^^^^^^^^^ to the millionth power
― shiny trippy people holding bandz (m bison), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 01:10 (ten years ago) link
yeah this album rules, good news!
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 8 October 2013 01:52 (ten years ago) link
yay!
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 01:59 (ten years ago) link
They drew him like a Disney kid?
http://youaintnopicasso.com/images/op.jpg
http://www.rotoscopers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hans-or-kristoff-disney-frozen.jpg
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Friday, 29 November 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
holy shit that Attilla pic
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 30 November 2013 13:15 (ten years ago) link
an Oscar nominee.
http://oscar.go.com/nominees/music-original-score/her
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
I thought we were supposed to speak of him in code
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Thursday, 16 January 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
That Atilla pic - I thought at first he was zooming down the river in a speedboat like a Bond villain.
Oscar news is awesome, good job Owen!
― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Thursday, 16 January 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
Congrats and say hi to lupita and j-law for me at the ceremony
― pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Thursday, 16 January 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
yay owen!
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 16 January 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
congrats owen!
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
congrats!
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
if you win you need to finish any speech with "that's how i break it down to an extent"
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
omg yes
― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
say the meme right but omg yes
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
lol xp
double lol
― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
Hurrah for Owen!
― you're still in love with me and you don't know why (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
SO DOPE didnt realize homie did this score, now im going to have to go watch this movie
― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for your kind words, I don't care about the Oscars and I'm not a fan of the score or the movie :) but thanks. If I do win tho I'll be 3/4s of a way toward being the lamest EGOT ever, aero and I have a Tony plan for that final stretch
― pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
haha I was gonna ask if I should bother watching her
― beef in the new era (wins), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
good luck anyway!
― beef in the new era (wins), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
I don't care about the Oscars and I'm not a fan of the score or the movie
<3333333
― lovely cuddly fluffy dope (imago), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
when's Fartland coming out yo
― lovely cuddly fluffy dope (imago), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
oh i am so xposting that comment to tmz now
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
would pay to see a goaty fantasy musical btw
Woo, well done! (Even if you don't care, ha.)
― emil.y, Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:31 (ten years ago) link
I am lookin fwd to that Tony hustle! flaunt it, baby, flaunt it.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link
will u score my musical based on parliament's "funkentelechy v the placebo syndrome"?
― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
I was trying to find out what the emmy was for and found this:
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards2010 NominatedChainsaw Award Best ScoreThe Box (2009)Shared with:
Win Butler Régine Chassagne
Geez with a nod like that no wonder you don't care about oscar!
― beef in the new era (wins), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link
― lovely cuddly fluffy dope (imago)
Was trying to stop myself from asking this but yeah is this coming out in the near future? Very excited to hear it.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 16 January 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
May 13. I think we're releasing a video and/or lyric video next week
― pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 16 January 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
Just in time for my birthday woohoo.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
i like how when you try to click on owen's name it takes you to cadillac.com
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
― pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included)
Hooray!
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 16 January 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
Good news on both counts!
And congrats! I had assumed it was an Arcade Fire nomination, didn't realise it was more specific than that!
― Jill, Thursday, 16 January 2014 23:38 (ten years ago) link
Only a handful of albums of which, when listening to them, I'm still equally amazed and feeling blessed that somehow it exists in my lifetime and I got to know and love it. Heartland does it to me every single time.
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 9 October 2016 12:29 (seven years ago) link
same
― josh, Sunday, 9 October 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
i delayed listening to "in conlfict" for such a long time because i worried it would disappoint if it didn't measure up to "heartland." i ended up liking in conflict even more as it turns out, but this is still a special record.
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Sunday, 9 October 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
<3 I'm working on a follow up to this album called Island, but I'm having to rewrite much of it because some of the lyrical material was ah too raw for me to manage, excising certain stuff that I don't want following me around. So far, it's long and slow and there are no electric instruments on it
― fgti, Sunday, 9 October 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
I had a conversation with my brother yesterday about "the best album in our adult lives" and he insisted on aerial by Kate bush and I said heartland, ys or sound of silver, very much knowing the audience. He loved ys but hadn't heard the other two and has spent the day texting me about how fantastic they are. Man I fucking love heartland and in conflict.
― plums (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 9 October 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
That's fantastic news, can't wait but by all means take your time <3
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 9 October 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
random fgti sightings is in my top 5 reasons of coming here everyday
btw dud it is my dream if you played your music with my city's youth orchestra, putting this out in the universe
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Sunday, 9 October 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
should say dude
there are days, like today, when I think "The Great Elsewhere" is the best song ever made. I've been listening to this song obsessively for nearly a decade and it still doesn't make any sense to me on a musical level - it starts in a weird time signature and then changes to 4/4(-ish?), but it's not clear how exactly because that opening loop is still going at the same tempo in the background, and there's so many notes in the verses, and the lyrics have no business being as catchy as they are, and it all works, and I don't understand how you're doing this all on your lonesome.
I can't wait for Island. (And will you stop by Southeast Asia at some point? I would like to see an fgti play live at least once in my lifetime, also I will take you out for food.)
― Roz, Monday, 18 December 2017 07:08 (six years ago) link
I just listened to this album for the first time last week, working backwards from In Conflict (which is excellent). Great on the first two listens, I want to keep digging deeper into it. "The Great Elsewhere" is definitely the song that got my attention the most so far - I also am a bit amazed at how it works out but I feel like analyzing it too much may ruin the magic
and also want to second Owen coming to Southeast Asia!
― Vinnie, Monday, 18 December 2017 08:24 (six years ago) link
"The Great Elsewhere" is the furthest I went with the look-at-me aspect of looping that I'm trying to remove myself from. Glad you like it, I like it too, and I'm determined to write at least one maximalist song a year-- I feel embarrassed by songs like those but I recognize that they're kind of necessary, I guess
The rhythmic pattern was recently discussed on a music podcast out of Spain, and I posted the solution to the rhythm (it's 11/16 + 11/16 + 10/16, which adds up to 32/16 = 2x 4/4).
pic.twitter.com/I5btfAFGdp— sea turt (@owenpallett) December 10, 2017
There's a new one on Island called "A Bloody Morning" which is kind of the same nautical theme and musical cleverness and wordy lyrics, Greg Fox is drumming on it and just sounding like a genius
I got him to do a bunch of stuff in studio but I only ended up keeping him on one song. I had the idea that I could treat his blast-beat and make it sound like "the weather" but it just sounded like blast-beat and I'm not ready to make that record yet lol
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 18 December 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
Also, the beach scene in "The Great Elsewhere" is maybe-obviously inspired by Pigafetti's account of Magellan's death on the island of Mactan:
So we continued to retire for more than a good crossbow flight from the shore always fighting up to our knees in the water. The natives continued to pursue us, and picking up the same spear four or six times, hurled it at us again and again. Recognizing the captain, so many turned upon him that they knocked his helmet off his head twice, but he always stood firmly like a good knight, together with some others. Thus did we fight for more than one hour, refusing to retire farther. An Indian hurled a bamboo spear into the captain's face, but the latter immediately killed him with his lance, which he left in the Indian's body. Then, trying to lay hand on sword, he could draw it out but halfway, because he had been wounded in the arm with a bamboo spear. When the natives saw that, they all hurled themselves upon him. One of them wounded him on the left leg with a large cutlass, which resembles a scimitar, only being larger. That caused the captain to fall face downward, when immediately they rushed upon him with iron and bamboo spears and with their cutlasses, until they killed our mirror, our light, our comfort, and our true guide. When they wounded him, he turned back many times to see whether we were all in the boats. Thereupon, beholding him dead, we, wounded, retreated, as best we could, to the boats, which were already pulling off."
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/magellan.htm
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 18 December 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
Oh cool, you restored the Greg Fox track!
― Cardi Acs (imago), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
Greg Fox! That's awesome.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link