New BARK PSYCHOSIS album

God this is so gorgeous, I can't believe it. It's spinning in my shitty kitchen Philips CD player for the second time now and I am already overwhelmed. It's moody, atmospheric stuff with some jazzy elements like a trumpet and piano. Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden isn't too far. Some weird electronic and not so electronic sounds but not too many. Rather dark than bright. Rather monochromic than black and white. Rather a maelstrom than a cataract. Music that draws the listener in and embraces him without asking him. There are beats but they are hardly danceable. I could bathe in this relaxing ocean of blue forever. Maybe my new favourite album of this year. Though it is definitely too premature for such a bold statement. And Riot on an Empty Street is a masterpiece almost impossible to best.

if i didn't know german i'd really be intrigued by the two word lyrics of the last song called "rose". "traum" is one of those words in the german language which sound so fucking great when you don't know what they mean and which sound even greater when you do. this track is like a justification of the german language.

I even submitted a review of it to Grooves for the next issue, hopefully they'll run it and some Yank electronica fans will latch onto it.

Give me time.

for real? and i know Andy K has had a copy for almost a year. (-;

here is the bp c or d thread with some more impressions of the album at the end.

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Keith M -- I agree, it is not as good as "Hex". It is very different from "Hex", so maybe this is like comparing apples to oranges, but really, if I had to choose one over the other this very instant, I would unhesitatingly grab "Hex".

But that's a typical pattern for me -- preferring the fragile, under-produced first album of many bands in this genre to the "everything but the kitchen sink" production-crazy second album.

If you prefer Pale Saints' "Comforts of Madness" to their follow-up "In Ribbons", and if you prefer the Boo Radleys' "Everything's Alright Forever" to their folow-up "Giant Steps", then you've probably got the same tropism that I do!

I do really like the first part of "Dustsucker", and have been playing it over and over since I got the album, but I always seem to hit a musical roadbump after the song that makes me think of David Sylvian. Instead of letting the album finish, I back-space it and start the whole album over again. Something about those last few songs feels more like a fade then an ending. But maybe I'll warm up to them when I listen to them again -- if I can stop myself from starting over, that is!

This post is about my misinterpretation of the lyrics of "400 Winters", which I briefly mentioned on the C/D thread ...

Here's the lyrics as printed on the booklet, which I'm assuming is the "authoritative version" -- even though it doesn't quite synch up with the singing in some parts :

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Loose rein. Let us rest Where words speak nor confess Always beside always besides For one another winding west we seek and grow apart Blood disappears where deeds begin you never stop nor start Turn out the silent glare turn out the silent stare 400 winters never count Sleep never rusts a final sign of things to come, you can not lay your hand upon it's only ever more it's only ever more ...

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... And here what I _thought_ they were singing, which turns out to be very, very, very far off track, even though in an odd way, it makes as much sense as the words above do ...

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It's rain, let us rest ;
We won't speak, nor confess.
Always beside, always besides --
Far from another blinding lust.
We'll seek then grow apart ...

Let's wait, let us rest,
Let's make no contact --
Always beside, always besides --
For one another, altough worldy-wise .
We'll seek then grow apart ...

Thought disappears where it's begun --
We'll never stop nor start.
Don't have to sit and glare ;
Don't have to sigh and stare.

400 winters never count
And sleep never ends.
If what inside are things to come.
You can not lay your hand upon ...

It's only ever more.
It's only ever more.

It's sunny ever more.
... sunny ever more.

400 winters never count,
If what inside are things to come.
You can not lay your hand upon,
If what inside are things to come.

It's only ever more ...
It's sunny ever more ...

Now I've gone and scared everyone away :)

i was euphorialistic when Dustsucker came out but it doesn't have lurking classic written all over it like Hex does

x-post - must get Independency
+ i demand Hex to be reiussed! Jess H., what u say 'bout that?

haven't seen this on a best of decade list yet, prob top 10 for me

Wait until all the best of decade lists are published.

New album in four years!

Heh.

sb'd you for that

New album in two years

Well you do play the long game.

Thought it was 'Game Over' though.
Or was that just the early years compiled?

Could they do with a better comprehensive Che era compi? One that was more chronological, maybe going onto the next label too? Trying to think how long a Che compi would be.
Just looked at discog on Rateyourmusic and should cover the 3rd Stone stuff too.

Could they do with a better comprehensive Che era compi?

Wasn't that Independency?

Had just been talking about them last weekend since somebody who was part of the Claremont ave protest they were in was on the Solidarity Camp.

Looks like it was indeed Independency. Don't have that one, not sure you can still get it. I wound up with the 2 later compis cos I think it was difficult to get back at the beginning of the millennium.
So maybe needs a reissue?

Yes it does, it's excellent (as good as Hex).

Graham is living in Buenos Aires at the moment, he appears to be pretty off the radar at the moment, but I think he is recording bands out there.

I wouldn't think there's any kind of reissues coming soon. He hasn't spoke kindly about Third Stone in the past and was pretty unhappy with Game Over.

spoken, duh

Think I was linking it with Disco Inferno who had a compi of somewhat similar stuff put out last year and A.R.Kane who have one coming in October. Assume it sold to the same people when first out. So might do well if released now.
but maybe just wishful thinking anyway. can't afford the £21+ that it's going for on Amazon. Do have the other compis but would love that 3 piece era's material together.

SO people know where Graham is. Does anybody have any idea about John Ling who apparently pretty much disappeared, but may have just moved so no longer on radar of people I knew who used to see him in gig audiences.

Graham's a really nice chap, he packed up and moved to Argentina maybe a year ago or more to be with his g/f (it appears)

Hex to be reissued!

http://www.normanrecords.com/records/117958-bark-psychosis-hex

Is this going to be an official release or is this another bootleg reissue? Anyone know anything about Vinilissimo records?

Hmm . . . I'd like to replace my battered up record of this so I hope it's genuine.

Vinilisimo have released much though, recent titles include Television's 'Adventure' and Barrett's 'Madcap Laughs' so I think this is probably dubious. Will probably be CD sourced, which is fucking stupid and pointless.

Hmm. The jury is out.

http://www.discogs.com/label/Vinilisssimo

Tried to visit their website but got a malware warning.

Are people buying the Dustsucker album at these astronomical prices on discogs? $200-300 my goodness. Anyone know what ebay prices have been?

I'd consider dumping one of my lp's if that is what the going rate is.

the vinyl or the cd? I have two copies of the cd

I did look for bark psychosis vinyl recently and it wasn't pretty

I mean the vinyl.

Have a look at http://www.popsike.com, which archives ebay sales.

It appears to have sold for £80 in November and $97 in May.