been listening to this a lot lately it's v good
― ciderpress, Friday, 14 December 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/01/15/midair-thief-crumbling-review/
this is a great review
still loving this
― ufo, Thursday, 17 January 2019 04:29 (five years ago) link
good writing indeed. i have a hard time understanding mid-air thief as a "cult band" though. maybe there really is a "mainstream" and i'm so totally disconnected and alienated from it i don't even know it exists; to me whenever i find a record with more than 100 ratings on rym i feel like i'm late to the party, like "damn, everybody knows about suss already, i feel pretty clueless for missing out"
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Thursday, 17 January 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
lol they're turning this into the new Fishmans
not sure how this didn't get on my radar but I'm 2 tracks in and damn its good
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 January 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
xp you are definitely not "behind" on this band. they still qualify as unknown, even among music nerds. no doubt.
― alpine static, Thursday, 17 January 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
In this case, 'cult' works better as an indicator of its relative popularity rather than it's relative obscurity imo
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 17 January 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
there does exist a cross section of bands that just suddenly get really popular on RYM even though they're barely discussed anywhere else. I think if something gets like 100 ratings and winds up above a 3.8 or whatever suddenly a ton of people start checking it out, and if the rating doesn't tank immediately then it becomes one of those things
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 January 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
i'm kind of surprised at how much of a new album's rating on rym can be expressed as the proportion of 3.5 ratings to 4.0 ratings
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Friday, 18 January 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
i deeply enjoy this, think i put it at the top of my eoy ballot
― ciderpress, Friday, 18 January 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
their first album is pretty good too
― frogbs, Thursday, 24 January 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R19Tfa8FOYA
two new songs, under a different moniker. he's used it in the past for an EP but i haven't seen anyone explain what the distinction between them is
― ufo, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 04:16 (four years ago) link
what are they doing now I wonder. their two albums still sound like nothing else on the planet
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 August 2023 02:29 (eight months ago) link
https://midairthief.bandcamp.com/album/flood-format
he put out this album last year under a different name
― ufo, Thursday, 10 August 2023 02:40 (eight months ago) link
oooh I like that, sounds goofy as hell in spots but overall very fun. I did not realize this was just one guy!
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 August 2023 14:36 (eight months ago) link
listening to crumbling - this is really interesting!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 August 2023 15:33 (eight months ago) link
this stuff really effectively channeled the olivia tremor control etc world in a way that I don't think anyone has been doing, although I happened to catch black country new road a while back and it was a rapt audience of mostly young people. The show sounded like a decemberists arcade fire thing, not my thing at all but was undeniably well done
― Bongo Jongus, Thursday, 10 August 2023 16:45 (eight months ago) link
my point being that the time period of music that this channels is surprisingly (to me) alive and well
― Bongo Jongus, Thursday, 10 August 2023 16:46 (eight months ago) link