#208

Never listened to this guy before but just stuck the album on while I was painting and shivered (and painted badly) for fortyfive minutes. It’s really beautiful - organic but controlled, and all of it seems necessary.

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#209

This came yesterday and is, as always, absolutely beautiful and lovingly made.

The track works reasonably well across three side too. Mind blown by what seems to be an original title for it too! :exploding_head:

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#210

So is the d side blank? Etched? Still dont really get the need for more than 1 disc…not likecit was recorded on high end gear anyway

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#211

Yeah, think the only justification is if it splits better into three than two

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#212

Exactly this! The two points that it splits make sense, but I’ll let you folks discover those points for yourselves. Don’t get your hopes up for side D.

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#213

Side D should have been “The Microphones in the Year 3000”

when I sang I took my shirt off in the yard I meant it and I still mean it but now I live underwater

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#214

How have you got your hands on this so soon! I’m sure my shipping thing said September 25th! Stuck in my head cos its also Sufjan day.

#215

I ordered a few bits directly from his label, but Norman are getting it in from Sufjan day (the greatest day every five years :raised_hands:)

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#216

got mine from band camp, hope that means he still sends it out and I get the full packaging

#217

(recorded with vocals like on Pre-Human Ideas)

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#218

My vinyl just arrived. This sounds so much better than my digital copy. The vocals sound much clearer for a start. Bloody lovely.

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#219

Just Lostwithiel) listening to it on vinyl myself for the first time. Such detail and intricacy to that opening guitar passage - if you told me it was some Steve Reich experiment I would absolutely have believed it.

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#220

My copy doesn’t have the hand/smoke illustration thing. Did I miss out on a special version or have I just got some sort of bog standard version of the album?

#221

it is just the fancy packing tape elverum uses on the cardboard box rather than part of the record, did you get it from a shop or direct?

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#222

Ah okay! Yeah, record shop. So no fancy tape for me…

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#223

he used to paint the address on the box too, they were quite something, just had a label on it this time (dunno if this was because I bought via bandcamp, but it had the fancy tape)

#224

Just listened to it again this evening and I’m now utterly blown away. Album of the year so far.

It really interests me that, on the surface, it has so much in common with Kozelek’s numberless modern releases and yet where his are increasingly banal in their autobiographical detail, Elvrum’s music is full of beauty and poetry even though cut from the same cloth in many ways.

My other observation sounds ridiculous even me to, but I can’t get over how it’s just one song. You think it must be a whole bunch of songs smooshed together to make one massive track but, no, it’s one song. And it’s the right length for itself.

Fuck.

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#225

i’m really curious as to the logistics of how he wrote planned and recorded it, were bits spliced together or did he just play it all through in one go and then go back to add layers, how does that entwined duel guitar strums work, did he have the sound of them together in his mind when he wrote it and then split it into two or is it just the result of two independent stemming patterns coming together, what is that really extreme tremolo sound can’t imagine he is one for midi syncing but the timing works really well, so many questions

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#226

I think if you search for his reddit ama he talked about the logistics of it there

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#227

upthread someone posted him talking about exactly this, kozelek’s influence and then how he took it in a different direction

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