ethereal Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 On 2/21/2017 at 7:07 PM, Dave Grohl said: Recording albums to reel is badass. Completely different from cassette tapes. I mean just look at Sound City. I can't even imagine reels becoming a common format like records. That would be so odd. Haha. And probably pretty expensive. But they are pretty badass. I just picked up a reel to reel, is there any major benefit of recording records to tape? (other than ease of playback etc.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrewest Posted March 1, 2017 Author Share Posted March 1, 2017 On 2/27/2017 at 4:51 PM, Derek™ said: Watter > Watered. Glad we're getting a new full length from the former this year. I dig Watter, although it's not something I can listen to often. I actually sold my vinyl copy of their first a while back. But I'll for sure check out new stuff from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrewest Posted March 1, 2017 Author Share Posted March 1, 2017 One of these days, at the very least I'll update that first post with a list of every band mentioned in here. But today is not that day. So I apologize if this band has been mentioned before. I tried doing a search and didn't come up with anything. But after seeing Dunk post about them, I checked out The Best Pessimist. A perfect mix of This Patch of Sky & The American Dollar in my opinion. https://thebestpessimist.bandcamp.com/album/the-half-world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumbo72203 Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 (edited) 7 hours ago, mrewest said: One of these days, at the very least I'll update that first post with a list of every band mentioned in here. But today is not that day. So I apologize if this band has been mentioned before. I tried doing a search and didn't come up with anything. But after seeing Dunk post about them, I checked out The Best Pessimist. A perfect mix of This Patch of Sky & The American Dollar in my opinion. https://thebestpessimist.bandcamp.com/album/the-half-world Track 8 finds them covering "Quiet" by This Will Destroy You lol. But this is very enjoyable stuff! Edited March 2, 2017 by Gumbo72203 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vool Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 5 hours ago, Gumbo72203 said: Track 8 finds them covering "Quiet" by This Will Destroy You lol. Haha shit, you're right... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumbo72203 Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 PG.LOST AT DUNK!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!! 6 hours ago, Sasan said: Haha shit, you're right... lol right? It's literally the same song. And here I thought the opening of "Sleeper" by Pray For Sound was too on-the-nose... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrewest Posted March 2, 2017 Author Share Posted March 2, 2017 13 hours ago, Gumbo72203 said: Track 8 finds them covering "Quiet" by This Will Destroy You lol. But this is very enjoyable stuff! Damn, Gumbo good ear haha. I didn't even pick up on that. But I literally just listened to both songs back to back. No wonder I enjoyed that song so much! It's funny because apparently you aren't the first to pick up on that. https://www.reddit.com/r/postrock/comments/3ag9ku/the_best_pessimist_the_halfworld_cover_of_twdys/ I wonder if anyone has ever asked The Best Pessimist about that. Hopefully they acknowledge it somewhere that it's essentially a cover. I'll admit, it's a really good cover and definitely has a few tweaks to it that I enjoy. But no way they can claim that as an original song. This reminds me of something interesting I always wanted another opinion on. Back when we all did our ratings of albums we thought were "10s", "9s", "8s", etc, I picked this album as my "1" rating citing that it was 100% a Cloudkicker ripoff that the artist didn't acknowledge at all. I know this because a review was posted here when it came out (http://postrockstar.com/2014/04/28/surrounded-by-infantry-signals-noises/) and it's what led me to check out. I had made a critical post about it being a ripoff on that page (which I can see the comments are no longer there) and the artist chimed in saying "He was influenced by CK but believed his songs were original", which was the biggest load of crap I had ever heard. If anyone that is familiar enough with Cloudkicker to pick up on the similarities is bored, check out this album and let me know what you think... https://surroundedbyinfantry.bandcamp.com/album/signals-noises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pemulis Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 16 hours ago, mrewest said: This reminds me of something interesting I always wanted another opinion on. Back when we all did our ratings of albums we thought were "10s", "9s", "8s", etc, I picked this album as my "1" rating citing that it was 100% a Cloudkicker ripoff that the artist didn't acknowledge at all. I know this because a review was posted here when it came out (http://postrockstar.com/2014/04/28/surrounded-by-infantry-signals-noises/) and it's what led me to check out. I had made a critical post about it being a ripoff on that page (which I can see the comments are no longer there) and the artist chimed in saying "He was influenced by CK but believed his songs were original", which was the biggest load of crap I had ever heard. If anyone that is familiar enough with Cloudkicker to pick up on the similarities is bored, check out this album and let me know what you think... https://surroundedbyinfantry.bandcamp.com/album/signals-noises Holy shit. I didn't even make it that far, but the tone is eerily similar, the bass comes in just like CK, the artists uses the same type of picking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumbo72203 Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 22 hours ago, mrewest said: Damn, Gumbo good ear haha. I didn't even pick up on that. But I literally just listened to both songs back to back. No wonder I enjoyed that song so much! It's funny because apparently you aren't the first to pick up on that. https://www.reddit.com/r/postrock/comments/3ag9ku/the_best_pessimist_the_halfworld_cover_of_twdys/ I wonder if anyone has ever asked The Best Pessimist about that. Hopefully they acknowledge it somewhere that it's essentially a cover. I'll admit, it's a really good cover and definitely has a few tweaks to it that I enjoy. But no way they can claim that as an original song. This reminds me of something interesting I always wanted another opinion on. Back when we all did our ratings of albums we thought were "10s", "9s", "8s", etc, I picked this album as my "1" rating citing that it was 100% a Cloudkicker ripoff that the artist didn't acknowledge at all. I know this because a review was posted here when it came out (http://postrockstar.com/2014/04/28/surrounded-by-infantry-signals-noises/) and it's what led me to check out. I had made a critical post about it being a ripoff on that page (which I can see the comments are no longer there) and the artist chimed in saying "He was influenced by CK but believed his songs were original", which was the biggest load of crap I had ever heard. If anyone that is familiar enough with Cloudkicker to pick up on the similarities is bored, check out this album and let me know what you think... https://surroundedbyinfantry.bandcamp.com/album/signals-noises Haha yeah man, someone on the Youtube page mentioned it so i skipped to that song and was like "woahhhhh" haha. It's got a different character/atmosphere in some parts, but it's literally the same song. I've been meaning to post about this, because I keep coming up with more instances of post-rock bands stealing licks from other people. Viva Belgrado has one song that has the same chords as "A Gallant Gentleman" by We Lost The Sea, as well as one song that uses what is essentially the main melody of "Loft" by Caspian. Pray For Sound also has a song on Dreamer that is very similar to "Loft" as well. Derek posted that one piece about Lights & Motion stealing an EITS lick... I had others too, I wish I had written them all down because I've been noticing a ton more lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumbo72203 Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 In other news..... We Lost The Sea is apparently re-pressing everything! TBD on dates and whatnot, but I asked them about whether they'll still have copies of Crimea on vinyl at Dunk, because the mentioned to someone else that they would, but they only have 7 copies left on Bandcamp currently for that. They said they'll announce it all when it's ready, but this is good news!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drds89 Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 I hope We Lost The Sea still has the White longsleeve come birthday time; they have the black at 1000 Arms, but I have enough black band T's. I love sleeve lettering. Either that of CoL SATH longsleeve from their site looks really cool. Evan has to report how The End Of The Ocean/Nothing concert is/was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrewest Posted March 6, 2017 Author Share Posted March 6, 2017 (edited) End of the Ocean just finished up. Here comes the controversy... They are as good as any band live. Including Caspian. They are fucking perfect. It's astounding how much better they are live than recorded. It's honestly like listening to a completely different band. They played 5 songs. 3 from Pacific/Altlantic, one from In Excelsis, 1 new one. The new one was fantastic. Pretty standard fare from them, but it's so good live. Wall of sound rating: 100. I hope to God their new album can come closer to capturing their live sound. Edited March 6, 2017 by mrewest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek™ Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Are they releasing a full-length this year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrewest Posted March 6, 2017 Author Share Posted March 6, 2017 1 hour ago, Derek™ said: Are they releasing a full-length this year? I can only assume it'll be a full length and not another EP. Before playing the new track they said "This is from our upcoming album." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumbo72203 Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 17 hours ago, mrewest said: End of the Ocean just finished up. Here comes the controversy... They are as good as any band live. Including Caspian. They are fucking perfect. It's astounding how much better they are live than recorded. It's honestly like listening to a completely different band. They played 5 songs. 3 from Pacific/Altlantic, one from In Excelsis, 1 new one. The new one was fantastic. Pretty standard fare from them, but it's so good live. Wall of sound rating: 100. I hope to God their new album can come closer to capturing their live sound. This doesn't surprise me at all.... the live videos i've watched show them to have much more dynamic range than evidenced in their studio recordings. Also, did they have merch? I saw a picture with new shirts... this band should be huge, if they would just put more time into it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrewest Posted March 6, 2017 Author Share Posted March 6, 2017 Yeah they had those shirts they posted & I think CDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumbo72203 Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 7 hours ago, mrewest said: Yeah they had those shirts they posted & I think CDs. wait WHAT? CDs?! If they have copies of In Excelsis still.... but there's nothing online! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vool Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 The only point of contact I had with Post-Rock lately was the RUSSIAN CIRCLES gig ~ 10 days ago! This gig proved again that they are the one and only PR-band I need! I love them so much! pemulis, coreystevens88 and fizio59 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrewest Posted March 7, 2017 Author Share Posted March 7, 2017 10 hours ago, Gumbo72203 said: wait WHAT? CDs?! If they have copies of In Excelsis still.... but there's nothing online! I don't 100% remember if they did, but I'm pretty sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrewest Posted March 7, 2017 Author Share Posted March 7, 2017 If you wanted a cinematic post-rock version of Audrey Fall, the guitarist from that band released a solo album. http://george-will.bandcamp.com/album/dawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumbo72203 Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 15 minutes ago, mrewest said: If you wanted a cinematic post-rock version of Audrey Fall, the guitarist from that band released a solo album. http://george-will.bandcamp.com/album/dawn Sweet, will check this out for sure. Audrey Fall is some good stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumbo72203 Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 5 hours ago, mrewest said: I don't 100% remember if they did, but I'm pretty sure. They did! They just put them back up on Bandcamp, plus a bunch of shirts!!!!!!!! In Excelsis and Pacific - Atlantic are in stock on CD if anybody wants them, as well as 4 different t-shirts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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abovetheearth Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 FINALLY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumbo72203 Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 1 hour ago, mrewest said: Yup Dan told me this would happen this year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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