the Apartments

Promise of a 14-track live film, which is good news. Haven't seen anything beyond this Oct 15th teaser, so release format? region?

From the YouTube teaser link, Out mid-december 2018. 14 live tracks, recorded live in 'Le Sonic', Lyon, France during the Apartments autumn tour, october, 12th, 2018. Thanks To Peter, Natasha & Antoine. a 'FD' live film, directed by Sébastien Faits-Divers.

Now a live double album coming, limited to 1000 copies. http://talitres.com/en/news/the-apartments-live-at-l-ubu.html

Hoping it'll be a digital release after the fact, since per a FB post, it will be released for Record Store Day/Disquaire Day 2019—Saturday April 13th, in France, UK, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, Austria AND Australia.

USA and Canadian record stores after RSD.

Line Up : Antoine Chaperon (guitar), Eliot Fish (bass, voice), Fabien Tessier (piano, percussion, organ, voice), Gaël Riteau (trumpet, voice), Natasha Penot (keyboard, voice, tambourine), Nick Allum (drums), Peter Milton Walsh (voice, guitar).

Track list: Side 1: 1 On Every Corner - 2 No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal - 3 The House That We Once Lived In | Side 2: 1 Looking For Another Town - 2 Black Ribbons - 3 Swap Places | Side 3: 1 Please, Don’t Say Remember - 2 Things You’ll Keep - 3 Sunset Hotel - 4 The Goodbye Train – Side 4: 1 All You Wanted - 2 Knowing You Were Loved - 3 Everything is Given to Be Taken Away

Seems like 1000 copies will go fast.

thanks for the info. that sounds very intriguing. 1000 copies is indeed not a lot.

A bright spot in a dismal year - new Apartments album, In and Out of the Light, announced for September 18th release. Talitres order page here.

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The Apartments “In and Out of the Light”: 1. Pocketful of Sunshine – 2. Write Your Way Out of Town – 3. Where You Used to Be – 4. What’s Beauty to Do – 5. Butterfly Kiss – 6. We Talked Through Till Dawn – 7. I Don’t Give a Fuck About You Anymore – 8. The Fading Light

Album available for pre-order from the Talitres web store or via Bandcamp (pre-orders to start on Bandcamp, July 3rd).

Yellow opaque vinyl, limited edition, 500 units (gatefold, 1LP, with digital download code) | Black vinyl (gatefold, 1LP, woth digital download code) | CD digipack 2 panels with booklet | Digital

10 % OFF during the pre-order campaign, except yellow opaque limited edition. Ships on or around September 10th, 2020.

I am very excited to hear "I Don't Give a Fuck About You Anymore".

"Pocketful of Sunshine" is out and of course totally lovely

...which was all the encouragement I needed to preorder the LP.

had never heard Apart before but man that is a really really good record

new album is solid, not quite the revelation parts of No Song were but lovely and engaging throughout.

Good to hear! My copy's inbound from Tailtres now.

Mine showed up a couple days before release, which was a nice surprise!

It's kind of wild that this is only the sixth album of new Apartments originals.

This is really good - musically pretty much on a par with ‘No Spell’ (imho) but maybe not quite the same lyrical/emotional punch - but I don’t think that’s a criticism or issue at all.

Agreed on the solidness. While I wish PMW was more prolific, this was worth the wait. His voice is right up with Paul Buchanan for me, as far as instant transport to a particular mood. "hold on...no feeling is final" in "Write Your Way Out of Town", eyes welling. The trumpet in "The Fading Light", "Pocketful of Sunshine", and "We Talked Through Till Dawn" is lovely. This'll sync up nicely with A Girl Called Eddy on the year-end list.

His voice is right up with Paul Buchanan for me, as far as instant transport to a particular mood.

Ha, was just thinking the new album is as close as chamber pop gets to The Blue Nile. So pretty.

maybe 10-15 years I saw the apartments live and I think it's the only show that I've thought suffered from having too many good songs

like the usual set has peaks and troughs but this was just blinder after blinder, I felt really quite emotionally overwhelmed afterwards

new LP pressing of my favorite Apartments album

http://shop.talitres.com/products/692543-a-life-full-of-farewells

I underrated the new album - hitting me really hard tonight. Quiet, graceful and beautifully low key compared to the more demonstrative emotional register of the previous album.