Earth: s/d, c/d?

Jesus, track 3 on headphones is pure fucking bliss. I love the cover too, it hints at the whole thing being a pisstake (which is refreshing if you're at all familiar with "doom" metal and it's tiresome iconography).

just found this:
An Interview with Dylan Carlson of Earth...

i love their videos, someone needs to release that stuff on dvd.

is this the general consensus about Sunn0)))? not so sure about that myself. what I've heard of their albums doesn't go much further than being a tribute to that sound, which is what I thought Sunn0))) was essentially anyway.

also, taking sides: SUNN 0))) vs. MOONN D)))!!!

there was another one listed in aquarius' update this last week.

i'm enjoying it. this stuff definitely reminds me of earth 3 mixed with a bit of pentastar, less monolithic and more likely to spin out into rock riffs or noodly little parts. thank god it doesn't sound like sunn 0))).

Yes, from what I have read they were an Earth tribute band but quickly evolved into sth... uh... original. I love their last record (Feedbacker). It's one long track of a slowly growing rumble. They also worked with Haino and Merzbow.

ahhhhh the heady days of lime lizard.

I saw sunn 0))) in glasgow a few weeks ago and found it interminably boring and pretty much a joke compared to the earth stuff I have heard (only Earth 2 and the track on Autechre's ATP cd)

Did anoyone see them at ATP a couple of years ago? I also hear they are working on new stuff at the moment.

Oh yeah? I always figured their name was a ref. to the Melvins track.

Feedbacker is indeed awesome. Have you heard Flood? Similar strcture but with less harshness.

Haven't heard Flood (yet).

Go have a look at the SL and stonerrock.com forums.

http://forums.southernlord.com/viewtopic.php?t=8168&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Wow.

(unless the remixers *were* shuffled around randomly and this is just a big low-key subtle prank.)

sometimes.

p much have a hard time trying to figure what constitutes quality with drone. melodic drone? does that happen?

^like with everything else: quality derives from total commitment. If any of the players involved falters in concentration for a second, your soul will "hear" it and you will know.

i am not v pleased with this tbh

i mean i guess it adds depth to BEES but i didn't even really like BEES

i will only refer to that album as BEES

i dig it, esp. hell's winter

Having a hard time getting into this new one. I mean, sounds nice, but sounds like Earth doing Earth, and this is the first album of theirs I've felt that way about. Am I alone here?

i think it's fantastic & then somg. listen for the cello. play loud. immerse yrself

& then some* ugghhh

So, what's the verdict on II?

I really like it, but it is a little less immediate than the first part even.

I agree that it's less immediate than the first part (which totally blew me away to be fair).

Saw Earth last week (for the first time) and hearing stuff from II live has improved my opinion of it a lot.

I generally listen to this as background music, so it works well as that

I like the second part more than the first.

i love it. all the cello is a spooky touch

love Pt 2, and a bit surprised there's not more chatter on this one. full thoughts here. there was a Burning Ambulance interview too that i liked a lot, thanks Phil!

It's a lovely album.

I saw them live last Saturday and was (slightly) disappointed. Much too quiet - barely to be heard above the chatter of my neighbours. Somehow the lack of volume drained their energy.

They performed a mix of new album tracks and older songs. Carlson was visibly healthier than I've seen him, very chatty etc.

i like II ok as background music but i don't feel it ever *goes* anywhere or develops in an interesting way. also agree that it was a bit too quiet.

i gave it a good chance too, listened while i walked around MOMA. just seemed kinda blah and i have a pretty good appetite for droney/boring/aimless/sloppy music. maybe i just wanted it to be louder.

I think it's harder to appreciate in 2012 - but if you frame it in the context of when it was released, and into what kind of world, it's a pretty substantial work.

II still sounds great to me. that and extra-capsular extraction are all the earth i ever really need. agree that neither ever really "goes anywhere". they're entirely static, but in a good way. have always seen them as resembling meditation or even massage, prolonged baths in gorgeous, expansive, calorie-dense physical tone. i find it very easy to disengage from active listening and just sort of float around inside the sound, attuned but not attentive.

I'm hoping Earth will be the subjects of the cover story for the next Burning Ambulance print edition; John Fell Ryan from Excepter interviewed Dylan and Adrienne a month or so ago for that purpose. I figured he'd have the basis for an interesting conversation about long-form improv, being in a group with your SO (his wife is also in Excepter), stuff like that. Hoping to get the piece soon.

listening to Hex. it demands to be listened to. not many albums have that simple purity of requirement. it is not entirely pleasurable but it is necessary, like childbirth

How do we feel about drcarlsonalbion? I like everything I've heard so far, but not more than Earth. Anybody check out the soundtrack to the German western (???), Gold? Looks very interesting...

So this drcarlsonalbion crowdfunded film + soundtrack...soundtrack is good and in the vein of the other solo drcarlsonalbion stuff: slow, buzzy guitar riffs played with remarkable restraint and a beautiful tone. The film is...kinda silly and not great? Anyone else see it?

it demands to be watched. it is not entirely pleasurable but it is necessary, like childbirth

came here to more or less repeat what I said three years ago. every time I listen to Hex it slows time. great album to pull out every odd summer or so

Wrong thread? Hex? Are you talking about bark psychosis? That album does slow down time, indeed. It sucks the movement out of time. I am not sure but there are evenings where codename is the best album of all time. Even better than hex. But then in hindsight it does not hold up. It's such an album of the moment.

I presume he means the Earth record named 'Hex'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex;_Or_Printing_in_the_Infernal_Method

(That Bark Psychosis album is great too, though.)

lol I've not even heard that Bark Psychosis album in full. Codename Dustsucker is great though

New Dylan Carlson solo album next month

https://youtu.be/QxlaxXy7PbI

New Earth album is out. Seems to be a Carlson/Davies duo affair, with no other contributors

First impressions are pretty great.

Really full sound. Multiple Carlson dubs

Power chord riffs

The Colour of Poison (sic: they use the British English spelling) is their most rock/"metal" piece in a long time

ah..... it's always good to see the first correct spelling of colour by a lolmerican of the day.

Given his obsession with English folklore perhaps unsurprising that he uses the British English spelling

sorry, I didn't mean that as shitty as it probably sounded!

Thought I was kinda over this band but overheard most of the new one in a record store last week and really liked what I heard. Maybe I still like Earth after all.

Yeah, the previous three albums didn't really click with me, but this new one is great

Just me and Duke - no one else? The more I listen to the new one, the more I like it. Refreshing to hear the undiluted Earth formula again.

It occurs to me that DC is an easy guy to take for granted. I mean, he invented this sound whole cloth, and it's such a distinctive, singular sound. I've been disappointed by almost everything after Hex (which I still love), including the solo stuff that I kept compulsively buying for some reason, but this new one has definitely reignited my interest in the band.

Does anyone know if he's still exclusively playing the Tele? I assumed Dylan was a Tele guy all the way but some of the guitar tones on this new album sound very thick and humbucker-y to me.

i liked primitive and howling a lot, if the new one's even better hell yeah

and deadly*

New one is good yes

wait it came out in may?!??! what have i been doing

Yeah I liked silent but deadly pretty well but have slept on this one thus far.

It didn't help that he nailed the aesthetic very early with the bees made honey and so the two angels albums were disappointing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7JjLix4FYI

just came here to post this – amazing!

sounds great!

That fucking rules.