so good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYt-eYCDmps
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
prefer this one to the previous one! his production and arrangements are amazing
― imago, Thursday, 3 May 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
Co-produced by Katie Gately & mmph
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 3 May 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
oh right ah that would explain it
getting gately in is a cool and brilliant choice. could so easily have just gone with modish arca
― imago, Thursday, 3 May 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
Ha I'm guessing it's not that easy to get Arca these days? But KG is great.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 3 May 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
New album's good stuff -- a bit consistent to a fault across a full-length sonically, but I can't wait for the live show next month.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 May 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link
Oh man Ned, so jealous you've heard it! Can't wait to see him.
― Soundslike, Friday, 4 May 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link
Along with the new single, to hold us all over till the shows/album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRrFU-4ohhA
― Soundslike, Friday, 4 May 2018 00:53 (six years ago) link
CD of the new album arrived a couple days early, about to listen for the first time and I'm so excited!
Anyone seen him on his current tour? Going to see him on the 27th in Boston and I cannot wait. . .
― Soundslike, Friday, 8 June 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
I will be seeing him live in San Francisco on the 19th! I'm so stoked
― joshywinty (josh), Friday, 8 June 2018 01:07 (six years ago) link
Ooh, this is out today? About to get into it.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 8 June 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
Wowowow so far this is exactly the album I want to hear in 2018
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 8 June 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
I hope you all have been catching him on tour. Just really truly special. I wasn't sure how he could capture what he's doing live--but he does, but adds an intimacy and warmth (and humor and kindness) that can't really come across on the records. He turned a noisy typical hipster bar in Boston last night--replete with dudes talking and drinking loudly through the opener--into a black/white/gay/straight choir and it seemed to happen without overt invitation. He is spellbinding but with-the-audience not above them, and it allowed him to explore whispers to walls of sound (and conversation, and readings of black women writers). I envied folks who saw him in churches before the show, but he brought that special feeling of a place of attentiveness with him. He's really doing something complex and unique but without any of the strains of most "experimental" work, because it's clear he's just using his real voice naturally--and it just happens to be a voice that requires multi-hyphenate descriptors to approximately describe. But the voice (literal and artistic) is the point, far easier and better to experience than to define.
― Soundslike, Thursday, 28 June 2018 12:17 (five years ago) link
Saw Washington Post critic rave on twitter about his DC show. My admittedly quick listen to his latest recording has not yet won me over to thinking that his gospel meets Antony and Sam Smith approach is as great as some think, but I will listen more.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 June 2018 14:29 (five years ago) link
Several of my favorite writers like it. I don't. I'm getting ANOHNI vibes: well-meant tunelessness with a few good beats.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 June 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
huh i remember enjoying the ep but the album is i guess not for me
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 June 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
album kinda washed over me but I'm kicking myself that I missed out on the chance to see him at a tiny venue here, I bet that was special
― Simon H., Thursday, 28 June 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
'Blisters' was definitely more immediately arresting to me, but 'Soil' is definitely a slow-burner. Seeing him perform the album songs live revealed new aspects and made it make more sense to me. He's definitely a singular talent with so much more to come. (And for my taste, a much much more appealing voice than Anhoni).
― Soundslike, Thursday, 28 June 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
We’re seeing him in a couple of weeks — had wanted to catch him last year opening for Perfume Genius but no luck. I take Alfred’s ANOHNI comparison on board but I think swf is sharper in comparison.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
Definitely wouldn't call the new album 'tuneless'.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 28 June 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
HIs melodies meander? Does that make more sense? I'd love to see him live to note the contrasts.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 June 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link
Yeah I know what you're saying, there are some hooks in there too though (like 'cherubim'). It feels like the kind of record that washes over me at first but makes me want to listen again, and gets catchier with familiarity rather than having instant hooks (kinda like the Moses Sumney record).
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 28 June 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
now here's an interesting developmenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljhL6gO8CG8
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 30 June 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
https://www.adultswim.com/music/singles/21
"A Comma" acts as the first taste of serpentwithfeet's new EP, Apparition, due in late April, and produced entirely by Wynne Bennett (Janelle Monae, Tayla Parx, Twin Shadow). While crafting the EP serpentwithfeet asked himself one question: "What ghosts am I welcoming into my house?"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 30 March 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
Janelle Monae tweeted out a Pitchfork article about the new EP... Is it possible someone as sui generis as serpentwithfeet could get "big"?
I would be thrilled to see it.
― Soundslike, Monday, 6 April 2020 04:18 (four years ago) link
New album in March, new song/video now! It rules.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rld75JvoN48
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 January 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
so good!
― winters (josh), Monday, 25 January 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
fuck yes!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 25 January 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
Positive vibes :)
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 25 January 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
That's just glorious. The dramatic, baroque darkness of the first EP consumed me when--but it's honestly just thrilling to see serpentwithfeet leave that behind and embrace this sort of radiant warmth. It's honestly a bold shift, given darkness is an easier sell in the slightly-underground-music world I think he still operates within. I love it and cannot wait for this new album.
― Soundslike, Monday, 25 January 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link
A blissed-out serpentwithfeet album of joy... Circa 'Blisters' and how in love with its darkness, I couldn't have known by Feb 2021, there's nothing I'd need more...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoU64V-uFzQ
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link
this guy is fucking great
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
Love it. Although I was reaaally hoping that a real trumpet was going to come in doubling the mouth trumpet part.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 18 February 2021 00:22 (three years ago) link
(only because it would be a good joke, it seems like one of those classic 'meant to be replaced later' parts that gets left in, and it would be funny if they got real horns but still left it in)
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 18 February 2021 00:24 (three years ago) link
love this. sleeping time on serpentwithfeet is over!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 18 February 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
everything I've heard is fucking great
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 19 February 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link
this album is going to be a monster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdnhLVmyQZI
Interview with Vulture out today too.https://www.vulture.com/article/profile-serpentwithfeet-deacon.html
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 23:49 (three years ago) link
incidentally i DID see him live, back when there were too many live shows to keep track of. He was great, totally clarified the gospel influence and did lots of back and forth with the crowd and moments of joy. looking forward to seeing him again.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 23:51 (three years ago) link
Got my LP copy today but my record player is packed for a move. So gotta wait for the Bandcamp download on Friday. Can't wait!
And agreed--seeing him live (in Boston, 2019) was one of the best and most joyful shows I've been to in recent years.
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 01:11 (three years ago) link
one listen in and this is flat out great
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
how come none the reviews mention terius? never thought i'd hear the dream, the beach boys and kelley polar in the same space. this shit rules!
― anza808, Saturday, 27 March 2021 05:36 (three years ago) link
I thought Terius had been #cancelled
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 27 March 2021 11:20 (three years ago) link
Wood Boy is WOW
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 27 March 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
Yeah “Same Size Shoe” was already one of my favorite songs of the year but on first listen the album lives up to it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 27 March 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
all killer no filler imo
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 27 March 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
new take on You Don't Own Me wasn't doing much for me but the segue into canopy is great
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 June 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
Is anyone else getting Bjork Vespertine vibes from Fellowship? The sort of microhouse sound and layers of vocals remind me a lot of that album.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 12 June 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link
new ep is pretty fucking good on first blushhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkSUY5tJAGU
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 November 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
New album about here! And new single now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRbxIi8VZ4Y
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 03:41 (four months ago) link