this is easily my favorite thing that's come out this year. the attention to detail here is the gift that keeps on giving
― be the cowboy dan, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 08:45 (four years ago) link
New Empty Country album is great: https://emptycountry.bandcamp.com/album/empty-country-ii-2
"Dustine" in particular is incredible.
― kmhydex, Saturday, 4 November 2023 21:27 (seven months ago) link
feel like CEG sort of picked up where Superchunk dropped the ball after Here's Where the Strings Come In
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 5 November 2023 00:36 (seven months ago) link
idk i don't really hear much resemblance beyond the genre? ceg were much more ambitious for a start
new album is at least his second best, it's like a better version of lose
― ufo, Sunday, 5 November 2023 13:49 (seven months ago) link
can't stop listening to this even though i don't think i've wrapped my head around it. certainly makes a lot of choices. lyrics crazy good as usual
― ivy., Monday, 6 November 2023 18:36 (six months ago) link
lol he said "fla" came from him failing to learn how to play "thunder road" on piano - he ended up with a really wonderful springsteen-esque piano part there and i really love the piercing harmonica part that comes in
― ufo, Monday, 6 November 2023 20:05 (six months ago) link
"FLA" is wonderful, I like that reading Joy Williams picked him up out of his rut. Took me a little while to wrap my head around the album too. "Lamb" and "Dustine" were early favorites, but lately I get lines from "David" and "Cool S" stuck in my head.
― kmhydex, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 05:52 (six months ago) link
this is def one of the indie rock albums of the year. it is really heavy, but there are plenty of gorgeous touches in the arrangements that keep it from being as relentlessly sad as the lyrics
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Monday, 13 November 2023 20:18 (six months ago) link