Tiny Vipers

i dunno, she's gotten way too floaty and indistinct

the jesy fortino vocals are u+k as we used to say

can't someone chip in and help get this poor girl another consonant

i thought about ^^ these posts ^^ for a couple of days & they really bugged me, i thought i would stridently talk shit about them & it would be fine to brush me off just because it is only ~music opinions~ nobody would get too sad. i don't know, i haven't listened to raum or slow walkers a lot yet, i didn't like blood moon with the guy shredding (though root strata is so neat). & she always made those records, w/xiu xiu or whatever, the first grouper record, there is some clip of her just playing with pedals for a half hour on vimeo, making tidal noise waves on portland public access tv, i didn't so much ever respond to that kinda thing & yeah ~ooooo~-wave music is too close to like whatever imovie sound effect provides like FOREBODING (*cue whistling bowed synthesiser-cello*) backdrop for your student film, it's associations are too literal, one-note. but i listened to the last two grouper records a bunch recently, i guess sometimes i just wanted to hear alien observer, the song, i only have it on this vegetative-state-ipod, my record is far away. & i can't crack dream loss - it's so heavy, such just a howl, i love thinking about the title, dream loss, like the way the mirroring record is this beautifully accessorised assemblage of songs/pictures/&c, but it feels kind of impermeable so far - but i really think alien observer is just as good as anything, & she went somewhere so interesting with it. dragging a dead deer is such an awkward lens through which to view her, because it's so appealing & inviting & inhabitable, it's like seeing chungking express & expecting other wong films to be so pop. like you can listen to invisible, it could practically replace bathing. her acoustic guitar. but everything she's doing on the next record is crazy. like the palette of sounds is so rich. i am twenty eight & i can't imagine anybody in my mini semi-suburban-upbringing-turned-twenties-beardo-coffee-opinions ballpark demographic not having a similar, unformed, pre-verbal strong receptivity to hearing music that plays with the bulging frequencies of overloaded tape, flooded by its exceeded threshold. & the palette on the record is obviously less appealing than glacial acoustic guitars, it is the guy on the high street wearing camo & multiple slings of bead necklaces playing cathedral-reverbed twangy solo new age guitar symphonies sitting on his peavey amp. but hearing overloaded fender rhodes & just the swampiest treated noise & eventually having the melody of like vapor trails to hold on to is such a strong thing. like i could never figure out without lapsing into -~#this~- kind of awful stream of consciousness poetry what the isolating factor was that made pavement always seem like glib & insincere faux-slacker garbage to me but silver jews seem super authentic & spirited, & i feel like a i a is such a totally strong statement - sort of the way living room is with words, but with sound - about this particular mood, that it's a million miles away from whatever like Loop Pedal Floatiness other people do & we should absolutely be just totally wearied by & jaded about, that putting it into ooo-wave junk seems kinda harsh. but then maybe you aren't & you meant the more recent stuff. she's still super vital right now anyway i think. & dang the helen single, wow.

hey guy, i hadn't really given it much thought, just never in any kind of moodspace to crack the ~~~~~~ blurred surface of the a i a dream l o s s pair

even just the word 'alien', i dunno, too much of a hint of kitsch in that sonic context mebbe, i couldn't get w/ that (glancingly perceived) kind of displacement onto whatever, like an artificial conceptual frame

cultivate feelings of displacement & zone out to these records

& dang the helen single, wow.

I need more Helen songs, ASAP

if i had any more feelings of displacement i'd vanish

tiny vipers played a synth set in seattle maybe? reassuring

yo http://www.boxbedroomrebels.bigcartel.com/product/ambience3-tiny-vipers-limited-edition-7-cd-package

feeling http://boxbedroomrebels.bandcamp.com/track/tapes-part-ii-remix

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/03/24/521133338/tiny-vipers-returns-with-first-album-in-8-years-shares-synthetic-hymnal-k-i-s-s

oh hell yes!

haven't heard k.i.s.s. yet but am just so delighted that this is on the horizon. what a joy.

her lps are being reissued, also

this is ...something. i really like it but it's more akin to grouper/mirrorring than life on earth

and

"K.I.S.S." is the first single from Laughter, and the only one to prominently feature lyrics and Jesy Fortino's voice

this sounds great so far ! i was worried i wouldn't like it. i've only listened through a couple times but i feel like it would be more accurate to say it has "no songs" than that it has "no melody" or that there's only one thing using her voice. it reminds me a lil of that theremin reissue on mississippi records a couple years back.

i'm into this

New three-song EP out today, proper songs with guitar & vocals! All three tracks are great.

https://tinyvipers.bandcamp.com/album/american-prayer

Fantastic! Life on Earth is a fave. Can’t wait to listen to these new songs.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!