Baroness - Gold & Gray (2019)

Yeah, I've listened to the album about four times now and the production actually serves the music really well. It's only blown out to, like, Guitar Wolf levels on one or two tracks, and the shifts in sound really complement the music, which is also the most wide-ranging they've ever made. It's really, really good.

LP just arrived

I interviewed John and Seb for Invisible Oranges and the bulk of the conversation was about the new album so maybe some in the thread might get something out of it.

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/baroness-interview-2019

great interview, loved the insights into the bass playing on the various records

Well, the interludes are quite good. I'm not sold on the songs themselves, which come off as underpowered, but that may change once I listen to it again.

There was some stuff on this album that really took me by surprise, and other stuff that was cheesy as all get out. It was all pretty cool, though, and the bass playing is awesome.

I really love "Pale Sun," what a cool closer

Occasional ILM poster Kim Kelly's Pitchfork review does a good job of pointing out the many positive things about the album.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/baroness-gold-and-grey/

2015’s Grammy-nominated Purple presented a band who had quite literally been through hell

I liked the review, but wish this line dropped "quite literally."

Heathen.

I was literally just thinking that

I love this record, unreservedly. It helps that a) I braced myself for much worse production, and b) I've been going through some real life shit that helps me relate to some of the lyrics way more than I'd like to right now.

what editor would let that "quite literally" thing publish?

Right? Fucking puzzling

You think Pitchfork editors would even understand why that’s bad until the third time you explained it to them?

It’s not a very well written review in general. KK’s heart is in her political writing/reporting now (and good for her; she’s sharp as hell and I’d rather read her on labor issues than metal any day).

this record took a while to reach me bc there are so many ideas per song but "throw me an anchor" is so fucking badass

I liked my first playthrough of this but I'd really like to see them synthesize their experimental/prog and rawk tendencies more on the next one, rather than keeping them mostly shunted over to the interludes and such

― Simon H., Monday, June 10, 2019 9:24 AM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is otm, and maybe why i don't like this quite as much as purple but still think it rules. it feels like it's still forming. which is totally fine, it's awesome to hear the forming

It might help if Baizley kept the same dang lineup for another cycle.

They released a livestreamed concert last night through http://nugs.tv; I've never seen them live and love this album/this incarnation of the band, so I dropped the $15. I'm about halfway through and it's really good. It's the new album in full, plus some additional songs at the end (it's 75 minutes all together). My rental fee lets me watch it all weekend.

picked this up earlier this week.
tis a great album, and a perfect addition to their 'colours' catalogue.
however, this is not a good headphone album for those of us who enjoy the cd format.

Agreed on both points. Content wise, it is a fantastic album and, were the production better, it might just be my favorite one of theirs overall - but that production was so disappointing.