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Continuing my run of reccomendations. I'm sure I've done this before, but like Domestica by Cursive, I'm listening to it more.
Entire album is a muted, depressing piece of strings, echoing guitars, cymbals and lovely rippling effects. The cover sets the scene - an ambiguous hand drawn/painted cloud, yellow and black, swarming over a scene - really rather random, and quite beautiful in a way.
Anyway, opens with 'Land and Water', which perhaps sets the scene best - muted emo-rock is perhaps the best way to describe it, and yes, it is depressing. False Cathedrals is far more lively than this - it's even happy at times, but the songs here aren't the usual crappy 'i'm so sad because the girl all the bad guys want left me' - Songs such as 'Believe' and 'Carry On' suggest (at least) a beautiful sense of emotion - the muted style, strings and rippling guitars and effects amplify this immesaurably. Don't really like 'Beijing (Too many people) so much, although I understand its sentiment. 'Drag Like Pull' is somewhat FC Elliott - instrumental track, a bit more rocky but very crashy and 'thick' for lack of a better word. 'Bleed In, Breathe Out' is a decent track. The title track is a gorgeous sting led song - piano and stings and haunting, almost storm like, for lack of a better word, effects and sounds from guitars - wonderful. 'Away we Drift' is just class. Murky, pulsating, yet laced with a melodic guitar that is really aided by the rhytmn guitar and the poulsating drums/bass. 'Blue Storm' is a cracking finisher, and 'Genea' is an experimental and weird final track - which only adds to the muted atmoshpere.
And yes, my SSC6 piece was heavily influenced by it.
Seriously, if you're looking for some music that is quiet, reflective and yet somehow violent and powerful at times, you can go do wrong with this - I'm sure you'll all think it's depressing, but it really isn't, it's music that makes me think and helps my imagination. After all, I have Weezer, Stairwell and other bands for the times when I'm in a flippant mood.
Not as good as False Cathedrals (Lipstick Stigmata being an almost god-like song) but certainly, if you see it on Amazon (nowhere else really!) buy it, I implore you. Dark, haunting, muted, rhythmic, yet laced with beautiful guitars, wonderfully quiet and powerful vocals. And yet some parts, if turned up loud, are really quite 'strong'. And it might be muted and quiet at times, but it is certainly not sad or depresing simply because of this - quite the opposite.
I await US Songs eagerly. Elliott are on of my top 3 bands, easily.
Entire album is a muted, depressing piece of strings, echoing guitars, cymbals and lovely rippling effects. The cover sets the scene - an ambiguous hand drawn/painted cloud, yellow and black, swarming over a scene - really rather random, and quite beautiful in a way.
Anyway, opens with 'Land and Water', which perhaps sets the scene best - muted emo-rock is perhaps the best way to describe it, and yes, it is depressing. False Cathedrals is far more lively than this - it's even happy at times, but the songs here aren't the usual crappy 'i'm so sad because the girl all the bad guys want left me' - Songs such as 'Believe' and 'Carry On' suggest (at least) a beautiful sense of emotion - the muted style, strings and rippling guitars and effects amplify this immesaurably. Don't really like 'Beijing (Too many people) so much, although I understand its sentiment. 'Drag Like Pull' is somewhat FC Elliott - instrumental track, a bit more rocky but very crashy and 'thick' for lack of a better word. 'Bleed In, Breathe Out' is a decent track. The title track is a gorgeous sting led song - piano and stings and haunting, almost storm like, for lack of a better word, effects and sounds from guitars - wonderful. 'Away we Drift' is just class. Murky, pulsating, yet laced with a melodic guitar that is really aided by the rhytmn guitar and the poulsating drums/bass. 'Blue Storm' is a cracking finisher, and 'Genea' is an experimental and weird final track - which only adds to the muted atmoshpere.
And yes, my SSC6 piece was heavily influenced by it.
Seriously, if you're looking for some music that is quiet, reflective and yet somehow violent and powerful at times, you can go do wrong with this - I'm sure you'll all think it's depressing, but it really isn't, it's music that makes me think and helps my imagination. After all, I have Weezer, Stairwell and other bands for the times when I'm in a flippant mood.
Not as good as False Cathedrals (Lipstick Stigmata being an almost god-like song) but certainly, if you see it on Amazon (nowhere else really!) buy it, I implore you. Dark, haunting, muted, rhythmic, yet laced with beautiful guitars, wonderfully quiet and powerful vocals. And yet some parts, if turned up loud, are really quite 'strong'. And it might be muted and quiet at times, but it is certainly not sad or depresing simply because of this - quite the opposite.
I await US Songs eagerly. Elliott are on of my top 3 bands, easily.
Got FFF?
Amazon Marketplace.
No better place to buy anything needless.
Got a book for £1.50 (plus P&P of about £2), brand new. Hot damn. RRP £6.99. The Descent incidentally, as people have reccomended it. Scarily interesting book.
Change as in US Songs is a far more rocky album. Very good, but the difference is clear - Song in The Air is far superior, but so less rocky, or less evidently so. US Songs is almost typical rocky emo stuff, but damn good stuff at that. Not a patch on False Cathedrals though, albeit some songs on that are weaker than others. But Lipstick Stigmata, Blessed By Your Own Ghost and Lie Close are genius.
No better place to buy anything needless.
Got a book for £1.50 (plus P&P of about £2), brand new. Hot damn. RRP £6.99. The Descent incidentally, as people have reccomended it. Scarily interesting book.
Change as in US Songs is a far more rocky album. Very good, but the difference is clear - Song in The Air is far superior, but so less rocky, or less evidently so. US Songs is almost typical rocky emo stuff, but damn good stuff at that. Not a patch on False Cathedrals though, albeit some songs on that are weaker than others. But Lipstick Stigmata, Blessed By Your Own Ghost and Lie Close are genius.
And HMV say 10 days. Better
'Tis where I got Dredg from as well, which is nice
'Tis where I got Dredg from as well, which is nice
Change - how so?
Amazon says 4-6 weeks. Gah.
Anywhere else?
Amazon says 4-6 weeks. Gah.
Anywhere else?
Got US Songs today.
My God, how a band can change in 5 years!
Elliott rule.
My God, how a band can change in 5 years!
Elliott rule.
Boosh. Mission accomplished.
Trust good.
Trust good.
Away We Drift, eh?
I can't remember why or where, but the name Elliott rings a bell, and feelings of likingness.
And I just got a new job - so next pay check, here it comes.
I'll trust you on this one.
I can't remember why or where, but the name Elliott rings a bell, and feelings of likingness.
And I just got a new job - so next pay check, here it comes.
I'll trust you on this one.
Continuing my run of reccomendations. I'm sure I've done this before, but like Domestica by Cursive, I'm listening to it more.
Entire album is a muted, depressing piece of strings, echoing guitars, cymbals and lovely rippling effects. The cover sets the scene - an ambiguous hand drawn/painted cloud, yellow and black, swarming over a scene - really rather random, and quite beautiful in a way.
Anyway, opens with 'Land and Water', which perhaps sets the scene best - muted emo-rock is perhaps the best way to describe it, and yes, it is depressing. False Cathedrals is far more lively than this - it's even happy at times, but the songs here aren't the usual crappy 'i'm so sad because the girl all the bad guys want left me' - Songs such as 'Believe' and 'Carry On' suggest (at least) a beautiful sense of emotion - the muted style, strings and rippling guitars and effects amplify this immesaurably. Don't really like 'Beijing (Too many people) so much, although I understand its sentiment. 'Drag Like Pull' is somewhat FC Elliott - instrumental track, a bit more rocky but very crashy and 'thick' for lack of a better word. 'Bleed In, Breathe Out' is a decent track. The title track is a gorgeous sting led song - piano and stings and haunting, almost storm like, for lack of a better word, effects and sounds from guitars - wonderful. 'Away we Drift' is just class. Murky, pulsating, yet laced with a melodic guitar that is really aided by the rhytmn guitar and the poulsating drums/bass. 'Blue Storm' is a cracking finisher, and 'Genea' is an experimental and weird final track - which only adds to the muted atmoshpere.
And yes, my SSC6 piece was heavily influenced by it.
Seriously, if you're looking for some music that is quiet, reflective and yet somehow violent and powerful at times, you can go do wrong with this - I'm sure you'll all think it's depressing, but it really isn't, it's music that makes me think and helps my imagination. After all, I have Weezer, Stairwell and other bands for the times when I'm in a flippant mood.
Not as good as False Cathedrals (Lipstick Stigmata being an almost god-like song) but certainly, if you see it on Amazon (nowhere else really!) buy it, I implore you. Dark, haunting, muted, rhythmic, yet laced with beautiful guitars, wonderfully quiet and powerful vocals. And yet some parts, if turned up loud, are really quite 'strong'. And it might be muted and quiet at times, but it is certainly not sad or depresing simply because of this - quite the opposite.
I await US Songs eagerly. Elliott are on of my top 3 bands, easily.
Entire album is a muted, depressing piece of strings, echoing guitars, cymbals and lovely rippling effects. The cover sets the scene - an ambiguous hand drawn/painted cloud, yellow and black, swarming over a scene - really rather random, and quite beautiful in a way.
Anyway, opens with 'Land and Water', which perhaps sets the scene best - muted emo-rock is perhaps the best way to describe it, and yes, it is depressing. False Cathedrals is far more lively than this - it's even happy at times, but the songs here aren't the usual crappy 'i'm so sad because the girl all the bad guys want left me' - Songs such as 'Believe' and 'Carry On' suggest (at least) a beautiful sense of emotion - the muted style, strings and rippling guitars and effects amplify this immesaurably. Don't really like 'Beijing (Too many people) so much, although I understand its sentiment. 'Drag Like Pull' is somewhat FC Elliott - instrumental track, a bit more rocky but very crashy and 'thick' for lack of a better word. 'Bleed In, Breathe Out' is a decent track. The title track is a gorgeous sting led song - piano and stings and haunting, almost storm like, for lack of a better word, effects and sounds from guitars - wonderful. 'Away we Drift' is just class. Murky, pulsating, yet laced with a melodic guitar that is really aided by the rhytmn guitar and the poulsating drums/bass. 'Blue Storm' is a cracking finisher, and 'Genea' is an experimental and weird final track - which only adds to the muted atmoshpere.
And yes, my SSC6 piece was heavily influenced by it.
Seriously, if you're looking for some music that is quiet, reflective and yet somehow violent and powerful at times, you can go do wrong with this - I'm sure you'll all think it's depressing, but it really isn't, it's music that makes me think and helps my imagination. After all, I have Weezer, Stairwell and other bands for the times when I'm in a flippant mood.
Not as good as False Cathedrals (Lipstick Stigmata being an almost god-like song) but certainly, if you see it on Amazon (nowhere else really!) buy it, I implore you. Dark, haunting, muted, rhythmic, yet laced with beautiful guitars, wonderfully quiet and powerful vocals. And yet some parts, if turned up loud, are really quite 'strong'. And it might be muted and quiet at times, but it is certainly not sad or depresing simply because of this - quite the opposite.
I await US Songs eagerly. Elliott are on of my top 3 bands, easily.