Velocity Girl - C/D?

Simpatico took a while to cotton to but once I got used to it I loved it. The last album I listened to once and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Then Simpatico > Copacetic >>>>> the third one.

I sold the 3rd one pretty quickly, I couldn't get into it at all.

yeah they were pretty good on the early slumberland stuff, but after that they never did much for me

Copacetic was pretty unlistenable.

"The tracks from the "I Don't Care If You Go" single are also of great interest. They feature the original Velocity Girl line-up, which sported Bridget Cross (later of Unrest fame) on bass and vocals, plus college friends Berny and John on bass and drums. It's super stuff, and easily recognizable as laying the groundwork for the classic tunes that followed. "

Shannon came through about a year ago touring solo material, but I missed her.

My main memories of seeing them live are that (a) Sarah Shannon seemed like huge tall, and (b) a bunch of kids from the Chicago suburbs had decided to have an alternate prom at their show, so there were teenagers in formalwear all over. Sarah kept telling stories about her awkward prom date with a friend, right up until someone else in the band (can't remember which) ran up to the mic and cut in: "Hold on, I didn't do that."

Upcoming collection of Free Design remixes and covers has Sarah Shannon pairing with Styrofoam to do "I Found Love."

Nice call! Thinking about that now, yeah that is Bridget Cross! She sounds quite a bit different than when she was in Unrest (to these ears).

i honestly don't understand the animosity towards the third album.

Having listened to more during transit today, I'm thinking that Gilded Stars & Zealous Hearts is probably aging better than the sometimes leaden and lumbering Copacetic. Odd that I got little mileage out of it at the time...

Copacetic and the 6 Song EP are nice, but I don't spend a lot of time with them.

dear freakin' lord sarah shannon's solo stuff is dire

true dat.

as much as i love this band (which is a lot) i have to say that copacetic is one of the most dreadful sounding albums i own. whoever mixed it should be ashamed.

(i know bob weston recorded it but mixing credits are noticeably absent..)

Copacetic was horribly recorded though the songs were pretty strong. One of Bob Weston's earliest production jobs. He's gotten a lot better.

i note my thoughts are not original

nobody mixed it?

certainly sounds that way

i've mellowed on that front though

sounds okay to me

from wikipedia, "The band started as the duo of Kelly Riles and guitarist/singer Archie Moore (also of Black Tambourine) in 1989 (the two having met at university), initially going under the name The Gotterdemocrats, becoming Velocity Girl with the addition of Brian Nelson (ex-Big Jesus Trashcan, also of Black Tambourine"

oh, that explains why I wanted to listen to Velocity Girl's Copacetic after listening to Black Tambourine.

Also, the production on this album seems pretty great. It's kind of a big part of the appeal for me. If my memory of 20 years ago is correct, its when the production got "better" that I didn't like them nearly as much.

"sorry again" on the 'better' produced simpatico is an all-time jam

Probably more appropriate in an Unrest thread, but anyway this whole interview, and especially the end, is kind of intense. I wonder how many Vice readers had any idea who she was in the first place. I love Copacetic, but yes the production is often horrible. It varies from song to song, as I listen now. Bridget had a band called The Cloud People in 2014? I liked the Maybe It's Reno album a lot, haven't heard Cloud People (yet).

https://www.vice.com/read/where-bridget-cross-go-v15n5

Lots of talk about the mixing of the debut album on this thread. Apparently, the band agreed:

https://www.stereogum.com/2267592/velocity-girl-take-another-shot-at-their-debut-album-after-being-disappointed-by-its-mix-for-over-30-years/music/

Listening to the remixed version of 'Audrey's Eyes', it is better. However, it seems the problem may have been how the album was recorded, not the mix or mastering. Nevertheless, I am looking forward to this.

And said new remixed version out Friday, and I have a review up on Qobuz:

https://www.qobuz.com/au-en/album/ultracopacetic-copacetic-remixed-and-expanded-velocity-girl/voyov2d7s6alb#description

There are loads of things about the original mix that feel very weirdly balanced, in this woozy vertiginous way — the concepts of "background" and "foreground" get pretty unsettled — but of course it's shoegazey, so I always just appreciated those as really fascinating choices they were making. It'll be fascinating to hear which aspects of that remain and which are being considered correctable errors.