Thatguy

This makes entire sense. Bands change for the better or the worse for any number of reasons or just change to a style you're less interested in. Also, albums cement themselves into your affections for reasons of the time, your age etc when you first heard them, and you move on even if the band doesn't. The brand name/band name is in the end just a signal that you should check this out maybe you'll like it. An example for me would be MASTODON. Loved Blood Mountain and Crack The Sky, then came I don't know how many albums that I was indifferent to. I enjoyed Hushed And Grim, but I never listen to it.

😁 But figjam? Where does that come from? THE SLOW DEATH - The Split Album GAEREA- Mirage MY BLOODY VALENTINE - mbv

Forgotten being the operative word... I was sincerely and honestly agreeing with you, old cock.

He's wrong about so much, but he's right about this.

This is it exactly. I agree that he shouts 'Akercocker' at 8.02, but I'd argue that he is still singing and you need the extra syllable if you're singing. The audience gleefully, clearly and repeatedly shouts Ah-kur-COCK and that's what I'm calling them now and forever. Not that this matters in the least.

Yeah, nah.

Who can say. Here's the thing though. I enjoyed this album so I went back and listened to her earlier stuff, and nup, it did nothing for me. The stars just aligned for this one. Today's highlights OMNIUM GATHERUM - New World Shadows. A fun band. TWELVE FOOT NINJA - Silent Machine. Another fun band. SPIRE - Spire EP. Also fun but in an entirely different way.

I knew you did and set a cunning trap. CABINET are good. I post off centre stuff here because it is part of what I listen to and because we all need our horizons widened sometimes. And fucking with your algorithm fills me with quiet joy. Cate Le Bon is too quiet for driving music and I don't eat fish, although Mrs Thatguy loves it. My main gripe with remasters is that if the remaster is good you feel obliged to pay again for music you already own.

I posted CHORD knowing everyone would hate them. You are all wrong about that but CABINET is actual songs and is warmly recommended. NP - CATE LE BON - Pompeii. There is something really appealing about this album. Non metal alert for those who care.

You got me. The outrage device is ON. And I'll raise you one. CABINET - Decomposing Hexahedronic Seplophobia

Sic gloria transit mundi

I do. But if it's passing itself off as BM I expect riffs. And static is good when I say so and bad when I don't like the song so it's a lovely little concept that I can use as I please. The original Thatguy was quick and harsh to judgement. I have mellowed and will usually say nothing if I just don't like a band because everyone is trying to be loved. Or sometimes it's true and sometimes it isn't. Or it's true when I say it is, or not...😉 Well, let him know Bon is dead. As for Axel, I don't know. I haven't listened to any metal this morning apart from previewing the albums you put up - I'm still going on Does Spring Hide It's Joy. I did say it was VERY LONG. There are slowly evolving melodic structures here so you can't call it static.

Nice bass tone I agree, but static. Where's the riffs? Still, worth a longer listen later. The original Thatguy is back to say - in Phil Gould's voice - no, no, no, no, no. This is just a jam with some exotic instruments chucked in. No fun at all.

Stoically pushing on despite the chatter... DRUNE - Drown. Rather lovely doom. THE GORGE - Mechanical Fiction. Hmm, how to describe this? Rather like Adrian Bellow era King Crimson but more metal and harsh vocals. It's fun, chodes.

You lot just hate fun.

Because it is indeed better.

I thought it was Aker -coke (as in a form of coal). Cock is much more fun. Yep, I've heard the album but I can't say I'm familiar with it. And I never saw Virus as metal band either. Labels, eh. What would splitters like the GG do without them, but in the end it's all music to me.

The vocals are what they are and really suit the music I think. They are sarcastic. And this music is - in a subtle and engaging way - highly dissonant. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF GRAVES - Shrines To Dagon. Listened to the whole album. Yep. AKERCOCKE - Decades OF Devil Worship. Again. This is a really good set. And the audience tells me the band name is pronounced AkerCOCK. What's that fucking e doing at the end then. SCOTT WALKER & SUNN O))) - Soused. This is progressive.

I'm liking this.

You know it when you hear it. This is such a good album. You don't need a goal to go forward. Life is like that. For me progressive - if it means anything - means open to the new, or re-inventing the old. It's about making music that has not been heard before. It's a dumb label though...

That is totally amazing art, but probably in the wrong thread.

I didn't feel I had to and he wouldn't care. I don't eat much meat anyway and I just felt happier following him.

Yeah, baby NP - KALI MALONE (featuring Stephen O'Malley & Lucy Railton) - Does Spring Hide Its Joy. Despite the presence of Stephen O'Malley and despite the presence of distorted guitar this is not metal . It is long (very long) form drone just right for a quiet winter morning, wife and cat in bed, having a think, looking at the hills.

As ever, yes and no. Even a mass produced pie at the footie has its charm (although I haven't had a pie at the footie for a long time as I used to go with my son and he is a vegetarian and I couldn't politely eat a pie sitting next to him and he is now in Europe) but there are good pies available at markets - hipster, yep artisanal 😉pies - and in some bakeries.

Yes. Remembering the music? Classical soloists remember really complex music and jazz, progressive rock and metal musicians do likewise. And if the dudes play the weird stuff differently each time, where's the problem? And it's the pulse, man, the pulse. Once you got the pulse you don't need to count.