“How”, off Not To Disappear by Daughter.
Wussy have a new album, Forever Sounds, out this week:
![Wussy - "Dropping Houses" [Official Video]](https://i0.wp.com/i.ytimg.com/vi/PdtUwzK1dWE/0.jpg?resize=720%2C388&ssl=1)
Underworld have a new one out in a few weeks too (I find this video hilarious and cheerful):
What are you all listening to?
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Listening to: The 28 minute version of Low’s “Do you want to waltz” that they played at Rock The Garden (needless to say, it *droned* the garden, and some in the audience, expecting rock music, weren’t happy, but that’s Low). Songs: Ohia, “Didn’t it rain?”, I’m nowhere near finished plumbing the depths of the late Jason Molina’s discography. And then the theme song for this campaign season, Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth”. 🙂Report
I remember we discussed that Low thing around here a while back. My position was that I like drone, and I like Low, and artists should do what they feel needs to be done; but even I might have been annoyed, had I been there.
Hey, I know you post a lot of good music at your own blog (I peek over there, whenever you comment here and remind me to) – would you be interested in doing a guest Wed. Music Post here sometime?Report
So many memories.Report
I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree about that Low performance then. I wish I could buy a hi-resolution mp3 of it to put on my iTunes. Well, I guess I could rip the video, but Alan and Mimi don’t get any dough if I do that. Sigh.
I am incredibly busy right now, so guest blogging on someone else’s blog is just not possible. I’m hard pressed to keep posting on my own blog, sigh.Report
I haven’t heard the performance in question, I just think that doing it as part of a daylong festival at which those in the audience are probably tired, hungry, hot, thirsty, crowded, and footsore, might not be the ideal conditions to appreciate it.
And like I said, that’s for me, a fan of both Low and drone in general. You are almost guaranteed to alienate the casual listener. Low can and should do what they want, but if it were me, I’d probably save the 28-minute single drone for an intimate nightclub setting for only the people who paid to see Low. Everybody’d probably be happier.
And the guest post offer stands, if things ever slow down for you. I know the feeling, my work is so demanding right now that these posts have been pretty thin gruel. Thanks for reading/commenting on them anyway.Report
The Low performance was the first performance of the day on the main stage due to rain, and the crowd was, at worst, a bit damp and chilled, decidedly not hot, thirsty, or footsore, and started wandering in as Low set up (something that took a couple of minutes mostly for sound check because Low’s setup is a few pedals, a guitar, a bass, and a minimalist drum kit). Low was given thirty minutes for a set due to the rain delay and had to tear up their previous setlist. They decided to do something beautiful. They did.
And Low has never cared about alienating the casual listener, not since their early days when they were playing in indie bars and getting pelted with popcorn and beer because they insisted on playing slowcore rather than indie rock. That’s Low. If you bought a ticket for a festival where Low is a headliner, it’s real dick move to whine that Low is, well, Low. It’s not as if they’re an unknown band to Minnesota audiences given that, well, they *live* there. Everybody there should have been familiar enough with their home-town bands to know that Low doesn’t “do” dance music. Just sayin’.
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That was pretty nice, and I wasn’t aware of the circumstances surrounding Low’s choice to play what they did.Report
Ah, like that Daughter song.Report
The album’s pretty good. Kind of Cat Power vs. Beach House.Report
Yeah, I went straight to Spotify. It’s good.Report
really digging this soundtrack still:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOptp0XqTg8
film is excellent, if odd, and pg-13 for sure.Report