Emeralds-Classic or Dud?

definitely did not see that coming

It's for the best. Their last record was awful. Great time for them to split.

Disagree wrt the last Emeralds album, but I do have the feeling that maybe they had explored all the terrain they were going to.

The last record was definitely not awful, just much less exploratory of new grounds. I'm kinda bummed by this because I usually liked what McGuire brought to the table best, though I do like Hauschildt's solo stuff.

I have only given a cursory listen to Just to feel Anything... It's good in the way that they have a pretty solid baseline of delivering quality material, but nothing grabbed me in the way that Does It Look Like I'm Here did-- which was an exceptionally high watermark as far as I'm concerned, so no surprise that anything going forward doesn't quite measure up.

Apparently there will be no going forward. Just saw on Twitter (retweeted by a friend of mine and big fan of the band) that Steve Hauschildt has left the band, effectively ending it.

From Twitter:
"After much thought, I too have decided to leave Emeralds for personal reasons. The band is now over and all tour dates are cancelled."

they other guy must be really annoying huh

Weird, tinymixtapes just posted this story with a headline very similar to my post, i.e. "effectively ending [the band]". It is of course the first thing that would come to mind, but rarely am I in the middle of breaking news, so to speak.

Well you could just play any 3 solo joints zaireeka style & it would sound alot like an emeralds record, so no one should run out of new stuff from them.

If Hauschildt keeps coming out with stuff like Tragedy & Geometry, you'll hear no complaints from me.

oh no

dang

considering the quality of the mcguire/hauschildt/elliott solo stuff i'm not totally broken up but i wish i'd seen them at least once.

yeah i was hoping to be able to see them too. i went to a show on the caribou/emeralds tour JUST to see them but despite showing up at door time, the venue had decided to start early so i was only able to catch the last 5 minutes of the set /:

I passed on the Caribou show, which I was contemplating solely for the Emeralds set. Didn't realize that would be their only west coast appearance ever. Crap.

this is a bummer for sure. I wonder what the story is?

https://soundcloud.com/mark-mcguire/the-instinct-extended-12

stoked to see him on friday

seeing him tomorrow!

the instinct is the soloing into the sunset jam par excellence

I like Steve Hauschildt's second solo album so much more than his first that it hardly even seems fair to compare the two.

my favorite is "Mixed Messages"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2cJBe3hf_c

I'm guessing this second great album isn't the one I just bought, Tragedy & Geometry? Gah.

I've not even listened to it yet.

Tragedy & Geometry is excellent, fear not.

You know what is really great on Tragedy & Geometry? Music For A Moiré Pattern. That is just the best thing. I listened to that on the bus a couple of months back and was completely overcome and almost missed my stop. It was like the sound of the rain talking to itself, so beautiful and entrancing.

Favourite song on the last one though was Constant Reminders, a totally different sort of experience, but really sweet all the same.

Emeralds are supposedly playing the Field Day festival in London in the summer this year. Who the fuck is Emeralds these days?

I was sure they broke up, but yeah, they're still listed on the poster. Weird.

maybe it's The Emeralds UK

They're not on the website Line Up section.

http://echoesblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/21st-century-progressive-rock-opus-from-mark-mcguire/

I don't know about "prog opus", but it is one fucking outstanding album. It's gorgeous.

yeah calling it a "prog opus" is pretty ridiculous; it just sounds like by-the-numbers Mark McGuire

also does anyone else imagine all these songs are recorded by Mark McGwire

Lol

Along the Way is still slaying me, my favorite thing he's done yet (including all the excellent Emeralds stuff).

yep

I'm glad to hear someone finally agree, I was beginning to wonder if this thing just completely flew by everyone. It's terrific.

Along the Way is wonderful

i don't know the Emeralds stuff, but I loooooove Along the Way

where should i start with Emeralds?

Does it look like I'm here? should be easy to find and is very, very good

allegory of allergies

yeah that one is amazing, hoping for a reissue

I thought I would tire of listening to Mark McGuire, but plowing my way through MM's stuff right now and it gets pretty addictive. Guy is awesome, IMO

that one is amazing, hoping for a reissue

― KrafTwerk (sleeve), Monday, May 19, 2014 8:06 PM

duh I walked into the record store today and there it was, 2LP on Weird Forest, been out for years but it is severely truncated from the original cassette, so I guess I need to be greedy and ask for a 3LP version

Listening to Mark's new ep Noctilucence on Pitchfork Advance right now ... very, very good. Like it better than the album.

Into this: https://soundcloud.com/deadoceans/mark-mcguire-earth-2015

happy to see him switch up his sound for once

God, the new Steve Hauschildt LP, "Where All is Fled," is beautiful (no sound has been switched up at all FTR, but it's gorgeous).

this was a fb tip from our own ms. crawford but the mark mcguire album that came out in november is really really great, like i haven't seen it on any year-end lists but i just listened to the whole damn thing in one sitting while every other album i've checked out over the past week or so is a try-three-songs-get-bored type of affair.

the Steve Hauschildt album is better.

I'm just glad they're both still making music. Two great albums this year. I actually prefer their recent solo LPs to the Emeralds stuff.

I normally agree with you about everything but that's insane, apart they make beautiful but inconsequential diversions, together (plus that other guy) they made "alive in the sea of information"