Stars of the Lid - Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline

(*PERMANENTLY* LEAVING THREAD to prevent another flame-war.)

(Unless I have something to add about SOTL.)

That said, that track on Brainwashed is just a little too clean for my liking, but it's only one track (the shortest, at that), and it's... nice enough and all, so this remains the forthcoming album I am most excited about.

Plus there's always the suspense of seeing if that last title really does happen or is just a joke for eager Brainwashed readers.

i heard 10 second clips and asked about what made this music different from other similar bands. now i've heard a full song and i like it. what is so hard to understand about that?

Sorry, will not be sharing this. Just rest assured it is all that and more.

I agree. This is probably one of the few ambient albums I've ever anticipated.

also "cloud of titties" would fit nicely among the other song titles.

loved it

haha.

Listening to this now..so far so great

This album really is incredible -- heavenly tones, titty clouds, and all the other stuff mentioned in this thread ... all music should sound like this (at least for today).

As you can see from above, they still continue to write the best song names in the business.

I'm definitely looking forward to picking up the 3xLP set.

in my pretentious animal collective days i would (like most of you)

u projecting mayn and we dont like it

i was more saying that i wasn't unique by devoting an amount of my day to the sole purpose of listening to music (oOoO, look at me, look how seriously i take music), not that you're all pretentious and like animal collective. a lot of you are, but that's beside the point.

I want you to know I'm not SBing you for the last sentence.

http://i55.tinypic.com/65bt5j.jpg etc

its like floating on a cloud of titties
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, February 2, 2007 12:02 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark

all time

I was about to launch into this lengthy reminisce about that show we went to and how hilariously obviously bored our gfs were and how I had just been talking about SOTL w/my roomie and regaling her with the story of that show and so it is v v lol that you revived this thread tonight!

then i remembered that you and ilxor are different ppl.

― friends don't understand us, adults don't understand us (zorn_bond.mp3)

You're back??!!?! Nice!

Anyway, yeah, that was a great show. My gf (ahem... *wife*, nowadays) really enjoyed it, actually, in a "YESSSSS NAPTIME" sorta way. She drifted off during the set and said she couldn't tell if she was awake or asleep or halfway in between, and that the music was perfect for that. Go figure...

I tried hippin' a friend to sotl the other day. he called it 'ambient music' at least once and said it sounded like an orchestra tuning up. (not sure if he 'meant it in a good way')

I still like 'em a lot though, and this

devote a one to two hour section of my day to just lie in bed and try imagining shit from this album

Dead Texan? Or something else?

Something else.

Dead Texan was Adam Wiltzie rather than Brian McBride. I remember McBride's previous solo album 'When The Detail Lost Its Freedom' as slightly different (more song-based, if I'm recalling correctly), but pretty good.

Release date 10/26. Amazon link.

new project A Winged Victory for the Sullen is Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran..... my thoughts here.... out tomorrow i think, on Kranky, and it's frickin lovely and awesome, everyone should buy this immediately.

good record.

The Sleepingdog record, With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields, is really lovely too.

Picked up the Winged Victory for the Sullen CD today and ordered the Sleepingdog one from Amazon. I’ll indiscriminately buy pretty much anything associated with Stars of the Lid quite happily.

^^ that is me, too. McBride and Wiltzie are yet to prove me wrong on doing so, their solo-efforts so very wonderful as well.

^ Never heard of Sleepingdog before. Gracias!

I've been listening to the Winged Victory for the last few days. Really lovely. I like Brian McBride's solo stuff a lot, but based off of Dead Texan, Winged Victory, and Aix Em Klemm, I think Wiltzie is brilliant.

i didnt really like the Sleepingdog record... too little SotL, too much female coffee shop songerwriter style :(

who is on the Sleepingdog?

Sleepingdog are not Stars of the Lid, but this eliding intro has a purpose because Adam Wiltzie – one half of Stars of the Lid – is a big contributor to Sleepingdog’s new album, With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields. This is a good thing; when Wiltzie’s lushly textured arrangements take center stage, With Our Heads is a rather good if not great album. But, again, this is not a Stars of the Lid album, but rather a Sleepingdog album, and thus these arrangements have to be paired with Chantal Acda’s vocals, and, more importantly, her songwriting.

oh.

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/43256/Sleepingdog-With-Our-Heads-in-the-Clouds.../

this (winged victory) really is lovely so far

Listened to Winged Victory in bed last night. Brilliant. Will be on heavy rotation for the next while. I ordered the Sleepingdog CD for £3 or something so even if it's crap I can live with that.

Meantime, A Winged Victory for the Sullen interview:

http://www.theliminal.co.uk/2011/09/it-was-quite-a-heavy-time-for-us-an-interview-with-adam-wiltzie-dustin-ohalloran-a-winged-victory-for-the-sullen/

Yr response to this track should be a pretty good indicator of whether or not you'll be into the Sleepingdog record:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kQLB9oL94s

That is all sorts of amazing, whoa...

its nice but "female coffee shop songerwriter style" otm

yup. I'll pass.

Atomos by Winged Victory for the Sullen is getting to be right up there with Hatchback - Zeus and Apollo, Tycho - Awake, and Neu! (pink on white) as my go-to "writing" music

Good choice, that.

"december hunting" is playing on the stereo in my bedroom while my roommates' band is playing a song in the living room in the same key with fiddle and banjo and it sounds AMAZING.

it has been ELEVEN YEARS since refinement of the decline

god DAMMIT

They know that people are out here dying for lack of a new SoTL album and they just couldn't care less. Invade Belgium or wherever.

COME ON

crissake

Out today - https://adambryanbaumwiltzie.bandcamp.com/track/how-to-disappear-inside-a-thirty-piece-orchestra

'How To Disappear Inside A Thirty Piece Orchestra’, was recorded in Budapest in 2014. It is an excerpt from the first recording of the Stars of the Lid follow up to ‘And Their Refinement of the Decline’. Subsequently, this piece was abandoned and left in the lurch as time elapsed. After some contemplation, Adam is letting the world have a taste of what could have never been, and what is possibly yet to come.

god...DAMMIT

loooooooooooooooool please Adam, PLEASE

it's been NINETEEN YEARS since Refinement of the Decline

Actually just a mere THIRTEEN YEARS

abt the length of a SotL album

if the next one is that long then i'll accept the wait

genuinely thought this was SOTL when i first heard it, but no it's just 90 seconds of incidental music from the righteous gemstones soundtrack https://open.spotify.com/track/5S9PV6EfwYxrclLUNiptbw?si=8ff35e5f38d14177

can we get a mod to change the thread title to say "(no new album announcement)"

It’s been fourteen years. Fourteen years and change.

My hopes and dreams are about to get a drivers license

Lord in heaven my heart skipped a beat too.

It's never going to happen, is it? I love Brian McBride's solo albums, and some of Wiltzie's stuff with Winged Victory, but the latter is just so insistently...syrupy? Harmonically obvious? Buffed of all rough edges? I don't know. Not that the SOTL of the last two albums were ever abrasive, but perhaps some of you know what I mean. All of this is to say... I guess it's not happening.

Yes, AWVFTS has their moments but they feel readymade for television drama scores. Case in point I was watching a show yesterday and legitimately wondered if they were scoring it (they weren’t). Stars of the Lid have a much more specific, unmistakable kind of grandiosity.

I firmly feel that McBride’s first solo album stands right up there with the last two SotL albums (minus the Labradford pastiche he does in the middle). So maybe it’s his influence that is the secret ingredient.

I also quite like 'When the Detail Lost its Freedom,' and think you might be right in your hunch. I adore some AWVFTS stuff, but nowhere near as much as I like the McBride solo and SotL records.

AWVFTS == readymade for television drama score == truthamundo for me

i always thought that SotL refused to do soundtracks/scores, but according to imdb their music has appeared in a few things:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1540111/