#Trypes

[dustedmagazine]

Wild Carnation — Tricycle (Delmore)

“The Rising Tide” buzzes in on a breezy blast of distortion, its guitar lines flaring into droning dissonance, the drums crisp and minimal, the bass a subtle through-line in a deliriously murky roar. The sound filters Velvet Underground fuzz through the jangling exuberance of early R.E.M., and except for its fluttering, trebly vocals it could easily put you in mind of the Feelies. No coincidence there.

Indeed, Wild Carnation was one of an interlocking circuit of New Jersey bands that shared members—and a certain buzzy, drone-y, jangly aesthetic—with the Feelies. It formed around 1992, after the Feelies first hiatus and included Feelies bassist Brenda Sauter, her husband Rich Barnes and drummer Chris O’Donovan. (In terms of intricate interconnections, Sauter and Barnes already played together in Trypes, and they were also in Speed the Plough.)

This Record Store Day release collects the original songs from Wild Carnation’s first album, demo versions of seven of these 12 tracks and what looks like the entirety of a 1997 live gig in Hamburg, Germany. Thirty-one cuts in all, it provides a sweeping view of Wild Carnation’s early incarnation (there was another album called Superbus, some 12 years after the first). If the band was overlooked before, it is fully represented now.

And really, that’s a good thing, because there’s not a single dud on Tricycle. From the noise-addled propulsion of “The Rising Tide” straight through to the folk-picked intimacy of “Shaker Tune,” the main album cuts are uniformly engaging, and you get to hear them more than once, in various iterations.

For example, “Susquehanna 142,” a nod to the trains that crisscross Garden State sets up a hazy, mesh of intersecting guitar picking and lilting vocal descants. If you like that, and how could you not, the compilation provides additional context in the form of a barer, folkier demo and a pensive live version that brings out the tune’s dreamy side. Later, “The Lights are On (but No One’s Home)” blares and buzzes with feedback, a dirty crust under its careening, multi-voiced harmonies. A live performance brings the main melodic line to the front, emphasizing its hooky, poppy side and submerging the roar of amps.

The live cuts also provide a peek into Wild Carnation’s influences, with covers of Patti Smith, Neil Young and the sister band Speed the Plough. Barnes challenges the audience to name the band that wrote one of the most obscure covers, offering a free CD to anyone who gets it right. The CD goes unclaimed because even among the most ardent German audience, no one besides the band is very familiar with The Grass Roots. The song — “Wait a Million Years” — fits pretty neatly into Wild Carnation’s aesthetic, though, with sharp, power pop guitar licks, bashing rhythms and a melody that is both triumphant and minor-key melancholy.

You could certainly approach Tricycle as a Feelies side project, noting its similarities and thinking a lot about whether the music is better or worse. But this extended reissue argues for considering Wild Carnation on its terms, with stronger folk roots and careening, often thrilling vocal parts. Delmore will be putting out a similar package around Superbus in the fall, and even if it’s as long as this one, it seems like a pity that there wasn’t more.

Jennifer Kelly

[ozkar-krapo]

The TRYPES

"Music for Neighbors"

(LP. Pravda rcds. 2022 / rec. 1984) [US]

[duplexide]

Curious if you're doing ArtFight, and if not, may I draw you something anyways?

I unfortunately don't really have the time or work ethic for artfight even though I'd like to take part in it (I currently don't even take commissions and am struggling to update my comic). It's a really cool concept though and if anyone wants to draw my characters that'd be sick!! Here's the clearest references I have for each of the protags of Vegabond. If you or anyone else decides to draw them let me know so I can post it on here and eventually on the Vegabond website!

[bandcampsnoop]

6/27/24.

We posted about Smoke Bellow's release for Trouble in Mind back in 2021. I guess I didn't really dive into their catalogue back then because I know I would have been smitten by "Blooming/Middling". This is an excellent example of jangle krautrock. There are elements of The Feelies/The Trypes, Yo La Tengo and some Flying Nun.

"Hitching Post" is an excellent starting point. The album tends more to longer/drony pieces as the album wears on. In places it also reminds me of one of my underrated releases - Monotrophy.

"Blooming/MIddling" was released by 20/20 Records. Smoke Bellow are currently located in Baltimore, Maryland.

[daily-ron-fnf]

Day 13

(Inspired by this)

[andiv3r]

i thought my notifs died but you really did just reblog my random add on to a post 10 times. may I ask why?

I likesd ahat yiu said 😁

[ladyshandioftheendless]

hey i love your blog! that’s so cool that you met paul! 🥺💜 what are your favourite kiss songs? have a great day !!

Hey, thank you!! 😊💜

When it comes to favorite KISS songs, I HAVE A LIST!! Some notables include:

Who Wants to be Lonely

Shandi

Nothin' to Lose

Black Diamond

I Love it Loud

I Stole Your Love

Love Gun

Parasite

Detroit Rock City

Beth

God of Thunder

I Still Love You

I'll Fight Hell to Hold You

Strutter

Deuce

Goin' Blind

Sure Know Something

Hard Luck Woman

Lick It Up

Creatures of the Night

Reason to Live

Every Time I Look at You

Tears Are Fallin'

Heaven's on Fire

Hide Your Heart

Forever

I Will Be There

It's never a small list when it comes to KISS! Please enjoy! ^_^

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

the line "you do things champagne could never do" (from Other Pleasures, Michael Crawford) is amusing me bc I feel like I'm on champagne right now except I'm really really not you know I haven't drunk anything except hot chocolate and water and last I checked this doesn't have brandy in it. or champagne either xD

[beware-thecrow]

Now that I think about it I've had some very odd dates, but I think nothing tops that gorgeous, absolutely lovely guy who invited me lunch and then explained to me all the ways you can slaughter a cow.

[strangestcase]

trype is the character of all time. she's like, smh shallow bitches only value me for my extreme levels of fuckability. well i am vert smart too. i have replaced my blood with coolant. and then you look at her and she looks like this

[yellowhearther0]

bbeeing ttirdd is so messed dup. wwhat do you mean my brain jsut stop cooperatinf after a certain point kf eepiness. gensrs fucked up ☹️

[sotiriabellou]

making patch pants lmao

[doerot]

[ID: a Tweet by Alexander Pennington, user @/Authoralexp, that reads, "Being a writer is hard because thinking about your story all day doesn't actually increase your word count." End ID.]

[duplexide]

In the most recent updates of my webcomic, VEGABOND, Hyla finds a gun and immediately shoots her friends' arm off. How will they treat this injury while already in the middle of a crisis situation? Is losing an arm even THAT big of a deal to whatever type of alien Trype is??

Check it out at VegabondNexus.com !

[bandcampsnoop]

1/24/24.

I'd never even heard of Wild Carnation (New Jersey) until Record Store Day 2023 when Delmore Recording Society reissued "Tricycle". I'm not totally sure what series of events brought me to these "Superbus" demos, but the lack of a physical release took me to Discogs when I found that "Superbus" was Wild Carnation's 2nd release - 12 years after "Tricycle". It has been reissued by Pine Hill Records.

Like many other Feelies related side projects, the Feelies DNA is unmistakable. Brenda Sauter was associated with not only The Feelies, but Speed the Plough and The Trypes. Those sensibilities are brought to this release as well.

According to the Bandcamp page, Wild Carnation shared the stage with The Bats, Luna and Moe Tucker among others.

[faggotvivisection]

btw the constantbtaste of blood in my mouth has made my lbl life considerably worse