― todd burns, Friday, 10 January 2003 22:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
i still dig the outhud release... pan american... labradford... and the one gybe ep i have ... looking forward to charlambides...m.
― msp, Friday, 10 January 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Um, whaddaya expect from a label named Kranky?
The two Spiny Anteater albums they put out are fine, under-rated gems that you should search out.
― Vic Funk, Friday, 10 January 2003 23:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
S: _Gravitational Pull vs. the Desire for an Aquatic Life_, Stars of the LidD: Everything past the first Godspeed album. One of the rare cases where Ned can summon more bile and invective than i can...
-Matt, who can't wait until their catalog is bought by Nike.
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Saturday, 11 January 2003 00:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyway, search up through KRANK 024 or so. Particular faves: Dadamah, Labradford's self-titled, Bowery Electric's self-titled, both Magnog albums, first two Jessamine albums, the first Dissolve, Roy Montgomery, Windy And Carl, Low, and Stars Of The Lid.
Destroy: most of the other stuff
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Saturday, 11 January 2003 01:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
Destroy: Low - "Embrace" from _Things We Lost In The Fire_
― Clarke B., Saturday, 11 January 2003 06:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 11 January 2003 10:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
Destroy:Fontanelle, Amp, Low, Out Hud.
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Saturday, 11 January 2003 14:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
Cheers
― André Fontes (André Fontes), Saturday, 11 January 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
Comments:
-- I like OutHud on compilations but still see no need to buy one of their albums
-- I'm not sure what to make of Clear Horizon (Jessica Baliff + Dave Pearce) ... the first half of the song is pleasantly Jessica Baliff, then it's all "cue Flying Saucer Attack" and there's an abrupt shift to an FSA droning thing. It's good, but it feels stapled together more than an actual collab. Interesting choice of track ... I'd like to hear the album so that I can judge properly
-- Why don't I own any Stars of the Lid albums? How can this be?
-- Two Pan.American tracks, which are both excellent, but I always find that PA albums drag.
Anyway, it's a very mellow comp overall ... worth my ten bucks with plenty of room to spare. Has anyone else heard it?
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 31 October 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― chris andrews (fraew), Sunday, 31 October 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 1 November 2004 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
One of the unreleased tracks was a SotL song from their upcoming album. It's very much like the "Tired Sounds ..." material (judging from "Requiem for Dying Mothers Part II", also included on the comp).
The entire compilation is more drone/ambient (and psych-folk) than rock (or post-rock(!)). There's nary a percussive beat to be found.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 1 November 2004 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 1 November 2004 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Monday, 1 November 2004 02:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Forgetting what music you have is a sign that you either have too much music, or aren't keeping track of it properly. Or both.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 1 November 2004 02:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 1 November 2004 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link
They're astounding live, too, but I'm sure you already know that.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 1 November 2004 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― etc, Monday, 1 November 2004 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Search: Nearly everything, especially SOTL, Dead Texan, Aix Em Klemm, Growing
Destroy: Outhud's second album. Ewww...
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 19 November 2006 00:52 (seventeen years ago) link
d: dunno, i'm not really a big bird show fan
― if you ain't got the yolk, you can't emulsify the hollandaise (fauxhemian), Sunday, 19 November 2006 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Destroy: Hmm.. I don't know enough about the Kranky roster to play.
― Sir Echo (Sir Echo), Sunday, 19 November 2006 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Magnog are still great, v. underappreciated.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 November 2006 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link
-- chris andrews (frae...), October 31st, 2004.
typical ilx response, sir!
search: a load of bands the 'casual' listener probably won't have heard of, and definitely won't have heard.
destroy: low, gy!be, i.e. the ones that the 'casual' listener has probably heard and/or liked.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Sunday, 19 November 2006 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Sunday, 19 November 2006 03:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 19 November 2006 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Sunday, 19 November 2006 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Rush are on Kranky now?!?
― tiit (tiit), Sunday, 19 November 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
hi, i really like White Rainbow's "Prism of Eternal Now". however my friend told me it's boring "new age". getting old is a bitch.
― rockapads, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Cloudland Canyon
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 1 November 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
^ ^ awesome cd. i'm a big fan.
― rockapads, Thursday, 1 November 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i've been ignoring kranky for years but i went and listened through their last year's releases on emusic and well fuck me if there isn't a bunch of really great stuff that's been flying beneath my radar. dig the cloudland canyon stuff, the latest valet album is lovely too, lotus plaza, strategy.. nice.
― private static void (electricsound), Monday, 27 April 2009 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
^ otm... Jonas Reinhardt is great, too
― nerve_pylon, Monday, 27 April 2009 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I just saw Windy & Carl / Benoit Pioulard the other night. Windy & Carl put everyone to sleep, which is to say they were wonderful!
― "buttz" (Z S), Monday, 27 April 2009 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahaha.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 27 April 2009 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
The new Jonas Reinhardt album 'Powers Of Audition' is all kinds of awesome. I'm really digging this. It's instrumental kosmiche synth-laden prog of the highest vintage-appreciating order, with a wee handful of totally propulsive krautrockers to get your head nodding, before you're transported back to soaring warmly on the higher astral plain... very nice.
― krakow, Saturday, 6 March 2010 10:43 (fourteen years ago) link
The new Loscil album 'Endless Falls' is also rather lovely. Looks like I'm back on the Kranky collecting train when these ones filter through properly.
― krakow, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 10:03 (fourteen years ago) link
This new one, 'Endless Falls', is inspired by the hefty rainfall in Loscil's Vancouver hometown, and I think is really evocative, both musically and aesthetically (it has a great cover shot, apparently by his 4 year old daughter), of those long, slightly melancholy days when you're inside listening to and watching the rain blurring the world outside the window, immersing yourself in your house-bound self.
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drn500/n582/n58297nkvdn.jpg
― krakow, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Will have to check that Loscil, I really like what I've heard previously.
I can't claim this is an impartial recommendation, because he's a dear friend, but Chris Herbert's Mezzotint from a couple of years back is a slow-burner of the highest order. This is more recent than the album, but is a fair representation, and is wonderful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK-HL64XXaY
― Bill A, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
(it has a great cover shot, apparently by his 4 year old daughter)
Love this.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha, the other I just did a search to see if anyone had been talking about Loscil on ILX and there was absolutely zip in the search. Now there is, and good. Have really been enjoying the new one, and thought Plume was pretty good too. Wasn't actually aware he was from Vancouver (or part of Destroyer) until last night. Huh!
― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I seem to remember back in the mid-90s the big acts on Kranky were Labradford, FSA, Stars of the Lid, and Jessamine. Jessamine really seems to have been forgotten...
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Did they tour much? Can't remember. A very good band for sure, maybe rediscoveries are nigh.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
But wait, FSA? They were VHF and Drag City unless I've completely misremembered.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
No, I'm mis-remembering. Coulda swore they were on Kranky but I'm mistaken.
Jessamine were hit and miss but when they hit they were terrific.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Sunday, 3 October 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Really fond of Jessamine, but I wonder if they got overlooked a bit due to vocals (which were kind of ordinary indie-schmindie compared to their sound). Totally amazing drummer, whose name I don't know. I still play "You Have Ugly Talents, Martha" and "You May Have Forgotten" and "Pilot-Free Ignition" on a regular basis.
― dlp9001, Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
new Belong record on kranky is really really great
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
YES! New Belong! <3 I´ve only heard the one song they released online, I´m waiting for the vinyl to arrive!
Is the album pretty much like that song, ´Perfect Life´?
This band is so criminally overlooked. One of my greatest musical discoveries of the last decade I think. Somehow they found a place between all existing music and made it so uniquely their own. I know no other band that sounds like them, not on a deeper level.
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I caved and downloaded the album. All your fault Ilxor! ;-)
Enjoying the shit out of this. Cannot wait for the vinyl!
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Additional:
Ekkehard Ehlers - Advisor
😎
Great news Jon, looking forward to this!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 6 February 2020 10:22 (four years ago) link
oh wow, cool! was thinking about White Winged Moth and Dean and wondering what the hell had happened to him.
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 February 2020 11:14 (four years ago) link
will buy. thanks for the head's up!
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
Great news, Dean/AD are Kranky's best-kept secret, sadly.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
that Dean Roberts is shipping now, CDs printed amazing with full lyrics inside, Pitchfork review coming shortly.
― jon abbey, Friday, 6 March 2020 00:37 (four years ago) link
New Windy and Carl kills. Absolutely one of their best. (It's not quite, say, their Double Negative but it comes from a similar place.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 March 2020 01:07 (four years ago) link
Which W&C is that? Forest Trails or something else?
― nikola, Friday, 6 March 2020 01:19 (four years ago) link
New one:
https://windyandcarl.bandcamp.com/album/allegiance-and-conviction
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 March 2020 03:25 (four years ago) link
I like the new Dean Roberts but can't help but feel like its deliberately prosaic lyricism detracts from it somewhat, as though he were weaving an aural narrative about failed interpersonal relationships from the wizened perspective of a 50-something divorcee or whatever and I just find that shit hopelessly dull, like a Jonathan Franzen novel.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Saturday, 7 March 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
Basically I hate psychosocial lyrics that make me feel like I'm supposed to relate to them, like 'wow so true man'.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Saturday, 7 March 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link
Unsurprisingly, the new Windy & Carl is indeed fantastic.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 28 March 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
Listened to it twice in a row last night. It’s terrific.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 28 March 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
It is indeed. I'll have a piece running soon -- did a big ol' interview with them, though only a few samples of it will be used in the final result.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 March 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
The Ana Roxanne album has been my safe space throughout November.
― technopolis, Saturday, 28 November 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link
I love the bits where she doesn't use her speaking voice, otherwise it takes me a little too out of itself.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 28 November 2020 11:25 (three years ago) link
^really enjoying this, it's one of the few times I've discovered something via letting Spotify auto-play.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
Her NTS show makes for good work music too
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link
I missed this. What a gorgeous album.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 15 January 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link
What was going on with the Low hate 18 years ago
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 15 January 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link
i wish i liked the mj guider record a bit more cos i loved her first one, but maybe it'll grow on me with time. not sure what's missing, maybe it's just me? probably worth a spin if you're into bowery electric or early HTRK though
― kieth chagrin (NickB), Friday, 15 January 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
― technopolis, Saturday, November 28, 2020 3:09 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
love this
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 16 January 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
I'd like it better if there was less talking involved.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 16 January 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link
Anyone heard any more of the Niecy Blues album aside from what's on Bandcamp?
― djh, Sunday, 5 November 2023 19:46 (five months ago) link
Oh look! https://justinwalter.bandcamp.com/album/destroyer
― Evan, Monday, 20 November 2023 18:36 (four months ago) link