Empty Country - Empty Country II (November 3rd, 2023) • Page 2

This is the one.

 

best song he's written imo!

 

probably the best album of the year!!!!!

 

Camp Trash-ass album art

 

hyped

 

oh, so I'm listening to this in a bit more than 2h from now!

 

HELL IS THE PLACE WHERE EVERYTHING HAPPEEEEENNS

 

I'm really looking forward to sitting down with the lyrics for this one.

 

This is great

 

he also added an album he made when he was 17 to bandcamp lol. free download

 

Wish I loved this as it's obvious it was assembled with care and attention, but after a couple of listens not much is landing for me the way the debut did (w a couple exceptions). Also his vox do start to grate on me after a while in a way they didn't before.

 

Excited to check this out. First album was one of the best of 2020

 

So far with the first listen it hasn't made me as floored as I was with the first one, but I did listen very late at night, pretty sure now it requires more energy from me to focus. New All Get Out was an easier listen, I'll def be coming back to both (starting right now hahh)

 

It's definitely less polished, weirder, and more unwieldy in a way that is way less immediate than the debut. It's really good, shares some DNA with Lenses Alien and Pretty Years imo, but definitely requires repeat listens. Excited for my vinyl to ship.

 

hell is the truth seen too, too late

 

excited to listen!

 

Just finishing now, fantastic as expected. Not as tight as EC1 or LOSE but definitely plenty of A level material. Cool S, Dustine, and FLA faves on first listen.

 

Empty Country On How Talk Talk, Joy Williams, & David Berman Inspired Their Ambitious New Album

 

any idea when the vinyl will ship?

 

Yeah so this rips

I saw on Amazon and it said 11/10

 

This is so wildly ambitious and dense that it's probably going to take months before I can fully wrap my ahead around it, but he really did fucking go for it on this album and it's absolutely fascinating and incredible. I can't help but think that, much like CEG's ouvre, time is going to do wonders for how this one is viewed, and the lyricism is insanely cool.

 

The harmonica coming in on "Pearl" is heavenly

"Dustine" and "Lamb" are such cool songs

 

to anyone it may concern my entirely biased and indulgent review for this is up: https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/87863/Empty-Country-Empty-Country-II/

(hopefully have a real cool interview with Joe coming soon!)

 

might actually be AOTY

 

This is really starting to affect me the exact same way that CEG's music always did that made them one of my all time favorite bands.