Emeralds-Classic or Dud?

I'm glad to hear someone finally agree, I was beginning to wonder if this thing just completely flew by everyone. It's terrific.

Along the Way is wonderful

i don't know the Emeralds stuff, but I loooooove Along the Way

where should i start with Emeralds?

Does it look like I'm here? should be easy to find and is very, very good

allegory of allergies

yeah that one is amazing, hoping for a reissue

I thought I would tire of listening to Mark McGuire, but plowing my way through MM's stuff right now and it gets pretty addictive. Guy is awesome, IMO

that one is amazing, hoping for a reissue

― KrafTwerk (sleeve), Monday, May 19, 2014 8:06 PM

duh I walked into the record store today and there it was, 2LP on Weird Forest, been out for years but it is severely truncated from the original cassette, so I guess I need to be greedy and ask for a 3LP version

Listening to Mark's new ep Noctilucence on Pitchfork Advance right now ... very, very good. Like it better than the album.

Into this: https://soundcloud.com/deadoceans/mark-mcguire-earth-2015

happy to see him switch up his sound for once

God, the new Steve Hauschildt LP, "Where All is Fled," is beautiful (no sound has been switched up at all FTR, but it's gorgeous).

this was a fb tip from our own ms. crawford but the mark mcguire album that came out in november is really really great, like i haven't seen it on any year-end lists but i just listened to the whole damn thing in one sitting while every other album i've checked out over the past week or so is a try-three-songs-get-bored type of affair.

the Steve Hauschildt album is better.

I'm just glad they're both still making music. Two great albums this year. I actually prefer their recent solo LPs to the Emeralds stuff.

I normally agree with you about everything but that's insane, apart they make beautiful but inconsequential diversions, together (plus that other guy) they made "alive in the sea of information"

i think i like the minimalism of Along The Way and Sequitur more than the more dense Does It Look Like I'm Here. The other Emeralds stuff i don't own on vinyl so I don't hear it as often.

the Steve Hauschildt album is better.

― miss me belial (crüt), Friday, December 18, 2015 5:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Does It Look Like I'm Here... This album. Man.

I blasted it on the drive down Mount Haleakala after watching the sunrise at the peak with my wife this past summer. It was fitting.

Shit. That sounds amazing. This record can soundtrack so many drives btw.

It certainly was!

Studio - West Coast worked just as well for the Road to Hana the next day!

i think i like all the steve hauschildt albums more than emeralds'. btw he is releasing a new album in august - https://stevehauschildt.bandcamp.com/album/dissolvi

the Steve Hauschildt album is better.

― miss me belial (crüt), Friday, December 18, 2015

crut were u referring to "Where All is Fled" here?

that one is maybe the best one

I need to spend more time with those records

I also really like the S/T Outer Space LP that John Elliot put out (in 2010, lol)

been listening to these guys again lately and idk... what made the band special imo was the interaction between the three players. they were almost better as a live band

the only band that scratches that itch for me now is bitchin bajas

I’d say it was a mistake for them to part ways but their last record was their weakest by far. Anyway I will never tire of Does It Look Like I’m Here.

y'all should try mind over mirrors :)
i agree about the character of the interaction being more interesting with all emeralds on deck

in MOM there are vocals but they're much more interpretive and djong yun-like than songwriter-with-words type of vocals
strong pulse, good vibe, enjoyable every time i see them (which is every chance i get, lol)

listening to bellowing sun right now, thank you! i like this a lot

I’ll check both out

Anyway I will never tire of Does It Look Like I’m Here.

― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, July 6, 2018 5:00 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same. Stone cold classic.

solo-wise i think Hauschildt has been the one i've gravitated to the most. I like Mark McGuire's stuff as well but after awhile i stopped keeping up with him.

New Steve Hauschildt album is absolutely lovely in a "I listened to Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and 76:14 and decided everything should just stop right at that moment" kind of way.

Works for me

Their 'moment' seemed to be a relatively short one. I saw them at ATP in, I think, 2010; I know their sound had changed quite dramatically by then, but there was already a sense that they had moved beyond anything transgressive and were a bit daft and jock-ish - particularly John Elliott's (ironic or otherwise) sky-punching. Maybe that was always the case.

Anyway, Does It Look Like I'm Here? sounding great right now. Of the other stuff I find McGuire's output bewildering but like Beyond Belief and the VDSQ album and always had a soft spot for the Skyramps record.

i think i like strands and where all is fled a little more but dissolvi is still quite good

xp God, that sounded pompous! That murky, transgressive scene from the early 00s seems a world away.

Not feeling the new Hauschildt - sounds like Synkro from about 5 years ago. ‘Ketracel” off Stands is an utter masterpiece, though.

They're reuniting to play Primavera Sound next year! Hopefully more shows to follow...

After a decade in the aether, Emeralds are back to perform live @Primavera_Sound in June 2023. Thanks to all the believers out there 💚 pic.twitter.com/frhFtpLHAS

— John Elliott (@MineralDisk) November 29, 2022

ahhh great news! i don't think any other band has been able to capture the synced-by-ear swirl of sequencers and delays quite like they did. bitchin bajas comes pretty close, but different vibe

Y E S

"Just To Feel Anything" didn't grab me at all but still

Just to Feel Anything made my top ten that year. Here's hoping there's a tour. Mark McGuire's solo albums on Editions Mego and Dead Oceans have all been pretty good listens.

I really liked the Outer Space album and a couple of those Mist records, as far as solo projects go

I liked Steve Hauschildt's run of solo albums from about 2009 to 2018 too, realized I missed one in 2019.

Hoping this leads to more shows and maybe some new studio material.

yes those are good too, I forgot abt them!

Remastered version of Does It Look Like I'm Here? out today with 7 bonus tracks

Listening to the bonus tracks. Goodly stuff. The long version of Genetic is quite a thing.