So Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's collaboration with Matt Sweeney - Superwolf - has leaked

Who is Matt Sweeney? Forgive my ignorance.

Perhaps I just haven't given it a close enough listen yet. Oldham's voice does seem in very good shape and sonically it's nice enough, but nothing about the album has jumped out and grabbed me yet. Any specific songs that are blowing anybody away? What do you guys think of Sweeney's contributions (i.e., ARPEGGIOS ON EVERYTHING!)?

I stopped paying attention after I See a Darkness.

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there's others but I can't think of them specifically right now. His lyrics just seem clumsier and more grasping than normal, as if he's *trying* to offend the listener by throwing in a "fuck" or a blowjob reference.

sweeney and billy have a new single available as a free download on...adult swim???

http://www.adultswim.com/promos/201005_kia/index.html

anyway, it's a cover of love in the hot afternoon!

Nothing to add really than to say how great this sounds today. Easily my favorite Oldham performance and Sweeney's finger-pick electric guitar style is just perfect. Also wanted to correct the film sample id - it's not Barfly but Rolling Thunder from '77.

I think this was the last or nearly the last time I really enjoyed Oldham, although I haven't been thorough in keeping up

Love the repetitive guitar line in "Blood Embrace"

https://t.co/0aqCvyY8DS

— matt sweeney (@theheavyjamz) March 27, 2020

nice

love this song!

uhm, the chorus where he references Mogwai

lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colinus

Sweeney tells me about another Superwolf enthusiast. One day, Rubin texted to say that he'd just played the album for Neil Young and that Young had “freaked out.” Soon after, Young's manager, Elliot Roberts, who had managed Zwan, took Sweeney to lunch in New York, and also gifted him “a joint of extremely powerful brain-busting weed.”

Believing himself free for the rest of the day, Sweeney went for a stroll and smoked the joint. That evening Roberts called to say that Sweeney should come right now to join him at an Italian restaurant uptown for dinner with Neil Young. “I was so fucking high,” Sweeney remembers. “I figured, ‘This is a funny situation, and I guess I just gotta go with it.’ Neil Young's been in my head since I heard ‘Cinnamon Girl’ at age five. I can't articulate how much his music means to me.”

So he went. “Got in a cab uptown and walked through the door of the restaurant. High as shit. As soon as I sat down at the table, Neil Young's in my face about the Superwolf album. Turns out Neil Young is a large dude with a booming speaking voice and very passionate opinions. Neil almost angrily blasted me with compliments about the album, with deep observations about how the music worked, and lots of questions.… It felt beyond great to hear my work appreciated by the person whose work taught me how to play and how to listen. Mind was utterly blown. Still is, really.”

Nevertheless, Young was not just full of praise. He was also wound up about why so few people knew about this great Superwolf record. How could it possibly be that he had seen no press about it? What kind of fecklessness was at work here? When Sweeney protested that they had made a video, Young said that he certainly hadn't seen it and that maybe he should make one for them.

Eventually, as this haranguing continued, it struck Sweeney, through his haze, just how absurd it was to be on the receiving end of this particular message from this particular messenger: “He gave me such a hard time about us not promoting the album properly, finally my high ass said, ‘You're telling me we're being difficult and willfully obscure? You should fuckin' talk!’

https://www.gq.com/story/matt-sweeney-will-oldham-superwolf

That was a nice interview/article. Looking forward to the Superwolves.

that's a wonderfully hilarious anecdote

Excerpt from this massive, foot-noted @GQMagazine profile of Superwolf in which Will Oldham explains that “I See a Darkness” is about Harmony Korine. https://t.co/qapJQhCtLI pic.twitter.com/fpQNgzZgEb

— Ryan H. Walsh (@JahHills) March 25, 2021

huh I always believed that "...Darkness" was about DCB (was released not long after his first suicide attempt when he was in deep-junkie mode).