https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QO7mcpnbqY
― city worker, Thursday, 13 November 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
That's awesome. What a perfectly suited shittily shot home video.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
Chalk Bedhead up as another band it never occurred to me to search for clips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mtnT2-Ble4
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
I wish I had a clip of them playing "Extramundane." I'd never seen a band playing with such economy before, with one guy just on maracas as needed, and the third guitarist just smoking a cigarette until his part late in the song popped up.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
Box set arrived today, it's a lovely artefact and the book appears substantial. I'd only heard a couple of The New Year albums up til now, enjoying the box so far.
― michaellambert, Sunday, 23 November 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
I was such a Bedhead fan that I took the New Year for granted and downgraded them as "not Bedhead." But really, it's Bedhead, and I feel like a chump for not seeing them quite as often as I could.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 November 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
grantland's chris ryan on bedhead and 90s nostalgia, p. good stuff in this piece:http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/what-fun-life-was-bedhead-90s-indie-rock-and-word-of-mouth-fandom/
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
Great read, thanks for sharing sloth!
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
full confession: i have not listened much to this band but know how beloved they are in a small/devoted community & saw this pop up - now's as good a time as any to do a deep spotify dive i s'poze
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
And you know me!
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
i was gonna shout you out ev but saw that there's another evan ITT so didn't wanna confuse anybody
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
Yeah great read. Too many of these sentiments in the article are exactly my experience. Hearing WhatFunLifeWas for the first time. I remember going to my friends and telling them how it was a perfect 10/10, and I meant it too. I haven't listened to them as much in the past years but they're definitely one of those bands that influence my taste and guitar playing heavily.
I can also relate to the record store clerk perspective. In fact, I put a Bedhead song on and a customer came straight up to the counter asking what it was, thanking me and gushing about it. So that was one of those "victories". Another notable victory was a very excited Polvo purchase under similar circumstances- this guy was so excited! Still proud of that.
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
Haha understood!
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
listening right now to beheaded, i like it a lot.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
there would clearly be no explosions in the sky w/o these dudes
WhatFunLifeWas probably has more highlights overall, but yeah all three albums are beautiful.
One of my favorite attributes of a band is when they can capture a mundane vibe and repackage it as something beautiful without being melodramatic at all.
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
However Explosions in the Sky, to my last point right there^, are nowhere near as restrained.
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
lol not at all, sometimes to their benefit, others to the extreme detriment
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
There's something about a band with three clean patiently intertwining Fenders. I remember reading that after they lost their violinist (who went on the join the Dixie Chicks), they wanted to try to capture the texture of strings with their guitars.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
That's apt.
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
Wow, I finally heard that Overseas record. The other guys in the group are not Bedhead, but boy do the Bedhead guys get their DNA pushed upfront in this band.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
http://lebanesestudies.news.chass.ncsu.edu/2016/07/21/a-lebanese-american-rock-musician-in-texas/
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
Yay for another New Year album. I wasn't expecting one. Bedhead remains top 5 indie bands for me.
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
That New Year record has been coming out "next year" for like 5 yrs now
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
hey its out now
― Isi, Friday, 28 April 2017 12:39 (seven years ago) link
Wow, can't wait to buy!!!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 April 2017 13:58 (seven years ago) link
Not bad, on first listen. Lots of keys on this one!
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, 28 April 2017 14:19 (seven years ago) link
Not streaming, darn.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 28 April 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
I used to underrate the New Year because I loved Bedhead so much. But then, especially when the New Year became inactive, it really occurred to me how few bands do/still do/ever did what Bedhead and to an extent the New Year did so well. So I am savoring this album.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 April 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
damn "The Beast"
― Isi, Saturday, 29 April 2017 12:04 (seven years ago) link
Stream on Bandcamp. This sounds very promising. Less repetitive than Bedhead if I remember them well, more varied with hooks and stuff.https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/05/03/the-new-year-snow-review/
― Alex in Spree-Athen (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 4 May 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link
This album is spectacular. I listened to it about five times today. It gets a little weaker towards the end, esp. the second last song breaks the flow but the rest is really very relaxed and melodic slowcore. Hypnotic stuff. Much better than the slightly kitschy Slowdive which is ok but gets too much press compared to this plain masterpiece.
― Alex in Spree-Athen (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 5 May 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
It's really great. I've found that each New Year album, from the first album on, has always been a little tougher for me to get into than Bedhead ever was, and I readily admit I was so into Bedhead that I underestimated the New Year entirely until I saw them play at the Touch & Go anniversary party way back when and they were just so good it sent me back to the first two albums, which were suddenly so awesome it was like I'd never heard them before, which was all my fault. So this one I've been paying close attention to, and the effort has really paid off.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 May 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
Really liking this. RE: Touch and Go anniversary performance - YES - this is where I listened to 'em w/ new ears, too. That whole three days was probably my fave ever fest, and to have New Year give an eye/ear-opening performance was a treat.
― BlackIronPrison, Saturday, 6 May 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
Album arrived in the mail - along with yet another t-shirt saying "THE NEW YEAR" which I will have to patiently explain to people.There is a lot to like on the album, it's one of their best, or at least does not let the side down.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 00:39 (six years ago) link
I think I actually prefer the New Year to Bedhead, who I liked in the era but those records mean more to me now then they did at the time. The New Year had me hooked pretty much right from the first record. Great band. Glad this record finally came into being.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
The new New Year record is so good. So good.
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
Apparently an ambient New Year album was just released?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 April 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
I don't see anything on their bandcamp or site.
― Simon H., Friday, 19 April 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
on bandcamp with the name sigh of reliefdrone vibe. reminds me, so far, of andrew chalk or mirror.
― sknybrg, Friday, 19 April 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link
https://sighofrelief.bandcamp.com/releasesdoes not sound like bedhead or new year, low volume drone ambient, not my cup of tea.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 20 April 2019 10:44 (five years ago) link