― Curt (cgould), Friday, 2 April 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago) link
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gimme Fuel, Friday, 1 July 2005 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gimme Fuel, Friday, 1 July 2005 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 July 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gimme Fuel, Friday, 1 July 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
try Rothko, Fuel. anything pre-Too Pure, like the "Storm Cycle" 10", either of the Lo Recordings CDs, and the cdr on Burning Shed. they will not disappoint.
― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 2 July 2005 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― roger, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
It's really good. I miss them.
I think Carter and his wife live in the Phillipines now and Bobby is the only one in Virginia. I could be wrong but that's the last I heard.
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Thursday, 24 November 2005 09:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Sunday, 4 June 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 June 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jacobo Rock (jacobo rock), Monday, 5 June 2006 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes, that's the one. a bit boring I thought
no.
― Dog/Face/Chain (res), Thursday, 23 October 2008 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
yes
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 23 October 2008 07:51 (fifteen years ago) link
no
― allez, allons-y, on y va (ledge), Thursday, 23 October 2008 10:13 (fifteen years ago) link
― REIGN IN FUDGE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 23 October 2008 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
― NickB, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
duh, I mean no
haha
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
poll?
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
It's slow, contemplative music. There are no pyrotechnics and leather-pants. Perhaps boring for some tastes, but in my book Labradford-- particularly on their last 3 albums-- is among the most interesting and affecting bands I've ever heard.
― Dog/Face/Chain (res), Thursday, 23 October 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Well upthread I was just saying how I found E Luxo So pretty boring as compared say to Mi Media Naranja.
― baaderonixx, Friday, 24 October 2008 07:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Fixed: Content: The Cat's Pajamas
― Pillbox, Saturday, 25 October 2008 08:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Quiet City on a grey october sunday afternoon
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Sunday, 11 October 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
E Luxo So is a good album imho
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 11 October 2009 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
That it is. Might play it here myself (it's a grey October Sunday morning).
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 October 2009 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
nice
― cutty, Sunday, 11 October 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Fixed:Context > Mi Media Naranja > E Luxo So > the self-titled with the white cover > the earlier two albums
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 11 October 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
that's almost exactly backwards, by my lights.
― LIVIN' IN A JAM SPREAD (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 11 October 2009 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i agree
― cutty, Sunday, 11 October 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm biased towards E Luxo So because we toured with them on that album so I heard it every night for a few weeks.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 11 October 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Fixed:Content takes it for me as well. 'Twenty' is such a phenomenal piece. E Luxo So and Mi Media Naranja aren't far behind though.
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 11 October 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
It's "Fixed::Context" ffs! I'd have thought Labradford fans would be quite, hmm, precise.
I used to listen to these guys a lot. I noticed that Prazision, their first album, was re-released a while back, but I didn't bother picking it up. Perhaps worth getting after all? I only have their last 4 albums -- missing the first 2.
― Duke, Sunday, 11 October 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
And, both tracks from Labradford's first 7" are included in the re-issue.
― Duke, Sunday, 11 October 2009 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
So what are these fellows up to now anyway?
― Obscured by clowns (NickB), Sunday, 11 October 2009 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
pan american
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Sunday, 11 October 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
count me in as someone who prefers the first two, Prazision is great.
― sleeve, Sunday, 11 October 2009 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah the first two are where it's at for me also. couldn't get into the stuff after that
― sound of contusion (electricsound), Sunday, 11 October 2009 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
The last three are great and would serve perfectly as soundtracks for David Lynch movies.
― Melvin van Osterlow, Jr. (res), Sunday, 17 January 2010 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
It is snowing here now and E Luxo So is the perfect soundtrack to it.
― Jim, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I think each album grows out of the last, and that they really hit upon their path with the s/t album, perfected it with Mi Media Naranja, took an interesting left turn on E Luxo So, and then made what is essentially the quintessential "Labradford" album with Fixed::Context. Which is to say I can pretty much appreciate why anyone would name any of their albums their favorite, especially from s/t forward.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 26 July 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
I've been a Labradford fan for 15 years, but I still don't like/get/appreciate their first 3 albums, which apparently a lot of people think are their best.
It's been a while since I've listened to the later albums - is the 4th one where they essentially became an instrumental group? I feel like the vocals sort of mark the divide between fans of the first 3 and people who don't like them.
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 26 July 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
There are vocals on the 1st, 3rd, and 4th albums - I can't remember if any vocals show up on the last two.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 26 July 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
Or... I think there are vocals on the fourth?? Suddenly it's all running together in my head.
Spending the morning listening to the last four Pan American albums in a row... this is a very nice feeling.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 8 August 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
Anjou is now available... stores, spotify, iTunes, etc.
I'm on my second spin. Very minimal. Fans of Nelson's past work will like it though to me it doesn't sound much like Labradford, if that's the expectation. For one, Nelson doesn't play guitar on this album.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
And a new Anjou album coming soon, here's the first track:
https://soundcloud.com/kranky/anjou-soucouyant
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 January 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
Nice track. Wasn't even aware of Anjou!
― 𝐌𝐀𝐁-BAM-O BAM A – 𝐔𝐒-H US SEIN-U.S.-UNITED STATES (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 January 2017 04:11 (seven years ago) link
Labradford are a band I keep coming back to - something in the stately progress, that sense of metallic dust in abandoned rooms... I always listen to them on planes, for some reason.
Anyway, don't see a reference to the Aix Em Klemm album anywhere on the thread. It's got Robert Donne on it (with him off Stars of the Lid, Adam Wiltzie), and is quietly magnificent in its way.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Monday, 16 January 2017 12:46 (seven years ago) link
Aix Em Klemm album is up there with both Labradford and SotL's best works imho.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 16 January 2017 13:03 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that's a great record.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 16 January 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link
Had forgotten how great Mi Media Naranja is.
― djh, Monday, 6 August 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
I had my clear preferences as they came out, but despite still having favorites, whenever I return to the entire body of work I have a harder time designating one significantly better than the others.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 August 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
Mi Media Naranja is the one.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 6 August 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
Fixed Conent is a close second, but yes.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 6 August 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
*Context
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 6 August 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
x-posts.
Yeah, I can see that. I wouldn't be able to make a coherent argument that MMN is "the best" though it's the one I most frequently return to. "Fixed: Context" is sounding good, right now.
― djh, Monday, 6 August 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, July 26, 2014 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I was going to rank all the Labradford albums but then I wondered if I did that already in this thread and I came across what I said 4 years ago which is essentially still true.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 03:31 (five years ago) link
In any case:
1. Labradford: Mi Media Naranja2. Labradford: Fixed::Context3. Pan American: Quiet City4. Labradford: s/t5. Pan American: s/t6. Labradford: E Luxo So7. Pan American: 360 Business / 360 Bypass8. Aix Em Klemm: s/t9. Pan American: Cloud Room, Glass Room10. Anjou: s/t11. Anjou: Epithymia12. Pan American: White Bird Release13. Labradford: A Stable Reference14. Pan American: The River Made No Sound15. Pan American: White Bird Release16. Pan American: For Waiting, For Chasing17. Labradford: Prazision
I like all of these records.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link
I rate A Stable Reference a lot higher, but that may just be because it was the first one I heard. S/t is usually my go-to. Haven't listened to Pan American in forever, should remedy that.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
I was just listening to Fixed: : Context last night and swooning all over again. Then I see today that Pan American has a new album coming out in November! I hope Mark Nelson makes records forever.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 12 September 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
Well I’m lukewarm on the new Pan American. Lots of guitar, lots of vocals—maybe if you really miss the earliest Labradford albums you will find something to enjoy here. Pan American was feeling almost like a band for a while—I guess that’s sorta what morphed into Anjou. This new album is a return to a solo/side project feel, to my ears.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 14 November 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
The last Anjou album was beautiful
I love Labradford but have never connected with any of Mark's solo work. Dunno why
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 14 November 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
I was listening to "A Stable Reference" on headphones the other day, and noticed for the first time (as far as I remember) the stereo bouncing of quiet cricket chirps from channel to channel.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 November 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
Paul, I said it up thread more than once but give Quiet City a try, if you haven’t before.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 14 November 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
I will! I've lost track of him these past few years but I'm usually open to hearing anything from any of these guys. I think what I never really dug in Pan Am's music was the aspirations to 'dub,'which I never found very convincing
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 14 November 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
He left the dub vibe behind after the second album.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 15 November 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
The last one I heard was either The River Made No Sound or that split CD with Frank Bretschneider
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 15 November 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
This is really nice! The whole album with the accompanying film is up on Youtube. "Het Volk" is almost ECM-y (but maybe it's the horns). Enjoying this much more than any of the stuff I'd heard previously (which, tbf, was many years ago). Thanks!
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 15 November 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
Yeah Het Volk and Lights of Little Towns are both so lovely. Glad you like it!
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 15 November 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
Seeing Pan*American this Saturday at the International Museum of Surgical Science!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 January 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link
Show was super cool, Mark Nelson is great at looping stuff. It did get a bit distracting that by the end most people were sitting on the floor. That, and the two dudes front and center absolutely tripping balls. One guy looked kind of like a chill hiker or tacky-sacker or something. He kept staring at his hands or pawing at or petting his pal, who was this giant bearded hulk of a man who largely remained absolutely still. Basically looked like a wiggly Han Solo and Chewbacca. Anyway, I was impressed that despite it all they still largely respected personal space, to the best of their abilities. The smaller guy even made a couple of trips to the bar for wine, which ... is maybe not the choice I would have made. But he didn't spill it, said excuse me, smiled at people, and yeah, the person next to him had to scoot a bit when he finally, awkwardly sat down, but it's not like he was rolling around.
Anyway, the show was a beaut. Nelson switched between guitar, lap steel and dulcimer, each dripping with echo and other effects. The austere setting only added to the effect.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link
Sorry to raise hopes of a new release/freak people out because of an early death but...
Things I was old when I realised: this lot (I assume) are named after a basketball player.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
Now this is some greatness
Who’s the coolest band/artist you’ve seen at a wedding? I ask because I know I’m gonna win: Labradford.— Marc Masters (@Marcissist) February 26, 2021
It was in Virginia in the early 90s in a church, they set up in a balcony and played ambient drone as people settled into seats, before the traditional procession music. It got REALLY loud near the end. The groom had grown up with and played in bands with them.— Marc Masters (@Marcissist) February 26, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 February 2021 23:23 (three years ago) link
YSI?
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 26 February 2021 23:40 (three years ago) link
WOw.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 29 April 2021 18:07 (three years ago) link
New Pan*American inbound:
https://panamerican.bandcamp.com/album/the-patience-fader
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 January 2022 04:11 (two years ago) link
New Pan*American album is out today. Liking this more than the last one so far.
As PA albums go this one is more on the guitar-based side of the fence, not so much electronic elements.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 18 February 2022 16:54 (two years ago) link