The two Old Man Gloom albums from this year are superb.
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 27 July 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
I saw Isis at the very beginning (99/00, opening for Botch) and very end (their final NYC gig, with the Melvins) of their run. I wrote up that final NYC show for the Voice. I used to like Celestial and Oceanic the best out of their catalog, and Panopticon the least; that was the only one of their albums that I found genuinely boring. But these days I like the last two, In the Absence of Truth and Wavering Radiant, the best, because they sound like songs rather than endlessly cycling slow riffs.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 27 July 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
I wrote about the 20th anniversary of Oceanic for Stereogum.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
I liked reading that.
― StanM, Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
nice piece. i went to their release show for oceanic in cambridge at a tiny club, i think 27 opened that show. you could certainly tell they needed to be playing bigger places and were on their way to doing so.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
ta for the reminder that i picked up the 2cd remix set last year.need to dig it out and give it some time.
― mark e, Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link