whoa

Pretty sure you and my IRL friend would get along very well because we’re basically this haha.   The tree trunk to our musical connection is the same but branches go in far different directions typically.
 
I can understand if someone can’t get into Grivo.  Feels like an all or nothing type of band.  Those warm moody tones hit the spot so perfectly for me so I can gobble it all up.  But if it doesn’t click for you then there’s basically zero variety in their two albums.  

Tried that new Grivo out before the praise in this thread kicked in, and couldn’t wait for it to be over.  I’m really not seeing the appeal, which also seems to add up with my consistently, nearly inverted tastes to mrewest.  You can almost set a watch by it.

<song nowhere near finished, but band doing a quiet moment>
WOOOOOO YEEAAHHH WOOOOOOOOOOO FUCK YEAH BAND I LOVE YOU WOOOOO

Make it more obvious y'all listened to the first song or two 😏

<song nowhere near finished, but band doing a quiet moment>
WOOOOOO YEEAAHHH WOOOOOOOOOOO FUCK YEAH BAND I LOVE YOU WOOOOO

<song nowhere near finished, but band doing a quiet moment>
WOOOOOO YEEAAHHH WOOOOOOOOOOO FUCK YEAH BAND I LOVE YOU WOOOOO

@Derek™ trying to avoid his 7th play in less than a week

First play through: Thought I'd play this whilst I worked and ended up not doing any work and just had to sit there listening to this. It's brilliant. Like 10/10 AOTY brilliant and fuck me it's February and let's call it that now. If by listening to the singles you imagined this to be the more accessible BC,NR album, then yes you're right. I also think this is more successful, possibly commercially, but musically it's does everything I like being adventurous and huge, but not ever vast or sprawling to make it a boring hour.
I'm glad that there is more beauty within Ants From Up There than on For The First Time; on FTFT, you had to sweat it out during the sections of blood boiling rage and intensity, it was more challenging because you'd have some uncompromising ferocity that was your sole and immediate attention. It makes FTFT a difficult album for me to spin, I really need to be in the mood to listen to it because it gets in my headspace and I just end up sitting there, helpless. Ants From Up There is NOT like that, it's more gentle and pure (probably because it seems to be lyrically more relationship focussed, than themes on aspiring uppermiddle-class british cuntery), but that BC,NR energy is focussed differently into being bigger and better than FTFT.
We’re all working on ourselves,
And we’re praying that the rest don’t mind how much we’ve changed.
So if you see me looking strange with a fresh style
I'm still not feeling that great.
I hope Isaac gets the time he needs to get into a creative space again, either with BC,NR or elsewhere, but I look forward to whatever both parties put out (maybe something together in the future). But I should get back to work now. Fuck.
 
EDIT: I think today is bandcamp friday so you might as well grab this from their bandcamp today https://blackcountrynewroad.bandcamp.com/album/ants-from-up-there

Long live What.cd

Looks like repress of their earlier works, including a first time pressing of the Fiery Works are incoming: 
 
https://imgur.com/a/4By7TEr

This one's important to me as that record got me into the band, so will be all over a Ten Stories CE. Especially since my copy has seen a lot of action, wouldn't mind another copy to give it a break. 

First play through: Thought I'd play this whilst I worked and ended up not doing any work and just had to sit there listening to this. It's brilliant. Like 10/10 AOTY brilliant and fuck me it's February and let's call it that now. If by listening to the singles you imagined this to be the more accessible BC,NR album, then yes you're right. I also think this is more successful, possibly commercially, but musically it's does everything I like being adventurous and huge, but not ever vast or sprawling to make it a boring hour.
I'm glad that there is more beauty within Ants From Up There than on For The First Time; on FTFT, you had to sweat it out during the sections of blood boiling rage and intensity, it was more challenging because you'd have some uncompromising ferocity that was your sole and immediate attention. It makes FTFT a difficult album for me to spin, I really need to be in the mood to listen to it because it gets in my headspace and I just end up sitting there, helpless. Ants From Up There is NOT like that, it's more gentle and pure (probably because it seems to be lyrically more relationship focussed, than themes on aspiring uppermiddle-class british cuntery), but that BC,NR energy is focussed differently into being bigger and better than FTFT.
We’re all working on ourselves,
And we’re praying that the rest don’t mind how much we’ve changed.
So if you see me looking strange with a fresh style
I'm still not feeling that great.
I hope Isaac gets the time he needs to get into a creative space again, either with BC,NR or elsewhere, but I look forward to whatever both parties put out (maybe something together in the future). But I should get back to work now. Fuck.
 
EDIT: I think today is bandcamp friday so you might as well grab this from their bandcamp today https://blackcountrynewroad.bandcamp.com/album/ants-from-up-there

damn. so much Ten Stories erasure in this thread

Totally. I love what they were going for with the Pale Horses deluxe packaging, but it came out terrible. It doesn't hold it's shape, and sections came unglued. It looks like a sad mess on the shelf compared to the other releases.

I don’t trust myself or my neurotic shelf preferences enough to pass on an [Untitled] box done in the same fashion as these last ones.  But I’m way, way more excited about a Pale Horses box.  That record still does it for me and I never really felt wowed by the deluxe foldout jacket we ended up with.

Kind of want them just to do a white on white belly band for the existing box.

- Jesse Lacey, 2017

Catch is up too. https://mewithoutyou.com/collections/featured/products/catch-for-us-the-foxes-collectors-edition

Brother, Sister collector's is back up. Looks like a new run, but same variants as before. Shipping "later this year".
https://mewithoutyou.com/collections/featured/products/brother-sister-collectors-edition

I hope it’s expensive records that seem exclusive followed by better versions in cheaper configurations later.
 
 

Isn’t this a bit contradictory? 
 
Limit of 2 per customer. 
-Indefinite pressing quantity 
 
 

Hes doing a solo gig at the less popular 'While You're Still Young' fest
 

I regret nothing

I'm not gonna judge you for listening to Brand New or anything but actually giving the guy money is pretty left field at this point

Warn all the English kids you meet about the American adult back in the states