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washing machine · **Posted:** Thu April 21, 2016 4:37 pm

Kaius wrote:

:thumbsup: I'm glad you're enjoying it. There's some decent To Bring You My Love centric discussion in this wonderful thread back on pages 4 and 5 if you have a few minutes of board time to kill.

OH, I've read it. The discussion you mentioned was a reason I decided to finally dive into her catalog.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Thu April 28, 2016 11:22 pm

So her new album is getting no love in my house since the initial spins when it came out. Makes me sad.

Kaius · **Joined:** Fri November 15, 2013 6:14 am **Posts:** 11136

I love the new album. I haven't fully digested it yet. I'm in the step-away-for-few-weeks-before-revisiting-it stage.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Sat April 30, 2016 12:49 am

Kaius wrote:

I love the new album. I haven't fully digested it yet. I'm in the step-away-for-few-weeks-before-revisiting-it stage.

That's just it though. It has actively pushed me away. I might come around on it, but it's the first time I've ever felt her stuff sounded heavy handed and clunky.

swan · **Posted:** Sat April 30, 2016 5:48 pm

I wish her old albums (up through Stories..) weren't so rare & expensive to procure on vinyl

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Sat April 30, 2016 8:06 pm

Feels kinda samey to me. Take a breather on the politics, polly jean.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Wed July 27, 2016 3:35 am

Footage from a concert last month in Moscow. I really do not like the new record, and the live setting doesn't help. But it is awesome to hear some of her older stuff with the fuller band arrangement (later in the vid). Also, I didn't know that Alain Johannes was touring with her:

swan · **Posted:** Wed July 27, 2016 4:04 am

tragabigzanda wrote:

Footage from a concert last month in Moscow. I really do not like the new record, and the live setting doesn't help. But it is awesome to hear some of her older stuff with the fuller band arrangement (later in the vid). Also, I didn't know that Alain Johannes was touring with her:

Excellent. She's one I've always dreamt of seeing live & assumed it would never happen. I know some friends who tried for tickets to her LA shows this time around & got nothing. Maybe one day..

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Sun October 23, 2016 4:18 pm

Shut up, Moz:

http://www.stereogum.com/1906817/morris ... rvey/news/

swan · **Posted:** Sun May 07, 2017 10:25 pm

Finally seeing her live tonight. I'm a little embarrassed to admit I didn't know Alain Johannes & Mick Harvey were in her touring band. I'm even more excited for the show now.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Sun May 07, 2017 11:12 pm

swan wrote:

Finally seeing her live tonight. I'm a little embarrassed to admit I didn't know Alain Johannes & Mick Harvey were in her touring band. I'm even more excited for the show now.

Awesome! Jealous! Please share a review later?

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Fri December 18, 2020 3:33 pm

Anybody listening to the remasters and demos she’s been releasing for the first few records? I finally took a spin through both offerings for Is This Desire? and that shit sounds amazing. Gonna try to grab all this on vinyl in good time...REALLY looking forward to Stories and Uh Huh Her re-release.

swan · **Posted:** Fri December 18, 2020 6:46 pm

tragabigzanda wrote:

Anybody listening to the remasters and demos she’s been releasing for the first few records? I finally took a spin through both offerings for Is This Desire? and that shit sounds amazing. Gonna try to grab all this on vinyl in good time...REALLY looking forward to Stories and Uh Huh Her re-release.

Wife & I have gotten each one as they’ve been released. Great to finally fill that gap in our record collection. Glad I didn’t go crazy buying original pressings for hundreds of dollars apiece as I considered a few years back. They all sound incredible. Highly recommended. Hoping to get lucky & grab a signed copy of Stories when they put it up on the website.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Fri December 18, 2020 6:51 pm

swan wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Anybody listening to the remasters and demos she’s been releasing for the first few records? I finally took a spin through both offerings for Is This Desire? and that shit sounds amazing. Gonna try to grab all this on vinyl in good time...REALLY looking forward to Stories and Uh Huh Her re-release.

Wife & I have gotten each one as they’ve been released. Great to finally fill that gap in our record collection. Glad I didn’t go crazy buying original pressings for hundreds of dollars apiece as I considered a few years back. They all sound incredible. Highly recommended. Hoping to get lucky & grab a signed copy of Stories when they put it up on the website.

How are you enjoying the other demos albums? Would you say they are "must hear" or "nice to hear"?

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Tue February 23, 2021 4:10 pm

I’ve been listening to Is This Desire a lot lately. It’s funny, after all these years I still feel like I haven’t fully digested/appreciated that record. It’s really special, but downtempo mood and the long song/short song thing makes it kind of impenetrable.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Thu March 04, 2021 4:06 pm

Uh Huh Her reissue + demos LPs out 4/30, pre-orders are live. This is my second favorite record after Stories

contamination · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 8:02 pm **Posts:** 965

I was just watching her Rock en Seine concert from 2017 and it's pretty amazing how she looks and sounds exactly like 20 years ago. I hadn't really paid attention to it before, but she is a really good singer too. I mean she hits all the notes and sounds live exactly like she does on albums. Of course they could have done some edits afterwards (it was an official concert release) but I don't think that's the case here.

Ello Sailor · **Joined:** Sun March 12, 2017 3:06 pm **Posts:** 11822

PJ rules. Is she touring any time soon? I could use an excuse to fly the Tasman. Wonder if Higg's treehouse has a vacancy.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Sun April 25, 2021 3:54 pm

Ello Sailor wrote:

PJ rules. Is she touring any time soon? I could use an excuse to fly the Tasman. Wonder if Higg's treehouse has a vacancy.

I’d love for her to get off this Hope Six/cultural critique thing she’s on

contamination · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 8:02 pm **Posts:** 965

I really like some of her demos more than the album versions, like The River and This Mess We're In.

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