oh man I love the new order-ism's of No One Is Lost.tempted to say they haven't made a bad album.
― campreverb, Saturday, 13 April 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
There is definitely a gulf between their "great songs" and their "bad songs". I never picked up until this year just how deeply informed by Morrissey's melody-writing this band is... I don't know any other artist who has so transparently cribbed that singular style of melody-writing
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 13 April 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
Amy Millan admitted it! I know that 'How Much More' from The Five Ghosts was one where Amy Millan was deliberately trying to be Morrissey.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 13 April 2019 19:29 (five years ago) link
I don't know any other artist who has so transparently cribbed that singular style of melody-writing
― dorsalstop, Saturday, 13 April 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
Meant to just post a link, apologies.
You're RIGHT duh of course they also are Morrissey-cribbers
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 13 April 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
oh man I love the new order-ism's of No One Is Lost.tempted to say they haven't made a bad album.― campreverb, Saturday, April 13, 2019 5:28 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― campreverb, Saturday, April 13, 2019 5:28 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'll have to give all the post-Five Ghosts stuff another chance (or a first-time listen in the case of some of it) ... Which is generally considered the best of their stuff from this decade?
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 13 April 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
The North is great (and is more New Order than No One is Lost imo) - try "Hold On When You Get Love..."
― dorsalstop, Saturday, 13 April 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
100% on 'Hold On When You Get Love', 'Backlines' from that album too.'This is the Last Time' and 'Are You Ok?' from No One Is Lost. The latter brings me back to a recent bad breakup and oh man.
― campreverb, Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:17 (five years ago) link
any stars fans?
i grew up very fond of much of their peers - metric, BSS, etc, but always found they missed the mark for me. the delivery put me off. i revisited lately and now find something really magic about this band. they're almost like a fictional pop group or something? i can't get my head around it... a really intimate, moving universality in those songs, yet the music is really nothing exciting or interesting. it's weird to me. it's just making me happy at any rate. the 'nightsongs' cover art is really gorgeous.
any other gems within their collective i should be digging out?
― maelin, Thursday, 4 March 2021 08:48 (three years ago) link
love the first album so much (still makes me think of walking around Montreal on winter nights when I lived there) didn't really care for anything after that. saw them live once and they were super-friendly.
― so tonight that I might ramona quimby (f. hazel), Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
I love ‘Set Yourself on Fire’ and really like most of the rest of their catalogue.
― hamicle, Thursday, 4 March 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
I like Torquil's voice a lot, so the Memphis albums are worth getting, too. Saw them on their Heart tour, where they sold a homemade tour cd with "Drive By" from a KCRW session, simple but a favorite hook from them. Not sure it's been released officially, but worth searching out.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 4 March 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
― hamicle, Thursday, March 4, 2021 12:31 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Exactly my opinion as well. I don't remember Nightsongs at all though so I guess I need to revisit.
One song came on shuffle and my wife asked if it was a broadway cast soundtrack due to Torquil's emotive singing style, which was funny to me and very otm. I think it was off of In Our Bedroom After The War. Plus, the contrast to all the shy indie pop, slacker indie, or haunted shoegaze singing she was used to hearing from my collection made it really stand out.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
This song is perfect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU7KGcrD_gc
― Indexed, Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:25 (three years ago) link
It is!
― hamicle, Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
New album’s good! Would love to see them live sometime.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Thursday, 9 June 2022 03:33 (one year ago) link
We will always be a light(You can see it from the surface, see it)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 24 July 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link