The Sun Dried Hand Of The Man
― Doran, Friday, 9 April 2010 09:32 (fourteen years ago) link
gybe are greatfor me to poop on
― etrian odysseus (cozen), Friday, 9 April 2010 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
rad news imo
― call all destroyer, Friday, 9 April 2010 13:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I was interviewing Efrim recently ahead of the SMZ tourIs that available to read anywhere?
― anagram, Friday, April 9, 2010 8:07 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
Here you go: http://www.list.co.uk/article/24185-thee-silver-mount-zion-memorial-orchestra-play-glasgow/
I've been meaning to put up a director's cut on my blog. There's not a huge amount more, but Efrim in full flow is pretty interesting.
― Count Palmiro Vicarion (Stew), Friday, 9 April 2010 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Gah was hoping Swans would do the December ATP.
Seems pretty wrong that I love Swans/Angels of Light but I struggle with Godspeed. Time for another try..
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 9 April 2010 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
that would have been pretty ok too, but gira would prolly make it a little too much "minehead's alright if you like freak-folk"
― Lift Your Skinny Jeans Like Antennas to Heaven (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 9 April 2010 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Seems pretty wrong that I love Swans/Angels of Light but I struggle with Godspeed
Doesn't seem wrong to me, in that GYBE are basically very derivative of late period Swans and it's always best to drink from the source. Me I like 'em both.
― anagram, Friday, 9 April 2010 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost you know Minehead?
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 9 April 2010 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha Krakow IN YOUR FACE― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 April 2010 00:22 (21 hours ago)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 April 2010 00:22 (21 hours ago)
In my really fucking happy face, yes!
― krakow, Friday, 9 April 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Wish i had put a bet on with you now.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 April 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
you were adamant that day they would never ever reform
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 April 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
"They don't sleep anymore on the beach"
If that doesn't get you, well...
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Friday, 9 April 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Probably one of the worst bands ever, only to be "topped" later by Sigur Ros (and probably all of the other horrible sister bands of theirs, like Do May Say Think et al).
― Soundslike, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Just curious: on what grounds?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 9 April 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
big, slow-moving target
― forgive me fada (acoleuthic), Friday, 9 April 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Taking boring to whole new levels of teenage dramatism. A lot like their predecessors in militaristic drudgery, Savage Republic--"crescendo after crescendo after crescendo" is pretty accurate, musically, but I guess I was also rubbed the wrong way by how their fans seemed to think what they were doing was 'serious art' and a new high in artistic/emotional expression.
― Soundslike, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
The band name, the crypto-meaningless album titles, and the pseudo-revolutionary graphic aesthetic also tended to grate.
― Soundslike, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
obfuscation disguised as depth
― etrian odysseus (cozen), Friday, 9 April 2010 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd only be interested in this if they could persuade Labradford to reform and tour with them again.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
now you're talking
― etrian odysseus (cozen), Friday, 9 April 2010 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
― Soundslike, Friday, April 9, 2010 6:23 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you know what's boring? this opinion.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^^^^^I was thinking but not posting pretty much these exact words
― forgive me fada (acoleuthic), Friday, 9 April 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
lol yeah i tossed it around for a bit but at the end of the day i'm not just gonna let people go around hating on early-2000s post rock
― call all destroyer, Friday, 9 April 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
and its crypto-meaningless album-titles
― forgive me fada (acoleuthic), Friday, 9 April 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
()
― call all destroyer, Friday, 9 April 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
lol that one came hot on the heels of an album called 'decent start' which is about as literal and unpretentious an album-title as there's been
not that I think Sigur Ros are ANYWHERE near as good as peak GYBE
― forgive me fada (acoleuthic), Friday, 9 April 2010 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
hahah i never knew that translation! thx.
i saw sigur ros touring after () and they were fucking amazing live tbh
― call all destroyer, Friday, 9 April 2010 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
IMO their best song by far was that 'nice weather for airstrikes' number (longest song on agaetis byrjun) that did the whole dainty piano crescendo thing really well, but () is a pretty solid if slightly maudlin record. After that I lose interest *entirely*.
As I've often said here, GY!BE peaked with their final album - IMO it's several notches ahead of the others, and works that dynamic like a behemoth
― forgive me fada (acoleuthic), Friday, 9 April 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah p. much. takk isn't bad but the one from '08 blows. i've still never heard yanqui but i should.
the thing with all these bands that doesn't get said enough: based on my experience (with s-r, mogwai, hell even mono) and what i've heard about godspeed and eits, seeing them live is like a completely different ballgame.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 9 April 2010 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Echoed, very strongly. I don't care much for 'em nowadays, but that shit blew my mind wide open in my 2001-03 high school concert years (along with Radiohead, Tori Amos, Tool, the Flaming Lips and every other cliche'd band you can imagine a budding ilxor would see in high school).
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 10 April 2010 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Probably not as bad as going around defending early 2000s post-rock. I wouldn't normally bother remembering how bad this stuff was, but the thread/"band" revival gave me flashbacks of putting up with it the first time. Kind of shocked there are still people who aren't embarrassed to have heard, say, Mogwai's 'EP+'.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 11 April 2010 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
why would you be embarrassed to have heard anything?
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 11 April 2010 05:52 (fourteen years ago) link
() is great because if you want to sing along the only lyrics you need to remember are "youuu siloooo ohhhhh fiiii looooowwww"
― ksh, Sunday, 11 April 2010 05:56 (fourteen years ago) link
just amazing how much I listened to Skinny Fists back in 2001 and I haven't actually listened to them in years. almost feels like another life.
that said I remember them being real awesome.
― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Sunday, 11 April 2010 06:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i think post-rock appropriately should be best remembered as a genre that had some very high highs and a seemingly limitless amount of medium mediums
― cousin itt (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 11 April 2010 06:41 (fourteen years ago) link
they were great live. I never cared that much about the records. I'd go see them though.
― akm, Sunday, 11 April 2010 06:42 (fourteen years ago) link
This applies to *every* genre, though!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Sunday, 11 April 2010 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
weird because gy!be are by a long ways the least boring of all post-rock bands
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 11 April 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Mark R. on Pfork today, great thinkpiece:
http://pitchfork.com/features/resonant-frequency/7796-resonant-frequency-69
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 23 April 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
The bands they've chosen so far for their ATP =
BARDO POND / THE EX / DEERHOOF / TIM HECKER / MIKE WATT / SCOUT NIBLETT / NEUROSIS / BLACK DICE / THE DEAD C / FRANCISCO LOPEZ / WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM / RANGDA / MARISSA NADLER / GROWING
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 23 April 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
yikes that is a SWEET line up
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 23 April 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
indeed, about 25 more artists to come
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 23 April 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Once again I would DIE to be at that lineup. Isn't gonna happen this year, though. :'(
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 24 April 2010 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
check this out, new additions:
"WEIRD AL" YANKOVICNOMEANSNOJOSEPHINE FOSTER (solo)WHITE MAGICEMERALDSBOBAN I MARKO MARKOVIC ORCHESTRADANIEL HIGGS (Lungfish)
― Jamie_ATP, Thursday, 3 June 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf @ Weird Al.
― BLOODY BOLLOCKS HELL! (aldo), Thursday, 3 June 2010 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean I'd love for him to do a post-rock polka set obviously.
― BLOODY BOLLOCKS HELL! (aldo), Thursday, 3 June 2010 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
It's their most inspired move in years!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 June 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
WEIRD AL IN THE THRONE ROOM
― taqsim for Gaffney (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 June 2010 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
This is actually a really strong lineup imo
A+
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link