C or D: Sunny Day Real Estate

ah shit but maybe for the best since I think that fell during finals week for my kid and he wanted to come with me.

pretty great last night, guess I should finally hear the albums after Diary

they're doing a diary 30th (oof) anniversary tour and putting out a rerecording of the album

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2dA-oWPQOS/

this clip of the rerecorded "blanket was the stairs" sounds excellent

I'll have to check that out, highly, highly suspect of bands rerecording stuff like this.

I remember the 15th anniversary show at Metro in Chicago - one of the band member's wives was pregnant and it was the first time Metro had a no smoking policy for a show. My how time's change.

the circumstances of this re-recording are a little weird, not sure how i feel about this happening when nate mendel isn’t currently in the band (whatever interpersonal and professional conflicts that required them to reunite again without him notwithstanding, i don’t pretend to know about these things, glad they’re touring it’s awesome) and god knows the reason i love diary and LP2 is the particular dynamic of these guys playing together, maybe the first time i heard a non-jazz record where i felt like a whole world was being opened up just through interplay, a feeling i think is a little lost on the records they made when they first reunited without mendel, even though both of those records are insanely good

but also that studio clip sounds dope, and one of the flaws-that-is-a-feature of diary is how ruined his voice is from the tour they did right before recording it, and i’m interested in how he’ll approach it with a not-ruined voice. notice he’s taking a lower register in the verses which admittedly sounded painful to sing on the og

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQa_CrPHdX0

the new song is good, shame there's not more on the way

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL55ljbjKy_Qf46TyePVwfd9MSLppszHV1

i went digging and some instrumentals from the unfinished 5th album sessions during their last reunion leaked a while ago and the band's confirmed they're real. hoerner's said he's not happy with the songs at all though so they're probably never finishing or releasing those.

that "new" song (it dates back to how it feels) is outrageously beautiful