Bark Psychosis: C or D

Revive!

Why in the heck isn't Codename: Dustsucker out yet???

>Revive!
>Why in the heck isn't Codename: Dustsucker out yet???

Official site says release date is "July 2004".

Yeah. Graham wasn't happy with the mastering so took it back and did it again. His PR lady (who is a very nice American woman) assures me review copies will be out soon. There's gonna be a limited 7" in June and the album in July, hopefully.

///Codename: Dustsucker is here.

Frankly I'm scared to listen even though I know most of it inside-out already.

I'm sure there's a weird answerphone message about "Shatner's Basoon" before track 8.

Is it here? Is it out yet? I can't see it anywhere online.

GIVE TO ME.

one of only a handful of bands who have turned in a wire cover that doesn't make me want to drown blind baby pandas, so they'll do for me

July 26th/27th is the release date. My promo arrived this morning, and I've had it on all day, basically. This is a very, very good record. It may even be better than Hex. I'll spend a couple more days with it and then get back to the PR and re-schedule the interview I've been planning with Graham for the last 8 months!

PS it looks like this;
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/june_1_001.jpg

Ooops, that's a bit large.

encode lame -ape k thx bye

???

ha never mind. mp3 lame encoding joke. intepret as:

please encode this for me at the best quality possible, i'd love to hear it.

Various versions of songs (and even the whole album, almost) have been floating around SLSK for ages - Graham put them on there himself to see what happened!

some of them were boymerang tracks. ew.

Nah. Someone took four tracks that Graham leaked last summer and tacked them together with one Boymerang song and some other rare BP stuff, labelled it as the album and uploaded it. Most (all but the proper first track) of the proper LP has been up for a while, just not properly mixed and wotnot. Meaning that it misses the frankly bizarre answer phone message before track 8 that goes something like "What are you doing?! PLAYING ON YOUR SHATNER'S BASSOON?!" which I can only assume is a reference to Jam and Chris Morriss (Morriss used "Pendulum Man" in one skecth).

"Better than Hex" has got to figure in a review title/pun thing.

I've been totally thinking about that all day!

A.D.I.D.A.H.

this seems to be on slsk

"maybe even better than 'Hex'" so OTM
- only if O = off. or OT = "out tayrfreakin'" and M = "mind"

and the finished release will be in a six-panel digipak.

' "maybe even better than 'Hex'" so OTM '
so are you trying to say that it's DEFINITELY better than Hex?

i am very nervous about listening to this.

but, hey, roll on disco inferno reunion album.

Oh man, that's a vision -- but somehow it really really really wouldn't be the same.

yeah it would probably just sound like the byrds anyway

that crause solo-single was fairly...un-good

No, here's how the Pitchfork review might begin: "This band now seems to be wanting to do what Wilco does better..."

yeah, that's exactly what i meant.

< /sarcasm >

what is the actual tracklisting of this? is it the one with shapeshifting and rose on it?

Tracklisting and times are as Andrew Calaman posted above. For convenience, here they are again;

1.) From What Is Said To When It's Read - 5:29
2.) The Black Meat - 6:41
3.) Miss Abuse - 6:15
4.) 400 Winters - 5:48
5.) Dr. Innocuous / Ketamoid - 1:04
6.) Burning The City - 5:11
7.) Inqb8tr - 7:57
8.) Shapeshifting - 6:01
9.) Rose - 5:50
-----------------------------
Total running time: 50:16

Although as you can see above, my CD player times it at 50:24.

why oh why are all the slsk leaks at 128? why oh why??????

The stuff on slsk (that I've seen) isn't the fully mastered version anyway, and the version of "From What Is Said..." is totally different - the slsk leak one is about a minute long and instrumental. The proper release one is not. Now I know for sure that I've ripped it to my hard drive at 160kbs, but I also know that no one has downloaded it off me because I've hidden it (I ripped it for my iPod). What I don't know is how many other people got it off the PR yesterday, or whether Graham might leak it himself.

MP3s totally wont do this justice anyway, cos the first thing you lose with MP3 is space, and this record has a lot of space at certain points.

you are a killjoy, mr. I HAVE AN ADVANCE ON MY DESK man! We will have to suffer with our lossy lousy technology until next month...this comes out almost on my birthday, though. So that's one thing to look forward to as I stagger into middle age.

ehehehe... If it's any consolation I forgot to update my iPod before I left the house, so I've not got it with me today, and I was meant to be leaving work at 3pm but I now have to wait till 5pm, so I wont get to hear it again till, oooh, teatime.

Listening to stuff at work is a bit of a nonstarter, but 'Shapeshifting' pretty well killed it yesterday when this came in. Very nice

re Shatner's Bassoon

In the drugs episode of Brass Eye - while getting alleged celebrities to bang on about "the made up drug, Cake" - Noel Edmonds was persuaded to read out a script that claimed Cake affects a part of the brain known as Shatner's Bassoon, which deals with time perception.

I don't remember it being mentioned in Jam or Blue Jam.

ta

I think he meant "a reference to Jam" in that BP had a track on the soundtrack of one of the episodes

You're both right - I remembered almost as soon as I'd hit submit that it was from Brass Eye, but "Pendulum Man" is used in an episode of Jam. I'd imagine Graham would be a big Morris fan.

Quick question : is the album version of "400 Winters" very different from the version that's been floating around the net for a few months now?

I'm asking because I adore that song, but have grown so accustomed to the "demo" version that hearing it any other way would probably ruin it for me ...

(which happened to me with "Morning Bell" by Radiohead actually)

From memory "400 Winters" is the same. Most of the early leaks have only been tweaked in terms of mixing and mastering, as far as I can tell, occasionally having something added but never anything even approaching radical alteration.

phew.

ok, so now that a few of us have this album already, talk to me about your impressions of it! (Favorite tracks, why, etc. How it compares with the other albums you've been listening to, etc.)

Haven't got much time to write up a response, but here's a few things to start off the discussion :

1) im hearing allusions to Sonic Youth's "Daydream Nation" -- especially the end of "400 Winters" where the piano gives way to a scratchy answering machine type message ("Providence" anyone?). This is not especially a bad thing ...! Also the textures and the mood of many of the songs. On first listen I also heard some Massive Attack influence, but not hearing it as much now. I think that's more to do with the mood. Also a little bit of David Sylvian seems to have snuck in there somehow too. Not sure which song title it is, but it's after 400 Winters. IN that song Graham's phrasing is very Sylvian. Also the little ambient bits that embellish the track. BUt the vibraphone makes it Bark-ish.

2) first song -- "From What Is Said..." -- love this track, especially the numerous guitar textures : the wah-wah that bubbles in the background, the "Hex" guitar that trickles through midway -- and of course THAT guitar ... I want this song to go on and on and on before reaching THAT point -- but of course that's the while point of why the song was structured like this : to make you yearn for the calm that you just lost. (love the airplane effect towards the end too. Is that a guitar also? Genius. Is there a more apt sound for the theme? I doubt it.) And I like how you can't quite sing the lyrics along with him because they aren't sung as they're printed. THis recalls the song "Hex", but is more successful in my opinion.

3) 400 Winters -- big shocker when I saw the lyrics (totally different from what I imagined them to be) and also to see that it was a woman singing! It always sounded too smooth to be Graham's voice, but since it's so low I still assumed it was a man. (I should explain : I'm an unrepenting shoegazer, so I'm used to hearing airy voices of both genders -- that may be why it's much easier for me to assume that this was a male singing than it would be for the rest of you who don't listen to a lot of MBV, etc.) Still love the song, regardless of who's singing it and what they're saying -- possibly even more now actually, for having been fooled so well. Anyone else have this sort of double disorientation (gender, lyrics) with this song?

ok got to get back to work now, but there's a start. Chime in with your thoughts on the album, nd I'll catch up when I can.

I like the gong.

Really need to get this this weekend.