Word to your Mother Mother: new NP thread

[Chet]

The Jurassic Park theme slowed down by 1000%

http://soundcloud.com/birdfeeder/jurassic-park-theme-1000-slower

[Killdozersnakeboy]

album is endless; love that you're on its wavelength nick

It took a while, but even when I didn't totally feel it, I kind of new it's time would come. Completely sucked into the vortex now.

I immediately fell for Vertical Ascent but Horizontal Structures took quite a while to sink in. I think it maybe  the more satisfying record on the whole. I'm not sure.

[Nick Ink]

album is endless; love that you're on its wavelength nick

It took a while, but even when I didn't totally feel it, I kind of new it's time would come. Completely sucked into the vortex now.

I immediately fell for Vertical Ascent but Horizontal Structures took quite a while to sink in. I think it maybe  the more satisfying record on the whole. I'm not sure.

I liked Vertical Ascent, but I need to give that a bit more attention too. I I might be a bit more interested in the 'Live' album first though, which I think is a bit closer to what they're doing on Horizontal Structures. It's interesting that Max Lodebauer, of MVOT is also partly behind one of my other favourite albums this year (the Re:ECM thing with Villalobos) and that one of the musicians on Horizontal Structures is double-bassist Marc Muellbauer, an ECM artist. Kind of sister releases in an area I didn't previously have any knwoledge of.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

The idea of an Acid Mothers Temple acoustic live set seemed quite silly when I came across this in the store. So I bought it. But it works. Genuinely lovely in places.

Edit: Looks like this is footage of the same show. "La Novia" - which finished the album. Wonderful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-WUnk17zs

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

album is endless; love that you're on its wavelength nick

It took a while, but even when I didn't totally feel it, I kind of new it's time would come. Completely sucked into the vortex now.

I immediately fell for Vertical Ascent but Horizontal Structures took quite a while to sink in. I think it maybe  the more satisfying record on the whole. I'm not sure.

I liked Vertical Ascent, but I need to give that a bit more attention too. I I might be a bit more interested in the 'Live' album first though, which I think is a bit closer to what they're doing on Horizontal Structures. It's interesting that Max Lodebauer, of MVOT is also partly behind one of my other favourite albums this year (the Re:ECM thing with Villalobos) and that one of the musicians on Horizontal Structures is double-bassist Marc Muellbauer, an ECM artist. Kind of sister releases in an area I didn't previously have any knwoledge of.

The MVOT live record is a motherfucker too. More immediate than either of the studio records. You can actually kind of hear the audience get sucked in?

[DanielBurns11]

So Circle Takes the Square finally released some new material. The first 'chapter' of the upcoming album. Listening now, but not really sure I can actually hear it through all the adrenaline pumping through my veins due to actually being able to hear some new CTTS material!

Anyway, anyone interested can stream it at their bandcamp page: http://ctts.bandcamp.com/album/decompositions-vol-i-chapter-1-rites-of-initiation

[Andrew_TSKS]

Wow. I honest-to-god did not expect them ever to pull their shit together enough to release anything again.

[Johnp]

An incredibly strange tape from Robert "Killer" Fields, found here, among some other gems. Alternately puerile, spacey, jelly-rolly. Sometimes concurrently.

[justinh]

Are you guys feeling that new Circle Takes the Square stuff?  Kinda sounds These Arms are Snakes-y to me, and not really in a good way.  Although admittedly my experience with old CTtS starts and ends with the Pg. 99 split. 

I'm having a Donovan morning, listening to Wear Your Love Like Heaven loudly and eating some cornbread. 

[dieblucasdie]

Wasn't there some '60s thread Babar started where I drunkenly proclaimed that Sweetheart of the Rodeo is the best '60s record?  I was right goddamn it.

[jebreject]

Are you guys feeling that new Circle Takes the Square stuff?  Kinda sounds These Arms are Snakes-y to me, and not really in a good way.  Although admittedly my experience with old CTtS starts and ends with the Pg. 99 split. 

I really, really like As the Roots Undo. It's up there with my favorite screamo/chaotic hardcore/post-hardcore/whatever records. I'm a little scared to listen to the new stuff though. It's been what, like seven years since that record? I never really go into These Arms are Snakes (though they have a sweet name) so that kind of puts me off as well. I'm sure curiosity will get the better of me soon enough, so I'll report back when that happens.

[DanielBurns11]

Not sure what I think, only have had a chance to listen to it that once. Seemed to sound pretty As the Roots Undo-esque to me though, maybe more mid-tempo instead of fast and chaotic though. But if you're not a fan of that record, then you're not a fan of a good portion of their material anyway. AtRU is easily one of my favorite records, and I'm not sure it's even possible to live up to my expectations.

[jm]

Wasn't there some '60s thread Babar started where I drunkenly proclaimed that Sweetheart of the Rodeo is the best '60s record?  I was right goddamn it.

they say i'm missing a whole world of fun

[Good Intentions]

I don't have a lot of money at the moment, so for the past year I've walked wide circles around the really good record store in town. Earlier this week I cracked, walked in, and bought a number of albums. The thing is, this being the age of internet thievery, of the seven albums I bought I've listened to four repeatedly - one of them is the first metal album I heard, Morbid Angel's Gateways to Annihilation, from all those years ago when my girlfriend at the time shoved it into my hands and which has been, for the decade since then, one of my favourite albums. Now, recently I've entirely gone off of the boil for these GBs and GBs of MP3s I, like most everybody else, have collected over the years. By the standards of the serious audophiles, I don't have all that large a collection, somewhere this side of 500 discs, but it's more than I can listen to. There's stuff in there I've only heard once or twice. Why, in god's name, do I have thousands of hours of stuff on my hard drive as well? Still, I am poor, and I already have most of this music available, so I've wondered a bit whether I should have spent the money (it was, more or less, a week's wages).

But one of the albums I bought, the Swans compilation of Filth/Body to Body, Job to Job, was a revelation, and I already own BtB,JtJ. Now, I love Swans in a way which sometimes trouble me a bit, given the aggression and malevolence of this music. But the early stuff never really grabbed me, a few stand-out tracks aside (like the incomparable 'Power for Power' off of this album), because the music is on the whole a little too blunt. Or that is what I had thought. What I have discovered from listening to the music on CD is that there are layers of sounds which I have been missing out on. Little guitar figures playing in the background while the main melody pounds away like a drunkard on a door that has just been shut in his face. Call-and-response vocals hidden in the squealing like the whimpers of children in abusive homes. That, and a number of other ways in which the music has been fleshed out.

I was surprised to discover all of this, because the MP3s I have are of a high bitrate. Then again, if you were to design music specifically to fool those algorithms, it wouldn't sound too far off from this. Swans isn't music for machines. It's not really music for people, either. It is not something any person can bear. That is exactly the point.

[davy]

Guiltily splurging in an excellent record store is one of the great pleasures of my life. And life's great pleasures are to be experienced, and treasured.

So yes, you should've spent the money.

[davy]

Thank you, Spotify. I was looking for new music by the contemporary brit-pop band Space ("Female of the Species," etc) and Spotify turns up all these 70s synth-pop albums by a French space disco band of the same name. Never heard of them before but I'm listening now and it's totally crazy.

[Good Intentions]

Walking to work this morning, listening to Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness, I realised what a strange sight death metal must make me to my fellow pedestrians - walking through the rain and mist grinning like a maniac, shaking my head side to side as I walk, clicking my fingers to a beat they can't hear, and under my breath whispering the lyrics to 'Chapel of Ghouls', those lyircs being "Dead - your god is dead! Fools - your god is dead! Useless prayers of lies/ Behold Satan's rise".

It's a great joke, and more people should be in on it.

[FreddyKnuckles]

Army ranger Keni Thomas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqqE9DQIUpo

[Good Intentions]

Sleep - Holy Mountain

[Javan]

why why why did nobody bother evangelising to me about billy bragg? have spent most of today slightly dazed and repeatedly listening to life's a riot with spy vs spy. so good.

[alex]

why why why did nobody bother evangelising to me about billy bragg? have spent most of today slightly dazed and repeatedly listening to life's a riot with spy vs spy. so good.

Don't know how that happened. The system has failed you, don't fail yourself.

[alex]

Aah, now you inspired me to watch a bunch of old Billy Bragg tunes on youtube, while I'm away from my CD collection. One that I wound up watching was his great version of "The World Turned Upside Down", which in turn reminded me of the even more excellent version by Dick Gaughan which I only discovered a few months ago. So, thanks for that.

Get Talking to the Taxman About Poetry next! Either that, or just proceed in chronological order - it'll be a while till you get to the underwhelming parts of his career. (Probably you should get that Vol. 1 boxset, actually. Even if I'll be jealous because I don't have it.)

[Javan]

I've been looking at the volume 1 boxset actually, but i think it might have to go on my christmas list, can't see me having any money to splurge on music any time soon
Spotify will do until then!

[Nick Ink]

I like Billy's first 3 or 4 albums best, but the stuff with Wilco was surprisingly good too.

[davy]

I've been looking at the volume 1 boxset actually, but i think it might have to go on my christmas list, can't see me having any money to splurge on music any time soon
Spotify will do until then!

I had that! It was a little too much for me, though. I really liked Spy vs Spy and Talking with the Taxman, but those are the only two releases I really connected with.