impossible shapes - classic or dud?

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one one hand:good folk-prog band.great musicians.nice interpertations to the genre.
on the other: they aren't even: some songs are way weaker then the others, and they didnt released their masterpiece yet.(i hope they will).
i think "we like it wild" is their best effort though.

― maybe the times, Monday, 27 February 2006 10:56 (twenty years ago)

at long last - a band that no one got any opinion about!

― derek the bald, Monday, 27 February 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

They're not that well-known. Are they on Secretly Canadian? I played with them once, they seemed like nice guys.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

secretly canadian they are.
can i ask where do you play?who are you?!

― derek the bald, Monday, 27 February 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm in a band called Canasta -- we opened for them here in Chicago maybe a year ago or so?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

do you play spanish music?
there arent many details via AMG.

― derek the bald, Monday, 27 February 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

We're not on AMG.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

We're, y'know, indie pop.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

so there's another band called Canastra...
ok...

― derek the bald, Monday, 27 February 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

He's so good at the guitar ! Every time i see them live i sorta wish he would just solo the whole time, but you know, the songs, they are very good too. I put off getting into them for a long time because they are constantly playing around town and it was just too easy, but I've fallen very in love with them lately. Haven't felt this way about an indie rock band since high school, at least. What they do is deeper than that to me -- 's got soul.

― people explosion (Sonny A.), Monday, 10 July 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

seven years pass...

i like this band a lot--so much, that when they announced 2 reunion shows, i looked them up on ILM.

their last record is a guitar-centric off-center rock LP...i like it a lot. that said, this quieter number reminiscent of their masterwork (Tum) is my favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgl2_lSEic0

― dronestreet, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 18:30 (twelve years ago)

Great live band, too. Here's a heavier number from their last record...highly overlooked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybN72a7SbsA

― dronestreet, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 18:32 (twelve years ago)

this is the band that Norman Oak plays in, yeah? I like him/them, saw him do a great set as part of a Terrastock-related gig in 2008. I have the one LP with Horus on the cover.

― sleeve, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 18:37 (twelve years ago)

yeah, Chris (Norman Oak) is lead singer/songwriter/guitar player of the Impossible Shapes.

― dronestreet, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 18:42 (twelve years ago)

Drummer played w/ Magnolia Electric Co./Jason Molina, Bass player was in Horns of Happiness, and past guitar player fronted The Coke Dares, as well as played lead guitar in Magnolia Electric Co. (and a slew of other projects).

― dronestreet, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 18:43 (twelve years ago)

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