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Post by Carlo on Apr 18, 2014 21:15:20 GMT -5
Far too excited. Song for Five and Six gets better and better the more I listen to it. Golly, those Synths are great. Everything around and including "Do you agree, or disagree" is just brilliant, and those percussive hits make it even more interesting. There is so much energy in it. So much emotion in it, and after "boys on the ball" when it sounds like the strings come in with the Synths for the superpolyphony near the end... I don't know what to say.
^It would be hard to say anything but "It's fucking deadly, listen to it!". I am fangirling in the best possible way.
It's funny since I did know this song and have heard it many times before from the many live videos on Youtube, but the Studio version is just a different beast!
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Post by slayer13 on Apr 18, 2014 23:42:02 GMT -5
Arcade Fire aftershow with Owen has been added to the ATL date. So stoked and didn't know where to post this so here we go! Ack!!! I'm gonna die of excitement
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Post by Owen from Final Fantasy on Apr 22, 2014 13:10:22 GMT -5
The record has been pushed back to May 26/27, but will still be available at all release shows. Record Store Day backed up the pressing plants, no biggie! we got this. Here's a video Robert Binet choreographed and Jeff Scheven directed for Song for Five & Six, feat. students from the National Ballet School of Canada www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr_SbrFIuKA |
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Post by Carlo on Apr 22, 2014 13:21:43 GMT -5
Wonderful video!
Boy this wait is probably gonna kill me. Will do anything for someone/pay much money for someone that wants to pick me up a record and send it to me from one of the shows (seriously)
Also: is the release on digital formats affected as well?
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Post by Alyssa! on Apr 22, 2014 16:14:12 GMT -5
It took me about 5 listens to get the 'sound' of "The Riverbed" going, and I'm gonna have more trouble with "Song for Five and Six." I had to build a whole different set of listening expectations to match the shift away from orchestral timbres and instruments. I guess synthesizing is an automatically personal enterprise; it forces the issues of timbre in a way that is easy and stupid to ignore in 'orchestral' records, which is exactly what I'd been doing. Not that we even know orchestral instruments that well. But these timbres are very new to me, and I'm finding that without the psychological arc of the album I'm having trouble placing things in "Song for Five and Six" in a place I understand. I'm going to have to unlearn much of what I expect about Owen's music, rough for somebody who relies/bounces off it. But that's exciting. And it's balanced with all the other ways you're placing yourself and framing a listener's approach to the self. Still, I think I might avoid further videos until the release date. I need the arc.
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Post by moop on Apr 22, 2014 16:52:52 GMT -5
The record has been pushed back to May 26/27, but will still be available at all release shows. Record Store Day backed up the pressing plants, no biggie! we got this. Here's a video Robert Binet choreographed and Jeff Scheven directed for Song for Five & Six, feat. students from the National Ballet School of Canada www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr_SbrFIuKAAw, bummer that this affected the digital release too (at least on iTunes...) Which shows constitute as "release shows"? |
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Post by sohakes on Apr 22, 2014 16:55:40 GMT -5
I already bought the album online but I'm going to the show here in Toronto haha. Well, I guess I will cancel the order if I can.
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Post by mattgcn on Apr 24, 2014 7:31:40 GMT -5
The record has been pushed back to May 26/27, but will still be available at all release shows. Record Store Day backed up the pressing plants, no biggie! we got this. Here's a video Robert Binet choreographed and Jeff Scheven directed for Song for Five & Six, feat. students from the National Ballet School of Canada www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr_SbrFIuKAAw, bummer that this affected the digital release too (at least on iTunes...) Which shows constitute as "release shows"? Yeah, was the 3-days-before-release Toronto show originally a release show? |
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Post by Owen from Final Fantasy on Apr 24, 2014 14:32:39 GMT -5
They were all release shows. We were always going to have product available for the shows, in advance of official digital+retail release. It is a bummer that the digital release is pushed back to be synchronous with CD + vinyl release, but unavoidable. I don't think it's a big deal! if you pre-ordered the digital version, just download a leak (if/when it leaks)
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Post by Alpentine on Apr 26, 2014 15:00:37 GMT -5
Wonderful video! Boy this wait is probably gonna kill me. Will do anything for someone/pay much money for someone that wants to pick me up a record and send it to me from one of the shows (seriously) Also: is the release on digital formats affected as well? I can do this, but it's only a two week difference. You'll survive. |
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Post by slayer13 on May 3, 2014 13:34:53 GMT -5
Saw Owen play last night for the AF After Show at the Masquerade in ATL. I sadly missed the beginning of his set, though I don't think I missed too much. When I arrived I could hear him playing from outside, and I think (I think?) he was playing The Butcher. But it was hard to hear and it was a long day so maybe not. But the songs I did hear:
Tryst with Mephistopheles
The Great Elsewhere
Song for Five & Six
?? [Bridle and Bit]
Infernal Fantasy
The Dream of Win and Regine
The Riverbed
The '??' song was a new one that Owen said they had only played once before. I couldn't place it and the word I remember was 'shoulder' and the only song that I can see that showing up in is Soldiers Rock which I know has been played multiple times. Soooo who knows
It's Bridle and Bit
But the show was amazing!! As always. Owen had two others play with him and I liked the new sound. Very tight and bombastic. Got to say Hi afterward and Owen was gracious as always. Wish he were coming to ATL to play a full proper show for the new album, but just glad I got to catch this.
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Post by cobblestone on May 3, 2014 18:20:41 GMT -5
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Post by cobblestone on May 3, 2014 18:26:54 GMT -5
i guess technically there's at least one other recording but we don't have access to it yet so semantics
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Post by slayer13 on May 4, 2014 14:48:18 GMT -5
Yup!! That's it. It was killer |
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Post by sarpedon on May 6, 2014 2:38:25 GMT -5
So guess what just leaked?  |
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