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Chapter Two wrote:

Flaneur wrote:Commercial for the new record.

Ho ho!

New Single?

Boring CRAP.

Lucky you're wearing a monocle are a kitty cat... or I'd hiss at you and bat you around the head!

Crap. He can admittedly write a very pretty tune, like 'I Am a Cinematographer' or 'Long Before', but if you're going to make music which is supposedly authentic and heartfelt, it helps if you're sincere too. As there is no real content which I can discern, only style, i'm afraid I can't believe a word of what he says/sings. Pure musical novelty I would imagine to a very large proportion of his fanbase.

File next to your bullshit Tom Waits, Beck and Nick Cave Records.

Isabelle Gall wrote:Crap. He can admittedly write a very pretty tune, like 'I Am a Cinematographer' or 'Long Before', but if you're going to make music which is supposedly authentic and heartfelt, it helps if you're sincere too. As there is no real content which I can discern, only style, i'm afraid I can't believe a word of what he says/sings. Pure musical novelty I would imagine to a very large proportion of his fanbase.

File next to your bullshit Tom Waits, Beck and Nick Cave Records.

now as always, "authenticity" fails us as a measuring stick of musical or authorial merit. who decides who is or isn't "for real?" more to the point, who fucking cares? if the only people to whom you ascribe "authentic" status are coal mining banjo players from 1930's West Virginia (or all non-whites in general, or whatever), then you're actually marginalizing them all over again. of course you are also highlighting the privileged specificity of your presumptions, and all-but guaranteeing to us your "never been a coal miner, never been a black guy" status.

the same problems obtain to "sincerity," of course. it's perfectly adequate to object to will oldham singing about inserting his finger into a woman. but it's laughable to object on the grounds that he really should be singing about his vunerability or lost romance or whatever you take for "actual," "earnest" "content."

also i've never really liked nick cave either. so i'm with you on that.

Isabelle Gall wrote:File next to your bullshit Tom Waits, Beck and Nick Cave Records.

I don't have any. I have plenty of Will though.

I finally saw him perform for the first time yesterday, after listening to the records for ten or twelve yrs. Just him and guitar, so incredible, hilarious, perverse, strange, beautiful...so great.

I just scored a copy of the new album from a friend that reviews records for a living.

It's very produced - More so than any other Oldham album. Lots of strings, and female backing vocalists (the girl from cat power, maybe?). Apparently Jim White played drums on it, but you wouldn't know from listening to it.

At times it sounds like Will Oldham and the Badseeds. It doesn't really sound like any of his previous work, yet it still sounds like Will.

There are a few great, great tracks.

Anyone else heard it? I think it’s released in a couple of days.

Mama Clortho wrote:I just scored a copy of the new album from a friend that reviews records for a living.

It's very produced - More so than any other Oldham album. Lots of strings, and female backing vocalists (the girl from cat power, maybe?). Apparently Jim White played drums on it, but you wouldn't know from listening to it.

At times it sounds like Will Oldham and the Badseeds. It doesn't really sound like any of his previous work, yet it still sounds like Will.

There are a few great, great tracks.

Anyone else heard it? I think it’s released in a couple of days.

That's Dawn from Faun Fables. I've only heard "Cursed Sleep," which I liked very much.

so great...

and what a disapointment as he did that crappy boogie-woogie show when i saw him live.