WarHenRecords wrote:Title track to Heart Like A Levee premiered today too.

Based on the 3 songs I've heard, unless the remaining tracks are nothing but personal insults aimed at my family and favorite sports teams...this will be my AOTY.

You will see it on a lot of year end lists for sure.
By far the fest Hiss record.
Vestapol is very good too as a companion LP for those who ordered the deluxe version.

Heart Like a Levee vinyl is on the truck for delivery today.

Looking forward to hearing this. Have withheld from listening to any tracks thus far.

The last ten minutes were an emotional roller coaster (slight exaggeration). Hadn't received a shipping confirmation yet so I tried to find my original order confirmation. Couldn't find that either, so I started to panic that I hadn't actually ordered the record. Began imagining a dark future without a copy of Vestapol. Emailed Merge and they responded immediately with the tracking information. The record is literally sitting at my front door.

Duke Silver wrote:The last ten minutes were an emotional roller coaster (slight exaggeration). Hadn't received a shipping confirmation yet so I tried to find my original order confirmation. Couldn't find that either, so I started to panic that I hadn't actually ordered the record. Began imagining a dark future without a copy of Vestapol. Emailed Merge and they responded immediately with the tracking information. The record is literally sitting at my front door.

WHEW

http://www.rollingstone.com/country/pre ... ee-w443043

new album is streaming

Duke Silver wrote:http://www.rollingstone.com/country/pre ... ee-w443043

new album is streaming

Nice. Thanks for posting that.

When I got home, there was Heart Like a Levee in my mailbox. Kick ass! Like how the digipak actually has the disc tray this time (always find that essential- have torn far to many digipak cases trying to get the disc out).

Who has listened? What does everyone think?

Well after only one listen, I must say I am impressed. Need more listens though, and I already know I will like it even more. Random 1st thing that stands out to me: Phil Cook's piano- loved it on the last record too, especially on "Day O Day".

WarHenRecords wrote:Who has listened? What does everyone think?

75% of the way through my first listen, completely blown away.

WarHenRecords wrote:Who has listened? What does everyone think?

I haven't heard but a few cuts from the studio album but heard all of Heart Like A Levee performed live last year at Duke University. Looking forward to checking out the record (plus the bonus album) on Friday. The concert made a huge impression on me, not just the music but the presentation. The entire evening was emotional considering it was the day after the Paris shootings on November 13th.

One of my biggest regrets was not attending one of those Duke performances.
Heard nothing but amazing things.
Thankful that I get to see this band every night for a month starting next week tho.
Hope some of you guys can make it to a show, you're in for a real treat.

It's gonna be really tough for me to make any of the shows on this tour. Originally I thought I could swing both the Madison and MPLS shows, but now I've got people coming in from out of town that weekend and it's just not gonna happen. Pretty bummed about it tbh.

WarHenRecords wrote:One of my biggest regrets was not attending one of those Duke performances.
Heard nothing but amazing things.
Thankful that I get to see this band every night for a month starting next week tho.
Hope some of you guys can make it to a show, you're in for a real treat.

I'm looking forward to folks getting turned onto The Dead Tongues (Ryan Gustafson), who is not only a current member of Hiss Golden Messenger but is also a tremendous talent in his own right. He is opening a bunch of shows on the tour in support of Heart Like A Levee. I was first introduced to his music through the Drug Horse collective when I first moved to Raleigh in the late 00's which opened my ears to a wide variety of music from Max Indian to Megafaun, Mount Moriah, Josh Moore, etc. all of whom shared band members (thus, the "collective" part). Ryan released an excellent album earlier this year called Montana that is a must hear and one of my favorite albums of 2016.. I'm hoping he sells tons of copies on this tour. I have also been astounded by Tift Merritt's return to this area and how she has been embraced by M.C. Taylor, Brad and Phil Cook, etc. I can't wait to hear what her next record is going to sound like.

Yeah Ryan/Dead Tongues is really great. Stoked to see him (and Phil and Tift!) open a bunch of these shows!

Duke Silver wrote:

WarHenRecords wrote:Title track to Heart Like A Levee premiered today too.

Based on the 3 songs I've heard, unless the remaining tracks are nothing but personal insults aimed at my family and favorite sports teams...this will be my AOTY.

it goes deep in the tear down of Tom Mees.

Nothing but AB and Heart Like a Levee all week. Gave HLaL a bunch of listens including the all important 'car test'. Album of the Year? Not an exaggeration to me. Sorry Sturgill. AB also a candidate as well.

HGM's best since Poor Moon?

watch a free live streamed concert tomorrow at noon eastern time.

Hiss Golden Messenger Free at Noon – Fri, Oct 7 @ 12:00pm EDT

http://www.vuhaus.com/live/hiss-golden- ... ee-at-noon

211poundsofpork wrote:Nothing but AB and Heart Like a Levee all week. Gave HLaL a bunch of listens including the all important 'car test'. Album of the Year? Not an exaggeration to me. Sorry Sturgill. AB also a candidate as well.

HGM's best since Poor Moon?

Yes and yes. Listened to side A of Vestapol this morning and it is equally good. What a roll this guy's on right now.

Duke Silver wrote:watch a free live streamed concert tomorrow at noon eastern time.

Hiss Golden Messenger Free at Noon – Fri, Oct 7 @ 12:00pm EDT

http://www.vuhaus.com/live/hiss-golden- ... ee-at-noon

Anyone watch this? I missed it and it doesn't appear to be archived. Unless I'm looking in the wrong place, which is a possibility as the vuhaus website is a nightmare.

Duke Silver wrote: Anyone watch this?

Watched it in person!





Met up with Van and saw HGM's free at noon set at World Cafe Live today.  They played about 5 songs, all from the new record I think.  The band really sounded great (Phil Cook on keyboards).  They've got so much fucking soul. Wanted to buy the new CD but there was no merch table. Watching HGM, hanging with Van and drinking a couple of Southern Tiers makes for a damn fine lunch hour.

No question AOTY.
Tour starts Friday! See y'all out there.

Haven't spun this one yet. Saw HGM (well, just him) at a festival a couple of years ago and he was interesting but not something I was blown away by. I see tons of support here, though, so will definitely listen

Zip City wrote:Haven't spun this one yet. Saw HGM (well, just him) at a festival a couple of years ago and he was interesting but not something I was blown away by. I see tons of support here, though, so will definitely listen

He was an acquired taste for me. I had a difficult time getting past his voice at first. One of the things that drew me in was the caliber of local musicians he works with which includes (but is by no means limited to) members of Megaufan, Mount Moriah, Mountain Man, Mandolin Orange, the Dead Tongues (Ryan Gustafson) and more recently, Tift Merritt.

Here's the torrent of that show mentioned above

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-deta ... ?id=573594

Hiss Golden Messenger
WXPN Free at Noon
World Cafe Live
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
October 7, 2016

Lineage: LIVE Webcast -> rtmpdump -> FFmpeg (edit) -> .ts
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x720 16:9 2350 Kbps 29.97 fps
Audio: AAC 128 Kbps 48.0 KHz stereo

Hiss Golden Messenger celebrated the release of their brand new record, 'Heart Like a Levee'
by treating the World Cafe audience to a gorgeous buffet of deep grooves and heartfelt vocals.

Setlist:
Biloxi
Say It Like You Mean It
Cracked Windshield
Like a Mirror Loves a Hammer
Happy Day (Sister My Sister)
John the Gun

TRT = 00:28:34

Typical Pitchfork. Score of 8.2, review reads like a 10. Wouldn't want to have anything vaguely rootsy cluttering up their "Best New Music" (8.5+) section.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/223 ... al_twitter

wwcd, how would a torrent-challenged person go about getting mp3s of that show?

http://www.wnyc.org/story/hiss-golden-m ... in-studio/

Full band live performance/interview on WNYC

Duke Silver wrote:wwcd, how would a torrent-challenged person go about getting mp3s of that show?

Sorry, I have no idea, since it's webcast video. I have no idea how one would then convert the video (.ts file) to audio (mp3). I know it can be done but its above my knowledge, capabilities, and software. I am fairly certain there is someone here who knows how to do it, but it ain't me, alas......