Olivia Tremor Control (Update July 2012 -- Bill Doss RIP)

Forgot to mention, purely on the poppy side, I'm a huge fan of those first three Dressy Bessy albums (another E6 labelmate).

Especially Sound Go Round and the California EP

don't sleep on Bressy Dessy either

This is my favorite Steppes song, Make Us Bleed. It could be a Moby Grape outtake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf5M_UVr6g4

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...

I am also indebted to this thread for turning me onto the Sunshine Fix LP, holy cow what a good album

"Age of the Sun" is such a good song.

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

although the LP version spares the 20-minute thing at the end so it may be a mater of being optimal in one format.

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.

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'.

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.

That was probably Will Cullen Hart. He's always got plenty of energy, to say the least.

Bill was the redhead with long sideburns.

https://open.spotify.com/album/5Qf6w24SILSOPz85wzsPpB

Just found this peel session. Probably the best production the band ever had.. They sound tight, too.

My local watering hole played "jumping fences" yesterday and my head exploded

gawd i love that song

classic album

https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZfeuBsnsdiXAemBFF0AmB

#ModelPortraitheadsofGertrudestein

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.

I heard about this a couple days ago and really wanted to like it but

Since we don’t have a Circulatory System thread

https://www.stereogum.com/2158387/circulatory-system-turns-20/reviews/the-anniversary/

bloody hell this revive got me excited for upcoming forever delayed OTC album!!!

will hart is a force of nature <3

this revive just makes me miss Bill

Nice piece Ray! I love this album

Thanks!