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Post by maarts on Apr 21, 2006 18:23:10 GMT -5
I don't think Mr. Beast is the best Mogwai-album by a mile, it is pleasant enough and with the addition of some vocals they try to steer the new album in slightly different waters which I think helped a bit. But outside of a few tracks it's not as immediate as the previous album Happy Songs or the first album. Guess the formula still works though. Been traipsing through some other bands. There's a few that marry the Interpol-type of rock nicely with lengthy passages of build-up, like I Love you But I've Chosen Darkness's tracks Today/We Choose Faces..I could do with a full album of songs like that. The one album I most enjoy in the current post-rock batch and who sound like a crosspollution of Mogwai and My Bloody Valentine is Belong's October Language. It swirls and is like a bout of mist all of a sudden appearing on your path as there's not a definite build-up/climax-process on the various tracks but melodies being swallowed up and coughed out by feedback and noise. Sweet listen!  PS, completely agree with Elysium being a good role model for many post-goth to come! Mourning Sun sees them more gone back in a rockgoth-mould but those slow passages or a track like Last Exit For The Lost just build up so good. |
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Apr 22, 2006 6:51:19 GMT -5
There's a few that marry the Interpol-type of rock nicely with lengthy passages of build-up, like I Love you But I've Chosen Darkness's tracks Today/We Choose Faces..I could do with a full album of songs like that. PS, completely agree with Elysium being a good role model for many post-goth to come! Mourning Sun sees them more gone back in a rockgoth-mould but those slow passages or a track like Last Exit For The Lost just build up so good. Yeah, "Today/We Choose Faces" is so far ahead of anything else on that ILYBICD album it's just ridiculous. I'd like to see them pursue that sound relentlessly, rather than dated stuff like "According to Plan"... every second of that song, even the production and bass sound is exactly 1988, dingy English goth club. Pointless. Thorny - did you ever get hold of Elyzium? |
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Apr 24, 2006 10:22:16 GMT -5
I can't believe you guys actually like "I Love You But I've Chosen Dorkness"..........
those guys just suck.
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 24, 2006 13:25:27 GMT -5
*new mono slowly overtaking the new mogwai*
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 24, 2006 13:26:52 GMT -5
PS, completely agree with Elysium being a good role model for many post-goth to come! Mourning Sun sees them more gone back in a rockgoth-mould but those slow passages or a track like Last Exit For The Lost just build up so good. Yeah, "Today/We Choose Faces" is so far ahead of anything else on that ILYBICD album it's just ridiculous. I'd like to see them pursue that sound relentlessly, rather than dated stuff like "According to Plan"... every second of that song, even the production and bass sound is exactly 1988, dingy English goth club. Pointless. Thorny - did you ever get hold of Elyzium? No, can't say that I have. Thanks for the reminder though ! One of these days . . . . |
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Apr 24, 2006 14:13:10 GMT -5
I'm still not liking the new Mono. I think I will probably take it back soon.
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 24, 2006 16:56:34 GMT -5
yeah, it's taken me a bit longer to get into it, longer than their others.
I still think its a solid effort. . . . slowly growin' on me.
I find it to be . . . very personal music.
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Apr 25, 2006 2:55:34 GMT -5
I can't believe you guys actually like "I Love You But I've Chosen Dorkness".......... I wouldn't go that far. I don't think anyone was raving about them. There's a couple of top songs on that CD, but I admit most of it is disappointing. Aren't they from your neck of the woods, now I think about it? |
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Apr 25, 2006 10:42:54 GMT -5
Yeah, they are from here in good ole Austin. The guys in the band are ace guys, I just don't like their band after one of the guys that started the band left. Their early unrecorded (stupid stupid and unfortunate that it is) stuff is actually really cool and it was an update of the icy Hannett/Factory sound. The new stuff just seems bland comparatively now that he left the band. I forget his name, but they haven't been the same since he left. I personally just haven't been able to get into them for a while now and all of us in Austin love to make fun of their name.
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 25, 2006 11:20:52 GMT -5
heard this band called
The Timeout Drawer
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They sound like bridging the gap between
Isis
&
Mono
kinda.
Good stuff
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Apr 25, 2006 16:04:17 GMT -5
Interesting.....I'll have to check that out.
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 27, 2006 15:02:38 GMT -5
yeah, my friend played part of their disc for me. . . not sure if they have any others, or even where they're from, but I liked what little I heard alright.
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Post by Thorngrub on May 2, 2006 13:31:23 GMT -5
mogwai . . . tonite
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on May 2, 2006 13:32:48 GMT -5
Mogwai on Saturday here......you will have to let me know what you think. Also, in a couple of weeks, we should be getting rocked hard by Mono/Pelican. I was really stoked that Austin got this show. I was a bit worried for a while there.
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Post by sisyphus on May 2, 2006 16:07:49 GMT -5
hooray!!!!
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