https://unlimitedfreemilkshakes.bandcamp.com/album/art-week-2016
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 18 June 2020 09:17 (three years ago) link
I know it was written a few years ago but I’ve not come across another verse that captures 2020 quite like this one:
“I’ve mistaken self-indulgence for self-care But do not be scared Surely some disaster will descend and equalize us A crisis will unify the godless And the fearless, and the righteous”
― Roz, Monday, 22 June 2020 06:43 (three years ago) link
Haha I was thinking about how apt that lyric is the other day.
― Tim F, Monday, 22 June 2020 06:58 (three years ago) link
The line is meant to be wistful and a little myopic, and I felt guilty about its meaning during the pandemic, seeing as the reverse (if anything) is true, global disasters only deepen class divides, i.e.
In lieu of "normal methods of album promotion" I've been making lil videos and posting them to Instagram, I did a cover of "River Man" last week
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBMMdvigNhx/
― DJ Fiona Apple Genius (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 22 June 2020 09:58 (three years ago) link
mmmm one of my fave songs. nice cover! would love to get that commercially if it's available anywhere!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 22 June 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
good job on the music to recorder: the marion stokes project btw, i enjoyed
― johnny crunch, Monday, 22 June 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
xpost
I think maybe the prophetic certainty about an all-encompassing disaster is what hits pretty close to home about now--and the truest section being mistaken self-indulgence for self-care. I play competitive video games and drink myself into a stupor saying I'm treating myself, but self-care for me is almost never giving into my urges; self-care at it's best for me is discipline.
I'm surprised to hear about your guilt fgti, because I didn't take Lewis's perspective as a truth in my reading. I took it as a continued demonstration of a longstanding Achilles heel of Lewis's. In personal crisis, he becomes blind to inequities perpetrated by himself and others:
Disillusionment with farmlife (personal crisis) -> Violent crusades (replacing one systemic order with another)Disillusionment with crusading (personal crisis)-> Owen's murder (unilaterally destroying a system of order)
We see him start to come to terms with this in Saints: "Nobody wanted him dead," followed by a shift in the violence he perpetrates as described below.
Emptiness in the wake of an Owen-less existence (personal crisis) -> Reconnecting with previous violence through the adolescent invincibility Lewis feels leading to Sound of the Engines (anarchic violence, in a way. Maybe imposing the only order he knows, which is personal conquest. And failing, in this instance.)
Emptiness in the wake of an Owen-less existence (personal crisis continued) -> A Bloody Morning (at best, negligent violence; at worst, spiteful and angry murder)
Lewis doesn't come around to full redemption, based on the lyric above--he's still outsourcing the salvation of others: first to Owen, then to anarchy, then to some disaster. But always to something bigger than him for which he acts as a catalyst.
That was my reading, anyway, which I think absolves the author. Feel somewhat conflicted about talking about my reading to the author themself.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Monday, 22 June 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
It's fine, there are people posting on my own forum their theories and they're gratifying to read.
That's an interesting interpretation. When I think about Lewis, I think that he's "instinct", the amygdala-- what you term as "crisis" is, to me, just the instinctive animal mind behaving the way it does. Owen is "rational thought", the cortex. The two individuals are figuratively different beings, but literally part of the same entitity-- just as Werther and Charlotte are aspects of Goethe
― DJ Fiona Apple Genius (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
And thanks johnny.. I'm auditing the score to "Recorder" again this afternoon to see if I feel good enough about it to release it as a separate OST-- when the movie was finished I was feeling discouraged about it but time might've changed my mind
― DJ Fiona Apple Genius (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
it's really good!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
FYI, Owen performance in about 90 minutes on blogotheque’s Instagram live: here
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
This is great. A beautifully slow 'I Am Not Afraid' on guitar now.
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
I find Instagram live is not a great format for anything but this was still fab.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
"A Bloody Morning" is also my favorite (I hadn't even noticed that lovely verse Roz likes).
It reminds me of late eighties John Cale.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
Agreed Lamonti. This was the first of these 'lockdown' shows I've watched. W/ 40mins or so it was a perfect length (ie. not longer).
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
I miss the vibey keyboards on the new live version of Lewis Takes Off His Shirt but change is good! You must really trust your guitar straps OP :)
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link
Thanks for watching! Yeah that guitar strap combined with some extra sun on my shoulders has left me feeling raw today.
― DJ Fiona Apple Genius (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 13:50 (three years ago) link
really big fan of the drums in "a bloody morning"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 29 June 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
almost like it's a good drummer ;)
― imago, Monday, 29 June 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
oh it's greg fox! of course!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 29 June 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
tbr it is so great hearing Fox doing something a little more restrained than usual, his touch and sensitivity really comes through
― imago, Monday, 29 June 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
as a big possession fan i love the "paragon of order" lyric about sisters faith and chance
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
Searched but didn't get a hit - is there a cd version coming?
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Monday, 29 June 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
Brad you’re the only person in the world who caught that and yes you’re right
CD/vinyl in November? I’m getting a whopping NINE releases all pressed at the same time (soundtracks, reissues etc)
― wet pockets (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
Also I broke edge yesterday and had some White Claws at a Pride party and I just realized that I changed my username to remind myself of a new product idea that’s a hybrid of wet wipes and hot pockets
― wet pockets (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the cd info! I will be patient.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 00:40 (three years ago) link
Was holding out for a CD but could t Stan RKT anymore so bought files the other day. This is wonderful. The Drake-y guitar is beautiful and unexpected- that note is well deserved. Thank you, Owen.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 31 July 2020 05:39 (three years ago) link
That’s a strange typo.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 31 July 2020 05:40 (three years ago) link
this album unfortunately seems like it was very overlooked in general but it's absolutely one of the best this year
― ufo, Friday, 31 July 2020 05:53 (three years ago) link
Thanks guys! I posted about it on Facebook, but last month I got a really nice note from "The Estate Of Nick Drake" (his sister and her partner). They said they "could hear the ghosts of Nick and Molly roaming through these songs" and that they "rejoiced that they were in such wonderful hands" :) They also gave me a book of Molly's poetry. So sweet!
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 31 July 2020 14:52 (three years ago) link
aw that is very dear!
― imago, Friday, 31 July 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
oh that is just the nicest thing
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Friday, 31 July 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
incredible
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Friday, 31 July 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
Wow
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Friday, 31 July 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
aw that’s so lovely
― Roz, Friday, 31 July 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
awesome. now put out a studio version of riverman!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 July 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
'Grats, fgti.
And I second ulysses's suggestion.
― pomenitul, Friday, 31 July 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
Wonderful.And thirded! :)
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 31 July 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
Way ahead of you :)
Also I'm gonna be releasing the "demo version" of the album from 2017, download-only, included with the vinyl release in November. Certain songs ("Transformer") are virtually the same, others ("A Bloody Morning", "In Darkness") are completely different.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 31 July 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
Nice. It’s an incredible album.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 31 July 2020 22:06 (three years ago) link
Yeah I'm still listening to this all the time and it's also made me revisit In Conflict and Heartland a lot in recent months.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Monday, 3 August 2020 07:25 (three years ago) link
And revisit Nick Drake actually. Boy he was good.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Monday, 3 August 2020 07:26 (three years ago) link
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/697807065
Owen on TrueAnon Twitch playing and talking w/ Yung Chomsky
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 07:44 (three years ago) link
oh heyhttps://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-owen-pallett-on-being-thoughtful-about-each-decision-you-make/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 3 September 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
the description of their lyric writing process makes me seriously want to try it myself
― Vinnie, Friday, 4 September 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
What you do is before you go to bed, you open up your web browser, and pick a songwriter whose lyrics you really admire. So let’s say that person is Cass McCombs
Missed opportunity to shoo in Gaz Coombes imo
Great interview!
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 4 September 2020 08:08 (three years ago) link
Yeah Max transcribed what I was saying as "pre-writing" which sounds kinda gross
I was saying "free writing" but I guess I was mumbling
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 4 September 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
oh hey, some upthread prayers have been answered
https://evernewohcanada.bandcamp.com/track/river-man-nick-drake-cover
― ptah el dude (voodoo chili), Friday, 4 September 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
niiiiiiiiiiiiice
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 4 September 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
Wow, that's remarkably faithful.
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Friday, 4 September 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link