I don't understand why the Field Mice wouldn't want their LPs/singles reissued. They could sell dozens!
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 24 September 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
I was on the LTM website recently and thought I’d got lucky finding one of their expanded reissues of one of the Field Mice albums (‘Skywriting’, I think) still in stick but, alas, it was a mistake.
I did though get the LTM reissue of NPL’s ‘Alaska’ and have really enjoyed it - it’s like a midpoint between St Etienne and Disco Inferno or Bark Psychosis. Now keeping an eye out for the companion singles comp that LTM released and is now OOP.
― michaellambert, Thursday, 24 September 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
I got all the LTM CD reissues when they came out, so I guess I should have been specific and said VINYL LP reissues.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 24 September 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
Ah, fair enough! I should have got the LTM CDs when I’ve seen them over the years but didn’t so that’s on me.
I wouldn’t say no to vinyl reissues.
― michaellambert, Thursday, 24 September 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
NPL's Blue Dissolve EP is really fantastic, worth tracking down.
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Thursday, 24 September 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
Yes, the Jetstream Pony stuff is much more low stakes, but still very good. Beth does a good job of keeping her Instagram feed up to date with all of her various endeavours.
If you didn't like this song from the previous Luxembourg album, Andy would recommend listening a second (or perhaps third) time =)
We bought all of the LTM CD reissues of the Field Mice / Northern Picture Library / Trembling Blue Stars stuff when they were new. We were working at Tower at the time, so we were able to get that sweet, sweet employee discount.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
I have all the Field Mice and NPL on vinyl except Emmas House, the Caff 7", and the Blue Dissolve EP (hurts me). I just want it available for everyone else too. I do need the earlier TBS albums on vinyl. Those are crazy expensive on discogs. Anyone selling?
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 24 September 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
Was Lips That Taste of Tears ever pressed on vinyl?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
The Long Now
We listened pretty much exclusively to the new album all weekend and I have to say that it has exceeded Andy's expectations. It very much feels like a classic-minded dreampop record, with slight modifications in production techniques. It's not really an album that I think would have been able to be made twenty or thirty years, yet it's absolutely reminiscent of those kinds of sounds. The songs are easily the most consistently pretty the band has yet done, but with that presence of slight melancholy that the best British guitar music has always possessed. And nearly every song seems to inevitably hit a moment of sheer beauty at one moment or another. At ten songs, it's concise and direct, wasting no time. Very much feels like their best work to date. Very pleased.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 26 October 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
i see someone mentioned that we got the tape a long while back upthread, but for the closure that no one asked for on that front, here's that archived tape rip of quiet actions:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TsqoYxdQBQ
andy has had it on my youtube channel for a year or so, but set it to unlisted. in case anyone wanted to hear it, here's your chance. it's just two long ambient-ish tracks full of deep harmonies and lots of meditative repetitions. we've been playing it every night before bed the past week or so and it's so perfect. engaging, but not overbearing. first track almost has a disintegration loops (but in reverse?) quality to it. highly recommended.
also: bobby's on instagram (!!!). beth arzy mentioned some months back that she was visiting a studio to work on vocals for the next liath record. really looking forward to that.
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Thursday, 11 November 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
Maybe my favorite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt6BU4WlNAM
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 23 January 2022 17:29 (two years ago) link
Lovely. Very (consciously?) "Disintegration."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 January 2022 17:31 (two years ago) link
otm. "all eternal things" was possibly an intentional nod to the cure.
the later tbs stuff had a lot of disintegration qualities to it. always seemed like it was on purpose to me.
dunno if i've posted it in here before, but "this is bliss" is maybe my favorite tbs thing. pornography goes twee. pretty epic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FTTsqvvyA
(and an amazing mixtape closer, btw)
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Sunday, 23 January 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
and here's something new. can't hear it just yet, but i'm excited.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link
New songs are predictably good. A side is an ethereal folk rock tune and has a very pleasant riffy thing that's reminding me of something I can't place at the moment. B side is an ambient drone; quite pleasant because that's what it's supposed to be. I imagine it's quite representative of what's to come and that pleases me greatly.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Friday, 18 February 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
Pre-orders for the new album is on Bandcamp. "The Circling of the Seasons" has been in constant rotation and it's grown on me a lot. This is an early album of the year hopeful for me.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Friday, 25 March 2022 03:31 (two years ago) link
LIGHTNING IN A TWILIGHT HOUR <nore✧✧✧@lightninginatwilighth✧✧✧.bandc✧✧✧.c✧✧>2:56 PM (4 minutes ago)to meGreetings Austin Anderson,Thank you for your pre-order of Overwintering by LIGHTNING IN A TWILIGHT HOUR. The full digital album has just been released!
Greetings Austin Anderson,Thank you for your pre-order of Overwintering by LIGHTNING IN A TWILIGHT HOUR. The full digital album has just been released!
cue Jack Nicholson in Batman: "Gentlemen! Let's broaden our minds!" (presses play on boombox)
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, 31 March 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
Okay, one listen and the man can do no wrong and it's good BUT—
This is a lot for an hour long album. I expected more ambient stuff (there is none). It's a very mellow album; I think there was maybe one song on the second half that had drums in it? Some of the lyrics are weird, even for him. Most of it is very reminiscent of the stuff he did on the two Occasional Keepers albums, but even more acoustic strummy and dream poppy. That being said, it's probably among the prettiest music he's ever done and there's two songs that hit me as instant band classics ("Delphinium" and "Slow Motion Spirits"). Very preliminary thought is that it's better than the first album, but doesn't quite have the sustained wow factor of the All the Ships at Sea EP. I would certainly consider "Delphinium" one of the best songs he's ever done. Four mics, for now.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, 31 March 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
Whoa, All Music going to bat for Bob! That's the highest overall rating they've given any of his bands since Northern Picture Library.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
No, I'm mistaken: that's the highest overall rating since the Field Mice!
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 13:56 (one year ago) link
So I've been living with this album for about a month and it's stayed in pretty regular rotation. I love it and it is my so far album of the year. Agree with my initial assessment of about 4 mics/4 stars/8.0 and that "Delphinium" is the easy highlight. On further listens, some of it is very reminiscent of the more atmospheric Northern Picture Library material: "The Cinematographer as Painter" is one of the weirdest calm songs I've ever heard and "Natural Light" has a purposely discordant progression that never resolves — just kind of unsettled and tenuous; something he's never really done before (or at least, not to this degree). I knew what to expect and it's not the best thing he's done under this band name, but I still feel like Overwintering exceeded my expectations pretty easily.
I'm hoping he decides to follow tradition and put out a quick EP in the next year or so before disappearing again.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Monday, 2 May 2022 23:45 (one year ago) link
in lieu of anything else ambient-y from bob and friends so far, i made a playlist of all of the ambient/wordless/found sound songs from throughout his catalogue: rjw kankyo ongaku+ambient.
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 04:51 (one year ago) link
so future conditional was an offshoot thing from piano magic and bob guested on a couple tracks and i was under the impression that it was a one-off. decent album, fun side project.
apparently they've made another album and bob is guesting with beth now and there's maybe a new order cover involved? okay, sure.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Saturday, 17 September 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
i missed this. fuck.
― .austinuos, plug forth. (Austin), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 21:05 (one year ago) link
still haven't heard that. it was another of bob's tapeworm collabs — presumably another ambient thing. wonder what it sounds like.
anyway, do love when bob breaks out the 12 string—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUUI9ddDeOM"abba on the jukebox" (1996)
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Saturday, 4 November 2023 17:42 (four months ago) link