just got a ticket to this, anyone else on it? or is anyone going to part 1 in October?
i am mainly going cos i wanna see Holding Patterns (3 of the guys from Crash of Rhinos, if you don’t know them then get out of this thread and go listen to both their albums IMMEDIATELY)
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Small Pond presents PART II of ENJOY Sugoi, a new experimental rock festival in London.
really like this latest awakebutstillinbed album (what a fucking awful name though). Reminds me of Rainer Maria (not as good though!) from the first time round but with a bit more grit. Real nice.
first song sounds… alright. i quite like parts of it but am really not sure about that ‘money, money’ refrain… i think they basically haven’t made a very good album since Ugly Organ tbh
still, got Domestica on now and it’s amazing how they made two 10/10 albums in a row (with a 10/10 in between). what a run.
it’s got some good stuff on it, but even at the time, when I was a fucking huge fan, i remember i was almost forcing myself to like it more than i actually did. this is the best song from that era and it didn’t even make the album:
Yeah I agree with that, Kasher’s been hit and miss for a while, I think the last essential record he’s made was Album of the Year. All the other stuff has been fine but forgettable tbh.
What’s the 10/10 in between? (I assume the others are Domestica and Ugly Organ).
I’ve just put Such Blinding Stars for Staving Eyes on. Despite having them for years I’ve never given the first two albums loads of attention but revisiting it this is great.
yeah i agree - i absolutely love Tim, meeting/interviewing him and Ted once was one of my life highlights, and I will always check out his work, but his solo stuff has always left me feeling a bit flat, and yeah Album Of The Year was definitely the last great Good Life record.
Burst & Bloom is 10/10 for me as well - perfect introduction of Gretta (bring back Gretta!)
there’s so much good stuff pre-Domestica - i remember downloading as many sample mp3s (in 96kbps ha) off the old Saddle Creek website when i was a teenager and this song blew my mind
Still the best gig I’ve ever been to was Cursive on the Ugly Organ tour, with Gretta. It was at the Cathouse (@Lo-Pan) and there were about 12 people there, ffs.
you’ve just reminded me that Grammatics did a cover of Notes In His Pocket (where they change ‘the Underwood’ to ‘the Brudenell’) but there’s no evidence of it online anymore
EDIT: oh wait it’s tacked on to the end of the album on spotify for some reason!
