Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 6:28 am Posts: 756 Location: Seattle Gender: Male
So... I'm thinking I have the utterly unique privilege of discovering this fine band in a sort of bass-ackwards kind of way... My first listening (and enjoyment) of them via the newest album, and then essentially working my way backwards from there... culminating in the epic last album, 'Entering' (which I can't even imagine at this stage!)... Currently, I'm smack-dab in the middle of enjoying the glorious 'second album' right now, i.e., 'Geneva', and Holy God!!!!
_________________ "Just like Ulysses on the open sea, on an odyssey of self-discovery..." - Brendan Perry
I've heard a little bit of these, but not nearly enough. I remember I liked what I heard years ago... This album is quite impressive. The sound is really organic and sometimes surprisingly lo-fi, which is gonna have to take some getting used to considering the style, and the drumming is (occasionally) slightly sketchy considering the complexity of the whole (especially if you've spent a lot of time listening to Meshuggah lately). But apart from that... thumbs up. It'll grow, it just sounds a bit more sludge than tech. Which is fine.
Brian Cook plays bass in the band and he's been doing a tour diary for their current European tour. He also played in These Arms Are Snakes and Botch. Anyways, here are the links. Pretty good read
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 6:28 am Posts: 756 Location: Seattle Gender: Male
deep wrote:
Brian Cook plays bass in the band and he's been doing a tour diary for their current European tour. He also played in These Arms Are Snakes and Botch. Anyways, here are the links. Pretty good read
Joined: Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:00 pm Posts: 19826 Location: Alone in a corridor
That's awesome. I was at this show:
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Kortrijk, Belgium
The hotel last night was an Etap. Etaps are basically the European equivalents of Motel 6 or Super 8. They’re really cheap, but they’re always decently clean. They’re also kind of hilarious. They always have bunkbeds and they don’t have seats on their toilets. Instead of keys, each door has an electronic passcode.
We meet in the lobby. Korey and George are waiting downstairs, both looking haggard. Kerry rolls in a few minutes later with cuts and bruises on his face. Winds up Kerry and George got in an argument in the taxi on the way back to the hotel and it turned into them choking one another. Then when they tried to check in to the hotel, they didn’t know their room numbers. Korey was trying to figure it out with the guy at the front desk, but in the meanwhile Kerry and George continued to yell at each other. The argument got violent again when they were trying to get into their rooms, and eventually the three of them were kicked out by security. So they wound up walking around Paris until it was time for us to leave for Belgium. There’s a lot of tension in the lobby.
Tonight’s club, De Kreun, is one of my favorite venues in Europe. The club itself is really modern, well-maintained, and laid out perfectly. The hospitality is great too. Everyone at the club is super friendly, we’re able to do laundry, and we get fed lamb chops for dinner. Unfortunately, there’s still a lot of tension in the Deafheaven camp. But the more information we get about the ordeal, the funnier it gets. Apparently at one point in the hotel scuffle, Kerry’s glasses got knocked off and landed in the elevator, which promptly closed and went to a different floor. And they apparently knocked over a big potted plant when they were beating each other in the lobby, and George frantically tried to scoop up all the pebbles while telling the staff that they had just accidentally bumped into it. And my favorite detail: at the peak of the violence, George asked Kerry "had enough yet, bitch?"
It’s all very entertaining for us, but it definitely seems very serious for Deafheaven. It’s a pity, because the show is great but the drama is hard to escape. After the show we meet up with my friend Tim from the Belgian band Maudlin. He’s brought an assortment of Belgian beers for us to try out. Tomas and the Deafheaven van head to the hotel while we hang out in the venue bar past closing time.
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