Dry Cleaning

I feel like she's definitely floating 'above' the music on the opener, but that's been around for months and I've revisited it infrequently since the rest of the LP dropped. That track doesn't feel particularly representative and it just didn't occur to me elsewhere, presumably precisely because it didn't detract from the experience. I mean, it's not as though there is a definitively 'correct' way of mixing. (Or is there lol?)

People IRL have made exactly the same observation so I'm prepared to believe it's palpably... atypical.

I've ended up listening to it again now dammit. Updated opinion: definitely better than NLL.

I listen to this band to hear inventive guitar music roiling around Shaw's quietly intense thought process, the mix delivers. I don't need them to sound like other bands.

Totes.

Also: one of my odder hobbies is watching how bands' sets evolve over time, despite rarely managing to attend stuff. https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dry-cleaning/2022/pryzm-kingston-upon-thames-england-5bbe9398.html

Whoops! Premature submission. I was going to note that their sets tend to be fairly static and that they introduced the bulk of Stumpwork only in the last couple of weeks. BUT it came at the expense of "Viking Hair", leaving only "Meghan" from 2019. This is a major tragedy lol.

rats, I like "Viking Hair"

fwiw, my annoyance with the mix doesn't mean I don't like this, I really do. It's even better than the debut! I just wish the vocals didn't kinda overwhelm everything else at times.

I like the album, more than the first as I said, I just cannot comprehend listening to this and not thinking damn these vocals are really loud

Clearly they read this site. "Viking Hair" was back on Tuesday night. :) (Though it was a slightly longer set overall: "Leafy" and "Unsmart Lady" returned too.) Yes, I know, this IS a pathological level of attention to such details.

inverse ...and justice for all bass mixing of the vocal aside, i'm really love this more every time i listen

Yes me too.

sometimes the guitars give me vini reilly vibes which is always welcome

yes!

I also agree with the above comments about this reminds a lot of Life Without Buildings but not enough to be a carbon copy. This band and especially this album are similar to LWB but scratch a different itch.

two bonus tracks from the new album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiGKGonhdQ8

well "swampy" should satisfy the "vocals too loud" camp

sorry, I meant "sombre two" there!

Coming here in January on the world tour - I bailed on Stereolab and Boy Harsher this summer because I wasn't comfortable in a big crowd yet but maybe I'll be braver in a couple of months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6l1GYjOt-A

Yeah DC payed a show in April in Baltimore and I just wasn’t ready yet to be in a rock club situation, but January should be okay even if I’m the only person masking.

seeing them TONIGHT!

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oh and Viking Hair was present and correct, sounded awesome

:) Regretting not finding some way to attend one of THREE Vic shows. That vid 5 posts up is just rubbing it in!

well this is as much as I saw of them at the Corner, or at least my arm raised over the idiot head of the guy whose main reason for attending was to hug his girlfriend and chat to his mates
https://i.imgur.com/LuxjSns.jpg

i enjoyed them last night in Syd - they're such an interesting live proposition! the lack of regular rock show dynamics took a bit of getting used to (obv not a surprise knowing their sound, but it was still striking in a performance setting) - it felt like the set started pretty sedate and got more vigorous - definitely glad I went, although perhaps didn't provide any revelations beyond the records

on the sloping edge of a vase of flowers
on the front, Chinese landscape
on the sides, figures in a Dutch landscape
it's Europe

rather neutered performance of probably my least favourite track on Stumpwork:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUW4TmzWYfk

On tour this month in the US. Going to see them in Washington.

that is a kinda meh live run on tonight show but maybe fallon was boring them

catching them at the start of february in nyc.

well they were lovely sounding live, but the laconic anti-charisma thing was more than a bit stifling after a half an hour of standing in place and playing.
sunn o))) had a more active stage presence. So did The Archies.

they're certainly trying! the recreations of the songs are very much there and accurate! But there's no funny business, it's all serious business.

Yeah there’s not a lot of stürm und drang in the sprechtgesang

I was lucky enough to stand near the abstract spot that Flo stares at to achieve dramatic distance, so it was oddly engaging.

It's interesting how they then contrast that with surprisingly giggly interviews/in-studio sessions!

I am totally nicking "sturm und drang und sprechgesang" as old-mind scan-a-like substitute for "sex and drugs and rock'n'roll". Thanks matttkkkk, I promise I'll try to give credit.

i have a feeling that if they were the sorts to mug for the cameras they'd be a different and less good band

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Florence did have a funny little speech about how she thought the White House had a dome before they visited.

Live, it was very pleasurable to hear the band play loud, after being somewhat buried in the mix on the current album. They sound great!

i have a feeling that if they were the sorts to mug for the cameras they'd be a different and less good band

― imago,

otm -- she does mug, though! When I saw them at Pitchfork last summer, Shaw widened her eyes, looked histrionically left to right, etc.

she thought the White House had a dome before they visited.

future Walsh lyric

subtle mugging is good!

it gave us batman

The guitarist moved a lot at the Minneapolis show and made power rock fists at the audience after songs when people applauded his playing. Shaw made a comment about being unprofessional for an encore, bringing out a music stand with an iPad to read a lyric from, and seemed rather bashful when an audience member commented on her beautiful hair. Two audience members, one earnestly and the other repeating with not-quite irony, said "you guys are really good" at different points in the show. Just before departing the stage, Shaw went back to the mic and said "see you next time," as if some special bond had been achieved. A good time was had by all! (Actually I never saw the bassist or drummer smile, but maybe they just don't.)

I was lucky enough to stand near the abstract spot that Flo stares at to achieve dramatic distance, so it was oddly engaging.

distillation music

They were great in Austin last week, she was very animated during the show! We thought the opening guy Nourished by Time was pretty amazing, I'd definitely go see him again.

Liberty Log is haunting me

It’s a weird premise for a show, but I like it

Liberty Log is some world-class tension and release, many many post-rock bands should listen and learn

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