Earth: s/d, c/d?

I liked the DVD. But yes, I agree Hibernaculum was excellent.

There were some interesting interviews, but visually it didn't really match the music, all grey and grainy.

Does the new one have a release date?

There's nothing on the Southern Lord site about it. It sounds great on first listen, though.

Blasting Earth 2 and my left speaker just vibrates itself off the shelf and explodes. :(

Dylan would want it that way.

Yes he would!

Picked up the new Earth today at a Zavvi in Dublin, for only 15 euro -- I didn't think it was out till the end of the month. Anyway, on first pass it's very good, with real monsoon-rains-in-the-desert vibe to it. Certainly not drone doom, though.

I'll second the above post -- the new album is FANTASTIC, one of the best things I've heard in '08 so far. Expands a bit further on the americana, folk and gospel influences that surfaced on Hex and Hibernaculum. Perhaps the best album they've done!

the new one is quite remarkably mellow and spacey. it is also very very very fucking good.

It is. Was even better live too!

the new one is quite remarkably mellow and spacey. it is also very very very fucking good.

^^^^^ This. It was the ideal disc for me to get acquainted with Southern Lord records (tho probably not representative of the label's artists).

not at all representative, you're right, but definitely a nice gateway. check out some of the Boris stuff too, it's fairly accessible for Southern Lord. then move in deeper. lots o' good stuff on that label.

oh! and don't forget Earth's previous album, Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method, which is in relatively the same vein as the new one, and really really good as well. highly recommended.

Is the prior Earth album like the new one? Must investigate.

(Best thing I've heard on the Southern Lord label, BTW. Best cover art, too).

I'm with J0hn too. So fucking great. Perfect for the mood I've been in lately.

Yes it is like the new one. But really the new songs are much better live. btw there's a tour only live album over at southernlord.com that was on sale at the european gigs, its awesome and quite ltd so you should all pick it up, its fab. I got mine in glasgow.
Also apparently on their current tour there's a new live cd that id love to buy. Anyone pick it up?

cool, thanks for the heads up on the 2006 tour cd.

It's a great recording.

Just listening to "Extra-Capsular...", it's fine but rather leaden and sortieish. "Phase 3"'s a lot more interesting, to me. Also seconding whoever thought the solo on "Coda in etc"'s up there with anyone's ever, btw

And I too would like to see the video for "Tallasshee" (at least) again, it creeped me the fuck out 15 years ago or whenever it was

Funny i was watching the Tallashee vid last week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGG-_iKyJ14

i want that car

good live clip here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppGKynT2MBU

Gawd I still haven't found Phase 3, that's pretty much the last one I need to get. Have all the others.

Went to see them Saturday night, opening for Jesse Sykes. Fine show, greatly enhanced by the guy playing Wurlitzer and trombone. Also, hearing Dylan talking between songs made me realize why they rarely have vocals.

a little horse?

phase 3 {{{d-_-b}}}

the new one is quite remarkably mellow and spacey. it is also very very very fucking good.

― J0hn D., Sunday, 29 June 2008 21:20 (7 months ago) Bookmark

^^^ this.
thanks to hermans nudges over on another thread i picked this up on a whim last week.
totally loving it.
first guitar based/non-electronic album i have enjoyed in a long long time.

You need to get the previous one then! (then go back and get Pentastar as well.)

Real talk from Herman.

Saw them in London last night. Almost all stuff off their latest record, as well as a new one, and very good too. Anyone else?

Can we S&D reformed Earth? I heard the Sir Richard Bishop split and it's pretty gool in an almost Neil Young soundtrack to Dead Man kind of way. What else is worth picking up?

all of it

love latter day Earth, but Living In The Gleam Of An Unsheathed Sword is not great. everything else is recommended!

^^^cosign. that's the only weak one I've heard. The last one (And the Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull...? or something like that?) was great, very Ennio Morricone/sdt-ish.

stdk-ish

yeah, and the Dead Man sdtk comparisons are right on with the last one, I think that the Earth guy named that as an influence. anyone heard the live LP thing? think it was a tour-only or ltd. edition sorta deal. probably fetching crazy ebay $$$ currently.

the live earth thing was awesome. theres a vinyl version of it out now.

I am listening to Hex; Or Printing In The Infernal Method right now. Totally would not guess that this is the same band as Earth 2.

So can someone sort the live from studio on these things? Hex and Bees are obv studio. Is everything else live?

everything i've heard of the newer earth stuff is great, tho i haven't heard 'Living In The Gleam Of An Unsheathed Sword'

but 'the bees made honey in the lion's skull' is outstanding. prob my favorite album by them, definitely the best of the newer stuff

Radio Earth is actually better versions of those songs

Actually it might be time for a best earth album poll

Best EARTH Studio Album?

Oh twist my arm:

EARTH / WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM / Lori Goldston April 2010 Tour:
4/14/2010 The Oak Street Speakeasy - Eugene, OR
4/15/2010 Noctrum - Eureka, CA
4/16/2010 Slim's - San Francisco, CA
4/17/2010 Brookdale Lodge - Santa Cruz, CA
4/19/2010 Ché Café - San Diego, CA
4/20/2010 The EchoPlex - Los Angeles, CA
4/22/2010 Rotture - Portland, OR
4/23/2010 Neumo's - Seattle, WA
4/24/2010 Capital Theatre - Olympia, WA with special guests Mount Eerie and Ô Paon

Texas, plz?

would like a colorado date, but that is unlikely ... is there a new album?

http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/EARTH-Angels_cover_web.jpg

EARTH have completed their highly anticipated upcoming full-length album, which has been a subject of much discussion over the past two years. Following the band's magnificent 2008-released The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull opus, the next chapter in the ongoing EARTH legacy is ready for public consumption. To see release via Southern Lord Recordings in February 2011, the recently completed new album has been titled Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1, and promises to be a brand new entity within EARTH's already impressive and constantly progressing lineage.

Joining founding guitarist and band frontman Dylan Carlson and percussionist Adrienne Davies, the album lineup this time around also includes cellist Lori Goldston (Nirvana, David Byrne, Black Cat Orchestra, Laura Veirs) and Karl Blau (K Records, Laura Veirs, Microphones) on electric bass. Returning to Seattle's Avast Studios in April and July of 2010 to again work with producer Stuart Hallerman (Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Built To Spill, and Earth2), EARTH's newest masterpiece shows the band continuing to expand on the Americana themes represented on The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull, and even their incredible 2005 album Hex (Or Printing The Infernal Method), taking their sound into broad new directions.

Citing inspiration from British folk-rock bands the Pentangle and Fairport Convention, as well as North African Tuareg band Tinariwen this time around, while still maintaining the thunderous, organic heaviness of previous EARTH releases, the material on Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1 is more fluid and melodically oriented in nature, relying on more textured patterns and a greater emphasis on improvisational songwriting tactics. This, as well as the inclusion of cello and other experimentations from the musicians involved, culminate into some unforgettable new hymns. The album was mastered by Mell Dettmer, who also remastered the recent re-release of EARTH's first recordings in the form of A Bureaucratic Desire For Extra Capsular Extraction, released by Southern Lord in late October.

Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1 Track Listing:
1. Old Black
2. Father Midnight
3. Descent To The Zenith
4. Hell’s Winter
5. Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1

Thanks for brightening my morning Ned!

:D
glad to see what I assume is a Neil Young reference there in the opening track's title?