Brightblack Morning Light ... WTF?

have you ever read Arthur magazine... on weed??

― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:18 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

so if i don't have any i shouldn't go?

― eman, Friday, November 14, 2008 3:33 PM

it disturbs me that these people are actually flakes hanging out in the woods instead of just some hipster put on

fursaxa and zomes (lungfish guitarist solo) are opening. any good?

celtix/nuggets & lakers/pistons is looking more likely

Fursaxa is pointless. Maybe it's just my mood but I'm staying the fuck in and watching the NBA tonight.

need 2 to get some dankver nuggets

yah just lay back and get melo bro

lol @ outdated promo-sheet copy used on the club's website: "Her music has been compared to Nico's solo work and is often categorized among New Weird America artists." remember New Weird America guys???????

some dude called in to my radio show at 1 AM to request some Brightblack

luckily I was high

freak folk reprezent!

still haven't heard the new album yet. is it any good?

indistinguishable from the new beyonce

new weird america failed as a genre because it was too confusing to abbreviate

i played it at the wrong speed, like, all the way through, not having heard them before, and really enjoyed the shit out of it

when I realized my error, I also enjoyed it at 33

ha!

I really liked my friends' description of them as "a Stax band on cough syrup".

when i wrote an article about them i think i called their music new orleans funk w/ too much codeine

or something equally nonsensical that function, more than anything else, as a way to indicate that i knew about drugs

best album of 2008... not sure if in one hour my opinion will be the same

so, best album of the last hour then...?

new one's good but the previous one seems a bit more engaging to me, possibly due to presence of rad percussion stuff going on way down in the mix. haven't noticed that so much on the new one.

i like the new one better-- longer and fewer tracks.

got all the way through the (back) cover story in the new Fader without hating these people too much. it still was too much about "wow these two are weird and live in the desert" than about thier music or touring, but i still enjoyed it. the naybob quotes only get as weird/annoying as "there's an old indian site over there and these crazy space telescopes over there-- man this desert is awesome." the photos are pretty dope too

i played it at the wrong speed, like, all the way through, not having heard them before, and really enjoyed the shit out of it

when I realized my error, I also enjoyed it at 33

― J0hn D., Friday, November 14, 2008 8:50 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

did you play it too slow or too fast??

i dont think J0hn would put a record made this year on at 16rpm, HOOS.

brightblack morning light 78s would sound great at 33.

i seriously would like a dub version of the new one. maybe by basic channel.

i just want one or two of the tracks in a 60 min version like an album by the necks

does anyone else hear like weird, barely audible instruments in some of the songs? like they recorded a bunch of extra tracks but only wound up using the absolute minimal necessary instrumentation.

xp: that'd be good, too.

srsly dig this btw

sippin on a bourbon while this plays loud makes my couch feel like a bayou porch

they were ok live

did u get weed in time

i thought they were better than ok live, and i had no weed. more energy that you would expect, the grooves are emphasized, rachel is fun to watch, and i rarely see horns played in a live setting. thumbs up.

feels like "star blanket river child" goes by in like five seconds

Has anyone remarked on the similarity of this band's sound to the Twin Peaks soundtrack?

angelo badalamenti. the name sticks with your for some reason, it just rolls off the tongue. badalamenti.

so at atp these guys played one riff for their entire set - is that a normal thing, with them?

(it was awesome.)

anyone?

**crickets**

saw them live a year or so back and they didn't do that

i have seen them twice and both times they played recognizable versions of songs from their albums, with a little bit of stretching out and riffing. i think both times they also played with horn players that they weren't touring with, but had hooked up with for the night.

they have songs. sometimes they have one long song. sometimes they have more than one.

first time i saw them it was this great shuffly riff for the whole thing. i thought it was boring so started to leave and by the time i'd made my way out of the crowd thought it was rad, like a trio playing something off angels & demons at play.

second time i saw them they played songs and it was boring and maudlin.

yeah, i heard the record (admittedly on computer speakers @ work) before i left and went "eh" - definitely my fault, though; on computer speakers it sounds like a lot of nothing

my friend figured it was a screw-you to mbv for overrunning; otoh i preferred their screw-you set to any way i can imagine them not playing like that. there was no singing, which maybe helped.

no singing? that's kinda odd

i saw them at pitchfork and they kinda did that one riff thing, although they came on super late and i thought were quite obviously high as hell; moving slowly and laughing alot. and shineywater's vox was processed so echoey you totally couldn't understand anything he was saying. but if you listen to the record all the songs have a similar type riff, so that may be why . . . also they had a dude on the 'bone iirc. i enjoyed what there was of it. and they do segues nicely adding to the effect of one song vibe.

I've only ever heard these guys off a recordeding of their set straight after their set at ATP a week ago, in the chalet, drinking lots of tequila, it sounded fantastic.

no 'bone or other horn

mister craig can you confirm there was no singing? i was pretty out of it at that point. and the first night i was convinced mbv weren't singing until someone made me actually look at their mouths

"dude on the 'bone" @ Pitchfork = Jeb Bishop, he of Vandermark's groups, solo work, and just all around bad-ass on that thing. Yeah, that was a great set, actually the first time I had even heard a note of BBML! I became an immediate fan, went out and bought all the records. I actually DO NOT remember it as a one-note affair at all. I mean, the songs were LOOOONG, they jammed (and yeah, they were totally stoned), but they certainly transitioned between certain tracks on that s/t Matador LP. Awesome set.

I actually talked to Jeb at some point last year after that set, and he said it was all improvised, he hadn't practiced with them at all. Not that that'd be too hard for a master like him, it's essentially two-chord vamps .. still cool that he just kinda got up there last minute and jammed with them

Saw them last year at the Hideout touring 'Motion to Rejoin' and this time *I* was the stoned one, so have vague / weird memories of the night. But i'm positive that it was rad.