Volcano the Bear - C/D? S/D?

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Pitchfork rated their debut album 2.9 and their second one 7.0. So 'Five Hundred Boy Piano' should get 11.1, right?

― jot eff pe, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

to make up for the major screw up on the first two?

― msp, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

what do they sound like?? is there a This Heat influence? vocals, no vocals, arty-farty or poppy?

there's a cd in the store that i always pick up (because i've heard kids on ILX talking about it) but put it back because i don't have enough info.

― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

if there is a this heat influence, it's in their absolute resolve to not do anything in a correct musical fashion in any consistent way. vtb kind of sounds like every euro/UK art/prog/kraut/rock style all rolled up into a mutant, surrealist ball; steven stapleton putting out an album or two of theirs should clue you in as to their sound. key references: HNAS, NWW, af ursin, damenbart, some say bablicon.

i didn't much care for "500 boy piano," but i seem to be in the minority on that - my personal favorite is the 12" (yak folks y'are) on pickled egg, which has some absolutely wonderful cod-robert wyatt vocals on it.

website. i should point out that the available downloads are much calmer than their early albums.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i just listened to "yak folks" again and note that one of the songs sounds like a wobbly cover of this heat's "not drowning". for what it's worth.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

downloaded those tracks last night and, like you said, they were fairly uneventful. but reading about them made me more interested. i was afraid they were going to be just another 'indie/post-rock band'

― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

twenty years pass...

wow

https://volcanothebear.bandcamp.com/album/amateur-shakes

(this band is great and I love them, obv)

― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 2 March 2023 06:30 (two years ago)

I remember liking The One Burned Ma and Classic Erasmus Fusion when I was into free folk

― Nabozo, Thursday, 2 March 2023 08:20 (two years ago)

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