@@eugenekassakov3402 naw, not a ripoff, just influenced. there's joy division, wire, swell maps, damned, buzzcocks, talking heads, fall, etc in here. oh wait, I forgot Elvis Costello (the weather song)
This band is excellent! However, I am having trouble reading the drummers shirt, perhaps for the next album the drummer could get a shirt with larger text.
KEXP does it again! there are so many bands that constantly see around but never get around to listening to. then i see that they've done a KEXP session and i know for a fact that the session will bring out the best in them. guess i'll be getting Ought's records now. Another solid session! thanks to Cheryl for being awesome as alvvays and the rest of the team for engineering/filming these
Yes.... As in exactly the same. - Funny how he didn't sound like that on the first Ought EP. (More like Dream Pop vocals). Someone must have given him a Fall cd and told him they were obscure. (sheesh)
I love the KEXP videos. Especially with Cheryl hosting. Great band. Remind me of The Rikters out of Chicago. Ought's singer has a freakishly long neck.
i was at the polish show - age of 15 by then - and it felt like a concert experience of a lifetime, that one performance which completely changes your perception of what music is about. i havent really recovered from that i wont be able to feel it all over again, being more of a fully shaped person
Thanks Cheryl and all the team for the wonderful guests you get on this studio. Viet Cong, Algiers and Ought performances were all amazing. Any plans to do a session with Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeuld ?!
+Yathera Hm, I've always thought of Back and Forth as very sentimental though. Beautiful Blue Sky sounds more critical of casual social pleasantries to me. I agree with the similarities in sound though, both are amazing bands!
I think in terms of overall content you are completely right. What I meant was the relationship between the two song titles and the role they play within their own songs. Ought is critical while D-plan is nostalgic, but I think they're both reacting to the absurdities of life. Ought looks to the sky for and d-plan dances away their existential panic. Even more similarities in "Beautiful Blue Sky" is the "I'm no longer afraid to dance tonight" line. It reminds me of the chorus of "back and forth". So, there overall worldviews may be very different, but their conclusion is similar.
I believe Pitchfork initially introduced me to these guys. But I've been listening to them more since this session. I would say in a brief sum up 'Talking Heads meets the Post Punk genre' . SUPER creative
by the second song, i'm beginning to understand why #beck won that grammy under such scrutiny, and how this could be some sort of neo-americana revival since #thenational went elsewhere after a few albums, distortion with age
Yeah it’s a fucking shame. They’re took down their website and on the merge records website they aren’t on current artists anymore. I think dude just wants to make solo music now
+Gustavo Lopes I talked to them just before they played kexp. They were pretty exhausted from touring the better part of the last two years, plus releasing a couple albums on top of that.
I know that ought is a semi-modal verb. But the thing I'm asking about is what sort of concept do native speakers of English have in their minds when they see the word OUGHT. What is the MEANING of the word? Does it really have any meaning at all just like the words apple or computer do? I just want to know ^^
No, more the way of singing - the insrumentals dont't sound alike though. You're right there. Thats the reason I talked about a similiar "vibe" I get (which is a very personal/subjektive thing).
