Alexander Tucker - Old Fog

Go see him. He will fill that place up even if it's empty, dig?

Oh, you were asking about the album. Dunno, haven't heard it.

http://www.atpfestival.com/atp-recordings/images/portal.jpg

diggin this

New track and review here:
http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=1694

Was really into Old Fog but dude was Zzzzzzzzzzzz live

i like "portal".
freak folk meets post rock kranky style with fine results.
(strangely, it sounds like an american project)

I've enjoyed everything I've heard by him on at least some level but I'm slightly less enamoured by him after he pulled out of my friend's show a while back citing the unarguable "personal reasons", which was in fact that he'd been offered, and accepted, a support slot with Bardo Pond in London that same night

Kentish isn't he?

oooh I still need to pick up the new one!

love his older stuff & cannot fucking wait for ATP New York, where he is playing... among many others. :)

never heard this guy before, but i'm digging this new song

new album coming out on thrill jockey

So this album's been out for a while now.

I can't be the only one who loves this, right?

seen him twice, thought he sucked both times - utterly predictable looping/overlaying of acoustic gtr figures and tedious quiet-loud dynamics.

Agree with Ward. I was really into him until I saw him live. I guess I'm just really, really, really tired of dudes doing effects pedal demonstrations. Roy Montgomery had the market cornered on that shit in like '91.

I think there's a lot more going on with Dorwytch than what you're describing but each to their own.

Dorwytch is a brilliant album. His lyrics are sometimes a bit daft but that isn't a fatal flaw. A better album than a lot of releases that get bigged up by pitchfork. I only say this because they savaged Portal and gave it 2.0. Sonically it reminds me of a more bohemian Heartland by Owen Pallet and is as good as that album, if not as celebrated.

Just heard Dorwytch for the first time last night and this person is totally otm -- amazing! beautiful!

The guy is insanely talented. Believe the hype. He has a voice for the ages, amazing lyrics and is one of the few who can successfully walk the line between beautiful traditional songcraft and out-in-the-dunes sonic headfucker-y.

― Pharmaceutical Executive, Wednesday, October 5, 2005 1:59 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

Has anyone heard Third Mouth? I impulse-bought it from Thrill Jockey in a fit of excitement, but I'm waiting to listen to it until the LP arrives.

yup, i've heard Third Mouth.... it's not a big step forward or back, if you like Dorwytch you're gonna like it just fine!

Yeah, I really like Third Mouth a lot - you won't be disappointed.

I guess I owe this thread a revival because I love Third Mouth! Sometimes his songs get a little samey after a while, but that's about the worst thing I have to say. Otherwise, love this guy, especially when he sings super low.

This is a good one from Third Mouth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY9wVhzsEuU

"mullioned view" is my jam on the new album, that whole arrangement is killer

The end of "Mullioned View" is the best.

Also, this album has been a staple of 2012. A well-chosen impulse buy!

"Andromeon" is probably my #1 favorite song from the whole album though. I love the vocal parts. Droney, beautiful, humming/buzzing with sounds. So evocative!

I def still need to listen to the new one. Will probably do so this week.

Was thinking about Dorwytch--and you too, LL--while listening to the new Hexvessel a frw days back. For some rrazon, I want to lump the two albums together.

I have no idea what that is, but I will check it out!

Having mixed feelings about the new Grumbling Fur single (video on Quietus today). It's ok, and I should like the video considering that it contains men in sweaters in the forest and little bugs crawling on fingers and whatnot, but the music just kind of bores me. It also sounds a little too much like Depeche Mode/Dave Gahan -- are A Tucker and D Gahan from the same part of England or something? Why do they sound so much alike? I am not a DM enthusiast, so the comparison is not a good one for me (although I can see how it would make their sound more palatable to most people)

http://thequietus.com/articles/12771-grumbling-fur-the-ballad-of-roy-batty-video

I think Tucker comes from Kent and Depeche Mode are from Essex, so yes, same general part of the world, they're just separated by the Thames.

Is it that or some other quality of their voices that makes them sound so similar? Has anyone heard the rest of this album? Is it boring?

It is the accents but also they're both a bit flat expressively, both a bit monotonous and maybe slightly nasal too.

I thought the last Tucker LP - which was great - showed a heavy DM influence, so no surprise. Link to the video?

I already linked to the video! I agree about last AT album.

Oops, sorry - dunno how I missed that! Thanks!

I dig it. Seems like an extension of the 'pop' of Tucker's last LP. This song is all one big chorus, huh? Gonna buy this. Also, maybe it sounds like DM, but that video reminds me of, err, another 80s act:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzPRX0vjeVU

Yeah, I mean I know there's nothing wrong with TfF but I never liked them either. I guess I like my A Tucker a little less poppy. I wish him the best! I'd have to hear more before I buy this though. Fortunately Thrill Jockey isn't Drag City, and maybe it'll be on spotify or sthg.

Enjoying this thing quite a bit, think the odd moment of poppiness works really well in the context of the whole album. Have never been a big fan of his singing, but on lots of tracks here, his voice is just one of many sounds rather than the main focus. Dunno if anyone else is feeling this but the somewhat creaky electronic elements and the whole sunbaked, windworn and general pagan vibe make it a good companion to the stoneage rave of the Holden album imo.

(it is on Spotify now btw LL - http://open.spotify.com/album/5ayZtw1rgQBi6jYce3SxGT )

oh good! thanks. i honestly wasn't sure i wanted to buy it, but i'll listen to it first. what is this? stoneage rave of the Holden album imo. ?! the what? sounds delightful!!

Holden - The Inheritors
http://open.spotify.com/album/6ljTPjGb8hwaRT6HPJYbfb

Just deleted a couple of attempts to describe that Holden record in words but there's a thread on it here...
RFI: Border Community - Nathan Fake, James Holden, The MFA, Petter etc.

Good post by D4n S3lz3r:

Sherbourne's article is really otm. For the last few years I've been trying to pay more attention to a lot of stuff that's going and and while I'm generally excited by much of it, not that much really sticks with me. This new record seems to draw from/share so many current influences/sounds, but work with them without any need to shoehorn himself into a particular genre. Electro-acoustic ambient stuff with krautrock rhythms giving away to triumphant horn parts, cosmic arpeggiating synths, minimal influences, maximal influences, Aphexy atmospheres, one song that sounds just like Popol Vuh, a bit of hauntology etc. Without ever being afraid of a catchy melody, sometimes as the dominant part of a track, sometimes more subtly.

oh shit, i just saw he dropped the Vuh bomb there

i gasped!

irl!