Sightings

(also mentioned on a few dozen threads) a better freedom-from 7" is the violent ramp debut... neg.app.kill

is either really better than the other? (a new, new sightings lp is coming soon yes? seems like i heard something about that.)
m.

the sightings grate a little more. they're like a more go-go garage band to me... so they have their pop edge too, but the hooks are big and nasty and razor sharp. you really have to be in for a little more of a beating with their record.

and i'd be careful about the use of "grind core"... that has stylistic baggage and both s and lb step away from those elements... the double bass drum, the death growl, the heavy geetar, and the associative lineage. (iow, they play to a different crowd.)

noise.

m.

And as for these distros--where? how?

april 2003....pg 48.
m.

I don't se THAT MUCH of a Lightning Bolt comparison; especially in their attitudes, LB are cute n' cuddly and Sightings are just bad ass motherfuckers. They both rule of course. Also, MINDFLAYER IS TOURING SOON (leaving this week I think, if they haven't left already) so check their webpage for that--it's Brian C from tha bolt and Matt Brinkman from Forcefield and his solo projects under different names (Mystery Brinkman, Meerk Puffy, etc.) So go hit that up.

hahahahhahahahahah ... their marketing division has done its job.

I'm looking forward to it. I want them to play Providence sometime soon, the bastards.

uh, see Lightning Bolt review in May MOJO

V

There's a Sightings live radio set located here if anyone cares to check it out:
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/4685

-Brian (who has nothing to do with the Sightings publicity machine, just a fan)

that sightings live set fucking KILLS.

What's the deal with weird/super-tiny foreign labels releasing small runs of material by U.S. Bands? Like, who the hell in Belgium thought to put out a Nautical Almanac/Meerk Puffy release? I feel so out of the loop and un-hip.

They need to play in Olneyville, goddamnit. I hear they used to play frequently at the Fort, but since I've been into them they haven't been here at all.

That blows.

we shall!

perhaps i'll get michigan haters

The one track I heard from the new one seems to be headed in the same direction.

If you want a taste of the more restrained Sightings, try to find an MP3 of the song "Chili Dog." It's got a weird/creepy groove to it.

i think i like the mindflayer record better than either, but that's probably just my lb fanboyishness coming to the fore

here is a photo from the reverse angle showing the photographer of the above pictures. he's wearing the t-shirt with the camera bag.

Any good live lately?

I just interviewed these guys:

http://voguingtodanzig.blogspot.com/2008/10/friday-interview-mark-morgan-richard.html#links

Good read! Thanks.

I must get my act together and enjoy this band more.

They're a band I can't listen to any old time, but when I'm in the mood they're just devastating.

has there really been no discussion of "through the panama"?! it's like seeing someone naked for the first time. someone you have no desire to see naked, maybe, but it's... different.

I absolutely love the way the guitar sounds on the self titled album. Alright granted, you can barely hear shit of the songs but that fucked treble skin scrape sound is RAD. Through The Panama sounds awfully murky to my ears tbh, considering its meant to be their sound in a kind of unseen clarity. i call that 'SCHHZZKKKK' is greater than 'GHHHRRRMMMP'

it's weird because it's probably less disorienting to people who don't listen to sightings, but having heard all but one of their albums it's very, very disorienting to me.

michigan haters and arrived in gold are my overall faves w/r/t their sound. have you heard absolutes, cause there's some scrapin' there.

I've only heard through the panama, end times and absolutes and absolutes is my favourite of those, probably.

Although listening it to it right now with this hangover perhaps isn't the wisest.

I have not heard absolutes, although a mysterious unmarked CD-R i found inside a different box has the track 'Canadian Money' on it, which i understand comes from that album? You might be right about the scrapin' because it fukken rages!
Aufgehoben are a group that are doing it for me atm re: scrapes. oh god they are so awesome. Actually, i'll spell it 'skrapes' in the interest of distinction.
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Canadian money is track 5 on absolutes, yeah.

damn that new track is good. it's like a hi-fi take on dead c

Where is it from? Sounds like a very good thing.

new album out later this year. sneak peak here, kudos whiney

Sightings interview with Kid Millions on the Brah Records site

Wait, here it is

like that new song

Oh hey, thanks a bunch. Wish more bands were like this.

<3 this band

like, the better and crazier this band gets the less people pay attention. or am i just imagining that?

Nah, it's a bummer. They deserve some righteous enthusiasm fer sure. Definitely gonna buy the new one when it comes out. This new track is very cool, really like the progression of it. Sound is great on it too, love the way the percussive attack shifts throughout the song. Great interview with Kid, too. Love those interviews on the Brah site.

I was just listening to "Michigan Haters" a few days ago and wondering what they were up to these days. Ask and ye shall receive.

don't stop
make it pop
sightings blow my speakers up

Last night I was we were having a conversation about these guys. They are totally a "musician's band." Like, for the most part, their only fans are other bands, it seems. I had an opportunity to set up a show for them in town on this next go round, but none of the clubs will touch it (shitty clubs in this town, tbh) and I don't think that the DIY spaces are equipped for their technical necessities. I certainly couldn't engineer their set.

But hearing this new stuff is making me wish I'd put in some extra effort.

these guys rule live and I've seen them a couple times now but I've never checked out a record. pretty dumb.

4/16 Providence, RI ASS200

lol

New sightings is on Jagjaguwar?! Whoa.

Well, Brah. They did it at the Ocropolis.

i've only heard 'Tar and Pine' from the new one, but i've had it playing on loop on several occasions since I downloaded it. awesome groove.

leaked ya'll

holy shit "sky above mud below"

i don't think i've been this excited since the last track on "arrived in gold."

i listened to this album the other day while watching a dozen police break some dude out of his car then arrest him in the middle of the street-it was awesome!

this album is brilliant, i'm really starting to crack into it. these must be the most gorgeous guitar tones in noise rock ever, some moments where he's just peeling off layer after layer AAAAAHHHHHHHH. plus it's really groovy, they're so in control of every throb and pulse.

i saw them live last monday and this is probably the uncoolest opinion but it was maybe too much of a mindfuck? i like how even in the depth of freakout they're weirdly contiguous, the bass is kind of tucked away on the record, it's there but just sort of rumbling away weirdly locked in with the drums. anyways the live mix had the bass loud as fuck and at some points i just felt like i was watching three people play three different songs at the same time and i think i busted my brain trying to make sense of it all.

the world would be a nicer place if a yamatsuka eye remix of "sky above mud below" existed

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/04/sightings_new_album_qa.php
They're BAAAACK

Man, I loved the last record. "sky above mud below" was so fucking good that I return to it the most, I hope they included a similarly triumphant rager like it somewhere on the new one.

sightings rules.
i wish i still had all my sightings records :(

Cause I am listening to it RIGHT NOW I must once again say: "Sky Above Mud Below" is the damn best. It is like an anthem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wR7Yo45pzI

Final record coming out on Dais soon. Damn good song from it, but at this point they are all golden:

https://soundcloud.com/daisrecords/sightings-1982

Anyone heard Silk Purse? Curious as to how far it deviates from Sightings since both Mark and Richard are in the fold.

Everybody in this band is a damn champ on their instrument. What a great group sound.

Full album available for streaming! Have at it: http://www.factmag.com/2015/06/04/noise-rock-greats-sightings-go-down-swinging-on-their-final-album-stream-amusers-and-puzzlers/

This is great.

Also, "Syllabus of Errors" is a fantastic name for a song by Sightings. Going out in primo fashion.

wait what, they split up?