RFI: Bill Fay

http://pitchfork.com/news/58537-bill-fay-announces-who-is-the-sender-shares-war-machine-lyric-video/

the new album is too beautiful

Pep is a fan:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45918581

Wow, Pep!

your boy Bill is back, new LP in January

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PxfcGYd12I&feature=emb_title

Loving this new one.

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.

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

I struggled with the last one, so wasn't sure whether to get this. I loved Life Is People though.

Not heard anything of him since Life Is People myself, but so far I think this is rather lovely.

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.

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.

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".

Must put this on again. I haven't list3ened to it in ages.

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.

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!

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.

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.