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The Mogwai show was far from ideal, but I did enjoy the new stuff, and it would be hard for me not to fund new Mogwai. It is kinda funny to compare how dumb the infrastructure of the show is compared to, say the recent clipping show. Mogwai you had to pay 15 bux for a limited access to an unlisted youtube link which featured stitched together performances of each track of the new album, and a couple classics. Enjoyable as a Mogwai performance, but uh... Clipping you didn't have to pay anything (but they fundraised midwifery), it was public youtube link that you can still replay, and it was a continuous live performance, featuring a mix of old and new. No doubt the best covid show. I'm liking the new Mogwai, but when it comes to covid shows, it pales in comparison.
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Seems Mogwai heard the complaints, they're re-airing the show for a full week starting today at 8PM GMT. Free if you paid for a ticket already, and they are re-opening sales for those who missed the window. https://store.mogwai.scot/pages/performancefilmfaq
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They also uploaded video of one of my faves from the new album from that performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=styy5THdQcM
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Rewatch of the Mogwai show has been better, I think it's a totally solid album. The bookends to pad it don't feel quite in tune, but they're still solid enough. Like it feels like they had a superb EP, but didn't want to limit it to an EP so padded it a bit to make it a full album. And that padding isn't bad, just doesn't feel as cohesive. Unexpected composition aside, s'all good.
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I'm listening to the album now and digging it. It's not my favorite Mogwai album, but it is solid. It's still new Mogwai! Ceiling Granny absolutely slaps. Studio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikjDE21oiDY
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This album felt less like a new Mogwai album and more like an album in which Mogwai was covering other post-rock bands kind of, like 50 Cent used to do with rap music. I can’t tell if it’s influence, homage, or both
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Yeah, it's solid Mogwai, which could be seen as either criticism or praise. I'm thankful.
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The new Mogwai is #1 album in the UK, which is wild  https://twitter.com/mogwaiband/status/1364567427347005440
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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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65daysofstatic is high energy post-rock band with numerous electronic influences and their build ups are just as mournful and whimsical and haunting as any of the other big guys in the field but their albums have a very unique sense of style and I always found them to be a very awesome foil to the slow and twinkly side of post rock Two great songs to start with are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYXlFYBW56g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAZEcg8NLtM And here’s their last (?) live show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlKyv9Q6cMw And here’s their first two albums https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PrJo0X3xXw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfXVif7C4oE Their newer albums all trend towards higher production value and more beeps and boops Bust Rodd fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Feb 26, 2021 |
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internet celebrity posted:^ Guess it's time to check it out, I haven't listened to Mogwai in years. listen to Rave Tapes and kill two birds with one stone some other non-eits-type post-rock i've enjoyed recently: Barrens, Aesthesys, and Kjjjjjjjjj,
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I absolutely used to love 65dos. I’ve seen them so many loving times I’ve lost count. I’ve done photography at their gigs. I’ve introduced loads of other folk to them. They’re a huge part of my life. But I cannot get into the new stuff at all and I feel bad about it. Sorry, lads.
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Radio Protector is a big part of my inspiration for wanting to pick up a keyboard and start making my own music, which I started in '07 and am still doing, so those first couple 65dos albums were huge for me and always will be. But yeah, I also haven't been really into what they've been doing the past several years and it bums me out too  Though Taipei off of Wild Light loving rules (that album is 8 years old, loving hell) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmL5Cb7ljn8 Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Feb 26, 2021 |
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LMAO I just checked and yeah my last record of theirs is from 2010, so I have absolutely no idea what they’ve morphed into
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https://twitter.com/plasmatron/status/1363899840011395078?s=21 Good for them
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Oh, it’s already been and gone - unbelievable https://t.co/xwNrF1Agwv
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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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internet celebrity posted:Some tracks like Ceiling Granny feel like they want to do dream pop/shoegaze but aren't willing to commit to it fully. This caught my attention. I wouldn't call myself a Mogwai fan, but I've been really digging the shoegaze sound lately so I will check out the album now. Hum released a new album last year that was along those same lines. I wonder if the Minor Victories project (Braithwaite + Rachel Goswell of Slowdive) had anything to do with it.
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speaking of mogwai i had no idea that they did a soundtrack for a narcos like crime drama, zerozerozero. i was watching it and i was like drat this is a good soundtrack but sounds vaguely familiar, then realized it was mogwai.
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There's a new Godspeed album baby, and it's called...G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! lmao https://twitter.com/brooklynvegan/status/1367120519955374086
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aw yeah https://twitter.com/cstrecords/status/1367117745385594886
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I'm finding it pretty hard to get excited about GYBE in any way. The last three-ish albums had some highlights but really leaned in to the boring ambient drone noise. Not really my thing compared to the earlier albums.
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Captain Hotbutt posted:I'm finding it pretty hard to get excited about GYBE in any way. The last three-ish albums had some highlights but really leaned in to the boring ambient drone noise. Not really my thing compared to the earlier albums. man i feel exactly the opposite. i thought luciferian towers is the most interesting thing they've done and their earliest few bore me to tears
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....I honestly cannot imagine thinking Skinny Fists or F# are anything other than fully foundational albums of the genre
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Actually, maybe not "aw yeah". If I assume that both of the new songs were previously known as Glacier and Cliff, which don't grab me at all, then meh.
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Bust Rodd posted:....I honestly cannot imagine thinking Skinny Fists or F# are anything other than fully foundational albums of the genre Not endorsing the take but sometimes foundational stuff is boring.
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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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Henchman of Santa posted:Not endorsing the take but sometimes foundational stuff is boring. Fair enough. When I was deeply in my stoner/sludge/Doom metal phase and was hacking my way through ISIS and poo poo I downloaded the Neurosis discography the way all of my metal priest friends told me I had to and then just kinda scrolled through it, clicking around different sounds and just was like... “this is going to be like trying to eat a cinder block with a plastic spoon” and never even bothered
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Bust Rodd posted:Fair enough. When I was deeply in my stoner/sludge/Doom metal phase and was hacking my way through ISIS and poo poo I downloaded the Neurosis discography the way all of my metal priest friends told me I had to and then just kinda scrolled through it, clicking around different sounds and just was like... “this is going to be like trying to eat a cinder block with a plastic spoon” and never even bothered Now that's a bad take!
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Bust Rodd posted:Fair enough. When I was deeply in my stoner/sludge/Doom metal phase and was hacking my way through ISIS and poo poo I downloaded the Neurosis discography the way all of my metal priest friends told me I had to and then just kinda scrolled through it, clicking around different sounds and just was like... “this is going to be like trying to eat a cinder block with a plastic spoon” and never even bothered If you haven't listened to Souls at Zero then you haven't lived
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Bust Rodd posted:Fair enough. When I was deeply in my stoner/sludge/Doom metal phase and was hacking my way through ISIS and poo poo I downloaded the Neurosis discography the way all of my metal priest friends told me I had to and then just kinda scrolled through it, clicking around different sounds and just was like... “this is going to be like trying to eat a cinder block with a plastic spoon” and never even bothered What da
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Captain Hotbutt posted:I'm finding it pretty hard to get excited about GYBE in any way. The last three-ish albums had some highlights but really leaned in to the boring ambient drone noise. Not really my thing compared to the earlier albums. counterpoint, luciferian towers is flawless and doesn't have a single wasted second, probably my favourite piece of music glacier/cliff I'm more doubtful about, it was the only part of their live set that didn't really work out, hopefully they polish it more for the album
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Vesi posted:counterpoint, luciferian towers is flawless and doesn't have a single wasted second, probably my favourite piece of music it's certainly not complex and challenging like the first few albums, but it more than makes up for it by being absolutely gorgeous
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My favorite quality of GS!YBE throwing on one of their records and it gets so ambient and droney and spacey that I forget I’m even listening to music and then some swelling orchestral soundscape with strings comes in and I look up from my desk or game or whatever like “what is this incredible oh yeah I’m just listening to East Hastings again for 3,000th time”
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I completely missed that Grails finally put a new record out back in 2017 and holy gently caress it's phenomenal. And incredibly diverse. It has tracks that sound like everything from Trans Am to Portishead. Really loving good poo poo.
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What exactly is post-rock, like what are the genre markings of it? I like jazz-fusion, and prog-rock, and noise-rock, and lots of eclectic things in that sphere, so I imagine I've either listened to it before or would at least like it. Are Swans and Television post-rock? I'm gonna google it, but I would also like to hear from actual people about it. I'm asking because I'm listening to Slint for the first time, and this Spiderlands album loving rips. According to wikipedia this is post-rock, but I don't know what about it specifically makes it so. Is it because it's atmospheric and repetitive? (Also post-rock is a technical thing, right? It's not tied to a specific era in history?)
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I think the definition is supposed to be something like "using rock instruments to make non-conventional* rock music", but it is definitely mostly meaningless. It's not really tied to an era. There were glimpses of it in the 80s, but it mostly got into full swing in the 90s. *Non-conventional as in not following more standard verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-chorus type song formats. Not necessarily the same as alternative rock, which is really conventional rock with new sounds thrown in the mix.
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There are two different post rocks There's stuff like Bark Psychosis, Slint, The For Carnation, Tarantel, etc, which is mostly experimental and sort of deconstructing rock And then there's stuff like GY!BE and Mogwai and all the bands that have followed them who are mostly doing a kind of classical music with rock instruments often backed up by strings The two sometimes but rarely overlap which is why it's kind of confusing
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Post Rock takes the disparaging elements of Loud, Weird, Twinkly, and Cool and mixes them together. For a pretty solid decade I think it was fair to say to anybody that post-rock was a genre of melodic, often purely instrumental musical arrangements that intend to create a soundscape outside the scope of traditional rock music. If someone wanted to know what post-rock was, you showed them Explosions in the Sky or Godspeed You! Black Emperor and then probably go from there, usually straight to Caspian. There have been so many iterations on Post-Rock that the genre distinction fractures off into Post-Metal, Prog-Metal, Post-Doom, Electronic Post-Rock, and some of the more psychedelic and folk metal stuff, like Agaloch. Slint and that album in particular are great starts into the wide world of sleepy, spooky noise music.
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