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A friend turned me on to this new track from Austin's Black Books. His description is pretty spot on: "Sounds kind of like outer space if it was haunted by Nada Surf."

 
wmeugene said:
Destroyer's How We Met gets Pitchfork's Best New Music designation, have enjoyed the singles so far.

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Destroyer: Have We Met

On his masterful new album, Dan Bejar moves like a ghost through his familiar and inscrutable universe.
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Well deserved, if you ask me. I got the lp in the mail Monday, and it's some good stuff. I'm very biased towards Destroyer, so it's bugged me that reception for the last two albums (which are surely growers, but excellent by all rights) has been so subdued.
 
Bull Shannon said:
Well deserved, if you ask me. I got the lp in the mail Monday, and it's some good stuff. I'm very biased towards Destroyer, so it's bugged me that reception for the last two albums (which are surely growers, but excellent by all rights) has been so subdued.
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I never got that either, I loved the last two albums. Just started Have We Met, immediately off to a good start!
 
I've been really enjoying the new Walter Martin album. For those that don't know, Walter Martin played in the Walkmen (and Jonathan Fire Eater), but his solo stuff is far flung from indie rock. His first album was straight up kids music, which maybe has pigeon holed the guy.

The newer stuff gets (appropriately) compared to Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman.

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The Walkmen's Walter Martin Couldn't Care Less About Being Cool

VICE talked to the songwriter about his decades-long career in music, and how the death of his best friend influenced his new album, 'The World at Night.'
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mgp said:
I've been really enjoying the new Walter Martin album. For those that don't know, Walter Martin played in the Walkmen (and Jonathan Fire Eater), but his solo stuff is far flung from indie rock. His first album was straight up kids music, which maybe has pigeon holed the guy.

The newer stuff gets (appropriately) compared to Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman.
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I checked this out and I like it, will need to listen a few more times before I have a real opinion though. It gives me a magical realism vibe although I'm not sure if that term's used in music much.
 
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VERY VERY VERY BAD news for the industry:

A major blow to the record manufacturing industry today. Things will change for new releases....

As we all know, a record begins life as grooves cut into a blank disc - either a lacquer coated disc or a copper coated disc (DMM). With only two manufacturers of lacquer discs in the world, the larger of the two burned down today leading to a severe worldwide shortage. This same company is also one of only two commercial manufacturers of cutting stylii. This leaves the smaller manufacturer, said to be a “mom and pop business working out of their garage” as the only supplier of lacquer master discs in the whole world. Their capacity only allows them to meet only 20% of worldwide demand.

What does this mean to the industry? When disc cutting studios deplete their stocks, lacquer master discs will be in very short supply putting a strain on some 100 lacquer disc cutting studios to remain viable. Fortunately, there are six companies that cut onto copper discs (DMM) which they make themselves so record production will continue.

What does this mean to the consumer? You can expect almost all new releases to be cut on DMM. While DMM has some technical advantages, it often lacks the high level and fat bottom end of a lacquer cut that most people prefer.

As a consequence, having your favourite disc cutting engineer cut your record now seems very unlikely. All DMM cutting studios, except one, are owned by pressing plants so to get a record out you would need to use one of these five which are all fine plants but this limits your ability to choose.

In our case, we have enough stock of lacquer discs for maybe two months and certainly enough to complete current orders. After that and until the situation is rectified, we have sufficiently good relationships with three DMM equipped plants to get your record cut and to feed your addiction for records.

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Selaws said:
VERY VERY VERY BAD news for the industry:

A major blow to the record manufacturing industry today. Things will change for new releases....

As we all know, a record begins life as grooves cut into a blank disc - either a lacquer coated disc or a copper coated disc (DMM). With only two manufacturers of lacquer discs in the world, the larger of the two burned down today leading to a severe worldwide shortage. This same company is also one of only two commercial manufacturers of cutting stylii. This leaves the smaller manufacturer, said to be a “mom and pop business working out of their garage” as the only supplier of lacquer master discs in the whole world. Their capacity only allows them to meet only 20% of worldwide demand.

What does this mean to the industry? When disc cutting studios deplete their stocks, lacquer master discs will be in very short supply putting a strain on some 100 lacquer disc cutting studios to remain viable. Fortunately, there are six companies that cut onto copper discs (DMM) which they make themselves so record production will continue.

What does this mean to the consumer? You can expect almost all new releases to be cut on DMM. While DMM has some technical advantages, it often lacks the high level and fat bottom end of a lacquer cut that most people prefer.

As a consequence, having your favourite disc cutting engineer cut your record now seems very unlikely. All DMM cutting studios, except one, are owned by pressing plants so to get a record out you would need to use one of these five which are all fine plants but this limits your ability to choose.

In our case, we have enough stock of lacquer discs for maybe two months and certainly enough to complete current orders. After that and until the situation is rectified, we have sufficiently good relationships with three DMM equipped plants to get your record cut and to feed your addiction for records.

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Who's the source of this article? I obviously believe that it happened, just curious as to who the "we" is when they say "we have enough stock of lacquer discs for maybe two months and certainly enough to complete current orders."
 
wynn72 said:
Who's the source of this article? I obviously believe that it happened, just curious as to who the "we" is when they say "we have enough stock of lacquer discs for maybe two months and certainly enough to complete current orders."
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Ah sorry, I should of put that. It was from XL Productions, but I took it from a shared facebook post by TheVinylGuide
 
Audiophile labels and pressing plants like RTI, QRP, Pallas, and Record Industry are the just likely to be caught with issues from this... As they basically never use DMM

A lot of mofi and analogue productions is are gonna be out of stock and Gz and other lower tier labels with dmm will have to do more of the work
 
i just get scared because now a lot less vinyl is going to be made.. 80% of lacquers gone means that a lot of great albums coming out this year or so will have no vinyl release since they literally have no way to press it without going through like few places that do DMM
 
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