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Joined: Fri July 26, 2013 12:34 am Posts: 4396 Location: chewm
This is the teaser, some very beautiful sounds here. I'm not super familiar with Microphones/Mount Eerie other than loving The Glow pt. 2 and generally enjoying the other stuff that I've heard (which is mostly the newest Mount Eerie stuff, although I never really play ACLAM/Now Only for obvious reasons) but this seems cool.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Yeah it's really good.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
I like it too, though I think my favorite tracks are the ones already released (Kyoto and Garden Song). The latter in particular is something I've been listening to over and over; I love the production on it.
Both of her records have been a bit spotty, but when she's at her best it's fantastic.
Joined: Wed February 06, 2013 2:47 am Posts: 17536 Location: Scooby Doo
digster wrote:
I like it too, though I think my favorite tracks are the ones already released (Kyoto and Garden Song). The latter in particular is something I've been listening to over and over; I love the production on it.
Both of her records have been a bit spotty, but when she's at her best it's fantastic.
This was almost identical to soccer mommy's last album. Released 2 brilliant songs early on then the album is good but not as high as those first two releases.
Joined: Fri July 26, 2013 12:34 am Posts: 4396 Location: chewm
Phoebe's a great folk songwriter, but my favorite moments in her records are always the more rock oriented songs. Motion Sickness & Kyoto are my favorites from each album.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
I agree that the soccer mommy album is underwhelming but I'm not feeling the same thing here. My favorite songs from Stranger in the Alps were "South Street" and "You Missed my Heart," so while I really like "Kyoto" I'm loving this one's quieter moments. Also "I Know The End" rules.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Yeah, some of the slower, moodier pieces on Stranger also took time to work on me. I'm sure it'll be the same here.
I Know The End is a stunning song, though. In addition to the big fanfare at the end, I don't remember a lyrical ending to a record that hit me the way the last couplet did (she's really good at that, using a lyric of a song to build up to a line or bunch of lines that wallop you).
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
The instrumentation on that track feels really Sufjan-esque (like circa Illinois), which I wasn't exactly nostalgic for but really fucking enjoy.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
This is a solid record that I imagine I'll return to with some frequency. After one listen I'd say I like it but don't love it. Again, I imagine it'll grow over time. That closing track is fantastic.
I posted before about the first Nashville Minimalism Unit album, Brenda Leigh, but I didn't know at the time that it was a collection of live jams akin to the stuff that bandleader Kurt Newman was putting up in the last year before that was released. Recently, another NMU album went up on Bandcamp, this one recorded in studio last August and December. It's called Soldier's Joy and Newman describes it as "fiddle-driven big beat electric minimalist country instrumentals."
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