Hood and Cold House

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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Not weird at all imo, though you're probably w/ the minority now. I got to know them when Silent '88 came out, and I love the hell out of the debut and the early singles (there were so many!). I just followed them after that, and I treasure all periods, three if I break it down roughly (Cabled/Silent, Rustic Houses/Cycle, and Cold House/Closer). What do you think of Rustic Houses and Cycle?

Yeah I've dug into the endless amount of EP/split/7" releases in the Cabled/Silent era. Rustic is nice if a bit gloomy iirc... you know I can't recall Cycle at all? I'll check that out again soon. Very turned off by the Dose One & Why? cameos on the Cold House LP. I don't think that nasal rapping style has aged well since its height in the early 00s.

If you think Rustic is gloomy, well, you're in for a treat with Cycle lol. I trust you picked up the Compilations/Singles Compiled cd's? They have nearly all of the early days.

I wasn't put off by the Cold House cameos. I vividly remember buying the lp's of both Cold House and Notwist's 'Neon Golden' on the same day, and they became sort of twin records for me because of that. Dose One and Why? on Cold House seemed completely of its time, for me. But I totally get it's not everyone's cup of tea. (I already dug cLOUDDEAD tbf)

Hey I'm not apposed to gloomy! Just a memory of it being particularly that. But noted!

Looks like I effectively have checked out that comp in the sense that I've come across a lot of the releases themselves. Probably missed a bit of it.

Yeah I like some of that too. Why?'s Elephant Eyelash had some tunes. But overall the style has not aged well for me.

Cycle is my favourite!

Mine too! Well, along with a couple of others :) If I *have* to choose I pick 'Rustic Houses', but 'Cycle' is fantastic. I've to be cautious listening to it though, teh sadness hits hard.

this year it hit so hard

oh so it’s “this year has been so hard” ok

Not strictly Hood but related (via Craig Tattersall)

https://iikki.bandcamp.com/album/flowers-bloom-butterflies-come

I managed to get the new Declining Winter on tape. I agree that it is very good.

Some Downpour (Chris) on tape:

https://downpour2.bandcamp.com/album/do-you-remember-when-it-was-all-about-the-drums-parts-i-ii-re-mastered-with-bonus-track

And now at last properly on Bandcamp

https://hoodband.bandcamp.com/

They've seemed to be alluding to some *other news*, haven't they?

I thought it was just more stuff from the catalogue coming... but what I would give for Chris & Rich getting back together as Hood!
Bring whoever they like along, just do it!

That said, any new Bracken, or another Downpour EP would do it too.

October, rain, chill on the wind = The Cycle of Days and Seasons. It's like a summons.

Missed (mist? xp) both presses of this.

Shame, this is nice.

https://thedecliningwinter.bandcamp.com/track/i-remember

Chris did a record with a Philly musician under the name ROCK which is excellent in case anyone missed it. Tape is well sold out but digital is on Bandcamp

Related:

https://newnorthwales.bandcamp.com/album/minor-birds

There's one vinyl copy of I Remember on Bandcamp, btw.

Oddly enough was chatting with Richard the other day; from the sound of it the two earliest Hood albums may get a reissue in the near future. More Declining Winter en route.