I can replicate it with a throaty growl but it basically sounds like I'm drawing up phlegm. Not very impressive at all.
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
His voice was collosal - he could holler with the best of them. Did he influence James Brown or vice - versa?
― Hinklepicker, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 03:07 (ten years ago) link
Oops meant for Bobby Bland. I'll try that again.
― Hinklepicker, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 06:48 (ten years ago) link
Lol
― personal yeezus (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 11:19 (ten years ago) link
this is cool as shit
i liked the last one ok but i like this a lot more
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
still sounds to me like what field music was making in miniature on measure ("precious plans")
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 30 June 2013 00:06 (ten years ago) link
it's not quite that, I think. field music way more interested in catchy hooks, deconstructing pop
not that measure isn't every bit as good as this, because it is - may even be better, but it's different
― rockety communism (imago), Sunday, 30 June 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
that field music album is more prismatic going for a more variegated effect song by song while these new puritans with this one are more focused i think on elaborating one distinct (mark hollis) aesthetic. maybe my point is i hear echoes of spirit of eden in recent music and i'm glad field of reeds runs with those sounds but it's not like omg they're reviving tones no one's heard in ten years
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 30 June 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
Er just bumping cos I wanna read this on zing
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
I like this record a lot more than I did a month ago
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 20:24 (ten years ago) link
I only heard it for the first time about 2 days ago and I must have played it about 5 times through already. Great stuff. I'm interested in this current 'trend'/'contintuum' that seems to include this, the Knife album, The Seer, Bish Bosch, certainly Heartland and a few other recent(ish) albums (someone mentioned Ulver upthread) that work as a piece and are 'post-rock' and epic and indulgent and arty and grand but not in a Mogwai sense. It's my favourite kind of album at the moment and I can't get enough.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
Maybe Matt Elliott's The Broken Man? You know, the one that features the memorable title, "If Anyone Tells Me 'It's Better To Have Loved And Lost Than To Never Have Loved At All' I Will Stab Them In The Face".
― doug watson, Thursday, 11 July 2013 01:43 (ten years ago) link
that's more impressionist european folk tbf tbf
― reet pish (imago), Thursday, 11 July 2013 09:26 (ten years ago) link
Fair enough. My only other suggestion might be one of the more recent offerings from Kayo Dot.
― doug watson, Thursday, 11 July 2013 10:36 (ten years ago) link
October tour dates:These New Puritans - UK tour11th Oct Manchester, Gorilla (tickets)12th Oct Bristol, Simple Things Festival (tickets)15th Oct London, Electric Brixton (tickets)16th Oct Leeds, Vox (tickets)17th Oct Glasgow, Oran Mor (tickets) 18th Oct Gateshead, Sage (tickets)
― If you tolerate Bis, then Kenickie will be next (ithappens), Thursday, 11 July 2013 10:52 (ten years ago) link
That Simple Things Festival looks alright - King Midas Sound, Moderat, Pantha Du Prince and Jon Hopkins are on the bill too
― Ralph Vogon Williams (NickB), Thursday, 11 July 2013 11:02 (ten years ago) link
They are incredible live fwiw.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 July 2013 11:30 (ten years ago) link
Good to decorate to.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 11 July 2013 22:12 (ten years ago) link
definitely contender for album of the year
― "If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode" (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 July 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
i wanted to like this. i liked "hidden". this is like some murray gold take on "contemporary music". WACK AS FUCK.
― massaman gai, Friday, 12 July 2013 21:42 (ten years ago) link
that's an interesting perspective
― imago, Friday, 12 July 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
look rather than call out yr hi-larious avant-snobbery I'm gonna link you my album of the year and wait for you to compare it to the fkn postman pat theme tune
http://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/discontinuities
― imago, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
'Organ Eternal' cropped up on shuffle play while I was travelling back home yesterday and just blew my mind. It just felt like the perfect track at the perfect time.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Friday, 12 July 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
imago btw thanks for the aoty alert
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
gonna link that one everywhere tbh, it needs an audience. weirdly the metal thread didn't wanna know
― imago, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
that jute gyte sounds sweet. microtonal. passionate. for BM, "groovy". no mimetic glass/ reich /lutoslawski / ligeti, or ersatz gravitas through "classical" instrumentation. rhythm. that a million times over TNP's half arsed george fentonisms
― massaman gai, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
well at least something came outta this then
― imago, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
i liked hidden!just don't get this "progression" to tired old shit
― massaman gai, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
hmm. certainly I don't like FOR to the same extent all the way through but I think the highlights are beautifully written
― imago, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:48 (ten years ago) link
and kinda novel, to my ears at least
i guess beauty is in the eye(ear?) of the beholder n all, but to me it sounds deleteriously derivative, devoid of rhythmic inventiveness, & jeez they shoulda hazed the brass section or got a decent jazz player in. sounds like williams fairey brass band juniors play C20 modernists. "parp". who gave them the budget for this? it sounds embarrassing. don't get sutton's take either. i respect sutton. just rubs me up the wrong way.
― massaman gai, Friday, 12 July 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
The dry-recorded horns and vox seem to my ears to be a conscious choice to make the record sound "not otherworldly". There's a kind of disappointed quality to the production? Which I kind of like-- I mean, I like it especially in contrast to the We Are Really Into Pagan Imagery Both Sonically And Visually m.o. of "Hidden"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 13 July 2013 00:02 (ten years ago) link
I couldn't wait for a US release. I quite like this album, and as a life-long fan of underground rock, it sounds new and interesting to me. But I do give credence to Massaman Gai's perspective, and it sounds like s/he is much more familiar with avante-classical or whatever genre this album fits better with. But in my experience it's always great to find a gateway into different areas of music, even if the initial exposure seems quaint in retrospect.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 15 July 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
this is the second time this month i liked something and some modern classical know it all told me i shouldn't like it
― "If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode" (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 July 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
is this even going to get a US release? still not sure why we have to play this game in 2013, but i was hoping to be able to purchase a legit copy.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 15 July 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
Obviously it would be a better approach to say "glad you like it, now check out such and such for something even better."
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 15 July 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
I've tried listening to Hidden again and it did nothing for me
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Monday, 15 July 2013 19:30 (ten years ago) link
What was the first time m@tt?
― the next night we ate Wale (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 15 July 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
ye gads you're free to like it! i'm not saying you do or should have the same value system as me. as for suggesting viable alternatives "further reading" / whatever, the thing has been extensively reviewed with reference to similar music. check it out. spoon -fed much?
― massaman gai, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 08:11 (ten years ago) link
ostensibly similar
― massaman gai, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 08:12 (ten years ago) link
Hey everyone, it's the guy from the Guardian end-of-year reader comments section!
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 10:19 (ten years ago) link
oh you hurt my feelings. how mean
― massaman gai, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 10:48 (ten years ago) link
What stuff from the modern rock/classical crossover canon floats yer boat, masseman? We've had Ulcer and Kayo Dot among others mentioned here - not a fan of theirs either?
― imago, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 11:04 (ten years ago) link
Ulver, even
― "If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode" (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, July 15, 2013 2:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I similarly had someone suck all the life out of Max Richter for me years ago in this way.
― Evan, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
That someone was otmfm
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
more like pees poo pooritans
― ienjoyhotdogs, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 21:11 (ten years ago) link
Interviewed Graham Sutton about recording Field of Reeds (and other stuff, but mainly TNP).
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/graham-sutton-interview
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 29 July 2013 12:37 (ten years ago) link
Awesome interview. You back in the business as well, Scik?
― imago, Monday, 29 July 2013 12:50 (ten years ago) link
I've written a handful of pieces for The Quietus over the last few years.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 29 July 2013 12:52 (ten years ago) link