thread of amen dunes

I'll go back to it I'm sure but even the positive comments here aren't really inspiring me to do so.

I tried this after reading a p4k review, and was expecting it to sound more like Spiritualised than an American David Gray. bad p4k, again + bad me for giving them clicks.

I like this!

"miki dora" really moves me, both as a piece of music but also as a succinctly brutal portrait of dora. I recognize so much of myself in it, for better or worse

love these lines:

Give nothing, take
Slid along the wave
Could not suffer existence
It wasn't meant to be

Even I like this!

-- Alfred Soto

i like this a lot, even though i constantly have to remind myself that i'm not actually listening to kurt vile when i listen

First real listen and liking it - like the restraint. The absent crescendos are immanent somehow.
I do get the Ashcroft references. It's a timbral thing maybe.

getting p strong Tusk vibes from this, last 30 seconds of 'miki dora' (roll around with meeee) it's unmistakably lindsay buckingham

nah, not weird enouogh

the less janky ones obv, like 'think about me' or 'that's all for everyone' or 'i know i'm not wrong'

also hear some Paul Simon

that's the kinda stuff i hear too so it's funny that people keep bringing up like the war on drugs which is pretty absent to me aside from "believe"

i dont hear kurt vile either, the guy's voice is way to distinctively aschroftian

i think war on drugs comparison makes sense as far gentle repetitive indie with non-'cool' eighties rock influences; i've only ever listened to like 45 seconds of one war on drugs song tho

it's pretty hard to un-hear ashcroft now that it's been mentioned but I can hear some paul simon in his voice -- vampire weekend was actually one of the first things I thought of

this album is really good but I'm pretty surprised "miki dora" isn't more of a consensus pick, tho this is probably a good sign

idk man everyting i see seems to cite miki dora as thee highlight

"Skipping School" and "Blue Room" are my picks -- I love long yards of synth unspooling

"Skipping School" and "Blue Room" are my picks -- I love long yards of synth unspooling

I did not expect this album to begin with the audio of the kid doing Herb Brook's speech from Miracle!

Believe clicked hard yesterday, the buildup of the song is fantastic. There’s many highlights on the record and again I love how “percussive” it sounds... it’s not just the actual drums and percussions used, it’s the way the guitars and bass are played.

I feel like most of the songs were composed by looping a section and adding arrangements until it sounded right. Believe seems like it was made from 2 or even 3 different song ideas and it feels more like a “full song” than anything else. As if the rest of the songs were experiments leading up to this one. I’d place a hard bet on it being one of the last songs he did on this one.

saw them live this weekend, never having heard them before, and they sounded really damn good to me. like Moka says, it was real percussive. like, they lock down a groove and all these other parts wander in and out, like walking down a street and hearing different songs from open windows that all sync up.

i have high hopes for the live show given how naturally the songs would stretch out

This album is doing it for me big time at the moment. The songs have great momentum and all the musical parts seems really integrated into one thing.

Saw him in Copenhagen the other day. It was a cool and very sincere show. Little bit short maybe. He also mentioned our countryman Elias from Iceage had done the backing vocals on Lonely Richard after a night of heavy shroom ingestion.

love this album so much

still listening to this daily. may be aoty. every bassline is just perfection. did anyone ever see em play this material live?

Saw them in April and again in October, as noted upthread they were so good live in April i bought their new album, never having heard of them before (except seeing this ILX thread title, I assumed they were a metal band).

new album coming! new song out now! also, he's signed to sub pop now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQnV6teLFlA

Nice!

Re: comparisons upthread, partner and I independently and reluctantly brought up the vocals sounding like David Gray. I also hear Live. It's obviously different and good, though!

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