Eliminator Jr.

Someone's found a loving new home <3

Numbers for Cocteau Twins are scarce indeed. There's 100 each for Germany. Got 1 of the 5 copies we ordered. 

Got the sexy DW EU variant in the mail yesterday.

10 hours ago, Akande50 said:

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I'm bored, so I went ahed up until that crucial part where the experimental music clip via soundcloud I'm supposed to listen to doesn't exist anymore. Fun times!

Will grab whatever's hanging at my local shop. This got me pretty excited, although both songs so far are less than fantastic. It does sound a lot like all the bands of the last five years or so desperately trying to sound like Slowdive. It's gonna be very much worth my while though, I'm sure.

Also, almost three years have passed since I saw them play live and it's still the single best concert I've ever been lucky enough to attend. 

3 hours ago, bortx said:

Still waiting on shipping confirmation from deathwish EU, ordered as soon as it got live along with a t-shirt, I guess that's the cause of the delay. Let's just wait.

Got shipping confirmation for Hooper from deathwish EU just now.

Oh well, what happened to her vocals? Was really looking forward to this and it definitely deserves a couple more listens, but so far I can't seem to get into her delivery here.

2 hours ago, rogeoa8 said:

Frances the Mute through Noctourniquet might warrant a few more listens.

Although I have to admit that my interested took a drastic turn after Frances, I made sure to give every Volta record a fair chance and a couple of attentive listens. I dug most of Noctourniquet, but their artistic direction after De-Loused just wasn't for me.

1 hour ago, ptothedo said:

I saw them last year at 9:30 club and it was outstanding.  Lot's of energy, nostalgia, and great setlist across all their albums.    I might try to go see them again at one of their dates.  Am I excited by this release?  Not necessarily, but hopeful.

Sounds great! It's nice to hear some positive feedback to their shows. I saw them in Berlin last year and it was pretty lackluster, but fine.

52 minutes ago, highfives said:

Saying nothing that Omar has done has excited you really makes me think you just weren't paying attention because the guy has released upwards of 40 albums in that time.  Saying not one of them excites you is just lazy, especially if you enjoyed ATDI.

I mean, when someone whose early output you enjoy releases ten albums you don't really like, you're not eager to listen to the next thirty. I skipped a lot of his solo recordings, not all, and listened to all of his band projects (just listened to Crystal Fairy a minute ago). I'm not one to dismiss former favorite artists' music too early and wouldn't say his stuff sucks, but over the last ten years or so I definitely got the impression that Omar wasn't the singular driving force behind ATD-I that made their music great and neither was Cedric. Loving all the Sparta records manifested that, for me.

2 hours ago, highfives said:

It baffles me that people are expecting 40+ year old dudes to bang out the same old shit they did when they were 18.

I don't expect them to do the exact same thing they did two decades ago, but if they want to do things differently, then why chose to do so under that name? These guys already have a band that's doing the whole sounds kinda like ATD-I but we're older now-thing in Antemasque and 'finally getting all the guys together' certainly doesn't play a role, so I fail to grasp the reasoning behind this reunion (some might say there's money to be made).

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade here, but I'm in bewilderment seeing how people are going shitballs over this preorder. And I'm actually curious about people's affection with 2017's edition ATD-I, considering the shitfest of a reunion tour, Cedric's bedazzling personal development as a somewhat public figure and the gaping hole in creativity and actual correlation to their heyday that is Jim Ward being completely absent. Is it old affection to the name? Or did you guys enjoy all the Volta and whatnot records of recent years? Did you see them play and they were the legitimately best thing ever? Do you hate Jim Ward?!

It kinda still hurts saying this, considering how much I adore all their original output, but I'm not looking forward to this, because there's nothing about it to get me excited. It's not that I'm sure the record is gonna blow. Antemasque didn't, kinda. But not a single member of ATD-I (minus Ward, but..) put out anything exciting in 14 years, for me, personally. Also skipping through some videos of their recent touring really showed just how much youthful energy they put into their recordings, and how unable they are today to reproduce any of that.

8 minutes ago, Derek™ said:

There's one in particular bit where I felt like I was slowly dying in the most comfortable way possible a-minor.

So looking forward to this.

Same here. Listening for the third time in a row right now, also just about to finish The Secret History. Although it's unreasonably expensive over here (50-55€), there's no denying that it's an impeccable slap of vinyl with some truly outstanding art design. Perfect for all those rainy ass Sunday afternoons we're facing at the moment. 

15 minutes ago, Holo said:

I didn't like anything past Ghosts. Someone sell me cheap Ghosts or RP the fucker so I can be done.

 

RHP is so goddamn great it makes me wish we got more, but no matter how much I try I can't dig any of the newer stuff

 

@GreatGreenOne77 sell your variants and give me Ghosts <3

 

 

 

I guess it's a safe assumption that you need to reevaluate your stance on April, preferably by giving it a fresh listen. You're missing out on some of his best songs. It easily equals Ghosts and later RHP, in my opinion. He lost me after that one, though.

39 minutes ago, Tommy said:

Please listen to 'Chili Lemon Peanuts' and convince me he has not 100% made his transition into Wesley Willis.

That's exactly the kind of incentive I needed to give this a listen. Solely for shits'n'giggles, of course. This is post War On Drugs-fuckfest Kozelek after all.

It's safe to say I'm gushing over this news. Solace has been among the top spots on my wantlist ever since I missed the 2008 repress. Had some bad timing with my car exploding while doing 100mph days prior to the preorders going up and when I finally had the nerves and funds to go for it, it was gone. It's not like copies disappeared from the surface of the earth ever since, but I'm not much of an aftermarket guy and rather have my cash go directly to the people involved, especially with people as awesome as this band.

Also, Solace is one of the very last gaps on my .doc of albums I need to own on vinyl. That is, for now at least. Might be nice enough to have that list complete just once, for a fleeting moment.

Takeout and Gilmore Girls. All night long. 

1 hour ago, nick69 said:

More like matches your counter nicely.

You're not wrong, though.

Didn't see anyone posting the black/white, so here's mine:

Matches the artwork nicely, I think. Looking forward to giving it a spin or two during the weekend. 

I've been using cleaning paper sheets for the last year or so. I was skeptical at first, but it does a great job and goes easy on the stylus.  I had some bad experiences with wet stylus cleaning. Definitely check the manufacturers instructions before trying that. 

http://www.decibelhifi.com.au/linn-green-stylus-cleaning-paper-sheet/

I had no idea these things were kinda expensive.. Got a couple of them for free from my local hifi-shop.

Just ordered clear through RfC UK. That's a sturdy price point at 36€, but I don't see the standard going retail anytime soon, if ever. Even Cardinal is a pain to obtain around here.

What

is

going

on

here?!

8 hours ago, Derek™ said:

Detracts from that optimal resale value, of course.

7 hours ago, Fungi said:

exactly. a bad corner ding can bring the grade of a jacket from NM to VG+. this, of course, lowers the optimal resale value and, in turn, reduces the investment gains we could hope to achieve from our vinyl portfolios.

When the original soundtrack got released they took to some social media outfit that they planned on keeping both the series and film soundtracks available and in print. I wouldn't worry about this selling out anytime soon. 

On 22.1.2017 at 7:31 AM, Fungi said:

do you do album reviews outside of these forums? like on a different blog or something?

I do not, but I'm inclined to take your question as a compliment, so: Thank you!

I approach anything these guys do with an open mind, but Come On Die Young is the sole album of theirs I love. Though I do enjoy most anything on the massive Central Belters box set, all of their other albums offer strong moments, but scarcely enough for me to worship their records as a whole. Happy Songs is the last album I thought was fantastic, after that it's been between good and meh, for the most part.

Last years Atomic was a positive change of pace in my books, so I'd be all for them going further into that direction. I don't really see them returning to their early sound anytime soon, if ever, but I'd rather not see them crawl any deeper into the synthpop cave.

Still, if I were to daydream and play around with a 'build your own Mogwai'-toolbox, they would've went into the direction of some of my favorite songs, like Hugh Dallas or Take Me Somewhere Nice, and become the greatest slowcore-band of all time.