doubledagger

I don’t know if this is as good as it was hyped/I thought it was going to be, but I have listened to That’s My Floor approximately three thousand times in the last twenty four hours, so.

Every time I start this record I’m blown away by how beautiful and heartbreaking Marigold is. After that… it’s fine?

Gorgeous warm ambient soundscapes. The recording is immaculate in a way that doesn't feel live particularly, almost in tension with the occasional cough / chair scrape from the crowd - the bursts of applause and moments where Frahm talks to the audience feeling like abrupt wake ups.

Dares to ask the question: “What if one of those late era forever delayed legacy albums was actually really good?”

Early on my thought process was that I was really enjoying it, but if it was gonna keep doing the big atmospheric instrumental intros, I was gonna end up bored. It kept doing those. I did not get bored in the slightest.

I was always sort of into their previous stuff (Twenty-Two Strings especially) but this is a step above for them. They’ve hit on songs with a real groove and everything is just fuller - the step up to a four piece making the difference maybe.

Title track Norther is definitely up there for song of the year for me.