Have you guys heard that Grails CD?

[Firedwarf]

It's mentioned on the Aquarius site right above Kayo Dot. I like it a lot.

 

[TrevJ]

Man, the Aquarius site is awesome. I wish I'd known about this earlier... so many samples of potentially interesting bands. The Pelican samples sound pretty cool; they kinda remind me of Isis, which is good.

 

[deadair]

it's a great album...

 

[FuSoYa]

I heard a few songs and thought it was really pretty, but lately I've been not wanting to spend money on things like this. I mean they use pretty standard tonalities and kind of draw attention away from it with pretty timbres... while it sounds really really nice I'd rather hear something that explores new tonal palettes.

 

[Firedwarf]

New tonal palettes? Like which artists?

(craving music!)

 

[Space Ghost]

Pelican is awesome. I love 'em.

I've been meaning to listen to some Grails. Guess I should check out the samples...

 

[deadair]

toby, i totally understand what you are saying.



while the album is good, it isn't anything new. the only way i would have it in my collection is if i got it for free (which i did).

 

[FuSoYa]

Firedwarf, I really don't know. When I find something I'll let you know.

 

[FuSoYa]

By the way this one I just got yesterday which is really beautiful is by Broken Social Scene. It's supposedly a pop project started by members of Toronto art bands like A Silver Mt. Zion and others. Anyway it's really pretty.

 

[mindspell]

A Silver Mt. Zion are not from Toronto.

Anybody listened to the Soft Canyon CD? Really nice..

 

[avi]

this is pretty mind blowing: http://www.wingmusic.co.nz/listen.html

 

[IanDork107]

I like the Grails album. Some of it isn't anything special but it's got a few really nice moments. Still, as with most "post-rock" it's taken for far more than it actually is. I read that some dude in Neurosis decided to destroy his TV while listening to Grails. Pfft...

 

[FuSoYa]

mindspell, from pitchfork:

"what I didn't know was that all of them have been wandering from band to band within the wildly experimental Toronto music scene for years, or that they all came together from groups like Stars, Do Make Say Think, Treble Charger, A Silver Mt. Zion, and Mascott-- miraculously with the unified goal of making pop music."


can you blame me?

 

[mindspell]

No, I don't blame you. Pitchfork might be right and a member might have paricipated in A Silver Mt. Zion album but the fact remains that the trio of composers of ASMZ are Efrim, Sophie and Thierry, and they all are based in Montreal. Do Make Say think, Treble Charger are from Toronto though.

I have no idea how somebody in Treble charger ended hooking up with bands from that art rock scene, that band is commercial pop rock that is always on radio around here... They did the American Psycho movie soundtrack too....

 

[IanDork107]

I like Do Make Say Think the best out of the post rock groups.

 

[deadair]

do make say think is tops in my book.



(i still have yet heard the new album though)