Like that a lot, but I fear that if the whole album is at that tempo, it will struggle to hold my attention much like the last one did.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 29 June 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
props for shoehorning "plenipotentiary" in there
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
I laughed at both the bracketing quotes
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
I could be cool w/ a whole album at this tempo, I think I've drifted away for the last couple records for the reasons NA states above...the structures and melodic lacking /geir
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link
i liked this song more than anything i can remember from shepherd. i think i never listened to the whole thing which is kinda crazy given how much i like so many of his records. should i know/ expect some context for the johnny cash thing at the beginning?
― mizzell, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 01:11 (four years ago) link
he really has a lot of ugly album covers.
Yeah what was he thinking with that Apocalypse cover
https://i.imgur.com/WQ5xFN8.jpg
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
Psyched about the new album, love the song Pigeons! Not loving Shepherd as much as I should, feel kinda weird and guilty about it. Hmm
― rizzx, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
I love the "Sometimes ..." artwork and the cat/power "Knock Knock" image makes me chuckle. But, yeah.
― djh, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 21:17 (four years ago) link
Welcome back Rizzx!
I like Pigeons a lot, it's very much in the same vein as Shepherd tbf. I'm surprised so many of you didn't get into Shepherd. It's long but bobs by so nicely.
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 06:46 (four years ago) link
Dream River + the dub versions (especially the dub verions) have been my lockdown jam.
― fetter, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 07:21 (four years ago) link
Hey thanks Bateau!
― rizzx, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
Sadly, the new song is more of the same, and not in a good way. It's like he is writing the same song, with the same arrangements over and over again..
More attention to interesting melodies at least will be welcome
― nostormo, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3rR3JOVfQ
why can't the album cover art be one of these cool drawings in the videos ?
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
nice
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2_T4CMCmXs
wow this is one i really like !
love the drawing, too.
― budo jeru, Thursday, 16 July 2020 02:00 (four years ago) link
i don't want to wait until september
― budo jeru, Thursday, 16 July 2020 02:04 (four years ago) link
here's another song. not to be confused with 'Another Song'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOhdwYC678Q
― NAthaniel (cajunsunday), Monday, 20 July 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
i'm really just in the mood for these new songs sort of all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc5mU2-sKcU
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
Love this one.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
I hear you Budo, it's a balm.
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
I'm holding off on repeat listens to these cuz I want the album to work on me as a whole....but man every one of these on first listen is so good
― singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
b callahan's voice is like a strong, perfume-y (flavored) sort of maple syrup.. if it's agreeable, then great. if not, then it's a bit much. his expressive range always feels measured, even when the rest of the instrumentation is (going for) loose and ramschacke. it's not entirely unlike d sylvian's vocals on manafon, or blemish
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
The Mackenzies is beautiful.
― circa1916, Friday, 31 July 2020 06:14 (four years ago) link
Just like 5 loaded storylines falling into each other. No direct, sensible route through. And it’s perfectly OK.
― circa1916, Friday, 31 July 2020 06:18 (four years ago) link
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash"
It's a gift to have you back with a new album, Bill <3
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 4 September 2020 07:43 (four years ago) link
Uhhh, Mr. Cooder
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 4 September 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
on first listen i like it more than shepherd in a sheepskin vest but less than most of his other albums. maybe it'll grow on me.
― na (NA), Friday, 4 September 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
"Pigeons" and "The Mackenzies" feel like top tier BC to me
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 4 September 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
Listening to this walking the dog tonight and could not stop laughing at Protest Song. That is a funny song. I am not sure how to articulate this but I love how Bill is not afraid to commit to song concept. He has so many subtle songs, many oblique, but most of his albums have one or two peppered in that, while they can be just as profound, also have this air of novelty to them.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 5 September 2020 04:12 (four years ago) link
step aside son you’re gonna get hoit
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 September 2020 22:41 (four years ago) link
I guess as close as he’ll ever get to chooglin’
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 September 2020 22:42 (four years ago) link
I can't follow any of these stories, they go in one ear and out the other and I'm left wondering what each song is about. I got The Mackenzies but didn't like it much, some good points though. I think I know what he's trying to do (maybe) but can't appreciate it at all.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Monday, 7 September 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link
Pigeons is a pretty straightforward story
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 7 September 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
the new one has this awkward feeling of the music being built around the structure of the lyrics, to the extent that the songs don't really flow or even feel like proper songs sometimes
― na (NA), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
I like this album and think "Breakfast" the keeper.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
has this awkward feeling of the music being built around the structure of the lyrics, to the extent that the songs don't really flow or even feel like proper songs sometimes
― na (NA), Wednesday, September 9, 2020 1:15 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is otm and exactly how I feel about the last few albums
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
So, Bill & Will re-recorded "Our Anniversary" with Todd Rittman (US Maple/Dead Rider) plopping down some big beefy chunky riffs all over it, and then Jim White (played drums on the original, I just learned) joins John C. Reilly and Tim Heidecker to record their reactions. Not clear if John & Tim had heard it before, but the original is my favorite Smog song and so my reaction was a lot more similar to Jim's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBYxKpXIh1k
― the burrito that defined a generation, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
Yeah weird. Seems not really like a cover but the just the lyrics grafted onto something entirely different? On the one hand I like the idea of these two really going for it and Will really reaching (!) on the vocal...on the other its missing that circularity that makes the orig.
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
...so amazing^
Maybe would dig more if I wasn’t trying to get the same feels
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
My sentimonies exactly, this is an entirely different song, lyrics do not a song make, but dang is Will ever belting em, whatever this is. And on second listen I would like to retract beefy and chunky and replace it with harmonically crunchy, that's really more Todd.
― the burrito that defined a generation, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
god love him but Tim and his guitar face :/
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 00:38 (three years ago) link
Rittman's feel for getting that Crazy Horse sound out of the band is awesome but the lyrics feel like an afterthought -- like nobody wanted to write new lyrics so they just sang "Our Anniversary," or noticed at some point that the phrases could fit into the jam and did that instead of finding what other story the music might want to tell. One of my favorite Smog tunes in the original, dig the jam they're doing here but as Hadrian says it doesn't really evoke the mood the (excellent) lyrics do
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 12:20 (three years ago) link
I'm just happy to see John C Reilly jamming out to one of the greatest American rock guitarists of all time
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 12:35 (three years ago) link
This may be one of Will's finest vocal performances, the most range I've ever heard him reach for.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, December 8, 2020 7:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Tim is a bit over earnest as a musician and music lover, which is an interesting stark contrast against his persona in regards to comedy. I think he's been a little wrapped up in feeling like a Real Indie Rockstar this past year especially, but I don't fault him! Glad he's having so much fun.
― Evan, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
haha yeah heidecker is definitely "you guys looked like you were having fun up there"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
During the verses Will adopts an almost Robert Plant ca. "Kashmir" tone.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
didn't even realize he had a new one out today. i'll give it a shot but i haven't really connected with anything past "dream river" (maybe a me problem)
― na (NA), Friday, 14 October 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/62fa6349ecee23939248fbd4/master/w_1600,c_limit/Bill-Callahan.jpg
pretty awful album cover, though that's in character at this point
― na (NA), Friday, 14 October 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link