Listening as I write, very Afterword friendly I must say.
Might appeal to – anyone who contributed to the HJH top ten post
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/22/587248637/first-listen-jonathan-wilson-rare-birds
Stream Jonathan Wilson’s new album a week before release
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Does AfterWord Friendly equate with “grumpy old git who wouldn’t listen again to J Wilson if he was paid”?
LISTEN Lodestone! Listen without prejudice you old goat, this coming from another old goat. Jonathan Wilson is the saviour of music during these dark days, open yer ears then open yer mind.
I hesitate to disagree (he lied). Next you’ll be asking me to name my favourite solo Pink Floyd album
Nyo-ho-ho! Baron you do amuse us.
You’re as likely to get Lodey to listen without prejudice as you are to get Donald Trump to stand in a wind-tunnel reading Proust. In French.
You gotta try Moosey, His Wrongness needs to be woken up from his dreams of Grace Slick feeding him grapes.
These things are obviously generational. I dream of Sonia Aurora Madan feeding me KP Skips.
Thanks- saw this on FB the other day. It’s the first album I’ve looked forward to in a long time. ‘Rolling Universe’ is just gorgeous.
Just wondering – is he like Sufjan’s long-lost slightly-damaged immensely-annoying brother who was separated that day in the supermarket when all those guns started going off?
Yes. That’s him. Those events are the source of some of their greatest material: Sufjan’s cover of ‘Lost in the Supermarket’, and who can forget his anti-NRA song ‘Futile Devices’?
Seems harsh, M. Languelodestone. Wilsons track record is of good, if nostalgic, hippie vibes, and didn’t he kickstart Dawes?
Sufjan is, of course, a dreadful row in a bong shop.
Shh! You’ll wake him!
Huh, what, grump, snore…
I liked Jonathan Wilson’s first two albums, but I’m not so sure about this one. I’ve listened a couple of times and it strays a little too far into Father John Misty realms of pretentiousness for my liking, without the benefit of decent tunes (and I say that as someone who liked the last FJM album). Piper At The Gates of Laurel Canyon, as described on NPR.
Placing my prejudices firmly to one side I took the advice of my friends on here and gave it a play. I was struggling to find the correct word and then along came “Piper at the Gates of Laurel Canyon” – wish I had wrote that…
The tax-dodgers have taken my money so it must be on the way. Seeing as you gave it a listen His Lodesness, I haven’t yet, I like to listen in optimum sound reproduction, I will give a honest opinion on J.W’s latest opus or hopeless. It’ll be sometime next week ‘cos I’m going playing in the snow.
If it is anything like Father John Misty I will have to give it a wide berth although not sure it is.
FJM is a boring pretentious twat of the highest order who thinks he has far more talent than he actually has.
Glad he l8kes the sound of his own voice but I ain’t keen on it.