do you like Bedhead?

btw, do you guys like "The New Year" too?

dunno why...I don't really like Macha Loved Bedhead

your shifty lies and senseless visions overflow like frozen rivers

James Blount OTM re: The New Year but I'm already aching to see them when they come tru in April. It's more about THE KADANES than The New Year. Bring it on.

James Blount OTM re: The New Year. But I'm already aching to see them when they come thru in April. It's more about THE KADANES than The New Year. Bring it on.

I apologize for not listening to music from 1989 to 2002.

Did I just open myself up to a lot of musical recommendations right there? Go ahead...I can take it!

i picked this up at last. it sounds quite rough, and the singing is not great, but there's some beautiful stuff on there. i like it quite a lot, it's definitely recommended (track 2 in particular is a treat.)

Oh good. I was beginning to wonder if I'd made a mistake.

Yep. King Coffey signed them to his Trance Syndicate label.

New New Year album recorded, coming out in September :DDDDDDDDDDDD

fuck that's ages away, but still :D

I had three (all?) Bedhead albums back in the 90s-early 00s, thought all of them were fantastic if a bit indistinguishable - ultimately, I think you only really need one. Which one, I guess, might be up for debate. I seem to recall really like Transaction de Novo so it's surprising to see some resistance to that album in this thread. Then again, it's been at least eight years since I've listened to any of their albums, so maybe I'm misremembering. I've been a little wary of going back to Bedhead after all this time; I fear they won't have aged very well.

It's actually been the opposite for me. I was afraid they would sound dated, but when I threw Beheaded on recently, I was all "fuck, these guys were even better than I remember"

superb band. I dig the 2 new year albums too.

Help me figure out who these guys are in my head. How are they different than Codeine?

Xpost. I don't know, I hear dicipline and restraint, instead of one-dimensionality? Plus, there's something very human and normal (?) in their songs, that I don't get from many post-rock bands. In that respect, the Kadanes (especially in Bedhead) have more in common with first gen slowcore bands like Low, Codeine. Maybe not Red House Painters, though.

Yeah Bedhead were something special. They were careful, but I wouldn't say conservative. They had some really gorgeous melodies. I always found this song really really interesting and subtle the way it unfolds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz5pPgFhNLk

Oops, should have spaced the link down one.

Love that record.

Me too. But that song always remained particularly special. When I discovered it the straightforward angsty melodrama of other artists felt so much sillier. It got me to seek out and respect music that seemed to consciously restrain for overdoing this or that. Adds so much dimension.

They're not conservative, just disarmingly precise with their arrangements.

They are also very patient.

restrain from***

What I loved about watching Bedhead live was the way a guitarist would just sort of stand there idle for half the song until it was his turn to (literally) chime in.

I'd love a new New Year album. The last two were gold, even better than Bedhead in my book

Bedhead's drummer is fantastic, too.

I appreciate the restraint-- it's why I got into it in the first place. It just seemed like almost all of their songs follow a similar feel, a similar pattern. It's OK for a song or two, but gets very monotonous after a while. Like I said, I don't feel about saying that.

The last New Year album is so good, only Transaction de Novo being better in the Kadane catalogue in my view. Playing 'Folios' right now, first time in a good while. That song could go on for ever.

"I don't think the good years I've got can wait". That's a nice little memento mori, and sort of sums up the feel I get from this band. Like, live your little life, and do it well and good.

Argh.. "good", "good", "little", "little". What lousy writing.

Huh, the think the first two Bedhead records are perfect, the third less perfect but full of some nice surprises and detours. The New Year I treat as an awesome echo. Even though it's a new band, it's also the same band, but different, and not quite the same sound as Bedhead but certainly the same vibe. When I saw the New Year live they were great. I once saw the Kadanes play as a duo and their sound even worked well like that.

Like I said, I don't feel about saying that.

Um, I don't feel GOOD about saying that.

Xpost. I don't know, I hear dicipline and restraint, instead of one-dimensionality? Plus, there's something very human and normal (?) in their songs, that I don't get from many post-rock bands. In that respect, the Kadanes (especially in Bedhead) have more in common with first gen slowcore bands like Low, Codeine. Maybe not Red House Painters, though.

that's where my college station slotted them. don't know where 'post-rock' came from.

New New Year this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IJlQ8kHJBw&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IJlQ8kHJBw

Only in 2017 could a new New Year track sound happy.

wow! <3

Wow indeed!

Oh boy, excited here. I always feel like Matt Kadane is my cool-world alter-ego - also a Matthew K, a midcareer PhD academic teaching in a university, dark hair. It got a little out of hand when I bought a black Telecaster Custom, not my fault it was so good to play.

I love these guys so much

Incredible. Been thinking about them recently too with the new Duster album that just came out. Scratches a similar itch for me.

Bedhead is practically perfect in every way. I miss them all the time.

Didn’t know about the new Duster. Will duly check it out.

I'm not sure I've heard or even heard of Duster (not ringing a bell), and the one track I found sounded more space-rock than Bedheady. However, I did come across this band:

https://sprain.bandcamp.com/track/anything-2

Which at least here sounds a lot like Bedhead.

Duster has a lot of space-rock elements but also a lot of straight up slowcore indie tracks too that put those 2 bands together in my mind. Try the new one. Nonesuch also put out a career spanning comp not too long ago which is rad too.

Numero Group, you mean.

There's a bit of a Bedhead vibe to parts of the (excellent) recent Peaer record.

Listening to the Overseas-record the Kadanes did with David Bazan and Will Johnson a few years. It’s not as controlled as Bedhead’s songs and, to a degree, more straight up indie. But it definitely has the guitars.

a few years ago*

yes Numero Group. sorry about that

yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTkfOVorDl4

whatfunlifewas came out 30 years ago today

haywire ftw imo

Listened to these guys for the first time a few weeks ago. Totally classic

I do like Bedhead

This music has always been great, but has also aged beautifully.

possibly the greatest album co-written by someone named bubba

Yeah I really thought it was a recent band when it came on in the "recommended" after an album I was listening to.

The brothers K do that beautiful "amplified wires intertwining" dual-guitar clean tone so well, it's literally mesmerising to me. Never tire of those records and always seem to be emulating their guitar lines when I play,
I was many years into my fandom before I realised they are a Lebanese-American band!
https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/news/2016/07/21/a-lebanese-american-rock-musician-in-texas/

i missed them when they were active but eventually listened to them due to the silkworm connection and they are so great and also so consistent. everything i've listened to has been great, they keep the same sound all the time (even on the new year albums) but find little nooks and crannies in that sound to mix things up.

love this band

I forgot that Matt played a bit of keyboards in later Silkworm.

I once played some Bedhead for an older friend of mine, and he was absolutely entranced, because it's so rare to hear a band focused on clean (Fender) guitar sounds, let alone guitars so intricately and clearly worked out. He kind of scratched his head over how they even wrote songs, because everything fit together so well.

The collaboration with Macha is so so great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4FjVjyjiaQ

Fun fact, Matt played drums on that one! I was emailing him for a while and mentioned it was my favourite Bedhead drum track (or maybe Half Thought), and he was pleased

Also altho I completely agree that their sound is the epitome of Fender clean tone, Bubba more often plays a Les Paul which surprised me. Matt’s Tele Custom is generally set to the neck pickup which is one of the early widerange reissues, basically a generic PAF style under the hood. So it’s generally humbuckers into Twin Reverbs.

It's been so long since I saw them play in any context, Bedhead or New Year or even just the brothers. What did the third guitarist play?

I saved a better quality version of the Disease video a million years ago - looks like 3 x Teles (two with neck buckers) and a Precision - also keys somehow?
https://vimeo.com/931614801/abdfb06cb5