#69

Jeez both Yellow House and Shields are amazing! Half Gate off Shields is so fucking good

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#70

Sleeping Ute through to Yet Again - one of the great opening salvos

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#71

yeah, i’ve noticed that. like they’re recording the drums live, then processing the fuck out of them to make them sound digitized. very weird.

#73

My copy only arrived a couple of days ago (the packaging is beautiful) so I’ve only just started getting in to it.

It’s great isn’t it? Really properly great, right up there with the best albums of the year so far. I personally really rate the production, the odd half-synthesised sound really works when cranked on a decent pair of speakers. Can’t stop humming the riff to Mourning Sound.

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#74

the drums change a bit after the first couple of songs so that’s cool. i wonder if it’s something to do with mixing for modern listening habits, like phone/laptop speakers? there’s a lot of EDM tracks where the drums are mixed to sound hard as fuck so they’ll crack through a mix on lower quality speakers.

#75

Not sold so far some decent songs with a little bit of wildness but not yet sold. Dont really notice the drums but it just generally sounds less organic and with less left turns and tangents. But then again ive only listened to it a couple of rimes and most Grizzly Bear records take repeated listens before you get it and pick up on there particularities and very real craft. I love the way all the band members are pretty active in the song making and have very different pulls.

I know Chris Taylor produced it and it clearly has his touches in the more jammy moments but its all a little too controlled and I would like to see his influence a little more strongly in the songs.

#76

Yeah completely switched on this one. Its pretty brilliant

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#77

Selling two tickets to for the Manchester gig, can no longer go :frowning:

Would sell the pair for £45 if anyone’s interested (£10 below face value). Would also sell the tickets individually if that’s preferred.

#78

Got a couple of tickets for the intimate warm up show at Kingston College next Sunday if anyone’s interested - can’t make it anymore. Selling face value which was about £12 per head and it’s sold out!

#79

Kingston show tonight was lovely, only played for about an hour (10 songs ish) but new stuff sounded great and they nailed every harmony and it was surprisingly bassy loud. Nothing from Yellow House but drew pretty evenly from Shields and Painted Ruins. Expect it’ll be a bit more varied when they do a full set.

#80

Can’t have been more than 250 or so tonight at Bexhill (no venue available in Brighton, apparently), pretty much 2/3 empty. Not sure we’ll see them back in the UK, real shame.

#81

Yeah their Berlin show on Thursday has gone to a smaller venue than previously planned too. Very strange, the record is excellent

#82

I think it might be a combination of them taking too much time off between albums and tickets being nearly £30, saying that the Glasgow gig was pretty much full and I imagine they’ll at least play a few UK/European festivals next summer.

#83

This was my exact rationale. £30 was just a tad too much for me and I figured I’d see them next summer at a festival.

#84

did anyone go to brixton? sad to hear they’re not filling some of the venues. i remember seeing them at the barbican and it selling out in like 20 minutes.

think they’d suit a tour of slightly more unusual venues and slightly lower ticket prices. even the de la warr ticket price put me off a bit, as well as having to schlep it to bexhill. don’t think they’d struggle to fill the brighton dome

#85

Played the corn Exchange a dew years ago and even that wasn’t full, so I doubt they could fill the dome next door.

#86

That’s a shame. Glasgow was pretty much full as Benny said. They managed to do two nights in Dublin as well.

They’ll be back (so long as they don’t split up… hope not!) but maybe it’ll be smaller venues which can only be a good thing for the punter. Not so much for the band but they’re credible and selling well, they’ll be alright.

#87

Yes, I really meant headline dates. I expect you’re right re festivals and I suspect one of them will almost certainly be Primavera.

#88

£30 seems about right to me in current climate?

#89

I’m not saying it was too much in general, just too much for me.