Currently listening as well. Haven't really made my mind up
― imago, Friday, 20 August 2021 08:25 (two years ago) link
there's other good tracks too but overall it veers too much into their more tuneless side i think
― ufo, Friday, 20 August 2021 08:31 (two years ago) link
Yeah that's my impression too. The Donkey for example: an impressive build but also the songwriting doesn't quite hit hard enough, nor is it anything The Drones haven't done better several times over
― imago, Friday, 20 August 2021 08:34 (two years ago) link
GAFF and Suburbiopia grew on me though
the worse tracks on this remind me a lot of the voidz, except without casablancas' distinct hooks to pierce through the mud
― ufo, Friday, 20 August 2021 08:41 (two years ago) link
Oh I like the little instrumental closer!
― imago, Friday, 20 August 2021 08:51 (two years ago) link
I mean it's fine, good in parts, but I have now put on Private Execution coz I'm feelin' kinda unfair
― imago, Friday, 20 August 2021 09:22 (two years ago) link
jesus this sounds horrible, will have to work pretty hard to get into the music
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 20 August 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
Wish I hadn’t read this thread prior to hearing the record. I can’t tell if I have T.F.S.F. or if the assessment here poisoned my first impression. Definitely felt like the first track was missing sufficient bass to give it any kind of punch. And three records in I now know what a “by the numbers” song sounds like from this band.
Still room for it to be a grower. “G.A.F.F.” for instance didn’t to much for me as an advance single nor on my first listen to the whole album, but now it’s growing on me. Not sure if that’s due to quality or familiarity.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 21 August 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
Yeah me too (wish I hadn't read this thread)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 22 August 2021 01:12 (two years ago) link
i didn't end up being as bothered by the mix as i was expecting
― ufo, Sunday, 22 August 2021 01:36 (two years ago) link
Yeah the mastering - if not the mix - on this is really off. So middy it's ugly.Musically I like the album as much as the last couple really. I think there's plenty of great songs on it.But pretty unpleasant to listen to, unfortunately.
― raven, Sunday, 22 August 2021 06:53 (two years ago) link
I'm afraid each successive album has marked a further step along the decline. Hopefully their next will give the lie to that tendency.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 22 August 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
The songs are good on the new one, I've only had a couple of listens but I'm not hearing anything as catchy as previous LPs.
Has the band commented on the mix or sound of the album? I wouldn't be surprised if they made it this way on purpose.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 22 August 2021 21:48 (two years ago) link
Following up my comment above to say that I do really like "Legal Ghost" a lot.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 23 August 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
I've listened to it a couple more times since my initial post complaining about the mix, and I do think most of the songs are OK, but I do have to listen to it at a lower volume than usual.
Fortunately, I just discovered them earlier this year so am still actively obsessed with the first album. :)
― cwkiii, Monday, 23 August 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
― pomenitul, Sunday, August 22, 2021 9:59 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Over time I the second album has become my favorite
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 August 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
I may have said this upthread but I view the first two albums both nearly equally. It's one of those cases where one album has higher highs but the other album is more consistently great from beginning to end. With some distance I guess I favor those high highs of the first album, but I love both.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 23 August 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
i think "you let me tyres down" is just one of those special songs, magic that cannot be duplicated so that kicks it off and looms large over the first album
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 22:02 (two years ago) link
haha you let ME tyres down fucking get me lucky charms m8
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link
that song is so immense - especially live
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
https://spring-time.bandcamp.com/Album drops Nov 5, opener "Will To Power" sounds awesome
― willem, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 13:32 (two years ago) link
Oh wow covering "West Palm Beach"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 13:37 (two years ago) link
"will to power" is really greatkinda nice to hear him over drums that are crushed
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
aren't even
oh this is great, hope the rest of the album is this good
― ufo, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 23:41 (two years ago) link
feel like it bears repeating that Will To Power is absolutely incredible
― imago, Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
I'm late to Deep States but so far I like how deranged and offkey this is, it keeps me on my toes in a way that reminds me of Captain Beefheart. It's not really an evolution of their sound, just more shrill and gaudy, but it's surprisingly listenable given how much paint they throw at the painting. Trashy symphonies.
― Nabozo, Monday, 11 October 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
oh this is great, hope the rest of the album is this good― ufo, Thursday, 23 September 2021 9:41 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ufo, Thursday, 23 September 2021 9:41 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
The rest of the album is really good!
― raven, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 00:24 (two years ago) link
Yeah this is completely brilliant
― imago, Friday, 5 November 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
Absolutely wild as well
album's great
but i'm really not at all fond of how "the viaduct love suicide" is described in the press release. "The latter piece is a true story of a woman in the UK who had a disabled child. She jumped off a bridge with her son in her arms. The press were saying she was fucked for doing such a thing, so Ian wrote the poem showing she was not." this framing really really sucks lol, yes it's tragic but being like "it's understandable to murder-suicide your disabled child" is actually really fucked.
― ufo, Friday, 5 November 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
Erica's band Mod Con has an album out (Modern Convenience), really digging it. much more garage punk, good songs.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 December 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
oopos Modern Condition
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-16/gareth-liddiard-talks-cancel-culture-ahead-of-springtime-tour/100831130
what the fuck are you talking about gareth
― ufo, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 06:56 (two years ago) link
If (comedian) Ricky Gervais self-censored so that whatever he said fit into today's puritanical conservatism, it wouldn't be funny or insightful
finally, an explanation for why Ricky Gervais hasn't done anything funny or insightful since November 2002i
― bad luck banging, or Lorna Doone (sic), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 07:14 (two years ago) link
maybe it is impossible to operate in this freaked-out mode for more than a few years aged >40 without ending up like this
― imago, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 12:08 (two years ago) link
heh yeah, feel like he's been tapdancing towards this for a minute
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 17:12 (two years ago) link
i actually listened to deep states this weekend and it kinda clicked w/me esp after my friend said the opening track sounded like 3 records being played at once
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 17:13 (two years ago) link
Deep States >>> Springtime in my humble opinion
― signe anderson (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/night-raver-ep
huh! 41-minute springtime EP out next month, featuring one new 15 min track & versions of "penumbra" (by the drones, might be the same live version they put out last year?) and "the radicalisation of d" (from gareth's solo album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iA8hlQBGhY
here's the new track, "the night of the plague"
― ufo, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 05:45 (two years ago) link
i mean next week, but it is next month too
seeing Springtime tomorrow, pretty keen
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 06:31 (two years ago) link
the Springtime Night Raver EP that UFO mentions above is fantastic, 2 long epics from Gareth, The Names Of The Plague (15:10) and The Radicalisation Of D (18:38). lyrics for the former from Ian Duhig's poem of the same name.
― bulb after bulb, Thursday, 3 March 2022 14:07 (two years ago) link
Still more stuff.
Tropical Fuck Storm + King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Satanic Slumber Party
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 06:39 (two years ago) link
Did not care for the new single. Starting to wonder if this was just an affair and maybe it’s over between us.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
"satanic slumber party 2" is the best tfs song in a while idk
― ufo, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 19:57 (two years ago) link
I like the video a lot too
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link
Listening to “Feelin’ Kinda Free” for the first time in a loooooong time and realizing that it feels a lot more like a TFS debut rather than a Drones conclusion. It is such a n exhilarating leap past the (excellent but) dirgey epics if all the other Drones albums.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 5 May 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
I wouldn't say a leap past considering I See Seaweed remains imo the greatest album Liddiard has ever done, but yeah it's clear that album was as good as he could do in that style and a rethink was needed. And Private Execution at least is...well, it's quite something
― imago, Thursday, 5 May 2022 15:43 (two years ago) link