Hood and Cold House

yeah the memory drawings albums are nice

The new Remote Viewer album is really great. Couldn't have come at a better time, too.

Nice, thx for the tip

It's def the time for Cold House over here

Ha otm. I've a whole night of writing to do, and a mix of Hood/Remote Viewer/Declining Winter/Boats/Bracken, with the wind blasting 'round the house, is just perfection for me.

Remote Viewer on Dying Songs: http://dublab.com/jimmy-tamborello-wguest-the-remote-viewer-dying-songs-11-16-17/

Never heard of that show/podcast, thank you!!

Not strictly Hood related (beyond featuring Craig Tattersall from the "classic line-up"):

https://facture.bandcamp.com/album/the-epiphanies

Yr fave miserable northern lads are back w/ a new Declining Winter album out soon. <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXJDGOOG0dc

^ This is great. Most Hood sounding track so far?

Been loving this too:

https://thedecliningwinter.bandcamp.com/track/why-is-it-so-elusive-2

Definitely the most Hood sounding post-Hood track!

Why Is It So Elusive? sounds like something from The Weight EP. It's great.

The Declining Winter's new album 'Belmont Slope' is out, and to paraphrase our favourite emo-ilxor, it's easily AOTY. The sadness drips off your face like a dirty rain.

Am I really the only one still caring for these guys? This is prime miserablist music ffs, "it's grim up north"-style. You take one wrong turn on the A6303 towards Haworth, enjoying the scenery, and you are done for. Saer would appreciate this tbh.

Nah, it's a good album indeed.

That's good to hear - I have to confess I've bought so many Hood-related projects that I've been ambivalent about that I actively made myself stop buying them.

yeah I'm into this. the trancey number is a proper curveball!

it's wonderful.

It’s very good. New Epic45 album out this week too - not Hood related but a similar sound.

Old news but I hadn't heard this before (sampled for "Branches Bare"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r3yrdHKKp8

Featuring the *genius* from the classic line-up:

https://soundcloud.com/fluid-radio/the-seaman-and-the-tattered-sail-standing-on-the-precipice-of-tears

Gorgeous. (thx for keeping this thread updated btw)

Not agreeing or disagreeing, just wondering why Craig is considered the "genius"? I adore Hood but my knowledge of their various backstories is fairly sparse

Revisiting Light Folds now and it's no less engaging than when I last heard it

Partly based on his non-Hood music, particularly "Light Folds", and partly based on a guess that he was behind the "//-" tracks on "The Cycle of Days & Seasons" ... and, also, partly comedy.

BTW there was a very limited lathe-cut Declining Winter release this month. Probably all gone (I got on the second pressing). Typically lovely.

Craig is a smart guy but not the only genius from Hood c'mon.

I'd say the Adams brothers are Hood's beating heart and soul. But I'm not really invested in a silly discussion about who Hood's *genius* might be. Sum of parts etc.

Somehow missed the newest Declining Winter, thanks for that.

"Adams brothers are Hood's beating heart and soul."

Of course. I did say there was comedy involved.

Old but I'd never really noticed this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHkS4obTPzY

(Tweeted by them yesterday).

oh wow.
pretty unfamiliar with both songs.
a treat to hear them both now.

More from the genius from the classic line-up:

https://boomkat.com/products/things-are-sweeter-when-they-re-lost

https://soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/prowess

New electronica/ambient release by Richard Adams under his Western Edges moniker, it's good!

More from the *genius* from the classic line-up:

https://iikki.bandcamp.com/album/all-other-voices-gone-only-yours-remains

Forked out for the book and then some. Good stuff.

It's October and The Declining Winter have a new one out, Why Clanks. It arrived today, and it's beautiful. It's a 3" cd with a short essay called 'Why Clanks - A journey to Silsden AFC and back', written by Richard Adams, about a walk along the canal between Saltaire and Silsden. Because of course it is. Real Yorkshire.

I managed to get the very last copy of this when it went up. Looking forward to it.

Ha! I thought I natched the very last (24th iirc?) copy! :) We must have ordered in the same minute. You'll probably already have the mp3s through bandcamp, but it's a beautiful physical product too imo.

yeah, didn't download them yet. will do. It was weird, I had it in my cart on on phone for 30 minutes but couldn't log into bandcamp there for some reason to purchase. got to my computer and it said sold out. looked at phone...still in cart. deleted it from the cart in my phone and voila, there was one more available.

That is weird! For me, I paid through paypal saying there was just one copy left. Never got a confirmation email, no paypal email either. The money had left my account so I figured I'd get an email shortly saying I sort of fell through the maze and didn't manage to order it anyway. Heard nothing, until I found it in my mailbox today. It's small, but it's grand. Very much worth your while imo.

I think Richard is taking requests for a second, less fancy version. I might be wrong about this though.

gotta make a straight face to sell portraits, baby can’t you look at the camera?

Heads up, from The Declining Winter's newsletter:

Thank You / Happy Christmas

We have pay what you feel on all our digital for the next 48 hours on Bandcamp (and physical slashed for the same period) as a little Christmas gift from us to you...and also to recognise that music is expensive and can be unaffordable for many in these troubled times. Thank you for continuing to support artists by buying physical products and downloads. You won't believe the difference it makes.

https://thedecliningwinter.bandcamp.com/music

Interview with Glen Johnston about Cold House here:

https://arcane-delights.com/2020/08/16/hood-cold-house-interview-with-richard-and-chris-adams-2/

Thanks for posting that, very interesting to read - for me for the first time, at least - about their perception of the latter albums and how the band sort of naturally came to a conclusion.

Greetings, Hoodlums! The Declining Winter have a new, brilliant, record out. I say record; the physical release was lmtd to 75 tapes (and even though tapes "fit" w/ them, c'mon...) but the whole is on bandcamp. I dare say it's the best Declining Winter, the best post-Hood, record released. This is, of course, because it's reminiscent of Hood. It's like a compilation of B-sides culled from all Hood periods (ramshackle lo-fi/ramshackle hi-fi/ambient Hood/electronic "The Weight EP" Hood/ etc Hood) and it's really, really good.

https://thedecliningwinter.bandcamp.com/album/recordings-of-weird-air

Ah, crap, I saw them tease something on Instagram and forgot about it so no tape for me. Will get the digital.

Was listening to 'Cold House' the other night, it felt like That Time of Year Again.

Thanks for the tip!

They did a same day re-press so imagine they will be tempted to do more?

Most welcome, Ned! True return to form imo.

They did two re-presses already, I'm not sure there's more in the making atm. Fingers crossed!

Not my question but from Instagram, FYI:

Hi, I missed all three pressings of the tape, are you considering making more?

thedecliningwinter no but there may be a couple left over at the end. Send me an email to signalr✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ and I’ll let you know.

That was me asking, funnily enough.

Maybe this is a rare stance but I am a big EARLY Hood fan vs. 00s+ stuff which I never really got in to. Is that weird? I dg their taste is guitar melodies against/applied to lo-fi experimental noisiness.

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