Yeah my hot take is that it could work a lot better in the context of an album, as a standalone single I don't really get what it is.
― ? (seandalai)
I get what you mean, but I think knowing their reference points and other endeavours (e.g. game soundtracking) it might be more fruitful to think of it as an opening theme? I'm hyped for new YT//ST stuff, anyway.
― emil.y, Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
whoa this new track! get excited ilm
― #TeamHailing (imago), Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
Hey, this is all right. Never heard of this band before.
― you can make fun of birthday parties all you want (ultros ultros-ghali), Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
I like it. It does seem to lack the heft to be a single, but it's still good and could play out nicely on an album.
― Salt Lake City Motorcycle Accident Nerve Damage Lawyer (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 22 January 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
Okay, 'Hungry Ghost' is rad.
https://exclaim.ca/music/article/yamantaka_sonic_titan-hungry_ghost
― emil.y, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
\m/
― imago, Friday, 23 March 2018 10:21 (six years ago) link
progge is alive and well in 2018
― imago, Friday, 23 March 2018 10:32 (six years ago) link
I miss Ruby Kato Attwood more than I thought I would. This is good but it doesn't have the weird beauty of UZU, and a lot of that was her voice.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
O holy shit, missed this. ORDERDED. Rarely a month goes by that I don't wonder what became of YT/ST.
Agree that "Someplace" is a weird choice for a lead single. Engaging & intriguing but awfully vague. Feels like it's just & finally getting ready to deliver when it abruptly ends. (Maybe it's better considered an "album teaser" or suchlike. Do we have those now?) Also agree that Ruby's soaring vocals are sorely missed. "Hungry Ghost" is much more immediate, and I love the vacuum tube Kali monster on the Soundcloud page.
Their label's Soundcloud also features 'Yandere' which doom-prog-pops even harder. By far my favorite of the three. Dere dere.
Video too:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iUsVyZTB_I
― will work for cultural capital (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
"hungry ghost" is almost deerhoof//gwar in the best way possible
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 March 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
Album playlist:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGJYy6b9azY&list=PLzjK-BHnQoCxkmpgNzHx0pR1ojE-p4mgB
― will work for cultural capital (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
or not :(
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzjK-BHnQoCxkmpgNzHx0pR1ojE-p4mgB
― will work for cultural capital (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
"hungry ghost" is almost deerhoof//gwar in the best way possible― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, March 23, 2018 10:04 AM (six minutes ago)
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, March 23, 2018 10:04 AM (six minutes ago)
― will work for cultural capital (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
whole album is on bandcamp
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 23 March 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
Oh, one of them left?
Doesn't matter - this has their best music/songwriting so far
― imago, Friday, 23 March 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that's true, but Ruby's voice lent the music a wide-eyed, otherworldly quality and emotional heft that was, I think, quite remarkable, especially in their heavy/arty niche. The anthemic, apocalyptic vocals at the end of the new album's closing "Out of Time" ("to be all alone at the end of the line") effectively communicate the idea of a desperate, heart-bursting passion that rises to meet life's darkest hour. But they don't embody it. They don't soar above the music like a battle flag.
YT/ST are coping with the absence just fine. Dirt brings sharpened chops and a much more fully developed sound to Alaska & co's best batch of songs yet, but Ruby's voice had an alchemical power I can't help missing.
― will work for cultural capital (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
Fair enough. Any idea why she left? Just heading in a different direction? Apparently one of the guitarists left too...
― imago, Friday, 23 March 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
No. I don't have any idea what motivated the split. Have looked for information online, but have come up only with the fact of it. Don't think anyone involved has spoken on the record about the details.
― will work for cultural capital (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
interpersonal differences
ruby's been to opera school.john's doing other stuff.they are sweet people.
― sean gramophone, Friday, 23 March 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
Parts of 'Dark Water' sound like 90s Final Fantasy battle music lol
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 23 March 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
That's unambiguously a good thing btw
Aaaah yes I really like this, suppose I should check out their older stuff
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 23 March 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
Wow, this sounds great on first listen.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 31 March 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
Shortly to see them. Excited!
― imago, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
And rightly so!
― imago, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
all these butt-clenchingly woke EOY lists, and yet no room for Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, who are not only off-the-charts box-tickingly woke but also, more importantly, put out an amazing album
― imago, Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:29 (five years ago) link
They'll make mine.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Thursday, 6 December 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
but will it be butt-clenching?!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 6 December 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
I like this album, but I'm not sure it will make my 77 list, there may be too many albums I like even more.
I don't really get the woke comments though, but I suspect we'd all regret pursuing that line any further.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 6 December 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
they are touring the US opening for Acid Mothers Temple in the spring, and playing my town. totally psyched.
― sleeve, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
same here! I was surprised that tour's hitting smaller cities
― mh, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
That def sounds like a good time
― seandalai, Thursday, 6 December 2018 23:29 (five years ago) link
sounds like a butt-clenchingly woke good time
― macropuente (map), Friday, 7 December 2018 04:47 (five years ago) link
amt always come to slc and it's always a great show. will not be missing this one.
― macropuente (map), Friday, 7 December 2018 04:51 (five years ago) link
Ohhhh shit this is gonna be awesome! I'm totally going!
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 7 December 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
Dirt is unquestionably one of the albums of the year
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 7 December 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
wb; otm
― imago, Friday, 7 December 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
really great show!
ended up talking to the YST bassist who joined the band a few years ago after their set
― mh, Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:47 (five years ago) link
must have been a good set
― imago, Thursday, 11 April 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
really great iirc
― mh, Thursday, 11 April 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
Dirt holding up really well this morning. Who played the solo on "Out of Time"?
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 11 May 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
their guitarist presumably!
― imago, Monday, 11 May 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
Ha, OK, I guess the question is who the lead guitarist on the album is, then, since no info on personnel came with the digital album I downloaded from Bandcamp in 2018.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 11 May 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
Electric Guitar – Hiroki Tanaka
― sleeve, Monday, 11 May 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
Ah, thanks. So a seven-string player who was new for this album?
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 11 May 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
Yeah. The band absolutely shredded live obv
― imago, Monday, 11 May 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
The greatest band! Alaska (drums) and Brendan (virtuosic piano) have a side project called Avṛha that I highly recommend too, no studio recordings yet
http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2017/11/recording-avrha.html
― it’s been one week since you pissed on me (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 11 May 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
ah nice! that sounds v exciting. iirc Alaska is suffering from several debilitating injuries that are affecting her drumming so she's exploring a few different songwriting avenues - sucks if so obv but excited by anything she's involved with
― imago, Monday, 11 May 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
maybe she's completely restored though - let's hope
― imago, Monday, 11 May 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
absolutely one of the best live bands i've ever seen
i'm not really a live music person and i'd drop everything to go see them if they were playing in my area (and there wasn't a global pandemic happening)
― jaime brooks (james brooks), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link