― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link
They are really great. I'm a believer!
They had Jeb Bishop on trombone playing with them at Pitchfork, as well as some other unidentified reed guy (anybody knows?) .. what a nice sound.
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link
this is still a great album for 85-degree-and-above heat
― max, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Saw them play in the woods out here in Nor Cal and they are equally good for crisp foggy weather as well ! Robbie Lee is the name of the guy playing the flute/ reed.
― oscar, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 04:46 (sixteen years ago) link
When they played here recently, I was not too eager - I had gotten the impression from reviews and what not they were sorta alt-country freak-frolk beardo shit.
So at least at the time it was real pleasant surprise. Then I little a little bit of one of their records. Sounded good!
― J Kaw, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 04:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i like this thread because its both one of the first that i ever posted to on ILM and its about the first band i ever wrote an 800-word article about
― max, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 05:00 (sixteen years ago) link
this is still a great album for 85-degree-and-above heat-- max, Tuesday, July 17, 2007 4:27 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link anyone who's not some college student idiot.
-- max, Tuesday, July 17, 2007 4:27 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link anyone who's not some college student idiot.
yes, i agree.
― hstencil, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 08:25 (sixteen years ago) link
feelin it
http://www.thefader.com/articles/2008/7/22/freeload-brightblack-morning-light-hologram-buffalo
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 23 July 2008 05:33 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.matadorrecords.com/images/fullsize/ole-786.jpg
― mizzell, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice...I hope they have some tracks with a punchier groove but this is cool. Love their Rhodes sound.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
pysched to hear about a new record. bummed i re-read this thread.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
What a great cover
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
i hope this album is like the good songs on the last one, but all the way through. not that there were any bad songs on the last one, really, but more consistent awesomeness would be great thanks.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 24 July 2008 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
hey i got it. it sounds like the last one, but even less urgent. almost a little gospelly in places.
they kind of remind me of mu. the fankhauser band from the 70s.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 28 August 2008 09:30 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a sneaky sideways move from the last record- less drums but more horns, so it's funkier and yet also more motionless. The production on the vocals is really gooey and great. I think the thing it reminds me of the most is Sly & the Family Stone's "Thank you for Talking to me Africa"- lotsa empty space, a certain starkness. The lyrics seem more directly political on this record, and that's a change too.
― Drew Daniel, Thursday, 28 August 2008 13:48 (fifteen years ago) link
hey, i posted a Mu song to my site last week.
http://robotsinheat.com/trax/EternalThirst.mp3
― jaxon, Thursday, 28 August 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
the vocals are the thing that really bug me on this one :(
― ian, Thursday, 28 August 2008 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
man, so dying to hear this .... but, I will wait until it comes out
not sure if I like the idea of them deemphasizing the drums .. "even less urgent" ... hmmm ... ah, I'm sure I'll love it
― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 28 August 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, the drums were so good on the last one. but can't wait for this.
― mizzell, Thursday, 28 August 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
still haven't heard the last one but i liked their debut
― am0n, Thursday, 28 August 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
"another reclaimation" sounds really, really good on a rainy morning.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Saturday, 30 August 2008 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link
hey, what do you know, so does "a rainbow aims." if this keeps up i might have to post four more times.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Saturday, 30 August 2008 11:03 (fifteen years ago) link
"Previous to this recording, while BBML toured Europe, singer Naybob Shineywater sang each show with an arrowhead in his mouth. Why? To let his own sung words & breathe touch this stone before european ears could hear them. "I was not singing for war, but to engage the spirit of the maker of the arrowhead itself, to offer up Peace, that his warrior effort find a new respect,and to help my own warrior spirit sing in Peace," reveals Naybob."
for some reason i don't hate this band despite shit like that. like, I strangely do not find that as lame and stupid as it sounds
― Surfboard Pre (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Monday, 15 September 2008 01:34 (fifteen years ago) link
look, nobody post anything about this band, their names, what they think or the things they do in this thread, ok? i just want to like their music and ignore them being prats.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 15 September 2008 08:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Let's just call 'em Raymond & Nathan.
― ian, Monday, 15 September 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I still haven't revisited the new record since my initial lukewarm reaction. Maybe I will do that today.
― ian, Monday, 15 September 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
ian download that ted lucas i posted on noize
― (´・ω・)つ(・(・ (am0n), Monday, 15 September 2008 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
also
look, nobody post anything about this band, their names, what they think or the things they do in this thread, ok?
^^^ this
― (´・ω・)つ(・(・ (am0n), Monday, 15 September 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
but the thread title is "bbml - what the fuck?" so isn't that like the point of it?????
― Surfboard Pre (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Monday, 15 September 2008 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
my post was not intended to be a wtf? post i was actually saying i really like them despite the fact that they do seem like total "prats" (assuming that that word has some sort of negative connotation)
― Surfboard Pre (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Monday, 15 September 2008 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
prat (plural prats)1. (UK, slang) Art student.2. (obsolete, slang, UK) The buttocks.3. (slang) the female genitals.
― REIGN IN FUDGE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link
the stuff i heard from the first album made no impression on me and their hippyness is kind of irritating but 'motion to rejoin' is really doing it for me. slow jams.
― LaMonte, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 01:38 (fifteen years ago) link
― ian, Monday, September 15, 2008 10:33 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
My dad and I are who now waht?
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 02:26 (fifteen years ago) link
― REIGN IN FUDGE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 01:03 (1 week ago)
if two of three definitions are truly great things, how negative can this word really be?
― Surfboard Pre (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 04:37 (fifteen years ago) link
they're not prats either, they're pretty fucking ballsy and out there..there are bands with much worse art school wastes in this country
― Surfboard Pre (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
ballsy?
― REIGN IN FUDGE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd say so, they ride with their schtick pretty hard and yeah you can try to play off all the things that come with it as gimmicks but at least they're not going the cookie cutter route that a lot of new bands see: mgmt, vampire weekend, and ton of their followers are falling into. they're not playing for college crowds and they've stuck to their vision, which happens to be a pretty unique one IMO
― Surfboard Pre (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 05:17 (fifteen years ago) link
it might not be so ballsy to play music in a style that may have been explored before but they're just making it work for themselves and not coming off as trite. that is a feat in itself.
― Surfboard Pre (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 05:19 (fifteen years ago) link
The album notes shout out the solar panels on this itinerant duo's New Mexico hut/recording studio, thanks main man Naybob Shineywater's tent and sleeping bag by name, and reprints his lyrics, including ballsy lines like "Canoe painted rainbows lends a power, every truth is there to find"
ha. surfboard, did you write the othermusic review of this or is "ballsy" the adjective du jour for these dudes?
― REIGN IN FUDGE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 25 September 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Great cover art, I've really come around to this band lately
― I know, right?, Thursday, 25 September 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
this is fucking awesome. i love these weirdos so much.
i feel like they stuck to the formula but branched out at the same time.
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, 26 September 2008 03:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i kept wishing the last one had fewer and longer tracks like this.
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, 26 September 2008 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link
they should do a 60 min single/LP like the necks some time.
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, 26 September 2008 03:52 (fifteen years ago) link
only heard a couple promo tracks so far but yeah I think I need to get this
sounds even slower and more spare than the last one but also heavier/deeper
― dmr, Friday, 26 September 2008 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
no I didn't but if anyone from other is reading this I kinda need a job
― you loooooooose (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Friday, 26 September 2008 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
wasn't sure if I was going to see them on this tour and then I see they've got IASOS as the opening band
which is insane and I am there
http://iasos.com/detalist/idm/
― Milton Parker, Friday, 26 September 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
will they be playing Harmonic Convergence this year???!
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 26 September 2008 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
oh wow IASOS sounds pretty amazing.
― ian, Sunday, 28 September 2008 06:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd be more excited if Superconducter was the opening slot.
― QuantumNoise, Sunday, 28 September 2008 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link