Foetus-Hide

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Beautiful artwork from his new album, no?

damn...someone post the cover art properly. It is gorgeous.

From the blurb on the Foetus site: Ectopic Ents is proud to announce the release of the long awaited new studio album by Foetus, entitled HIDE.
HIDE features ten new compositions by JG Thirlwell, who describes it as a “neo-symphonic avant-psychedelic concept album informed by the culture of fear”. Kicking off with a nine minute operatic opus featuring the guest vocal talents of opera singer Abby Fischer, HIDE is an immersive album infused with strands of progressive and contemporary classical, as well as Thirlwell’s twisting cinematic journeys, bombast and sombre interludes.

And the samples sound gorgeous as well.

so fucking excited for this, but that prob comes as a suprise to exactly nobody

i'm not sure abt the album art, myself.

as i posted yesterday : thanks to the double foetus placing in the 80's poll, lets poll all (ok most) of the foetus/foetus related full length releases (yes compilations included)

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HIDE features ten new compositions by JG Thirlwell, who describes it as a “neo-symphonic avant-psychedelic concept album informed by the culture of fear”. Kicking off with a nine minute operatic opus featuring the guest vocal talents of opera singer Abby Fischer, HIDE is an immersive album infused with strands of progressive and contemporary classical, as well as Thirlwell’s twisting cinematic journeys, bombast and sombre interludes.

Thirlwell produced the album and performs most of the music.
Also guesting on the album are long time collaborator Steven Bernstein on trumpet and Leyna Marika Papach from Thirlwell’s Manorexia ensemble on violin. In addition Elliot Hoffman of Carbomb plays drums on a track, and there are appearances from Ed Pastorini, Jeff Davidson and Christian Gibbs (Lucinda Blackbear).

More Details
01. Cosmetics
02. Paper Slippers
03. Stood Ups
04. Here Comes The Rains
05. Oilfields
06. Concretes
07. The Ballad of Sisyphus T. Joness
08. Fortitudine Vincimuss
09. You’re Trying To Break Mes
10. O Putrid Suns

the samples sound fucking fantastic.

dear god does this sound good

The album is now available on his website for both the physical cd and the digital download.

http://foetus.org/content/discography/releases/foetus-hide

Your Purchase No.: 193

wtf, doesn't this dude have worldwide acclaim

'Cosmetics' has begun. Very well.

this is magnificent :D

193 :(

ta for the reminder to get myself sorted out.

ordered.
despite being past the famous #50, did you get the sticker then ?

I only bought the mp3, dude!

Getting towards the end of the penultimate track, absolute highlights so far have been Cosmetics, Paper Slippers, Oilfields and You're Trying To Break Me, which is exactly the same length (well, to the second) as How To Vibrate and shares a very similar sonic vibe but is somehow a completely different beast!

Oh fuck me O Putrid Sun is beautiful

fuck

JGT has NEVER made anything like this. It makes Chimera seem kinda lumpen. Fuck.

Shit shit shit shit shit shit. OK I guess now I know what the standout track is.

although the aforementioned are also fucking awesome

ahh. pah to digital.
i need foetus product proper. his website only released are brilliant packaged.
the artwork and inner sleeve for damp was a thing of beauty.
you are making my blood rush.
3-4 weeks delivery.
going to be a foetus soundtracked crimbo.

haha sweet! really this whole album is great and I actually don't know which track will end up my favourite - just that there are certain moments in music where I sit up completely fucking transfixed and unable to rationalise beyond 'fuuuuuuuuck' - such a thing happened during that final track, although I'd spent the rest of the album in a similarly blissful state.

like others out there, should have been a free digital d/l deal when ordering the cd, as i know my patience will be tested to the limit.

Teaser. Very strong track but there is better to come

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9-LP-gaLT4

On second listen, Here Comes The Rain is as strong as any of 'em

I reviewed this album for The Wire. It really is fantastic. Easily my favorite Foetus release since the late '80s.

it might well be the best since Hole - but I haven't heard Thaw yet, and the trifecta of Gash, Flow and Love are VERY strong so I'll possibly regret saying that? idk

hahahaha You're Trying To Break Me is SUCH a li'l rip-off of How To Vibrate, but it's so good it gets away with it, also I think it's a conscious re-working - it's so similar it must be

Easily my favorite Foetus release since the late '80s.

whoa. big talk.

is the write up in the current edition of Wire ?

delivered. with signed sticker.
once you get past the opening monster of a track(which is somewhat misleading in regards to the overall sound of the album), the album settles down and has some truly amazing tracks.
stand out tracks : o putrid sun, paper slippers, and the stunning oilfields.
actually, after 4+ listens i am totally hooked.
easily my album of the year.
no contest.
on another note : is this the most polite foetus album yet ?
not one single swear word throughout the whole album, and little in the way of the anger/vitriol he is known for.
i have now ordered the venture bros soundtrack (now available on cd for non-US folks), and the remix album VEIN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f6NJiKHFh8

excellent stuff, and as varied as you'd expect.
after all, you can never have too much "lizard stomping music".

loving the white suit, and whole look of this :

http://vimeo.com/23917571

oh, and ATP folks are going to be treated to Manorexia stuff in a live capacity.

lucky b*stards (though admitedly that stuff is very different to Foetus)

i realise this thread reads like a one-man promo machine, but hey, sometimes you have to do what you've got to do.

http://thequietus.com/articles/06354-foetus-jg-thirlwell-interview

not only that but during our chats, i found out that the man is a big Axelrod fan (should have guessed given his love for orchestral excess) ..

oh, and the forthcoming collab with dj food, is rather special.

Thanks. There's been so few informative articles about him until the last couple of years. Great interview.

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"SOAK is a companion/satellite album to the previous Foetus release HIDE.
Some of the tracks on SOAK were begun at the same time as the HIDE sessions or recorded since, but provide a conceptual progression and/or expansion on some of the themes and ideas of HIDE."

a fellow foetus fan assures me that this is seriously good, but i have yet to hear any ..

anyone heard this yet ?

no but I clearly need it. I haven't even heard Hide yet! I did order the Limb CD/DVD from him and I love it.

imago have you heard Thaw yet?!?!?

HIDE is fantastic.

following some prompting today i just put it on playlist and fallen for it all over again.

Not heard Thaw! Maybe should amend that.

Hide is ok but suffered from diminishing returns for me. Was seriously fucking sabotaged by You're Trying To Break Me being a pointless & inferior rewrite of How To Vibrate in almost every conceivable way. There's an absolutely killer EP in there (Cosmetics/Here Comes The Rain/Oilfields/O Putrid Sun) but the rest does very little for me

Love is still the best of the recent records IMO; it's very, very fabulous

well, maybe Flow, in fact, forgot that one was so comparatively recent. Although I'd say Flow has more filler than Love, as I don't like either Grace Of God or Suspect and think the record would be much better (in fact near-flawless) without either. They bring the spy-movie vibe way more ponderously than the other songs

Victim Or Victor also kinda extraneous. Get rid of all 3 and you have a streamlined bullet to the back of the skull

mmm "spy-movie vibe" sounds like my kinda thing, actually. I just need to spend a while listening to everything from the last decade or so.

In other exciting Foetus news, I finally got a vinyl copy of Ache! So good.

Flow is ALL spy-movie vibe, just that some of it works better than the rest

Really recommend it & Love. Make this a Foetus evening

goddamit imago listen to thaw already jesus christ

ha. otm.

thaw is beyond criticism.

^^^ both OTM

SOAK. It's good. Listened to it only a few times so far. First couple of listens I was mostly overwhelmed by what an achievement it is. Like, how does he actually pull off these kind of records? It's immensely ambitious and accomplished. That is my usually reaction when listening to a new Foetus album. But this one in particular is massive. There's very little in the way of rock instrumentation - it's all jazz drums, unholy choirs, Duke Ellington orchestras sliding around all over the place. The man himself is a shadowy, terrifying presence over everything who only shows up in person now and again to scare us, like the Ooogie Boogie Man from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Otherwise it's opera choruses etc. That works well I think. I need another few listens but highlights are the opener which is a throwback to his Garage Monsters stuff, the second track, which is in the same ballpark as Cosmetics I guess. There's a queazy Beatlesy track in the middle that breaks things up quite well. It's exhausting too because it's so full-on all the time.

wow.
sounds totally up my street re foetus.
ta for the rundown ..

yah gonna get a holda this

thaw can wait until i'm rested

ok so i listened to 'a prayer for my death'. now i sleep easy.

You are incorrigable

I doubt many Foetus fans will be disappointed by SOAK. It's all here. Everything he's done is represented on this disc. It's like he's sitting on top of this massive pile of toys he's created over the years and gleefully throwing them at us. Sonically and ideas-wise HIDE, The Venture Bros stuff and Stereoid Maxumus are to the fore, but you can find all his eras in here somewhere. It crossed my mind that a couple of the slow passages are almost Elfman-esque but I squashed that thought before it went anywhere. I don't want to spoil this because it's immense.

excited!

before xmas i treated myself to some floorstanders.
tonight i decided to listen to nail and thaw at neighbour complaint volumes.
damn.
so much detail in the mix.
even for 80s productions, they still sound amazing.
by the end of 'say a prayer for my death', i literally had a cold sweat on due to the emotional excess that the albums induce.

during wine excess last night i ordered SOAK.
the darker days have induced a need to revisit my FOETUS collection for the first time in ages.
HIDE has really hit the spot recently.

SOAK is a great album - can't wait to hear your opinion. It works brilliantly as an old-school album to listen to all the way through. Really kinda brings together all his different strengths and styles and makes them work so well together. This reminds me I haven't put it on for a while...

Just got Soak tonight. Eager to give it a listen, as I really did love Hide (and still do; it holds up very well.)