― Andy, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Arien, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Just listening to Black Lives at Golden Coast… I thought it was crap on first listen, second time around I'm kinda digging it.
― THESE ARE MY FEELINGS! FEEL MY FEELINGS! (I eat cannibals), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
not a huge fan of that one. it's decent, but it penance soiree is the only record of theirs that i will always come back to.
i feel kinda bad for them though what with the revolving door of musicians.
― borntohula, Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Drummer Jeff Watson is doing much more interesting work in Black Elk now... Check their Crucial Blast release from late last year Always a Six, Never a Nine. Watson's production is great, and his drumming is too.
― Nate Carson, Thursday, 21 May 2009 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
after black lives, i thought he was back in the line.
i'm also interested in hearing about what don devore might be up to, if anyone knows.
― borntohula, Thursday, 21 May 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
(but i will check out black elk, thanks)
And out of nowhere
http://www.spin.com/articles/aaron-north-nine-inch-nails-icarus-line/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 00:15 (ten years ago) link
That's so freaking sad.
In other news, Slave Vows is surprisingly great.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 September 2013 01:11 (ten years ago) link
So we've just put up our Icarus Line feature. If/when we print it on paper, this will be our cover piece.
http://www.llss.tv/Resources/icarusline201406.jpeg
http://www.llss.tv/icarusline.html
Slave Vows is a masterpiece.
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Thursday, 17 April 2014 08:52 (ten years ago) link
Slave Vows mini-LP follow-up Avowed Slavery arrives 7th July, and is reliably seething and awesome.
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 12:18 (nine years ago) link
Didn't like Avowed Slavery but thought Slave Vows was really unfairly slept on.
Just remembering a Black Lives-era live show I caught in Toronto, where they played nothing off of Penance and put on a very theatrical show to maybe a dozen people in a 300-capacity venue. (More people watched the openers, Mini Mansions.)
Anyway, if you want to purchase Penance Soiree "directly" from the band with b-sides and session tracks, you can. One of the best, and least influential, rock records of the aughts.
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 July 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
Slave Vows was great, one of their best, and their last album was great, too. And Penance is possibly my favourite rock album of the 00s. The Peel Sessions versions of The Holy Trinity just slay.
And they easily played some of the greatest shows I ever saw.
― Arthur Funzonerelli (stevie), Sunday, 8 July 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
oh wait, it was All Things Under Heaven I didn't like - never ends, plus the moany lyrics are a bad fit. Hopefully they shed both tendencies on the next one, if there is one.
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 July 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
Penance Soiree actually made my top ten list in whatever year it came out, but for whatever reason I never kept up with the band after that.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 8 July 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
I love Slave Vows. For some reason I have yet to listen to their last one
― Dinsdale, Monday, 9 July 2018 04:58 (five years ago) link
oh hey
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-icarus-line-must-die-shows-the-dark-purgatory-of-a-cult-rock-band-that-never-gave-up/
― Simon H., Thursday, 12 July 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link