Destroy: Hmm.. I don't know enough about the Kranky roster to play.
― Sir Echo (Sir Echo), Sunday, 19 November 2006 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Magnog are still great, v. underappreciated.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 November 2006 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link
-- chris andrews (frae...), October 31st, 2004.
typical ilx response, sir!
search: a load of bands the 'casual' listener probably won't have heard of, and definitely won't have heard.
destroy: low, gy!be, i.e. the ones that the 'casual' listener has probably heard and/or liked.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Sunday, 19 November 2006 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Sunday, 19 November 2006 03:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 19 November 2006 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Sunday, 19 November 2006 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Rush are on Kranky now?!?
― tiit (tiit), Sunday, 19 November 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
hi, i really like White Rainbow's "Prism of Eternal Now". however my friend told me it's boring "new age". getting old is a bitch.
― rockapads, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Cloudland Canyon
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 1 November 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
^ ^ awesome cd. i'm a big fan.
― rockapads, Thursday, 1 November 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i've been ignoring kranky for years but i went and listened through their last year's releases on emusic and well fuck me if there isn't a bunch of really great stuff that's been flying beneath my radar. dig the cloudland canyon stuff, the latest valet album is lovely too, lotus plaza, strategy.. nice.
― private static void (electricsound), Monday, 27 April 2009 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
^ otm... Jonas Reinhardt is great, too
― nerve_pylon, Monday, 27 April 2009 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I just saw Windy & Carl / Benoit Pioulard the other night. Windy & Carl put everyone to sleep, which is to say they were wonderful!
― "buttz" (Z S), Monday, 27 April 2009 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahaha.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 27 April 2009 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
The new Jonas Reinhardt album 'Powers Of Audition' is all kinds of awesome. I'm really digging this. It's instrumental kosmiche synth-laden prog of the highest vintage-appreciating order, with a wee handful of totally propulsive krautrockers to get your head nodding, before you're transported back to soaring warmly on the higher astral plain... very nice.
― krakow, Saturday, 6 March 2010 10:43 (fourteen years ago) link
The new Loscil album 'Endless Falls' is also rather lovely. Looks like I'm back on the Kranky collecting train when these ones filter through properly.
― krakow, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 10:03 (fourteen years ago) link
This new one, 'Endless Falls', is inspired by the hefty rainfall in Loscil's Vancouver hometown, and I think is really evocative, both musically and aesthetically (it has a great cover shot, apparently by his 4 year old daughter), of those long, slightly melancholy days when you're inside listening to and watching the rain blurring the world outside the window, immersing yourself in your house-bound self.
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drn500/n582/n58297nkvdn.jpg
― krakow, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Will have to check that Loscil, I really like what I've heard previously.
I can't claim this is an impartial recommendation, because he's a dear friend, but Chris Herbert's Mezzotint from a couple of years back is a slow-burner of the highest order. This is more recent than the album, but is a fair representation, and is wonderful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK-HL64XXaY
― Bill A, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
(it has a great cover shot, apparently by his 4 year old daughter)
Love this.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha, the other I just did a search to see if anyone had been talking about Loscil on ILX and there was absolutely zip in the search. Now there is, and good. Have really been enjoying the new one, and thought Plume was pretty good too. Wasn't actually aware he was from Vancouver (or part of Destroyer) until last night. Huh!
― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I seem to remember back in the mid-90s the big acts on Kranky were Labradford, FSA, Stars of the Lid, and Jessamine. Jessamine really seems to have been forgotten...
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Did they tour much? Can't remember. A very good band for sure, maybe rediscoveries are nigh.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
But wait, FSA? They were VHF and Drag City unless I've completely misremembered.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
No, I'm mis-remembering. Coulda swore they were on Kranky but I'm mistaken.
Jessamine were hit and miss but when they hit they were terrific.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Sunday, 3 October 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Really fond of Jessamine, but I wonder if they got overlooked a bit due to vocals (which were kind of ordinary indie-schmindie compared to their sound). Totally amazing drummer, whose name I don't know. I still play "You Have Ugly Talents, Martha" and "You May Have Forgotten" and "Pilot-Free Ignition" on a regular basis.
― dlp9001, Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
new Belong record on kranky is really really great
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
YES! New Belong! <3 I´ve only heard the one song they released online, I´m waiting for the vinyl to arrive!
Is the album pretty much like that song, ´Perfect Life´?
This band is so criminally overlooked. One of my greatest musical discoveries of the last decade I think. Somehow they found a place between all existing music and made it so uniquely their own. I know no other band that sounds like them, not on a deeper level.
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I caved and downloaded the album. All your fault Ilxor! ;-)
Enjoying the shit out of this. Cannot wait for the vinyl!
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
hah nice, i have done my good deed for the day!
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah loving the belong album. quite difft to the EP of theirs i have. like a more gentle soft moon
― fried egg on my mind (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
wow i am listening to this song
http://www.futuresequence.com/article/review-belong-common-era/
goddam this is great
― what do it take to be a legend like noz is? (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
WOW,thanks for this recommendation, the part at 2:15 on the very first song ("Come See") blew me away. new shoegaze that doesn't suck, and doesn't feel like a lesser copy of some antecedent. sold.
― Z S, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it's really good! glad everyone's latching on so easily. every year there's basically 1 or 2 great shoegaze/dream-pop albums. this year it's Belong (for me anyway)
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Thursday, 17 March 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
It's odd but I've never really linked Belong to shoegaze, not directly. For me they emerged mostly out of noise and reverb-drenched pop echoes on previous records. Seems that pace-wise they are stepping it up on this record though, it's less "druggy and slow, and suddenly it really is very shoegazey. Amazing.
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 17 March 2011 08:46 (thirteen years ago) link
just listened last night. very good!
― original bgm, Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
will order this tomorrow night.listening to Kranky Kompilation now, what a consistently kickass label
― CharlieS, Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
my full thoughts on new Belong album here
this is highly OTM:
Somehow they found a place between all existing music and made it so uniquely their own.
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks. That's a great review ilxor! The Cure reference makes total sense too.
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks! people can say "shoegaze" til they're blue but the main touchstone i hear is '80s cure :)
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Monday, 21 March 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
which is total ilxor-bait but hey...
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Monday, 21 March 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ilxor otm - I gave this a quick listen today (it's now up on Spotify), and the Cure was one of the first things I thought of. Need to hear it again, but this does sound like a big step up from their previous.
― ka£ka (NickB), Monday, 21 March 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
what did the pitchfork reviewer get wrong?
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15235-common-era/
― j., Tuesday, 22 March 2011 06:41 (thirteen years ago) link
if he wants them to retread October Language, he might as well just put on October Language again, iirc
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Really enjoying this Implodes album on first listen. Anyone know anything about them?
― ridic beau (NickB), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 11:06 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2O4cVxQINk
Loving this, and probably preferring it to the Belong album, although it's not all that dissimilar. Hearing traces of Slowdive and Flying Saucer Attack and Low and good stuff like that.
― ridic beau (NickB), Thursday, 21 April 2011 13:22 (thirteen years ago) link
...but duh it is on kranky after all
― ridic beau (NickB), Thursday, 21 April 2011 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
saw em live about a year ago and was kinda ....boredthe record sounds much better though im not quite sold on the vocals yet
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Implodes includes Matt Jencik from Don Cab and Hurl
― felldownawell, Sunday, 24 April 2011 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Dunno why it took me so many damn years to find this out, but this first Jessamine album is just fucking great.
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
Damn right.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone heard any more of the Niecy Blues album aside from what's on Bandcamp?
― djh, Sunday, 5 November 2023 19:46 (five months ago) link
Oh look! https://justinwalter.bandcamp.com/album/destroyer
― Evan, Monday, 20 November 2023 18:36 (five months ago) link