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I love this album, which one of theirs should I listen to next? I enjoyed the overall sound of Long Division but it's a bit boring compared to their debut.
Also looking for less-known slowcore recs. I already know Duster, Carissa's Weird, Ida, Bedhead, Red House Painters and Codeine
the Christmas EP
>>61095427
Rivulets
the curtain hits the cast
itsa good un
>Also looking for less-known slowcore recs.
pic related is a must-listen for any slowcore enthusiast imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLpm1wAjqkY
also, the white birch is a bretty gud slowcore band
some songs:ohia is great slowcore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEG8atbIka8
>>61095561
thanks, I really enjoyed this
>>61095490
sounds good, reminds me a bit of Karate
this board is too fast for me. give me a minute
My favorite Low records were always Secret Name and Things We Lost in the Fire. A bit more melody and craft than earlier, but they didn't fully turn on the bright and the rock until later. I could be wrong, but I think Secret Name seems to be a concept album about the book of Revelations.
If you know about Ida (they know about you!), Karla's other band Beekeeper was also good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O47CTq1kU2s
And Ida covered a song by Secret Stars (Geoff from Karate)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db2HHYo-nHg
Duster's alter ego Valium Aggelein made my favorite slowcore album of all time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDZscPeY6rY
some other recs:
Chris Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0rIf6BUgK4
Tel Aviv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEK1X3ubPTk
The For Carnation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT914z1X2mw
Grouper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrE1G1Sh24E
>>61095427
Is this slowcore?
I think it's slowcore and it's wicked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5Se-9XAVE
>>61095427
>>61097397
Def recommend this, OP. My favorite low album is secret name. I once met Alan and Mimi and told them that. they said they like it too lol
>>61095469
great choice as well
>>61097454
not slowcore. at all. It's good but that's just too poppy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlR1MusZceQ
>>61095427
>American Music Club
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Bsa32zrNc
Virtually invented slowcore, helped Red House Painters get recognized and signed. AMC had a really good mix of reverb heavy vocals, rock instrumentation, and guitars. Check out California, Everclear and Mercury. Mark Eitzel has a really good solo career and Vudi their guitarist was in the final lineup of Swans back in the 90's
>>61097487
>>61097454
ahahahahahahahahahaha
I meant to post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4VCUkEq1JA
>>61095561
>>61095427
Also OP if you want some good rec's on Ohia's discography check out Axxess & Ace, Didn't It Rain, and The Magnolia Electric Co. Often more folk/alt-country/indie but songs like Redhead border on acoustic slowcore. Super fucking depressing lyrics too because he ended up becoming a massive alcoholic and dying because of it later in life (despite never drinking until the early-mid 00's due to an alcoholic mother)
>>61097454
This is not slowcore to a hillarious degree
>>61095561
Nice, but I can't have you mention Songs:Ohia without mentioning older Palace/Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy. His stuff was beautiful and bleak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvuEPwujrUw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f5IuJu7nio
>>61097589
HIGHLY recommending Bonnie/Palace/Will Oldham stuff. Much like Songs, it's more alt-country but heartbreaking nonetheless. I See A Darkness is a must have.
>>61097507
never heard this. very pretty
>>61097607
Also if it makes Bonnie Prince Billy cool he shot the cover photo for Spiderland
>>61097624
>Palace
>Slint
>David Grubbs (Gastr Del Sol)
>John Mcintire (Tortoise/The Sea and Cake)
>Rodan
For a short time in the early 90's, Louisville, Kentucky was the indie rock capitol of the world and no one knew until much later.
>>61097528
Yeah this is fucking fantastic
>>61097528
I cannot imagine myself listening to this for pleasure. It makes me feel supremely uncomfortable , like sitting with a woman after she's just had an abortion or miscarriage or something.
>>61097844
kek
wat
>>61097844
This is the weirdest reaction to that video imaginable. Can't tell if troll or not.
>>61095427
>bedhead
mah nigga. whatfunlifewas is GOAT
>>61097589
I've never seen him categorized as slowcore. He's still great either way.
does starflyer 59 count as slowcore
talking about silver and gold era
>>61097608
Yeah he's kind of a lesser known slowcore god.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arAImHiR1ck
>>61097844
This is among the most fedora thing i've read on /mu/
>>61097927
Do you like Haywire?
>oh...you're my friend... that's what you told me...
>did you ever notice..the kind of thoughts i've had
>>61097877
>>61097915
>>61097991
Did you listen to the song?
What kind of person would get up and perform and constantly repeat lyrics so aggressively self loathing? And in an atonal pleading monotone? Why would anyone sit there, listen to it and then clap for it when it was over? Makes me feel enabling and gross.
try Bluetile Lounge, my favorite slowcore act period, Alan Sparhawk himself got them signed onto a label.
they made one album and one EP, they're both the shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oaYWFcXDvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir70GjpyEW8
>>61097454
Damn thats some funky shit
>>61098066
>There are people who think this song sounds better an old dying country singer.
Well, when I put it like that it could be pretty good, but Will's version was better.
>>61097975
Awesome
>>61098100
You have to be trolling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFLw26BjDZs
>>61098206
Yeah, i mean Johnny did a good version but he did it in a way that was predictable. Will has this creak in his voice and just how melancholy it sounds makes it substantially better
>>61097528
Yeah, approved
>>61098293
Wow, you got me with this. You are truly an idiot if you can't see that Heroin is a love song to a drug and that Lou loved his fucked up life. That other lady just needs to kill herself.
>>61098414
Lou didn't use heroin, he was a speedfreak buddy
>>61098453
Good point, guess my argument is meaningless then...
>>61098118
also: Love, Claire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNQFYEoHuv0
it's about as obscure as you can get, only released one EP worth of slowcore directly to tape and then vanished forever, i don't even know anything about them besides that they recorded this.
>>61098489
Meaningless as your life.
>>61098414
Okay guys ignore the troll already
>>61095427
Trust is the way to go breh, my fave of theirs. Also try pic related.
>>61098118
Liner's their only good song though
>>61097844
>>61098100
DIdn't realise slowcore would attract such blatant misogyny
Underrated as fuck band.
baka cuck desu senpai
>>61098899
u got dubdubs
>>61098100
Do you get uncomfortable when you listen to any sad song ever?
I'm an absolute pleb, especially when it comes to Slowcore. But I really enjoy Low, Duster, Giles Corey, Valium Aggelein and Crywank. Can anyone recommend me?
>>61099344
Oh and Carissa's Weird and Codeine were bands I enjoyed too.
>>61099344
Yeah I'll recommend you to my agent.
Also I noticed that you didn't mention Red House Painters which is the most essential slowcore bad along with Low. First two albums of theirs are must-listens.
Sparklehorse can get pretty slowcorish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzKd_ApQq4E
>>61099344
These >>61097397
are my recs. Just spend some time and read/listen to this thread. Many good recs besides mine.
>>61100058
Alright. Thanks. I'm enjoying these already.
Calling them full-on slowcore might be a stretch but I'd say latter Cranes albums have their moments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYpsKQlYcWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCYOdDLos08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ_USrWG1W4
No one really talks about this band. Too 90's Chapel Hill rock to be considered slowcore, too slowcore to be considered 90's alt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e5o-S-h2yo
>>61100614
Cheers.
Since you're interested in Duster/Valium Aggelein, I HIGHLY recommend these early, unreleased Helvetia tracks I've collected over the years. Helvetia is Jason and Dove from Duster. They're still around, and are great, but only infrequently sound like Duster or slowcore at all. These songs feel close to the Duster aesthetic. They are also wonderful. Enjoy.
https://mega.nz/#!U49gjbaL!fVBlC230jmawmQySC-UYTzdWiENskrnyTSGZulppLvg
>>61100839
Thanks man. I appreciate it.
>>61100911
>>61100839
Every once in a while Helvetia unearths that sweet Duster sound. This is from their last album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je0045XE7Xs
Can we start having /slow/? This is how /emo/ started and slowcore is easily my favorite genre.
>>61095427
Curtain Hits The Cast and Things We Lost In The Fire.
Whatever you do don't listen to Bluetile Lounge, they are shit.
>>61101272
Emo has a zillion more bands and lots of subgenres. We'd have to allow incorporating some quiet folk, ambient, space rock and krautrock.
>>61095469
I also recommend Rivulets, and Ida too
>>61100698
Port of Charleston is one of my favorite songs of all time.
>>61101434
Krautrock and Spacerock are a bit too far? Maybe more like chillout and post-punk?
>>61097454
This is the funniest thing I've seen on mu, even funnier that it was an accident
>>61101434
Some Alt-Country, Americana and Dream pop
>>61101516
Chillout conjures different emotions and most post-punk is pretty abrasive.
>>61101568
I would possibly be on board with this...
What's Americana?
Would it be like those Ry Cooder soundtracks or Calexico?
>>61098755
I don't think that word means what you think it does
>>61101652
Bonnie Prince Billy, Bruce Springsteen- Nebraska, Uncle Tupelo, Ryan Adams- Heartbreaker
Stuff like that
Is Ghosts of the Great Highway slowcore?
>>61101751
I certainly think so, with some folk influence
>>61101783
That album is so fucking rad, Carry Me Ohio is a perfect song.
Just reposting from the other thread with Duster in the OP.
OFFICIAL DUSTER RELATED ALBUMS TIER LIST
Amazing Tier:
Valium Aggelien (All of Duster just switching instruments)- Hier Kommt der Schwartze Mond
Valium Aggelien- Dweller on the Threshold
>The packaging for this cassette included a fucking syringe
Duster- On the Air
>Live radio performance from around Stratosphere, contains unreleased "I'm the King" and a beautiful version of Stars Will Fall with and extended organ/guitar duet outro until Clay shits all over it because he wanted to stop.
Helvetia- unreleased web download shit >usually Jason, Dove and others, this stuff is just Jason solo stuff from around Stratosphere
Great Tier:
Apex, Trance-Like 7"
Transmission, Flux 7"
"Capsule Losing Contact" from Zum Audio Vol. 2 compilation
Stratosphere
Contemporary Movement
1975
Helvetia- The Clever North Wind & The Gladness Sessions
>Jason and Dove post-Duster
Eiafuawn (Everything is All Fucked Up And What-Not)- Eiafuawn I/II/III/IV, etc
>Clay solo post-Duster, self-released/web d/l
Fotosputnik- Idiolects
>nobody from Duster, just an awesome space/krautrock band from Chicago Clay released on thestaticcultlabel
Good/still worth checking out tier
Duster- demo #1/demo #2/the christmas album/other unreleased web d/l's
Eiafuawn- Birds in the Ground & The Modulator Hustle
Breasts- s/t
>Clay band post-Eiafuawn
Parton Kooper Planetarium- s/t
>Last Clay band that I know of.
Not my bag/kinda shitty tier:
Calm- anything
>Clay and Dove between Mohinder and Duster, mid-paced fuzzed out space rock instrumentals
Caanan Amber (Dove solo)
and any other bands Dove was in without the other two.
Saved this copypasta
>>61101824
Carry Me Ohio and Duk Koo Kim are probably my favorite Kozelek songs.
>>61101855
HOLY SHIT!!!
You actually fucking saved my whole post! Thanks dude.
>>61101855
>>61101855
>>61101855
do you have any information on where to get dweller on the threshold?
it is my favorite album of all time and nobody knows what it is.
>>61101884
Listen to Duk Koo Kim while watching the fight
It's a whole new experience.
>>61101855
After that, someone posted that Clay is in a new band.
https://twoboysalright.bandcamp.com/releases
Bruh listen to The Curtain Hits The Cast it's fucking amazing, better than their debut in my humble opinion.
>>61101972
I will for sure, Thanks mate
>>61101970
You mean a physical copy? Because if you honestly looked online and couldn't find a download, I can upload my copy.
>>61101750
Of those, I've only heard Will Oldham. Do you think the others share an aesthetic with Low/Duster?
I was thinking of something more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ymVaq3Fqk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBSidn2tNEo
>>61102131
Yeah i think so, all have the western sad vibe like the Ry Cooder songs you posted.
>>61101970
I totally didn't upload this or anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYglkoaBjGg
Also, if anyone is interested, this is a live recording of Duster in 1999.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-f4m9OXZYM
>>61101568
Dream pop slowcore can be an awesome synthesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RwuOtmR288
>>61101970
Alright, I uploaded Dweller on the Threshold
https://mega.nz/#!hxt1maRR!ShCvKJrrHIBBMrkCsljLirzOtYYHRvXT0CZTkSaKgPI
Also here's some (maybe unreleased) Eiafuawn (Clay from Duster) songs
https://mega.nz/#!IwFkxLDC!WYVyKF--gWbl-R2db7oBpNMng6aiVcJLCjz7AgVvZfU
>>61102563
Thanks. Haven't heard this.
Someone posted this unreleased Duster album the other day. Not as great as the other ones, but still nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGg91YC99GI
Anyone who hasn't already should check out Love Claire. Really great lo fi slowcore
>>61101717
what does it mean?
>>61104424
Wow, I'm listening to Nightingale and researching the band.
One album. 4 songs. Only released on cassette. And no one claims to own it. If that's not an oversight I don't know what is.
>>61097528
Yeah f da h8r this is good
Best RHP album?
>>61104991
DCH
