Emeralds-Classic or Dud?

I’d say it was a mistake for them to part ways but their last record was their weakest by far. Anyway I will never tire of Does It Look Like I’m Here.

y'all should try mind over mirrors :)
i agree about the character of the interaction being more interesting with all emeralds on deck

in MOM there are vocals but they're much more interpretive and djong yun-like than songwriter-with-words type of vocals
strong pulse, good vibe, enjoyable every time i see them (which is every chance i get, lol)

listening to bellowing sun right now, thank you! i like this a lot

I’ll check both out

Anyway I will never tire of Does It Look Like I’m Here.

― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, July 6, 2018 5:00 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same. Stone cold classic.

solo-wise i think Hauschildt has been the one i've gravitated to the most. I like Mark McGuire's stuff as well but after awhile i stopped keeping up with him.

New Steve Hauschildt album is absolutely lovely in a "I listened to Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and 76:14 and decided everything should just stop right at that moment" kind of way.

Works for me

Their 'moment' seemed to be a relatively short one. I saw them at ATP in, I think, 2010; I know their sound had changed quite dramatically by then, but there was already a sense that they had moved beyond anything transgressive and were a bit daft and jock-ish - particularly John Elliott's (ironic or otherwise) sky-punching. Maybe that was always the case.

Anyway, Does It Look Like I'm Here? sounding great right now. Of the other stuff I find McGuire's output bewildering but like Beyond Belief and the VDSQ album and always had a soft spot for the Skyramps record.

i think i like strands and where all is fled a little more but dissolvi is still quite good

xp God, that sounded pompous! That murky, transgressive scene from the early 00s seems a world away.

Not feeling the new Hauschildt - sounds like Synkro from about 5 years ago. ‘Ketracel” off Stands is an utter masterpiece, though.

They're reuniting to play Primavera Sound next year! Hopefully more shows to follow...

After a decade in the aether, Emeralds are back to perform live @Primavera_Sound in June 2023. Thanks to all the believers out there 💚 pic.twitter.com/frhFtpLHAS

— John Elliott (@MineralDisk) November 29, 2022

ahhh great news! i don't think any other band has been able to capture the synced-by-ear swirl of sequencers and delays quite like they did. bitchin bajas comes pretty close, but different vibe

Y E S

"Just To Feel Anything" didn't grab me at all but still

Just to Feel Anything made my top ten that year. Here's hoping there's a tour. Mark McGuire's solo albums on Editions Mego and Dead Oceans have all been pretty good listens.

I really liked the Outer Space album and a couple of those Mist records, as far as solo projects go

I liked Steve Hauschildt's run of solo albums from about 2009 to 2018 too, realized I missed one in 2019.

Hoping this leads to more shows and maybe some new studio material.

yes those are good too, I forgot abt them!

Remastered version of Does It Look Like I'm Here? out today with 7 bonus tracks

Listening to the bonus tracks. Goodly stuff. The long version of Genetic is quite a thing.

whoa 28 minutes!!

It *goes*.

I was intrigued by the Pitchfork review of the re-release. I liked the piece just found the idea that the band wanted to 'determined to melt behind their instruments' kinda funny. My signature memory of seeing them live was of John Elliott punching the air and roaring with glee from behind his keyboards.

*were determined to melt...

I saw them open for Throbbing Gristle in Chicago, 2009, but I don't remember much other than "surprisingly good", I had not heard the records at the time but started picking them up afterwards, "What Happened" was my gateway

*Allegory of Allergies* was the first thing I heard, which I think I yoinked from what.cd (RIP). I saw them live at an ATP event and thought they were great.

Allegory is prob still my favorite, there is a newer Bandcamp version that restores most of the cassette material missing from the 2LP, but (frustratingly) not quite all of it

Oh! Didn't know about that - will have to go and investigate.

extended versions! so good

it was originally a 120-minute tape

I think I have the whole thing buried on a hard drive somewhere but will go the Bandcamp route for sure.

Read somewhere that they are prepping a reunion, which !!!

ooh!!

excellent

with Yellow Swans and Emeralds reuniting, next thing you know NNCK and Tan As Fuck will be touring by end of next year.

(an aging noiser can hope)

If those four toured as a unit, OMFG

Okay wtf just found out Solar Bridge is improvised with no dubs or edits??????