another winner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCrACQP4AtI
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 20:55 (eight months ago) link
Glad to see your endorsement of this one too. I've decided to hold off on more preview tracks until I can hear the whole thing.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 21:00 (eight months ago) link
i find this kind of gear talk offputting sometimes, but these guys are are so infectiously enthusiastic. and something deeply comforting about watching people so deeply knowledgable talking with each other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkFCxO1HBp4
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 21:38 (seven months ago) link
Blimey Steven Wilson has aged well
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 21:53 (seven months ago) link
Ha, seriously, he's like the Paul Rudd of pasty British prog dudes.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 21:54 (seven months ago) link
btw the album is excellent. a real evolution on what he started with the Future Bites. Unsurprisingly prog whiners are hating it and claiming one song is 'rap'.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 22:04 (seven months ago) link
yeah it's a little freaky honestly
― frogbs, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 22:06 (seven months ago) link
I haven’t heard it yet, beyond the first couple of advance songs, since I was hoping to pick up a copy first. But it seems to have piss poor American distribution, none of the stores around here got a copy in any format and even Amazon is showing early November at best to get it and that’s only from third party sellers.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 22:59 (seven months ago) link
Oh yeah, check the Hoffman forumsFor more tales of fucked distribution for this. I ordered it from his own website and no idea when Townsend are shipping it.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 5 October 2023 05:51 (seven months ago) link
Unsurprisingly prog whiners are hating it
I'm a prog whiner who abhors Wilson's repudiation of prog over the last two records. Like, why make good pop when you can make great prog?
I haven't listened to the new one properly yet but from what I've heard it sounds more proggy than TTB and TFB, which is fine with me.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Thursday, 5 October 2023 10:07 (seven months ago) link
have you guys seen the insane video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmd-MNCt6u8
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 5 October 2023 10:42 (seven months ago) link
wow that's magnificent
I know I've gotten cynical in my old age because my first thought was "jesus, I wonder what this cost" But I love the video and the song. Looking forward to this album.
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 5 October 2023 14:49 (seven months ago) link
yeah the videos for everything have been awesome and they do not look cheap.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 5 October 2023 15:17 (seven months ago) link
I know he gets some flack for doing a lot of expensive super deluxe edition stuff (even while writing tracks aimed directly at that exact corner of consumer culture) but I truly think everything he makes goes right back into his work so I'm okay with it. I mean his records just sound expensive somehow
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 October 2023 15:40 (seven months ago) link
throwin' that Jethro Tull remaster money around
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 5 October 2023 15:40 (seven months ago) link
I had the super deluxe editions of all his solo albums through To the Bone but sold them off recently (except for HCE) mainly because I never really listened to those bonus tracks and I don't have a surround system. The books were very nice though. Raven has a short story for every song (which I never read, and now I guess I never will)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 5 October 2023 21:09 (seven months ago) link
The Album Years podcast with Wilson and Bowness is a lot of fun. Only heard of it when the videos started uploading on youtube
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 17:35 (one month ago) link