damn I'm gonna hafta check out Salvia Plath now... video for "House of Leaves" was strangely compelling
― bernard snowy, Sunday, 20 July 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
damn that Steppes track is pretty groovy too... bingeing on youtube embeds at the cafe since I don't have internet at home currently
― bernard snowy, Sunday, 20 July 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
Forgot to mention, purely on the poppy side, I'm a huge fan of those first three Dressy Bessy albums (another E6 labelmate).
― Nhex, Monday, 21 July 2014 02:59 (nine years ago) link
Especially Sound Go Round and the California EP
don't sleep on Bressy Dessy either
― switching letters guy, Monday, 21 July 2014 03:11 (nine years ago) link
This is my favorite Steppes song, Make Us Bleed. It could be a Moby Grape outtake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf5M_UVr6g4
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
Saw/played a show w/ Circulatory System on Friday...they sounded so great, played great...and were great. I think the new album rules...it is up there with the first one. A little less dense, but still full of sneakily-catchy melodies and moments you swear you've heard this song before...
― dronestreet, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
I am also indebted to this thread for turning me onto the Sunshine Fix LP, holy cow what a good album
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Thursday, 14 May 2015 23:08 (eight years ago) link
"Age of the Sun" is such a good song.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 15 May 2015 01:58 (eight years ago) link
there's so much great stuff on that album, I like it as much as Black Foliage, the singles comp, the Peel session, and WAY more than the Circulatory System album (which I do like but it's easily my least favorite OTC mainline release that define the band's story
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:11 (eight years ago) link
although the LP version spares the 20-minute thing at the end so it may be a mater of being optimal in one format.
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:13 (eight years ago) link
I don't know if this was mentioned up thread anywhere, but prior to Bill Doss's death they recorded a brand new LP. Will Cullen Hart is in no hurry to finish it up because of all of the emotions it will stir up, but I'm sure one day in the next few years we'll get to hear it.
― DavidLeeRoth, Monday, 18 May 2015 11:29 (eight years ago) link
i think i recall reading somewhere it is near enough done. i guess nmh are still touring and circulatory have been busy playing a few shows. hopefully it will see the light of day sometime very soon. it will be weird hearing posthumous bill. still no news on his death, really. i was with my ex-gf at the time we found out through some pitchfork article, she cried her eyes out - it was really the first time we had lost a musician of our generation we really felt close to. she'd just met him a few months before and we had just bought the peel sessions CD and had it on in the car.
the new album is called 'the same place'.
― meaulnes, Monday, 18 May 2015 12:06 (eight years ago) link
I think I met Bill Doss? I went to a Circulatory System show and talked to some guy in the band who was super out of his mind on hash and I think adderall and god knows what else. I know Doss wasn't really a part of Circulatory System but I'm 99% certain the face in my memory matches the face in photos of him so maybe he subbed in that show.
― example (crüt), Monday, 18 May 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link
That was probably Will Cullen Hart. He's always got plenty of energy, to say the least.
Bill was the redhead with long sideburns.
― Evan, Monday, 18 May 2015 23:03 (eight years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/album/5Qf6w24SILSOPz85wzsPpB
Just found this peel session. Probably the best production the band ever had.. They sound tight, too.
― calstars, Saturday, 5 December 2015 11:52 (eight years ago) link
My local watering hole played "jumping fences" yesterday and my head exploded
― calstars, Saturday, 2 July 2016 01:41 (seven years ago) link
gawd i love that song
classic album
― brimstead, Saturday, 2 July 2016 01:51 (seven years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZfeuBsnsdiXAemBFF0AmB
#ModelPortraitheadsofGertrudestein
― calstars, Saturday, 8 July 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
New collaboration between W. Cullen Hart and Apples in Stereo's Rob Schneider - The Patient
https://soundcloud.com/chunklet-world-industries/the-patient-extension-9/s-ME2Zq
"Chunklet’s A&R staff challenged Robert to finish but ONE SONG and 'Extension Nine' is the finished product. Recorded in Athens inside a geodisic dome, 'Extension Nine' is more Talking Heads than Syd Barrett, accidental more than deliberate. Hart is on guitar and sound effects, Robert on vocals, Ben Mize on drums and multi-instrumentalist/luthier/wizard Scott Baxendale on guitar, Mellotron and all sorts of whirring noises."
This is good! Really psychedelic yet somehow more tethered to the earth than OTC/Circulatory System's stuff. I like it.
― maura, Friday, 29 September 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
I heard about this a couple days ago and really wanted to like it but
― calstars, Friday, 29 September 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
Since we don’t have a Circulatory System thread
https://www.stereogum.com/2158387/circulatory-system-turns-20/reviews/the-anniversary/
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 27 August 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
bloody hell this revive got me excited for upcoming forever delayed OTC album!!!
will hart is a force of nature <3
― maelin, Friday, 27 August 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
this revive just makes me miss Bill
― Heez, Friday, 27 August 2021 17:38 (two years ago) link
Nice piece Ray! I love this album
― calstars, Friday, 27 August 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
Thanks!
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 27 August 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link