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[bodysnatcher]

fairly sure i've posted this exact image in here somewhere, but here we are again.

Did you hear this album?



I actually had one of the books and the CDR...I wonder whatever happened to that book. Or if it's even worth anything?

yep, love that album

[wease]

you'll have to share a bed with lenny

I don't have a problem with that

i heard that he screams in his sleep

No different than the dogs barking.

[guestT]

listened to a bunch of old-ish stuff for the first time this week:

yes, the yes album - nice

microphones, glow pt 2 - good shit, no idea how i avoided this back when it came out as i was an avid pfork reader

hall & oats, abandoned luncheonette - hell yeah

[tragabigzanda]

[bodysnatcher]

microphones, glow pt 2 - good shit, no idea how i avoided this back when it came out as i was an avid pfork reader

All his albums are great, but this is his crowning achievement. There's a fun K Recs album by a guy called Karl Blau, "Beneath the Waves." It came out around the same time as The Glow pt 2, and it's totally different in that its songs are way more conventional, but it has a very similar sweetness about it. And then Mt Eerie (same as The Microphones) followups "Mt. Eerie" and "No Flashlight" are both also fantastic. I sort of fell off the Elverum train when he started tinkering with Black Metal. Some of that stuff had already started to appear on these aforementioned albums, but a whole record of it was too much for me.

agreed here, The Glow is just magnificent. I fell off the train too, but I appreciate that he's always experimenting with sound.

did you ever listen to Thanksgiving? I think he's in the same circle as Elverum and Blau

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[bodysnatcher]

microphones, glow pt 2 - good shit, no idea how i avoided this back when it came out as i was an avid pfork reader

All his albums are great, but this is his crowning achievement. There's a fun K Recs album by a guy called Karl Blau, "Beneath the Waves." It came out around the same time as The Glow pt 2, and it's totally different in that its songs are way more conventional, but it has a very similar sweetness about it. And then Mt Eerie (same as The Microphones) followups "Mt. Eerie" and "No Flashlight" are both also fantastic. I sort of fell off the Elverum train when he started tinkering with Black Metal. Some of that stuff had already started to appear on these aforementioned albums, but a whole record of it was too much for me.

agreed here, The Glow is just magnificent. I fell off the train too, but I appreciate that he's always experimenting with sound.

did you ever listen to Thanksgiving? I think he's in the same circle as Elverum and Blau

You know what? I saw a Thanksgiving show one time at Meow Meow in Portland, and I don't remember a thing about it other than we were all sitting on the floor while he strummed his guitar. Never listened to a record though.

sounds about right

it's nothing overly exciting or groundbreaking if you've already listened to Microphones and Blau, just another dude in that canon

[doug rr]

[LoathedVermin72]

[tragabigzanda]

[LoathedVermin72]

I've only heard XXX and Atrocity Exhibition, and I'd say they're roughly equal. Both have some fantastic highlights, but are ultimately too long and too confined by old school hip-hop conventions for my taste.

[LoathedVermin72]

more mariocore plz

[bodysnatcher]

what's the deal with all these [word]cores?

[bodysnatcher]

wait, people are still doing that autotune thing?

[Kevin Davis]

what's the deal with all these [word]cores?

Nothing new -- emo-core, slow-core, metalcore -- the suffix "-core" has long been shorthand for trendy made-up flavor-of-the-month genres that are characterized primarily by aesthetics rather than distinct musical traits. To be ignored.

[LoathedVermin72]

It's true I just made up that word

[LoathedVermin72]

Metalcore is a real thing though

[bodysnatcher]

i've been jamming on some Earthcore lately.

just field recordings of shifting magma, sampled over some ambient beats.

good stuff.

[tragabigzanda]

[bodysnatcher]