I still have my great grandfather's copy of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
― mizzell, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:38 (two years ago) link
I still haven't heard this in full yet and I'm already salivating at the thought of another one with the rest of the sessions.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
xp LMAO
― Indexed, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:03 (two years ago) link
he doesn't care because it's true
― alpine static, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 21:53 (two years ago) link
also: yes, good one mizzell. i lol'd
― alpine static, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link
for anyone curious about the breakdown of tracks from each of the recording sessions that made up the album, here you go
Demo recorded at The Elf Inn"Promise is a Pendulum"
Flying Cloud Studios, NY with Sam Evian"Certainty""Sparrow""Heavy Bend""12,000 Lines"
Five Star Studios, Topanga Canyon, CA with Shawn Everett"Time Escaping""Little Things""Blurred View""Simulation Swarm"
Studio In The Clouds, CO with Dom Monks"Change""Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You""Flower of Blood""No Reason""Love Love Love""The Only Place"
Press On Studio, Tucson, AZ with Scott McMicken"Spud Infinity""Red Moon""Dried Roses""Wake Me Up to Drive""Blue Lightning"
biggest surprise is "wake me up to drive" being from the tucson sessions, which otherwise were much more country oriented & fiddle-heavy
― ufo, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 09:21 (two years ago) link
They recorded 45 songs in all, 20 of which are included on their staggering new double album
almost more stoked for this album's Amnesiac
― imago, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 09:29 (two years ago) link
yeah they've already been saying they want to release the outtakes, probably as another double album
at this point i pretty much believe they could have just released it all as a quadruple album and gotten away with it
― ufo, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 09:34 (two years ago) link
trying to think of a precedent for that. Have One On Me wasn't as long as I remember it being
― imago, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 09:50 (two years ago) link
autechre?
sun-el musician put out a 2 hour 40 min "double album" in 2020
smashing pumpkins probably could have gotten close with both mcis & machina but they/their label were cowards
― ufo, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 09:54 (two years ago) link
Press On Studio, Tucson, AZ with Scott McMicken
Was not expecting a Dr. Dog connection! (Annual appeal for folks to give “Fate” an honest listen. One of my favorite albums of the 00s.)
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 15:50 (two years ago) link
that breakdown of the sessions makes me wanna hear "Blurred View" ... the other three songs magical in sort of the same way
although right now my fave is "Certainty"
― alpine static, Thursday, 10 February 2022 04:05 (two years ago) link
They just did an Insta livestream; they were working out a new song in someone’s house. It was pretty sweetSome good running comments from viewers:“Whatcha think of Time Skiffs?”“This is our Get Back”“THATS MY GRANDMA”“buck, te amo”
― False Pretenses Lad (morrisp), Thursday, 10 February 2022 05:09 (two years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/big-thief-dragon-new-warm-mountain-i-believe-in-you/
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2022 10:33 (two years ago) link
review gets weirdly hung up on the country tracks despite eventually coming to the correct conclusion. it never at all seemed like those were a schtick, just a natural expansion of their sound. they've been playing spud infinity live for like 5 years and they've been pretty vocal about their love for john prine
― ufo, Thursday, 10 February 2022 10:51 (two years ago) link
it never at all seemed like those were a schtick, just a natural expansion of their sound.
Cush doesn't view it as schtick either imo, according to the review.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2022 11:23 (two years ago) link
as i said 'despite eventually coming to the correct conclusion'
― ufo, Thursday, 10 February 2022 11:26 (two years ago) link
right, I didn't find it weird! I suspect he wanted to address fan expectations
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2022 12:54 (two years ago) link
looks like big thief scheduled their nyc shows on the seder nights of passover, hmm...
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Thursday, 10 February 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
Love this line in that Cush review: "Twenty times, it asks “What should we do now?”, and twenty times it finds a new answer."
― Indexed, Thursday, 10 February 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link
yeah that review is good imo!
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 10 February 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
love this record but has no one commented on adrienne lenker's pronunciation of the word "knish"?
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:17 (two years ago) link
uh oh, this might be a dealbreaker for me
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:20 (two years ago) link
if she had only consulted with a jew we could have helped her rhyme "finish" with "kiddush" or something instead
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
oof, I was imagining a soft K.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:22 (two years ago) link
She's got a lot of chootzpah for that one
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
if she had consulted a jew, they would've picked different nyc dates!
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:34 (two years ago) link
Anyway, the potato is the point! (My uncle loved that line, fwiw)
AFAIK there is a Jew playing bass in the outfit (not sure why they chose those dates)
― False Pretenses Lad (morrisp), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:37 (two years ago) link
one Jew friend on bass, checkmate libs
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link
I did some poking around on Max recently; turns out his dad is a well-known(?) Israeli rock & jazz musician, and his grandfather was a composer(originally from Poland)
― False Pretenses Lad (morrisp), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
I'm sure the shows will sell out anyway (not least with plenty of non-observant Jews buying tickets), and planning a tour is pretty challenging. Is there a northeast city they could have played those days instead that doesn't have a significant Jewish population?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
i feel like the only person in the world who hasn't heard the full album yet
i wish it would just come out
― snarl self own (Karl Malone), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:51 (two years ago) link
I haven't heard it, and haven't listened to most of the tracks that have been released, but I am under the impression it contains a problematic pronunciation of a popular Jewish appetizer
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link
man alive, just being tongue in cheek about the fact that i'll prob have to miss those shows lol
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
knish-gate
― snarl self own (Karl Malone), Thursday, 10 February 2022 18:01 (two years ago) link
Having read the Pfork review, I totally agree w/ufo's take on this bit (re: "Spud"):
The cumulative effect is something like a full-band version of the goofy southern accent Mick Jagger puts on when he sings country songs, which seems, for him, like a way of putting genre in quotation marks, signaling his awareness of his own inauthenticity by amplifying the hokiest parts of the put-on. Though Big Thief have taken many approaches to their music over the years, this sort of winking magpie postmodernism has not been one of them, so it’s strange to hear them leaning into a schtick.
I just don't hear "schtick" or quotation marks in that song, and I agree that the review gets to the "right place" in the next paragraph... but why even go for that point in the first place?
(Other parts of the write-up are really good, though)
― False Pretenses Lad (morrisp), Thursday, 10 February 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
To put it another way - I think the "earthy" style and presentation of that song naturally (and wonderfully) follow from its subject matter.
― False Pretenses Lad (morrisp), Thursday, 10 February 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
I agree with that; I don't hear air quotes around the country & western arrangement. But I see where the reviewer is coming from because the Jew's harp boing-boing sounds inherently goofy to me. I also love it and think it suits the song very well.
― J. Sam, Thursday, 10 February 2022 19:03 (two years ago) link
It's music!
― J. Sam, Thursday, 10 February 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link
https://uproxx.com/indie/big-thief-dragon-new-warm-mountain-i-believe-in-you-review/
The New Big Thief Album Is A MasterpieceSteven HydenThey recorded 45 songs in all, 20 of which are included on their staggering new double album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You. This may strike some as hyperbole but I don’t care because it’s true: As strong as the other Big Thief albums are, they feel like rough drafts for what they’ve finally achieved here. I’ve had a promo of Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You for a few months, and it already feels like the kind of album that’s destined to be handed down from generation to generation, like Automatic For The People or Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. It’s music I know I will reach for on epic road trips or in the midst of profound grief. An all-timer. A masterpiece. They really did it this time.
― Indexed, Tuesday, February 8, 2022 12:33 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
man he does a really good job of making something dope seem lame as hell
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 10 February 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
is it out yet? only thing im seeing on streaming is 8 songs called ‘simulation swarm’
― flopson, Thursday, 10 February 2022 19:25 (two years ago) link
out tonight/tomorr
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 10 February 2022 19:26 (two years ago) link
xp if only this was the actual album, a bait-and-switch sci-fi horror
― imago, Thursday, 10 February 2022 19:26 (two years ago) link
the CD I pre-ordered via 4AD/Bandcamp apparently won't arrive until next Thursday, sadly (keep me in your thoughts during this difficult time)
― False Pretenses Lad (morrisp), Thursday, 10 February 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
I pre-ordered from Norman Records and it's been mailed and coming tomorrow.
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 10 February 2022 21:11 (two years ago) link
― False Pretenses Lad (morrisp), Thursday, February 10, 2022 1:27 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
in the same boat :/
was hoping to avoid listening until i had the vinyl
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 February 2022 21:59 (two years ago) link
Listening to UFOF and damn that second half is so good. Really looking forward to this new one
― Heez, Friday, 11 February 2022 02:16 (two years ago) link
LP has arrived
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Friday, 11 February 2022 13:29 (two years ago) link
THIS IS SO GOOD
― snarl self own (Karl Malone), Friday, 11 February 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
*finished 80-minute 2xLP*
*immediately goes in for repeat listen*
― snarl self own (Karl Malone), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:05 (two years ago) link