The Drones - any good (also Tropical Fuck Storm content here)

Apparently, they were'nt very good, according to their manager, Paul Morely.

i wanna check these doodz out.

I've been tempted with that album but if that is heads above the rest then I may leave it and try the new one?

Yeah the 1977 Drones from Manchester? I always wanted to hear them when I was fixated with '77 punk.I even wrote them on my pencil case at school without hearing them. Since read that they were a third division Eater - yeah, that bad.

Great band, my favorite new discovery of last year. If you can track it down, the rarities comp "The Miller's Daughter" is spectacular.

new record, Havilah, coming out in october.
first impression: very good

Awesome!

Last album was great.

lol @ "spends all day looking at porn or playing fucking halo 2"

halo 3's been out for ages n00b.

Excellently rackety live.

I'll speak to this. Hadn't heard them before, but caught their live show at ATP over the weekend, and it was a pleasant surprise. And quite rackety, indeed.

Don't know what I am the Supercargo is about but it's a fucking jamm.

A++++ username wilter, looooool

somehow i think i completely missed hearing anything from 'gala mill', which is weird cos i was a big rep for 'wait long by the river...'; i'll have to check this one out.

'Jezebel' slew me this morning after I put it on on a whim. Gonna have to track this new album down.

first half of the new one might be their best stuff, second half is pretty disappointing. i stan hard for these guys despite the fact that they're never made a front to back good album.

they are pretty insane live

saddest thing evar--i was one of 5 ppl who saw them when they came to boston a couple years ago. they still brought it. i felt bad and bought a lot of merch.

I actually think their last record WAS the only one that was good front-to-back.

eh it totally lost me after careful as you go. oh my is brutal lyrically by any standard nevermind the normally excellent drones guy.

I may be totally biased here, but i really think it's pretty consistent throughout. Certainly more downbeat in general compared to their other albums (emphasised after the couple of heavier/faster moments at the start). but still, all killer no filler.

especially Cold & Sober. wonderful.

friend of mine has become obsessed with 'shark fin blues' and listening to it i can see why

They won best live act at last weeks first Australian Rolling Stone awards :-)

nah

impossible poll would be best drones album opener

jezebel > shark fin > nail it down > cockeyed lowlife > someone on your bond

They won best live act at last weeks first Australian Rolling Stone awards :-)

i saw them play an absolutely crushing opening set for about 5 people a couple years ago. felt terrible and bought a bunch of merch.

man how the memory fades, it was EXACTLY five people back in July

lol file this under too much time on ilx

Yeah the 1977 Drones from Manchester? I always wanted to hear them when I was fixated with '77 punk.I even wrote them on my pencil case at school without hearing them. Since read that they were a third division Eater - yeah, that bad.

They weren't bad at all - definitely up there with such luminaries as the Lurkers anyway. They didn't have punk authenticity cos they were a pub rock band before but I couldn't give a toss about that.

Pretty excited for lead singer Gareth Liddiard's solo album 'Strange Tourist'. First track to be previewed is very sparse, melancholy folk. Check it out:

http://www.messandnoise.com/releases/2000745

The Gareth Liddiard record is amazing, if stupidly long.

Must be one of the most underrated/under-appreciated bands of the now eh? Feel like they are a secret club of people who know that they are amazing live and put out worthwhile records. Weird that a band with this high quality output and great live presence would go so unnoticed. I'm speaking only in the US. Are they quite big in the UK errr?

they're not a big deal at all

still yet to hear anything else by them as good as shark fin blues

they write about 3 or 4 amazing songs per album

didn't even know they released a new album, but I See Seaweed is pretty good

there's a new one? jesus christ, i have to track that down.

Yeah, the original Drones were way better than is being allowed for here. Not one of the greats, but above average, certainly.

Trying to listen to the Australian Drones now ("Jezebel"). Plods like only the self-important can. EVERY. WORD. IS. EQUALLY. PORTENTOUS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9K0qOAVR6U

I See Seaweed is tremendous, probably their best yet.

most overrated australian band of all time, possibly

They have now been accused of being both immensely underrated and overrated itt, lol

the Liddiard album is probably my favorite of the last decade heard by the fewest people

I just heard "I See Seaweed" this past wknd and it is blowing my personal skirts up

well, this is an unexpected direction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XibHLDrlUls

Nice, excited for the new album - Feelin Kinda Free (Mar 18).

So good! Don't sleep on this! I haven't been that excited about new releases this year, but I'm feelin this garage noir/art rock.

I like this a lot, I'm surprised this change of direction has worked so well for them

So good, people!

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/18/the-drones-feelin-kinda-free-review-a-menacing-avant-garde-interrogation-of-australia
http://louderthanwar.com/the-drones-feelin-kinda-free-album/

Yeah, it's really fucking good.

Holy shnickys, this album is just the fucked up weirdness I need! It's like a painting that's been smeared or something. How's the rest of their catalog? This thread gives me the sense that it's inconsistent.

Also, does anyone else hear Richard Thompson in his delivery?

that opening track is fucking amazing

Also, does anyone else hear Richard Thompson in his delivery?

I can hear what you mean, like if RT was really resentful and hissing all the time.

Incidentally, "Taman Shud" is a very satisfying little invective. Odd that there have already been three rock songs this year with that name (see also Destroyer 666 and The Black Queen.)

Erica's band Mod Con has an album out (Modern Convenience), really digging it. much more garage punk, good songs.

oopos Modern Condition

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-16/gareth-liddiard-talks-cancel-culture-ahead-of-springtime-tour/100831130

what the fuck are you talking about gareth

If (comedian) Ricky Gervais self-censored so that whatever he said fit into today's puritanical conservatism, it wouldn't be funny or insightful

finally, an explanation for why Ricky Gervais hasn't done anything funny or insightful since November 2002i

maybe it is impossible to operate in this freaked-out mode for more than a few years aged >40 without ending up like this

heh yeah, feel like he's been tapdancing towards this for a minute

i actually listened to deep states this weekend and it kinda clicked w/me esp after my friend said the opening track sounded like 3 records being played at once

Deep States >>> Springtime in my humble opinion

https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/night-raver-ep

huh! 41-minute springtime EP out next month, featuring one new 15 min track & versions of "penumbra" (by the drones, might be the same live version they put out last year?) and "the radicalisation of d" (from gareth's solo album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iA8hlQBGhY

here's the new track, "the night of the plague"

i mean next week, but it is next month too

seeing Springtime tomorrow, pretty keen

the Springtime Night Raver EP that UFO mentions above is fantastic, 2 long epics from Gareth, The Names Of The Plague (15:10) and The Radicalisation Of D (18:38). lyrics for the former from Ian Duhig's poem of the same name.

Still more stuff.

Tropical Fuck Storm + King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Satanic Slumber Party

Did not care for the new single. Starting to wonder if this was just an affair and maybe it’s over between us.

"satanic slumber party 2" is the best tfs song in a while idk

I like the video a lot too

Listening to “Feelin’ Kinda Free” for the first time in a loooooong time and realizing that it feels a lot more like a TFS debut rather than a Drones conclusion. It is such a n exhilarating leap past the (excellent but) dirgey epics if all the other Drones albums.

I wouldn't say a leap past considering I See Seaweed remains imo the greatest album Liddiard has ever done, but yeah it's clear that album was as good as he could do in that style and a rethink was needed. And Private Execution at least is...well, it's quite something

It’s just so much more rhythmically forceful and Fiona has such a more prominent presence - the two primary elements that set the two bands apart.

Yeah, the new emphasis really suited the band, even if ALDIM is a bolder all-around expression of it (due to the other musicians introduced for it)

otm

New EP is nice. I really like the new take on “Aspirin”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sixKZP8ed_I

new single "the golden ratio", off a new compilation album submersive behaviour out next year. compiles 3 tracks from this year's moonburn ep + this new song + an 18 minute cover of hendrix's "1983 (a merman i should turn to be)"

a what minute cover of what, oh my god

Noooo goddamn it

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnAuvcnSxZB/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Fuck, that's bad

:(

what's in the link, for non-members?

fiona has stage 3 breast cancer, all non-aus touring dates cancelled

I really like the TFS cover of 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)

i had no idea about these guys. 'shark fin blues' is nuts.

yah the best in the biz