Gumbo72203

Mock whatever you want dude, I just wanted to come home from a long fucking day and talk about music.  And now I can't.  Because the threads are gone.  They don't even come up in the search function.  
 
So....  whatever.  Fuck you.  I'm just frustrated.  Why are my threads gone?  

What the fuck did you assholes do now?!?!  All my posted-in content is fucking gone!!!!  Ugh this is so gay, stop fucking with shit man.  Now I have to go find these damn threads AGAIN.  I just got done with a fucking 11-hour fucking shift, I don't want to do any more god damn work.  

Eh, to my friends I would.  Haha
 
But i needed to get my frustration out.  I just want to come home and talk about music.  It's what I look forward to at the end of the day.  It's my religion, my release.  And then to come back from a grueling 11-hour shift on my feet all day, to have it all gone....  after you guys changed the whole format only weeks ago, yeah I was pissed.  Eat a dick, guy!  haha

Mock whatever you want dude, I just wanted to come home from a long fucking day and talk about music.  And now I can't.  Because the threads are gone.  They don't even come up in the search function.  
 
So....  whatever.  Fuck you.  I'm just frustrated.  Why are my threads gone?  

What the fuck did you assholes do now?!?!  All my posted-in content is fucking gone!!!!  Ugh this is so gay, stop fucking with shit man.  Now I have to go find these damn threads AGAIN.  I just got done with a fucking 11-hour fucking shift, I don't want to do any more god damn work.  

What the fuck did you assholes do now?!?!  All my posted-in content is fucking gone!!!!  Ugh this is so gay, stop fucking with shit man.  Now I have to go find these damn threads AGAIN.  I just got done with a fucking 11-hour fucking shift, I don't want to do any more god damn work.  

Mock whatever you want dude, I just wanted to come home from a long fucking day and talk about music.  And now I can't.  Because the threads are gone.  They don't even come up in the search function.  
 
So....  whatever.  Fuck you.  I'm just frustrated.  Why are my threads gone?  

So will all the old content come back up in there?  Because it shows literally nothing from before 8:00 tonight when I logged on after getting home from work.  I was able to find my post-rock thread thank god, but nothing else.  
 
It's just extremely aggravating to come home and have shit changed AGAIN.  

Eh, to my friends I would.  Haha
 
But i needed to get my frustration out.  I just want to come home and talk about music.  It's what I look forward to at the end of the day.  It's my religion, my release.  And then to come back from a grueling 11-hour shift on my feet all day, to have it all gone....  after you guys changed the whole format only weeks ago, yeah I was pissed.  Eat a dick, guy!  haha

Mock whatever you want dude, I just wanted to come home from a long fucking day and talk about music.  And now I can't.  Because the threads are gone.  They don't even come up in the search function.  
 
So....  whatever.  Fuck you.  I'm just frustrated.  Why are my threads gone?  

What the fuck did you assholes do now?!?!  All my posted-in content is fucking gone!!!!  Ugh this is so gay, stop fucking with shit man.  Now I have to go find these damn threads AGAIN.  I just got done with a fucking 11-hour fucking shift, I don't want to do any more god damn work.  

So will all the old content come back up in there?  Because it shows literally nothing from before 8:00 tonight when I logged on after getting home from work.  I was able to find my post-rock thread thank god, but nothing else.  
 
It's just extremely aggravating to come home and have shit changed AGAIN.  

Mock whatever you want dude, I just wanted to come home from a long fucking day and talk about music.  And now I can't.  Because the threads are gone.  They don't even come up in the search function.  
 
So....  whatever.  Fuck you.  I'm just frustrated.  Why are my threads gone?  

What the fuck did you assholes do now?!?!  All my posted-in content is fucking gone!!!!  Ugh this is so gay, stop fucking with shit man.  Now I have to go find these damn threads AGAIN.  I just got done with a fucking 11-hour fucking shift, I don't want to do any more god damn work.  

Really wish I knew what those Rosetta represses look like.  Not really enthralled by the basic opaque coloring.....

What the fuck did you assholes do now?!?!  All my posted-in content is fucking gone!!!!  Ugh this is so gay, stop fucking with shit man.  Now I have to go find these damn threads AGAIN.  I just got done with a fucking 11-hour fucking shift, I don't want to do any more god damn work.  

What the fuck did you assholes do now?!?!  All my posted-in content is fucking gone!!!!  Ugh this is so gay, stop fucking with shit man.  Now I have to go find these damn threads AGAIN.  I just got done with a fucking 11-hour fucking shift, I don't want to do any more god damn work.  

Mock whatever you want dude, I just wanted to come home from a long fucking day and talk about music.  And now I can't.  Because the threads are gone.  They don't even come up in the search function.  
 
So....  whatever.  Fuck you.  I'm just frustrated.  Why are my threads gone?  

What the fuck did you assholes do now?!?!  All my posted-in content is fucking gone!!!!  Ugh this is so gay, stop fucking with shit man.  Now I have to go find these damn threads AGAIN.  I just got done with a fucking 11-hour fucking shift, I don't want to do any more god damn work.  

What the fuck did you assholes do now?!?!  All my posted-in content is fucking gone!!!!  Ugh this is so gay, stop fucking with shit man.  Now I have to go find these damn threads AGAIN.  I just got done with a fucking 11-hour fucking shift, I don't want to do any more god damn work.  

What the fuck did you assholes do now?!?!  All my posted-in content is fucking gone!!!!  Ugh this is so gay, stop fucking with shit man.  Now I have to go find these damn threads AGAIN.  I just got done with a fucking 11-hour fucking shift, I don't want to do any more god damn work.  

My postive recent experiences:
Earache Records - Got a not-great looking copy of the new Cult of Luna "Somewhere Along The Highway" album. Lots of scratches, no play affected though. Phil mailed me a new one, free of charge. SUPER AWESOME.
Deathwish - the new Bossk record "Audio Noir" has now come twice to me scratched, in the Mint Green /700 variant. Caleb has offered a 3rd replacement. SUPER AWESOME label.
IndieMerch - Got my copy of the yellow "Mariner" variant by Cult of Luna, and they packaged it like shit. Album plays fine, but came with seamsplits in all the inner sleeves. They've sent me a new one, free of charge. Very awesome customer service.
Hobbledehoy Records - Bought a bunch of Fourteen Nights At Sea stuff, and Tom threw in a free copy of This Will Destroy You "Another Language" and an Arrows album I don't know, for free. Dude is awesome.

Yeah they only played 1 new song at Colossal Weekend, but their set was amazing.  What struck me most is how 1777 has morphed on stage...  that song is a POWERHOUSE now.  On record, it's the very melodic, gentle kind of rollicking post-rock song, but when they play it live, it's got so much power behind it.  Very cool to see, and completely unexpected.  They basically turn it into a rocker.  
Yeah man I literally have none of them.  My favorite right now is "What We All Come To Need" followed by "Forever Becoming" and "Australasia".  I also really like the Ataraxie EP or whatever it's called.  
 
The problem, though, is that the live version of "Immutable Dusk" is MAGNITUDES better than the studio version.  I wish they did a live album, because that song live is absolutely incredible.  The middle section is so much better than what they did in the studio, you don't really get the dynamics on the album of the way that song really moves.  They get SO quiet and gentle with everything, but on the record all the guitar overdubs are like right in your face at almost full-volume.  Also, they definitely jam that part out live.  It was way longer than the studio version.  
 
What do you have?  And what are we talking, price-wise?     Not that I need to add more things to my queue....  I've already got so many other albums and records waiting to get bought, and I've spent so much money on music lately as well.  
 
Here's my haul from the trip:   (non-obvious stuff: TWDY EU tour shirt top right, CD at bottom is Town Portal - The Occident as well as their setlist.  The other setlist is from Penguinsmeat, a cool electronic dancey post-rock band from Russian who I love.  I tried SO hard to get the Cult of Luna setlist from Pustervik but it was out of reach.)
 
The tour poster is fucking sick, though.  Really high quality.  For some reason this picture didn't come out super clear.  
 

So.  It's going to take me a while probably to put this all in words.  I can't even...   just, man.  It was just incredible.  You guys really have no idea.  This trip was priceless.
 
PG.Lost playing "Vultures" live is probably the greatest fucking thing in the post-rock world.  There's so many thoughts swimming around in my head, it's hard to start somewhere and get it all out.  The sound at Pustervik was perfect, probably the best post-rock sound I've ever heard.  Crisp, loud, powerful, and clear.  Brilliant.  When they got to the first "chorus" in "Vultures", I fucking lost it.  I was crying my eyes out.  You guys have no idea how powerful that experience was.  The song ended, and I literally had fucking tears streaming down my fucking face.  I was a mess.  
 
Of note:  NEW PG.LOST album in September.  They played 2 new songs this run.  "New Terrain" and "Kan Du Sluta" which means Can You Stop.  They're going to probably come to the US in the fall for the new album.  They didn't repress "It's Not Me, It's You!" because they've lost the artwork.  I forgot to ask them what the band name means.  They're SUPER fucking nice guys, I talked to them at the merch table both nights I saw them.  They're going to keep "Yes I Am" in their repertoire but bumped it because of the new tunes.  They want to press the "Yes I Am" EP to vinyl someday, maybe as bonus tracks with some other album.  
 
And oh my god, Cult of Luna.  Wow.  That was probably one of the most powerful live experiences I've ever had.  That sound is just fucking huge, and crushing.  The Gothenburg set was over 2 hours long, easily.  Check out the setlist:
 
The Sweep
Light Chaser
Owlwood
Echoes (WITH THE ALBUM INTRO!!!!!!  BECAUSE I ASKED JOHANNES!!!!)
I: The Weapon
Waiting For You
Marching To The Heartbeats
Finland
Back to Chapel Town
And With Her Came The Birds
Thirtyfour
Dim  (DIM!!!!  FUCKING DIM!!!!)
Dark City, Dead Man
 
 
But I just got home, and I am so fucking jetlagged and sleep-deprived, I need to not do things.  But I had to come post.  I have a picture of my haul, too.  I'll figure out how to get that uploaded soon.  
 
 
But seriously guys, if PG.Lost ever comes within 500 miles of you here, you have to go.  You have to.  I'll check back in more tomorrow.  You guys are beautiful.  

The 2 new PG.Lost songs are really fucking good, and very different in some ways.  
 
"New Terrain" is basically what it sounds like, the song starts much in the same way as Terrain with the bass kicking the song off with a slightly overdriven riff.  That's about as much as I remember from that tune.  Kan Du Sluta takes a kind of Caspian approach, and begins with some electronic drum pad loops and beats, and then goes to classic PG.Lost territory.  The song is somewhat similar to Jura, in that it's very upbeat and very powerful; this song builds to a massive intense climax.  It has some more of the angelic wordless vocals that Vultures does also.
 
PG.Lost setlist both nights:
 
Jura, Vultures, New Terrain, Still Alright (!!!!!), Kan Du Sluta, Terrain.
 
I can't believe they played Still Alright.  I had asked them about that tune on Facebook, so I wonder if that had something to do with it.  It's very different to experience that song live versus on record, because it's very slow, and takes a long time to build, but it's very powerful.  It stood in stark contrast to the rest of their set, which were all high-octane heaven-storming rockers.  But it shows you how powerful that type of post-rock really can be.  By the time the song ends, everything is shaking and you're swept up in the tornado, so-to-speak.  
 
The end of Terrain is especially intense live, that served as a good closer.  I super regret not taking any videos, but my phone was being super wonky all weekend.  Traveling so much and not having enough time to charge it full every day left me somewhat limited in usage.  I have a bunch of pictures though I want to get uploaded so you guys can see.  The other brilliant thing about the festival is how many people from all over the world came, and how we all were connecting simply over music.  I stayed at Urban House (which I can't recommend enough) and in my dorm were 3 19-year old kids who traveled from Serbia to see the shows.  I also was hosted by a dude from Sweden who graciously offered to travel with me and let me crash at his house, as well as pick me up from the fucking airport.  Strangers coming together from all over the world, just for music.  It was so beautiful, so much positive energy.  I had posted on Facebook about a group meet up, and we found 2 other people traveling to the festival by themselves, one from Germany and one from UK.  So we formed our own little crew for the weekend, never having met before.  And we just got to geek out on music the whole weekend.  
 
The other cool thing is how much Isis was played as the house music between bands, heh.  The last track before Cult of Luna came on Saturday was "Hall of the Dead."  and as soon as the track ended, the curtains came back and Cult of Luna played all over SATH.  They also showed the "DIY in the 21st Century" documentary about Isis/Hydra Head, Neurot and Constellation records, which was sick.  It was so joyous to be able to just sink in the whole weekend and talk with other people about Isis, If These Trees Could Talk, Jakob, etc etc.  
 
 
The annoying thing, though, is that now I have to fucking buy Pelican records.  God damnit.  I didn't need another band to love!   That said, I'll give a run-down of everything probably later today and give you all a play-by-play because there was so much fucking music, and it was all amazing.