Emeralds-Classic or Dud?

oh no

dang

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.

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 /:

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.

this is a bummer for sure. I wonder what the story is?

https://soundcloud.com/mark-mcguire/the-instinct-extended-12

stoked to see him on friday

seeing him tomorrow!

the instinct is the soloing into the sunset jam par excellence

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

I'm guessing this second great album isn't the one I just bought, Tragedy & Geometry? Gah.

I've not even listened to it yet.

Tragedy & Geometry is excellent, fear not.

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?

I was sure they broke up, but yeah, they're still listed on the poster. Weird.

maybe it's The Emeralds UK

They're not on the website Line Up section.

http://echoesblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/21st-century-progressive-rock-opus-from-mark-mcguire/

I don't know about "prog opus", but it is one fucking outstanding album. It's gorgeous.

yeah calling it a "prog opus" is pretty ridiculous; it just sounds like by-the-numbers Mark McGuire

also does anyone else imagine all these songs are recorded by Mark McGwire

Lol

Along the Way is still slaying me, my favorite thing he's done yet (including all the excellent Emeralds stuff).

yep

I'm glad to hear someone finally agree, I was beginning to wonder if this thing just completely flew by everyone. It's terrific.

Along the Way is wonderful

i don't know the Emeralds stuff, but I loooooove Along the Way

where should i start with Emeralds?

Does it look like I'm here? should be easy to find and is very, very good

allegory of allergies

yeah that one is amazing, hoping for a reissue

I thought I would tire of listening to Mark McGuire, but plowing my way through MM's stuff right now and it gets pretty addictive. Guy is awesome, IMO

that one is amazing, hoping for a reissue

― KrafTwerk (sleeve), Monday, May 19, 2014 8:06 PM

duh I walked into the record store today and there it was, 2LP on Weird Forest, been out for years but it is severely truncated from the original cassette, so I guess I need to be greedy and ask for a 3LP version

Listening to Mark's new ep Noctilucence on Pitchfork Advance right now ... very, very good. Like it better than the album.

Into this: https://soundcloud.com/deadoceans/mark-mcguire-earth-2015

happy to see him switch up his sound for once

God, the new Steve Hauschildt LP, "Where All is Fled," is beautiful (no sound has been switched up at all FTR, but it's gorgeous).

this was a fb tip from our own ms. crawford but the mark mcguire album that came out in november is really really great, like i haven't seen it on any year-end lists but i just listened to the whole damn thing in one sitting while every other album i've checked out over the past week or so is a try-three-songs-get-bored type of affair.

the Steve Hauschildt album is better.

I'm just glad they're both still making music. Two great albums this year. I actually prefer their recent solo LPs to the Emeralds stuff.

I normally agree with you about everything but that's insane, apart they make beautiful but inconsequential diversions, together (plus that other guy) they made "alive in the sea of information"

i think i like the minimalism of Along The Way and Sequitur more than the more dense Does It Look Like I'm Here. The other Emeralds stuff i don't own on vinyl so I don't hear it as often.

the Steve Hauschildt album is better.

― miss me belial (crüt), Friday, December 18, 2015 5:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Does It Look Like I'm Here... This album. Man.

I blasted it on the drive down Mount Haleakala after watching the sunrise at the peak with my wife this past summer. It was fitting.

Shit. That sounds amazing. This record can soundtrack so many drives btw.

It certainly was!

Studio - West Coast worked just as well for the Road to Hana the next day!

i think i like all the steve hauschildt albums more than emeralds'. btw he is releasing a new album in august - https://stevehauschildt.bandcamp.com/album/dissolvi

the Steve Hauschildt album is better.

― miss me belial (crüt), Friday, December 18, 2015

crut were u referring to "Where All is Fled" here?

that one is maybe the best one

I need to spend more time with those records

I also really like the S/T Outer Space LP that John Elliot put out (in 2010, lol)