I have no self control so picked up both of those vinyl re-issues, they're really good. Two albums I've always kind of overlooked because they are not 'Cold House', an album i deeply love.
― michaellambert, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
once on a long car ride with some university peers of mine i managed to get them to play the entirety of rustic houses and all but the last 1 1/2 tracks of codename:dustsucker until the freakout halfway through 'shapeshifter' gave one of them conniptions
― imago, Monday, 21 August 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
The Cycle of Days and Seasons is the fifth full-length album by Leeds-based band Hood. Both the LP and CD versions were released on Domino Records in 1999.
Track listing
"Western Housing Concerns" "Hood is Finished" "September Brings the Autumn Dawn" "In Iron Light" "How Can You Drag Your Body Blindly Through?" "Houses Tilting Towards the Sea" "Roads Lead Northwards" "...The Cliff Edge of Workaday Morality"
It is time.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 22 September 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
oh god
― imago, Friday, 22 September 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
Blasting it over the meadows, through the fog, trying to keep dewy morning at bay right now. In vain. Muddled foggy mind succumbs to this feeling like a heroin addict to methadone.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 22 September 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
Houses Tilting = best Hood
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 22 September 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
It's an oddly transportive track for me - among other things it's that piano tolling like bell, it's that plaintive brass, I feel like I'm being summoned through space and time back home to a past I never had
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 22 September 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
you're worth the whole world still, IMO, the best piece of music they ever did
― akm, Friday, 22 September 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
Any idea where the sample on "The Lost You" is from?
("the same problem as usual ...")
Only six years late to this party, but if you're still caring it's from The Slits' "Live At Gibus Club", some in-between-track banter there.
― (I Just) Died In Your Asshat Tonight, Friday, 22 September 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
thanks!
― akm, Friday, 22 September 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
Really liking this Memory Drawings album
https://memorydrawings.bandcamp.com/album/the-nearest-exit
Autumnal, bittersweet post-rock featuring two members of Hood, unsurprisingly sounds like an instrumental Hood.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 13 October 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
With hammered dulcimer!
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 13 October 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
yeah the memory drawings albums are nice
― akm, Saturday, 14 October 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
The new Remote Viewer album is really great. Couldn't have come at a better time, too.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 18 November 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
Nice, thx for the tipIt's def the time for Cold House over here
― brimstead, Saturday, 18 November 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
Ha otm. I've a whole night of writing to do, and a mix of Hood/Remote Viewer/Declining Winter/Boats/Bracken, with the wind blasting 'round the house, is just perfection for me.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 18 November 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
Remote Viewer on Dying Songs: http://dublab.com/jimmy-tamborello-wguest-the-remote-viewer-dying-songs-11-16-17/
― djh, Saturday, 18 November 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
Never heard of that show/podcast, thank you!!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 18 November 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
Not strictly Hood related (beyond featuring Craig Tattersall from the "classic line-up"):
https://facture.bandcamp.com/album/the-epiphanies
― djh, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
Yr fave miserable northern lads are back w/ a new Declining Winter album out soon. <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXJDGOOG0dc
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 5 July 2018 08:01 (five years ago) link
^ This is great. Most Hood sounding track so far?
― mor frog bs (S-), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 03:04 (five years ago) link
Been loving this too:
https://thedecliningwinter.bandcamp.com/track/why-is-it-so-elusive-2
― mor frog bs (S-), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 03:17 (five years ago) link
Definitely the most Hood sounding post-Hood track!
Why Is It So Elusive? sounds like something from The Weight EP. It's great.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 08:45 (five years ago) link
The Declining Winter's new album 'Belmont Slope' is out, and to paraphrase our favourite emo-ilxor, it's easily AOTY. The sadness drips off your face like a dirty rain.
Am I really the only one still caring for these guys? This is prime miserablist music ffs, "it's grim up north"-style. You take one wrong turn on the A6303 towards Haworth, enjoying the scenery, and you are done for. Saer would appreciate this tbh.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
Nah, it's a good album indeed.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
That's good to hear - I have to confess I've bought so many Hood-related projects that I've been ambivalent about that I actively made myself stop buying them.
― djh, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
yeah I'm into this. the trancey number is a proper curveball!
― still wackford after all these squeers (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
it's wonderful.
― akm, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
It’s very good. New Epic45 album out this week too - not Hood related but a similar sound.
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
Old news but I hadn't heard this before (sampled for "Branches Bare"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r3yrdHKKp8
― djh, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 22:18 (five years ago) link
Featuring the *genius* from the classic line-up:
https://soundcloud.com/fluid-radio/the-seaman-and-the-tattered-sail-standing-on-the-precipice-of-tears
― djh, Thursday, 7 February 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
Gorgeous. (thx for keeping this thread updated btw)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 8 February 2019 13:19 (five years ago) link
Not agreeing or disagreeing, just wondering why Craig is considered the "genius"? I adore Hood but my knowledge of their various backstories is fairly sparse
Revisiting Light Folds now and it's no less engaging than when I last heard it
― doug watson, Sunday, 10 February 2019 11:25 (five years ago) link
Partly based on his non-Hood music, particularly "Light Folds", and partly based on a guess that he was behind the "//-" tracks on "The Cycle of Days & Seasons" ... and, also, partly comedy.
― djh, Sunday, 10 February 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
BTW there was a very limited lathe-cut Declining Winter release this month. Probably all gone (I got on the second pressing). Typically lovely.
Craig is a smart guy but not the only genius from Hood c'mon.
― akm, Sunday, 10 February 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
I'd say the Adams brothers are Hood's beating heart and soul. But I'm not really invested in a silly discussion about who Hood's *genius* might be. Sum of parts etc.
Somehow missed the newest Declining Winter, thanks for that.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 February 2019 08:23 (five years ago) link
"Adams brothers are Hood's beating heart and soul."
Of course. I did say there was comedy involved.
― djh, Monday, 11 February 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link
Old but I'd never really noticed this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHkS4obTPzY
(Tweeted by them yesterday).
― djh, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
oh wow. pretty unfamiliar with both songs.a treat to hear them both now.
― S-, Monday, 4 March 2019 07:07 (five years ago) link
More from the genius from the classic line-up:
https://boomkat.com/products/things-are-sweeter-when-they-re-lost
― djh, Monday, 1 April 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link
https://soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/prowess
New electronica/ambient release by Richard Adams under his Western Edges moniker, it's good!
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 12:00 (five years ago) link
More from the *genius* from the classic line-up:
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/album/all-other-voices-gone-only-yours-remains
― djh, Saturday, 27 July 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
Forked out for the book and then some. Good stuff.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 29 July 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
It's October and The Declining Winter have a new one out, Why Clanks. It arrived today, and it's beautiful. It's a 3" cd with a short essay called 'Why Clanks - A journey to Silsden AFC and back', written by Richard Adams, about a walk along the canal between Saltaire and Silsden. Because of course it is. Real Yorkshire.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
I managed to get the very last copy of this when it went up. Looking forward to it.
― akm, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
Ha! I thought I natched the very last (24th iirc?) copy! :) We must have ordered in the same minute. You'll probably already have the mp3s through bandcamp, but it's a beautiful physical product too imo.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
yeah, didn't download them yet. will do. It was weird, I had it in my cart on on phone for 30 minutes but couldn't log into bandcamp there for some reason to purchase. got to my computer and it said sold out. looked at phone...still in cart. deleted it from the cart in my phone and voila, there was one more available.
― akm, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
That is weird! For me, I paid through paypal saying there was just one copy left. Never got a confirmation email, no paypal email either. The money had left my account so I figured I'd get an email shortly saying I sort of fell through the maze and didn't manage to order it anyway. Heard nothing, until I found it in my mailbox today. It's small, but it's grand. Very much worth your while imo.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
I think Richard is taking requests for a second, less fancy version. I might be wrong about this though.
― djh, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
gotta make a straight face to sell portraits, baby can’t you look at the camera?
― Wee Bloabby (NickB), Monday, 18 November 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link