new Future Bible Heroes

/coat

Still, I've only heard it once. So don't let me bum your trip. And maybe Ewen is as much to blame as Merritt. I'd love to hear what all the old ILM Merritt-boosters think of it.

No big surprises to those familiar with other Future Bible Heroes releases. Standouts so far: "I'm a Vampire," an incredibly cheesy, hilarious, and catchy number with a spoken section (!). "Kiss Me
Only with Your Eyes," a cleverly-written song that combines
feminism, death, and theology as a fictional account of Mary Daly; I can't get its chorus out of my head.

Re: Eban and Charley
Honestly, I don't listen to the instrumentals on it very often, but the lyrical songs are fantastic, in particular "Maria Maria Maria," "Tiny Flying Player Pianos," "This Little Ukulele," and "Some Summer Day."

The album's bloody great, especially "Doris Daytheearthstoodstill" and "I'm A Vampire" - thoughts, all?

CAMPbell kindly gave me their first LP and I have been listening to it. She didn't like it much. I don't know. I think 'Lonely Days' might be good, as well as the familiar 'Hopeless'.

A Search for FBH reveals lots of ilxors who like them more than 69 Love Songs and other MFs!

I didn't realise there were any other ILXors apart from me who prefered FBH to MF - well, the first album anyway. I never saw the second album over here, sadly.

Yes, there are, I think - try Searching!

In any case, I think MF and FBH are quite different. The latter is pretty much all electro-pop all the time (no doubt partly due to Chris Ewen, the aforementioned non-MF member); MF are sometimes electro-pop, but their output is also more varied.

The second FBH is an absolute gem. Much better than the first for me, partly because Claudia handles all the vocals.

Have not heard 2nd FBH LP.

N. said on another thread that 'Lonely Days' was one of the songs of the decade. And he should know! I like it.

Even tracks that seem to me quite poor, like 'Blond Adonis', turn out to be catchy.

I wonder why more folk have not leapt from the closet to declare their affection for this record.

'Lonely Days' I like, like N., as said.

'She-Devils of the Deep': can you explain the significance of this track? I don't even know what it is about. And I have not deciphered the cryptic lyric puzzle.

'Hopeless' is fine, and I realized afresh its intricacy when working it out on my axe the other day.

'Death Opened A Boutique': again I don't think I get the conceit here: what is it saying?

'You Pretend To Be The Moon' is not great; not as good as other Merritt moon songs, probably.

'Blond Adonis', poor yet catchy.

'But You're So Beautiful' I think not great.

I like the title of 'A You You Never Knew', not sure about the rest of the song.

'Real Summer' is quite striking; I like the chords under 'you were / mine' in the chorus.

'Memories of Love' seems to me average Merritt.

'You Steal The Scene' I have perhaps not got the measure of.

I don't like the way that this site - http://www.rykodisc.com/Catalog/dump/rykoalbums_659.asp -

says that ms Gonson finished her PhD in 'a record one year'. That is showing off, and in my country would be a meaningless statistic anyway. I had better stop, I don't want to cause more public offence.

I seem to be talking myself out of my new-found affection for this LP. Oh no!

I adore "You Pretend To Be The Moon" and "You Steal The Scene" - Merritt should make more ambient-pop.

It is quite hard-wearing, this record; I have played it again and again. And again!

http://www.mergerecords.com/blog/2013/03/future-bible-heroes-to-release-new-album-and-remastered-back-catalog-compilation-in-june/

New FBH album, Partygoing, and the back catalogue's getting released on a 4CD/3LP collection.

Nice, was just thinking the world could use another FBH record

http://pitchfork.com/advance/121-partygoing/

i was just thinking the world could use a definitive collection of future bible heroes lps

Hmm, new album starts off well but half way through I just wanted it to end. I'm pretty sure that happened with the last Magnetic Fields album too.