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.
― MacDara, Thursday, 7 February 2008 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― stephen, Thursday, 6 March 2008 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
It is. Was even better live too!
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 29 June 2008 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^^^ This. It was the ideal disc for me to get acquainted with Southern Lord records (tho probably not representative of the label's artists).
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 29 June 2008 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― stephen, Sunday, 29 June 2008 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― stephen, Sunday, 29 June 2008 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
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).
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 30 June 2008 00:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm with J0hn too. So fucking great. Perfect for the mood I've been in lately.
― jonathan - stl, Monday, 30 June 2008 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 30 June 2008 00:25 (sixteen years ago) link
cool, thanks for the heads up on the 2006 tour cd.
― stephen, Monday, 30 June 2008 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link
It's a great recording.
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 30 June 2008 00:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Niles Caulder, Monday, 30 June 2008 06:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Funny i was watching the Tallashee vid last week
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGG-_iKyJ14
― X-101, Monday, 30 June 2008 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link
i want that car
― am0n, Monday, 30 June 2008 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― stephen, Monday, 30 June 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― clotpoll, Monday, 30 June 2008 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
a little horse?
― sexyDancer, Monday, 30 June 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
phase 3 {{{d-_-b}}}
― eman, Thursday, 23 October 2008 04:47 (fifteen years ago) link
― 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.
― mark e, Monday, 23 February 2009 11:05 (fifteen years ago) link
You need to get the previous one then! (then go back and get Pentastar as well.)
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 23 February 2009 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Real talk from Herman.
― ilxor, Monday, 23 February 2009 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Saturday, 25 April 2009 10:37 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― He was only 21 years old when he 16 (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 July 2009 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
all of it
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 17 July 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
love latter day Earth, but Living In The Gleam Of An Unsheathed Sword is not great. everything else is recommended!
― tylerw, Friday, 17 July 2009 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^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.
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 July 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Friday, 17 July 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
the live earth thing was awesome. theres a vinyl version of it out now.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 17 July 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― He was only 21 years old when he 16 (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 July 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link
So can someone sort the live from studio on these things? Hex and Bees are obv studio. Is everything else live?
― He was only 21 years old when he 16 (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 July 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― mark cl, Friday, 17 July 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Radio Earth is actually better versions of those songs
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 17 July 2009 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually it might be time for a best earth album poll
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 17 July 2009 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Best EARTH Studio Album?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 17 July 2009 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh twist my arm:
EARTH / WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM / Lori Goldston April 2010 Tour:4/14/2010 The Oak Street Speakeasy - Eugene, OR4/15/2010 Noctrum - Eureka, CA4/16/2010 Slim's - San Francisco, CA4/17/2010 Brookdale Lodge - Santa Cruz, CA4/19/2010 Ché Café - San Diego, CA4/20/2010 The EchoPlex - Los Angeles, CA4/22/2010 Rotture - Portland, OR4/23/2010 Neumo's - Seattle, WA4/24/2010 Capital Theatre - Olympia, WA with special guests Mount Eerie and Ô Paon
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 March 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Texas, plz?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
would like a colorado date, but that is unlikely ... is there a new album?
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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 Black2. Father Midnight3. Descent To The Zenith4. Hell’s Winter5. Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks for brightening my morning Ned!
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
:Dglad to see what I assume is a Neil Young reference there in the opening track's title?
― tylerw, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Exactly what I was thinking!
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
other song titles are pretty lol (in a good way)
― tylerw, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
That description makes it sound amazing. If it's half as good as Bees that'll be enough for me.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
wish i liked nu earth more. saw them early this year and was so so bored. cover art's great tho.
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i liked the last album a lot.
― scott seward, Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
me too! this one has a lot to live up to. does the "1" mean we can expect pt. two sometime soon afterward?
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
album cover loks like Skinner to me
http://theartofskinner.com/
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link