I'm not hearing the imbalance, and, yeah, I like the sax and synth touches on 'Icebergs' and 'Anna Calls From The Arctic.'
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 November 2022 21:31 (one year ago) link
I love the bickering in “Kwenchy Kups” too
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 7 November 2022 22:09 (one year ago) link
the vocal mix i think is what sets this record apart. this band did not click for me really at all until this album
― gman59, Monday, 7 November 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
Obviously what one thinks about the mix or how successful one finds it as an intentional choice is one thing, but I can't see how you wouldn't notice that Florence's vocals are much louder in the mix than anything else. I've listened to it on headphones via my iPhone rip, the original CD in my car and the original CD on my home setup and it feels immediately obvious to me.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 November 2022 23:08 (one year ago) link
I feel like she's definitely floating 'above' the music on the opener, but that's been around for months and I've revisited it infrequently since the rest of the LP dropped. That track doesn't feel particularly representative and it just didn't occur to me elsewhere, presumably precisely because it didn't detract from the experience. I mean, it's not as though there is a definitively 'correct' way of mixing. (Or is there lol?)People IRL have made exactly the same observation so I'm prepared to believe it's palpably... atypical.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 7 November 2022 23:45 (one year ago) link
I've ended up listening to it again now dammit. Updated opinion: definitely better than NLL.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link
I listen to this band to hear inventive guitar music roiling around Shaw's quietly intense thought process, the mix delivers. I don't need them to sound like other bands.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
Totes.
Also: one of my odder hobbies is watching how bands' sets evolve over time, despite rarely managing to attend stuff. https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dry-cleaning/2022/pryzm-kingston-upon-thames-england-5bbe9398.html
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 04:09 (one year ago) link
Whoops! Premature submission. I was going to note that their sets tend to be fairly static and that they introduced the bulk of Stumpwork only in the last couple of weeks. BUT it came at the expense of "Viking Hair", leaving only "Meghan" from 2019. This is a major tragedy lol.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 04:14 (one year ago) link
rats, I like "Viking Hair"
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 05:49 (one year ago) link
fwiw, my annoyance with the mix doesn't mean I don't like this, I really do. It's even better than the debut! I just wish the vocals didn't kinda overwhelm everything else at times.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
I like the album, more than the first as I said, I just cannot comprehend listening to this and not thinking damn these vocals are really loud
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
Clearly they read this site. "Viking Hair" was back on Tuesday night. :) (Though it was a slightly longer set overall: "Leafy" and "Unsmart Lady" returned too.) Yes, I know, this IS a pathological level of attention to such details.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 04:40 (one year ago) link
inverse ...and justice for all bass mixing of the vocal aside, i'm really love this more every time i listen
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
Yes me too.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
sometimes the guitars give me vini reilly vibes which is always welcome
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
yes!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
I also agree with the above comments about this reminds a lot of Life Without Buildings but not enough to be a carbon copy. This band and especially this album are similar to LWB but scratch a different itch.
― gman59, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
two bonus tracks from the new album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiGKGonhdQ8
― donna rouge, Sunday, 20 November 2022 00:20 (one year ago) link
well "swampy" should satisfy the "vocals too loud" camp
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 20 November 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
sorry, I meant "sombre two" there!
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 20 November 2022 06:05 (one year ago) link
Coming here in January on the world tour - I bailed on Stereolab and Boy Harsher this summer because I wasn't comfortable in a big crowd yet but maybe I'll be braver in a couple of months.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 20 November 2022 06:55 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6l1GYjOt-A
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 12 December 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link
Yeah DC payed a show in April in Baltimore and I just wasn’t ready yet to be in a rock club situation, but January should be okay even if I’m the only person masking.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
seeing them TONIGHT!
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 01:38 (one year ago) link
they fucking provided blank
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 12:47 (one year ago) link
oh and Viking Hair was present and correct, sounded awesome
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 15 December 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
:) Regretting not finding some way to attend one of THREE Vic shows. That vid 5 posts up is just rubbing it in!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 15 December 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
well this is as much as I saw of them at the Corner, or at least my arm raised over the idiot head of the guy whose main reason for attending was to hug his girlfriend and chat to his mateshttps://i.imgur.com/LuxjSns.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 15 December 2022 01:31 (one year ago) link
i enjoyed them last night in Syd - they're such an interesting live proposition! the lack of regular rock show dynamics took a bit of getting used to (obv not a surprise knowing their sound, but it was still striking in a performance setting) - it felt like the set started pretty sedate and got more vigorous - definitely glad I went, although perhaps didn't provide any revelations beyond the records
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Thursday, 15 December 2022 04:18 (one year ago) link
on the sloping edge of a vase of flowerson the front, Chinese landscapeon the sides, figures in a Dutch landscapeit's Europe
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 6 January 2023 04:46 (one year ago) link
rather neutered performance of probably my least favourite track on Stumpwork:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUW4TmzWYfk
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 06:15 (one year ago) link
On tour this month in the US. Going to see them in Washington.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link
that is a kinda meh live run on tonight show but maybe fallon was boring them
catching them at the start of february in nyc.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link
well they were lovely sounding live, but the laconic anti-charisma thing was more than a bit stifling after a half an hour of standing in place and playing. sunn o))) had a more active stage presence. So did The Archies.
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 February 2023 09:20 (one year ago) link
they're certainly trying! the recreations of the songs are very much there and accurate! But there's no funny business, it's all serious business.
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 February 2023 09:22 (one year ago) link
Yeah there’s not a lot of stürm und drang in the sprechtgesangI was lucky enough to stand near the abstract spot that Flo stares at to achieve dramatic distance, so it was oddly engaging.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 3 February 2023 09:42 (one year ago) link
It's interesting how they then contrast that with surprisingly giggly interviews/in-studio sessions!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 3 February 2023 09:57 (one year ago) link
I am totally nicking "sturm und drang und sprechgesang" as old-mind scan-a-like substitute for "sex and drugs and rock'n'roll". Thanks matttkkkk, I promise I'll try to give credit.
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 3 February 2023 10:14 (one year ago) link
i have a feeling that if they were the sorts to mug for the cameras they'd be a different and less good band
― imago, Friday, 3 February 2023 10:24 (one year ago) link
xp I am honoured to be quoted
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 3 February 2023 11:36 (one year ago) link
Florence did have a funny little speech about how she thought the White House had a dome before they visited.
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 3 February 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
Live, it was very pleasurable to hear the band play loud, after being somewhat buried in the mix on the current album. They sound great!
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 3 February 2023 13:44 (one year ago) link
― imago,
otm -- she does mug, though! When I saw them at Pitchfork last summer, Shaw widened her eyes, looked histrionically left to right, etc.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 February 2023 13:45 (one year ago) link
she thought the White House had a dome before they visited.
future Walsh lyric
subtle mugging is good!
― imago, Friday, 3 February 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
it gave us batman
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 February 2023 13:56 (one year ago) link
The guitarist moved a lot at the Minneapolis show and made power rock fists at the audience after songs when people applauded his playing. Shaw made a comment about being unprofessional for an encore, bringing out a music stand with an iPad to read a lyric from, and seemed rather bashful when an audience member commented on her beautiful hair. Two audience members, one earnestly and the other repeating with not-quite irony, said "you guys are really good" at different points in the show. Just before departing the stage, Shaw went back to the mic and said "see you next time," as if some special bond had been achieved. A good time was had by all! (Actually I never saw the bassist or drummer smile, but maybe they just don't.)
I was lucky enough to stand near the abstract spot that Flo stares at to achieve dramatic distance, so it was oddly engaging.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 3 February 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link
distillation music
― CerebralCaustic, Saturday, 4 February 2023 00:23 (one year ago) link
They were great in Austin last week, she was very animated during the show! We thought the opening guy Nourished by Time was pretty amazing, I'd definitely go see him again.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Saturday, 4 February 2023 00:31 (one year ago) link