Clearlake: C/D?

Pegg's new solo album is really good, and 'Might As Well' besides being the archetypical Pegg songtitle is kinda Cardiacsy :)

Thanks for the heads up, grabbing this now!

Any idea what became of Clearlake? Did they just disintegrate?

musical differences, I presume

Pegg's the one worth following, obv

decided that Lido is kind of the ultimate British indie record

Heh, just thinking about these lads lately. As much as I dig "Lido", it's the power and energy of "Cedars" that does it for me.

it's Lido season (for the next five months)

Cedars is a longtime personal fave, brilliantly sequenced

also fantastic

upthread predictions that they'd be referenced as a classic band in retrospect seem unfortunately wide of the mark. we'll remember you, clearlake

Thanks for bumping this thread, spun "Lido" and "Cedars" for the first time in yonks. Still hold up, love the lyrics. I want to live in a dream!

their grasp of album sequencing on those first two records is wondrous

Lido meant a lot to me when it came out, I had just come out of a phase of doing a lot of drugs and had dropped out of uni and didn't know what was next, I had this mix of being kind of burnt out and a failure but also waking up to the world. It really captured that feeling so well that it felt like it had been written specifically for me.

Another Cedars fan here ... “wonder if the snow” and “trees in the city” are favorites

I think pitchfork is how I found them

This band are still painfully underrated.

I need to re-listen to all of their albums ASAP... I still find it incredible that this band were swept under the carpet the way they were.

part of my dumb animus toward the arcade fire is people losing their shit over 'funeral' when 'cedars', released not that long before it, had been relatively unheralded. i know it's not a competition but pitchfork nation can sure be easily blinkered

but...in a rare stroke of inspiration, pitchfork gave cedars 9.4 iirc

oh, 9.1

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1495-cedars/

that's still a LOT for a british indie band

Pianos Become the Teeth sound like an emo band again and I'm not sure how to feel about that yet

https://open.spotify.com/track/5kEHz2d1bafXdAem3PfIya

woops wrong thread lol

that's a great review for a killer album but they never became one of pitchfork's hype bands, despite ruling way harder than some i could name

i really loved this band at the time but for the life of me, i can't remember one thing about them other than they were mellow. i own two or three CDs.

just found and added 'amber' to the archive.
I feel I have missed out on something rather special.

and it's only their third best album!

so I see.
however, I was not on the labels mailing list re earlier stuff so this will have to suffice.

it's pretty good for something that will have to suffice

It's Getting Light outside was always a great mix opener.

Anything new from Jason Pegg since his 2nd solo album? I can't say those made much of an impression on me, though I did enjoy them.