that they are supremely cool in the live context.

grandavis, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link

ok i didn't know horse lords, this band fucking rules wow

― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:26 PM (15 minutes ago)

+!!!

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link

this is like an evolution of sweep the leg johnny

Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link

I'm confused, how does this band relate to PC?

sleeve, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link

played a show w/, do keep up.

i mean track 1 just busted into bongo beat breakdown and i am not only still on board, i am more on board than ever. the fuck you say.

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link

that one time

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link

I'm 4 minutes into the first song and it's amazing. I'm going out tomorrow and buying this album.

nate woolls, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link

this reminds me of Nomo a bit too

Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link

Horse Lords are insanely cool

global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link

yes, amazing

Horse Lords

WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link

get the mixtapes first

WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link

nine months pass...

wow the new ep fucking sucks

flappy bird, Friday, 27 November 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link

the new ep is awesome, but no one gets it

pplasma, Saturday, 28 November 2015 00:51 (eight years ago) link

is it a joke?

flappy bird, Saturday, 28 November 2015 02:50 (eight years ago) link

i like the cover art

dynamicinterface, Saturday, 28 November 2015 03:30 (eight years ago) link

Wow... I like this band even more than I thought.

Adam J Duncan, Sunday, 29 November 2015 07:16 (eight years ago) link

Noodley instrumentals for the most part - easily their least essential release.

o. nate, Monday, 30 November 2015 03:59 (eight years ago) link

I enjoyed the live album

Mark G, Monday, 30 November 2015 07:12 (eight years ago) link

the new ep is awesome, but no one gets it

*best read in the disaffected voice of a clerk behind a record store counter in 1997*

Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link

i bought it blind because Content Nausea was so good, what a waste of fifteen bucks

flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link

it sounds like an experiment in being really boring, either that or they now have opted Blur's 'A Spell (For Money)' b-side as a career template

PaulTMA, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 23:10 (eight years ago) link

Annoying and boring, absolutely. Garbage noise jams. What a waste of a cool cover & title.

flappy bird, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 00:47 (eight years ago) link

Never buy anything blind! Seems perhaps significant that it's their first release on Rough Trade. Kind of like a "Look we can release whatever we want to, the label has no control over us" move maybe.

o. nate, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 03:49 (eight years ago) link

I bought some of my favorite records ever blind - I can't remember ever feeling this gipped! And if that's the idea (I think you're right), they really are fucking daft. Who is the gesture meant for? It's not like Metal Machine Music, it's just irritating and tuneless practice jams that should've never been put to vinyl. They're not even bad in an interesting way, they're just loud and boring. Eager to hear whatever meta-commentary they had in mind though, cuz now im just peeved.

flappy bird, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 05:56 (eight years ago) link

How very punk of them.

Adam J Duncan, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 07:25 (eight years ago) link

Hi, I likes the new e.p.

Mark G, Friday, 4 December 2015 11:29 (eight years ago) link

What do you like about it? I want to like it. I want to justify my fifteen bucks.

flappy bird, Friday, 4 December 2015 18:45 (eight years ago) link

It has "Sweet Sister Ray", krautrock, oh what does it have? All sorts.

Mark G, Friday, 4 December 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link

two months pass...

Saw them tonight. Haven't been keeping up with their releases - loved Light Up Gold and was kind of unimpressed with the Tally EP (tho a pre-show relisten proved it a lot better & more fun than I'd remembered). At first I was like, "what's the deal with these guys? Isn't there a band or 2 in every town that's just this good?" but as the set wore on I found myself really impressed with how much they do with a pretty limited palette and bag of tricks. They kept me engaged for an hour, which at my age & when bed is calling is pretty impressive in my books. I don't think the drummer played one real fill the whole night (YEAH) and the Dave Grohl-looking bass player was really really good - solid and nimble, just like I like 'em. Will def be back on the bandwagon now.

hardcore dilettante, Saturday, 20 February 2016 05:36 (eight years ago) link

^^^saw them last night, a great time, new stuff sounded pretty good.

Was just reading about the explanation of "Uncast Shadow": “That’s a totally true story about having a gun pulled out on us, and the guy who used that gun in Mississippi ended up killing a guy,” he reveals. “That was the reason I was able to finish it – this guy Paul MacLeod had this 24-hour psychotic Elvis worship museum in his house in Mississippi called Graceland Too, and the third time we went to visit him he pulled a gun out on us because Austin asked him if he had one; I’d already been writing that song about him, but when he killed that guy and I realised that he would have killed the guy with that same gun, that’s what made me finish the song.”

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/17/340792495/with-its-eccentric-owner-gone-what-to-do-with-graceland-too

JoeStork, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

New songs are great. This is going to be their best record

nostormo, Monday, 28 March 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link

where can I hear it?

niels, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 11:08 (eight years ago) link

it's certainly better than that shit EP

flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link

Two songs with official videos up on Youtube. I like the Berlin one.

o. nate, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 02:18 (eight years ago) link

still not as good as Light Up Gold. Austin Brown's are still way better

flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 02:51 (eight years ago) link

*Austin Brown's songs

flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 02:51 (eight years ago) link

I'm definitely an Andrew Savage partisan, but it's nice they have two songwriters with distinct styles. The "Content Nausea EP" has slowly supplanted "Light up Gold" as my favorite of their releases.

o. nate, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link

I agree, they're stronger for it. My favorite song besides "Borrowed Time" is "Everyday It Starts," killer song.

flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link

"Borrowed Time" is definitely one of their best. That's a Savage song, isn't it? Sometimes I have trouble telling their voices apart. I like how "Everyday It Starts" begins so minimalist and then builds and gets more interesting. Brown does write interesting song structures, whereas Savage's tend to be more verse-chorus-verse, though Savage's voice and lyrics are more memorable for me, and they tend to rock a bit harder.

o. nate, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link

The new album is out today. Anyone else listening yet? Feeling the opener. And Velvet Underground vibe on One Man No City. Especially during the extended solo. Total VU drone going on too.

big firework, Friday, 8 April 2016 13:58 (eight years ago) link

so this album is pretty good

thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:34 (eight years ago) link

"Berlin Got Blurry" sounds a great deal like The Saints' "A Minor Aversion," so is this their Eternally Yours? I'd be excited to hear their Prehistoric Sounds next.

Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Friday, 8 April 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link

yeah this is good

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link

This is dece but is still a runner-up to & lacks the hooks of Light Up Gold.

dronestreet, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 03:33 (eight years ago) link

Yeah I feel the same. I think Sunbathing Animal is better as well actually.

nate woolls, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 06:00 (eight years ago) link

yeah. only track i keep coming back to is "Steady on My Mind." light up gold is the most consistent but with all their records there are only a couple songs that stick for me.

flappy bird, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link

good on them for being so prolific, though.

flappy bird, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link

so this album is pretty good

feel that this level of enthusiasm is pegging red where the quarts are concerned

Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link

and i like them alright

Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link

it's weird that a band can have so many albums and yet not one riff

kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:48 (eight years ago) link


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