Finally, new Stars of the Lid in April 2007!

"December Hunting for Vegetarian Fuckface" sounds like the title of a Fall outtake.

The font and placement is very similar to the Tired Sounds Of Stars of the Lid, my very favorite SOTL album (and one of my faves in general), and this is also a 2CD/3LP deal, so I have very, very high hopes for it. I also feel like Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie have done some outstanding work on their own during the nearly 6 year SOTL hiatus, so...yep. Although, the Pitchfork news bulletin on this mentioned that they live far apart from each other now, in Europe and the United States. I guess these days it's common and easy to collaborate by sending files back and forth, but before hearing anything from this, I wonder if they might have done a better job in the same room together instead.

08 Even If You're Never Awake (Deuxième)

was on the Kranky Kompilation thing and it a favorite of mine. Can't wait to get this.

you don't miss nothing.they are boring.

look i can be an asshole and put random words in quotes as if it makes some kind of point too.

"alert.jpg"
":O"
"very good"
"aye this is grand news"
"street cred"

oh no, i can never handle discussing music with the big boys! quit being a faggot

This seems like the most logical place to put this. But I don't know what it means.

that is because i'm not a total fuckhead.

in that case, do i need to get excited about something that i know is going to sound like pleasingly calm ambience that i generally like to put on during my sleep and therefore do not really consciously take in anyway?

/devils advocate

(i typoed that as "defils advocaste" - i like!)

That's the difference between Growing and Stars of the Lid, to me. Growing music feels like droning (and I guess uses guitars and feedback), whereas SOTL, although definitely an ambient drone band, are more melodic.

Then pt. 2 rolls around with a different variation on the same theme, and about a minute and a half in, this simple bass line comes in, and it's impossibly cathartic.

I can definitely see someone listening to them and not really getting what all the fuss is. It took me a good month to fall in love with The Tired Sounds of because I kept falling asleep during the first half of the first disc. Then one day I listened to it while home sick with a cold, and it clicked. That was the first ambient album I came to love, actually.