oof this album *is* great.
― tylerw, Friday, 24 August 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
Nice bit on NPR:http://www.npr.org/2012/08/19/158894907/bill-fay-a-cult-figure-returns-skeptical-but-optimistic
― dow, Friday, 24 August 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
This album is amazing
― I'm not going leftfield on you... (hypehat), Monday, 27 August 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
think i like the sparer piano songs the most, but the whole thing is stellar. "the neverending happening"!
― tylerw, Monday, 27 August 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
i can't wait to hear this
his collection of demos/outtakes is probably my favorite thing he's done (maybe that's just because it was the first thing i heard though?)and i just noticed that it's going for like $100?! on cd? crazy.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Monday, 27 August 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
Got the first album on. GOD DAAAAAAMN IT'S SOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOD.― I'm A Genius, Too! (Jamie_ATP), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:30 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― I'm A Genius, Too! (Jamie_ATP), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:30 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^ this! It's been a while since I've played it (came to Bill via the alt 70s poll back in 2009, went through a period of intense listening, and then shelved everything until yesterday).
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
this album is v good
this is sort of what i'm expecting the next album by the apartments to sound like
― ron pinot (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
The new one is sooo good.
― Duke, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it is. though with all the religious stuff -- is he a straight up born again christian? was he always? obviously there was religious imagery on his earlier albums, but not quite as straight up as some of this.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
I've no idea. I've not found much info about him. (Not that I've really searched that hard, to be honest.)
― Duke, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
Fay on Time of the Last Persecution:
"It was a religious album - my Slow Train Coming, I suppose," says Fay today. "Biblical ideas, prophecies and so on, had started to permeate and gradually I came to believe. I wasn’t trying to convert people, though. The record’s Christian, but hopefully not in a narrow way".
― Duke, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
Tweets going round that Bill is on Jools Holland tonight, although there's no confirmation of this on any BBC page afaics.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Friday, 23 November 2012 11:14 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/DeadOceans/status/271627766544363520
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Friday, 23 November 2012 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
and here you go...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xa7EhiCTyA
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Saturday, 24 November 2012 10:17 (eleven years ago) link
Any idea what's going on with the Life Is People record?
― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Friday, 11 January 2013 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
c21m50nh3x460n
― goat news for people who love boat news (how's life)
― mookieneb (buzza), Friday, 11 January 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
buzzz
― a barbie girl in a barbie world
― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Friday, 11 January 2013 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
going on with it? in what respect?
― absolvents (electricsound), Friday, 11 January 2013 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
Dead Oceans sold out of the LP. So I'm wondering when they will do a second pressing. And some of the records from the first pressing were damaged I heard.
― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Friday, 11 January 2013 04:18 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, my local record stores tell me the first pressing was faulty and the second pressing is still nowhere to be seen.
― Duke, Friday, 11 January 2013 09:06 (eleven years ago) link
Bollocks, spent ages looking for a copy. Hope they sort it out...
― insert witticism here (hypehat), Friday, 11 January 2013 10:06 (eleven years ago) link
what was faulty about it? mine played fine, though i guess it may vary depending on country
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 11 January 2013 10:16 (eleven years ago) link
Alright, chaps, some semigood news.
Today Dead Oceans said a second pressing is in the works and that they should have it back on their site 'soon!'.
― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Friday, 11 January 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
According to SC Distribution, it should be back in record shops. I'll check this weekend.
― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Saturday, 12 January 2013 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
This album is a slept-on beauty.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 December 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/58537-bill-fay-announces-who-is-the-sender-shares-war-machine-lyric-video/
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 19 February 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
the new album is too beautiful
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 20 August 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
Pep is a fan:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45918581
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:53 (five years ago) link
Wow, Pep!
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 October 2018 12:43 (five years ago) link
your boy Bill is back, new LP in January
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PxfcGYd12I&feature=emb_title
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 10:40 (four years ago) link
Loving this new one.
― gman59, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
I came here to post the same thing. It's sombre and I want to give him a cuddle but there is a spidery lightness to what he's doing.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
These songs are instantly love-able and feel as if they've always been around. So glad he's still making music. This piece about it was great too https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/arts/music/bill-fay-countless-branches.html
― gman59, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
I struggled with the last one, so wasn't sure whether to get this. I loved Life Is People though.
― Duke, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
Not heard anything of him since Life Is People myself, but so far I think this is rather lovely.
― calzino, Friday, 24 January 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
Holy shit, I just finished my first listen to Time of the Last Persecution. This is incredible. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but this wasn't it.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 September 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
oh dude this year is not a good time for a bump. but you're right, it's immense. I don't think it'll ever fall out of my personal top ten.
The debut is also fantastic, as are the three comps of unreleased stuff from around the time... this one is a standout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBlqIzdf2B8
then once you've processed that, the three recent comebacks on Dead Oceans are a lovely low key comeback.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
Ah, shit, yeah. I forgot about the risk of bumping an old thread in this of all years. I actually ended up ordering his new one last night, so I'm looking forward to that.
I just didn't expect TotLP to resonate with me so strongly. I guess the "folkie" tag I'd read and the slightly disheveled photo on the cover had me expecting something less... polished, for lack of a better word. But, man, I guess I could have bumped the "classic albums you were knocked out by".
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
Must put this on again. I haven't list3ened to it in ages.
― Duke, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
Since that last post I've picked up both the new one and Who is the Sender?, both totally different in tone from TotLP but really beautiful.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
And someone needs to reissue that From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock comp. Upthread someone noted that the CD was going for over a $100, now it’s going for close to $500!
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 1 November 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
I just heard Time of the Last Persecution recently. His voice sounds to me more like a very glum Ian Hunter than Dylan.
The whole record has a weird, grey, bleak numbed-out feel that I associate more with post-punk than anything else from 1970. The plain lucidity of the production looks forward to Pere Ubu or the early Mekons that I have heard (even of nothing else is similar) instead of singer-songwriter records of the time.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 1 November 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
Never heard of the comp jon mentions! o_O
Probably something for a new thread, but Bill Fay is one of the very few artists I both love and find it ex-tre-me-ly hard to listen to, as it reduces me to a mess. Really have to go slow and take small portions, because it's just too beautiful and it hurts too much.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 1 November 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link