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Post by staggerstag on Sept 23, 2019 12:34:43 GMT
Just got the latest email update from the Red Hand Files.
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 23, 2019 12:38:17 GMT
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Post by sostie on Sept 23, 2019 13:29:06 GMT
Holy Shit!!!! This has made my day (week? month? year?). Thanks
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Post by Zos on Sept 23, 2019 16:16:34 GMT
I will listen to it of course, but hand on heart I know it will just be another piano ballads bore. I wait in vain for Murder Ballads 2 or another Lyre Of Orpheus.
I remember seeing the Birthday Party live with Bauhaus, now middle age stole my Nick away.
I want at least one Saint Huck to see me through, of a new Grinderman LP.
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Post by Dayodead on Sept 23, 2019 23:18:14 GMT
I'd merely be happy with another Dig Lazarus Dig (Or Grinderman or hell, improvement on the Push the sky away model)...This looks like another Skeleton Tree
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 2, 2019 15:55:43 GMT
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Post by sostie on Oct 2, 2019 18:21:32 GMT
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 4, 2019 12:04:16 GMT
...This looks like another Skeleton Tree Indeed. It's gotten 5 stars from virtually everywhere and Cave's god-like status has never been higher. But I've forgotten the album just 12 or so hours later. Those praising it to the rafters could not, I guarantee, hum along to a single one of the tracks. It's not that kind of album. I haven't read in depth too many opinions but the comment that said 'it's powerful and moving but I don't like it' I think sits pretty well with me. sparse random notes while reclining and listening last night, scribbled, not much in the way of sense or cohesion I'm afraid spinning song dreamy first nc song with anything approaching a falsetto? god is in the house, though? hymn-like 2nd half bright horses more falsetto "we're all just sick & tired of seeing things as they are" that's good line sounds like a sermon for the disenchanted waiting for you aching vocal strain like I need you & god is in the house melancholic night raid camp-fire storytelling intro remind of Chelsea hotel #2 'cars humming in the street below' largely spoken sun forest generic ambience 3rd song with jesus in it so far he sounds like messiah calling flock no common thread more falsetto galleon ship floats by almost anonymously ghosteen speaks utterly unfathomable irritating come-and-go backing vox like on I need you but not as effective leviathan nothing different to other 7 he loves his baby and his baby loves him endless repeat sounds like slow recital of jesus mary chain I love baby and she loves me on kill surf city ghosteen eno bowie low/heroes ambient synth then sweeping vox fireflies jesus again positively hypnotic remind me of hypnosis background music on youtube vids good for sleep hollywood finally a pitter patter of light drumming sound like rain on a window one line brings to mind miley cyrus swimming pool lyric in hogg bb I'll try again in a few days but goddamn I miss hearing a Dig Lazzy Dig for the first time.
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Post by Zos on Oct 11, 2019 12:58:52 GMT
Just got the latest email update from the Red Hand Files. I promised myself I would listen 3 times before proffering an opinion and have done that now. I can understand why he made it, although I'm not sure a middle aged man's grief therapy is best played out in public, and a 3 album cycle of maudlin (even more than usual) piano ballads and noodlings seems just a wee bit too self indulgent. The middle aged and middle class dinner party set who discovered Cave/Seeds after Polly Harvey ruined him (The Boatman's Call onwards) will love it of course, the rest of us desperately awaiting a return to murder ballads or "Henry" territory will still keep a candle burning without much hope.
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Post by staggerstag on Apr 14, 2022 23:46:57 GMT
Just got the latest email update from the Red Hand Files. I promised myself I would listen 3 times before proffering an opinion and have done that now. I can understand why he made it, although I'm not sure a middle aged man's grief therapy is best played out in public, and a 3 album cycle of maudlin (even more than usual) piano ballads and noodlings seems just a wee bit too self indulgent. The middle aged and middle class dinner party set who discovered Cave/Seeds after Polly Harvey ruined him (The Boatman's Call onwards) will love it of course, the rest of us desperately awaiting a return to murder ballads or "Henry" territory will still keep a candle burning without much hope. This Ghosteen song from a soon-to-be released film : a film much in the same vein as his latter day stuff, I'd imagine. I sat through One More Time With Feeling, and three things stayed with me as I left the cinema : 1) Cave looking like he'd spent the last week watching daytime TV and eating Dominos, decked out in a tracksuit top but cryptically mourning the death of his son, looking just like the guy from number 37 down the road, no suit, no crisp shirt, no raven wing hair, just looking very ordinary and vulnerable 2) Early in the film stating that he was done with narrative lyrics (after Dig Lazarus Dig) and 3) Stating at one solemn point that "I don't know what I'd do without Warren [Ellis]" The first thing endeared him to me all the more. The second made me choke on my popcorn. The third kind of served as fair warning of what was to come for the next few years up to the present day. I'm not impressed with much since Dig - except the tracks 'Push The Sky Away' 'Jubilee Street' (live versions) and 'I Need You' - a truly gut-wrenching number from Skeleton Tree. 3 songs over 9 years.
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Post by Zos on Apr 15, 2022 10:28:48 GMT
I promised myself I would listen 3 times before proffering an opinion and have done that now. I can understand why he made it, although I'm not sure a middle aged man's grief therapy is best played out in public, and a 3 album cycle of maudlin (even more than usual) piano ballads and noodlings seems just a wee bit too self indulgent. The middle aged and middle class dinner party set who discovered Cave/Seeds after Polly Harvey ruined him (The Boatman's Call onwards) will love it of course, the rest of us desperately awaiting a return to murder ballads or "Henry" territory will still keep a candle burning without much hope. This Ghosteen song from a soon-to-be released film : a film much in the same vein as his latter day stuff, I'd imagine. I sat through One More Time With Feeling, and three things stayed with me as I left the cinema : 1) Cave looking like he'd spent the last week watching daytime TV and eating Dominos, decked out in a tracksuit top but cryptically mourning the death of his son, looking just like the guy from number 37 down the road, no suit, no crisp shirt, no raven wing hair, just looking very ordinary and vulnerable 2) Early in the film stating that he was done with narrative lyrics (after Dig Lazarus Dig) and 3) Stating at one solemn point that "I don't know what I'd do without Warren [Ellis]" The first thing endeared him to me all the more. The second made me choke on my popcorn. The third kind of served as fair warning of what was to come for the next few years up to the present day. I'm not impressed with much since Dig - except the tracks 'Push The Sky Away' 'Jubilee Street' (live versions) and 'I Need You' - a truly gut-wrenching number from Skeleton Tree. 3 songs over 9 years. I'd settle for Grinderman 3 at this stage.
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