#21

I thought it might have passed muster as an atmospheric opener to an album, but it’s track eight. There’s a lot of sub-two minute tracks on the album listing that Apple Music has as well, so I’d guess they’re the interlude-y bits. Hmmmm.

Nice tshirt on the preorder bundle though.

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#22

That’s a worry :frowning:

#23

Still never seen them live, wish I heard years back when I was more in tune with their releases.

#24

Oh man, you’ve got to try and see them when you can. They’re the absolute fucking best. It’ll be my 15th time seeing them when they tour this record.

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#25

Not to be a normy but do they still play Retreat! Retreat! usually?

#26

Aye. One of the best things about them is that, despite the fact they clearly don’t really enjoy doing so, they’ll still play the stuff they know the crowd would be disappointed if they didn’t.

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#27

Aww though

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#28

Yeah, I know. I get that impulse but it always irks me when artists just refuse to do it or make a big show of how reluctant they are about it.

They literally did a Fall of Math in it’s entirety show for the fans even though they were all like “not sure why you all want this but here you go” about it (and they did a second set of new stuff each night of it)

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#29

That’s really good of them. I guess their attitude though must just be that they see more value in their new stuff over their old stuff, and are surprised when other people don’t agree?

Must be how most artists feel tbh, otherwise how would you ever bother to keep going if you felt like you peaked with the first 3 songs on your first album.

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#30

Yeah, for sure. It must be a bit rubbish when you share something new that you’re excited and proud of and invigorated by for people to then be like “PLAY RADIO PROTECTOR!!!”

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#31

Last time they played in Edinburgh (I think, anyway) was at the Liquid Rooms in 2013ish. It was a Sunday night, a 10pm curfew and they had two tour supports, so their headline set ended up being about 55 minutes.

It was allllllright but not a patch on when they were touring around 2010. The material from WWEA was proper amazing in a live setting.

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#32

That’s so shan haha (you’re right, I checked last.fm)

Will make the effort this time round though, I’ve fallen out of love with “post-rock” but I should really see them given how unique they are and how obsessed I was for a good few years there.

#33

Think the test tour for the We Were Exploding Anyway was my favourite run.

There was a powercut at Dingwalls just as Go Complex was about to crescendo and I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a live moment that left me with more anticipation than that

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#34

Dunno if you ever went to Truck but they did a set in the Barn that year that was pretty much mind blowing. I’d fallen out with them over that third album but that set totally reaffirmed why I used to go see them all the time.

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#35

I fucking LOVE 65dos!

That said, the last time I saw them live they played Decomp Theory on laptops and it was one of the most boring, tedious gigs I’ve ever been to. Loads of people walked out. It was really bad.

I adore them, but I don’t think their output is for me anymore :sob:

#36

Small Ideas is great!

#37

I didn’t. I think that record was probably my peak gig-going time of life and they were so fucking tight for it all. Absolutely euphoric stuff.

The thing with 65dos was as soon as I heard them for the first time I just thought “this is literally what music in my head that I don’t have the talent or inclination to actually make sounds like, what a relief!”. I think WWEA was the pinnacle of that feeling.

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#38

(they weren’t proper 65 gigs and they were very eager to point that out tbf to them)

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#39

I only saw them say it was “a new kind of 65dos”, was it only a temporary thing?

#40

Yeah. It was a side-project (with no Simon iirc) that was all algorithmically generated stuff with no two nights ever being the same. Interesting on paper, less good in execution for me.

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