US Maple - Acre Thrills: eagle, birdy, par, bogey, or double-bogey?

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Acre Thrills is undoubtedly number two with a bullet. I had no idea that Talker was so widely proclaimed to be their best, but I most definitely agree.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i hate you

here, let me make it worse: I got it for free when I worked at Touch & Go

(ok actually now that I think of it we may have had to pay for that one)

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

ah fuck, man, mr. banana, you're getting me down. i've only even seen it once, and it was $50 at reckless, sometime in like 1997 or something.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 10 December 2005 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link

i bet it still sounds the same, regardless.

― rssl, Saturday, 10 December 2005 07:10 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

So...any news on the supposedly recorded but not yet released 6th album. Lately (like the last year or so) I find myself unable to discover anything by any artist that really delivers like Talker and Acre Thrills.

Kept thinking - before it came out - that Purple On Time would be their "Evol" and breakthrough, but after months and months of trying, I can't hear it as anything but 3-4 great songs (esp. Tan Loves Blue) attached to some semi-interesting filler. Like many, I blame the drummer, possibly incorrectly. Always hated Steve Shelley too, but it took him three albums to really ruin Sonic Youth.

(Incidentally, emusic has a post-POT live album, but it's kind of meh.)

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:34 (eighteen years ago) link

remember last april when we saw US maple? the singer showed the fireside exactly how i feel

― hmm, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

So...any news on the supposedly recorded but not yet released 6th album.
No. Actually, I don't know if my friend knew what he was talking about. I think he may've meant to say that they could make a new album, that they have the material, but that reality being what it is, they're not inclined to do it for a while. I do know this for sure: Al is now a dad and has moved to Iowa, Todd is in Cheer Accident, and US Maple, though not actually "broken up", would only continue as an album making / rarely performing - type band.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

i really really miss us maple :(

― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 22 November 2014 06:06 (nine years ago) link

i had a dream last nite where i was gonna give this album to thurston moore, to show him actually interesting guitar rock. in order to curb his hackneyed-ass trajectory. he was like, in town, riding bicycles around with my parents.

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 22 November 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link

caused by hearing "the best day" in a tobacco shop last night, on the local radio. and google image searching the cover for acre thrills right before bed

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 22 November 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link

Unfortunately they seem a case of an act quietly coming to end of a natural life (for the members I suppose at least)

― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 22 November 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link

what?

― mattresslessness, Saturday, 22 November 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link

― mattresslessness, Saturday, 22 November 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link

vg+

― massaman gai, Monday, 24 November 2014 05:14 (nine years ago) link

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