There's an older version of that song with Hamilton on vocals that's just as Lovely.
IIRC it concerns the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
― Millsner, Friday, 28 July 2017 08:04 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c_XaSrLzEM
Was really disappointed by Open Season and Do You Like Rock Music. They were not bad albums at all but the debut was amazing and got me thinking they were going to be one of the great rock bands of their era. I'd love a compilation of the early singles and EPs, surprised it never happened by now.
I've been a little hesitant to check the new stuff. I felt Open Season suffered for not using their better singer enough (I don't know their names) because one is way better than the other.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 6 August 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
fwiw the same singer, yan, sings all but 2 songs on decline and all but 3 on open season. i would characterize those first two and the most recent as the most dominated by him.
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 6 August 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
Is this the most recent thread? Anyway, they have announced they've changed their name - they've dropped the "British" bit.
― djh, Monday, 9 August 2021 19:49 (two years ago) link
International Sea Power
― bon ivermectin (Murgatroid), Monday, 9 August 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
https://slinky.to/twofingers
― djh, Monday, 9 August 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
I mean, hey, good enough reasoning for me:
On Monday 9 August 2021, the band announced that they would henceforth be known as Sea Power due to “a rise in a certain kind of nationalism in this world – an isolationist, antagonistic nationalism that (they) don’t want to run any risk of being confused with.”
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 August 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
New single sounds very promising. I mean, yeah, nothing radically new in their sound but it's still a sound I dig.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 9 August 2021 21:09 (two years ago) link
otm
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 August 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
Excited to see where they go from here.
― Millsner, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 15:22 (two years ago) link
Anyone particularly feeling the album?
― djh, Sunday, 20 February 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link
I'll sit down and give it a listen this evening. Press seems positive.
― Millsner, Monday, 21 February 2022 02:55 (two years ago) link
This new one has a couple of highlights, but it feels a bit lackadaisical in general.
― bonus donut (rizzx), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 07:47 (two years ago) link
Funny, I felt that way about the last couple — they'd have a formidable track or two, and the rest never quite gelled. This latest one felt much more polished and cohesive, even if it's not their most adventurous.
― Millsner, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 09:42 (two years ago) link
I'm going to agree with Rizzx's assessment - there are a couple of stand out tracks that come early ("Transmitter", "Two Fingers"), a couple of other solid songs and the rest is nice sub-shoegaze that moves too slowly for what I want. A good listen but nothing that's going to make me return. The truth is, I haven't played the last one since it came out, either. I think this is where I get off the bus.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 02:16 (two years ago) link
It's been growing on me this album, it's very textural and melodic and with Two Fingers it has a song that could be a peace anthem for these times.
― bonus donut (rizzx), Saturday, 19 March 2022 16:07 (two years ago) link
Just like LiberaceI will return to haunt you withPeculiar piano riffs
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link