How did it take me so long to hear these guys??? Fuck if the Bowery Electric first s/t album isn't the best thing I've heard in some time -- been playing it nonstop. Clearly it's about 75% Slowdive worship and a bit of MBV and so forth, but when it's turned up loud I couldn't fucking care less. Awesome awesome awesome, ad infinitum...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I might have to dig out Lushlife again, but I hated it at the time.
Beat was freaking fabulous, though.
― seni seviyorum / senden nefret ediyorum (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Beat = absolutely bloody WONDERFUL
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I live about a hundred, a hundred and fifty yards from the cover of Beat. No, really.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
beat is tops.
― ETERNAL WAR AGAINST THE DICKS IS ALL WE CAN RESPECT (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, I first read Ned's post as "hundred and fifty feet" and was thinking, oh er um, I thought storing that massive music collection must be a pain under there.
― 3 mods 1 banhammer (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
They're not back...but one of them is:
http://thequietus.com/articles/12402-happy-families-new-forgetting
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 May 2013 12:28 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for the hat tip!
And Charlie04 so otm up here: Beat = absolutely bloody WONDERFUL
― Random ASMR Memories (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 31 May 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
So apparently this was posted or at least originally released in 2012, but I'd missed news of it -- to quote Kranky on FB earlier, "Lawrence Chandler of Bowery Electric has posted an immense 24 hour drone piece to his band camp as a 'pay what you want' release."
https://lawrencechandler.bandcamp.com/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 July 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
I never checked out Lushlife but saw it was reissued. Is it good or what?
― Evan, Friday, 12 April 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
i liked it a fair bit at the time but it's been many years since i heard it
― kolarov spring (NickB), Friday, 12 April 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
Chandler's Bandcamp appears to be gone, so I'm glad I got what was there...though there is A Laurence Chandler on there with something newer and rather different in sound?
https://lawrencemchandler.bandcamp.com/
But that said, all of Bowery Electric's work itself is on BC:
https://boweryelectric.bandcamp.com/music
https://beggarsarkive.bandcamp.com/album/lushlife
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 July 2023 04:24 (nine months ago) link
they've been mentioned on ilx before but this band seem to be have a fair bit of bowery electric in their sound:
https://acopia.bandcamp.com/track/be-enough
― NickB, Thursday, 6 July 2023 06:37 (nine months ago) link