#quade

[comicwaren]

From Planet She-Hulk #004

Art by Emilio Laiso and Fabi Marques

Written by Stephanie Phillips

[grrlmusic]

Quade - The Foel Tower (Bruce's Versions)

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[adrianoesteves]

[geopsych]

Met this Irish wolf hound, Quade, who is going to be in a Fastest Dog competition put on by the Kennel Club and ESPN. He has already won awards for speed in his breed. I don’t often meet celebrities!

[dustedmagazine]

Quade — The Foel Tower (AD93)

The Foel Tower is a Victorian edifice in the village of Elan, Wales, which regulates the flow of water downhill through an aqueduct system into the industrial city of Birmingham. It works entirely without electricity through an intricate combination of valves and cylinders, taking more or less water out of pristine Welsh reservoirs depending on rainfall, water levels, demand and other such factors. You could, perhaps, devise a metaphor out of all this for an experimental folk band pumping the clear, clean, country traditions of fiddle and reel through various pipes and cisterns to feed an urban sensibility—or maybe not. In any case, this second Quade album is lovely and strange, fed by crystalline streams of rustic sound but not limited to them, and indeed, reaching into post-rock and symphonic art rock with its haunted melodies.

The band is a four piece, employing ghostly rock and non-rock instruments. For instance, a luminous, idealized guitar tone carves through “Canada Geese”—that’s Tom Connolly who also plays violin and synths, as singer/bassist Barney Matthews murmurs elliptical verse. Big drums pound in chilly, artfully constructed soundscapes—Leo Fini on the kit—and unearthly textures unfold from synths, tape manipulation and electronics, courtesy of Matt Griffiths. There’s a great deal of swirl and swoop in the tune, the fiddle caroming up high in the mix, but also a cerebral remove. Even at the loud parts, and this is a band that makes full use of the dynamic spectrum, the music attacks the brain and not the body.

“Black Kites” is likewise austerely gorgeous, a swipe of violin cutting across slow vocal ruminations. “Now’s the time…for self-expression,” sings Matthews with a flourish, as the fiddle wails and the drums swagger quietly. A sputter of field recordings lit by mournful string sounds might remind you of King Creosote’s work with Jon Hopkins. Or, less specifically, the coolness and remove of it might suggest certain Radiohead tunes. Or you might go all the back to Talk Talk for music so airy and so rich, so orchestral and so full of negative space.

In any case, you could look a long time for a music that evokes the loneliest spit of rural land as much as it does the shiny shapes and arts of the technological age. The past waters the present and makes the future possible, here, and it’s beautiful all the way through.

Jennifer Kelly 

[dreamycreatures]

Here are a few of Quade’s babies. I loooove these colors a lot. No genetic issues as far as I know. Retro and Wild1 have been exported so I might post them for download soon.

During my stream I did a while ago I took away some norns to cycle some new in!

This baby was also produced. Cool Breeze is super awkward! She loves to cause drama from eating and being around other norns.

Aqua is a new favorite! Look at those colors!

Speaking of babies, Periwinkle was one made, loved, then passed. Thankfully Crista was there for them. She reached Ancient in my stream, my first norn to reach such old age!

If you’re interested in watching this batch, I have a video here.