Nepenthe is truly fantastic.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
Heard it once, another ravishing listen imo.
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
Listened last night, liked. Don't really remember much about it cause of insomnia pain & booze but it made enough of an impression that it'll go into rotation.
― rooibos in disguise (wins), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
ja this is good
― Henry Charles Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Br (seandalai), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
Kinda surprised there isn't more talk about it.
The last ~minute or so of "The Harbinger" is so beautiful that it basically makes me never want to listen to music again.
― john. a resident of chicago., Wednesday, 28 August 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
The cat noises in Pyrrhic, though.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
>Kinda surprised there isn't more talk about it.
me too. Beautiful album.
But Florine definitely won me.
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 15 December 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
Saw her live at the Southbank Centre a few months ago, and I was quite surprised by how laid-back and friendly and, well, goofy she was! Because her music suggests some shy, ethereal being, but she was funny and warm. Lex told me she had a new album out this year, but I still haven't managed to hear it; must make more of an effort to.
― Branwell Bell, Sunday, 15 December 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
She seemed goofy (in a good way) in this interview too http://www.popmatters.com/feature/175284-unknown-discoveries-an-interview-with-julianna-barwick/
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 15 December 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
love her & nepenthe. easily one of my 2013 favorites (though, yeah, i still prefer the magic placce). perhaps the absence of discussion is due to the abstract nature of her music. we mention the evocative beauty in general terms, but everything past that is personal, inchoate.
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Sunday, 15 December 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link
Enya??
― death and darkness and other night kinda shit (crüt), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
more like Julianna Beerwick
http://www.dogfish.com/community/blogfish/members/justin-williams/dogfish-collaborates-with-musician-julianna-barwick-to-celebrate-completion-of-18-monhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXnB6zzXLKw
― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Monday, 2 June 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
new one is really good, definitely preferring it to nepenthe. very cocteau twins i think?
― real orgone kid (NickB), Friday, 6 May 2016 23:11 (eight years ago) link
Nobody is ever going to be surprised by a Julianna Barwick album but this is pretty sweet on a first listen
― tay.ai fan (seandalai), Friday, 6 May 2016 23:50 (eight years ago) link
I wasn't feeling this one as much. Obviously she uses technology to make her music but this one doesn't feel as organic or natural as the last two. Still an 8/10 and probably better than a lot of stuff I'll hear this year
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 8 May 2016 07:38 (eight years ago) link
New one has beautiful moments. And I think it can grow on me more
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 02:55 (seven years ago) link
it's obviously got a lot less of the earthy folk vibe, but i think it's quite reminiscent of the le mystere des voix bulgares records
― real orgone kid (NickB), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 11:01 (seven years ago) link
I've not really engaged much with her before but the new one is amazing.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 29 May 2016 09:52 (seven years ago) link
New one's pretty great. After having my hopes raised by the return of the Magic Place font.
― geoffreyess, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 13:02 (three years ago) link
God, this is gorgeous stuff. "Oh, Memory" with Mary Lattimore's harp and the strings on "Safe" are particularly sublime. The title track, too, is one to get lost in.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
Today I learned that Ninja Tune still exists.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
I've been deeply enjoying this new one
― winters (josh), Saturday, 18 July 2020 05:13 (three years ago) link
some parts of this are as lovely as ever but it has a widescreen cinematic quality that does a lot less for me. Listening to The Magic Place felt like stumbling into something intimate and private despite its gargantuan sound, whereas a lot of this just sounds like big soundtrack music
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 18 July 2020 07:15 (three years ago) link
The first three songs on Healing Is a Miracle have stayed with me all year. They will pop up on random playlists and everything around me just shuts down. I particularly love the mix of light and heavy textures on this one. The bass can be enveloping.
― Indexed, Monday, 18 January 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link
and what's wrong with that
the album is nice and I really needed it last year
― Left, Monday, 18 January 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link
and probably this year
― Left, Monday, 18 January 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
yeah, this was a major record for me last year -- definitely a top favorite
― winters (josh), Monday, 18 January 2021 19:05 (three years ago) link
I always enjoy a new album, but to be honest it gets hard to tell them apart.
Turns out that what I really needed was JB + ~~~~flute vibes~~~~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APlC8ldtD2s
― timber euros (seandalai), Monday, 18 January 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
The three collaborations on this one (especially Oh Memory w/ Mary Lattimore) + the fulsome lower register made this one stand out from the rest of her catalog for me. Probably still reach for Nepenthe most of the time, though.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link
Healing is a Miracle has crept up as probably my favorite record from 2020, as Indexed notes when a track from it comes on the whole world seems to red shift into prehistory. The adjacency to Grouper, so close but also so different, makes me think of the future as a catalog with no gaps.
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Monday, 5 April 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
Somehow I never got around to Healing is a Miracle, or maybe I wasn't paying enough attention for it to resonate with me, but listening to it today it is bowling me over. Magic Place is the one that I hold close to my heart, and the usual Julianna Barwick stuff on Healing is totally on par with that, while the guests and additions add a whole other emotional dimension. Indexed otm re: "the fulsome lower register." I surprised myself with the comparison but when the deep rumbling synth comes in on "Inspirit" it reminds me of when the synths come in on "O Superman" and add a whole array of richer, more foreboding colors to the palette. Great album. I will probably still listen to Magic Place more because it is such mood music to me, and the moods on this one are more diverse. But without giving it too much thought this one is feeling like her best artistic achievement thus far.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 29 October 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link