folk implosion - c or d

I guess it was once of the first two things here: http://www.midheaven.com/fi/discogr.html

"fall into november" is so good. i've always liked duos that you can listen to and at least kinda tell who wrote which halves of the songs, and marvel at how they were stuck together

esp. given how great John Davis's solo stuff was

Listening to an advance stream of his latest (first in sixteen years!) and just echoing this. Here's the promo guff:

Davis charts a new course with Spare Parts, right down to the cover art, which was done by Boston area painter and photographer Walter Crump.

No less than eight musicians and three engineers lend their talents to the ten tracks and 65+ minutes of this double-LP. (Be warned: the songs are long.) Appearing most frequently are drummer and percussionist Jose Medales (Breeders, 1939 Ensemble, Portland Ore’s Revival Drum Shop) and cellist and violin player Megan Siebe (Anniversaire, Simon Joyner and The Ghosts). Siebe also appears as a member of a trio of backing vocalists that includes Laura Burhenn (Mynabirds, Bright Eyes,The Postal Service) and Sarah Gleason. Simon Joyner produced the strings and backing vocals, and contributes backing vocals himself to the track “Blood Feud.” Mike Friedman plays lap steel on “You Won’t Cry” and “Southwest,” and Chris Deden plays drums on “Upon a Train.” The record was mixed by Brandon Eggleston (Mountain Goats, Swans, Scout Niblet, tUnE-yArDs, Modest Mouse).

Spare Parts mines an acoustic singer-songwriter vein while avoiding a stylistic rut by veering back and forth between artistic formulas in a way that recalls Folk Implosion’s Dare to Be Surprised . Influences include the textural percussion work of Han Bennik and Andrew Cyrille, the electronic moonscapes of Stockhausen, the drawn-out ballardry of Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat” and the spooky strings and reclusion of Scott Walker. Cue it up—Shrimper promises you won’t have to wait fifteen years for the followup this time.

just coming here to say i'm really excited to hear john's new record. dare to be surprised is by far my favorite folk implosion album (one of my favorite albums, period).

I totally want to hear this now

New single: https://thefolkimplosion.bandcamp.com/album/feel-it-if-you-feel-it-2

“The duo will spend the rest of 2022 working on a full length LP.”

New reissues:

Kids soundtrack stuff + extras: https://www.dominomusic.com/releases/the-folk-implosion/music-for-kids/exclusive-limited-2xlp

Take a Look Inside: https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/take-a-look-inside

Review of the Kids-era stuff that does a nice job of fitting it into an “ahead of its time” context: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-folk-implosion-music-for-kids/

i'll never lose the memory of watching moby showcase videos he liked during some mtv show and he gave his intro to "natural one"

love or hate him - i can always know fucking moby introduced me into the harmony->barlow->sebadoh->etc. world

When this EP came out, I wrote a full-page review in a college paper; detailing the band’s backstory, the Kids thing, etc. I remember sitting at lunch with a group of people when it was published, and someone was like, “How do you know so much about… the ‘Folk Implosion’?”

Listening back to this material now... I didn't appreciate at the time how "Daddy Never Understood" is basically a straight-up Sonic Youth homage.

Why is stuff from Dare To Be Suprised on the new Kids album>

The Pfork review makes it sound like they were recorded at the same sessions, I’m not sure about that, but they were done with Wally Gagel and have a similar “sound” so I imagine that’s why. It is kind of strange to do that… just made me want to listen to the full album.

(A quick search confirms the later tracks were recorded at a different studio… maybe when Pfork calls them “songs that would find their proper home on later releases” and “rhythm-forward tracks (…) that would later surface on 1997’s Dare to Be Surprised,” it means they were originally written at the Kids session? Idk, sounds dubious; the liner notes of the actual release may make it more clear.)

If someone had played me "Raise the Bells" and told me that was a Broadcast outtake I would've 100% believed them.

absolutely! or boards of canada intro.

dare to be surprised is such a fall classic

If someone had played me "Raise the Bells" and told me that was a Broadcast outtake I would've 100% believed them.

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, September 10, 2023 9:36 AM (one week ago)

absolutely! or boards of canada intro.

― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Sunday, September 10, 2023 12:37 PM (one week ago)

Agreed, but there are tons of moments like that all over the early Sebadoh/Sentridoh tapes (hell, even the intro to the last song on You're Living All Over Me):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I0NvgKZnTk

(and the outro too I guess)