the Apartments

Good to hear! My copy's inbound from Tailtres now.

Mine showed up a couple days before release, which was a nice surprise!

It's kind of wild that this is only the sixth album of new Apartments originals.

This is really good - musically pretty much on a par with ‘No Spell’ (imho) but maybe not quite the same lyrical/emotional punch - but I don’t think that’s a criticism or issue at all.

Agreed on the solidness. While I wish PMW was more prolific, this was worth the wait. His voice is right up with Paul Buchanan for me, as far as instant transport to a particular mood. "hold on...no feeling is final" in "Write Your Way Out of Town", eyes welling. The trumpet in "The Fading Light", "Pocketful of Sunshine", and "We Talked Through Till Dawn" is lovely. This'll sync up nicely with A Girl Called Eddy on the year-end list.

His voice is right up with Paul Buchanan for me, as far as instant transport to a particular mood.

Ha, was just thinking the new album is as close as chamber pop gets to The Blue Nile. So pretty.

maybe 10-15 years I saw the apartments live and I think it's the only show that I've thought suffered from having too many good songs

like the usual set has peaks and troughs but this was just blinder after blinder, I felt really quite emotionally overwhelmed afterwards

new LP pressing of my favorite Apartments album

http://shop.talitres.com/products/692543-a-life-full-of-farewells

I underrated the new album - hitting me really hard tonight. Quiet, graceful and beautifully low key compared to the more demonstrative emotional register of the previous album.