The Year of the Horse

Princess Alice

I totally had to be the one to start this thread. Happy Chinese New Year everypony!

Sredni Vashtar

Imipolex G

Sredni Vashtar

Section42L

Justice4243

Fossilmaiden

Sredni Vashtar

This song, that Sufjan track, and that Partydog panel officially make this the best thread on HH. No question.

Also Fossilmaiden's Trojan hoss.

Sredni Vashtar

Actually, better:

This is for Centie.

Imipolex G

There are actually no horses in this video, but I recommend watching it anyway.

Justice4243

MetaFour

So happy Sredni posted that Sufjan track before I had to. I listen to that album every time the Chinese New Year rolls around.

Tanya

What a weird coincidence.

MetaFour

Not sure if serious. Just in case: Enjoy Your Rabbit is an album about the Chinese Zodiac. Great listening any day of the year, but especially appropriate on the Chinese New Year.

Sredni Vashtar

Yep. It's a wonderful piece of work from Sufjan's first experimental period.

He's in his second one right now, which is exciting, although I wish that he would do more stuff. Speaking of which: Meta, if Sufjan Stevens releases another album, make sure that I know about it as soon as you find out, because you will probably know before I do. Thank you in advance.

One-Winged Eagle

It's the Spring Festival.

MetaFour

Sredni Vashtar said:

He's in his second one right now, which is exciting, although I wish that he would do more stuff. Speaking of which: Meta, if Sufjan Stevens releases another album, make sure that I know about it as soon as you find out, because you will probably know before I do. Thank you in advance.

Sisyphus. 18 March 2014. It's a collaboration, so it may not "count" as a “real” Sufjan album, but the single “Calm It Down” has me interested.

Sredni Vashtar

I heard the EP that they did as s/s/s. It was definitely good, but not amazing. Maybe this new release will change my mind.

glennmagusharvey

I lost it when horse + motorcycle -> airborne.

Hexartes

Hexartes

Please view that image full-sized. It is an absurdly high resolution picture.

glennmagusharvey

It took me a while to get the joke but now I get it.

glennmagusharvey

"You're making a big mistake!"

Odradek

One day in the year of the horse came a time remembered well.

MetaFour

Sredni Vashtar said:

I heard the EP that they did as s/s/s. It was definitely good, but not amazing. Maybe this new release will change my mind.

My thoughts pretty much, too.

Haven

LOUIS VUITTON - Chinese Lunar New Year 2014 from Mustashrik Mahbub on Vimeo.

Klinotaxis

MetaFour said:

So happy Sredni posted that Sufjan track before I had to. I listen to that album every time the Chinese New Year rolls around.

damn i should totally do that

i could listen to current93 on a yimki but i'd forget about it because who uses a lunar calendar

Sredni Vashtar

You listen to Current 93, Klinotaxis?

Klinotaxis

i've tried to several times because i'm all about that gnostic motherfuckery but it's too avant-garde, i always give up and listen to something more conventional like basinski

Sredni Vashtar

First time I've heard Basinski referred to as "conventional," even in jest. Which albums have you heard?

Also, Kex, that photo is turning an already slow page into a nightmare of loading misery. Please change it to something smaller.

Klinotaxis

black ships ate the sky

Sredni Vashtar

Hmm. That one is about mid-level difficulty as far as Current 93 is concerned. I would recommend the studio album Soft Black Stars and the live albums Cats Drunk On Copper and As The World Disappears... as introductions, seeing as they collectively cover most of the group's styles from about 1991 up to the "Black Ships" era without getting too weird. I would follow that in turn with Thunder Perfect Mind (from which sessions comes "Our Lady of Horsies") and All the Pretty Little Horses, then, once you have properly steeled yourself, the truly demented stuff: Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God, Nature Unveiled and I Have A Special Plan For This World.