the Apartments

"help" is my favourite track of theirs but another you might know is the track "mr somewhere" that was covered by this mortal coil.

albums: "the evening visits", "a life full of farewells", "drift" and "apart". most should still be obtainable from Hot Records. there was a good number of years between the first and subsequent releases.

apparently Peter Walsh has retired from music..

My old roommate (an Aussie, now living in the US) was in the original version of the Apartments.

been on a heavy apartments kick of late, after falling in love with them all over again having seen one of the reunion shows last year (which was nothing short of incredible, PMW's voice sounding stronger than on any of the recordings)..

the album/song titles almost tell the whole story on their own. there's a resignation that drips from every word that i find irresistable.

i hope against hope that he has another album (or a few) in him..

fuckin brisbane. why oh why do all the best aussie songwriters come from there

C: seeing an Apartments thread at the top of New Answers
D: it's not early announcement of a new album.
C: the eventual appearance of a new album. Per his MySpace page & linked interviews, he's continued to write songs - just hopehopehoping he releases them.

Did you pick up Fete Foraine, the live album? I don't see it listed in your mentions above, but it's a must-have. Beautiful, sparser versions of "Not Every Clown Can Be in the Circus", "Knowing You Were Loved", "End of Some Fear", etc.

i haven't heard that, no - it's certainly something i'd be keen on hearing..

also on a brisbane tip: just picked up the frontier scouts' "when daddy blows his top" 45, the most robert forster-influenced song i've ever heard in my life

sunset hotel is an amazing song! plus he produced heidi berry!

different peter walsh :)

well then he should produce peter walsh!

that could work actually

been revisiting the later albums (farewells/apart) over the last couple of days.. i'm surprised at how weak the 'apart' album is as a whole. 'to live for' is up with his best work, but the rest of the tracks are okay at best, and tracks like 'cheerleader', which feel like a very misguided experiment, are just straight-up bad.

i had hoped that spending a bit more time with it would help but it hasn't. such a shame, considering 'drift' and 'farewells' are close to perfect.

So's "The Evening Visits..."

New Apartments music is teased on the Myspace site.

New track "Black Ribbons", PMW with Natasha Penot, was available here but link's now defunct.

Life is good.

black ribbons (spring & autumn mixes) now out as a single on chapter music..

Man, I love seeing this thread pop up new, and that rush of hope that a new album's imminent. Thanks for making my morning.

Beautiful song. Got it last year on .mp3 when it was briefly available as a download. Will be buying this single post haste.

saw them last night in stripped-down mode. easily the best show this year, and possibly one of my favourite shows ever

his voice sounded amazing and it was wall-to-wall hits. opened with 'all you wanted' which had me in raptures

^ wow color me jealous!

^ ditto. So glad he's back in the game.

Any news on an album?

from a couple of recent interviews it sounds like an album is definitely being planned, but still being written so somewhat of a way off

some video from the night

http://vimeo.com/30983194

new album in the can

http://www.theapartments-music.com/ - No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal coming in 2015. The cover art is ace.

stoked

very much so

The first album, _The Evening Visits..._, is getting a 2xLP/CD reissue at Captured Tracks. Pre-order now. Out March 31st.

Tracklist
LP 1 — The Evening Visits… And Stays for Years – 1. Sunset Hotel 2. Mr. Somewhere 3. What’s the Morning For? 4. All the Birthdays 5. Great Fool 6. Lazarus, Lazarus 7. Cannot Tell the Days Apart 8. Speechless with Tuesday 9. The Black Road Shines (On Rainy Nights)

LP 2 — The Last Look is a Stare — 1. Help 2. Nobody Like You 3. Refugee 4. All You Wanted 5. Fever Elsewhere 6. Sunset Hotel 7. What’s the Morning For? 8. All the Birthdays (Demo) 9. Great Fool (Demo) 10. The Black Road Shines (On Rainy Nights) (Demo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1F1V9gwg6M

The small personal details about his son's life, unlived, paired with the black and white images, are shredding.

_No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal_ is better than my high expectations expected.

I had no idea! Song's great; his voice sounds remarkably unchanged.

this is better than drift. and drift for me is really a kind of auditive madeleine. when i listened to it first in 1994 we were on our first holiday tour in les landes. more than 20 years ago. it's incredible how time flies.

I checked out 'No Song...' out of curiosity and think it's great. Haven't properly heard any of the older stuff (just some clips on eMusic). Any recommendations?

Love the cover art on it.

No Song...the most devastatingly sad yet beautiful album I've ever listened to. Trouble is, it's almost too painful to listen to!

Missed last year's request for recommendations. YMMV, but A Life Full of Farewells is my go-to, then either Apart or Drift, then The Evening Visits...

FYI, Mr. Walsh has a show next month (October 16) at the Make Out Room in San Francisco.

From his FB page: Stateside friends. I'll be doing a solo set in San Francisco, Sunday 16th October, my first show in the US playing Apartments songs. The club's called the Make Out Room—a beautiful room. San Francisco's Sea Dramas (drama was once my North, my South, my East, my West etc.) are playing at 8pm, I'll be on at 9pm. Doors 7pm. (Not the band The Doors—just plain wooden doors).

Fete Foraine, the live album, is now being reissued via Microcultures. Remastered and a lyric sheet not in the original version.

Drift is also recieving the reissue/remaster love at Talitres, with three bonus tracks added to the release.

PMW's also been playing shows with Amanda Brown and another gent. Lots of activity.

https://talitres.bandcamp.com/album/seven-songs

The second song "Thank You For Making Me Beg" is such a beauty. They still have it in them. What a great underappreciated band.

I just realized that the album is from 2013. Somehow I missed it completely.

Promise of a 14-track live film, which is good news. Haven't seen anything beyond this Oct 15th teaser, so release format? region?

From the YouTube teaser link, Out mid-december 2018. 14 live tracks, recorded live in 'Le Sonic', Lyon, France during the Apartments autumn tour, october, 12th, 2018. Thanks To Peter, Natasha & Antoine. a 'FD' live film, directed by Sébastien Faits-Divers.

Now a live double album coming, limited to 1000 copies. http://talitres.com/en/news/the-apartments-live-at-l-ubu.html

Hoping it'll be a digital release after the fact, since per a FB post, it will be released for Record Store Day/Disquaire Day 2019—Saturday April 13th, in France, UK, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, Austria AND Australia.

USA and Canadian record stores after RSD.

Line Up : Antoine Chaperon (guitar), Eliot Fish (bass, voice), Fabien Tessier (piano, percussion, organ, voice), Gaël Riteau (trumpet, voice), Natasha Penot (keyboard, voice, tambourine), Nick Allum (drums), Peter Milton Walsh (voice, guitar).

Track list: Side 1: 1 On Every Corner - 2 No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal - 3 The House That We Once Lived In | Side 2: 1 Looking For Another Town - 2 Black Ribbons - 3 Swap Places | Side 3: 1 Please, Don’t Say Remember - 2 Things You’ll Keep - 3 Sunset Hotel - 4 The Goodbye Train – Side 4: 1 All You Wanted - 2 Knowing You Were Loved - 3 Everything is Given to Be Taken Away

Seems like 1000 copies will go fast.

thanks for the info. that sounds very intriguing. 1000 copies is indeed not a lot.

A bright spot in a dismal year - new Apartments album, In and Out of the Light, announced for September 18th release. Talitres order page here.

*****
The Apartments “In and Out of the Light”: 1. Pocketful of Sunshine – 2. Write Your Way Out of Town – 3. Where You Used to Be – 4. What’s Beauty to Do – 5. Butterfly Kiss – 6. We Talked Through Till Dawn – 7. I Don’t Give a Fuck About You Anymore – 8. The Fading Light

Album available for pre-order from the Talitres web store or via Bandcamp (pre-orders to start on Bandcamp, July 3rd).

Yellow opaque vinyl, limited edition, 500 units (gatefold, 1LP, with digital download code) | Black vinyl (gatefold, 1LP, woth digital download code) | CD digipack 2 panels with booklet | Digital

10 % OFF during the pre-order campaign, except yellow opaque limited edition. Ships on or around September 10th, 2020.

I am very excited to hear "I Don't Give a Fuck About You Anymore".

"Pocketful of Sunshine" is out and of course totally lovely

...which was all the encouragement I needed to preorder the LP.

had never heard Apart before but man that is a really really good record

new album is solid, not quite the revelation parts of No Song were but lovely and engaging throughout.

Good to hear! My copy's inbound from Tailtres now.

Mine showed up a couple days before release, which was a nice surprise!

It's kind of wild that this is only the sixth album of new Apartments originals.

This is really good - musically pretty much on a par with ‘No Spell’ (imho) but maybe not quite the same lyrical/emotional punch - but I don’t think that’s a criticism or issue at all.

Agreed on the solidness. While I wish PMW was more prolific, this was worth the wait. His voice is right up with Paul Buchanan for me, as far as instant transport to a particular mood. "hold on...no feeling is final" in "Write Your Way Out of Town", eyes welling. The trumpet in "The Fading Light", "Pocketful of Sunshine", and "We Talked Through Till Dawn" is lovely. This'll sync up nicely with A Girl Called Eddy on the year-end list.

His voice is right up with Paul Buchanan for me, as far as instant transport to a particular mood.

Ha, was just thinking the new album is as close as chamber pop gets to The Blue Nile. So pretty.

maybe 10-15 years I saw the apartments live and I think it's the only show that I've thought suffered from having too many good songs

like the usual set has peaks and troughs but this was just blinder after blinder, I felt really quite emotionally overwhelmed afterwards

new LP pressing of my favorite Apartments album

http://shop.talitres.com/products/692543-a-life-full-of-farewells

I underrated the new album - hitting me really hard tonight. Quiet, graceful and beautifully low key compared to the more demonstrative emotional register of the previous album.

FYI, Mr. Walsh has a show next month (October 16) at the Make Out Room in San Francisco.

funnily enough he has another show coming up there in February now. Not sure if he's touring as well but I'd guess so

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peter-milton-walsh-apartmentsaus-mark-eitzel-american-music-club-tickets-1105989106189

A mere $23.18 to see Mark Eitzel and Peter Milton Walsh together for an early show (7:30 / 8:30, respectively).

Mark's manager said this will be PMW's only US show. Maybe he's coming here on holiday?

* at the Make Out Room in San Francisco, Feb 22, 2025.