They barely toured at all. Their head person/guitarist guy had atrocious stage fright.
Just chiming in there.
Yeah, I'm aware of that. That's also why some of the songs on their first album are sung by a different person, who technically sounds better but isn't really a good fit for the material at all. Donald Fagen can be an acquired taste, but his vocals fit his material pretty perfectly.
They started touring again in the past decade or two, and that was what I was referring to initially.
So... it's a passive-aggressive "Here are ten other bands who do what Deafhaven does, better. Can we please stop acting like Deafhaven is breaking new ground?" then?
stara rzeka are good, but a few years back they got hailed as like game-changing level of good when they released that album with the red and white cover (can't remember the name) and i listened to it back then, and it was good, but i was inevitably slightly disappointing after how much some of the metal music press had fellated it
I'm not sure if I can even use that as a proper shopping list, seeing that Explosions in the Sky are on there and I remenber considering them kinda lame.
It's possible that I need to relisten to them, since I did last listen to them before I opened up to post-rock somewhat.
also Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die is not quite what i'd call a perfect album lol. i mean its got some pretty kickass moments, Yasmin the Light and The Moon is Down are both great tracks, but imo The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place is much more consistently good.
I still like that Deafheaven's positioned themselves in a way that they get hatred from purists on both sides of the fence, yet they simply don't seem to care.
that just makes me want to like them more, elitism is dumb, there's no inherent truth in genre, all it's good for is descriptive or scholarly purposes imo
well, i guess there's one other thing that 'genre' can mean, and that's to refer to specific music 'scenes'... although that kind of ties back into the whole scholastic thing w/r/t groups of bands in close geographic or social proximity influencing each other... anyway even if it is a bit confusing i dont think scenes existing is /inherently/ a good or a bad thing
They could definitely tighten up their songwriting and album structure, but I enjoy their sound much of the time and I doubt that they would be receiving the flack that they get in quite the same way were it not for genre purism and their popularity outside of the scenes whose styles they take influence from.
Also, they are apparently pretty tight with Danny Brown and a bunch of other less well-known hip-hop people, which is interesting and weirdly logical.
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I am moderately tempted to shell out 20 bucks for The Wandering II compilation because it is almost exactly the length of my flight tomorrow
but iunno, i would rather have the money to spend on things while im there
They started touring again in the past decade or two, and that was what I was referring to initially.
City of Caterpillars is a band i know of but have not listened to
same w/ The Angelic Process
So... it's a passive-aggressive "Here are ten other bands who do what Deafhaven does, better. Can we please stop acting like Deafhaven is breaking new ground?" then?
It's possible that I need to relisten to them, since I did last listen to them before I opened up to post-rock somewhat.
never heard of The Angelic Process before, looks like I have something new to check out now!
well, i guess there's one other thing that 'genre' can mean, and that's to refer to specific music 'scenes'... although that kind of ties back into the whole scholastic thing w/r/t groups of bands in close geographic or social proximity influencing each other... anyway even if it is a bit confusing i dont think scenes existing is /inherently/ a good or a bad thing
anyway elitism sucks
like, I like all the individual bits but they don't quite get them to mesh right imo
maybe the coolest guy?
i cant think of anyone who is cooler
blegh
Let's just hope that they don't fire the small contingent of their staff that understands noise.
Ian Cohen's existence continues to puzzle me.
His Queen of the Wave review gave me that impression, anyway.
(I can't vouch for the quality of the blog. I just linked the first thing I saw that had the quote preserved.)