Wild Nothing

aw I like the godawful Kate Bush cover. But maybe only because I really really like the synth sound on the string hook bit. None of the few of their own songs I've heard have done much for me, though.

not sure how much staying power this will have but so far this really sounds like my album of the summer

xp - didn't partic care for the KB cover but in any case I wouldn't call it very representative of this guy's own stuff

best new music on p4k surprisingly - good for him

do not like the album -- have at it, dudes: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330441039816

Reese Witherspoon didn't like it either, apparently

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amazing

Listened to it today. It's very good!

do not like the album -- have at it, dudes: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330441039816

― 69, Monday, June 7, 2010 11:31 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

super limited clear LP edition still at a bargain price, ending today!

you should save it for at least a decade so when this band becomes legendary you can really cash in and buy yourself a mansion

http://i.imgur.com/XH0Qb.jpg

Warmest Chord is a new British record label run by folks from Rough Trade and Make Mine. The label places a great deal of emphasis on design and packaging, and every release will come with a limited edition screenprint, as well as a digital mixtape created by the band whose music is on the release. The artist who designed the release’s screenprint will also revamp the label’s logo with every new release.

The first release on Warmest Chord is Evertide, a new EP from the recently BNM’ed lo-fi pop project Wild Nothing. Up above, you can download one of the three tracks from Evertide, which is available now in a ridiculously limited edition of 75 and also as a digital album. (You can stream another track on the label’s Bandcamp page.)

Franz Vesolt designed the two-in-one phosphorescent/glow-in-the-dark screenprint packaging, and every record will come numbered, labeled, and stamped. We’ve got the tracklist below.

Evertide:

01 Your Rabbit Feet
02 Golden Haze
03 Take Me In

the classy thing to do would have been to post that before it sold out

haha, yeah true. just discovered this band.

Probably my fav band of the past 3 months of the year, I actually don't like some of the singing and some of the lyrics - but it works as a whole. Their albums so far have been really consistent.

The ep is marvellous - I played the LP a lot but it pales next to Golden Haze.

never heard of these dudes, listening to their myspace, they really channel marr like few others have

Dig this for vibe more than individual songs. PF otm about the EP >> LP

yeah i'm pretty much in agreement with the above. the album sounds great but most of it doesn't stick with me as much as the singles/EP

"Chinatown" is really amazing.

I really like them.

Saw them the other week - very weak performance, absolutely no enthusiasm (& yeah I realize the dream/shoegaze-esque formatting, but come on and tap your foot at the least). Love their last album's artwork tho, really one of my favorites from that year.

That "performance" sounds perfect!

ha, well i was pretty conscious of the archetypal shoegazer provisions for a "concert" but these guys have just far too melodic working material to just stand around and insist "this is all about the music, man". i GET IT with mbv and such, but in their cases it really was both essential to their methods and allure, whereas these dudes i felt where just doing it because they knew their predecessors did. slowdive/ride/swirlies did plenty of rocking out on stage, and had as equally mellow songs.

Swirlies didn't go nuts when I saw them, but I was distracted by the amazing songs so my memory is fuzzy.

The ep is marvellous - I played the LP a lot but it pales next to Golden Haze.

agreed. The EP is just fucking awesome. Love the LP too.

I saw them recently and really liked it, my only complaint was that several songs were cut in half! (stopped verses short of the end for some reason - every song was like 1:45 long, weird)

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

lovely sleeve

beautiful sleeve - looks like some long lost Factory/Crépuscule sleeve

They have even made Hipster Runoff post-ironic:
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2013/01/wild-nothing-was-most-relevant-authentic-band-2k12.html

yes was gonna post that - as usual not sure how to take this

All I know is that I like the record quite a bit.

Yes the record is great.

Probs my #1 for the poll tbh.

In my top 5, I think.

I mean I know it makes me ~~white~~ but sometimes I just want Michelle Williams listening to cassettes on a walkman.

Oh, it'll definitely be in mine!

Holy shit.

Has anyone heard "A Dancing Shell"? New EP comes out tomorrow.

Un-fucking-believable. I almost thought it was the wrong band. What does it sound like to me? Scritti Politti, Human League, Pet Shop Boys, Simple Minds, AR Kane, Style Council, hints of acid house, and probably a lot of even more obvious stuff I'll talk with my therapist about when I get back next week.

Thanks for the tip. I didnt know a new release was coming up... Nocturne was one of my favs last year

i was listening to it last night, it definitely raised my eyebrows. i need to listen to it again (and again)

these guys were surprisingly good when i saw them back in feb (in the hottest room ever). the sarah-isms come out way way more live than on record, oddly

Saw them last fall, like Sept or Oct and completely disagree. Their llive set emphasized the simultaneous muscularity of the sound and boredom of the vocals. Sarah/c86 I associate with thin production.. This sound was big.

Hard times .

it had very little to do with the bigness or otherwise of the sound. melodically and instrumentally there was a lot of the wake in what they were doing, orchids too

Yes, there's a big influence, but what I'm saying is that they're doing something much bigger and more important. And when they play live it's more modern than that thin sounding indie.

"data world" is the jam

Wow, I was getting pretty hammered last night.

Anyway, just woke up to the full EP. This is a record that confounds and delights. It's got a lot to do with Bowie also, I think it sounds like Low.

Trying to arrange a 12" copy from my local record shop but the guy hasn't got back to me yet.

This guy has clearly lost his fucking mind. There's one song on here that sounds like Blur.

God I love this.

Ha, I was right. EP ends with Eno/Manzanera noodling. What. the. fuck.

I hope this arrives in the mail soon... the last album is so pretty.

Also, as much as I like it (listened to it probably a dozen times it is not what I expected the record to sound like after Empty Estate?

probably a dozen times over the weekend... that should have read.

enjoying this new "shallow water" song

this guy is still my favorite Unremarkable Indie Pop act going

I still have a lot of time for Nocturne and the Empty Estate EP. The last album had some great moments too, although was a bit uneven on the whole. I can't get into Gemini much.

Nocturne is great

I adore the golden haze ep

Life of Pause ended up being my favorite of his, and the new tracks are super promising.

yeah "letting go" is real good too and "partners in motion" has a nice groove

When the mid 80s were over, I really missed the guitar sound in "Partners in Motion" (and in places on the Tornado Wallace album from last year) and I'm overjoyed it's finally okay to make a guitar sound like that again—because it wasn't for a very long time, unless you were recording elevator music.

its just chorus and reverb i think

There's something really crystalline and compressed about it beyond chorus.

sounds like they've been having a good listen to Songs from the Big Chair

there's still a few songs left in that chair

I'd assumed these were all leading up to an album, but cool! It comes out on the 31st!

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3221996752_16.jpg

i like that cover art, though i'll always enjoy the life of pause one for looking to me like he's sitting inside a set from a Myst game

Yeah, I like that cover art too... would have made a great vinyl sleeve circa 1983-1984.

jorge elbrecht produced this new one

xp according to photo on the Bandcamp page, the shape on the front is a transparent window.

Every time I listen to the Empty Estate EP, I find myself wishing he'd expanded that to a full length.

It is a full length what the hell are you talking about

When the mid 80s were over, I really missed the guitar sound in "Partners in Motion" (and in places on the Tornado Wallace album from last year) and I'm overjoyed it's finally okay to make a guitar sound like that again

This is probably why I am really feeling this new album

It is a full length what the hell are you talking about

― fields of salmon, Friday, August 24, 2018 1:53 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's an EP, not an LP - I would have thought that was apparent.

Sounds like the new one is going to be right up my street!

really enjoying this so far. it feels like he took lessons from Life Of Pause (which i wasn't super into and he, from interviews, doesn't sound like he quite was either) and just applies those sophistipop tendencies to his usual soundscapey popcraft.

yeah this is good

Haven’t checked the new album yet, but he did a list of album influences on Vulture that makes me think he may lurk here

http://www.vulture.com/amp/2018/08/5-80s-albums-that-influenced-wild-nothings-indigo.html

Wow, he's def an ilm'er in spirit.

the world is watching

bend

The new one is basically Nocturne II, but the songwriting isn't anywhere near as consistent in terms of quality and while the production on Nocturne helped his vocals to blend in with the music unobtrusively, here I can't take my mind off the fact that Tatum is a weak singer.

this one hasn't clicked with me yet, I ended up loving the last one after multiple listens though

it took a while but 'wheel of misfortune' grew into my fav from this one. that main riff is sublime

nice little EP out called "laughing gas"

i like the new one. no prefab sprout-isms like the last one but there's some great stuff on here. last track is probably my favorite