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Post by riseandfall on Feb 14, 2014 10:54:17 GMT
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Post by blade on Feb 15, 2014 13:42:31 GMT
Great news! I like the new website too - same cover pic as Howlingbells.com in 2005. Let's hope this one lasts longer than the previous ones. Who knows what about Birthday Records?
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Post by incoasterble on Feb 16, 2014 18:10:00 GMT
Fantastic News and I have diarised the date to the max! I'm just so impressed with the teaser - the 70 seconds or so of clips sounding fantastic throughout; at first glance I'll admit I thought 'wow this is reminiscent of a "four piece 'In Time To Voices' era Blood Red Shoes"... in a good way of course, but of course time will tell and there will be so much more to come but affirmative for sure that they've upped their game for real! I know it's already linked above but I'm embedding it here also, due to the general brilliance of it:
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Post by james on Feb 18, 2014 18:31:30 GMT
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Post by riseandfall on Feb 18, 2014 19:02:52 GMT
Sounds good ! You beat me to it!!
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Post by xanthein on Feb 18, 2014 21:05:47 GMT
Sounds awesome!
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Post by riseandfall on Feb 19, 2014 8:54:22 GMT
Wonder when the single is out...
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Post by james on Feb 19, 2014 11:09:18 GMT
Okay so I've listened to the single and read the interview now.
Interview: Nothing particularly new. What does the interviewer mean by Radio Wars being 'ish'? Really like the phrase 'emotional, moody barrel of songs'. The interviewer could have done a bit more research before banging on about how well Howling Bells have done to stay together for 10 years. We are mysteriously missing an original bassist after all!
Slow Burner: Like every new Howling Bells release I went into it REALLY wanting to like it. I'm not sure how I feel at the moment though (it could though well be, appropriately, a slow burner for me....) I like the sound and the feel of the song but am not convinced by the lyrics (I haven't really been since the first album). Strangely sounds a bit like Best Coast in parts. I do like it, I guess I just go into Howling Bells songs with very high expectations. If I was being hyper critical I'd say that overall quality wise its the kind of half decent, fairly straight forward song that would have been a b-side for the band 10 years ago (like 'The Wild' or 'Starry Eyes'.
Still feeling very optimistic about the new album, really liked the sound of the teaser. I'll probably completely change my mind about Slow Burner after a few more listens too!
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Post by mike on Feb 20, 2014 0:02:48 GMT
Slowburn gets a mention in this weeks NME's essential new tracks. I'm to lazy to write it all but here's a slice "Slowburn is a moody, magnificent slab of gnarly coyote rock" Seems fair enough !
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Post by riseandfall on Feb 20, 2014 7:46:30 GMT
I couldn't believe NME actually liked something I like - they slated The Loudest Engine
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Post by james on Feb 20, 2014 13:12:06 GMT
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Post by james on Feb 20, 2014 13:17:32 GMT
This might sound strange but I'm really encouraged by the style of the promotional photos that we're seeing at the moment. While around Radio Wars it was all about a reaction to the first album and lots of colour and TLE was all about the psychedelic desert, this time it seems to be very simple black and white moody shots. Very reminiscent of the first album era.
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Post by riseandfall on Feb 20, 2014 16:44:12 GMT
Love the simplicity of the album title actually - elegant, I like it
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Post by incoasterble on Feb 26, 2014 21:55:31 GMT
'Blues Rockers'... The latest in 'genre-lisation'... Perhaps a slight hint as toward what is coming? /As easily as it could be a description of them in the now, Looking at their music from prior era's I kinda think it sounds better than 'Gothic something' or 'Folkish' - whilst I can perceive why perhaps those words have been applied by media in the past... I dunno, certainly I think the 'Moody rather than Dark' yet with people quite often bringing that dark subject up can be summed up quite nicely by 'Blues'. I think there has always been a bit of unnoticed 'country' influence, as well as the 'folk' more often alluded to, alongside the relatively obvious blues and rock. But hey, what about 'pop'? Really they write incredibly good 'pop' songs, if you see a show I think the less fan based gig-goers do find their music noticably easier to get 'into' than many a band's. I guess whilst I don't envisage them as being directly similar to bands like Blues Pills or Deap Vally, 'Blues Rock' is one of the better top line descriptons I've heard over the years.. In my honest opinion they totally do rock in every sense, so it's good to be hearing that at the beginning of the latest cycle of release & etc.. /muse On subject of expectations, I think it's noteworthy that the Howling Bells Soundcloud page within the last few months posted up a certain selection of songs from the past, which also I note are along the lines of what has been listed on in the more recent sets.. I like the recent photos, and agree they are reminiscent of album one but showing more maturity and bite all the same. I really liked some of the imagery they were posting up occasionaly in the period leading up to the album, which could have been 'transitional' or perhaps 'indicative'? To my mind the relative simplicity, greyscale and slightly 'dark' or moreso 'bluesy' undertones work really well for sure.
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Post by tarik on Feb 28, 2014 2:06:31 GMT
I can't wait for the record. Still so many days til june. That almost kills me. I feel like I'm 18 again when I waited for new Oasis records to come out. A feeling I really missed.
Just to clear things up: Slowburn is a f*ckin' mega track. So much power and energy. I've been repeating it on Soundcloud for days now. Fantastic stuff!
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