Cedars is a longtime personal fave, brilliantly sequenced
― Simon H., Thursday, 9 November 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 9 November 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
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!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 9 November 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
their grasp of album sequencing on those first two records is wondrous
― imago, Friday, 10 November 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
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.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 November 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link
Another Cedars fan here ... “wonder if the snow” and “trees in the city” are favorites I think pitchfork is how I found them
― calstars, Friday, 10 November 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
This band are still painfully underrated.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 10 November 2017 07:09 (six years ago) link
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.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 10 November 2017 07:15 (six years ago) link
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
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 November 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
but...in a rare stroke of inspiration, pitchfork gave cedars 9.4 iirc
― imago, Friday, 10 November 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
oh, 9.1
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1495-cedars/
that's still a LOT for a british indie band
― imago, Friday, 10 November 2017 14:16 (six years ago) link
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
― Simon H., Friday, 10 November 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
woops wrong thread lol
― Simon H., Friday, 10 November 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
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
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 November 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
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.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 11 November 2017 01:15 (six years ago) link
just found and added 'amber' to the archive.I feel I have missed out on something rather special.
― mark e, Friday, 3 August 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
and it's only their third best album!
― imago, Friday, 3 August 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
so I see. however, I was not on the labels mailing list re earlier stuff so this will have to suffice.
― mark e, Friday, 3 August 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
it's pretty good for something that will have to suffice
― imago, Friday, 3 August 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
It's Getting Light outside was always a great mix opener.
― Yerac, Friday, 3 August 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
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.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 3 August 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link