It approaches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_wHDduVIxQ
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 February 2014 01:54 (ten years ago) link
ok that chord-bend about 15 seconds in. riding a giant contraharmonic artpop unicorn to valhalla!
*time passes*
this is so, so exciting, if only Owen knew how excited I am
― imago, Thursday, 6 February 2014 01:59 (ten years ago) link
If only we knew how to get in touch with him!
― Simon H., Thursday, 6 February 2014 02:16 (ten years ago) link
"This video is private.
Sorry about that."
― a chance to cross is a chance to score (anonanon), Thursday, 6 February 2014 02:22 (ten years ago) link
I'll describe it to you, from memory. Basically it starts with a gospel-choir chanting the names of famous basketball players in melismatic polyphony, until the sound of typewriters slowly subsumes all that came before, accompanied by Owen's frantic screaming. Then there's a giant guitar bit that sounds like the Flaming Lips
― imago, Thursday, 6 February 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
hahahahahaha
― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 February 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
giant guitar bit that sounds like the Flaming Lips
Owen's been listening to too much Deafheaven :(
― Simon H., Thursday, 6 February 2014 02:49 (ten years ago) link
so what you're saying is more evolution than revolution
― a chance to cross is a chance to score (anonanon), Thursday, 6 February 2014 02:57 (ten years ago) link
Trailer now back so enjoy the basketball chanting.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 February 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
Sounds pretty amazing.
May 13th is too far away.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 6 February 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
wow that's really fun soundingway faster pace than i expected
― nathey, Thursday, 6 February 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
Looking forward
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 February 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
eno!
― flopson, Thursday, 6 February 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
damn this is gonna be epic
full speed ahead
― pariah newsletter (seandalai), Thursday, 6 February 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
when was the last time eno sang?
― flopson, Thursday, 6 February 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
this was released a year agohttp://youtu.be/A6WIbvwcVUg
― Tim Heckler (willem), Thursday, 6 February 2014 21:50 (ten years ago) link
yikes
― flopson, Thursday, 6 February 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link
I'm sorry. Some remedy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Sj1aAWLr4
― Tim Heckler (willem), Thursday, 6 February 2014 22:01 (ten years ago) link
Tracklist, from the Domino site. Some live dates in May announced as well.
1. I Am Not Afraid 2. In Conflict 3. On A Path 4. Song For Five & Six 5. The Secret Seven 6. Chorale 7. The Passions 8. The Sky Behind The Flag 9. ---> (1) 10. The Riverbed 11. Infernal Fantasy 12. Soldiers Rock 13. ---> (2)
Several live versions are available on youtube
― Tim Heckler (willem), Thursday, 6 February 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
tour dates etc
http://pitchfork.com/news/53855-owen-pallett-announces-new-album-in-conflict-featuring-brian-eno-plus-tour/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 February 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
No conflict on my end - super psyched! I love how Eno is dipping his toes back into working with younger folks (Eno appeared on the last James Blake record, too) rather than just sticking with boring-ass U2 and Coldplay all the time.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 February 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
^^^
― the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 7 February 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
TWO NEW SONGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt8wR8CagQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMr51844ybw
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 February 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
Trying that first embed properly:
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 February 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
Sez the man on Twitter:
Video for The Riverbed by Eva Michon and stars my uncle Jim. Lyric video for On A Path by Steve Kado and stars some things around my house
Plus, this article:
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/listen-up-will-owen-pallett-win-an-academy-award-this-sunday/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 February 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
Holy shiiiiiiit "The Riverbed" is fucking incredible
― "Jiggle It" - 2 in a Zoo (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
^^^^
― Frederik B, Friday, 28 February 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
Fuck me that's AMAZING.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
Just listened to The Path and my head is really full of conflicted and OMG, do I listen to this with proper respectful Serious Ears, or do I just give in to the overwhelming temptation to just lay back and go into ~full-on squealing fangirl ladyboner flapping~ because not to give into the latter feels like a dishonest expression of my experience of the music and my excitement over it. But to do so in any way would be REALLY. SERIOUSLY. AWKWARD. around here.
But mostly, y'know, just "this is too full of amazing sounds for me to intellectually process how great it is" at the moment.
Hot damn.
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:45 (ten years ago) link
awesome song and video. uncle jim has a great look!
― call all destroyer, Friday, 28 February 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
WAIT TIL YOU LISTEN TO THE RIVERBED HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
hE'S SO GOOD AT MUSIC
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Oops caps.
No, I'm sorry I can't do this, because one half of my head is going "oooh, listen to those waves of distortion, interesting production choices there" and the other half is going "ALKDSFJAJA ;LDKF A;DFJ AKLDSFJ A;KDJF DJAOIDJFM LKDJFKLAJF;LAJ SJK FK;AJ DSJKFGNA KFJ OMGOMGOMGOMGMGOGMGOMG MOAR MOAR MOOOAARRRRRR" and it's hard to balance these feelings with any degree of objectivity.
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
objectivity is overrated, especially with regards to first impressions
― Wahaca Flocka Flame (DJP), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
My ability to even *can* is entirely too compromised right now. This is just truly awe-inspiring music.
Now I'm going to back off this thread before DL shouts at me for making any comments about how cute Owen's haircut is.
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
Sod objectivity. Sometimes visceral, emotional reaction is absolutely fine. Objectivity is a lie.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
(It is a very cute haircut.)
Kidding! So excited to hear the rest of the album now.
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
OP is magic. Fantastic songs.
― emil.y, Friday, 28 February 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
On first listening, I love the arrangement (dense but not overcrowded) on "Riverbed" (which is an amazing song in other ways as well), and I'm really excited for the full album.
― one way street, Friday, 28 February 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
OMG I love Owen for putting his Mox Jet in a video <3 <3
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
These new songs are very pleasing. Wish it was May 12th already!
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 28 February 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
he keeps getting better
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 28 February 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
i be going to the Glasslands show in Bklyn
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 February 2014 18:39 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I'm enjoying these. I'm excited. I played Heartland to death.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 28 February 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
holy fucken shit 'the riverbed' is extraordinary
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:14 (ten years ago) link
'on a path' also very very good but...my word
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:15 (ten years ago) link
I actually like "On a Path" a little more so far.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 1 March 2014 03:20 (ten years ago) link
continually topping himself, tbh. didn't think i could be hit in the feelings more than I was by Heartland and...well, yeah.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 1 March 2014 04:13 (ten years ago) link
^^this. I still play Heartland regularly, cannot wait to play In Conflict to death over the next decade or so.
― Roz, Saturday, 1 March 2014 04:20 (ten years ago) link
I gave these links a listen on my phone this morning which was a terrible injustice. Just now I've played both on cans without the clips and yes, this is brilliant. I fear YT is squashing the sonic quality, but yeah I love both of these and I love the clips too.
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Saturday, 1 March 2014 07:30 (ten years ago) link
It's very nice of Owen to release this just before my birthday when I have the week off to decorate and bike ride.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 1 March 2014 09:21 (ten years ago) link
And go to gigs.
thanks for the new display name, Alex!
― continually topping myself (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 1 March 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
Bwahaha, A+!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 1 March 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
Better than continually popping yourself... ;)
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Saturday, 1 March 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
Holy shit @ "The Riverbed!"
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Saturday, 1 March 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
I think the thing I love most about all your work Owen is how *immediate* the beautiful melodic lines are, they stick in my head right away and stay there happily. It is making me more enthusiastic than ever to keep firing up my own kboards/gear and keep writing music.
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Sunday, 2 March 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
Awesome interview:
http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9358-owen-pallett/
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 12:27 (ten years ago) link
New song and new video.
http://youtu.be/vr_SbrFIuKA
This album is sounding so good. Looks like it might have been pushed back to May 26th now.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
Def my favourite of the new songs.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I love this one.
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 03:23 (nine years ago) link
This just came up on Facebook.
The album release date for "In Conflict" has been pushed back to May 27th. This is due to a backup at the pressing plant; Record Store Day was a tall order this year. We will be selling CD and vinyl copies of the album at all May tour dates, prior to the "street date".
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link
Agree that this is the best song of the three. Just another month to go.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 03:33 (nine years ago) link
all of these songs are great. i think the riverbed is my favorite although i am still a bit irritated that we never learn what happens between uncle jim and the young toughs
― très hip (Treeship), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 04:23 (nine years ago) link
I am just kind of in awe of the arpeggios. It's that kind of True Faith era New Order trick, of having this gorgeous, bubbling arpeggio, but then at the top of the filter sweep, it bursts into this flourish of violins. It's like the aural equivalent of a fountain. Very lovely, I fall for it every time.
― Branwell Bell, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 08:16 (nine years ago) link
whole album is good btw lads
― online hardman, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 08:23 (nine years ago) link
argh i want this album sooner
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 11:41 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I've had a chance to hear the whole thing -- it's a beaut.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
wow that's fabulosu
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
it mangled my spelling w/its beauty
cannot wate
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Thursday, 24 April 2014 04:51 (nine years ago) link
Just looking into pre-ordering this. Apparently there will be a double vinyl version with three extra songs that don't appear on the regular vinyl or the CD. Think I'm going to have to go with that.
http://www.dominorecordco.us/usa/albums/05-02-14/in-conflict
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 24 April 2014 05:13 (nine years ago) link
it only includes 1 more song than the CD
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 24 April 2014 10:40 (nine years ago) link
Will be doing a piece on this, but I'm yet to hear it. Can't wait!
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Thursday, 24 April 2014 10:54 (nine years ago) link
Did we talk about this anywhere?https://soundcloud.com/caribouband/sets/daphni-owen-pallett
― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Thursday, 24 April 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/05/owen-pallett-debuts-new-song-i-am-not-afraid/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link
The album is quite good.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 13:04 (nine years ago) link
Indeed.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
argh i can't wait.
― Roz, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 14:15 (nine years ago) link
"infernal fantasy" is a top 2014 pop blast. preach it owen
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
some tix just released for tonight's Glasslands show if any of yall wanna go
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
Annnnd it's streaming:
http://www.npr.org/2014/05/18/312523632/first-listen-owen-pallett-in-conflict
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 May 2014 13:11 (nine years ago) link
I'm only 3 and a half minutes in and holy shit
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Monday, 19 May 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
it's under fifty minutes! fantastic. (most albums shouldn't be too long)
― markers, Monday, 19 May 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Monday, 19 May 2014 13:12 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^^^this
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Monday, 19 May 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
"Song For Five and Six" and "I Am Not Afraid" are my jams.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 May 2014 13:38 (nine years ago) link
I want to listen to this SOOOO BAD but my internet is so not going to handle streaming at the moment. :(
― Branwell with an N, Monday, 19 May 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
i've had this on promo for a couple of weeks and i reckon it's going to take several more weeks at least to fully figure out. it's a great listen though!
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Monday, 19 May 2014 13:45 (nine years ago) link
such amazing arrangements, what a pretty album
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 May 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
I'm holding off on listening to this until I can run a CD through big speakers. But so tempted.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 19 May 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
yeah this was superb, would probably put it on a par with Heartland but this one was subtler, may transpire to be even more rewarding
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Monday, 19 May 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
THIS FUCKING RULES
― hella good Jewish homies (DJP), Monday, 19 May 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
SO GOOD YOU GUYS IT'S SO GOOD
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 19 May 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
xp otm
Yup.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 May 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
his masterpiece? it's fucking solid as hell imo
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 19 May 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
can't wait to check this out when i get home!
― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 May 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
This album is outstanding. Have been looking forward to it for a long time and it certainly delivers. I think The Secret Seven was my immediate favourite but it's just full of highlights.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 19 May 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
looking forward to diggin in
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 May 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
diggin the scenediggin on youdiggin OPbaby baby, oh baby baby
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 19 May 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
Owen Pallett, a legit composer who also possesses the instincts to craft brilliant pop songs.
saw this and pictured him grimmacing
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
Anyone else going to the London show tomorrow?
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
Oh wow, thanks for all the kind words, and say hi tomorrow ShariVari I'll be pre-show nervous at the merch table
― "got ye!" (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
Also I don't grimace at anything really (but it does feel good when people get it right)
― "got ye!" (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
This is wonderful! It'll certainly be my summer album.
― Evan, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
real excited to hear this, the last one was a favorite
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
Oh lord! As I get older it becomes increasingly rare that an album grips me so strongly on first listen. I'm looking forward to playing this one over and over and over and over. So many emotions I feel like I'm 15 again.
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
i am so sad i cant go tomorrow. this best not be the last op album/european tour.
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
ooh i didn't know there was a london show tomorrow. v tempting even though i'm v busy.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
I can say it's totally worth it just to hear "The Riverbed" live
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
"the riverbed" is such a jam
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Love how unexpectedly synthy the album is.
Really looking forward to tomorrow night...
― Jill, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
Only one listen in, so need time to absorb the melodies and the (surprisingly sexual!) lyrics, but I'm blown away by just how fantastic this album sounds!
― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
"The Riverside" is a blast in every sense
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
Had not been paying attention, if I was in London tomorrow I would totally go, but I don't think I can be there :(
― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
owen, this album is great
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 01:01 (nine years ago) link
I liked what I'd prevously heard of Owen's stuff, but J was playing this in the car and I found myself... "transfixed" is the best word I can come with. Holy moley, this is some serious shit.
(Parenthetically - Does anyone else feel like he tends to tuck his vocals into the mix quite a bit, compared to a lot of singers? I noticed, on both this and Heartland, that the voice is mixed more as one part of the arrangement, rather than being waaaaay out front as is usually the case for a lead vocal. Not complaining - just observatating.)
― Pono For Pyros (zero of the signified), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 03:39 (nine years ago) link
huh, never put the gt thing together. more you know.
haven't heard the album, but the tracks linked are uniformly gorgeous, especially, well, it's hard to say cuz each sounds like the best while i'm listening to it. and then i listen to another.
― katsu kittens (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 03:43 (nine years ago) link
ugh, this is so good, one after another
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 04:29 (nine years ago) link
AOTY
― Roz, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 05:41 (nine years ago) link
yeah this is scaling heights where such pronouncements become plausible
am trying to wangle myself a ticket for tonight, wd be good to see it all performed
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 10:43 (nine years ago) link
yeah, this is wonderful. v. sad i was out of town for the boston show last weekend.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
really digging soldiers rock and chorale in addition to those already mentioned.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
that quasi-happy hardcore/drum'n'bass song towards the end is out of this world.
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
I am no longer afraid, the truth doesn't terify u-us...
Like, I didn't even know I liked that song, but then I couldn't stop humming that part, didn't even remember what it was. This is gonna creep up on me. This is very good.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
logrolling a pallett
― MV, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
My friend is at the London show right now. So jealous. He just bought the new album there too.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
When does it release?
― Evan, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
It's out on Monday.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
song for five & six is an olallieberry level jam
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
Holy shit that was incredible. The entire songwriting and layering process, revealed with such elegance! An orchestra of Pallett, all rousing, thrumming cavalcades of emotion. Was also lovely to meet the man himself. Overcome, really. Some of those songs won't leave my head.
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
Unnecessary post: this album is, of course, fabulous.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
It really was a wonderful concert. Also a great pleasure to meet Owen in person. Hopefully we'll see you back in London soon.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
We sadly failed to meet each other! Ah well. There will be other concerts.
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
Were you wearing a dark grey shirt, by any chance?
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
Very dark green, short sleeves, black flower pattern, could have been mistaken for grey. Far too much hair. I was looking out for you too!
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
Next time!
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
wait you wore a hair shirt
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
to compensate for being treated to such awesome music, probably should have
also, I think this album might just bring all of ILX together - I can't think of a single taste that would exclude it
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
Only disappointing thing about tonight was buying the vinyl and not being able to download the MP3s until Monday :(
Otherwise it was great!
― Jill, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago)
Lex?
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
don't be foolish, lex will eat this shit up whole
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
I was going to say.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
so mad i couldn't make it. i'll have to finish off everything i ever have to do before the next time he comes around.
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
Goon when when when are you coming back to Aus, gah! :)
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Thursday, 22 May 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link
almost thru my NPR-sanctioned first listen... I wasn't paying attention, did he just rhyme "Percocet" with "turtleneck"?
― endzone selfie (bernard snowy), Thursday, 22 May 2014 01:53 (nine years ago) link
"The Riverbed" is way good, none of the other songs stuck with me except the one with the "compassion" refrain, but I'm sure that will change... in the meantime, I'm loving the complexity of the synth textures. should be plenty of fun headphone-fodder to keep me from getting bored once I know all the melodies by heart :)
― endzone selfie (bernard snowy), Thursday, 22 May 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link
Lex could go either way on this, depending on whether he finds it too precious/indie/art-school.
From memory he dislikes Patrick Wolf, who obv isn't a perfect fit but you could imagine similar objections being made to both.
― Tim F, Thursday, 22 May 2014 02:11 (nine years ago) link
when we reviewed owen over at TSJ back c. Heartland, Lex was... Lex-ian. "all ornamentation and no substance" etc.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 22 May 2014 02:14 (nine years ago) link
but whatever who cares because you all get to hear this album now and i can stop holding back from raving about how beautiful it is.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 22 May 2014 02:15 (nine years ago) link
hell I'm still not crazy about Heartland.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 May 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
I relistened for the sake of a long review I filed a couple days ago, and it confirmed what I suspected after I heard "On a Path" for the first time: he's recording his best music now.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 May 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
my standouts are probably 'Soldier's Rock', 'The Sky Behind the Flag', 'Song for Five & Six' and 'I Am Not Afraid'
but all "standouts" really means in this context is "things that have emerged as distinct musical things in my mind rather than part of the larger album" not a statement of quality? like, in a 'this would work as a single' way. and every track has perfect details and turns of phrase and melody and synth patches that get caught in my brain at unexpected moments.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 22 May 2014 02:20 (nine years ago) link
i still love Heartland a whole lot but this has the potential to overtake it in my affections.
the live band arrangements are a wholly different beast at times and filled with violence and life and destruction. (soldier's rock, especially.)
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 22 May 2014 02:22 (nine years ago) link
OMG I forgot Eno sings on this as well. This is really really good on a first listen (well exept the already released tracks ive already hammered)
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Thursday, 22 May 2014 06:00 (nine years ago) link
London show last night was lotsa fun. Hyped to get the new LP early too :-)
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 22 May 2014 09:42 (nine years ago) link
yeah, fantastic gig last night. Could have done with Owen's vocals a tad higher in the mix imo.
― online hardman, Thursday, 22 May 2014 09:56 (nine years ago) link
So many ILXors last night :D thanks guys for coming!
― "got ye!" (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 22 May 2014 10:54 (nine years ago) link
S/O to the pilled up Spanish brothers in front of me who fist pumped for the entire duration of the gig.
― online hardman, Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:17 (nine years ago) link
also to the middle aged ladies doing interpretative fan dances near the back, was loving their work :-)
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:48 (nine years ago) link
listened with headphones a few times (highly recommended), and currently going through my first blasting through loudspeakers listening.
the title cut is such a jam. the verses are catchier than almost all choruses, and the minimal bass lines are killer throughout
― go to evangelical agonizing eternal hell (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 May 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
Finally got round to listening to the vinyl version of this (treated myself to the 2xLP last week). It sounds so great. I don't normally pay too much attention to that sort of thing, but I want to play this loud (but don't think my neighbours would appreciate that at this time of night...)
― Jill, Monday, 26 May 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
So I had some quick thoughts and all:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/in-conflict-20140527
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
as do I! http://www.spin.com/reviews/owen-pallett-in-conflict/
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
you can tell there was a lot of work done on making this look and sound amazing on the vinyl version - it's truly excellent
― jamiesummerz, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
"The Passions" is real nice
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
THIS FUCKING ALBUM
― On-the-spot Dicespin (DJP), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
i would like to echo dan's enthusiasm as i finally listened to the record while reading the lyric sheet this afternoon
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
essentially this album is more devastating than i even initially thought
I can't remember the last time I was so excited to hear an album with the lyric sheet in hand.
― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
not since I heard Discreet Music.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
this is greatthe only recent album that it kind of reminds me of is these new puritansjust in terms of balancing indie rock songwriting and odd modern classical arrangements and compositionwhich i mean as a compliment! i love TNP and this is greatbut if you guys don't agree i will retract my statement instead of argue
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
this isn't really chilly though, it's more emotionalTNP is kind of chilly like Talk Talk (in feel)
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
Just got my vinyl through the post. Domino did well getting it here on the day of release. It looks beautiful and is sounding fantastic. Have only listened to the NPR stream once, wanted to wait until I got my actual copy to hear it again.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
the albums i associate most with it so far don't resemble it musically but maybe formally? so i get the tnp comparison. for instance, maybe because owen's been talking about tori a lot, i've been thinking of this record in conjunction with under the pink, this really expansive vision fit into these skewed pop songs. or shiina ringo's karuki samen no kuri hana which is a similar kind of interior pop with gorgeous diversions
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
shiina ringo comparison is crazily apt, great pick-up
― English cunt read Guardian (imago), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
solid nyt review todayi feel like this is the one that dude rides to HIPSTER STATUS and yay
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link
And here's his fancy new site:
http://www.owenpalletteternal.com/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
Apparently In Conflict is 50 minutes and 90 seconds long, lol
― English cunt read Guardian (imago), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
As I said elsewhere in strict resemblance terms the album I'm reminded of most is Coloma's Finery.
But I really feel Brad's Under The Pink comparison. "Pretty Good Year" totally fits the narrative except it's in second/third person rather than first. Also "The Riverbed" = "Cornflake Girl" / "The Passions" = "Icicle".
― Tim F, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
I'm only fairly familiar with Amos's work but for me I'm hearing a fair bit of Hounds of Love in here - especially in the way the string and orchestral arrangements meet with the synth-led stuff.
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 08:16 (nine years ago) link
btw not that i necessarily need to compare owen's great, individual record to even more things but imo this year's analogue for this record is meshell ndegeocello's
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 13:07 (nine years ago) link
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Tuesday, May 27, 2014 12:05 PM (11 hours ago)
it's such a sad song, isn't it? I was at his Boston show, and he announced it as "a friendly reminder that death is hanging over us" or something to that effect. the lyrics aren't particularly depressing (bittersweet nostalgia + Smiths) but his delivery is so mournful that it's hard not to want to parse it for darker subtexts. it's chilling the way it glides so seamlessly from synth to string section and back again.
― tao lin wolf (unregistered), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
I wish one person would step into this thread and trash this album to dispel the appearance of sycophantism. this lovefest is really getting out of hand!
(but I think this album is great so idk)
― tao lin wolf (unregistered), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
my considered opinion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPcLaO4ey4g
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
haw
― tao lin wolf (unregistered), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
it's up on spotify, yay
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
i mean not yay for owen's wallet i guess but yay nonetheless
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
Both He Poos Clouds and Heartland made my year-end top 5, though the latter felt like a considerable step up in terms of craft. On first listen, In Conflict doesn't seem significantly more impressive to me, but it's obviously still great.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
Can this stupid week (the one that, for me, ends this coming Tuesday) please be over so I can just spend some real time with this record?
― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
after playing "The Riverbed" incessantly I kind of want to go through every other album in my record collection and replace the guitar with violin
feels like it would be most transformative on Ministry-influenced industrial metal
― On-the-spot Dicespin (DJP), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
personalized listening: heard "I Am Not Afraid" line as "I haven't had a fuck in years"
but yes seems like a tour de force on first hearing
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 May 2014 02:13 (nine years ago) link
Gah now I wont not hear it that way, thanks Morbs ;P
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Thursday, 29 May 2014 04:43 (nine years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/15386-owen-pallett-favourite-albums
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 29 May 2014 13:47 (nine years ago) link
I went to buy this today at the record shop where I normally get sneered at (shut UP I do not buy that many cut-price I------- albums) and the clerk took it from me and said "Great choice! EXCELLENT album!" and now I'm wondering if Owen bribed them all to say that.
― Branwell with an N, Thursday, 29 May 2014 13:57 (nine years ago) link
wanna hear that buffy sainte-marie album
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Thursday, 29 May 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
and regret not having this album twenty-some years ago, that i might write alarmingly earnest letters to the Artist
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Thursday, 29 May 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
i was thinking in the back of my mind that "i am not afraid" maybe had something to do with tg
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 May 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
but that's also my own association with the word "discipline"
Still listening to this album a lot, still think I prefer Heartland but I've lived with that record for four years now and there aren't many things in the world I'd rather listen to.
Will never not get goosebumps at:
"Your light is spent! Your light is spent!" I cried,As I drove the iron spike into Owen's eyes.The sun sped cross the plains like that cinematic moment whereHumanity and nature collide.When you think, "Everything's gonna be all right,"Just before the hero gets a bullet in his side.
― online hardman, Thursday, 29 May 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
^^lol I wrote almost an exact copy of this post yesterday right down to mentioning that particular verse, but I got distracted and forgot to press submit.
But yeah agreed - I said AOTY upthread and meant it, but I'm not sure if this is better than Heartland. idk I guess I prefer the Final Fantasy side more?
― Roz, Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
Heartland is an all-time favourite for me. So far, I have not really been able to connect with this in the same way, as far as my personal taste goes. I don't dislike it by any stretch: hooks get in my head; the skills are undeniable. Maybe it's just a matter of time. The three songs that were released ahead of time are still my favourites.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
Very hard to compare them as I've listened to Heartland a lot since it came out and have only played In Conflict maybe five times now. My first impressions are there is nothing on In Conflict that I love as much as Lewis Takes Off His Shirt and Tryst With Mephistopheles but overall it's more consistently enjoyable album. Love that he's totally fulfilling all that promise that he showed on the Final Fantasy albums. They're both really good albums but what he's done since has been such a huge leap in, well everything really.
Very excited that he's coming to Minnesota in September. Haven't seen him since around He Poos Clouds.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
My first impressions are there is nothing on In Conflict that I love as much as Lewis Takes Off His Shirt and Tryst With Mephistopheles but overall it's more consistently enjoyable album.
Those are the exact two songs that will probably keep Heartland firmly entrenched as my favourite Owen Pallett album. But if enough of In Conflict ends up growing on me to the degree that "The Riverbed" has...
― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Thursday, 29 May 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
Song for five and six is what's uphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr_SbrFIuKA
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 May 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
my feeling as well
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 29 May 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
it's def in my top tenthis album has me listening to he poos clouds again (which is prob still my fave full length, dunno if that's nostalgia or what but there i am)
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 May 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
really loving this still
kinda wish the first album wasn't titled "he poos clouds" i woulda checked it earlier
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 May 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
i seem to recall his comment on that was that it was meant to be a compliment, like "she's so sweet, she shits whipped cream" but yeah, we've all gotten older and wiser
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 May 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
p sure i only checked out the first album because of the title
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 29 May 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
p sure this was the first albumhttp://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/67368688/Has+A+Good+Home+CA+HAGH.jpg
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 May 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I still really like "This Is the Dream of Win and Reg" and "That's When the Audience Died".
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 29 May 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
i love the floaty chorus of "the secret seven". and even though i think he's probably singing "watching kids turn into lovers/believers", i hold out hope that it's actually lovers/beliebers
― go to evangelical agonizing eternal hell (Karl Malone), Thursday, 29 May 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
Has a Home is all about An Arrow in the Side of Final Fantasy and The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead for me.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
i think seeing final fantasy back in 2005 was what made me want to buy a loop pedal. it took me like eight years to actually get around to it.
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 30 May 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link
i tried to be the sole antagonist in thread before but i can't keep it up, this album is an astonishing achievement. structurally maybe not too different from what he'd done before (and that i have no complaints about) but something about the knotting together of synths and acoustic instruments works unlike really anything else i can think of. at points it sounds like there's a modelling of the synths on the tendencies of stringed instruments, and a modelling of the stringed instruments on the tendencies of synths, and that slightly disorienting combination of sounds wheeling around each other is just perfect.
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 30 May 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
I dunno; maybe I'll be the lone dissenter. Like, I recognise this album as an astonishing achievement. But I've listened to it twice, and I don't know if I can listen to it again, because it makes me bawl like a baby every time I put it on. It's like it's too much, emotionally, and I'm too raw for this. Maybe I need to put it away for a year and come back to it when I'm in a better place emotionally, and just listen to meaningless shiny-metal-box music until then. It's an amazing album, yes, but when every single song feels like a dart aimed directly at your most vulnerable part, it can be difficult to listen to. This is probably my failing, not the album's. There's a time for catharsis and emotional vulnerability, and a time for just holding it together. I don't know that I can do this right now.
― Branwell with an N, Friday, 30 May 2014 10:22 (nine years ago) link
sounds like compliments of the highest order to me! :-)
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Friday, 30 May 2014 10:55 (nine years ago) link
i mean, if it wasn't so short it would be an emotionally difficult listen for even the most resilient person. listening to it the number of times i have, i've had to take a break cos much as it improves as a listening experience on consecutive goes, so too do the emotions get magnified and after a while i started feeling a bit traumatised.
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Friday, 30 May 2014 11:03 (nine years ago) link
I've listened maybe four times; nowhere near enough to take everything in yet, which is kind of how Heartland worked, too - I found myself just listening and listening over and over again, because it was musically and aesthetically just so NICE to listen to, before the emotional impact really hit home.
People get catharsis in different ways, I suppose; but this (with some exceptions; The Riverbed, perhaps) doesn't seem to have the same catharsis through emotional desperation of the Embrace record, or catharsis through voodoo repetition like the Swans record. Owen's music strokes my emotions rather than squeezing them or battering them.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 30 May 2014 12:00 (nine years ago) link
One thing I wish he'd do is release more records, more often! He's SO GOOD AT MUSIC! It feels nuts that there've been 4 years each from HPC to H and from H to IC.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 30 May 2014 12:03 (nine years ago) link
OP OTM
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 30 May 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
Here's my review of this record: http://thequietus.com/articles/15386-owen-pallett-favourite-albums I can honestly say I've never felt so humbled in reviewing a record as nothing I could write about it would do it fair justice. I've been in a kind of agonised turmoil since submitting my final draft a few days ago, especially in the light of several more plays and having read other people's reactions (tend to try and avoid reading others' opinions before writing, so it's interesting to hear these takes). Anyway, all in all, it's likely to be among my very favourite albums out this year.
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Friday, 30 May 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
oops, wrong link. Here it is: http://thequietus.com/articles/15353-owen-pallett-in-conflict-review
Owen's music strokes my emotions rather than squeezing them or battering them.
Maybe I need to listen some more, but I feel like the real lone dissenter here not wowed by his synthpop or his vocal style (thus I haven't really even paid much close attention to the lyrics). Maybe it's a musical thing and I should stick with Meshell Ndegeocello, Mel Waiters, Afropop and other stuff I like. But there is stuff in this genre I like more.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 June 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
i'd bet money that a song off this album ends up playing over and episode of Looking's closing credits next season
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 2 June 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
or John Grant-Hercules & Love Affair
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 June 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
john grant was on S1!
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 2 June 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
but now he's got even funkier beats!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 June 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
The production and arrangements on this are off the hook, it reminds me a bit of Homogenic-era Bjork the way the electronic and orchestral elements meld together.
After the first couple of listens... I wish I liked his voice more, because I struggle with his delivery quite a lot and that prevents me from really loving this.
― Matt DC, Monday, 2 June 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
OK, wow, the CD sounds MUCH better to me than the stream I was listening to previously. I'm hearing much more sonic detail. Tracks that I didn't notice before such as "Chorale" and "Sky Behind the Flag" are really standing out now.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
i like this guy's writing a little bit. don't know his music. is he a corny indie fuxor? the arcade fire associations give me pause; i have no time for that kind of music.
― display name changed. (amateurist), Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
:D
― xelab V¸¸ (imago), Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
fyi i can't rly stomach the arcade fire (no offence goon tie) but this album is fucking incredible music
― xelab V¸¸ (imago), Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
does brian eno's music sound like coldplay?
― Sufjenga Cat Giffin (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
what is the sound of one hand clapping if you add tons of reverb?
― display name changed. (amateurist), Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
it is 'the sound of one hand clapping' played on Todd Glass' home stereo
― Sufjenga Cat Giffin (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
that was a pretty lame reference. anyway, my point is that it doesn't sound like arcade fire, and it is worth checking out if a worry of corny indie fuxorness is keeping you away.
― Sufjenga Cat Giffin (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 5 June 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
thanks! will do!
― display name changed. (amateurist), Thursday, 5 June 2014 01:08 (nine years ago) link
but be warned, i'm coming back for you if it sounds anything like arcade fire. may god have mercy on your soul.
― display name changed. (amateurist), Thursday, 5 June 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
:-o
― Sufjenga Cat Giffin (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 5 June 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
I read all this a couple days ago and felt emotionally overwhelmed, I was tipsy and surfing and I clicked it open and cried a bunch, thank you guys.
You all know what my day job is, and I am finding it increasingly more difficult to participate in occupational artistic activity that negates my own. At the very least on a time-scheduling level, but sometimes, it feels, on a deeper ideological and political level.
But I think you can see, having listened to this album, why I took so many jobbing gigs this year... I didn't think such a blazingly queer (and emotionally direct) record was gonna get my coal this time around. Hopefully I can make it work this fall, keep this "career" sustainable. The solo stuff has felt more rewarding than ever before, on an artistic level, and I thank y'all for your votes of confidence, with both your kind words and your engaged criticism.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 9 June 2014 09:12 (nine years ago) link
I wish I could press a 'like' button on ILX posts.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 9 June 2014 11:54 (nine years ago) link
haha, i was going to say exactly that.
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Monday, 9 June 2014 12:06 (nine years ago) link
For damn sure!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 June 2014 13:38 (nine years ago) link
goony, I dunno if i agree with you on the "blazingly queer" stuff honestly... a lot of the emotional heart of this resonates deeply in the seat of my little cis hetero brain. it's been a real keeper and in heavy rotation still; it's always exciting when you find something that keeps opening up and giving listen after listen. congratulations. it's a real lasting accomplishment methinks.
(and m@tt otm about "a warmer New Puritans")
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 June 2014 13:44 (nine years ago) link
specific = universal = specific
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 June 2014 13:47 (nine years ago) link
http://devonrecordclub.com/2014/06/14/owen-pallett-in-conflict-round-68-nicks-choice/
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 14 June 2014 13:15 (nine years ago) link
"The way “The Riverbed” sets the tension level at ‘breaking point’ from the moment it begins and somehow manages to maintain that remarkable pitch throughout its entire length without shattering into a billion pieces or exploding into bombast"
otm
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 14 June 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
the title track has my favourite bass line of the year, so tight with the drums.
― ogmor, Monday, 16 June 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
I picked up He Poos Clouds a few years ago and probably wasn't in the right place to get it - it struck me as impressive and well-conceived but not something to go back to. All the chatter on this thread made me try HPC once more, and now I keep going back to it. I listened to In Conflict for the first time last night - even more ambitious, wider palette of sound, I already think I will like it more than HPC. "The Riverbed" made the biggest impact on me on first listen.
― Vinnie, Monday, 16 June 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
His solo music hasn't come across my radar since undergrad, when I heard "This Is the Dream of Win and Regine". I love that song for its chorus-less journey through some very catchy phrases and great musical ideas. But the journey has some repetition, and the electronic stuff throughout tends to give the song one feel (which isn't a bad thing, I love the song). In the new album, all of these phrases and ideas seem to evolve throughout each song in a very beautiful way. The slight changes made to the melody or timing of repeated phrases are so catchy and engaging. The synth sounds and arrangements are also more varied and effective. I find myself repeating the first 4 tracks over and over just because so much is already in there.
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
You stand in a cityThat you don't know anymore
Gets me every time
― ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
oh hey, i keep meaning to ask if an owen has ever read the obscure cities because i think of those books every time i hear that linehttp://www.theobscurecities.com/home/
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
it's fun to listen to the live youtubes posted on the fansite because the arrangements are necessarily different. before one of the 'song for five and six' versions, he mentions that this album is not so 'loopy'. I guess that's all I meant with my post. it's not so loopy, and I really like that.
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
It has taken me quite some time to fully take in the multi-dimensional immensity that is this album. I shied away from reading this thread, too, knowing I would eventually come by here to share my thoughts, regardless. 'In Conflict', I feel, is a near perfect* album, a rare, all-encompassing monolith that is there with me always, looking at me, reflecting on me.
I've seen some people up here try to compare it to Heartland. Whether In Conflict ranks higher or lower. I did this at first, but it is such a futile attempt, for they truly are apples and oranges. Where Heartland, in all its beautiful glory, is a mythical tale, something to gaze at in amazement, yet from afar, as something outside of both the narrator and the creator, ’In Conflict’ is almost its diametrical opposite. It is so close, so personal, too much at times. And that is so very tricky, which is why it's even more amazing that Owen pulls it off. Narrates you into this highly personal world and makes you feel at home, too.
There is no denying that some of ’In Conflict’'s themes especially hit home so hard because I find myself dabbling with similar situations and questions, phase of life-wise. Being around the same age helps, too. I wouldn't dare call the tales of ’In Conflict’ autobiographical (as pointed out by Owen in an interview I read, and I understand why), but highly personal? Hell yes. And relatable. Not just in a ’I can see that’ kind of way, but in an ’omg yes - *cries*' kind of way.
The children theme hits home hard. I know not of another piece of music that goes through desire, grief and acceptance as emphatic and uplifting as the opener on this album.I keep thinking of Moloch, the god of propitiatory child sacrifice, too. Referring to sacrificing something of the highest known value - a child (or ’children’), yet being offered a supreme sense of solace and acceptance for that.
I suppose that is it: hope. There is so much hope on this album, such gracious, relentless kindness, that it takes you a while to realize it really is this sincere and bare, that you aren't being fooled. The display of intimacy and honesty is just immense.
I’ll refrain from singling out songs, specific melodies, or quotes; there are so many that already are latched onto my soul for either very important reasons or no reason at all. As a whole though, this album is everything I could wish for and so much more. Compared to Heartland, it is so much more mature because it is so much more bare, inescapably honest. Both in sound, composition and lyrical themes.
I could not wish for a more beautiful new Owen Pallett album. Owen, if you are reading this, thank you so, so much. Your new album hasn't changed my life; rather has it made a whole lot of things more clear and more bearable and injected with a before severely lacking amount of hope and kindness, and done in such an immensely beautiful way, with such amazingly beautiful music. It's just two stupid words, but believe: thank you. This album has conquered my heart in so many ways already, and it's not nearly done conquering more of me.
* there is one single thing that bugs the shit out of me: those two dull chord punches at the very end, I just do not get them! For someone who so meticulously composes his music, this can't be an incident, it is planned. Yet they throw me off every single time, it feel so off, so confusing. If confusion was intended, I will gladly accept that: I have no problem being thrown off my balance beam for the sake of a shake up or confusion. But please let it not be dreaded randomness.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 28 June 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
do all formats end that way, even though they have different closing tracks? I'd guess that it wasn't random.
― Sufjan Grafton, Sunday, 29 June 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Xpost, beautiful post LBI
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 June 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that's a great post that sums up many of my feelings about the album so far, LBI. There's not just little phrases that strike me as I can relate (I think I'm close to Owen's age/circumstances), but little details in the instrumentation or Owen's delivery that somehow hit those same feelings. The musical version of relating to something, maybe. Almost through my third listen now and I just want to keep listening. Shame Owen's not coming to my city anytime soon because I am very curious how these songs translate to the stage.
― Vinnie, Monday, 30 June 2014 13:03 (nine years ago) link
Yes, lovely post LBI.
― 3kDk (dog latin), Monday, 30 June 2014 13:07 (nine years ago) link
Thanks guys. It was just scratching the surface, not even found the right words for the compositions themselves. A mighty album.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 30 June 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
Oh and DL, I thought you wrote a magnificent review for tQ, seeing how very hard it is to 'approach' this album in writing.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 30 June 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
FYI fgti, every time I listen to "The Riverbed" my face melts a little more; please keep an eye out for the invoice for my medical bills
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Monday, 30 June 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
Has anyone called / texted / faxed / googled / whatever the phone number he sings, yet? I know it's short, with no area code, but does it do anything?
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 30 June 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
JESUS CHRIST YOU POSTED THAT LITERALLY 49 SECONDS BEFORE I DID
Question: has anyone tried dialling the number on The Secret Seven yet?
(Not that I think Owen has set up some secret ~Paul's Boutique~ ansaphone hijinx, but, you never know. I'm not dialling long distance to Canada to find out, though.)
― FEEL MY DESIRE. I'M A FRUSTRATED FAN. (Branwell with an N), Monday, 30 June 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
I mean, I know there's an ILX hivemind sometimes but that is freaky.
― FEEL MY DESIRE. I'M A FRUSTRATED FAN. (Branwell with an N), Monday, 30 June 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
Psych!
― 3kDk (dog latin), Monday, 30 June 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
Is In Conflict going to win the end of year albums poll on here? I can kind of see it happening now.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 30 June 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Seeing Arcade Fire tonight. I did not even know until yesterday that Owen Pallett is opening. Talk about a pleasant surprise! This turned a 'yeah, that should be fun' show into something much more. I hope they have the 2-disc vinyl at merch.
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 August 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
Great show! And that includes arcade fire. I don't know what label fuckery keeps In Conflict out of the merch table, but fuck it I'll buy it online.
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 05:25 (nine years ago) link
Also, goddamn this Santa Barbara noise ordinance. I'd rather hear Styxx's show from my bedroom at midnight and be able to see a show I'm actually interested in at an irresponsible Monday hour.
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 05:59 (nine years ago) link
Wonderful show on Friday in Minnesota. One of the highlights was when Owen asked for any requests and someone suggested The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead. It was a lovely moment seeing him doing the first song I ever heard by him, almost 10 years ago now.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
yeah I tried yelling "Heartbreaker" by Mariah Carey during that part and he didn't fuckin' play it, what a shithead
― Gay Fire Beautiful Dong (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
I did this email exchange with Owen when the album came out for Hazlitt, it's finally online:
http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/hazlitt/feature/black-notes-owen-pallett
― struggle blogger (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Friday, 19 September 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
that was great, thanks.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 September 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
that piece makes me wanna get drunk with dude
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 September 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
^^ totally. Thanks for sharing that.
― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 19 September 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
Just got tickets for the Ottawa show on this coming weekend. Excited!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 22 September 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
Way too late to this album but it's astounding - top 5 for me this year. Hivemind OTM.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 22 September 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
top 2 or 3 depending on whether I want both Jute Gytes in there haha
― 93. Oasis - pollrunner needed for this one (imago), Monday, 22 September 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
xp sell your tickets, it is such a snooze fest esp with that live band
― EMA Sumac (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 22 September 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
:O
― UK Sexwolf (imago), Monday, 22 September 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
lol this is an in-joke right
PRIMUS SUCKS etc
No way; I saw a photo taken from backstage once and he's not even actually playing music, he's just playing DOOM on his violin while he plays a WAV file
― EMA Sumac (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 22 September 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
lol
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 22 September 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
tbrr though I had the priv of seeing him twice (twice!!) this year and it was v magnificent, like unexpectedly so, I mean you know it's gonna be *good* and stuff but
― EMA Sumac (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 22 September 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
I am bummed I could not see the LA date, but such is life.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
"pooen poollett"
5 results (0.33 seconds) Did you mean: poon ballet
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 01:25 (nine years ago) link
well *someone's* got a new DN waiting for them
― Ѿ (imago), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
i saw him in chicago he was lovely & enchanting
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
Video:https://www.nowness.com/story/owen-pallett-in-conflict
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
Dunno if it's the cold weather but I'm really starting to appreciate this now. 'Chorale' is gorgeous.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 6 December 2014 12:41 (nine years ago) link
i mean like it's year end lists so you're a herb by definintion for even complaining but it is kind of bumming me out some of the really mediocre albums that are getting high placement on lists over this
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 December 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
yep. it's blates among the very best of the year, any way you look at it. and it seems to get better and better with each listen too.. maybe the latter is a possible reason it's not seeing as much end of year action as other stuff which is good on first listen but nothing much to return to.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Monday, 8 December 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
46th best-reviewed album of the year according to AOTY
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/13445-owen-pallett-in-conflict.php
― gr8080, Monday, 8 December 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
The fastest way that I can know a EOY list is useless at a quick glance is if it does not contain In Conflict but does contain the new Jack White.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Monday, 8 December 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
^^ This. Or that dull as ditch water Beck album.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Monday, 8 December 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
What if I told you Jack White played a major part in the production of In Conflict?
― Evan, Monday, 8 December 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
xpost
You can substitute Beck for White, sure--I'm picking on Lazaretto because a) I've heard it, and b) i liked White's last record, meaning that the inclusion of this horrible one on so many lists feels lazy to me. I'm sure the Beck album benefits from a similar "we can't *not* include this" mentality among Rolling Stone types, though.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Monday, 8 December 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
"I'm sure the Beck album benefits from a similar 'we can't *not* include this' mentality among Rolling Stone types, though."
This is why I mentioned in the EOY list thread that I was surprised the indie types weren't doing the same with that Spoon record.
Not to derail this thread though...
― Evan, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
Given't a shit about year-end lists when I get to play Queen Elizabeth Hall with my cool band and a sextet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ndk2akCdpE
― fgti, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 00:26 (nine years ago) link
man i gotta see you live
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 00:52 (nine years ago) link
psssthttp://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/event/715623-owen-pallett-brooklyn/
― fgti jaq, it's chinavision! (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
thanking you
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
missed yr show for a difft gig m8, hope this is forgivable. looks mighty, altho the not-really stripped-down loops + violin model I did see earlier this year was phenomenal too
― imago, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
Inneresting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO7NDX2oH44
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
wait before I watch that is it Tori Amos?
― fgti jaq, it's chinavision! (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
Tori Amos doesn't have a beard.
― Evan, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
Damn damn damn I searched a listings website for any forthcoming London gigs a couple of months ago but this didn't come up.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
srsly how many ppl are going to this show in Brooklyn on 1/29? Because from people I've talked to it seems like it's at least 45 or 50.
― y kant max read (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
I am. Still need to buy tix but i hate paying the advance "service charge". Gonna hate myself if it's sold tho'.Stevie D we should meet up.
― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 January 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
Man. I wish I had seen him in Chicago. Saw him on the last tour at Lincoln Hall and thought he was fantastic and then ... eh, I just didn't get around to it.
― jaymc, Thursday, 1 January 2015 09:00 (nine years ago) link
should probably go to this show bc i don't have a complete memory of the last time i saw him (i blacked out and spent the majority of the show making out)
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 January 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
Dude I thought you were already going! YOU HAD BETTER GO
― y kant max read (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 2 January 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link
Hour-long interview with Owen: http://vishkhanna.com/2015/01/09/ep-156-owen-pallett/
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 9 January 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
Brooklyn tnite, still tix last i checked. see you, Stevie. forks?
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
I will be there prob w/ a posse!!
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
yeah, there for sure! ZS coming out too.
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
cool...
i thought posses were passe ;)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
best of the 3 OP shows i've seen! Thanks to some of my fave ilxors for showing up.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 January 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
that show was crazy good
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 30 January 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
OP, return to Miami and play.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 January 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
Very good times and good people.
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 January 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
for real - nice to see you all!
― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Friday, 30 January 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that was rly, rly good
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 30 January 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for coming, guys, thanks for the mug forks. Sorry if I was cloudy-eyed I was in need of a nap.
― sonny and sber (fgti), Friday, 30 January 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
Jealous of y'all. But happily so!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 January 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link
you were not cloudy eyed dude, you were just off the stage from over two hours of performance. glad you dug the cup, may it bring you good drinks.
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 31 January 2015 03:24 (nine years ago) link
Brad!
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/feb/04/owen-pallett-the-complexity-of-pop
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
it is literally a miracle that that piece went up, i'm going to recede into a cave for 100000 years now
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
we will hunt you down at some gig someday, BN (j/k, probly).
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
lol i would've hung out but i was on a date
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
good piece Brad!
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
I noticed that OP has lots of bears, in pairs, in his audience.
also saw a guy stroking his bf's hair, and they looked alike! is that a thing now?
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
don't bears date their own?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
the twins were dark and slim nonbears
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
saw a lot of repeat types from Taylor Mac earlier that week.
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:16 (nine years ago) link
morbs i hope i don't blow your mind with this
http://boyfriendtwin.tumblr.com
― gr8080, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:31 (nine years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/world-cafe/2015/02/17/386961437/owen-pallett-on-world-cafe
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 February 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
sounds great
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=radgfxRD-NY
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Friday, 17 April 2015 03:30 (eight years ago) link
God willing, I'm seeing this plucky young Canadian tonight!
― everything, Thursday, 28 May 2015 20:38 (eight years ago) link
DM me if you need guestlist!
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Friday, 29 May 2015 01:17 (eight years ago) link
Just did so - THANKS!
― everything, Friday, 29 May 2015 01:37 (eight years ago) link
out of the us after this for the rest of the year, eh? bummer, but bon chance.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 May 2015 01:44 (eight years ago) link
"The Phone Call" is lovely
― ufo, Monday, 29 June 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
ya, I never expected a Kraftwerk cover from OP but it's rly great
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 29 June 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
mmmm those dissonances
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, 29 June 2015 15:24 (eight years ago) link
listened to this again today. still as amazing as i remember. love the falsetto in the chorus so much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr_SbrFIuKA
― Treeship, Monday, 18 April 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
like, is that a good song or is that a good song
different album but stoked to see this ~
http://thequietus.com/articles/20034-brian-eno-favourite-records-interview?page=12
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 00:46 (seven years ago) link
He's scoring an upcoming HBO documentary I worked on. Excited to hear it.
― tomorrow, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
cried on the train while listening to this record last week. i was sick which occasions a lot of public crying but still
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
Ugh, Song for Five & Six. Grateful I'm the only one in the office today and that my coworker keeps a box of kleenex on her desk.
― Fetchboy, Saturday, 1 July 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
am growing impatient for thee mighty lp5!
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 1 July 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
It's coming along really crazily well, to be honest. The few people I've been keeping in the loop on it have been liberal with their superlatives. It is really just a week or so away from being done but it won't be out until Q1 2018.
I'm gonna remix and remaster Has A Good Home so that it's something I can bear to listen to, and remaster He Poos Clouds also, and re-release both with b-sides and stuff, hopefully within the next year or so. Also I have a couple of OSTs (M Blash's "The Wait" and Anton Corbijn's "Life") that I'm gonna have out soon, they are both acceptably listenable music objects. The soundtrack to "Life" especially is really nice I think
― fgti, Saturday, 1 July 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
New album is called Island by the way and it's a narrative sequel to Heartland, there is a song called "Lewis Gets Fucked Into Space", it's got Abbey Road strings and Greg Fox is on it also
― fgti, Saturday, 1 July 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
I approve of all of this, not that you need my approval.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 July 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
yaaaaaaay
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 1 July 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
lewis gets fucked into space!!!!!
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 1 July 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
Looking forward to all this!
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 July 2017 23:13 (six years ago) link
Absolutely yes!
― Fetchboy, Saturday, 1 July 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link
"Lewis Gets Fucked Into Space"
Holy shit, this is gonna be awesome.
― emil.y, Saturday, 1 July 2017 23:24 (six years ago) link
really looking forward to this, the performance of Lewis Gets Fucked Into Space that was posted on facebook quite a while ago was really nice
― ufo, Saturday, 1 July 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
"Lewis Gets Fucked Into Space
Holy fuck yes!
Your albums have consistently marked huge occasions in my life so far. Every single one a soundtrack to a massive turning point: scales flipping, stones turned, truths unearthed. It's like your music and I are growing up together. Which is so odd, on first thought. But it feels so intimate, intrinsically, even though I don't even know you apart from some messages on this board. I don't know you but the distance leaves enough space to fill in the gaps, grants me leverage and allows me to entice, seduce, and also be removed from people I cherish dearly. I made love to 'Heartland' several times, and did so too to 'In Conflict', though that was when it ended between us. And that's ok; it had to end. End 'In Conflict' was the perfect soundtrack yet again.It is your music that bridges distances between me and people who I play your music to, people who would never ever hear your music otherwise but through me, people I have left behind in my life now yet know they will occasionally play you and think of me, of our brief yet heated and memorable encounters. Your music does this. Think about how strong and powerful that is.
So whenever it is when the new album drops, I can only look forward to it soundtracking and accompanying me further along the as of yet unknown road. Up yours <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 2 July 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link
ahhhh can't wait!!
― joshywinty (josh), Sunday, 2 July 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
fuck me into spaaaaaaaa a a a aa a a aaa a-aa-aaaaa-aaace
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 2 July 2017 03:48 (six years ago) link
lewis. gets. fucked. into. space.
into it
― k3vin k., Sunday, 2 July 2017 13:09 (six years ago) link
Getting me hyped for this, Owen.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Monday, 3 July 2017 05:34 (six years ago) link
Yeah this is going to rule. Greg Fox too! Holy shit
― imago, Monday, 3 July 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
Great great news.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Monday, 3 July 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
Thanks guys. The record is wholly acoustic, no electric instruments, no synths, no effects except a plate reverb here and there.
Greg recorded three tracks. I only kept one for the album. Another one that I ended up cutting off the album, it was sounding like Nightwish with blast beats, it wasn't fitting the album at all, but I recorded the expensive strings for it anyway and did think at least once "man LJ is gonna love this one"
― fgti, Monday, 3 July 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
I'll wait for the outtakes and rarities comp, would imagine you've got a decent one in store!
Fully acoustic is intriguing as well. Roll on next year...
― imago, Monday, 3 July 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
Stoked!
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 3 July 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
it's all happening!!! excited as shit, and for remixes/remasters too.
― sean gramophone, Monday, 3 July 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
Ilx pre-covers one of our own is on the cards ;)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 3 July 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
well, fuck me into space!! 2018 looks better all the time
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
I am beyond excited for this one. I actually revisited In Conflict last month, playing it a lot, and it only made me more hungry for new Owen stuff.
― mthrn, Thursday, 6 July 2017 10:06 (six years ago) link
owen produced this, and plays on one of the songs, "self-help": https://tomberlin.bandcamp.com/album/at-weddings-2
self-help is my favorite after one listen but it's all really good. i'm bad at musical references but it's generally acoustic, sometimes reverbed out, sometimes like grouper but not always.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 September 2017 03:56 (six years ago) link
i love owen p so much
― seven mambas (m bison), Friday, 1 September 2017 04:03 (six years ago) link
i enjoy the empty space in "february", too
someone i almost marriedis doing that this monthand i'm ignoring my reading and living like a ghost
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 September 2017 04:07 (six years ago) link
Thanks for the heads up, this is very good.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 1 September 2017 09:21 (six years ago) link
"i am not afraid" is my theme song this week. what a good album.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 September 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfjtI_72VmQ
just discovered that a recording of Songs From An Island from March last year was uploaded in October. loving this and excited for whenever the album emerges
― ufo, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 08:24 (five years ago) link
I wish someone out there would tell us when the heck this is coming out!!
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:23 (five years ago) link
I heard a rumour about next January but the source was pretty sketchy
― imago, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:29 (five years ago) link
Maybe your source was me, but if not, lemme corroborate. :) At least it's what Owen said after the concert in Calgary. I guess the current state is pre-release PR planning and the like. To say I'm hyped is an understatement. The new material has a real strong emotional charge to it, that's for sure.
― TangoWhiskeyman, Sunday, 9 September 2018 02:32 (five years ago) link
I wonder if this is a way one could find out
― Cruel Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 September 2018 04:35 (five years ago) link
Wondering the very same... Stoked though obv.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 9 September 2018 11:19 (five years ago) link
hadn't seen this show from 2015 online before - with band guys matt and rob + extra strings
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Monday, 24 September 2018 06:12 (five years ago) link
would help to post the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbDJylzAFuA
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Monday, 24 September 2018 06:13 (five years ago) link
just watched this a couple of weeks ago. daaaaaaaaaaaaamn
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 24 September 2018 10:45 (five years ago) link
<3 <3
― Roz, Monday, 24 September 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
I've been absolutely stanning the emerging Westerman this year, so how come this lovely bastard of an album slipped through my net four and a half years ago!?
On A Path, oh my days, oh my days. <3
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:35 (five years ago) link
I've just been listening to this again this morning for the first time in ages and it's hit me like a ton of bricks. My god, The Riverbed :(((((
Also everything i've heard of Westerman so far I've loved, especially Confirmation.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 20 December 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link
Any news of Island?
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 1 February 2019 09:17 (five years ago) link
got a good pair of headphones for really cheap, fanciest pair i've owned and a small desktop DAC/headphone amp....anyway this is such an amazing fucking *recording* just stunning sounding
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link
like it's not square enough to get there but it should totally be one of those records that audiophiles use to test systems
When I taught recording and engineering, I used "The Riverbed" for frequency-recognition ear training practice and tests.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 23:33 (three years ago) link