m b v trumps them all tbh – it's best thing they've ever done, as a matter of fact.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, June 24, 2020 8:17 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Wait wasn't it just last week you said 'This Is Your Bloody Valentine' was their best? Or did I imagine that? Made me blink a couple of times!
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
lol that wasn't me, no. I've been consistently stanning for m b v and knocking Loveless for years!
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
Lol, mea maxima culpa! (putting it down to the fever I had last week)
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
Knocking Loveless for years
Love Loveless but I do love this :D
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
my recent controversial MBV opinion is that Feed Me With Your Kiss might be their best EP (along with YMMR obv)
anyway, off-topic sorry
― imago, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
Proof:
New Ride
Then again, I may have shitposted about MBV last week without realizing it.
xps
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
Hardly controversial! xp to lj
I never filed Hum under shoegaze, not in the 90s at least.
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
Same here (although I discovered Hum in the early 00s).
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
No, Pom, my mea culpa remains in place. It was this post of yours where I mistook 's/t' for their first w/ the band name in the title. (ab)solved!
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
i love that this record feels like it's picking up where they left off and yet is very different from downward and astronaut. they've never been quite so dreamy or heavy or groovy
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
Ah, the fog has lifted. So I did shitpost about MBV last week without realizing it.
xp
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
i love that this record feels like it's picking up where they left off and yet is very different
Quite literally, I thought; the song on DiH that seems to me to portend this album the closest is "The Scientists"
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
Yeah it's weird to see Hum slotted in with shoegaze in retrospect (even if it makes COMPLETE sense), because that is not at all how I thought of them back when I was a college sophomore rocking the ringer version of this t-shirt (which I so desperately wish I still had) all over the UIUC campus watching them play at Mabel's.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2235/6075/products/IMG_6178_1280x1280.jpg?v=1516211777
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
Finally listening to this on good speakers, into "In the Den" right now and I have the biggest fucking grin plastered across my face.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
god "desert rambler" is amazing
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
i know both bands share a lot of history already but the groove on "in the den" is some failure shit, i love it
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
I had forgotten how large the ilxor Hum contingent was, but absolutely love to see it come out in full force.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
in addition to being shoegaze and post-grunge and stoner metal and any number of other things, they also placed at #48 in our emo/post-hardcore poll! versatility, folks
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
hum bring everyone together
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
I think it will do well commercially (by, like, Polyvinyl standards) because since the last album came out, at least 1 in 4 Deftones fans have become Hum fans
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
Neither ho-hum nor humdrum.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
since the last album came out, at least 1 in 4 Deftones fans have become Hum fans
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, June 24, 2020 11:43 AM (fifty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
recognizing myself in this post
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
I'm curious what it will do tbh. Despite the reunion stuff of five years ago or so, there's never been a slow drip of news or teasing about a new album. Perhaps that's key to its success, if that will be it. It's not a Wrens where it can almost only disappoint..
xp to Simon
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
"dreamy heavy and groovy" is otm. i didn't catch all the lyrics but more emotional too? the specter of relationships. also someone has taken a few roadtrips through the southwest.
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
I realized this morning that mbv was also a 22 year wait.
I'm confused about the initial release date of Jerusalem, but 1996 (22 years before The Sciences) seems correct.
Both were very high placements on my personal decade list. I don't wanna make that kind of call for Inlet after only hearing it twice but anything's possible.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
there's never been a slow drip of news or teasing about a new album
There wasn't much to report. They took their time.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
I guess X has everyone else beat (27 years!) but damn what a year for comebacks
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
No idea if anyone cares but speaking of comebacks released this year, Lowrider's Refractions is excellent.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
For real? I don't think I've even thought about Lowrider for, like, 15 years!
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
Oh yes, Refractions is really, really good. Didn't really mention it because it seems like even the usual stoner rock leaning ilm crew has seemed to have dried up. It's a really great comeback.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
can't believe a song like "cloud city" exists
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
That Shine record is also great, some good listening these past two days, thank you for the recommendation!
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
"The Summoning" is heavy as fuck.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
Wow wow wow "Cloud City", this is gorgeous. I'm in heaven. This record is so good. I love being able to have been absolutely blindsided by this one.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
Turning into a livetweet thread here, but I just finished listen number one. Trying to avoid hyperbole, but this is really, really, really wonderful. The combination of Talbott's voice and that guitar tone just trigger something so primal in me, given how much I lived and breathed those first three albums in college and grad school. I'm glad I didn't have time to build any expectations and could just enjoy this for the pleasant surprise that it is.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
This is pure comfort food.
OTM.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
I mean, it is, kinda, but I think that undersells this a little bit. While it is certainly comforting, I think they are pushing in some subtle new directions and doing really cool stuff here. Comfort food, to me, would find them coasting a little more on tone and mood, but I don't think that's what is happening here.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
"the summoning" kinda stomps like sabbath
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
^^^^ YES, it's where the Sleep comparisons feel earned too
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
I meant no disparagement when I said it felt like comfort food, but I'm probably less of a Hum fan than most of you and hence not as attuned to the stylistic tweaks jon mentioned.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
Oh I know it's not a disparagement and I totally get where you are coming from. Musical comfort food, for me, is usually what I think of when a long running act comes back with an album that hits the right nostalgia buttons, but doesn't really move me beyond that level. Sort of like some of the latter day Guided by Voices records or something.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
Provided we do another metal/heavy music poll next year (which we totally should), this feels like a lock for the #1 spot right now.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
politely but firmly disagree
― imago, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
it can be #2 ;)
― imago, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
I never said I approved of my prophecy.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
What's your #1 imago?
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
They're from the land of famed ILXor [redacted] who hates guitars.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
probably my favourite album of the last few years
not taking anything away from this Hum comeback though - they've not only returned but they've returned modified and arguably better, which is why this is getting such a deservedly great reaction
― imago, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
Tbh as much as I'm enjoying this new Hum I can see it cracking my top 20 but not my top 10.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
oh me too but they're a band I'm naturally well-disposed to and it sounds amazing so godspeed 'em tbh
― imago, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link