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Whirr or Nothing without being shithead human beings? I'm in!

Some pics of the gorgeous colored LP bundle:

Bell Witch. Demo

Bosse-de-Nage. All Fours

Mamaleek. Via Dolorosa

Planning For Burial. Leaving

I know exactly what you're talking about! This is the most obscure gem in my collection. I've never met anybody with another copy of it. It's so underground and obscure that the tenth track doesn't even have a title. Try to wrap your head around that.
 
Just because you made this thread, you can buy it off of me. Shoot me an offer. Nothing under $50, though, I don't deal with people who don't respect underground music.

Jim O'Rourke poster spotted...
 

They're a huge step up from Blonk. That's for sure.

http://www.dragcity.com/products/simple-songs
 
Am I alone in my Jim O'Rourke fanaticism? Never seen his name come up on here. Eureka is one of my all-time favorite albums, easily. Fucking phenomenal producer, and a very interesting songwriter.

Anyway, he's putting out his first album with vocals in more than a decade, and you should check it out.
 
Rocks If You Like: Wilco/Jeff Tweedy, Sonic Youth, Gastr del Sol/David Grubbs, Will Oldham, pretty much anything else on Drag City.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Murray Street have quite a bit in common, musically. Jim had a huge hand in both. Have you heard either?

And he's working on new material /droooool

SEASON 2 PREMIERES JULY 26TH!
 
https://www.facebook.com/RickandMorty/posts/812332408863583
 
Safe to assume everybody's following this show? Because it's probably the best thing Adult Swim's put out since Home Movies.
 
Discuss!

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Murray Street have quite a bit in common, musically. Jim had a huge hand in both. Have you heard either?

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/10/404723495/first-listen-jim-orourke-simple-songs#playlist
 
Streaming now on NPR!

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/10/404723495/first-listen-jim-orourke-simple-songs#playlist
 
Streaming now on NPR!

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/mamaleek-stream-2015
 
New Mamaleek track is UP!

At least we have each other. So excited for this

http://www.dragcity.com/products/simple-songs
 
Am I alone in my Jim O'Rourke fanaticism? Never seen his name come up on here. Eureka is one of my all-time favorite albums, easily. Fucking phenomenal producer, and a very interesting songwriter.

Anyway, he's putting out his first album with vocals in more than a decade, and you should check it out.
 
Rocks If You Like: Wilco/Jeff Tweedy, Sonic Youth, Gastr del Sol/David Grubbs, Will Oldham, pretty much anything else on Drag City.

I actually think He Never Spoke A Mumblin' Word is their best so far. Had that album on repeat for months last year. I just wish it were longer.
 
Mamaleek are what I'd recommend to people who don't get into the old-school black metal "philosophy" shit, but still want the mind-bogglingly bleak and dark sound that guys like Deafheaven or Liturgy don't bring.

Why can't Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab just remaster all of these albums?

you guys need to listen to Mamaleek - Fever Dream
one of the darkest albums you can find

Why can't Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab just remaster all of these albums?

https://midheaven.com/item/via-dolorosa-by-mamaleek-lp#.VRdIp-GLUUw
 
Whoa, just found this. Mamaleek pre-order appears to be available already at Midheaven?
 
Check the description:
 
"The fifth album from Bay Area weirdos Mamaleek, Via Dolorosa is the duo’s darkest and most experimental release, incorporating black metal, psychedelia and electronic music. It is also the first Mamaleek record featuring live drums. At once harsh, frightening and beautiful, Via Dolorosa is like an evening at the darkest jazz club as it might appear in the depths of a child’s fever dream. Though the group’s two anonymous brothers hail from the San Francisco Bay Area and their work is rife with themes of death and nihilism, musically they stand apart from the city’s most well-known black metal exports (Weakling, Leviathan, et al.). Via Dolorosa features track titles inspired by traditional slave songs and incorporates melodic, Middle Eastern aesthetics. Bask in sorrow and reflect on your pitiful existence."
 
Aaaaaaand hype.

2 days, and this thread still hasn't gotten bogged down with petty squabbling? Good on you, VC.
 
I was raised by Fundamentalist Christian parents. My dad especially. He was also super into the End Times stuff, and I was basically told from the cradle that Jesus was going to come back "any day now", and that everyone would die, but it would be okay because we'll get to spend eternity together in Heaven. Obviously, to a child this stuff is basically fucking psychological abuse, but I shared my family's beliefs throughout my childhood, well into my adolescence. And I was serious about it, too. I went to youth group every week for probably 5 years, and I was pretty much the only kid there that took any of it to heart. Prayed all the time. Rep'ed Jesus to all my friends. The usual.
 
The problem was that I was a natural born skeptic, and I was fascinated by science. I always got that cliche "the Bible and science are two sides of the same story" bit, and I believed it for a very long time. I was into a lot of the Christian apologetics garbage about how the Bible can be interpreted to match science exactly, or how most scientists actually believe in God, or evolution was disproved a long time ago, things like that. The thing that changed my mind was actually Carl Sagan's Cosmos. For real. I was probably 16, watching the whole series on the internet for the first time, and Sagan just had a way of explaining things that I was really enamored with, and he made such a case for scientific skepticism that I just couldn't deny what a colossal idiot I had been. I think I legit cried during the final episode. Finally, it was Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World that pushed me away from my beliefs completely. Anyone into stuff like this should read that book ASAP. It really, really helped me understand skepticism, the nature of evidence, and how destructive faith can be. Beyond that, I won't even get into the countless months I spent researching religions and philosophy before I fully understood the superiority of secular humanism, moral relativism, and methodological naturalism.
 
So yeah, realizing that I was an atheist was probably one of the best things that ever happened to me. For a lot of people, it's a really unimportant footnote in their lives, but it's kinda big for me. Looking back, I think I was legitimately miserable as a Christian. And if I'm ever "outspoken", "annoying" or a "loudmouth", it's because I know there's tons of people like me who could really use some help getting out of where they're at. People can make a case for how helpful religion can be for some, but it really comes down to truth, and if your beliefs aren't true, I find them to be totally meaningless. There isn't one helpful thing that religions and churches do that can't be accomplished by purely secular means. If you want good stuff to happen, you gotta be a part of making it happen. Simple as that.
 
Whew.