yeah that might end up topping my tracks ballot
― Simon H., Monday, 9 December 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
I bought it and listened to it a few times. I feel a little bit like I'm rewatching a stand up routine sometimes though, as in the novelty of the storytelling wears off after a few listens.― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, 9 December 2019 20:31
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, 9 December 2019 20:31
Crazy talk. It's not as good as Peasant but still amazing. One of my top five of the year.
― Duke, Monday, 9 December 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
I read the lyric sheet as I listened to it the first time, so in a way that kind of revealed everything in one go. in a way I wish I'd listened to it a few times before doing that. the music is great of course, but sometimes I feel like I'm listening to tone poems, the music arranged around the words, which in itself isn't a problem but at times it feels like I could be reading a book of short stories. and once you know the twist in the tale, the impact is lessened. it's also a fairly depressing album. don't get me wrong, it's very much an amazing album. I just don't find myself willing to replay it very often
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, 9 December 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
He certainly has an odd way of scanning his lyrics, which sometimes leads to crammed sentences.
― Duke, Monday, 9 December 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
this is finally clicking hard for me, or at least six of its ten tracks are. if it was just
Civil ServantThe Queen's Head Two Halves JoggingBlack TriangleFulfillment Centre
then it'd be up there with the others, but there's a slightly scrawny tail on this beast
Black Triangle especially is such a wonderful song and I've only just realised it - although Jogging remains the crown jewel
― imago, Monday, 16 December 2019 07:52 (four years ago) link
For me the keepers so far are Jogging, Heart Emoji and maybe Two Halves, Fresher's Ball and Fulfilment Centre.
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, 16 December 2019 10:38 (four years ago) link
"Dead Dog..." is one of my favorites!
― Simon H., Monday, 16 December 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
Civil Servant is the only sub par song on this, IMO
― Duke, Monday, 16 December 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
nitsuh's thing in the nyt was great - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/11/magazine/best-songs.html#richarddawson
― just sayin, Thursday, 19 March 2020 05:19 (four years ago) link
Nabisco otm
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 19 March 2020 09:09 (four years ago) link
I was supposed to be seeing him live in a few weeks. I'll just have to be patient...
― Duke, Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
omg
he and his partner are attempting to make a mini-album every day
https://bulbils.bandcamp.com/music
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
oh awesome
― devvvine, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
I was meant to be seeing him tonight. Mini-albums, you say? That'll cushion the blow, nice.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
now everyone in the UK is out running every evening, Jogging is even more prescient
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
Thanks for this !
― Duke, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
so far it's all fairly ambient, but Mole (track 2 off the 3rd release) is a lovely standout with a bit more going on
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Friday, 27 March 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
Today's long-form track, The Easter Bunny, is the first one since Mole that's properly grabbed me. A huge organ-and-guitar ambient wordless ballad
https://bulbils.bandcamp.com/album/15-the-easter-bunny
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Thursday, 9 April 2020 09:29 (three years ago) link
oh yeah this is real lovely, thanks for shouting it out
― devvvine, Thursday, 9 April 2020 09:42 (three years ago) link
I must have listened to it at least 15 times since lj tipped me off y'day in teh slack. It's sermon for our elegiac times, an intimate, pastoral masterpiece.
Sonically the piece evolves into what sounds like the coda of A Silver Mount Zion's '13 Angels Standing Guard 'round the Side of Your Bed', a soft murmury wailing from the after life, mantra wise. To me it sounds crazy hopeful.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 10 April 2020 09:33 (three years ago) link
particularly after Dawson put the finishing touches on an album he’s been working on with brilliant Finnish metal outfit Circle
― imago, Friday, 8 May 2020 10:21 (three years ago) link
lol just came here to post that
https://thequietus.com/articles/28221-richard-dawson-sally-pilkington-bulbils-interview
― devvvine, Friday, 8 May 2020 10:22 (three years ago) link
also of note imo
http://s3.amazonaws.com/quietus_production/images/articles/28221/20200405_181053_001_1588782312_crop_550x412.jpg
― devvvine, Friday, 8 May 2020 10:23 (three years ago) link
otm
― imago, Friday, 8 May 2020 10:35 (three years ago) link
Bless 'em. Their corpulent output has been too vast to digest in full, but a number of the Bulbis releases really hit the spot. Most notably, ty LJ, 'The Easter Bunny', a hymn for our times and then some.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 8 May 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
Mole (off album 3), The Easter Bunny (15) and The Princess And The Frog (25) are the three standouts so far imo
― imago, Friday, 8 May 2020 11:06 (three years ago) link
The element with Circle doesn’t feel so sad because I think we’ll get to it and it’ll be even better for it, so that’ll be good, but yeah, we didn’t get to play with Hannah Diamond.
need that dawson/diamond link up at some point
― devvvine, Friday, 8 May 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link
More standouts:
Cherries (35)
and now Genie In A Bottle (40, just released) is sounding amazing too
― imago, Monday, 1 June 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
We're at #45 today, 'Darling', and it's aquatic ambient bliss. Cannot respect him and his wife enough for this extremely vast output. And it's free, people! Though he'd prefer it if you donate to Black Lives Matter, as per his Bandcamp.
The project is already of an intimidating size, I realise this, but more people need to hear the greatness of this massive project he's quitely building.
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 26 June 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
I was wondering if this was still going!
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 26 June 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
new album of odds n ends and some lockdown recordings
https://richardmichaeldawson.bandcamp.com/
― devvvine, Friday, 7 August 2020 11:11 (three years ago) link
o nice, will listen soon
― imago, Friday, 7 August 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
very lovely, shorter instrumental pieces really hit the spot in this heat. the fifteen minute track feels like it could have gone on nothing important
― devvvine, Friday, 7 August 2020 12:06 (three years ago) link
i mean that would put it in the upper thousandth percentile of songs by anyone ever so
― imago, Friday, 7 August 2020 12:59 (three years ago) link
this is wonderful. is it just me or has his singing improved somewhat? I guess recording an EP a day or whatever could do that.
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 13:30 (three years ago) link
awwww his little Newcastle United anthem is so dear
― imago, Friday, 7 August 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL75N1NMIdg
the first single 'Trouble' was a total earworm too, think this will be better than the first one
― imago, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
lol the track sandwiched between the two singles on the album is actually titled 'Earworm', aiming high
2020 truly is the year of incredibly long albums huh
j/k I'm stoked for this
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/25/songs-about-sewage-and-space-travel-its-prog-folk-band-hen-ogledd
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 25 September 2020 12:14 (three years ago) link
the new Hen Ogledd album is an absolute delight!!!!!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
I'm enjoying the new one too. The last one was ok - a bit frontloaded qualitywise.
― Duke, Saturday, 17 October 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link
It's fine. Some nice moments. Far too much Bothwell, who's quite annoying (although Trouble is good)
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Saturday, 17 October 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
I wonder when he's going to release the album with Circle.
― Duke, Saturday, 17 October 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
It’s way too twee for me. Dawson lockdown bandcamp daily is where it’s at.
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 17 October 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
https://www.nts.live/shows/richard-dawson
― just sayin, Sunday, 1 August 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
new collaborative album with finnish experimental band circle out november 26, titled henki. it's apparently a "hypno-folk-metal" concept album about "special plants throughout history"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO_FzRjmXiY
lead single "lily" is less awkward than a lot of the last album but doesn't really do much for me
― ufo, Monday, 13 September 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link
i quite like it, but the artwork is stunning
― nxd, Monday, 20 September 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nly2TwK4tio
oh i like this much more
― ufo, Monday, 25 October 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
What do we think
I vacillate between 'good' and 'could have been better' on my first listen
― imago, Friday, 26 November 2021 12:48 (two years ago) link