The Drones - any good (also Tropical Fuck Storm content here)

i didn't end up being as bothered by the mix as i was expecting

Yeah the mastering - if not the mix - on this is really off. So middy it's ugly.
Musically I like the album as much as the last couple really. I think there's plenty of great songs on it.
But pretty unpleasant to listen to, unfortunately.

I'm afraid each successive album has marked a further step along the decline. Hopefully their next will give the lie to that tendency.

The songs are good on the new one, I've only had a couple of listens but I'm not hearing anything as catchy as previous LPs.

Has the band commented on the mix or sound of the album? I wouldn't be surprised if they made it this way on purpose.

Following up my comment above to say that I do really like "Legal Ghost" a lot.

I've listened to it a couple more times since my initial post complaining about the mix, and I do think most of the songs are OK, but I do have to listen to it at a lower volume than usual.

Fortunately, I just discovered them earlier this year so am still actively obsessed with the first album. :)

I'm afraid each successive album has marked a further step along the decline. Hopefully their next will give the lie to that tendency.

― pomenitul, Sunday, August 22, 2021 9:59 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Over time I the second album has become my favorite

I may have said this upthread but I view the first two albums both nearly equally. It's one of those cases where one album has higher highs but the other album is more consistently great from beginning to end. With some distance I guess I favor those high highs of the first album, but I love both.

i think "you let me tyres down" is just one of those special songs, magic that cannot be duplicated so that kicks it off and looms large over the first album

haha you let ME tyres down fucking get me lucky charms m8

that song is so immense - especially live

https://spring-time.bandcamp.com/
Album drops Nov 5, opener "Will To Power" sounds awesome

Oh wow covering "West Palm Beach"

"will to power" is really great
kinda nice to hear him over drums that are crushed

aren't even

oh this is great, hope the rest of the album is this good

feel like it bears repeating that Will To Power is absolutely incredible

I'm late to Deep States but so far I like how deranged and offkey this is, it keeps me on my toes in a way that reminds me of Captain Beefheart. It's not really an evolution of their sound, just more shrill and gaudy, but it's surprisingly listenable given how much paint they throw at the painting. Trashy symphonies.

oh this is great, hope the rest of the album is this good

― ufo, Thursday, 23 September 2021 9:41 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

The rest of the album is really good!

Yeah this is completely brilliant

Absolutely wild as well

album's great

but i'm really not at all fond of how "the viaduct love suicide" is described in the press release. "The latter piece is a true story of a woman in the UK who had a disabled child. She jumped off a bridge with her son in her arms. The press were saying she was fucked for doing such a thing, so Ian wrote the poem showing she was not." this framing really really sucks lol, yes it's tragic but being like "it's understandable to murder-suicide your disabled child" is actually really fucked.

Erica's band Mod Con has an album out (Modern Convenience), really digging it. much more garage punk, good songs.

oopos Modern Condition

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-16/gareth-liddiard-talks-cancel-culture-ahead-of-springtime-tour/100831130

what the fuck are you talking about gareth

If (comedian) Ricky Gervais self-censored so that whatever he said fit into today's puritanical conservatism, it wouldn't be funny or insightful

finally, an explanation for why Ricky Gervais hasn't done anything funny or insightful since November 2002i

maybe it is impossible to operate in this freaked-out mode for more than a few years aged >40 without ending up like this

heh yeah, feel like he's been tapdancing towards this for a minute

i actually listened to deep states this weekend and it kinda clicked w/me esp after my friend said the opening track sounded like 3 records being played at once

Deep States >>> Springtime in my humble opinion

https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/night-raver-ep

huh! 41-minute springtime EP out next month, featuring one new 15 min track & versions of "penumbra" (by the drones, might be the same live version they put out last year?) and "the radicalisation of d" (from gareth's solo album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iA8hlQBGhY

here's the new track, "the night of the plague"

i mean next week, but it is next month too

seeing Springtime tomorrow, pretty keen

the Springtime Night Raver EP that UFO mentions above is fantastic, 2 long epics from Gareth, The Names Of The Plague (15:10) and The Radicalisation Of D (18:38). lyrics for the former from Ian Duhig's poem of the same name.

Still more stuff.

Tropical Fuck Storm + King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Satanic Slumber Party

Did not care for the new single. Starting to wonder if this was just an affair and maybe it’s over between us.

"satanic slumber party 2" is the best tfs song in a while idk

I like the video a lot too

Listening to “Feelin’ Kinda Free” for the first time in a loooooong time and realizing that it feels a lot more like a TFS debut rather than a Drones conclusion. It is such a n exhilarating leap past the (excellent but) dirgey epics if all the other Drones albums.

I wouldn't say a leap past considering I See Seaweed remains imo the greatest album Liddiard has ever done, but yeah it's clear that album was as good as he could do in that style and a rethink was needed. And Private Execution at least is...well, it's quite something

It’s just so much more rhythmically forceful and Fiona has such a more prominent presence - the two primary elements that set the two bands apart.

Yeah, the new emphasis really suited the band, even if ALDIM is a bolder all-around expression of it (due to the other musicians introduced for it)

otm

New EP is nice. I really like the new take on “Aspirin”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sixKZP8ed_I

new single "the golden ratio", off a new compilation album submersive behaviour out next year. compiles 3 tracks from this year's moonburn ep + this new song + an 18 minute cover of hendrix's "1983 (a merman i should turn to be)"

a what minute cover of what, oh my god

Noooo goddamn it

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnAuvcnSxZB/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Fuck, that's bad

:(

what's in the link, for non-members?