Brightblack Morning Light ... WTF?

What a great cover

i hope this album is like the good songs on the last one, but all the way through. not that there were any bad songs on the last one, really, but more consistent awesomeness would be great thanks.

hey i got it. it sounds like the last one, but even less urgent. almost a little gospelly in places.

they kind of remind me of mu. the fankhauser band from the 70s.

It's a sneaky sideways move from the last record- less drums but more horns, so it's funkier and yet also more motionless. The production on the vocals is really gooey and great. I think the thing it reminds me of the most is Sly & the Family Stone's "Thank you for Talking to me Africa"- lotsa empty space, a certain starkness. The lyrics seem more directly political on this record, and that's a change too.

hey, i posted a Mu song to my site last week.

http://robotsinheat.com/trax/EternalThirst.mp3

the vocals are the thing that really bug me on this one :(

man, so dying to hear this .... but, I will wait until it comes out

not sure if I like the idea of them deemphasizing the drums .. "even less urgent" ... hmmm ... ah, I'm sure I'll love it

yeah, the drums were so good on the last one. but can't wait for this.

still haven't heard the last one but i liked their debut

"another reclaimation" sounds really, really good on a rainy morning.

hey, what do you know, so does "a rainbow aims." if this keeps up i might have to post four more times.

"Previous to this recording, while BBML toured Europe, singer Naybob Shineywater sang each show with an arrowhead in his mouth. Why? To let his own sung words & breathe touch this stone before european ears could hear them.
"I was not singing for war, but to engage the spirit of the maker of the arrowhead itself, to offer up Peace, that his warrior effort find a new respect,
and to help my own warrior spirit sing in Peace," reveals Naybob."

for some reason i don't hate this band despite shit like that. like, I strangely do not find that as lame and stupid as it sounds

look, nobody post anything about this band, their names, what they think or the things they do in this thread, ok? i just want to like their music and ignore them being prats.

Let's just call 'em Raymond & Nathan.

I still haven't revisited the new record since my initial lukewarm reaction. Maybe I will do that today.

ian download that ted lucas i posted on noize

also

look, nobody post anything about this band, their names, what they think or the things they do in this thread, ok?

^^^ this

but the thread title is "bbml - what the fuck?" so isn't that like the point of it?????

my post was not intended to be a wtf? post i was actually saying i really like them despite the fact that they do seem like total "prats" (assuming that that word has some sort of negative connotation)

prat (plural prats)
1. (UK, slang) Art student.
2. (obsolete, slang, UK) The buttocks.
3. (slang) the female genitals.

the stuff i heard from the first album made no impression on me and their hippyness is kind of irritating but 'motion to rejoin' is really doing it for me. slow jams.

Let's just call 'em Raymond & Nathan.

― ian, Monday, September 15, 2008 10:33 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

My dad and I are who now waht?

prat (plural prats)
1. (UK, slang) Art student.
2. (obsolete, slang, UK) The buttocks.
3. (slang) the female genitals.

― REIGN IN FUDGE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 01:03 (1 week ago)

if two of three definitions are truly great things, how negative can this word really be?

they're not prats either, they're pretty fucking ballsy and out there..there are bands with much worse art school wastes in this country

ballsy?

I'd say so, they ride with their schtick pretty hard and yeah you can try to play off all the things that come with it as gimmicks but at least they're not going the cookie cutter route that a lot of new bands see: mgmt, vampire weekend, and ton of their followers are falling into. they're not playing for college crowds and they've stuck to their vision, which happens to be a pretty unique one IMO

it might not be so ballsy to play music in a style that may have been explored before but they're just making it work for themselves and not coming off as trite. that is a feat in itself.

The album notes shout out the solar panels on this itinerant duo's New Mexico hut/recording studio, thanks main man Naybob Shineywater's tent and sleeping bag by name, and reprints his lyrics, including ballsy lines like "Canoe painted rainbows lends a power, every truth is there to find"

ha. surfboard, did you write the othermusic review of this or is "ballsy" the adjective du jour for these dudes?

Great cover art, I've really come around to this band lately

this is fucking awesome. i love these weirdos so much.

i feel like they stuck to the formula but branched out at the same time.

i kept wishing the last one had fewer and longer tracks like this.

they should do a 60 min single/LP like the necks some time.

only heard a couple promo tracks so far but yeah I think I need to get this

sounds even slower and more spare than the last one but also heavier/deeper

no I didn't but if anyone from other is reading this I kinda need a job

wasn't sure if I was going to see them on this tour and then I see they've got IASOS as the opening band

which is insane and I am there

http://iasos.com/detalist/idm/

will they be playing Harmonic Convergence this year???!

oh wow IASOS sounds pretty amazing.

I'd be more excited if Superconducter was the opening slot.

I'd be more excited if Krisna Das was the opening slot.

pretty typically excruciating kiss-ass piece in arthur. do music journalists get paid extra if they buy into a band's bullshit?

both their albums are the first two minutes of "the low spark of high-heeled boys" over and over. but in a good way

not really

dope song tho

listen to the first two minutes of high heeled boys and then any brighblack song. identical grooves

yeah i understood your first post.

do yourselves a favor and avoid their feature in the new Arthur, unless you really want to get disgusted by their shallow generalizations and willful naivete.

ok will do.

love this story from upthread:

I don't know about him insulting L.A. or the audience (I actually thought I heard him say, "You guys are great"), but it was pretty empty. Dan Higgs wasn't there, which pissed me off.

But yeah, about three-quarters of the way into the set, a backup singer came on (Mariee Sioux, maybe?) and Nabob's guitar amp started erupting in feedback. The sound was pretty shitty, but he stopped in the middle of the song and started futzing around. At some point he came over to Rabob's Rhodes and was trying to get her to stop playing (or something, he kept messing with her hands and she refused to stop). He then proceeded to run upstairs, looking for the sound booth. When he found it, he threw himself into the door a couple times, and, unsuccessful, started throwing shit at it (I think). (Meanwhile, Rabob and the rest of the band are all playing with embarrassed looks on their faces. The backup singer is standing there and not really doing anything). Security (and the sound guy) rush over to confront Nabob (this is all upstairs in the VIP lounge-y thing at the Troubadour). I don't really know what happened next but I was told that the guy who replaced D. Higgs on the bill (some guitar-y folk guy--Embrace? Entrance?) threw a bottle, either at security or at Nabob, and some hippie chick in a poncho was rushing back and forth. Rabob and the band played one more song (to heavy applause) and then got off stage pretty hastily.

The Troubadour has really shitty sound, but it was pretty inexcusable to storm off like a baby and throw shit at the the sound booth, especially for a guy like Nabob, who seemed like (in the 40 minutes I talked to him) a decent, if spacey, guy. But--more respect to the band's other 4 touring members, who played well despite the distraction. I have to say that I liked it a lot both with and without Nabob; as long as Nabob's not going to pull a diva act, they're worth seeing.

― max (maxreax), Monday, July 31, 2006 6:09 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u will henceforth be known as Grabob.

i might see them live in november but i can't imagine it not being boring