Tiny Vipers

Not a style of music I'm usually interested in, but this new album is really kicking my ass.

hmmm, weird that no-one seems to have heard this - after spending time with this record, it pretty much captures the more haunting aspects of Kristin Hersh

it was one of my favorite favorite albums of last year & now I am getting into the one before it - maybe even better! her voice much more in the treble though than on "life on earth"

taken together tho "life on earth" & "hands across the void" seem a pretty incredible accomplishment to me

That last album of theirs was one of my faves too. Their set on Take Away Shows is well worth your time: http://www.blogotheque.net/Tiny-Vipers,3716

hey you three, here's a poster for a tiny vipers show i got hired to make. colours are a bit wonky cause i made it in cmyk (which is intended for print) but you get the point (psychedelic shih tsu and all)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4625182961_6a64d3ec59_b.jpg

i finally found the 'life on earth' lp at my record store and this thing is seriously a work of art. for such an intensely beautiful album to be presented as such a special artifact makes it pretty much priceless to me.

this is by the far the best lp i own, long live vinyl

how's the vinyl? I think I initially picked up that album because I loved the cover art so much.
This has been one of these albums I admire but never find the time/energy to put on.

I am at a point where I don't even know where I'd find the superlatives to describe how much I love Life on Earth. I want to learn all the words and write them on desks, walls, banners; I want to scrawl "it's not wrong, it's just a feeling" on my jeans. I don't listen to it daily or weekly, because to me you kinda have to clear a space for hearing something like this, but Jesus. what an album, what an incredible thing.

otm

So I should get these from where I work?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/shops/storefront/index.html

whooooiirrrds already spoikinnn

this record is so hushed, it seems i never have it up loud enough

what if the gift of the mirroring record ... delayed the next tiny vipers record

why did i ignore all of the recommendations that i listen to tiny vipers? "Swastika" is just KILLING me right now.

i can remember her name on a poster, i didn't go to see her
i think there is something about the kind of aesthetic-first way in which you encounter things, now, online, like how you pre-categorise, pre-expect music before you hear it. & i think i remember "tiny vipers" & whatever i could glean from the cover image, which pitchfork would show. i'm not romanticising the older way, of less context. i just catch myself being jaded. erring on the safe side of pre-jading.

you heard the mirroring record though, right? karl? right? i mean just you heard the mirroring record right? klarm? ark? klam? mirroring? http://image1.playgroundmag.net/web/imagine/DNEXT_PREV/admin/files/mirroring-foreign-body_210312_1332318678_32_.jpg?

Downloading it now (and trying to find a single shop where I can order both tiny viper records, mirrorring, + the new holly Herndon 12" just because the a-side rules)

Then I'm going to go buy some alcoholic beverages, make a giant grouper/tiny vipers/mirroring playlist, and stare wistfully out the window as I ponder the more troubled moments of my tear stained past

i think it would maybe be nice
to press a hand
faintly against the pane
like maya deren

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Maya_Deren.jpg

ps
i have been listening to this a bunch since this thread. mirroring. it's so good; i think i perhaps reduced it in my head to silent from above & then other stuff, but it really knocks me out, & there's something super powerful in hearing them actually merge, on like 'cliffs', like some amazing and powerful two headed mythical animal. liz harris does kinda ... intense-feeling noise that doesn't just read as like ~intense and ominous synth key held down~ so well i think. & also yeah totally buy the mirroring lp the cover is so beautiful. & if you find anywhere with the tiny vipers lps in stock lemme know!

huh, maybe i saw that connected with liz harris and tuned out, kinda unengaged by her schtick apart from 'dead deer' on the recent records, but this sounds like it could be awesome

i can maybe tolerate a little distance from liz harris if the recent projects are raum & slow walkers, cause i think they hew closer to playing with that palette of creepy sounds some other people play with, too. but the A I A records are like ... so deep ... like ... so deep man.

i dunno, she's gotten way too floaty and indistinct

the jesy fortino vocals are u+k as we used to say

can't someone chip in and help get this poor girl another consonant

i thought about ^^ these posts ^^ for a couple of days & they really bugged me, i thought i would stridently talk shit about them & it would be fine to brush me off just because it is only ~music opinions~ nobody would get too sad. i don't know, i haven't listened to raum or slow walkers a lot yet, i didn't like blood moon with the guy shredding (though root strata is so neat). & she always made those records, w/xiu xiu or whatever, the first grouper record, there is some clip of her just playing with pedals for a half hour on vimeo, making tidal noise waves on portland public access tv, i didn't so much ever respond to that kinda thing & yeah ~ooooo~-wave music is too close to like whatever imovie sound effect provides like FOREBODING (*cue whistling bowed synthesiser-cello*) backdrop for your student film, it's associations are too literal, one-note. but i listened to the last two grouper records a bunch recently, i guess sometimes i just wanted to hear alien observer, the song, i only have it on this vegetative-state-ipod, my record is far away. & i can't crack dream loss - it's so heavy, such just a howl, i love thinking about the title, dream loss, like the way the mirroring record is this beautifully accessorised assemblage of songs/pictures/&c, but it feels kind of impermeable so far - but i really think alien observer is just as good as anything, & she went somewhere so interesting with it. dragging a dead deer is such an awkward lens through which to view her, because it's so appealing & inviting & inhabitable, it's like seeing chungking express & expecting other wong films to be so pop. like you can listen to invisible, it could practically replace bathing. her acoustic guitar. but everything she's doing on the next record is crazy. like the palette of sounds is so rich. i am twenty eight & i can't imagine anybody in my mini semi-suburban-upbringing-turned-twenties-beardo-coffee-opinions ballpark demographic not having a similar, unformed, pre-verbal strong receptivity to hearing music that plays with the bulging frequencies of overloaded tape, flooded by its exceeded threshold. & the palette on the record is obviously less appealing than glacial acoustic guitars, it is the guy on the high street wearing camo & multiple slings of bead necklaces playing cathedral-reverbed twangy solo new age guitar symphonies sitting on his peavey amp. but hearing overloaded fender rhodes & just the swampiest treated noise & eventually having the melody of like vapor trails to hold on to is such a strong thing. like i could never figure out without lapsing into -~#this~- kind of awful stream of consciousness poetry what the isolating factor was that made pavement always seem like glib & insincere faux-slacker garbage to me but silver jews seem super authentic & spirited, & i feel like a i a is such a totally strong statement - sort of the way living room is with words, but with sound - about this particular mood, that it's a million miles away from whatever like Loop Pedal Floatiness other people do & we should absolutely be just totally wearied by & jaded about, that putting it into ooo-wave junk seems kinda harsh. but then maybe you aren't & you meant the more recent stuff. she's still super vital right now anyway i think. & dang the helen single, wow.

hey guy, i hadn't really given it much thought, just never in any kind of moodspace to crack the ~~~~~~ blurred surface of the a i a dream l o s s pair

even just the word 'alien', i dunno, too much of a hint of kitsch in that sonic context mebbe, i couldn't get w/ that (glancingly perceived) kind of displacement onto whatever, like an artificial conceptual frame

cultivate feelings of displacement & zone out to these records

& dang the helen single, wow.

I need more Helen songs, ASAP

if i had any more feelings of displacement i'd vanish

tiny vipers played a synth set in seattle maybe? reassuring

yo http://www.boxbedroomrebels.bigcartel.com/product/ambience3-tiny-vipers-limited-edition-7-cd-package

feeling http://boxbedroomrebels.bandcamp.com/track/tapes-part-ii-remix

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/03/24/521133338/tiny-vipers-returns-with-first-album-in-8-years-shares-synthetic-hymnal-k-i-s-s

oh hell yes!

haven't heard k.i.s.s. yet but am just so delighted that this is on the horizon. what a joy.

her lps are being reissued, also

this is ...something. i really like it but it's more akin to grouper/mirrorring than life on earth

and

"K.I.S.S." is the first single from Laughter, and the only one to prominently feature lyrics and Jesy Fortino's voice

this sounds great so far ! i was worried i wouldn't like it. i've only listened through a couple times but i feel like it would be more accurate to say it has "no songs" than that it has "no melody" or that there's only one thing using her voice. it reminds me a lil of that theremin reissue on mississippi records a couple years back.

i'm into this

New three-song EP out today, proper songs with guitar & vocals! All three tracks are great.

https://tinyvipers.bandcamp.com/album/american-prayer

Fantastic! Life on Earth is a fave. Can’t wait to listen to these new songs.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!