Conor Oberst - Ruminations (October 14 2016) Album • Page 12

Perfect.

17 tracks.

 

Damn sick

 

hell yeah

 

Album thread btwwwwwwww

https://forum.chorus.fm/threads/conor-oberst-salutations-march-17-2017.12498

 

i fuckin love this album so much

 

i wanna see deesaparecidos live again so bad

 

Yea I listen to this one over salutations for some reason. It’s just got this rare honest quality that’s difficult to describe.

 

And it's not bloated as hell like Sal.

 

I feel now that this record is one of his very best, it's hard to say something like that given how incredible RM/SS, fevers, and i' m wide awake are but this album truly showcases his innate strengths as a songwriter and lyricist and is ironically the first time he masters vulnerability

Also I think with time it's clearer to see how outstanding his work is, he's not the most consistent artist by any means but he has this effortless skill for folk/pop song structure and poignant encapsulations of mundane life and it's unfortunate that his talent's always been shadowed (through no fault of his own) by his artistic persona

For some reason I always relate him as an artist to modest mouse, though there are no obvious musical similarities. Between this and the unreleased BE stuff he seems to be at a peak again, which is exciting

 

still find this one pretty boring and one-note for the most part. I don't think Salutations is a huge step forward overall, but those versions of the songs are definitely better

 

My introduction to these songs was seeing him play them in a huge church and that experience definitely helped me appreciate them as much as I do

I could see this record coming off like that if you're not into its lyrics but the minimalism to me just makes the emotional weight of the narratives heavier, it resembles the life of the world to come a little bit and specifically genesis 30:3

 

RSD Drops to Feature Conor Oberst, Randy Newman Vinyl - Nonesuch Records

 

i read that as a Conor/Randy collab and now i'm way less interested lol

 

4 new bonus tracks is cool at least

 

its cool but i dont think it's spend money on the new pressing cool, assuming/hoping this new edition will be available streaming.

 

Yeah, I love this record but I don’t need another copy.

 

I first confused ruminations with salutations and immediately thought "what's left to add??"