The Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies

  On 6/12/2011 at 5:38 AM, ieafs said:

they mention in that blog post that the CD will have extra tracks? maybe that's what the digital download version is too

Yes, I assume that is the case. I think it says on the Belbury Parish website that if you order the vinyl from Ghost Box directly you get a free download (including bonus tracks) as well. It would be very odd to sell a version of the digital download that didn't come with bonus tracks.

delighted to see the logotones still exist

this is sounding excessively krautrocky! hearing a lot of neu! in there in particular. i can't wait for this release now.

I know it's just an optical illusion because of the shadowing, but the thumbs look broken on the cover. love, LOVE it anyway

from Boomkat:

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The Advisory Circle's 2008 album Other Channels is one of the best things Ghost Box have ever released, and having kept himself busy since then with various releases on his own Cafe Kaput label, Jon Brooks is now back in AC mode to drop the eagerly awaited follow-up, As The Crow Flies - and what a fiendishly good record it is. As ever with this project, the primary inspiration is the sinister undertones of public information films and wyrd 70s TV broadcasting in general, but As The Crow Flies charts less obviously sample-based territory than its predecessor; this outing is a little less about those hauntological ambiences and paternal monologues (though they're still very much attendant), more about composition and songcraft, with elaborate synthesizer arrangements and elegant folky inflections aplenty. An agreeable psychedelic whimsy characterises the record, but it's not all library music twee; you never know when there's going to be a handbrake-turn into darkness, dissoluton and abstraction: see 'Modern Through Movement', which is proto-techno by way of Berlin school kosmische, and especially 'We Cleanse This Space', a truly eerie, inspired concoction of reverbed children's choir and limpid afro-dub percussion. Hell, closing number 'Lonely Signalman' is nothing short of vocodered pop. This is perhaps As The Crow Flies' greatest achievement: that it manages to the adhere to the very specific rules and requirements of Ghost Box universe while also representing a hefty artistic leap forward for its maker. Terrific stuff.

aaargh give me this record NOW

YEEEAH I WANT IT SOOO BAAAD. STILL NOT IN THE GHOST BOX STOOOORE. I FEEEEEL YOUR PAIN KAIIINIII !!!

  On 6/21/2011 at 1:40 AM, kaini said:

aaargh give me this record NOW

seconded

  On 6/21/2011 at 1:15 PM, fox said:

  On 6/21/2011 at 1:40 AM, kaini said:

aaargh give me this record NOW

 

seconded

Thirded.

Up for pre-order now, for anyone who hasn't checked their emails yet. I bagsied a CD and vinyl.

Someone explain to me why I should preorder a cd rather than wait for it to come out officially in flac. Seriously, I'm willing to be convinced. Part of my problem is that i'll be going off grid on 7/2, so unless they are shipping WELL before the release date to the states, i'm leaning digital. what's the packaging like on their stuff? i've never bought physical product from them.

Their CDs are jewel cases. I have Other Channels and I forget if it has an insert or not. But yeah, jewel cases are bummers.

whose dick do i have to suck to get them to buy me a copy of this on vinyl

i would guess kaini's dick, correct me if i'm wrong

  On 6/22/2011 at 6:44 PM, fox said:

Someone explain to me why I should preorder a cd rather than wait for it to come out officially in flac. Seriously, I'm willing to be convinced. Part of my problem is that i'll be going off grid on 7/2, so unless they are shipping WELL before the release date to the states, i'm leaning digital. what's the packaging like on their stuff? i've never bought physical product from them.

Aside from the graphic design itself (no explanation needed), the cases themselves are unspectacular, and I don't think even the most recent releases come with an insert underneath the tray in the jewel case (I have all of them bar the original Farmer's Angle, but they're stashed away at the minute so I can't check), so basically just a jewel case with a single booklet/front cover although the cardstock used seems very high quality to me. But it's House design, so for me buying the CD is a no-brainer. Plus I don't get too severely bum-raped by postal costs here.

that settles it, then. digital it is.

also: the GB mailer indicated that this is the third advisory circle album. are we really going to call mind how you go (at 18 min) an album?

  On 6/22/2011 at 7:30 PM, KY said:

whose dick do i have to suck to get them to buy me a copy of this on vinyl

 

 

i would guess kaini's dick, correct me if i'm wrong

nuh-uh, i'm broke. i'll have to scrape together my pennies to just get one copy :(

yay, vinyl pre-ordered ! with the digital files it's going to be fine with me....

the online shop has been down all day. it's driving me nuts!

  On 6/9/2011 at 11:20 AM, Caretstik said:

And the artwork, it just screamed 'Wicker Man' at me straight away.

This. And It definitely doesn't just echo it visually. As soon as I heard "Now ends the beginning" I immediately thought of Paul Giovanni's Wickerman soundtrack, specifically the intro to this track.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbkl9NWUBTU

Advisory Circle are excellent, I'm very excited for this release. This might be shaping up to be as amazing as the Broadcast/Focus Group colab album (investigate witch cults of the radio age). Actually the first track on that album is reminiscent of this too! : )

Jon Brooks just posted this picture of the vinyl on Twitter:

  On 6/22/2011 at 10:26 PM, fox said:

that settles it, then. digital it is.

 

also: the GB mailer indicated that this is the third advisory circle album. are we really going to call mind how you go (at 18 min) an album?

The revised version was 35 minutes, maybe they're referring to that? But even so, I agree and even that'd still be a bit of a stretch.

I feel like I should give him credit for carnaki[/], rams and dd denham, but, yeah, calling this the third LP is a huge stretch.

Whilst I wait for my lovely vinyl to be delivered, I've been listening to the new album on Spotify (UK). It really is a beautiful album, and the track, Wheel of the Year, will remind you of Kraftwerk's Europe Endless.

Also, just how gorgeous is the intro to As The Crow Flies.

I can't believe how good this is.

Only halfway into this, but it sounds like a grand convergence between The Advisory Circle, Belbury Poly and The Focus Group (and that was before Further Starry Wisdom). And that is meant as the ultimate compliment. I know I'm not being hasty here.

reviews are starting to show up:

http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6307/advisorycircle-crow-2011