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Not sure where else to post this since the last Swans thread has been archived, but Michael Gira has released some details about the next Swans album and posted a handful of demos: https://younggodrecords.com/products/what-is-this
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Jan posted:I can't believe it's already been almost 3 years since The Glowing Man and even longer since I first heard got into them through The Seer. The first time I heard Avatar was almost a transcendental experience. But I've listened to the albums so much they don't have nearly as much punch as they used to. It's basically working music for me now. Yeah, I have this same experience. The first time I heard Bring The Sun it's like it flipped a switch in my brain. That imperceptibly gradual build from one repetitive little guitar riff to a mindblowing apocalyptic wall of sound is the closest thing I've had to a religious experience in music. I'm still chasing that first high but I feel like it might be a once in a lifetime kind of experience. But I have a ton of respect for Gira to recognize that this chapter in Swans has accomplished everything it can. Really hoping the next album switches the sound up enough to keep it fresh but still retains the otherworldly mystique.
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New Russian Circles rips but man, it ended way sooner than I was expecting. Felt like I was just settled in when it was over.
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Aug 9, 2019 12:21
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That might be the most genuinely post-rock thing I've ever heard of.
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I hope self-promotion here is okay. I released my album Encoded in Dead Air today and I think it fits somewhere in the umbrella of post-rock. It's mostly dense atmospheric soundscape kind of stuff with some sampled spoken word bits and lots of emphasis on dynamics. Loud distorted guitar builds, drone and noise sections, with the occasional bits of pretty harmony poking through. Check it out here and grab a free download if you're digging it: https://deanhamilton.bandcamp.com/album/encoded-in-dead-air edit: and now youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7VhpGvheQI internet celebrity fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Jan 2, 2021 |
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Bust Rodd posted:I'm on my 3rd or 4th playthrough of the evening, this poo poo slaps very hard, ty for sharing. Are you every instrument? Deadman's Switch is a riot and All Spectra is very twinkly and scary, just absolutely loving the vibes. Thank you for listening, glad to hear you're enjoying it. Yeah this is a solo effort top to bottom other than the cover art.
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Jan 2, 2021 06:59
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Thanks for the kind words, it's been really cool seeing this come to life and people actually hearing it, even got a few rateyourmusic ratings  It's finally up on Spotify now too. Rageaholic posted:And a new God Is An Astronaut track too! This is sick, I love the video and I really love the bass.
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Jan 13, 2021 02:32
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^ Guess it's time to check it out, I haven't listened to Mogwai in years. On that note, any recs for recent post-rock albums that don't pull too much from the EITS, Tortoise, or Neurosis-style bags of tricks? Here are some I've checked out recently: JazzArt Underground by Cisnienie. loving excellent, like doomjazz Glenn Branca. Very revival era Swans influenced for sure but with a greater focus on musicianship which is cool. Post by Farboro. This is what I would probably imagine if I had no idea what post-rock was and heard the word for the first time. Immense in sonic variety and scope and somehow not even slightly pretentious. Every Valley by Public Service Broadcasting. A very pretty and sentimental indie rock influenced album about... the collapse of the coal industry in South Wales. Uses archival radio recordings to tell the story which I dig, almost like an audio documentary. The Kinspiral by p.rosa - Need to revisit this one, it's very long and has a patchwork kind of quality to the sounds it uses but I remember enjoying the atmosphere and variety.
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Feb 26, 2021 14:44
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Listened to the new Mogwai yesterday, it's good. gently caress Off Money goes hard and is definitely the peak to me but I wish it took its time a little more. Some tracks like Ceiling Granny feel like they want to do dream pop/shoegaze but aren't willing to commit to it fully. Overall solid but nothing I haven't heard before, I can kind of see why it's having a lot of mainstream success. I've listened to the first two 65DOS albums in the past, I'll probably revisit them and check out their newer stuff to see what they've been doing.
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Feb 28, 2021 18:31
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Guess it's time to finish their discography so I can know for sure if the original version of F#A# is still their best release.
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I think it's kind of interesting as far as genres go because it's a term popularized by a critic to describe Bark Psychosis' album Hex and over the next decade grew into a catch-all for different flavors of heavily cross-pollinated experimental rock and applied to a lot of albums retroactively. No one can agree on exactly what it is because unlike most genres it didn't grow out of a scene and there's no distinct aesthetic to the music. As far as the early acts go, Talk Talk borrowed from jazz rock, Tortoise took more from krautrock, Slint used elements of post-hardcore and the three sound nothing alike. I think Explosions in the Sky blowing up (heh) in the mid 2000s is when the indie rock influenced style kind of codified the genre to the public at large and it became a distinctive thing people could latch on to instead of a bunch of things mashed together. The 90s definition of the term carries on though and artists who were influenced by the pioneers have expanded the sound in their own ways. So now there are groups of artists who adhere to very different sets of aesthetic and structural conventions and all are still considered the same genre. I don't know what point I'm trying to make here so can I just get a double cheeseburger and a chocolate frosty please, thank you.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:50
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Looks like GYBE is debuting their new album tonight: https://sun-13.com/2021/03/12/godspeed-you-black-emperor-announces-full-album-broadcast/ edit: stream link here: https://suoniperilpopolo.org/en/events/2021-03-27-g_d-s-pee-at-states-end
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Mar 27, 2021 19:58
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If you search the band's name on youtube and sort by upload date you'll find plenty of people who uploaded it
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Mar 28, 2021 01:49
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You all seemed to enjoy my last release and at this point I'm about halfway through writing and recording a new album. This section is the centerpiece of the first part and is like 97% finished, just making tiny mixing edits at this point. I'd be curious to hear what some post-rock fans think if you want to check it out. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AXJs4UW86gnoTxlCcFmy9xIuuVLk1HvY/view?usp=sharing
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Apr 6, 2021 12:43
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It's my least favorite GYBE album, that being said it's pretty good.
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May 5, 2021 11:41
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Hey post rock thread, you all seemed to enjoy my last album and I just released a new one today that I've been working on all year. It's one seamless composition from start to finish, something I've wanted to do for a long time but couldn't ever quite pull off until recently. It's in a similar vein as my last one - instrumental, lots of dynamics, loud abrasive guitars, sampling, cassette tape lops, ambient sections, spoken word - but I learned so much about production in the time between then and now and I feel like this one is on an entirely new level, both compositionally and production-wise. Bandcamp: https://deanhamilton.bandcamp.com/album/limina Get a free lossless download here or subscribe to support me and get access to unmastered versions of all my music Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0uPdFLNl6MCBQ2BVtM6FX5 Hyperfollow page for all my links: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/deanhamilton/limina Youtube for the lazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVU4EGucD_c I also wrote up an artist commentary on RYM if that sounds like something you'd be interested in. And speaking of RYM, a rating would be super valuable to me if you're a user, album page here.
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All Lights hosed On the Hairy Amp Drooling has apparently been ripped and uploaded. The GYBE discord claims it's real and is banning anyone for talking about it. Search for All Lights hosed on youtube and sort by new, it was uploaded early this morning.
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Feb 4, 2022 17:11
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There's a mega.nz link in the youtube description too. Efrim has said he still has the master tapes, kind of hoping this ends up like the Radiohead leak from a few years ago where they just release an official version since it's already out there.
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Feb 4, 2022 19:34
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I feel pretty confident that the new upload is legit now that I've listened to most of it. The two tracks that got posted on reddit in 2013 are present and are clearly new rips with less noise. The voice in several tracks is definitely Efrim. Also the GYBE discord had a very dramatic day that ended in the whole channel getting closed until further notice. The mods there claim to have connections to the band and said it was real. Several people there claimed to have had a rip of the tape for years and kept it within their little inner circle. Makes sense that they'd try as hard as possible keep it private to maintain their clout or whatever. There have been a handful of fakes posted over the years, I can't really see any of this unfolding unless the tape is actually real and the files getting posted publicly stirred a ton of drama within the group. But I guess it still remains to be seen if the band will confirm it.
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Feb 5, 2022 17:37
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Here's a podcast with Efrim talking about it: http://vishkhanna.com/2022/02/14/ep-667-efrim-manuel-menuck/
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Feb 14, 2022 12:02
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I've got tickets for DC in April and I'm so pumped. Never seen them before either.
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Mar 21, 2022 18:51
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Asunder is my least favorite but it's still a solid 7/10. Allelujah is somewhere on the low side of the middle of the pack if I were ranking them.
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Apr 18, 2022 15:34
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Yeah but you get a flattened penny and all the other cool things
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New Swans single today, https://open.spotify.com/track/2bywSV7Z2yjC0JlP79sZC8?si=U1AeyK2aSSuL4sDZhHOTGw Album out June 23rd and has a runtime of 2 hours.
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