Aereogramme - Sleep and Release: C/D?

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First listen to new album and it's really quite good, possibility of getting even better. Stewart Henderson (bass player of Delgados) reckons it's the best Chemikal Underground release ever...

Thoughts?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Or not. Hmm.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'll tell you what I think when I get it.

― Callum (Callum), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

I hadn't heard them at all when I saw them supporting The Delgados recently and was quite amused by their only song dynamic which seemd to be: 'fey indie singer backed by melacholic backing' first three quarters of song, change into a last quarter of song's 'growling doom metal ear bleeding chug'. I did download the album to see how it compared but I've yet to sit down and listen to it yet.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 20 February 2003 03:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

have heard some aerogamme, though not from this album and i would have to say d.u.d.

do some s/d on ganger (band craig(?) was in beforehand), they are many, many times better. search esp. "hammock style."

― marcg (marcg), Thursday, 20 February 2003 04:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

four years pass...

i adore it. best thing they've done. i found this thread when i was considering starting one about the new album ("my heart has a wish ..."), which is still wild-eyed and wonderful and wracked with woe but isn't quite as visceral as S&R ... but, given the shocking response to this thread, what's the point?

shame. mind, out in the real world, people seem to quite like it, so maybe all's not quite lost.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 8 March 2007 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Which one has "Zionist Timing" on it? That album is awesome. I think it was on Matador.

― Ben Boyerrr, Friday, 9 March 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link

it's on "a story in white", the first one. yes: fucking awesome song, that. fucking awesome band. they played glasgow a few weeks back to a packed house and you could tell they were blown away by the response.

WHY NO AEREOGRAMME LOVE, PEOPLE? seriously, i don't get this.

i do remember my metal-as-fuck pal jamie walking out of a gig by them just after S&R came out, though, muttering: "too much stadium emo, man" :)

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

LOTS of Aereogramme love over here, yo. Unfortunately, when they played in Brussels a couple of weeks ago, it was in a small venue that wasn't sold out. People have no taste. :-(

― StanM, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

never mind, stan: we can take comfort in the fact we're just RIGHT.

:)

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah! us OTM!

― StanM, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

As I said on the bands with two basses thread...they used to rock, but their contribution to the somewhat Ballads of the Book project sounds like a post-rock Keane. Say it ain't so!

― Stew, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

You haven't heard the tracks off the new album live yet, have you? They're a lot rockinger live.

― StanM, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't, so fair enough. That BOTB track though - one of the most disappointing things on a largely disappointing project.

― Stew, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't heard that one yet, so fair enough too :-)

― StanM, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

...their contribution to the somewhat Ballads of the Book project sounds like a post-rock Keane

Definitely! The album is all in that vein! Really, really bad.

― jim, Friday, 9 March 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

the new album is really freakin' disappointing:-(

― latebloomer, Friday, 9 March 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I was working in a record shop and had to listen to it all the way through :'-(

― jim, Friday, 9 March 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

are you two dudes talking about the same thing, or is one of you talking about "my heart ..." and the other "ballads of the book"?

latebloomer: "my heart ..." grows on you. give it time to work its magic.

i've not heard BotB but on this evidence it can probably fuck off.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 9 March 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

A little off topic, but BotB is really quite disappointing. I much prefered reading the poems in the booklet than having to listen to the likes of Roddie Woomble interpret them. Even people I expected to come up with the goods are a bit disappointing: Vashti, Norman Blake, Malcolm Middleton. Best tracks are the Emma Pollock and James Yorkston ones but it's hardly up there with their best. It's a shame Uncle John & Whitelock have split - they would have made a far more convincing job of AL Kennedy's misanthropic ditty than Sons & Daughters have done.
If you want to hear a good collaboration between a Scottish writer and pop person, look no further than the new Future Pilot AKA album, which has Alisdair Gray bustin' some rhymes to quite beautiful and charming effect.

― Stew, Friday, 9 March 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost. I think we're both talking about the Aereogramme album.

― jim, Friday, 9 March 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

o, really? that's a shame. honestly, i think it's slowly revealed itself to be quite, quite wonderful. ach well.

look no further than the new Future Pilot AKA album

ooh, is this out? i love that dude. he gave me driving refresher courses a few years back. he is one of the coolest guys i've ever met.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 9 March 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

he gave me driving refresher courses a few years back

sushil seems to have taught nearly everyone i know how to drive. except for me. i'm a pedestrian 4 life.

― stirmonster, Friday, 9 March 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm considering learning to drive. Future Pilot AKA teaching me would be a good story to tell people.

― jim, Friday, 9 March 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

mrs fiendish wanted to learn with him; i e-mailed him and he said he'd knocked it on the head for a bit because he'd got a contract with the BBC for a bit. this is at least four or five years back, right enough, but i've not seen him about recently at all.

that was one of the things that's stuck with me, actually: he said that, for a musician or freelancer or someone with no steady income, doing the ADI is a great investment 'cos it means you can just tout for some business and bring in the cash. if/when i turn my back on full-time pedantry and hacking, it's certainly an option i'd consider. jim: if you're still needing taught in 10 years' time, give me a bell :)

that first future pilot album is still a thing of such mighty genius as to make grown men fall to the ground in worship. i need to listen to that again soon.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 9 March 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Sushil IS really cool. Apart from being a driving instructor and being in all those other bands, he also used to write an very excellent fanzine called "Pure Popcorn", covering such bands as big flame, the 3 johns etc.

― everything, Saturday, 10 March 2007 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link

the new album is really freakin' disappointing:-(

latebloomer on Friday, March 9, 2007 4:10 PM

;_;

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 March 2007 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I recall enjoying Sleep and Release. I think Peel used to spin them.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 11 March 2007 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I've liked Aereogramme loads in the past and so I got myself the album yesterday, listened to it twice and I don't think I'll do it again. Its too bitty and really frustrating there will be several pretty good bits fighting it out with several terrible bits.

There are tiny bursts of greatness there so that makes it even more frustrating that mostly its just mediocre or dull.

There one tune that really illustates this the one about the (the CDs out in the car so I can't check the title). Its the one about being dead in the water. It has a great fripp like guitar weaving through a lush mellatronish orchestration. But the actual song is dismal, reminding me of Daniel Bedingfield at his worst. About halfway through it turns into early 70s rocker, like the slow long one on a lesser Uriah Heep album.

I'm not sure why I'd want to listen to this, it feels like they have a great pallatte of colours but are using it to make something of a grey brown smudge.

― Sandy Blair, Sunday, 11 March 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

RIP AEREOGRAMME :-(((((

http://blog.myspace.com/aereogrammeofficial

― StanM, Saturday, 12 May 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link

bugger. what a crying shame. not entirely unexpected, but ... gah.

s'pose i'd better go to the QMU show now, then :/

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 12 May 2007 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link

RIP Heaven's Drowned in Sound readers needed a house band.

― acrobat, Saturday, 12 May 2007 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link

noes

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 12 May 2007 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link

the lack of anyone giving a fuck does kinda say it all. gah. poor aereogramme.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 13 May 2007 11:50 (sixteen years ago) link

One of your favourite bands splitting up because they're fighting: dud, but not that hard to swallow

One of your favourite bands splitting up because they're sick of not getting the attention they deserve, because they're sick of the small clubs and the tiny crowds who kept on telling them they didn't understand why the band didn't sell a lot more records: very very very frustrating and extremely dud. (see also: Thin White Rope, Grandaddy)

― StanM, Sunday, 13 May 2007 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link

Boo!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saw them once at a place called Bottom Of the Hill in San Francisco. They were alright live but loved that first album. This is sad news indeed.

― Bee OK, Monday, 14 May 2007 04:45 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

well. that's that, then. just back from the QMU farewell gig. was blinding. so, so good. such a perfect band: really, everything i've ever wanted in music was there.

rest in glorious noise, lads.

listening to "i don't need your love" as i type. never heard them do it live; don't know if they ever did. they won't now. fuck.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 17 June 2007 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link

still. the memorial T-shirt is a thing of beauty.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 17 June 2007 01:01 (sixteen years ago) link

</prosaic>

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 17 June 2007 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

http://www.myspace.com/theunwindinghours

― StanM, Sunday, 10 January 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

The Unwinding Hours first gig went up on D1M3AD0Z3N today, incase anyones interested.

― Joe Pass Filter (MaresNest), Sunday, 7 February 2010 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link

Thanks! What if someone without an account is interested? :-(

― StanM, Sunday, 7 February 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link

PM me then :-)

― Joe Pass Filter (MaresNest), Sunday, 7 February 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link

two years pass...

At least ten years too late, I finally realise how great Aereogramme were...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rMy4ZBMnOw

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 9 September 2012 11:30 (eleven years ago) link

nine months pass...

The Unwinding Hours released Afterlives, their second album in 2012! http://shop.chemikal.co.uk/acatalog/CHEM182.html

And the acoustic Aereogramme EP's are all on sale on bandcamp -> http://aereogramme.bandcamp.com/

― StanM, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link

Mr. B's been studying theology and sociology: http://tensimplequestions.tumblr.com/post/44284175572/ten-simple-questions-for-craig-b-the-unwinding-hours

― StanM, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link

two years pass...

Craig B is back, in a new solo guise called A Mote Of Dust. 9 track LP (& digital download) just gone on sale.

http://www.amoteofdust.com

https://amoteofdustofficial.bandcamp.com

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link

Thanks for the heads up!

― StanM, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link

three years pass...

A Mote Of Dust II is coming soon, but it's going to be the end: http://www.amoteofdust.com/blog-read/2018/12/8/an-ending

― StanM, Sunday, 9 December 2018 09:54 (five years ago) link

oh, and this is old news by now but there's a remaster of My Heart Has A Wish : https://aereogramme.bandcamp.com/album/my-heart-has-a-wish-that-you-would-not-go-10th-anniversary-remaster

― StanM, Sunday, 9 December 2018 09:57 (five years ago) link

three years pass...

hey now! he was back last year!

https://slovenlyhooks.bandcamp.com/album/slovenly-hooks

― StanM, Friday, 4 March 2022 11:08 (two years ago) link

^ all instrumental/ambient

― StanM, Friday, 4 March 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link

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