Red Mosquito

stip wrote:Sad lover is just so good

My tune of the Summer.

Death Trip To Tulsa's grown on me quite a bit too, probably the closest thing to Blues Funeral between the new EP/LP.

Probably

Death trip and killing season are current favorites

kreng wrote:This is his first release where after one full listen nothing really grabs me.

Same experience. I stand by my comment thst nothing is fantastic but by the 3rd listen there's 5 or 6 songs I like quite a bit

Guys, so far its really good.

I have only listened to this once, and it gave me a really good first impression

I just can't get into this guy. And I've really tried on at least 4 of his albums. Just not for me I guess.

Varis wrote:I just can't get into this guy. And I've really tried on at least 4 of his albums. Just not for me I guess.

Have you listened to Field Songs?

LetMeSleep wrote:

Varis wrote:I just can't get into this guy. And I've really tried on at least 4 of his albums. Just not for me I guess.

Have you listened to Field Songs?

Same here, Varis (and yes).

Great voice but I can't find much enjoyment in either his solo career nor Screaming Trees.

Birds in Hell wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:

Varis wrote:I just can't get into this guy. And I've really tried on at least 4 of his albums. Just not for me I guess.

Have you listened to Field Songs?

Same here, Varis (and yes).

Great voice but I can't find much enjoyment in either his solo career nor Screaming Trees.

Have you tried the second and third Soulsavers records or his work with Isobel Campbell?

I don't see the collaborations with Isobel Campbell winning anyone over. They're like the blandest albums ever.

oasisfan35 wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:

Varis wrote:I just can't get into this guy. And I've really tried on at least 4 of his albums. Just not for me I guess.

Have you listened to Field Songs?

Same here, Varis (and yes).

Great voice but I can't find much enjoyment in either his solo career nor Screaming Trees.

Have you tried the second and third Soulsavers records or his work with Isobel Campbell?

Eh, I figure it's probably a lost cause at this point if everything else didn't grab me.

I got into him through the Trees (after initially not really caring for his solo work--how wrong I was). Now he's one of my favorite working artists. He certainly doesn't appeal to everyone though and that's cool. Admittedly, I've found it very hard to convert people to Lanegan fans.

Birds in Hell wrote:

oasisfan35 wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:

Varis wrote:I just can't get into this guy. And I've really tried on at least 4 of his albums. Just not for me I guess.

Have you listened to Field Songs?

Same here, Varis (and yes).

Great voice but I can't find much enjoyment in either his solo career nor Screaming Trees.

Have you tried the second and third Soulsavers records or his work with Isobel Campbell?

Eh, I figure it's probably a lost cause at this point if everything else didn't grab me.

I was just curious. I don't try to push artists on people, what's the use, but those two collaborations are quite different from each other and you may find something you enjoy.

the campbell stuff is really for fans only. But the soulsaver's records are probably the place I'd start people at this point. Those are magnificent albums

The new one is a grower. Seems like a continuation from Blues Funeral.

few more spins and i'm getting more into it but as i get more familiar but still kinda meh overall. The music is an interesting newish avenue he's been hinting at for a while now but the lyrics are atrocious for the most part. As i mentioned when the tracklist was released, they were the most laneganst song titles to date and the actual lyrics are even more proof of that. He's always had a distinct vocabulary he uses but he would still mix it up as well. This album sounds like a greatest hits of his own lyrics. It's just too much.Vocally, he sounds great but it's also weak and missing the power that some songs definitely needed.

kreng wrote:few more spins and i'm getting more into it but as i get more familiar but still kinda meh overall. The music is an interesting newish avenue he's been hinting at for a while now but the lyrics are atrocious for the most part. As i mentioned when the tracklist was released, they were the most laneganst song titles to date and the actual lyrics are even more proof of that. He's always had a distinct vocabulary he uses but he would still mix it up as well. This album sounds like a greatest hits of his own lyrics. It's just too much.Vocally, he sounds great but it's also weak and missing the power that some songs definitely needed.

Good call on the lyrics. this is where I'm at. I'm enjoying it, but once the familiarity of it wears off this will only be a 'hey, I haven't listened to phantom radio in forever' kind of listen for me. A few songs will probably be keepers (right now I'm really into Killing Season)but I also haven't mixed them up yet. I am a big fan of death trip to tulsa, but that may be cuz I'm starved for that kind of song. When I hear it next to meth blues or gravedigger's song or something similar I don't know it's gonna hold up

My issue so far has been the track order, I can't make any rhyme or reason of how this album is sequenced--it's just kind of all over the place so I've found it easier to NOT listen in any kind of order. I can buy the lyrical critique to an extent, especially for songs like Judgement Time or I Am The Wolf. Not sure I'd go as far to call them atrocious, but some songs do tend to sound like rehashes of something that has been sung multiple times before. Quite frankly, the I Am The Wolf lyrics came off as downright lazy at first.

That said, I'm still enjoying this one quite a bit all the way through, nothing I would consider skipable at all. Big stand outs for me are still Torn Red Heart, Wild People, Seventh Day, and now Floor of the Ocean.

Guys i love this one. Its very very good....ill post my favorites later.

Who is playing here?

I am now prepared to call Killing Season great.