Not heard anything of him since Life Is People myself, but so far I think this is rather lovely.
― calzino, Friday, 24 January 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 September 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
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.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
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".
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
Must put this on again. I haven't list3ened to it in ages.
― Duke, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
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!
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 1 November 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
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.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 1 November 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
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.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 1 November 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link