GROUPER "Way Their Crept" --- CONTACT

Really wish Grouper wasn't onstage at 5.30pm at the Swans London gig tonight.

it's a helluva time for a thursday, i'm wondering if anyone but me will be there.

i saw mirrorring live last week, exactly what you'd expect and utterly gorgeous.

Early start is probably a good thing, get up there before the noisy chatterboxes arrive

aw man, i saw a picture of the mirroring show. what was it like? they just played some album songs w/some drones goin on?

I've had Way Their Crept since its release but didn't know what to make it exactly. Now listening to her entire oeuvre on Spotify, I like it in part because I probably prefer her at her most echo-laden and abstract.

Despite liking Dragging a Deer Head, to me the song structures feel a bit less unique. Still, I like that she explores a few different sides to her thing.

it would be so awesome if we could get this thread title changed

it's the little things, sometimes, and i truly feel that if i could convince someone to change the title of the thread, the terrible rating of the world would decrease by at least 1

Did that help?

Meantime, there's a new mix from her up at FACT

http://www.factmag.com/2013/04/22/fact-mix-379-grouper/

I like the cryptic thread title!

Can't please everyone.

I wish Grouper had been on 3-2-1 Contact.

oh wow she is playing in austin soon! in a church!

her music is so beautiful it feels like god's joke

saw her play tonight! it was dreamy and spooky and out of this world

http://elbo.ws/video/30846604/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/felt-this-way-dying-all-time/id703325022

if anybody knows if this exists physically i would like to buy it

hmmm, looks like it's also a 7" and it should be out very soon. i'd keep checking https://sites.google.com/site/yellowelectric/ and http://www.exiledrecords.com/

can't wait to listen to it! HELEN

yeah i am all over yellowelectric, i guess i was just waiting to see if there was anything concrete. i know people get bummed out by her records becoming unavailable, cyclically, sometimes, but she is reliably great w/production & distribution i think. psyched for HELEN.

http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music/v4/15/af/e4/15afe482-1e13-7d9d-7da1-488a581ac3d1/888003109841.170x170-75.jpghttp://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music/v4/15/af/e4/15afe482-1e13-7d9d-7da1-488a581ac3d1/888003109841.170x170-75.jpghttp://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music/v4/15/af/e4/15afe482-1e13-7d9d-7da1-488a581ac3d1/888003109841.170x170-75.jpg

i'm going to keep checking it too, but if you find out more info can you post it here? i wwwaaaant it

z s let's make a pact

you have to promise

let's synchronise watches & transnationally headbang once it is in both our hands

i am listening to this now & it slays, btw, DYING ALL THE TIME kills

i promise!

and if there is only one left, then whoever gets it has to agree to very carefully slice the 7 inch in half so that we each get a song/side. i'm sure it's very easy to do!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dkSHDNZrYwY/TqsbKFWSkMI/AAAAAAAAALc/Ekr9kp_wXpo/s600/negative.jpg

...i hope that i receive the 7" so i can do the cutting.

oh man, that is an expensive mistake xp

YES, this is GOOD! want full album now, want want want.

very different from her other stuff - people interested in her earlier stuff or in fuzz rock in general would do good to check it out

like her dead moon cover but louder & with someone playing drums over it

wait, she has a dead moon cover?!

this is the best day

i'll have to check it out. but yeah, helen (so far) sounds sorta in the vein of bands like belong (a high compliment imo) - i could see them doing something pretty amazing given the space of a full length

ha I kinda wrote that dreaming that I could be breaking it to you; yeah, a kinda echoed-out DEMONA on a split seven inch inside YETI magazine a few issues back, probably still gettable online at yetipublishing.com. it's really good.

I forget where but I remember reading Liz talk about her affection for that Stephen lp on flying nun, & it feels kinda not a million miles away from her playing with those kinda skewed pop structures

so this is really great, huh. it is funny, she played here, a few months ago, & i have seen her on & off for awhile now, & before, when the last two records came out, but i remember this time her finishing with moon is sharp & this long kinda burnt-out coda of her just running the chord progression of it into the ground, like some kind of disastrously malfunctioning engine, & at the same time as it was as kind of mellow & not-hard-edged as any of her stuff, it was simultaneously so heavy & vicious. we left & got to have that discussion where someone is like it's actually really punk & somebody else agrees, cause it really was. & it's funny hearing this now - the grouper dna, that she's slowly stretching these lines out over the fast guitars - but it feels of a piece with where she was at, kinda.

also i feel like underratedaerosmith would vibe with this.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/felt-this-way-dying-all-time/id703325022

if anybody knows if this exists physically i would like to buy it

― @twitizensforlemonlipbalm (schlump), Friday, September 13, 2013

I asked http://www.volcanictongue.com and they replied to say...
We'll have it in 1-2 weeks, keep an eye on the updates as we'll announce it there when they're in!

hey thank you man
what a fun excuse to go to volcanic tongue

No problem.

I just got a copy from these guys...
http://www.discogs.com/seller/time-lag-records

ugh, this is SO GOOD

i am still looking for somewhere to buy this & searched twitter for "dying all the time" & just found people complaining about ios7

dropping a wild & indulgent $10 on this inc shipping from @steadysounds in richmond, if anyone is still hurtin'

i don't see it listed on the steadysounds website! i'm hurtin'!

nuh UH!, z S!, you gotta twit them up! if you check their account you will see me liaising with their Social Media Accounts & Branding Manager about such a transaction within the last five minutes. i paypal'd.

Include message to retailer:
please send 3.5" of this release to my buddy z s, thank you

awesome, i just sent them a twit!

got it! (plus Cover the Windows) for $27 including shipping. thanks for the pro tip schlump!

really glad you got hooked up

feeling this:

ugh, this is SO GOOD

― Z S, Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:03 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bass playing totally has that one-too-many-cups-of-coffee vibe, it's so fun

Just spotted that Time Lag are selling their last copy on Discogs for $25.

The copy they sold me two days ago was $12.

60 bucks on discogs now. ugh. really wanted this

gross

i remember when a i a came out, boomkat making them £20 each; this isn't even necessarily an example of the most explosive upselling or anything but at the same time it's such a bummer considering that her records seem to be produced according to this awkward but idealistic ecosystem in which they're small-run but reliably re-pressed affordable lps

Just in at Volcanic Tongue, have tried to order. They said it was on on their Instagram 4 hours ago so am hopefulish. £10.99 for a 7" but fuck it.