band of horses - everything all the time

Good, not great. The real gem: "Our Swords".

I'm a little disappointed by the album's overwhelming sense of samey-ness. However "Funeral" is one of the year's better singles thusfar, one of the few things so far this year that, if it didn't knock my socks off, definitely opened the velcro closures on my Keds and gave me a hard shove to the solar plexus.

Funeral song reminds me a lot of Red House Painters. in general their sounds comes from 10 yrs ago it seems.

woops- their sound

i think i only like the voice. atleast in funeral they use every instrument as a drum? and just bang-away weird controlled melodrama.

"The Funeral's" a great single, but you know it sounds really sounds like?

U2

At least Ned's consistent :-)

also, is it ok to sound like perry farrell in 2007? i think so.

i tried to listen to this again the other day and i still can't stand it.

They have a new single, "Is There a Ghost." I was surprised by how bad it is. But my opinion of the first album has fallen, as well. I think the only really good thing about it is the sound, as in the production, and the timbre of everything. It's a pleasant sound, but none of the songs are great. But this new one sounds totally substanceless.

I couldn't even get halfway through it. And I liked the first album.

WRONG ST3VE GOLDB3RG! If you like Amelie and Dave Matthews, then you will LOVE "Is There a Ghost?" It's on some pre-Swayze, Britpop obsession with Kangols shit, but it's Juan Glaze fho sho. Maybe you should take a tip from the king Eddie Winslow and lock yourself in a screening room for an entire year drinking your own urine. That'll teach you to respect the spirit of Bridwell (I bet you probably have a poster of Seth Green on your wall, but that's neither here nor there...)

Saw these guys again last week.

Uniformly brilliant when playing album tracks, but the set sagged big time half-way through when they launched into their "new stuff" and promptly turned into CSN&Y. 'Alt-country' without the 'alt', unfortunately.

So this is the band that whenever I hear them makes me think of a harder-rocking Shins.

It's the guys voice - but it's weird that Coyne and Farrel seem equally appropriate as comparisons

it's all about "st. augustine"

i love this album

BOH fans should check for the new band signed to sub pop called Avi Buffalo

The name always make me think of banda horses, which brings up this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWp82KVlVv8

http://www.popmatters.com/images/news_art/i/infinite_arms.jpg

Infinite Arms is the upcoming third album of band Band of Horses, set to be released on May 18, 2010 on Brown Records, Fat Possum Records and Columbia.

1. Factory
2. Compliments
3. Laredo
4. Blue Beard
5. On My Way Back Home
6. Infinite Arms
7. Dilly
8. Evening Kitchen
9. Older
10. For Annabelle
11. NW Apt.
12. Neighbor

leaked, will listen one of these days, likely when it's hot as shit out

I like "Compliments" more than I expected.

it's streaming this week. not many hooks, but i like that reverb-y southern gothic vibe with layered vocals drenched in echo. i've never paid attention to this band before. this disc reminds me of my-morning-jacket from a few years ago (with fewer hooks, and maybe weaker melodies . . . but still pretty good!).

all you need is Z imo

i like the discs before and (to a lesser extent) after Z, too.

which are your favorites, Daniel? i strongly disliked Evil Urges, and only listened to part of the one w/ "One Big Holiday" on it iirc

z or it still moves are my favorites.

awesome

they perfected that reverb-y vibe on it still moves, but the melodies are stronger and there's much more inventiveness on z so it's hard to choose.

yeah, i haven't listened to much of It Still Moves, but I love Z

try golden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8OL261RT-E

thanks Daniel -- good song

i'm crushing on this album more-and-more.

i'm a pescetarian, but in music, sometimes i need meat-and-potatoes. and this is it: big, sweeping choruses with echo reverberating off the vocals and through the woods, a sound big enough to fill a stadium, and a southern-vibe that reminds me of a dozen bands from the seventies -- eighties. i love this, and i've had absolutely no interest whatsoever in this band up to now.

Okay, so the Pitchfork review is pretty dead on and this newest album is mostly terrible. HOWEVER, the bonus disc of the Sonic Ranch Sessions EP is really pretty good. Each of the five tracks on that are easily better than 85% of the album proper and I'm stunned that none of them were included on the album proper. I'm not sure if this was a label decision or what, but it was a head-smackingly dumb decision.

"Funeral" was inescapable back in 2006 or 07; I liked the song when it came on the radio but I had no desire to hear the record and I've never paid attention to their output since.

But a couple weeks ago I put on that new Iron & Wine/Ben Bridwell covers album, Sing Into My Mouth, and I was surprised to find I really liked all of Bridwell's songs, far more than the I&W contributions. A lot more rootsy than the dramatic U2/Arcade Fire-esque "Funeral".

Seems from this thread that ILX thinks Band of Horses is mostly dud, but perhaps consensus has changed over the years - is anyone willing to champion their catalog or call out any underrated material?

that's a bizarre revive, I just watched the Veep finale and they were on it

longtime carissa's wierd fan seeking more. where do i start with band of horses/grand archives?

First BoH, but the vibe is rather different. Widescreen 00s indie. Haven’t listened in a long time, but it may sound somewhat dated these days.

I still love the first album but it's increasingly diminishing returns since. The first Grand Archives record is lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2cWmIJpjks

Lollapalooza Chicago lineup was just announced and Band of Horses is on the 5th line. Does anyone else find this surprising?

https://www.lollapalooza.com/

I mean, Limp Bizkit is on the third line, so who the hell knows anymore?