New Phideaux album "Number Seven" now out

Ha, don't take it personally that I felt I had to justify myself. I'm often a very awkward communicator, so I usually make it a practice to try again if people don't up and agree. Also, I'm not so good at picking up joshings through the internet.

It's hard to tell if you're trying lots of new things because I still haven't heard two (three, if you count that first one) of your albums. From what I've heard, you're going in a fun way. Love Theme is, by the way, a wonderful piano business. Few artists these days who try to incorporate jazz into their music do so effectively, but it sounds great in that one. I'm still always thrown by the Ruffian trilogy--it's just so heavy and toying with metal that it doesn't seem to fit into your music style. I love that kind of stuff. And the more progressive disco you can include, the better your music will be.

As far as I can say, the only consistent elements to your music is the slow, spacey sort of vibe that much of it seems to carry, even in short simple songs like on 313.

Mine's on the way:

Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with
sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.

A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make
sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing.

Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over
the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money
can buy.

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party
marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of
Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in
our private CD Baby jet on this day, Thursday, July 9th.

I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby.  We sure did. 
Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year."  We're all
exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Sigh...

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CD Baby

I'm trying to quell my completionist mania. So I'm at least going to make sure that I don't buy Friction just because...

Ha, that's not what I mean, Phideaux. I meant that initial reactions to new albums always move more towards an average rating over time. I really do love it, honestly, but at this point the only people who have it are those who decided to buy it straight away, i.e. predetermined fans. I'm commenting on a general trend from this site. That's all. It will still stay rated pretty well, though by the time it reaches (if it reaches) the number of ratings that Doomsday Afternoon, it likely will be a bit lower. I could be wrong, though. I'm just guessing.

Well, you see, lately I've been going for really different sorts of things. Mike Patton projects, some avant-garde things, experimental things, etc. You compose wonderful melodies and songs, which is the part of music that a lot of those prior genres fall short in. Again, I'm not sl*gging your music. Compared to Radiohead or something, you're off the charts in terms of weird. But compared to maudlin of the Well, you're pretty straightforward.

Venturing into cacophony and bizarreness in your music sounds great to me. But truthfully, if you keep writing with the quality that has marked your music since at least Ghost Story. This is a fan's vote of confidence, don't you worry. But the artists I respect the most are the ones who can sit on the level of everybody else, of their fans, and discuss things. And that's where you are, and that's a good part of what's cool about you and your music creation process.

I didn't mean it in a derogatory fashion.  When I fall for an artist and find I have get everything in their catalog, I consider myself a fanboy.

Edited by Slartibartfast - July 10 2009 at 16:19

I know the PX discography is on my list.  I really enjoy most of Chupacabras, especially the title track (and, strangely enough, "Party," which I thought was really weird at first).

Chupacabras arrived last night, too. So now I just have The Great Leap and Fiendish to go to have all of them. Hm. Anyways.

Did you notice how high Phideaux and Number Seven are stacking in terms of the front page? I mean, you know how when people search for an artist a lot, they show up in that list on the main page. Phideaux is something like the third most viewed or something lately. Also, Number Seven appears to be the first album since June to boot Black Clouds & Silver Linings from the most-viewed album spot! Well done, Phideaux, you've generated some interest.

Also, the ratings on Number Seven, while certainly going to drop, are still pretty impressive at the moment...

Incidentally, shrews apparently are very much loner rodents. They hate other rodents and they really hate other shrews. That's why they got really pissy in my bedroom. You know.

I really enjoyed what I heard. A few more listens through and I might be up for reviewing it. We'll see. Looking forward to 7 1/2, though.

It arrived this afternoon! I'm putting it through the spinner at the moment, and I'm really liking what I'm hearing.

I am having trouble, though, feeling any empathy for shrews. A few weeks ago, a couple of them got into our basement (where I live currently) and were tussling it out at three in the morning. Very unpleasant, squeaky, and unexpected. So I'm going with the sea-bugs on this one, land-mammal though I may be. Hm.

avestin wrote: On the last seconds of the album when the music's over, there's a male voice saying: "That rocked". Who is it? Was it intentional to have it there?

wow, i just wrote a whole longwinded post that has disappeared.  Suffice it to say that's Rich, our trickster drummer, caught on tape.  He always says something quippy after every take.  I believe this was him after Storia Senti.

On the last seconds of the album when the music's over, there's a male voice saying: "That rocked".
Who is it? Was it intentional to have it there?



Edited by avestin - July 07 2009 at 18:06