Quite a bit of self-pitying going on for LWS, but he seems to have reigned in a bit on the new one. When I met Kevin Barnes last year, I drunkenly told him I didn't like PS at first, but did eventually. Go me
― PaulTMA, Monday, 16 February 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
i could dig it on Hissing Fauna and Skeletal Lamping, this forensic-level psycho-delia, but by the next couple of albums it just felt like he was moaning on and on about how miserable he was, with very little whimsy or humour involved.
― oi listen mate, shut up (dog latin), Monday, 16 February 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
LWS is imo a bit more "fun" lyrically than the couple records that came before it. Def some of his best singing too.
― mr.raffles, Monday, 16 February 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
Just noticed that during the run of 1997-2004 he was actually more prolific than he has been in the last 10ish years
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 12:21 (nine years ago) link
sort of true, but the scope of what he was doing ramped up quite a bit around Hissing Fauna.
Looking at it by year on Wiki, 2 year gaps on average since HF, but it feels like a lot more for some reason.
― oi listen mate, shut up (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 12:35 (nine years ago) link
Have to pop up every time this discussion happens to observe that Paralytic Stalks is his crowning masterpiece, kthx
― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link
please.
― oi listen mate, shut up (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 12:49 (nine years ago) link
LWS was my fave since Hissing Fauna and this sounds like it's cut from a similar cloth. Down for it.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 17 February 2015 13:45 (nine years ago) link
Streaming at NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/22/387203682/first-listen-of-montreal-aureate-gloom
― mr.raffles, Friday, 27 February 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
this is great!
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Friday, 27 February 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
Sure is!
― mr.raffles, Friday, 27 February 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
loses steam in the second half but the first few tracks are really good
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Friday, 27 February 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
Hmm. Feeling like there's a lot of gold in that second half. Maybe not as immediate as the first half (though things like 'Apollyon of Blue Room' certainly are), but still hot as hell.
― mr.raffles, Friday, 27 February 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
'Empyrean Abattoir' must be one of their greatest songs. Ridiculously great melodies
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Thursday, 3 December 2015 22:50 (eight years ago) link
great great greatest great
never did give this album a listen, should correct that.
― Bee OK, Friday, 4 December 2015 04:04 (eight years ago) link
in fact the whole album is brilliant
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Monday, 7 December 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link