Mary Timony

Certain songs sounded less mid-70ish and that was one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bhLw3v_tiY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2bhLw3v_tiY

oh ffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bhLw3v_tiY

Ian Svenonius as an unearthed Kevin McDonald Kids in the Hall character is a video concept I full support.

fully, even.

The whole Ex Hex album is streaming at NPR. On first listen this is one of the best records of the year.

http://www.npr.org/2014/09/28/350589315/first-listen-ex-hex-rips

was just looking for a rolling thread to post this in but hey, there's a Timony thread!

anyway, yeah: this slays

my fuzzy recollection is that ILM's general response to the high placement of Wild Flag (who I didn't like) in that year's P&J was "wtf is Wild Flag?" :\

I had zero use for Wild Flag but this rules.

I liked the Wild Flag song that sounded most like a Timony song ("Glass Tambourine," I think).

yeah this is cool.

i have never heard Helium. what does Helium sound like? like this?

Timony has a pretty consistent sound, though it varies in rockingness.

what ever happened to her?? what made her lose the finely crafted 'dirty Helium' and go into 'rainbow land Helium'?
i dont know if you've noticed the trend of hipsters going folky, but i think mary was ahead of the game on this one. now she's back to rocking more,

Kinda sucks that if you bought the EP on iTunes, those songs don't carry over to the LP, meaning that you'd have to re-buy those tracks as part of the whole album. Minor gripe, though, I suppose. Listening to the whole on NPR now.

Nevermind - the versions on the LP are different than on the EP.

Even Helium varied from record to record. The Dirt of Luck is more or less basic indie rock while The Magic City is close to a prog album.

I really like this so far. I always liked Timony a lot as both a guitarist and singer but there was never a Helium record that really nailed it for me, and I wasn't grabbed by Wild Flag either.

i like the proggy Helium the best.

this new one is good, confirming my suspicion that most of the stuff i liked about Wild Flag was her

For me Magic City didn't stick. I really loved Dirt of Luck but have been bad about revisiting that one, too.

DIRT OF LUCK FOREVER

― maura, Wednesday, October 30, 2013 5:53 AM (11 months ago)

whoa i haven't thought about her since... 2001? nice to know she's still at it.

This new one is produced by Mitch Easter, who I just read also co-produced 1997’s The Magic City, the second album by Helium, Timony’s second band.

Really digging 'Waterfall' off this record atm

I had zero use for Wild Flag but this rules.

This is so weird to me - Timony's Wild Flag tunes could pretty much easily be sequenced into this album! Black Tiles, Electric Band, even Glass Tambourine

this album rules. she rules. hard to believe people still overlook her -- every bit the guitar hero j mascis, s malkmus, and d martsch are. she's traveled so many styles too

yeah was gonna say i said upthread made me realize that all the good wild flag songs were timony

Problem with Wild Flag was never Timony. Her songs are fine, but not enough to make listening to the band worthwhile.

my prob was more carrie brownstein's uh-UH yah yah yah yah ya---UH vocal mannerisms which were really over the top in that band as compared to SK

I'm not really into the Ex Hex album :( The songs are too simple and referential and I'm not crazy about the production. It didn't help that I went back and listened to "Magic City" this weekend, which is so much better.

Heather Phrase (AMG) claims the new record is the closer she got to the Helium sound/atmosphere.

if so, i'm in.

Phares

I'm not really into the Ex Hex album :( The songs are too simple and referential and I'm not crazy about the production. It didn't help that I went back and listened to "Magic City" this weekend, which is so much better.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, October 13, 2014 11:26 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

basically agree with this, it's not a bad album but too simplistic and garagey for me i think. willing to give it a couple more tries.

Production-wise it *is* weirdly muddled in places - compare the "Hot & Cold" from the 7" to the album version and it's so much thicker.

New video, this is prob my favorite track on the album: http://vimeo.com/106394455

That video is fuckin' awesome. Alec MacKaye getting laser-blasted!

This track was an iTunes bonus track on the Wild Flag album and *totally* sounds like it could fit on Ex Hex:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1sEhUNrAKQ

I'm not really into the Ex Hex album :( The songs are too simple and referential and I'm not crazy about the production. It didn't help that I went back and listened to "Magic City" this weekend, which is so much better.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, October 13, 2014 10:26 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, I listened to this yesterday and was surprised at how much I liked it. But I'm not as invested as you are in Mary Timony specifically or this type of thing generally.

very excited to be playing with ex hex and speedy in november :^) RIPS is great

Just listened to the Ex Hex album this morning and really enjoyed it. Love Timony's tone and lead guitar lines.

(Admittedly, I was totally listening for Timony's playing. The songs are pretty simplistic so I guess I'll see how well the album holds up for me over time. Seems like fun right now, though.)

I've completely forgotten to check it out myself! Thanks for the reminder.

this is good!

Album has grown on me a lot. It did seem too simplistic at first, and the guitar tuning is so straightforward and un-Timony-like, but around listen 4-5 it clicked for me. I wonder if the male character in "Waterfall" is the same as the one in "On The Floor." So many ex-boyfriends passed out on the kitchen floor....

Maybe this is obvious but it reminds me of a lot of late 70s/early 80s stuff like the Cars, Blondie, Go-Gos.

My initial take was a Cars/Ramones mashup.

Feel like Jonathan Richman's "Roadrunner" is quoted differently in two tracks too.

I fucking love this Ex Hex album.

I saw Ex Hex last night. Really fun set, played basically the whole record.

this record is definitely a much better version of wild flag