#Once and Future Band

[bandcampsnoop]

5/15/24.

Magic Fig were featured on Bandcamp's "New and Notable". They referred to the group in two descriptive ways: (1) "An assemblage of San Francisco indie pop all-stars" and (2) A band trying "their hand at Canterbury scene-style psychedelia".

Proof for the all-star claim: Members of Almond Joy, Healing Potpourri, and The Umbrellas are key members of this band. Joel Robinow of Once and Future Band produced this.

As for the 2nd claim, I'll direct you back to an excellent Bandcamp article about the Canterbury sound.

Magic Fig's S/T debut is being released by Silver Currents.

[copias-juicebox]

tobias might just have written the most beautiful love song of all time. 😭

[before-i-remember]

Pelle "Dead" Ohlin 🦇

Daniel "Necrobird" Ohlin 🦇

[zombified-hoglin]

In a soft mood this morning

Sure Etho knows that Xisuma can play a couple different instruments, he's seen him play at the occasional late night hangout with the other hermits when Ren or another musician decided that they needed a background tune

But there's something different about Xisuma playing in front of him only for him

It's not quite a serenade but it feels that way, they're at Xisuma's base talking about minigames when the topic of instruments comes up somehow and Xisuma offers to play for him

Etho doesn't recognize the song but likes it all the same, it's nice, it's a soft song that he wouldn't be surprised if it was some sort of love song

He's right about it being a love song but he wasn't expecting it to be written for him

[yeonban]

Took a brief sanity break from my projects to stare at a wall and think about how, in Soma's survival au, he would end up doing the things he said he would; namely get rid of both the other Obsidian Eight (bar Seiroku. He gets special privileges) and the other bands, which then got me to giggle at the mental image of Soma sending Seiroku messages through the heart whenever they're apart or with people in front of which they can't speak freely

[jynjackets]

I finally watched The Creator and holy shit why didn’t any of you tell me it was going to be that beautiful

[picspammer]

You Only Live Once by The Strokes Directed by Samuel Bayer

[time-is-restored]

hello, mechanisms enjoyer. who is your favourite mechanism. what is your favourite album. what is your favourite song. what is your favourite photo. do you have a favourite live recording/have you been to a live show.

HI FELLOW MECHANISMS ENJOYER :DD

okay so my favourite mechanism is by FAR raphaella, her derth of backstory and absolutely nuts vocal range has utterly bewitched me. im also SO in love with her aesthetic, and any + all portrayals of her wings kick ASS

FAVOURITE SONG IS HARD... rn it is a very close tie between pieces and hellfire -- but atm hellfire wins out! i fucking LOVE the ominous sermon vibes it has; the organ in the beginning? the way the humming progresses into wailing in the harmonies? the fucking TRUMPET in the chorus*???????? the hair-raising whispered poem ABT arthurian legend in the second spoken section? jonny's Deranged Preacher Cackle??????? THE DTTM RECORDING WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THE WHOLE CROWD SCREAM 'BUT YOU'RE A LIAR'????????????? showstopping. breathtaking. absolutely no notes.

anyway if you couldn't tell my favourite album atm is high noon over camelot LMAO. i think the soundscape it creates is like. the most impressive + immersive out of all of mechs recordings -- the way they use the synth throughout is fucking MASTERFUL, and its such a PERFECT way to blend the genres of scifi + western, considering the mechs usual timbre lends itself extremely well to folky and old-fashioned. like, the absolutely BONE chilling reprise of hellfire during the heirophant goes CRAZY hard and ive never seen ANYONE mention it! and the whole album is full of moments like that! like each song transitions perfectly into a background hum for the narration and then back again, and its always so well balanced and !!!!!!!

favourite photo............. god there are some really fucking good ones out there but its Gotta be this raphaella shot:

its just. So fucking ethereal. she <333333333333333

i have regrettably never been to a liveshow </3 i don't actually have a lot of knowledge of all the different recordings - i have a bunch of masterposts saved, but im super slow to work through them.

so i think ive gotta go with death to the mechanisms! while i do sometimes wish it captured the details a little better, its so awesome being able to see the majority of the band during each song :) in paticular, i LOVE getting to see kofi's acting, they're SO fucking expressive and they get so excited in the leadup to both thor and expert testimony and i just :D

thanks so much for the ask! i love talking abt the mechs and am stoked to do so at literally any and all times, LMAOOO

*side note: if you've never done a dedicated listen of hellfire where ur completely focused on the trump part, i am begging you to do so. holy shit. it adds So Much. ivy my BELOVEDDDD

[celestadore]

i dont usually post WIPs on here but my pen tablet broke so i wont be able to finish this as quickly as i wanted to so here have my son

also cause I dont think they showed off if they gave him a new guitar in game (im just being patient til the ENG version comes out n hearing abt the JPN stories thru word of mouth cuz im not dealing w another genesic situation again) heres a dumb blurb abt how i designed his guitar here:

i based his instrument heavily on C.C.'s guitar from the OG code black manga but designed it to be more like a wolf paw rather than a cat paw since hes a wolf and now the lead guitarist in the lost stories' code black event

here's how i was gonna lay out the colors

[treesandkeys]

Huh. I kinda wish Kofi Young was up there with my top artists instead of Icon for Hire just to have a complete set but tragically I hate Christmas music.

[mayplantstarrwaters]

thank you for getting into yes (and esp. chris) and putting all that yes content on my dash 💖

My pleasure bestie, I'm glad you enjoy my hyperfixation series with Yes and other prog bands I'm currently into 😁

[excelsior9173]

song of the day time! exie is in their feels

this album came out when i was 5 and i have loved it ever since. this song in particular is in tribute to the band’s late singer, michael hutchence. it always hits so so so hard

[m-a-d-e-l-e-i-n-e]

I am now ready to admit that this is the best All Time Low album

[yeonban]

Tobias didn't even remember today is father's day and frankly I think that says enough in and of itself about what he thinks of both his biological father and the father figures he found at Wammy's House (re: Watari and Roger)

[heavencasteel420]

I’m looking through the document where I paste all my fic scraps, and I forgot about the draft where Carol throws a condom (thankfully still in its wrapper) at Robin to be mean.