get the mixtapes first
― WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
wow the new ep fucking sucks
― flappy bird, Friday, 27 November 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
the new ep is awesome, but no one gets it
― pplasma, Saturday, 28 November 2015 00:51 (eight years ago) link
is it a joke?
― flappy bird, Saturday, 28 November 2015 02:50 (eight years ago) link
i like the cover art
― dynamicinterface, Saturday, 28 November 2015 03:30 (eight years ago) link
Wow... I like this band even more than I thought.
― Adam J Duncan, Sunday, 29 November 2015 07:16 (eight years ago) link
Noodley instrumentals for the most part - easily their least essential release.
― o. nate, Monday, 30 November 2015 03:59 (eight years ago) link
I enjoyed the live album
― Mark G, Monday, 30 November 2015 07:12 (eight years ago) link
*best read in the disaffected voice of a clerk behind a record store counter in 1997*
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link
i bought it blind because Content Nausea was so good, what a waste of fifteen bucks
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
it sounds like an experiment in being really boring, either that or they now have opted Blur's 'A Spell (For Money)' b-side as a career template
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 23:10 (eight years ago) link
Annoying and boring, absolutely. Garbage noise jams. What a waste of a cool cover & title.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 00:47 (eight years ago) link
Never buy anything blind! Seems perhaps significant that it's their first release on Rough Trade. Kind of like a "Look we can release whatever we want to, the label has no control over us" move maybe.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 03:49 (eight years ago) link
I bought some of my favorite records ever blind - I can't remember ever feeling this gipped! And if that's the idea (I think you're right), they really are fucking daft. Who is the gesture meant for? It's not like Metal Machine Music, it's just irritating and tuneless practice jams that should've never been put to vinyl. They're not even bad in an interesting way, they're just loud and boring. Eager to hear whatever meta-commentary they had in mind though, cuz now im just peeved.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 05:56 (eight years ago) link
How very punk of them.
― Adam J Duncan, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 07:25 (eight years ago) link
Hi, I likes the new e.p.
― Mark G, Friday, 4 December 2015 11:29 (eight years ago) link
What do you like about it? I want to like it. I want to justify my fifteen bucks.
― flappy bird, Friday, 4 December 2015 18:45 (eight years ago) link
It has "Sweet Sister Ray", krautrock, oh what does it have? All sorts.
― Mark G, Friday, 4 December 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link
Saw them tonight. Haven't been keeping up with their releases - loved Light Up Gold and was kind of unimpressed with the Tally EP (tho a pre-show relisten proved it a lot better & more fun than I'd remembered). At first I was like, "what's the deal with these guys? Isn't there a band or 2 in every town that's just this good?" but as the set wore on I found myself really impressed with how much they do with a pretty limited palette and bag of tricks. They kept me engaged for an hour, which at my age & when bed is calling is pretty impressive in my books. I don't think the drummer played one real fill the whole night (YEAH) and the Dave Grohl-looking bass player was really really good - solid and nimble, just like I like 'em. Will def be back on the bandwagon now.
― hardcore dilettante, Saturday, 20 February 2016 05:36 (eight years ago) link
^^^saw them last night, a great time, new stuff sounded pretty good.
Was just reading about the explanation of "Uncast Shadow": “That’s a totally true story about having a gun pulled out on us, and the guy who used that gun in Mississippi ended up killing a guy,” he reveals. “That was the reason I was able to finish it – this guy Paul MacLeod had this 24-hour psychotic Elvis worship museum in his house in Mississippi called Graceland Too, and the third time we went to visit him he pulled a gun out on us because Austin asked him if he had one; I’d already been writing that song about him, but when he killed that guy and I realised that he would have killed the guy with that same gun, that’s what made me finish the song.”
http://www.npr.org/2014/08/17/340792495/with-its-eccentric-owner-gone-what-to-do-with-graceland-too
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
New songs are great. This is going to be their best record
― nostormo, Monday, 28 March 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
where can I hear it?
― niels, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 11:08 (eight years ago) link
it's certainly better than that shit EP
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
Two songs with official videos up on Youtube. I like the Berlin one.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 02:18 (eight years ago) link
still not as good as Light Up Gold. Austin Brown's are still way better
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 02:51 (eight years ago) link
*Austin Brown's songs
I'm definitely an Andrew Savage partisan, but it's nice they have two songwriters with distinct styles. The "Content Nausea EP" has slowly supplanted "Light up Gold" as my favorite of their releases.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
I agree, they're stronger for it. My favorite song besides "Borrowed Time" is "Everyday It Starts," killer song.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
"Borrowed Time" is definitely one of their best. That's a Savage song, isn't it? Sometimes I have trouble telling their voices apart. I like how "Everyday It Starts" begins so minimalist and then builds and gets more interesting. Brown does write interesting song structures, whereas Savage's tend to be more verse-chorus-verse, though Savage's voice and lyrics are more memorable for me, and they tend to rock a bit harder.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
The new album is out today. Anyone else listening yet? Feeling the opener. And Velvet Underground vibe on One Man No City. Especially during the extended solo. Total VU drone going on too.
― big firework, Friday, 8 April 2016 13:58 (eight years ago) link
so this album is pretty good
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:34 (eight years ago) link
"Berlin Got Blurry" sounds a great deal like The Saints' "A Minor Aversion," so is this their Eternally Yours? I'd be excited to hear their Prehistoric Sounds next.
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Friday, 8 April 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
yeah this is good
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
This is dece but is still a runner-up to & lacks the hooks of Light Up Gold.
― dronestreet, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 03:33 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I feel the same. I think Sunbathing Animal is better as well actually.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 06:00 (eight years ago) link
yeah. only track i keep coming back to is "Steady on My Mind." light up gold is the most consistent but with all their records there are only a couple songs that stick for me.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
good on them for being so prolific, though.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
feel that this level of enthusiasm is pegging red where the quarts are concerned
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link
and i like them alright
it's weird that a band can have so many albums and yet not one riff
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:48 (eight years ago) link
they have a couple great ones: drop D riff that comes in halfway thru "Everyday It Starts" and the chorus lick in "Borrowed Time."
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
There's loads of great riffs on Light Up Gold - Stoned & Starving, Tears O Plenty for starters - I can't really recall a single one on the new album after 3 listens, that's my problem with it.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link
Um,the 'dust' one for a kickoff?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
I would like to like this band more. In some ways they remind me of Butterglory (who I also thought were pretty good, fwiw) in that they're doing moderately catchy tricks with the basic elements of the indie rock playbook, but not really bringing anything hugely exciting to the table. I sort of hope that they stay popular-ish, keep churning out releases, and eventually stumble across something that makes them a great band.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 23:09 (eight years ago) link
This might be my favorite of their releases yet. Feel like they're working a really rich vein right now.
― o. nate, Thursday, 14 April 2016 01:26 (eight years ago) link
This is the first of their releases I keep coming back to. Have only ever streamed any of the records, to be fair, but I've possibly already felt compelled to listen to this more times than any of the others. Unfortunate though that 'Already Dead', which currently comes up as the (quite appealing) opener on Spotify, is seemingly absent from physical copies.
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Thursday, 14 April 2016 08:49 (eight years ago) link
Is it not the last track?
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 April 2016 12:19 (eight years ago) link
Not on my CD it's not, digital bonus track according to Wikipedia.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 14 April 2016 12:23 (eight years ago) link
oh.
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 April 2016 12:26 (eight years ago) link
It's marked as 'digital only' and as track 1 in Spotify in my part of the world. Someone will likely correct that any instant but it's a pleasingly 'WTF?' way to start the album while it lasts.
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Thursday, 14 April 2016 12:52 (eight years ago) link