According to the news section of their Web site, they were scheduled to play live as recently as August 3, in Germany. So what's up? Have they traded their stage jobs for desk jobs? Are they stay-at-home dads now?ĭoesn't sound like it. And their most recent original full-length, 1000 Feuer, was released back in 2002. Haven't heard much from Prager Handgriff lately, not since the two-disc Handarbeiten retrospective, from 2005. Arden is a bit more primitive than the work he'd go on to create, but even in these halting pieces, you can almost hear the gears turning (sometimes literally).Ģ8:25 The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud, Were You of Silver, Were You of GoldĢ8:12 Death in June, Operation HummingbirdĢ7:06 Current 93, The Seahorse Rears to Oblivion Arden was one of his many pre-FDS projects, although the music isn't dissimilar-somber keyboards in a neoclassical, post-industrial vein, for the most part. Maybe you know Stéphane Flauder from his main (and I think now-defunct) project, Fin de Siècle. New arrival! 63:34 Stars of the Lid, The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (CD 2 of 2) Then again, I'm pretty sure this is the only song they've ever recorded in both English and German versions.Ģ6:17 Boyd Rice, Death's Gladsome Wedding Never thought I'd say that about a Neubauten song. Normally I can't stand the endless cycle of rereleases (reissue, repackage, repackage, ad nauseam), but since I slavishly buy EPs and singles anyway, why not consolidate? This disc notably contains the English version of "Die Interimsliebenden" ("The Interim Lovers"), which I think I prefer over the German version. Otherwise known as the merging of two CD EPs, Interim and Malediction. New arrival! 46:28 Paulin Bündgen, Étrange SeptembreĢ3:36 Sylvain Chauveau, Un Autre DécembreĢ3:27 Assemblage 23, Let the Wind Erase Me Not just a fragrance from Calvin Klein.Ģ5:33 Hammock, Stranded Under an Endless Sky Because, of course, now I must have every SOTL disc and hunt down other bands that are in their musical neighborhood. That means I need to do some research (and spend some money) all so I can swell the already swollen ranks of my CD collection. And, for that matter, I may as well throw in a bunch of other bands on the Kranky label, which seems to specialize in ambient post-rock, if that's what this can be called. In any case, I'm late to the Stars of the Lid party. Maybe it's the increased emphasis on "organic" instrumentation-delicately and quietly plucked guitars and drone-like strings-rather than an overtly keyboard-based sound. Or even Harold Budd, although that comparison is a little warmer. But there's something very different about Stars of the Lid (and perhaps other ambient bands of its ilk, like Loscil) from, say, Vidna Obmana or Steve Roach. The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (CD 1 of 2)Īs though I really needed to add more ambient music to my collection.
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