Downward Is Heavenward @ 19/NEW HUM ALBUM OUT NOW

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Postby manvstrees » Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:11 am

fillet show:
1 detassler
2 hortense
3 spacerock
4 pocket
5 formaldehyde
6 i like it
7 lip saga
8 staring at the sun
9 kind of knight
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Postby manvstrees » Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:43 am

ypaa:
1 little dipper
2 stars
3 why i like the robins
4 i'd like your hair long
5 suicide machine
6 the pod
7 songs of farewell and departure
8 i hate it too
9 the very old man

the pod was usually in top spot i'm not sure what's happening to me
look how low i hate it too is, this fuckin album

like if someone had a list and i hate it too was at the top i'd feel like yeah, that's legit
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Postby manvstrees » Thu Jun 25, 2020 1:14 am

dih:
1 dreamboat
2 isle of the cheetah
3 ms lazarus
4 afternoon with the axolotis
5 apollo
6 scientists
7 green to me
8 if you are to bloom
9 comin home
10 inuit promise
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Postby Honk For Dracula » Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:06 am

find it sorta nice that the preferred single is Slip Into You where the true successor to Stars one-hit-wonder singledom is Cloud City. that would be a crazy late 90s hit
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Postby emotional fascism » Thu Jun 25, 2020 8:19 am

HUM also had top tier (though limited) b-sides

Boy with Stick absolutely crushes.

Aphids and Puppets make a real nice companion to DiH.
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Postby neuartillery » Thu Jun 25, 2020 8:23 am

emotional fascism wrote:HUM also had top tier (though limited) b-sides

Boy with Stick absolutely crushes.

Aphids and Puppets make a real nice companion to DiH.


Love that all of these songs were bonus tracks on the DIH 2LP

Not sure what was worse, though: "Baby, Baby" or the UK techno remixes of "Stars"
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Postby thrang » Thu Jun 25, 2020 8:43 am

Really hoping they have a couple b-sides for this. I get why they didn’t put Inklings on the album but I’ve been waiting 20 years for a studio version.
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Postby brent » Thu Jun 25, 2020 9:20 am

Eyeball Kid wrote:I so fucking love "In the Den". Good album! In spite of that one nine-minute stretch.Toggle Spoiler

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Postby lostinthemall » Thu Jun 25, 2020 9:45 am

naturemorte wrote:yeah I've posted about it before but hum and shiner at a house show on the downward tour is definitely a top 10 show experience. recently found and digitized the tapes from both sets, I'll try to get them up though they're not amazing quality


yes please

i've always been pretty meh on Hum, so I won't harsh the buzz of y'all on this on album, I'm happy for you

but listen to the new Shiner album too - Bandcamp - Spotify



ps, Inlet is on Spotify now
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Postby neuartillery » Thu Jun 25, 2020 9:48 am

For my money this is the best song from the new Shiner (which as a whole I enjoy, but the new Hum is better)

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Postby antoine » Thu Jun 25, 2020 10:32 am

I think "desert rambler" is pretty dope actually. I like the chill middle section and the stonery outro. Would prob sound awesome live. Never got into shiner but I loved the last life and times album and feel bad that nobody probably heard it.
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Postby lostinthemall » Thu Jun 25, 2020 11:58 am

I was very guilty of dismissing TLAT up until about No One Loves You Like I Do. The last self titled album is pretty great, particularly "I Am The Wedding Cake," definitely no one heard it. Was a bit worried about a new Shiner album as obviously TLAT is not worlds different, but funnily enough my favorite songs are the longer ones that are closer to TLAT. Whatever, all hail Allen Epley.


The riffs on "Desert Rambler" are pretty great, the verse vocals are straight up Al Cisneros. Shame about the quiet middle section though.
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Postby Eyeball Kid » Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:04 pm

neuartillery wrote:
emotional fascism wrote:HUM also had top tier (though limited) b-sides

Boy with Stick absolutely crushes.

Aphids and Puppets make a real nice companion to DiH.


Love that all of these songs were bonus tracks on the DIH 2LP

It doesn't say anything on the Bandcamp page, but how nice would it be if the Inlet double-LP was formatted similarly, with the album proper on the first three sides and some bonus stuff on the fourth side? Dreaming, perhaps, since this band doesn't really leave anything in the vaults.
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Postby neuartillery » Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:20 pm

I don't know if they'd want to fuck around with having the last three songs on one side. I know a big part of the delay for DIH was Matt being happy with a test pressing, and given how full all of these songs are sonically, having room to spread out makes sense.

I'm curious if they did a studio version of "Inklings." For a long time I would've been happy with a single of that and "Cloud City."
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Postby antoine » Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:24 pm

lostintheair wrote:I was very guilty of dismissing TLAT up until about No One Loves You Like I Do. The last self titled album is pretty great, particularly "I Am The Wedding Cake," definitely no one heard it. Was a bit worried about a new Shiner album as obviously TLAT is not worlds different, but funnily enough my favorite songs are the longer ones that are closer to TLAT. Whatever, all hail Allen Epley.

"I Am The Wedding Cake" rips for sure. Really enjoy this performance of it too

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Postby hadlex » Thu Jun 25, 2020 1:11 pm

Boy with stick is the song that most reminds of deftones - esp. something like minerva
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Postby neuartillery » Thu Jun 25, 2020 1:37 pm

I'm essentially an Epley stan so I'll vouch for all of their records (to varying degrees).

Here's possibly my favorite TLAT song:



Flat End of the Earth was very much a dry run. Different bassist and drummer. I like the songs but the aesthetic isn't there yet
Suburban Hymns is a sentimental favorite. It's varied, no consistent style, but has a bunch of my favorites. "My Last Hostage" is muscular shoegaze (i.e., what they'd do moving forward), "Coat of Arms" is weirdly reminiscent of War-era U2, "Muscle Cars" is peak Sad Epley, "Mea Culpa" is a great extended rocker, "A Chorus of Crickets" is fantastic.
The Magician is a five-song EP with more shoegaze (a couple of very MBV-ish songs lead it off).
Tragic Boogie is their Big Production album and it took me a while to get into some of the songs. I played it a few nights ago and it's consistently good.
No One Loves You Like I Do is the closest thing to their live sets. Has some of their best songs and some of the least memorable.
Lost Bees is my favorite of their records. "We Are" / "King of the Bees" is about as Shiner as TLAT gets.
The S/T is very good throughout, I'm partial to the opener and closer.
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Postby grace cathedral park » Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:32 pm

i enjoy this album. IM GONNA LISTEN TO SOME MOTHERFUCKIN HUM.
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Postby Shotfrog » Fri Jun 26, 2020 8:42 am

Personally I like how loud it is.
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Postby speakers » Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:14 am

i love this lp

did not know i wanted a shoegaze/post-rock/metal album
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Postby emotional fascism » Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:20 pm

Gotdamn just getting through this with earbuds for the first time. It’s even better than I thought.
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Postby i am rich » Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:10 pm

anybody else been steadying their ass against stuff lately
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Postby i am rich » Fri Jun 26, 2020 8:58 pm

im in cloud city baby
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Postby manvstrees » Fri Jun 26, 2020 10:44 pm

dont even give one shit about the choice her spare colors make tonight
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Postby Eyeball Kid » Sat Jun 27, 2020 1:26 pm

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Eyeball Kid wrote:Coming to the conclusion the only thing needing to be trimmed is "Desert Rambler". And not just its running time needs triming; I'd cut the whole thing out. So many other bands do the slow, sludgy thing better.


This is bonkers to me. The song isn’t that dissimilar to afternoon with the axolotls. I could maybe see trimming the length but it grooves so hard.

Currently listening to Downward Is Heavenward for the first time since Inlet came out and I really don't get the comparison between these two songs.
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Postby antoine » Sat Jun 27, 2020 2:00 pm

Afternoon with the axolotls is such a sick track
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Postby antoine » Sat Jun 27, 2020 2:04 pm

I do miss the drumming style on dih, more organic and in the pocket with the music. Drums on the new one feel a bit stiff.
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Postby scramble » Mon Jun 29, 2020 12:26 pm

desert rambler is among the album’s best, especially the breathing space in the middle

could scrap the summoning easily tho
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Postby antoine » Mon Jun 29, 2020 12:28 pm

scramble wrote:desert rambler is among the album’s best, especially the breathing space in the middle

Yeah I think this is my fav track on this rn. Sorry eyeball kid.
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Postby Eyeball Kid » Mon Jun 29, 2020 12:32 pm

"Desert Rambler" sucks I WILL NOT BACK DOWN FROM THIS
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