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Henchman of Santa posted:The new God is an Astronaut is out there. My first impressions are that I like it. It's a little more glitchy and grungy than you would expect from them, although nothing extreme.
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Yeah, I don't think they're ever going to undergo a major change in sound, but it's good for what it is. Gets a little boring after a while.
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If any of you were wondering what was going on with Spaces, I got this e-mail earlier:quote:Hi Everyone,
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:If any of you were wondering what was going on with Spaces, I got this e-mail earlier:
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Caspian posted:Dear Friends,
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Oh no  That really sucks. All the guys from Caspian are really nice dudes. Gonna go listen to Waking Season front to back in memory of him.
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I'm listening to the new God Is An Astronaut album now, and meh. Spiral Code raised my expectations too high before the album even came out, I think. It's one of the most interesting tracks on this whole thing. Kinda has that 65daysofstatic feel to it. Almost the entire rest of the album is Yet Another God Is An Astronaut album, which is kinda getting old for me. Don't get me wrong, they've made a ton of tracks that I like. But it just seems like they're making the same kind of songs album after album and not expanding all that much. I did like the inclusion of vocals on some of the songs on this one. They've always had vocoded vocals in some of their stuff, but they were more like another instrument than anything. There were no real lyrics. On this one, they're kinda taking the Mogwai approach to vocals, and it works well enough in the songs they're in. And I reeeally dig Calistoga, especially that post-metal-ish intro. But aside from that stuff, I feel like I could never hear this album again and be perfectly okay with that. Out of 12 songs on here, there's like 2 or 3 that I'd like to hear again in the future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFZFrOkcSgc Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Aug 29, 2013 |
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I agree with you Rageaholic Monkey, I listened to the album and while it's not bad, it's not very memorable to me either. I didn't care for Age of the Fifth Sun, but I love Far From Refuge. I have no idea why I have never listened to their self-titled though, in fact I totally forgot it existed up until a few days ago when I was looking at their discography. I need to check it out, as well as revisiting their first album which didn't hook me when I first listened to it but maybe that will change.
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Everyone knows the best God Is An Astronaut song is First Day Of Sun 
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david puddy posted:Everyone knows the best God Is An Astronaut song is First Day Of Sun It's not a bad song, I just don't think it's one of their best.
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Darkfall/Tempus Horizon/Lateral Noise is next best
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e: not sure how that happened
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Oh also: Sigur Ros is playing the Roundhouse in London today (9/2) and the show will be streamed live. I think it's streaming through iTunes only? The times are as follows: London - 9pm NYC - 4pm San Fran - 1pm Berlin - 10pm I'm in Central Time, so I'm guessing it'll come on at 3pm for me.
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Stream is up, probably a few more minutes before they start playing. I get to see them in Michigan in less than two weeks so this should be a great preview.
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For some reason this stupid popout window they're using keeps resizing itself on me. I need to watch this fullscreen, I guess. Both the audio and video are great, though!
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The venue looks great too, really wish I was there. Not that I'm complaining, but are they just playing songs off Kveikur? E: guess not, here comes Festival 
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When Jonsi holds that note in Festival for like a solid 30 seconds or more....Jesus. He did that when I saw them live in April, too, and it gave me the chills like nothing I've ever experienced before. He doesn't even hold it that long on the album version, IIRC!
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The iTunes Festival stream almost makes up for the fact I couldn't make the Sigur Rós show here a couple months ago. Almost.
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Mannnn, Untitled 8 is such a goddamn amazing song and the most perfect closer to a set in existence. They closed with that when I saw them a few months ago, too, and it was incredible. I'm seeing them again next month and I can't wait. This got me even more hyped up to see that show.
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I wanted to see them last year but they only played a festival set in my city  I will just have to watch the stream later, I don't have the internet for it at the moment.
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Junkenstein posted:So how was Arctangent? Highlights: Finally getting to see You Slut and Talons. 65days on the Friday (really looking forward to the new album now), Maybeshewills fan voted set on the Thursday and ASIWYFA on the Saturday. Never seen a crowd for either of those guys go so wild. Loved where ASIWYFA got one of their friends to play the drums and Chris the drummer got to go crowd surfing (and I got to touch his manly abs (not gay)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afd7_A1gOiU Unforgettable moment of the festival Lowlights: Each stage slot started up right after the other stages had finished, could have done with 5 minutes to get from stage to stage so that you didn't miss any of the set. Future Of The Left put on a bit of a disappointing set after I had seen them play a good one at 2000 Trees. I'm definitely going again next year. Bagpuss fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Sep 3, 2013 |
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65daysofstatic and Caspian just announced a co-headlining tour with The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die. I am insanely excited. Makes up for This Town Needs Guns/And So I Watch You From Afar not coming to Cleveland. November 5th - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair November 8th - Pontiac, MI @ The Pike Room November 9th - Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen November 11th - Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre November 12th - Salt Lake City, UT @ Bar Deluxe November 14th - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill November 15th - Los Angeles, CA @ Roxy Theatre November 16th - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar November 17th - Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom November 19th - Austin, TX @ Red 7 November 20th - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada November 22nd - Nashville, TN @ The High Watt November 23rd - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom November 24th - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom November 25th - Washington, DC @ The Rock & Roll Hotel November 26th - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
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I was surprised as well. I know they played a show recently raising money for either his family or a charity he was involved with or something.
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What's weird is that the TTNG/ASIWYFA tour was supposed to play the Pike Room on Nov. 8. Maybe it got moved to the Crofoot Ballroom or Eagle Theater.
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Junkenstein posted:So how was Arctangent? Additionally the festival had good and varied food at reasonable prices, was incredibly well run and holy poo poo 65dos.
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Anybody else listen to EF? There new album is streaming at http://efmusicsweden.bandcamp.com/ and it is definitely solid.
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Don Mega posted:Anybody else listen to EF? There new album is streaming at http://efmusicsweden.bandcamp.com/ and it is definitely solid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFrw9senRf8
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Henchman of Santa posted:What's weird is that the TTNG/ASIWYFA tour was supposed to play the Pike Room on Nov. 8. Maybe it got moved to the Crofoot Ballroom or Eagle Theater. Nope, looks like a mini ArcTanGent!
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Bliggers- posted:They've announced Montreal and Toronto shows for the 6/7 as well. Bought my ticket for the Toronto show, I can not wait for it. I'm glad it's at Lee's Palace, I really like that place and this will be the third post-rock concert I've been to at that venue (first was Maserati and Mono, second was Godspeed You! Black Emperor).
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Bagpuss posted:Nope, looks like a mini ArcTanGent!
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^^^ I like Sunlight Ascending. I see they had a new album last year, time to check that out. One for Apocalypse, more good poo poo from Spain. I'm particularly fond of La anatomia del odio. chunkles fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Sep 8, 2013 |
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I gave Deafheaven another chance and listened to their Roads To Judah album. I can see where the post rock comparisons come from now and the screeching vocals are either less obnoxious here or i'm just getting used to them. Anyways its worth a listen if any of the Sunbather hype caught your attention.
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GY!BE has added a new song to their set for this 2013 tour, I asked their projectionist Karl what it's called and he says it is currently titled "Behemoth." It's a long, long piece. They played it both nights in San Francisco, recordings have been uploaded at http://archive.org/details/gybe2013-09-09 and http://archive.org/details/gybe2013-09-10
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siig posted:GY!BE has added a new song to their set for this 2013 tour, I asked their projectionist Karl what it's called and he says it is currently titled "Behemoth." It's a long, long piece. They played it both nights in San Francisco, recordings have been uploaded at http://archive.org/details/gybe2013-09-09 and http://archive.org/details/gybe2013-09-10 They've played Behemoth in 2012 for a couple dates too. It's an awesome track, the beginning movement sort of reminds me of Earth
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The new 65dos album Wild Light is out there and I'm really liking it quite a bit so far! I'd go so far as to say it's my favorite thing they've done since One Time For All Time. The Undertow, Blackspots and Sleepwalk City especially feel like real classic 65dos tracks. And Taipei, which is my favorite track on the entire album, sounds like 65 collaborating with Caspian or something legit like that. I like that they seem to use their dancey electronic sound sparingly on this album and that they've struck a nice balance between that sound and the post-rock/math-rock hybrid sound they used to use heavily on this one. I feel like that's what they should've been doing for the past few years instead of making it the big focus. I'm gonna go ahead and say that this my second favorite post-rock album of the year. It's not my top favorite considering I Am Waiting For You Last Summer's Edge Party was released at the beginning of this year, and it's not my favorite 65dos album. But still, it's a really good album and if you're a fan of 65dos (especially older 65dos) or post-rock in general, you owe it to yourself to check this one out. Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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