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I heard a rumour that Pitchfork is going to give this slab o meat a ten! ;)
Seriously though...holy shit. Meeted, greeted, and subsequently kicked my expectations' asses.

― wonderwonder (wonderwonder), Thursday, 21 September 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

you've ruined it!!! now they'll give it a 9.2

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

it kind of just sounds like wolf parade & destroyer in a blender. save the djs the mashup trouble.

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

and frog parade

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

or Wolf Eyes. Wait a minute. Scratch that.

I'm pumped for this, but can Vancouver handle two indie supergroups?

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:19 (nineteen years ago)

my lord. just because it has members from good bands does not make their collaboration instantly a ten. i've heard it, it's nice. a solid 7, but jesus there is nothing best new music about this at all, if anything it's best same music that these guys have already put out.

― boonah (boonah), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

boonah it was a joke. didn't you see my little wink?
in any case, i'm finding that it rewards with repeated listens. Mercer is a genius. And the three together have never sounded better. Best new music? I'd say yes. Does it sound like their previous output? Sort of. But they each have such distinctive sounds/voices it would be hard to etch something completely "new". And really, who gives a shit as long as it blows my socks off like this one does?

― wonderwonder (wonderwonder), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

i guess I'm wearing really tight socks, mine are still feeling pretty snug and most definitely on

― boonah (boonah), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

at the risk of sounding captain obvious, the fork has a tendency of inducting very similar indie-tastic bands. we shall see.

― paid in cigarettes (paid in cigarettes), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ah cmon

― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Heard this twice now and I must say that I'm not overly impressed. The Krug songs work best and even though the guy has been a little over-exposed in the past twelve months, I think the record could have done with more of him. Try as I might, I just can't warm to Carey Mercer and I find Bejar to be a bit hit-and-miss. Seems like there are too many ideas here and not enough of them coalesce. I'm willing to give it a bit more of a chance because of the guys' track records, but yeah, initial impression; meh.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

a sense of not much of an interest or seriousness about the project from the 3 (honourable) members is felt on this record, at least for the first few listens.
but there are a few highlights here and there.

― emekars (emekars), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Hey, the new one is really good so far.

― OldHamSweat, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 21:09 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

I thought the last one was fairly patchy, Enemy Mine seems a little more consistent if still not as good as the talent involved would indicate.

― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:47 (seventeen years ago)

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