ulrich schnauss - goodbye

[matt]

his third studio album drops in july but has already leaked.

only listened to it once so far and it doesn't sound a million miles away from his last effort, 2003's a strangely isolated place - lots of ethereal vocal snippets over epic M83-esque walls of melody

check it out...

[dubnobasswithme]

thanks for the heads up!

i'll be on the lookout for this one...

[undarrenworld]

Thx for letting us now, I will wait for this:)

[Dirty0900]

Cheers, looking now

[stimpee]

Its not out in July, its out next month, June 11th and you can get it for 8.99 UK from BlahDVD delivered.

http://www.blahdvd.com/blah/CD_Product.aspx?productid=CD-ISOM68CD-MW

[BufoBufo]

Got the promo this morning. Four tracks in and so far very good :)

[King of Snake]

I downloaded this a while ago, an not being that familiar with his sound I found it all to sound a bit samey, although I pretty much skipped trough the album pretty quickly. The whole overproduced wall of sound thing doesn't really grab me and I don't particularly like M83 either. I might give it anohter chance later though...

[viddy]

"goodbye" on first listen = meh

the last album was perfect all the way through, this one sounds like he just couldn't come up with any good melodies or hooks.

[Professor]

i think it pretty much sucks balls. i love US. i hate this album. as bld put it, it's often unecessarily epic. trying too hard on every track to either be slowdive or slowdive.

[stimpee]

i think it pretty much sucks balls. i love US. i hate this album. as bld put it, it's often unecessarily epic. trying too hard on every track to either be slowdive or slowdive.hey a few years back you were trying to be ulrich schnauss! :p

(i'm joking. please do not get all stroppy :))

[Future Proof]

Woot, resurrecting dead threads ftw!

So yeah, I've been listening to this album alot. On the whole it's very good but there are some problematic spots in it. I think the most bothersome aspect is that the best song on the album imo (Stars) also suffers some production bloat. Especially when the song kicks into the chorus, it blurs out something terrible for a split second and at that moment you lose the timing of the track and the song's power gets bogged down when it should otherwise be hitting high gear. The obvious fix would've been to just mix the percussion higher, but more unforgiveable is that he let the delay, reverb and distorted pad hang out way too long.

And yes, US's Shoegazer love and influence has got to a point to where there's nothing really new here. That's been my biggest problem with US -- he has these brilliant moments where time and space seem to stand still, but then he has these moments where his songs so heavily invoke something done years ago that it ages the whole work entirely. It must suck being Halstead and Goswell, for half of his tracks are an honorable tribute to Slowdive and the other half always end up being a cheap imitation of them and Cocteau Twins, circa 1990.

[Lx_Nen]

Surprised to see so many people not enjoying this one, it's right up there with OWB for album of the year in my book. 'Stars' is simply amazing, as is 'Medusa'.

The 'promo' that was floating around the net had what Ulrich described as 'mastering issues', (I.E. he hadn't realised that he'd overcooked the reverbs quite so much) the finished product is quite a bit clearer, especially noticeable with 'stars' - maybe Future Proof and others had the rough version?

[taoyoyo]

i haven't heard the new album yet at all... i did hear a track on his myspace page a while back that wasn't that great.

i do have the first two albums though and if the slowdive ripoff comments are derived from those then i can see some influences but not nearly as severe and negative as suggested... i don't remember shoegaze bands being quite so into the electronics? (as in synth-based)

some of the first album reminds me more of early omd to be honest, especially in the use of melody.

[pw32]

really good album, not listened to it as many times as i would have wanted to yet though (need to put it on the old mp3 player pronto).

still not a patch on far away trains passing by though imo, definately my favourite of his 3 albums.