Yeah, I'm not sure I understand all the lukewarm to cold receptions. It isn't as cohesive and solid as the last one, but I'm really intrigued in a few new directions they're pulling here.
Picked up the new Hauschildt today, can't wait to dig in to that.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP-Yd0diVBk
^ so beautiful. love the burbling synths on that song, then the guitar just kicks it over the edge at the halfway point
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
sort of a top gun vibe going on in some of these tunes, I've got F14s in the upper stratosphere swooping around in my head half the time this is playing
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
also, the acoustic guitar on the last song is very AR Kane to my ears, that would be a cool direction to take things next
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
I know there's alot that I still haven't heard, but I can't think of another band whose principals release consistently quality material that is the equal of the stuff they recorded as a group. To date I haven't heard anything I didn't like from any of them.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
I never really bothered to get into the first one but I love this.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
For me their retreat from austerity has made them a lot more interesting, though going by reviews this opinion isn't universal.
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
i wish it sounded fat and glistening like the last one
― j., Wednesday, 21 November 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
All right, they're never going to make another "Alive In The Sea of Information" and that's ok.
― hot slag (lukas), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
this sounds like 80s soundtrack music* -- i like it! also it pleases me that it was recorded in my hometown.
i haven't actively disliked any emeralds or emeralds-related product so far, i guess i would naturally like this too. the clear vinyl is pretty.
* i just got the tangerine dream soundtrack to three o'clock high and let me assure you -- this new emeralds record is A LOT better than that
― passion it person (La Lechera), Sunday, 25 November 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
So there's a new Mark McGuire EP, Surrogate Channels. It's (unsurprisingly?) more of the same but there's a bit of drum machine, and anyway who doesn't happily lap up more of the same from MMG?
"Controlled by Numbers" is a meditation on the numbers, dates, and symbols that have cycled around my life, and had a strange presence in the back of my mind. Music for unraveling, and re-alignment, beginning at dawn, and ending in the dead of night.5, 13, 21, 29, 37, 45, 53, 7, 15, 3, 4, 5, 1, 8, 7, 7, 26
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Thursday, 29 November 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
this band is so cold to me. but i like this new record
― black redhead (spazzmatazz), Friday, 30 November 2012 02:55 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah really loving this. The title track and Adrenochrome are sublime. One of the albums of the year.
LOL at the "Top Gun vibe". Very true.
― kraudive, Saturday, 1 December 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
Mark McGuire's left the band:
https://twitter.com/stevehauschildt/status/286878496100343808
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Thursday, 3 January 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
dang
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (diamonddave85), Thursday, 3 January 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
definitely did not see that coming
― sleeve, Thursday, 3 January 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
It's for the best. Their last record was awful. Great time for them to split.
― van smack, Thursday, 3 January 2013 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
Disagree wrt the last Emeralds album, but I do have the feeling that maybe they had explored all the terrain they were going to.
― the definite listicle (seandalai), Thursday, 3 January 2013 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
The last record was definitely not awful, just much less exploratory of new grounds. I'm kinda bummed by this because I usually liked what McGuire brought to the table best, though I do like Hauschildt's solo stuff.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 January 2013 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
I have only given a cursory listen to Just to feel Anything... It's good in the way that they have a pretty solid baseline of delivering quality material, but nothing grabbed me in the way that Does It Look Like I'm Here did-- which was an exceptionally high watermark as far as I'm concerned, so no surprise that anything going forward doesn't quite measure up.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 4 January 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently there will be no going forward. Just saw on Twitter (retweeted by a friend of mine and big fan of the band) that Steve Hauschildt has left the band, effectively ending it.
From Twitter:"After much thought, I too have decided to leave Emeralds for personal reasons. The band is now over and all tour dates are cancelled."
― grandavis, Friday, 18 January 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
they other guy must be really annoying huh
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 18 January 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
Weird, tinymixtapes just posted this story with a headline very similar to my post, i.e. "effectively ending [the band]". It is of course the first thing that would come to mind, but rarely am I in the middle of breaking news, so to speak.
― grandavis, Friday, 18 January 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
Well you could just play any 3 solo joints zaireeka style & it would sound alot like an emeralds record, so no one should run out of new stuff from them.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 18 January 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
If Hauschildt keeps coming out with stuff like Tragedy & Geometry, you'll hear no complaints from me.
― Clarke B., Friday, 18 January 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
oh no
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 18 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
― velvet undergrad (diamonddave85), Friday, 18 January 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
considering the quality of the mcguire/hauschildt/elliott solo stuff i'm not totally broken up but i wish i'd seen them at least once.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 18 January 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i was hoping to be able to see them too. i went to a show on the caribou/emeralds tour JUST to see them but despite showing up at door time, the venue had decided to start early so i was only able to catch the last 5 minutes of the set /:
― velvet undergrad (diamonddave85), Friday, 18 January 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
I passed on the Caribou show, which I was contemplating solely for the Emeralds set. Didn't realize that would be their only west coast appearance ever. Crap.
― Thinspo Merkin Life (Spectrist), Friday, 18 January 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
this is a bummer for sure. I wonder what the story is?
― original bgm, Friday, 18 January 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/mark-mcguire/the-instinct-extended-12
stoked to see him on friday
― eris bueller (lukas), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
seeing him tomorrow!
― the late great, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
the instinct is the soloing into the sunset jam par excellence
― ogmor, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
I like Steve Hauschildt's second solo album so much more than his first that it hardly even seems fair to compare the two.
my favorite is "Mixed Messages"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2cJBe3hf_c
― a duiving caTCH, a stuolllen bayeeeess (jamescobo), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
I'm guessing this second great album isn't the one I just bought, Tragedy & Geometry? Gah.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
I've not even listened to it yet.
Tragedy & Geometry is excellent, fear not.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
You know what is really great on Tragedy & Geometry? Music For A Moiré Pattern. That is just the best thing. I listened to that on the bus a couple of months back and was completely overcome and almost missed my stop. It was like the sound of the rain talking to itself, so beautiful and entrancing.
Favourite song on the last one though was Constant Reminders, a totally different sort of experience, but really sweet all the same.
Emeralds are supposedly playing the Field Day festival in London in the summer this year. Who the fuck is Emeralds these days?
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
I was sure they broke up, but yeah, they're still listed on the poster. Weird.
― She Got the Shakes, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
maybe it's The Emeralds UK
― Number None, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
They're not on the website Line Up section.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 4 April 2013 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://echoesblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/21st-century-progressive-rock-opus-from-mark-mcguire/
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 3 March 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
I don't know about "prog opus", but it is one fucking outstanding album. It's gorgeous.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 March 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
yeah calling it a "prog opus" is pretty ridiculous; it just sounds like by-the-numbers Mark McGuire
― death and darkness and other night kinda shit (crüt), Monday, 3 March 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
also does anyone else imagine all these songs are recorded by Mark McGwire
― death and darkness and other night kinda shit (crüt), Monday, 3 March 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
Lol
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
Along the Way is still slaying me, my favorite thing he's done yet (including all the excellent Emeralds stuff).
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link
yep
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
I'm glad to hear someone finally agree, I was beginning to wonder if this thing just completely flew by everyone. It's terrific.
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 04:08 (nine years ago) link