Trembling Blue Stars: C/D, S/D?

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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 β€” 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

two months pass...

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.

one month passes...

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.

five months pass...

i missed this. fuck.

.austinuos, plug forth. (Austin), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 21:05 (one year ago) link

seven months pass...

still haven't heard that. it was another of bob's tapeworm collabs β€” presumably another ambient thing. wonder what it sounds like.

anyway, do love when bob breaks out the 12 stringβ€”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUUI9ddDeOM
"abba on the jukebox" (1996)

"another slice of death, please." (Austin), Saturday, 4 November 2023 17:42 (five months ago) link


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