The Drones - any good (also Tropical Fuck Storm content here)

I wouldn't say no to a new, pandemic-grown Liddiard solo folk record

moodles it sounds like you may want a Drones record

I might!

But TFS, as a band, rips just as hard, it just sometimes gets lost in translation.

drones don't need to reform, they literally perfected what they were capable of, 'i see seaweed' is absolutely everything they could have been

I agree that was their pinnacle

i mean it's the pinnacle of rock music p much

I'm happy for them to take their time with this one

They... they're in Melbourne

as time goes I think Braindrops is really great and closer to A Laughing Death...

I do kinda feel Moodles a bit, I like the production but seeing them live they were so overwhelming and heavy

I wouldn't find if they camped out in Electrical Audio for a week and knocked it out w/Albini

if they camped out in Electrical Audio for a week

.............they're in Melbourne

albini plus tfs is too much to hope for from music

nah I reckon they're going to fly to Chicago this weekend and have a surprise release out next month, with a tour to back it

would be cool if they made it to london for a show this autumn

did you read that link

dude I'm just having fun

zomg imago revealed as ums sock

fair play m8

braindrops is def worth a revisit at some point tho

Braindrops is one of my favourite albums from last year. Just sounds as if they got super-obsessed with, like, The Slits and Sister

New song is good but doesn't knock me out.

Still love Braindrops. First album had more transcendently epic moments (Tyres, Soft Power, Rubber Bullies) but also dips here and there. Braindrops had a more sustained level of excellence even if its peaks were not as high.

(There has to be an ILM thread for that concept - the "higher highs/lower lows vs consistently great" album debate.)

ah Mike, how very sad. I love this one for the way the band pushes and pulls, Drones were so great with him behind the kit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVcTHq_C7j8

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9440627/mike-noga-the-drones-obit

I guess he was on every album but the last? Loads of heroic drumming. I'll check out his solo records for sure. RIP.

He joined in 2004 so he wasn’t on the first one (Here Come the Lies) either. But on all my favourites.

I revisit this performance vid at least once a year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbkDDSM2Gz4

oh man i wish i could go to this, gareth solo show with jim white on drums!!!!

https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/tropical-fuck-storms-gareth-liddiard-announces-solo-shows-2886316

just bought tickets for one of the sydney shows - they’re being joined in melb by chris abrahams!! - Jim is calling it a new band and gareth is saying they’re gonna record an album in may - so excited by this

also pretty psyched for upcoming ed kuepper / jim white shows - some pretty cool gigs happening in semi-post-covid year 2021, feels good to be looking forward to cool stuff

yeah i saw that announcement on the band's instagram, exciting! have fun at the show! #jealous

wooooah I didn't know it was a band, that's awesome

quoting the post here:

we haven't come up with a name decent band name yet but here ya go... Chris Abrahams of avant free jazz trio The Necks is joining Jim and myself for a couple of warm up shows at the brunswick ballroom before we all run off and make babies in the studio in May then put an album out

wow that's uh, quite a lineup

you not into it?

Understated enthousiasm I assume ;)

no I really am excited!!

me too :)

it will be interesting...TFS is very idiosyncratic and unique but it's still approaching a conventional rock band in a peculiar way

the other two i associate way more with "freer" playing though obviously that's not all they can do

I'm expecting/imagining a knottier cousin to the solo album.

Niiiice.

gareth and jim show was absolutely amazing, still awed by how good it was - gareth on acoustic but also using pedals and shredding - songs would often start folky and then surge towards crescendos of noise - the rhythmic interplay between the guitar and drums was frequently sublime - mix of solo album stuff, drones songs and a couple of covers - the thought of chris abrahams being added to this sound is fkn crazy - very very good music and i profoundly enjoyed drinking three (3) beers on a wednesday evening while listening to it

sounds great. anyone who hasn't heard the solo album is missing out

sounds Dawsonesque!

thanks emsworth! nice to hear about it

^^co-sign. Thanks for reporting back, feels good to read about and get the vibes of a real live gig

well jealous here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzTLWssNsxI

found a video of "taman shud" from one of the gareth & jim shows, certainly has me excited for the upcoming album

Ah man that's huge

that's awesome

That drum pattern is so sick

Right? The way it builds up but denys you a culmination is thrilling.

I only learned about this guy through TFS and had no idea about The Drones, also had no idea that the guy is like 46.

Anyway, that performance is great (unsurprising as Jim White rarely plays on something bad).

was talking with a friend yesterday about G.Liddiard being such an enduring force in aus. music - he's been pretty consistently outstanding for a couple of decades now

he feels at least somewhat informed by the Neil Young model of changing it up whenever things start getting familiar

(way back in the day the Drones used to cover Cortez the Killer and supported Neil Young on his 2013 tour with Crazy Horse - i think they were just booked for one show and then Neil asked for them to join the whole tour? that's what I heard anyway)

but he's also been really canny about building a sustainable life in music, in a way that gives him maximum freedom to keep doing interesting shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21bEUXmM2OM

This is such a good song. I find it weird that I didn't know anything about this guy until maybe the last year or so, and then didn't realize he had been a force in music for so long until even more recently.

the line "But I ain't some kinda bird shit mayor/Bolted to the town square" keeps running through my head

https://spring-time.bandcamp.com/
They put a live song on bandcamp

oh wow that's a great performance

checked the TFS facebook page and gareth's also confirmed a new TFS album is on the way soon too!

yay!