Bark Psychosis: C or D

Graham's apparently working on new BP stuff. Expect it in 2014. Seriously.

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 6:55 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Holding out.

Nick, do you happen to know if he's still in Argentina?

Graham emailed me yesterday; the new Hex vinyl is nothing to do with him and is just a needle drop from the CD, so avoid.

Dunno if he's in Argentina, but he's been working on a third These New Puritans album which he's very excited about.

I thought that may be the case, so many of these are at the moment. Disappointing.

Yeah, I'd expected as much from that recent issue of 'Hex'. A shame because my original copy is a bit noisy so I'd be up for replacing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp2_JBO8Bk4

^ old, but i never saw it before

odds on a new album in 2014?

Oof, sounds like there was some bad monitoring going on in parts of that.

Long piece on Hex coming up from Wyndham Wallace at the Quietus, apparently.

Just ordered Hex reissue on vinyl. Anyone know if the Sleuth pressing is decent?

I believe Graham warned people off a reissue recently as it had nothing to do with him, I'm afraid. Dunno if it's that one though.

http://thequietus.com/articles/15990-bark-psychosis-hex-graham-sutton-interview

There has to be a new album in the works, right? It's 2014! Every 10 years he makes an album, I mean c'mon already.

Maybe Graham Sutton is waiting for Scott Walker to blink first.

I did tweet at him the other day about it being ten years!

loved reading that article.
if wyndham is a lurker, then can i just say thanks.
it was a great read.
i have the cd issue of hex, and the o.rang album, but never really understood the whole groove ..
at times, the quietus really is the best.

Yeah that was an excellent article. I only got Hex a couple of years ago and I still didn't really know anything about the backstory, so it was really interesting.

Bloodrush, man. WOW.

Apparently they are reissuing their two albums.

YESSSSSS! About time! @RoughTrade @GPSutton 👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/EwgcfBaiLe

— Nigel Wallis (@Mole_9) June 23, 2017

^^ retweeted by Graham Sutton

^ Nice. Sold my copy of Hex when needing some money earlier this year, brilliant news.

still have the cds but if they put these out on vinyl that would be nice.

also, Hex was reissued on vinyl, but there was something dodgy or unauthorized about it

I'd hope there'd be some bonus stuff

I prefer the trio material, is that still available?

This is excellent news. Was the Vinylissimo (sp?) reissue from a few years back official?

Just noticed that there's a new Coldharbourstores thing, too. I'd not heard of them - worth a listen?

Aha!

Dunno if they're included but I wrote Graham some sleevenotes for Dustsucker a few months ago...

Oh so you're the guy.

:-D

colharbourstores were good but they're certainly different from bark psychosis

Has anything been heard of John Ling? He seemed to disappear in the 90s from what I heard.

That's what Graham meant when he wrote, "Great pains / time / money have been used to do this properly". Decent sleeve notes!! ;-)

https://www.roughtrade.com/events/fearless-the-making-of-post-rock-jeanette-leech-graham-sutton-in-conversation

I still don't know the order of events -- ie, whether they already knew each other before she started writing the book, or whether they met because she started writing the book and interviewing people -- but it's fun that Jeanette and Graham ended up getting married. Power couple right there!

revisiting codename dustsucker and i've gotta say (and someone probably did) that track one basically invented grizzly bear

Nice try, but I'm still not going to listen to Grizzly Bear

shapeshifting sounds like movietone with a michio kurihara guest guitar solo

I was in London for this talk at Rough Trade. It was fairly interesting and a happy accident that I ended up in the shop just before the talk began. Wish they had played some examples of the music that influenced the sound.

Oh cool, do you remember much about what was said?

In parts. Talked about the influences of the sound. The differences in the U.K. and US post rock principals / sound. The research & writing process. A couple anecdotes. Some other known musicians were in the audience but I forgot who they are now.

revisiting codename dustsucker and i've gotta say (and someone probably did) that track one basically invented grizzly bear

it's the vocal harmonies as much as the music. i don't think i'm insane, i can't actually unhear it now

hex double vinyl remaster?

https://boomkat.com/products/hex-2fe2e77f-2575-4820-88f4-b763cf63e88d

Cd's supposed to be remastered too and finally got the mix it should have done if the band weren't falling apart at the time or something. So have wondered if it sounds much different to the original release which i think I still have.

Also wondering if Sutton might remaster the Che era stuff and recompile it.

that would be nice. I'll be buying this, more to support the band and Sutton and show interest than anything else; I do wish it wasn't a double 45 release, I hate those. But still.

They have a Bandcamp page if you want to go direct. I'm assuming the FLAC is 24bit.

Hard to tell how different the new master is but the previews sound nice enough.

XXP - The album is remixed??

Has anyone established whether it actually sounds any different/better? (It always sounded close to perfect to me).

From one faintly distracted listen last night, not A-B tested (though I did listen to the original, via a different method, the day before), I feel like some of the guitar is slightly more prominent, and some of the background/ambient sounds. Specifically Graham's spooky, scratchy, mood/rhythm guitar bits (not the sparkly, beatific, weary lead melodies). The whole effect of which is to feel a little less smooth. And closer, ever so slightly, to Dustsucker.