Didn't like Avowed Slavery but thought Slave Vows was really unfairly slept on.
Just remembering a Black Lives-era live show I caught in Toronto, where they played nothing off of Penance and put on a very theatrical show to maybe a dozen people in a 300-capacity venue. (More people watched the openers, Mini Mansions.)
Anyway, if you want to purchase Penance Soiree "directly" from the band with b-sides and session tracks, you can. One of the best, and least influential, rock records of the aughts.
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 July 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
Slave Vows was great, one of their best, and their last album was great, too. And Penance is possibly my favourite rock album of the 00s. The Peel Sessions versions of The Holy Trinity just slay.
And they easily played some of the greatest shows I ever saw.
― Arthur Funzonerelli (stevie), Sunday, 8 July 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
oh wait, it was All Things Under Heaven I didn't like - never ends, plus the moany lyrics are a bad fit. Hopefully they shed both tendencies on the next one, if there is one.
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 July 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
Penance Soiree actually made my top ten list in whatever year it came out, but for whatever reason I never kept up with the band after that.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 8 July 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
I love Slave Vows. For some reason I have yet to listen to their last one
― Dinsdale, Monday, 9 July 2018 04:58 (five years ago) link
oh hey
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-icarus-line-must-die-shows-the-dark-purgatory-of-a-cult-rock-band-that-never-gave-up/
― Simon H., Thursday, 12 July 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link