Jute Gyte

you could argue that Perdurance is both his latest electronic and his latest metal album tho

And thank you Sund4r for your explanation! That was lovely

("U&K" = "urgent and key")

Finally listened to this. I'm not exactly in raptures about it but it's decent enough.

i sort of thought that after one full listen, in a 'maybe ship of theseus is still the best one' way

but no, twenty or thirty listens later i'm declaring this another forward step in the career of the most exciting musician on earth

your damascene moment awaits. no pressure tho ;)

positive AMG review yesterday

I've ordered the CD. Looking forward to it coming!

these riffs are pretty heavily death metal though? does this really read as mainly black metal to yall?

― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, June 6, 2016 6:49 PM (Yesterday)

the vocals are the clearest point of connection. but i've never thought of jute gyte as wholly belonging to any metal subgenre. it's progressive artmusic with a debt to black metal.

― the world over the crotch. (contenderizer), Tuesday, June 7, 2016 10:01 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

listening now, yes striking me as modern experimental death metal, of the Gorguts or Portal school. However, the vocals, and the general sickliness of the mood could be seen as black metal. Biggest struggle thus far is the drum programming, but liking the overall production

I was wondering what instruments he used. His guitar is a "cheap Squier" with a replacement 24 fret per octave neck.

https://thegrindthatannoys.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/guitar.png

Any consensus tracks emerging? Of late I have been marginally favouring the even-numbered pieces while adoring the whole

New one just isn't doing much for me really. I think I'll just jump off the JG train for a while and see how he's doing in another couple albums or so.

CDr arrived today

Jumping off a train just as it goes all pandimensional

Listening to Perdurance again because it sounds like how I feel right now.

It was all I could bring myself to listen to on Friday morning.

Still haven't gotten mine yet. :(

My 2 CDs arrived today. The discs are housed in DVD covers - unfortunately the black type (natch), rather than the more stylish clear plastic. #firstworldgripes

i'm bored of not talking about this album

Hi

What will his next album be like imago?

How many tones?

2-tones

Skank Of Theseus

lol if Mr K. really wants to push boundaries that's the direction he needs to go in

His new album's opening track literally features trap beats. He is giving the people what they want

https://soundcloud.com/blckhrzns/jute-gyte-funereal-like-a-life-in-wait

just in case you hadn't heard and felt like getting your jaw dropped again

the Ecferus half is amazing too - https://ecferus.bandcamp.com/album/jute-gyte-ecferus-split - and I need to listen to Ecferus a lot

how many new 20-minute jute gyte tracks did we need this week?

the answer was

two!!

https://soundcloud.com/blue-tapes/forthcoming-in-2017-from-x-ray-five-jute-gyte-the-sparrow

So, The Sparrow.

https://bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/x-ray-five-the-sparrow-12

Opening track is still amazing - not as dense, intricate or punishing in many ways as his more overtly black metal stuff, and it doesn't go crazy on the polytempic electronics either - it's more of a Branca-esque neoclassical piece in five movements, almost entirely for guitar. It features some of his most breathtaking polyphony yet, and some of his scariest music. sund4r and DAM you guys have GOT to hear it. I'm listening to that Branca thing in exchange :P

Second track Monadanom is another avant-classical piece - more ambient and with more swirling sonic depth (where The Sparrow was military and relentless, this is psychedelic and sly) - lots of very unsettling and unusual sounds in the mix, as well as what sounds like backwards guitar (the palindromic conceit of the title perhaps tying in here). Around halfway through it blossoms into an immense and cavernous layered drone before retreating into chilling microtonal sighs. I'm yet to fully wrap my head around it but it might even be the more impressive piece.

Nobody else is expressing an opinion on this so I don't know how to calibrate my own. It's amazing? Will that do?

Bonus: John Doran of sometimes this very parish has given it probably the best blurb any record in 2016 has received.

Sounds pretty good. Will say more after listening more.

But that was enjoyable.

I haven't listened to this yet (my concentration span for music is pisspoor these days, thanks mental health), am definitely interested in the more avant-classical side of JG though I wonder if I'll still find it not quite living up to the hype. Mainly posting here to point out to imago that Blue Tapes were also responsible for Katie Gately's first tape and I highly recommend you poke around the rest of their output (full disclosure: BT head honcho is a pal and I know it's a labour of love so promoting it to people may well be kinda shilling but also I genuinely think you're going to like a load of it).

yeah Blue Tapes guy seems great! will definitely have a poke about. 'pipes' was a truly astounding release and if there's anything even remotely close to that on the roster it'll be worth checking out!

this is so fucking good, we're lucky this and Krallice dropped after the metal poll

He needs to work with this singer
http://www.cmuse.org/anna-maria-hefele-does-overtone-singing/

https://youtu.be/vC9Qh709gas

and https://youtu.be/WlDi2XpK_dQ

Second microtonal trilogy concludes with Oviri, out 10th July

Cool. Been listening to Young Eagle recently and a lot of it's actually kinda loose and groovy, which is odd. Might be down to what sound like (v good) live drums.

I haven't really listened to that one at all! He's claimed the title/lyrics/aesthetic are basically a parody of the sort of absolutist philosophies espoused by many BM bands, which makes sense

The predecessor was named Old Ways to parody Black Metal's idealisation of basically non-existent ideas of old Nordic culture and cos it's the name of a Neil Young album (no further explanation), so yeah. I sometimes think there might be a fair amount of humour in his overwrought album notes on Bandcamp.

I only have like two of his records but they really repay close attention when I have close attention to give. I think time will show this guy to have been a valuable addition to the field, there's nobody really like him even though all the elements are familiar.

:)

and yeah, lots of dry humour. he's a massive DFW fan for starters

Cover connection

https://68.media.tumblr.com/2bf15bcb85c32e2e04b1cbd91b865341/tumblr_orwpt2nkhK1rkya77o1_400.png

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

5 minutes in and this is sounding way more nuts than the last one

"Mice Eating Gold" is closer to what I was expecting, that martial, lurching groove...

I just wrote THE NORMS THAT AUTHOR THE SELF RENDER THE SELF SUBSTITUTABLE on my whiteboard at work, fuck it get lit it's new Jute Gyte day!!

:D

Obviously this is completely insane

the opening minutes of "fauna of mirrors" are pure nightmare fuel

yeah that one

the last 16-17 minutes of the album are basically an experiment in fear featuring absolutely no metal whatsoever

it is a terrifying, alienating, crazed album. also I think it's not as good as the last few, but these are early impressions as i try to get my head around it. feels like it comes from an incredibly dark place and was a sort of punishment to make. perhaps these songs could be shorter (except the opening track, which is amazing and could be longer) but that would maybe spoil the protraction of the pain idk