Sun Ra covers album coming later this month! Very PSYCHed for this; their cover of "Angels And Demons At Play" on the last album was really cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ztOtKBcTAY
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 01:41 (two years ago) link
Released today! Listening now, it's as excellent as expected. Only complaint is that the cassette was supposed to ship today too, but the email notification I received with the download said that it would now be shipping in December. I mean I get pressing plants are backed up for vinyl releases but how hard is it to manufacture a cassette to arrive on time?
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 29 October 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
Everything, literally everything is backed up at some point in the chain right now. Got a lot of CDs I've ordered from smaller labels that I've been waiting on for months. It's a mess.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
Even CDs? Man, that sucks. I didn't mean to imply it was the band's fault. Just seemed weird to push back a cassette release but sounds like this will be the rule rather than the excepetion until things get sorted out
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 29 October 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
i got my cassette last week (but i also live in chicago). maybe the initial run sold out?
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 29 October 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link
Yeah, mine came last week as well. Might depend when you ordered it?
― Position Position, Friday, 29 October 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
had no idea they were doing this, I need to check it out
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 29 October 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
cassette turnarounds (in europe anyway) are around 2 weeks currently, yet i'm seeing lots of tape release delays. my guess is that labels underestimated demand.
― stirmonster, Friday, 29 October 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
The bandcamp page now says cassettes ship 11/30, so I'm assuming they sold out of the first run and are ordering more.
From what I can tell, it's not the manufacturing as much as the shipping. I pre-ordered the new Howlin' Rain CD that was released on 10/8. Got an update on 10/16 that the LPs and CDs were still sitting on a container ship waiting to unload in San Francisco. Two weeks on from that and still nothing new, shit is just a mess.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
ah yes, US ports are crazily backed up.
― stirmonster, Friday, 29 October 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
I love this so much. It captures Ra's starry-eyed space age optimistic side in a really reverent way while remaining extremely BITCHIN
― J. Sam, Saturday, 30 October 2021 01:07 (two years ago) link
Agree - it's wonderful
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 30 October 2021 13:00 (two years ago) link
this band can do no wrong imo
― alpine static, Saturday, 30 October 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
this album gets better each time I play it
― Brad C., Saturday, 30 October 2021 23:16 (two years ago) link
Yeah, this is great!
I wouldn't mind a new CAVE album while we are at it.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2021 22:32 (two years ago) link
samesies
― alpine static, Friday, 10 December 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
doing a short Midwest tour with Ryley Walker in March:
https://townsquare.media/site/838/files/2021/12/attachment-ryley-bitchin.jpeg?w=540&h=675&q=75
― bulb after bulb, Friday, 10 December 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link
new one sounds great
https://bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/album/bajascillators
― sleeve, Saturday, 3 September 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link
heard it on the radio! yeah it's pretty cool
― budo jeru, Saturday, 3 September 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
Can we get these dudes and Horse Lords to tour all over the country, please? Seems to be timing out well this time.
― alpine static, Saturday, 3 September 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
This year's album is utterly lovely, especially the first track which is like Steve Reich meets In a Silent Way.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
Yes, first track is a highlight.
There’s also an alternate version of “Quackenbush” floating around out there which I prefer to the album version.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 01:33 (one year ago) link
They just did a dc area gig and one in Baltimore both near me and I missed em both unfortunately
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmsi-CBnyOk
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
Thanks for the heads-up, 'Amorpha' is delicious
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
wow this band has been around for almost a decade!!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
haha, i still sort of think of them as a Cave side-project, but I guess that is not really the case, is it
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
understanding its origin as a side project makes it considerably easier to look past the truly shitty band name imo :)
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
i love BBs but i do miss cave
― na (NA), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
every now and then Cave's instagram will spring to life (with generally random posts), so maybe they're not entirely kaput.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
I miss Cave, too. But they just released an album in 2018 ... which I recognize is 4+ years ago, but I don't think they're gone for good.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
feels like literally a million years ago, haha
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
personally i love the band name
― the late great, Monday, 26 August 2013 18:04 (nine years ago)
― the late great, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
New album is bitchin, as usual!
― J. Sam, Thursday, 15 December 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link
yeah i love the name
i think i remember them saying at their last show NYE a few years back that one of the cave members lives in nyc now? given how local scene oriented the other members are, it would explain the relative inactivity
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 15 December 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link