Life Without Buildings

That flyer is the only thing I've seen about it. It's at White Columns at 8 on Saturday.

I'm going for sure! Very excited.

Any Other City getting a vinyl reissue for Record Store Day.

http://pitchfork.com/news/54418-life-without-buildings-any-other-city-being-reissued-for-record-store-day/

Really hope I can hold of a copy.

Yeah me too!

Looking at this list it's not listed as limited edition so hopefully it'll be easy to get.

http://new-vinyl.blogspot.com/2014/01/record-store-day-2014rsd-7-april-19.html

I don't really know how Record Store Day works, I've never gotten involved with it before. The thought of trying to fight for the records I want stresses me out but I'd do it for this reissue.

It doesn't seem to me like the release that you have to fight for.
I'm optimistically suspecting it'll be the kind of RSD release that lingers in stores after the frenzy.

First editions of the LP come with a 7” that contains alternate recordings of album cuts “The Leanover” and “New Town.”

That 7" originally came out before the LP iirc and I prefer those versions, though the LP versions kill too

Would be nice to get the version with the single but think I'll just take the easier option and aim for the album on its own.

The best thing about this review is the link it provides for the original NME review back in 2001. Had forgotten just how long the NME have been making absolutely no effort into writing actual reviews.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19181-life-without-buildings-any-other-city/

Never heard this album but all the re-release hype has made me super excited to hear it (it's not available on Spotify or anything like that). So this will be one of those increasingly rare albums I purchase without hearing first. I do miss that experience.

This album and Since I Left You volley back and forth as my favorite albums of the 00s, but this one's on top most of the time. I sincerely hope you find you love it.

Not sure how I missed it the first time, b/c it sounds right in my sweet spot and I was devouring this kind of stuff at the time.

But in the years since I've been burned by so many NME-ish bands that I stopped checking most of them out—"RIYL The Fall" is no longer the catnip it once was for me—so I do fear sometimes that I'm missing out on at least a few awesome UK bands I'd love if I gave them the chance

Yeah, I picked it as my favorite album of the 00s for the Stylus Decade.

The best thing about this review is the link it provides for the original NME review back in 2001. Had forgotten just how long the NME have been making absolutely no effort into writing actual reviews.

I'm pretty sure I wrote a glowing review of their last London live show, supporting The Strokes (who were playing their first London live show) at the Barfly, but I can't find it on the NME website.

Funny that I don't love this album the way I did in 2002, but I do love it for killing post-rock dead

So I wasn't able to find this on Record Store Day. Do we know if this was a RSD-only re-release? I'm not finding any place online that's selling it, even Rough Trade's web store isn't

I knew an mp3 version is being released on iTunes and Amazon next week (or the week after, I can't recall) but don't know about the vinyl.

idgi, how did LWOB "kill post-rock dead"?

i heard this for the first time yesterday

it rules

they didn't kill post-rock in the UK, most UK post-rock probably came after they split up - or at least it was in the early 00s that it scene-ified over here (outside London and maybe Glasgow and a few other places, anyway)

and they probably did get knocked down the bill from headlining to supporting the Strokes on their first UK tour at the last minute (a story one of the articles upthread mentions and then calls "possibly apocryphal"), but so did the local support here, who were no Life Without Buildings - the Strokes were basically unheard of one week, NME single of the week two days before their UK tour started, and bills were rearranged all over the country

anyway all of that is beside the point, as this is a great album. how does the reissue sound?

and they probably did get knocked down the bill from headlining to supporting the Strokes on their first UK tour at the last minute (a story one of the articles upthread mentions and then calls "possibly apocryphal"), but so did the local support here, who were no Life Without Buildings - the Strokes were basically unheard of one week, NME single of the week two days before their UK tour started, and bills were rearranged all over the country

i can easily imagine this. buzz about the strokes from the Modern Age single was massive, and definitely the anticipation at the London show was for the strokes, who were excellent - indeed, I never saw them play better. but life without buildings were better still.

FWIW I bought the re-issue at Rough Trade East towards the end of the day yesterday, and they still had at least a dozen copies left. They're going to sell their unsold stock next Saturday online, so maybe look for it there.

The only downers are that it was £29.99, which is fucking insane, and that I forgot that the album doesn't actually include my favorite song of theirs (Love Trinity) which I now realize I had on a CD single which Discogs tells me goes for over £50 and which I'm sure I gave to a charity shop a decade ago after ripping it, like an idiot!

Sounds great, anyway, and comes with a bonus 7" with a couple of demos which I haven't played yet.

Just picked it up at Saki in Chicago, $23, they still had a few.

the right stuff, the right
the right stuff

Does the remaster sound any different? I'm thrilled this is getting a reissue but it never sounded like it was missing anything in the first place..

someone should write up an alt-canon that has this at one end and sonny sharrock's 'black woman' at the other

Anyone still looking for a copy of this. I ordered it from the website two weeks ago thinking I'd probably get told it was out of stock or something. It just turned up today and is the version with the single. I'm delighted.

http://whatsyourrupture.bigcartel.com/product/life-without-buildings-any-other-city

$29 with shipping which seems like a great deal.

I just ordered it and it seemed to go through, so I hope I'm successful as well.

After a few days of not hearing anything I did email them to check they had it in stock. They got back to me within minutes saying "Yes, we have a copy for you. Enjoy your record" It took another ten days to arrive and they didn't send a confirmation email but here it is. It looks great but haven't played it yet.

I feel bad for the people who have paid over a hundred dollars on eBay for a copy.

I just got my copy in the mail yesterday. IIRC, my shipment confirmation came from USPS or some third-party mail forwarder, not from WYR, so maybe it got flagged as spam? I don't get the impression that this was a terribly limited release, or if it was, maybe most shops just didn't get it. WYR in the states and Rough Trade for Britishers seem to have plenty.

Mine just came today. I just emailed WYR yesterday to see why it was taking so long and he said they'd just received the re-pressed stock but that he'd found some leftover RSD stock there at the office and sent it out last week. I wonder if the re-pressed albums include the 7".

They are full of shit. I ordered them on May 4th and I mailed them last week and this is what they said.

"If you read teh description it says

"Reissue of Life Without Buildings LP. These copies do not include
the 7". Stock will arrive around May 30th and will ship out after."

BUT! I ended up finding a few extra LP+7" versions and sent one of
those your way yesterday. Expect the record next week.

Kevin"

My email still has the link to the one I ordered

"Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
$24.99"

If it would have been the normal version then it would have been 19.99. I haven't checked my mail box yet.

Amazing how they found some......

He can lie to me all he wants as long as he holds up his end of the bargain. Now that the (RSD version of the) record is in my possession, I no longer care.

this thread just reminded me of the existence of erase errata

nightlife was an astonishing record

classic review:
http://www.nme.com/reviews/4076

classic indeed!

yeah this album is incredible. total magic eye thing.

and while the vocalist is undeniably the star, i am not sure this would have worked with a more vigorous or in-any-way-pointed musical backdrop, nor a more ambient one - it's pretty perfect autumn music

ting ting!

love some of the mini crescendos in these songs, those still kill me after all this time
- look back and say that i didn't!
- my lips are sealed (mad as a seal?)
- looookin in your eeeeeyyyyeeessss! looookin in your eeeeeyyyyeeessss! looookin in your eeeeeyyyyeeessss!

Agreed but it's funny how the vocals put most people off. I think it's all the repetition.

imago so otm.

all time album!

I'm hoping Sue did something with Underworld.... she is mentioned in the liner notes of Drift episode 2. One of the guys recently discovered the album and met with her.

did a dj set a few months ago during a happy hour thing I was doing and played Life Without Buildings in a set with Anne Clark, Leslie Winer and Algebra Suicide. One young woman in the audience lost her shit. It was a good set.

looookin in your eeeeeyyyyeeessss! looookin in your eeeeeyyyyeeessss! looookin in your eeeeeyyyyeeessss!

impossible for me not to hear this as "lookin in your arse", but that somehow doesn't distract from the power of the song.

"if i lose you if i lose you if i lose you, to her to her to her" is a thrilling in media res opening too

in the loos
in the loos
in the loos
("leaves", really, i guess)

if i lose you *to her*? I only hear "uh huh" -- same on lyrics sites. She then goes on to elaborate, "in the street".

that live album too, right? goddam

i always heard "to her," or i guess in her accent "to huh"

ooh ooo