Colleen, "everyone alive wants answers"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1FF9kAl6D8

Thanks for posting that it is really amazing. She has quite a variety of sounds from that very unique picking style!

finally bought her new album and now i'm extra bummed that i missed her show here
eclipse and captain of none are both great tracks, and different from anything i'm hearing these days
i like her a lot

Her sound seems like a sort of stoner-ECM-dub collision, which is not a bad thing at all.

she has the nerve to be totally mild and super weird at the same time, it's admirable

i'm way into it

LL i wonder if you'd like this album? she doesn't have the melodic prettiness of Colleen, but the percussive analog dub parts feel similar:
https://leavingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-shapeless-pool-of-lovely-pale-colours-suspended-in-the-darkness

thx i'll check it out!

Eclipse is so good.

I said this before somewhere but a lot of it is quite reminiscent of Malian kora music

i have never to my knowledge heard colleen before now, but captain of none is sounding p rad to me right now.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/video/resonance-colleen-performance

"Winter Dawn" is really good.

^ yeah! Captain of None was a top 5 record in 2015 for me, excited for this new one

From the two new tracks on Spotify, she seems to be incorporating more electronics again.

Yeah she’s been talking about this as her synth album on her FB page (which btw I recommend you all follow - full of thoughtful insights into her art and her life as an independent artist)

https://www.facebook.com/colleenplays/

(serving the lazy)

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/12/556934263/first-listen-colleen-a-flame-my-love-a-frequency

ooh that cover is pretty

An old Colleen album is an almost perfect soundtrack for painting a wall Hague Blue (At the weekend, Hood's "Cycles of Days & Seasons" actually *was* the perfect soundtrack for staining a fence in the autumn sunshine).

new one is a beaut

she is the gd coolest
she posted on facebook about how she started making her own clothes and made all of the clothes for her new tour
what an inspiration!! i love colleen.

New album is great.

Yeah the album is fantastic, just letting it sink in. And she's one of the very few I follow on FB. She's an inspiration. And chose to live in San Sebastian <3

This is very nice yeah

and last I heard she teaches/taught English!
She is playing here but I have to teach that night ;_;

Someday I will see her. Never thought I would become such a Colleen fan but she keeps being awesome and making music I like so I have no choice.

New one is really good. Extension of elements of the last I loved, but something different entirely. This is probably going top 5 of the year for me.

Textures remind me of a semi-broken music box...underwater. In a great way.

Loving this (Didn't hear the last one ... Should I?)

absolutely!! i really love Captain of None. it's more overtly groovy than any of her other stuff ime
i got the new one on saturday and listened to it twice in a row. it was one of those days when i totally disconnected from my life and just chilled out and colleen was 100% there when i needed her.

Captain of None rules

by groovy i mean songs like this -- the groove is implied, not necessarily heavy drum/bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XuAMyAcwwY

^^i found a new copy of that LP in the discount bin of a local record store that i think is mostly staffed by fans of Beatles imports and which has a Beach Boys surfboard on the wall for 100k. Colleen slipped through the cracks there.

captain of none is her best

Haha, weird, I scored Captain of None from a discount bin, too. While wandering through Maine. Great record.

The new album is really something else. For optimal results total silence is required (in/around the house and in the mind), boy... It's gorgeous. Like swimming with dolphins. "Summer Night (Bat Song)" is the center piece, the be all and end all, both literally and metaphorically. It's one of the harder Colleen lp's to get drawn into, but once she grabs a hold and pulls you under, there's a world down there you couldn't have dared to dream. So beautiful.

It's quite minimal isn't it, with subtle shifts. I really like it, but *so far* not as much as the gorgeous Captain of None.

It's very minimal! Echoes of her first couple of albums in that respect, utilising a specific sound and using it very sparsely. Except sound-wise it's totally different from her early days. I'm loving it.

I'm not getting into the new one, or any of her "happy" albums. I preferred her achingly lonely and melancholy stuff more.

https://colleencolleen.bandcamp.com/album/the-tunnel-and-the-clearing!

I'm not getting into the new one, or any of her "happy" albums. I preferred her achingly lonely and melancholy stuff more.

'the golden morning breaks' is one of the most heart wrenching records ive ever heard... i want to like the new stuff, but it's too cutesy :/

i love captain of none -- it's so subtly groovy
i guess i am into happy colleen! i followed her on fb and a while ago she was posting all of these cute outfits she had sewn for herself. little matching tops/shorts. i love her!

Wait which Colleen albums constitute "happy colleen"??

I like all her albums but the last three (Weighing of the Heart, Captain of Love, A flame a love a frequency) are all exquisitely classic. Are those the Happy Colleen albums?

New album is brilliant.

^wow, it is. Listened to it while waking up in bed this morning, it's gorgeous and mesmerising. Only faintly familiar with Captain of None, looking forward to catching up with the albums since then.

It's really good, but I went back to some of her older, dubbier records and still prefer those

New one is very minimal, which is the mode of hers I like the most.

These days it seems like I find out about records as often as not by thinking "I wonder if so and so put out an album this year? Oh they did, and I didn't see it anywhere." So I'm looking forward to checking out the new Colleen record today (sorry I missed your thread bump Leee).

https://colleencolleen.bandcamp.com/album/le-jour-et-la-nuit-du-r-el

New Colleen is good but not my favorite. It’s fully instrumental and gets a little samey as it goes. I miss her flat vocals.

"I wonder if so and so put out an album this year? Oh they did, and I didn't see it anywhere."

Yes, this feels familiar to me!