Baroness - Yellow And Green (2012)

Listened to this just this past week for the first time in over a year. Great record.

Straight up love it now. Listened twice today already.

Great record.

Theory: Baroness would be bigger than Mastodon right now if their bus hadn't crashed a month after Yellow & Green was released.

They've still got time to be bigger than Mastodon, I reckon they might be after the next album (they're poppier!).

mastodon has kind of sunk into a rut of "consistently-decent-sometimes-really-good-but-not-really-extraordinary-anymore" so baroness's time would be now.

Theory: Baroness would be bigger than Mastodon right now if their bus hadn't crashed a month after Yellow & Green was released.

I kinda agree with this, but in the world we actually live in, I feel like their moment has passed. The crash cost them a ton of momentum, plus they've had so many lineup changes over the years that now it really is just John Baizley and some sidemen; "band identity" has been lost (as represented by the tracks on Y&G that clearly feature drum machines).

Purple out 12/18. Advance track agreeably Skynyrd-meets-Pumpkins imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhS0j3WxfWY

god part of that sounds like weezer

I can never get into this band, but as long as their album covers continue with the theme of naked women continue to cuddling with sea creatures and murdering birds, they are alright by me.

Not sure I'm particularly into this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYF5FCu_M-k

Best New Music via pfork

hey i think i love this record. surprising bc i was pretty indifferent to yellow and green. sorta sounds like thrice crosspollinated with qotsa

i revisited yellow and green and this is way better than yellow and green imo

Their new drummer is very...demonstrative

Listened to this yesterday, and again this morning. I'm liking it a lot more than I did when I streamed half the promo a month or so ago. There are a couple of moments that are blatantly stolen from other bands - there's one riff that's pure Mastodon, and another that's total 70s Pink Floyd - but they're not the main riffs of songs, they just pop up for a second and then disappear again, which is weird and kinda great.

I thought it was interesting that they streamed one track from the album on each of 10 different websites this week - felt bad for Rolling Stone Australia, who got to premiere the 17-second funny-voice outro.

the chord progression in the chorus of "shock me" is just catnip for me, the way it never stops moving

Time has been kind to this album.

purple made me go back to this a lot and yeah, it's so good

This revive brought to you by wondering when the hell they're gonna announce The Other Black Album or whatever, those rehearsal videos from awhile back were exciting.

oh, nevermind. from June:

the next Baroness album has been written and the band has tracked in the studio. Baizley wouldn’t give up too much information, other than to say that Baroness are in the mixing/mastering process and the new record will break from tradition, not being named for a color.

They haven't made a bad album yet. (I don't really like their early EPs much.)

Y&G turns 10 this weekend. I wrote about it for Stereogum.