Heartland

Pista wrote:

Andie wrote:

A couple of friends of mine have been banging on about this band since they saw them at The Austin PsychFest last week...

you'll get the hint soon enough...this is bloody brilliant

Oh my!
You're not wrong.


edit. Their online store's a bit carp though. I can't even select the album to buy it

Yeah it's not the easiest album in the world to get hold of...tho some thoughtful soul has uploaded the whole album to YouTube...I think I'm gonna have to pull a favour from my friend in Austin

Andie wrote:
Yeah it's not the easiest album in the world to get hold of...tho some thoughtful soul has uploaded the whole album to YouTube...I think I'm gonna have to pull a favour from my friend in Austin

I did stumble across this though

Pista wrote:I did stumble across this though

Dear Lord. How did I miss out on these guys? This record is utterly fantastic. Is the early stuff like this? Yow.

was


initially intrigued, but ultimately underwhelmed. a nice, retro noise but where's the songs?

now


never really got talk talk at the time, but figured i'd give this a once over to see if they can change my mind... we'll see how far through it i get

next


guilty pleasure to make up for the pap i've waded through this morning

Quiff Boy wrote:now


never really got talk talk at the time, but figured i'd give this a once over to see if they can change my mind... we'll see how far through it i get

god that was dreary... lasted until track 4 - "chameleon day".

what a pile of turgid nonsense.

sultan2075 wrote:

Dear Lord. How did I miss out on these guys? This record is utterly fantastic. Is the early stuff like this? Yow.

What is it? I'm intrigued

radiojamaica wrote:

sultan2075 wrote:

Dear Lord. How did I miss out on these guys? This record is utterly fantastic. Is the early stuff like this? Yow.

What is it? I'm intrigued

Sonic Mass by Amebix. I'd always assumed they were boring crust-punk, so I never listened to them. I kind of stumbled on this yesterday, and I am absolutely loving it. I'll have to check out the older stuff.

Andie wrote:

Pista wrote:

Andie wrote:

A couple of friends of mine have been banging on about this band since they saw them at The Austin PsychFest last week...

you'll get the hint soon enough...this is bloody brilliant

Oh my!
You're not wrong.


edit. Their online store's a bit carp though. I can't even select the album to buy it

Yeah it's not the easiest album in the world to get hold of...tho some thoughtful soul has uploaded the whole album to YouTube...I think I'm gonna have to pull a favour from my friend in Austin

Hmmm, I was very interested in the first couple of tracks, but after that I was just a bit bored. It reminds me a bit of average trance music done with traditional instruments. The whole hoogy-verdy-toody vocals gets my goat after a bit too.

sultan2075 wrote: Dear Lord. How did I miss out on these guys? This record is utterly fantastic. Is the early stuff like this? Yow.

Lordy - Amebix! Of all the obscure bands to rise again!! They were a Bristol-ish punk band - in the Crass living-in-a-squat vein of things. Spider was a well known Bristol 'face' in the late 80s.

One thing that entertained me, as a poor northerner, was how many of the people from that scene - and when it morphed into the 'Free Party' shenanigans - were actually from wealthy backgrounds, just playing at being poor.

The time I met Banksy I kind of got that impression too - from a nice upbringing but playing at being a naughty boy. I thought one of the reasons he was so anxious to be anonymous was so his Mummy didn't find out what he'd been up to!

bearskin wrote:

sultan2075 wrote: Dear Lord. How did I miss out on these guys? This record is utterly fantastic. Is the early stuff like this? Yow.

Lordy - Amebix! Of all the obscure bands to rise again!! They were a Bristol-ish punk band - in the Crass living-in-a-squat vein of things. Spider was a well known Bristol 'face' in the late 80s.

One thing that entertained me, as a poor northerner, was how many of the people from that scene - and when it morphed into the 'Free Party' shenanigans - were actually from wealthy backgrounds, just playing at being poor.

The time I met Banksy I kind of got that impression too - from a nice upbringing but playing at being a naughty boy. I thought one of the reasons he was so anxious to be anonymous was so his Mummy didn't find out what he'd been up to!

Apparently Rob (vocals/bass) broke up the band in 87 or so, moved to Skye to make swords for a living (!), put them back together in 2009 and broke them up again in 2012. I will have to check out their earlier stuff, because I really, really like this record a lot.

We had the exact same phenomena here, actually. Squatters were, more often than not, rich kids who were slumming it. I'm inclined to say that only those who have never actually been poor romanticize poverty the way a lot of squat-punks did (at least, for the most part.

Quiff Boy wrote:

Masterpiece

nervously checking this out:



half way thorugh track 2 and it's good so far

it can't last, surely?

Yeah, I've only heard the 'Burn' track and quite liked that one... It's a start

there's a couple of iffy tracks, and one with dreadful lyrics ("DD's" - double d's - about iggy's fondness for large breasts ) but its not bad on the whole! far better than i was expecting anyway

Better than The Loudness then
I have the LP here too, but waiting for the perfect moment to put it on...

Have you seen this btw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QGED3n9IM4
We're distributing the new album btw

on original cassette... those do sound great!

In memory of Leo

radiojamaica wrote:

great album
today was:
Beck- Mellow Gold and The Angels Light- Sing Other People

Simply glorious & gets all my hair standing on end in no time

I'm still head over heels with this album

Just finished The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators and i'm about to give ERAAS a listen