join me in anticipating musics by FEVER RAY (aka one half of the knife)

usually i won't pop in a thread about an artist i don't know, or won't remember, or won't bother to actually seek out to hear what they sounds like, just to make banal comments and bring it up again five years later

Why can't I be serious? Call me an idealist, but sometimes I miss the days when electronic music had nothing to do with the rockist star cult, when all (well, almost all) that mattered was the music. I still don't know what most of my favourite artists look like. Or who they really are, for that matter.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, September 28, 2004 12:45 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you are dropping fucking pearls of wisdom right there

I didn't bring it up, you and Sic did.

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I merely mentioned that I don't know who Rex the Dog is (which was true), but you had to bring up some 5-year old thread just to make a pointless snark at me.

some 5-year old thread about rex the dog

i didn't bring it up btw

I don't know who's Rex the Dog

WHO IS REX THE DOG? (ideas, NOW)

― cutty, 22. kesäkuuta 2009 23:54 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i was merely pointing you to a thread of other people wondering WHO IS REX THE DOG?

Hmm, maybe you only linked because I mentioned Rex the Dog, and not to remind me of some posts I made ib 2004. If that's true, sorry about the above.

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thanks for ruining the thread, guys

i thought we spiced it up with a little tuom-foolery

"I eat i eat i eat so much pasta basta i'm so full and yet so lonely"

haha the chuckles continue!

(ps. thanks for the link steve)

I still don't understand the goddamned deal with the artwork.

I think it's a woodprint.

...by Dan Clowes, right? Or Chris Ware? Or Tuomas? The mystery continues.

dude

max did the artwork

i'm getting a tattoo of it

wow thanks carne asada!

so is it a woodprint?

no its a tattoo

ah clever

nice work on the single cover too,max
http://feverray.com/wp-content/uploads/trianglewalks-artwork-360x363.jpg

wait the house is half submerged in water but there's still smoke coming out of the chimney? c'mon that would never happen

it would if the house is filled with dry ice

AH C'MAAAHHHHNNNNN

or the water has just reached the flames... could be steam

max can u weigh in

Or if that's not water, but oil. -> fire -> smoke.

The giant underwater flashlight shining upwards still works as well, so it's probably not water.

thats not steam its actually a fishs tale from the giant fish what leaped into the chimney

it's oil, look, all the plants are dead!

and the bird's feathers are all sticking together, which is why it isn't flying!

stan

did u draw the picture

i think not

duhhhhhhh

the giant fish what leaped into the chimney

serious lols

ok, sorry max - it's just that you've put so much possibilities into your art, it's hard for the viewer not to try and find their own interpretation:-(

what a disaster for the viewer

Tonight at the Shepherds Bush Empire! I am excited.

Saw her/them in Bristol on Monday, very good indeed.

jealous

Saw them live yesterday at a local festival, pretty cool gig. They started with "If I Had a Heart" and ended with "Coconut", and they didn't speak anything before or between songs, nor was there an encore. I thought that was kinda fitting, the gig was very intense and hypnotic, so shouting "Hello Helsinki!" or something like that between songs would've ruined the atmosphere. They just entered the stage in darkness, and left the same way. The stage was lighted with a bunch of flickering old lamps, and the whole band were wearing weird theatrical costumes thats could've been straight out of their videos. Their lighting choices made the costumes kinda hard to see, it took me half the gig to realize that the reason I couldn't see the guitarist/keyboardist dude's face was because he had some sort of black mask. Karin was wearing a very freaky, massive, shaman-like hood and cape, but you could only see it in flashes of light, so she looked more like some formless monster. I guess that was intentional, it certainly made the performance more creepy. Then at some point she took the cape off, and her face was painted white, except for a V-shaped black pattern in the middle. She shook her hands and body like she was in a trance or something, there was definitely some sort of shaman vibe going on.

The music wasn't that different from what's on record, but there were a few changes made to the arrangements and some new sounds added, so it was different enough to keep it interesting. They didn't play the whole album, but they did do two songs that aren't on it. One was more fast and aggressive than anything on the album, it sounded almost like industrial, and the other one was a stripped-down ballad that showcased what a great voice Karin has. I have no idea if these songs were covers or new material. I thought they weren't gonna do all those freaky vocal effects from the album, but they did, and they even added some new effects to a couple of songs; at some point her voice was ran through a a high-pitched filter that made her shriek like a witch. All in all I thought it was a very good performance, they've certainly taken some effort to make their gigs have the same sort of spooky and trance-like and evocative vibe as on the album.

yeah that's exactly how it went down when i saw them a few months ago. i was just frustrated because i was high up and far back and couldn't really see anything but the lamps and dope lasers.

Some people who'd seen their previous gig in Helsinki told me they have a cool stage show, so I got as close to the stage as possible to see them properly. I guess their gig is not very audience-friendly for larger venues and festivals, can't imagine people at the back seeing anything but light and shadows.

yea in london i was on the ground floor at the back + couldnt really see anything. also, the bass obscured a lot of the music :(