Bonnie Prince Billy new album -- "Beware" -- on tour now, going next to see him next thursday, Jim White drumming, yeah this'll be dope fuckin a

"Without Work, You Have Nothing" is a nice addition to the BPB sex jam. Especially the lines:

"Move your hands faster, that's what your man wants / Keep his filthy mind from frequenting his soiled haunts."

"Work baby and war will be no more / the Goddess of uniform will drop it to the floor."

got this on vinyl this weekend.

so far i'm loving it. def very arranged and sort of superficially very commercial for him, but then the more i listen it's sort of a bizarre record in a way i can't quite figure..

sort of like, uh....hill people version of robert wyatt or something.

but you know, i am a stan 2 death for BPB

xpost

haha yeah, also the getting a BJ in public joint off lie down in the light was good. he's so horny.

So I only find out about the two UK dates after the London one has effectively sold out while the other show is in Brighton? Well FUCK YOU! (I will buy tickets for the Brighton gig out of spite)

Grrrr me and my bro wanted to go but fuck travelling to Brighton tbh.

the brighton venue is nice, worth travelling to

not from Hull

and back

fucked up and didnt get tickets for the walker thing. im an idiot.

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fucked up and didnt get tickets for the walker thing. im an idiot.

― a thread for clams that you are free to disregard (jjjusten), Friday, March 13, 2009 4:35 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

fucked up and didnt get tickets for the walker thing. im an idiot.

― a thread for clams that you are free to disregard (jjjusten), Friday, March 13, 2009 4:35 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

fucked up and didnt get tickets for the walker thing. im an idiot.

― a thread for clams that you are free to disregard (jjjusten), Friday, March 13, 2009 4:35 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

fucked up and didnt get tickets for the walker thing. im an idiot.

― a thread for clams that you are free to disregard (jjjusten), Friday, March 13, 2009 4:35 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

fucked up and didnt get tickets for the walker thing. im an idiot.

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fucked up and didnt get tickets for the walker thing. im an idiot.

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i am also a bpb stan 4-lyfe, how did this happen

also where you get that vinyl? i just got my turntable working and want it

got mine at roadrunner, but most of the indie places should have it i think.

Am I right in thinking this is a lot more maximal than his previous work?

gbx, you and i can just stand outside the show and weep i guess.

srsly that is what i'm planning on doing.

dear ilx plz halp!

Am I right in thinking this is a lot more maximal than his previous work?

― Two hands in the air, that's the Lampard Skank (Matt DC), Monday, March 16, 2009 4:31 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

kind of? it's pretty lush in comparison to what most ppl think is typical for him...lots of pedal steel, cornet, back vocals, violin, even some extended jethro tull cum herbie mann flute action on the last song. the arrangements are really nice on this.

but i don't know if it's as busy as the brave and the bold or that baroque pop EP he did with rian murphy or the mainstream country greatest hits thing..

think i'm gonna go pick this up today. i haven't even fully processed the last one although i did enjoy it the couple times i listened to it.

yeah, think i'm gonna head out and get this

Caught the show in Des Moines a couple nights ago. Band was on point. White's drumming esp. Loong, minor key "Drunk at the Pulpit" w/free improv style bass and fiddle was choice.

SHUT UP

Am I right in thinking this is a lot more maximal than his previous work?

Kinda glad to hear this tbh. Ease Down the Road is my fave bpb so far, and is the poppiest so I guess I approve of the more is more approach. Enough with the stripped-down thing, y'know?

It's definitely got a live feel to it - live with a very big country band. I guess the only thing I miss is the prominent female backing vocals he's had on the last two albums, but really there's nothing to complain about with this one. One of his best I'd say.

reviews have been really split...or actually not totally split but on metacritic there were a couple REALLY negative ones which surprised me

Hmmm... glanced over a couple of those negative reviews and it seems like the classic case of folks wanting the starker/minimal BPB of "I See a Darkness." I mean calling this stuff disingenuous - which is what a couple of those reviews seem to be saying - seems like bullshit. It's not like he just jumped right into country with this album. Feels like a natural progression from the last one.

yeah i agree.

i get that sense all the time, when a lot of people make comments about him, basically i think "i see a darkness" sort of defines him in a lot of people's views and they haven't really followed anything else he's done since then....

i kinda love maximalist BPB, is the thing

even though i love 'darkness' and 'master and everyone' i probably listen to summer in the southeast more often

i get that sense all the time, when a lot of people make comments about him, basically i think "i see a darkness" sort of defines him in a lot of people's views and they haven't really followed anything else he's done since then....

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this is kind of how i am. i didn't get into dude until i see a darkness and i've given most of his albums since then and some of his albums before then a chance but can't connect to any of them for whatever reason. i still haven't heard superwolf though, despite being a mega chavez fan

superwolf is the bomb IMO

truth

by the way this is "super-wolf" apparently:

superwolf is the bomb IMO

YOOTM

tonight! listening to "the letting go" right now....last nite's show he did "strange form of life" which would be sweet.

still so pissed

tho i did just get beware at electric fetus and will listen to it this afternoon w/beers now that i am officially on vacation :D

gbx i might have a lead for you....gimme a minute

superwolf is a great great album, and as an alltime chavez stan i am proud to report that matt sweeney is a huge part of why it's so good.

!!!!!!!

waiting to hear back from a PM, dude on another board had one available earlier today

in silent sad protest to my inability to remember to get my shit together for this show, i am seeing Alestorm and Tyr at Station 4.

matt that would be dope, thanks for even looking!

there's like a billion postings on CL, tho, so i understand that these things are moving pretty quckly

sorry man, was already gone :(

didn't mean to tease u

nah, it's ok. like i said, they're in short supply and it's a seller's market

i'm just hoping my friend's brother has a very temporary illness

i'm guessing walker art shows are sort of out of the range of good old fashioned scalpers too.

i'm thinking about milling around the front door, tho, for realz

so first impression--this is indeed very maximal and i'm not really sure it's a good thing.

thanks to gbx my evening just got 1 billion times more awesome!

m@tt are you going to the late show or early show?

HIGH FIVES 4 EVERYONE

AWESOMES!

No that's allright!

Seeing as you saw her name for the first time, I take it she didn't play before BPB? Or did you miss the opening act?

xp

nope it was a band called begushkin

oh man a cover of jailbreak???

btw, thanks dude!

I finally picked up a copy of the live one Is It The Sea? It is great. I like it much better than Summer in the Southeast. Wilding is on the way to me now but I find it hard to believe it will be better than Is It The Sea?

chicago show was great. anyone know where i could find a setlist?

maybe try the electrical audio board?

Great cover of "Club Mekon" at the show we saw.

Really like the new release. His best in six years, I think.

I've been giving the new album quite a few listens waiting for it to reveal it's charms.

It's not done it yet.

The press release hype that starts this thread has it all wrong, the problem with this album is that its way too much 'more of the same'. Now, I quite like the same that it's more of - but like the fifth or sixth time you eat your favourite pudding, you notice the stodginess, the sweetness and stickyness much more that the fine flavours.

It is an album of fine flavours, don't get me wrong, but I've had those flavours too often before and there's nothing new here. The slicker production doesn't really help or hinder the songs, I'd compare these tracks to anything on the last half dozen or so Oldham albums and they wouldn't stand out.

Beware has really grown on me, my favorite release of 09 so far.

I know this isn't Craigslist or anything, but does anyone happen to have an extra ticket to his show at the Southbank Centre this Monday?

LOL

"Michael J. Fox"

lol

newsguy bopping around at the end is so awkward/great

So awesome!

Saw him last night in Amsterdam, and it was a really great show. The setlist was carefully constructed it seemed, with several parts with songs that are in the same vein (i.e. slow/melancholy, jangly country, rocking out). In almost all songs he was joined on vocals by the woman who also sings on the last records (I forgot her name), and their voices just 'click' so good, they really sound great together. Add all that a great sound, and I had a splendid evening, very fullfilling. It was raw, fun at times, and moving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na6gejkTtZE&feature=related

love this a lot at the moment

very late here, but that kansas city morning news segment was magical. compelling interpersonal dynamics are always guaranteed on these local FOX drive-time things where the interviewer obviously wants nothing more than to hop in their lexus and get the hell home but they're tortured by having to withstand a few more minutes patronizing some drug-addled fruitcake.

"another centimetre probably"

This sounds like it was rad:

http://www.ssgmusic.com/live-review-bonnie-prince-billy-at-wolf-haven-international/

I saw him play an in-store yesterday, took lots of requests, including mine ("For the Mekons et al"). Apparently there were plans for Ralph Stanley and Emmylou Harris to cover "Lay and Love" that never came to fruition.