[Moshe]

Ches Smith - Clone Row (June 6)!

Ches Smith - Percussion
Mary Halvorson - Electric guitar
Liberty Ellman - Electric guitar
Nick Dunston - Bass

[Moshe]

Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts (June 13)!!!

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

The real question is how did you find out about it.

from the TOUCH newsletter


(which is the record label for artists such as Fennesz and Claire M Singer)

[The Soup Nazi]

Mark Stewart - The Fateful Symmetry (July 11)

"Completed shortly before his untimely passing in April 2023."

[Kuhb]

Originally Posted by Moshe

Ches Smith - Clone Row (June 6)!

Ches Smith - Percussion
Mary Halvorson - Electric guitar
Liberty Ellman - Electric guitar
Nick Dunston - Bass

Heck yes, pre ordered

[The Soup Nazi]

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe - Luminal and Lateral (both June 6)

Nick Drake - The Making Of Five Leaves Left (July 25)

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The new The Ex album is great great great great
But if you want more of The Ex Guitars, check out this one:

 

Paal Nilssen-Love Circus with The Ex Guitars "Turn Thy Loose"

alternative bandcamp link for Europeans is here



this was recorded at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam last year. I found this video of one of the songs, where the audience looks bored as fuck






(sidenote: post 3.999 )

[Skuj]

Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

The new Black Country, New Road album is pretty good.

This my first post since....a long time ago. And my my next post will be a long time from now, if ever. 😂

Idk why the fuck I read this forum from time to time. Sentimental, I guess.

Sevs response to this really pissed me off. "Tiktok/IG crowd" wtf? (Neither of which I do.) Sev...you were my (sometimes) ally here, when all hope was lost!!

Whatever.

Anyway, I felt compelled to make a post, in honour of BCNR Forever Howlong:

One Of The Ten Greatest Albums Ever Made.

Yeah. That's right. I said that.

Fuck me!! How this band reinvented/recovered after Isaac Wood departed. This is Floydian post Barrett. (Actually, Floyd sucked until Echoes. Whatever.) But you get the drift.

Forever Howlong is one for the ages. Brilliant. Timeless. Strange, beautiful, meandering.

I'll never get bored of this.

They keep saying "Well it's not as compelling as Ants From Up There..." Fuck you!! This blows the previous (excellent) albums out of the water.

I've never been so floored/thrilled with a band that had to adjust.

Forever Howlong is monumental.

Cheers, Bitches.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Skuj

This my first post since....a long time ago. And my my next post will be a long time from now, if ever. ��

Idk why the fuck I read this forum from time to time. Sentimental, I guess.

Sevs response to this really pissed me off. "Tiktok/IG crowd" wtf? (Neither of which I do.) Sev...you were my (sometimes) ally here, when all hope was lost!!

Whatever.

Anyway, I felt compelled to make a post, in honour of BCNR Forever Howlong:

One Of The Ten Greatest Albums Ever Made.

Yeah. That's right. I said that.

Fuck me!! How this band reinvented/recovered after Isaac Wood departed. This is Floydian post Barrett. (Actually, Floyd sucked until Echoes. Whatever.) But you get the drift.

Forever Howlong is one for the ages. Brilliant. Timeless. Strange, beautiful, meandering.

I'll never get bored of this.

They keep saying "Well it's not as compelling as Ants From Up There..." Fuck you!! This blows the previous (excellent) albums out of the water.

I've never been so floored/thrilled with a band that had to adjust.

Forever Howlong is monumental.

Cheers, Bitches.

Man, I just meant the kids like it. That’s all. Young people on the internet. Not *exclusively* young people on the internet, but that group does indeed seem to have an affinity for this band.

I like their first couple of singles back in 2018 or ‘19 or whenever, but nothing since then had grabbed me.

[_slavo_]

I'm quite stoked about the new Preoccupations album coming up in May. The two songs from it I've heard so far are right up my alley.

[Antagon]

Originally Posted by Skuj

This my first post since....a long time ago. And my my next post will be a long time from now, if ever. ��

Idk why the fuck I read this forum from time to time. Sentimental, I guess.

Sevs response to this really pissed me off. "Tiktok/IG crowd" wtf? (Neither of which I do.) Sev...you were my (sometimes) ally here, when all hope was lost!!

Whatever.

Anyway, I felt compelled to make a post, in honour of BCNR Forever Howlong:

One Of The Ten Greatest Albums Ever Made.

Yeah. That's right. I said that.

Fuck me!! How this band reinvented/recovered after Isaac Wood departed. This is Floydian post Barrett. (Actually, Floyd sucked until Echoes. Whatever.) But you get the drift.

Forever Howlong is one for the ages. Brilliant. Timeless. Strange, beautiful, meandering.

I'll never get bored of this.

They keep saying "Well it's not as compelling as Ants From Up There..." Fuck you!! This blows the previous (excellent) albums out of the water.

I've never been so floored/thrilled with a band that had to adjust.

Forever Howlong is monumental.

Cheers, Bitches.

Don't know if I'd put it in my all-time Top 10, but I agree with your assessment on how they successfully reinvented themselves. It's a great album and they are great at their craftmanship. I've seen them absolutely command the stage with their first post-Isaac material some 2 years ago. That was such a fucking powerhouse performance. They are not just some young'uns savvy in the use of social media, they are badass professionals on stage and in the studio. People who think they were falling apart as soon as Isaac left have probably not seen May Kershaw soulfully belt out the lyrics to "The Boy" whilst hammering the keys on the piano and also having a frickin' accordion strapped to her chest. Or the point in "Turbines/Pigs", where the piano solo gives way to an orchestral swirl of a crescendo. Performing songs with structures like these takes hard work, a lot of love and a crazy amount of stamina.



Yes, they are popular with TikTok and Insta-users. They are quite savvy at that. But that's not to take away from what they have accomplished, musically. Yep, they've ventured into a whole different area than the one they started out with. But I don't mind, really. I love me some oldschool British Folk, I'm partial to a good bit of Baroque Pop if done well. "Forever Howlong" leans right into that sweet spot. And as for their social media popularity: I see it as a net positive that music this good gets some broad recognition. I never got the hype of - say Arcade Fire (Hate they way they approach their songwriting - everything's cranked up to 11 from the getgo, there is hardly any buildup, only release, which becomes obsolete if there is no buildup. And their lyricism is cookie-cutter and strikes me as very disingenious) - but I absolutely get the hype behind BC,NR.



Thanks for coming to my TED-talk

[_slavo_]

I'm sneezing

[The Soup Nazi]

The Fall - Singles Live Vol. One 1978-81 (May 9)

[The Soup Nazi]

Rattle - Encircle (this one came out on February 28 and I'm just finding out...)