The Goslings

I'm a big fan. Grandeur of Hair and Between The Dead (am I remembering that title correctly?) were on constant rotation around here last year. The new one is good? I was kinda curious but money's tight and I was wondering if I really needed another Goslings album right now.

Oh you wont be disappointed. This is a band that actually knows quality control!
Check your email btw

http://www.myspace.com/thegoslings

they didn't friend me back on myspace. jerks. good music, though.

The Goslings don't have internet access. Apparently they use the library if they have to email their label(s). I don't know if someone else does their myspace for them.

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The Goslings

Occasion

NNF098—CD ($11)

Hollywood, Florida family/band Max and Leslie Soren have been unleashing their private bouts of punishing ceremonial sludge-gaze for the past half a decade now, and there’s been some total titanic highlights (Between the Dead, Grandeur of Hair, etc). But the grunge swamp graveyard they seem to unearth their moss metal from must be profoundly fertile ground, because each new song-cycle they lay to tape is somehow even more miraculously brutal and shimmering and visionary than the one before it. This phenom holds true for Occasion, The Goslings’ newest and maybe deepest doom/beauty inquest. Eight thundering masterpieces of molten slime riff majesty, nightstalker drums, and soaring-into-the-sun female vox that crush the earth, bleed, and breathe in humid darkness. Ranging from the Slowdive-meets-Skullflower transcendent descent of “Motorcade” through to the quaking basement funeral of “Little Horn,” Occasion is a glorious passage into The Goslings’ hidden holy land. Mastered for optimal audio gravity by James Plotkin, and housed in a swank six-panel wallet-style metallic-ink digipak with artwork by the band.

Man, I hate digipacks.

Will probbaly buy this though

Is all the distortion and fx computer plug-ins? It sounds like it.

Anyone have any links to good interviews with them?

This is the only interview I know of http://www.silbermedia.com/qrd/archives/32goslings.html
My CD arrived today.

Thanks, that interview was pretty interesting. I was sure it was recorded into a laptop, then messed w/digitally but I was way off beam.

Still not sure if I actually like this band yet.

It's a shame they will probably never tour since hardly anyone knows who they are. They would get like 1 man and a dog even at gigs in their own state they say.
3 of the best bands of recent years are The Goslings, Angelic Process (RIP) and Nadja yet most people will never hear of them. They needed a tour with Jesu or Neurosis/Isis to get some notice I think.

OK this record rules.

Holy shit! This is magnificent. Their best, and that's saying a lot. This crushes to dust everyone else working within the 'metal shoegaze' style right now (except maybe Angelic Process, R.I.P)

want

Listening to it now. Yes, yes indeed.

I want to buy this. I wish I could use PayPal.

Holy shit! This is magnificent. Their best, and that's saying a lot. This crushes to dust everyone else working within the 'metal shoegaze' style right now (except maybe Angelic Process, R.I.P)

And Nadja!

I want to buy this. I wish I could use PayPal.

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The drums are great on this one.

Just bought this based on all the good things mentioned here. Hopefully I will not be disappointed!

Thanks for the info. I ended up ordering it from Aquarius, along with some Circle albums. I'm still very excited to hear this.

My Aquarius order was just dropped off, I can't wait to dig into this tonight.

I don't think you will be disappointed.

i was inspired by this thread and DLed their "Full Hunter's Moon" CD-EP. definitely right up my alley, great stuff.

I don't think you will be disappointed.

And I wasn't. This is gorgeous stuff, sounds like I need to DL that EP now too.

best reading music I have found

Glad to see so many people enjoying The Goslings.

sleeve u should also get Granduer of Hair. It's fucking ace.

Occasion is still kicking my ass. At times its like an evil verison of MBV pulling you along on a rickety coal cart ride express to hell. But then the relative calm of "Incense of Death" pops up to make it all okay. I love this album.

Hurrah!

Occasion is phenomenal. "Vitium" is sooo good. This is the first time I've listened to this album since early last year.

Also, I think its hilarious (and awesome) that they use a geocities site for their website. Can't wait for the vinyl reissue of Grandeur Of Hair.

The vinyl was out years ago on Conspiracy, is it being reissued?

Yeah, their site says that Grandeur Of Hair will get a cd/vinyl reissue, and a vinyl reissue of Folklore of Moon. And also a cd reissue of Heaven Of Animals. No concrete dates though.

Also, this quote:
NEW MATERIAL: EPs, SPLITS, TAPES & MORE THIS YEAR & NEXT

they dont have internet access though, so that's probably the same message that's been up for months.

Occasion is still very, very awesome. That is all.

Oh man, seeing this thread bumped got me excited for a new album or something! But you are correct, very correct.

http://www.archivecd.com/shop2.htm

GOSLINGS/ WARMTH "heaven of animals" CD ARCHIVE 50 Originally released as a 5 track small run collaborative CD between the Goslings and Roxanne Jean Polise recorded in 2004-05. The current resurrection of this release features 4 of the original tracks with an actually proper mastering job from James Plotkin. The backend of the disc features 4 new traxs that were cultivated between the Goslings and Warmth (name change for the mid-west Steev Thompson) between 2007-08. Eight tracks in total of shimmering clouds of glass shards that swirl everywhere around you all coated with a lightly sprinkled malaise of Leslie's haunting vocals. A bit more abstract and less song structured than other Goslings works with an angling towards a droning approach, none the less the quality of the audio is extremely high. Comes housed in hand silkscreened (brokenpresses) 2.5 panels sleeves slipped inside of heavy 10mil custom made vinyl sleeves specially sized for archive releases. (pressing of 500 copies) $12.50 postpaid in the US international orders check shipping charges

Reissue

GOSLINGS "grandeur of hair" CD archive 23 The first CD released on archive that represented something beyond cult live documentation. A release thought by many to be the Goslings signature work to date. Holocaustic analog tape over saturation admixed with primitive drums beats washed over subtly played delicate melodies scattered with undercurrents of hypnotic female vocals. Out of print for the past few years repressed and hand silkscreened by Broken presses once again in all its hot pink on black glory. (pressing of 500 copies) $12.50 postpaid in the US international orders check shipping charges.

Thanks for the heads-up Herman. Ordered Warmth.

I take it you have Grandeur?

Yep.

Got the old/new Goslings & Warmth collaboration in today's mail. Just put it on, first track is glorious droning feedback and rumbling low end, a discomforting bliss. Ooooh, creepy vocals coming up through the mix, reverbed, echoing, fading away. I love this band.

I got the reissues in the mail today..excited to hear these

whant

Ordered both of these a couple days ago, can't wait. Grandeur is just about the only Archive release that I want and haven't been able to track down.

What is the international shipping on these?

this band rules so hard

aldo
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Yeah I saw that but assumed the text was pointing to different calculations rather than those. Will order tonight.

just got the reissue of Heaven of Animals and holy fucking christ, the new tracks are amazing. The heaviest, beatific psychedelic doom, like being slowly crushed underfoot by a Godzilla-sized Angel of Death. These guys should be world famous or at least headlining ATP. my favorite underground band by far.

I heard from a solid source they are on "Hiatus". I'm not sure what the difference is between a hiatus and not hearing from them until some new product appears out of the blue, but the idea that they aren't conspiring right now to blow my mind again is not a happy one.

like being slowly crushed underfoot by a Godzilla-sized Angel of Death

I love this analogy.

new tapes:

http://misconduct.bigcartel.com/product/the-goslings-sister-and-son-death-garage-2x-tape

loved the new stuff on the heaven of animals reissue, btw.

i always forget this song isn't about jon and kate plus eight

uh, thread

Anyone got their tapes yet? I ordered mine before Alan posted here.

Hey did you ever get the tapes?? that link doesn't work now

yeah, I got em. each tape is single-sided! so, not as much music as I was hoping for, but as always, they music is pretty cool.

but I imagine the physical tapes are long gone at this point.

why these people eight kids?

Did Goslings break up or disappear or something? There seems to be no indication (at least on the intertubes) that they remain extant as a musical entity.

I heard from a solid source they are on "Hiatus". I'm not sure what the difference is between a hiatus and not hearing from them until some new product appears out of the blue, but the idea that they aren't conspiring right now to blow my mind again is not a happy one.

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:48 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

Yahoo taking down the Geocities service must have made these guys feel a little bummed.

I miss them.

I was hoping this bummp was to say they got back together :/

Sadly, no.

Them and the Angelic Process both.

Them too. Wish there was a chance we'd ever hear new music from The Angelic Process.

But I still hold out hope The Goslings will return one day.

man I still need to get Occasion, thanks for the reminder

WHERE ARE THE GOSLINGS? WHY HAVE THEY FORSAKEN US?

this band rules so hard

― Fetchboy, Friday, October 30, 2009 2:25 AM (eight years ago)

still true, been listening to them in the truck lately

Spaceheater/Perfect Interior is the only thing that's not a total classic, not noisy enough I think

Haven of Animals is the one, I think. What abandoned though.

Fkn autocorrect gone mental.

*Heaven*

*a band*