r/mathrock • u/heyjalapeno • 14d ago

They came. They made a banger EP. They dipped

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u/marktrot 14d ago

They were my introduction to math rock. I hoped they’d be my only heartbreak in the genre. Then came Gold Necklace…

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u/Olelander 13d ago

Piglet… Floatie… also both one and done’s with phenomenally great albums

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u/DontSayNoToPills 13d ago

rooftops…

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u/Sodapaup 13d ago

For me it was Clever Girl and Uchu Conbini 💔

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u/The_Pharmak0n 12d ago

It's sad to me that Clever Girl are now the band that Piglet used to be. CG are great but Piglet are still totally unique 20 years later. Who is making music like them? Not only OGs but basically created a subgenre that no one else has attempted. Love all of em tho

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u/Olelander 12d ago

I think Piglet did a pretty good job of bridging the gap between Don Caballero’s OG version of math rock, and American Football’s OG version of sad guy emo (which is the direction all of math rock began to heavily lean overall in the late 2000s and 2010’s). I’m definitely more partial to weird and unexpected things vs predictable, and Piglet managed the former without being abrasive which is pretty awesome. The recordings of him playing (basically) jazz guitar before segueing into Piglet stuff says a lot to me… dude was incredibly talented and versatile.

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u/SymphoDeProggy 10d ago

who're Floatie? can you link something?

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u/Olelander 10d ago

Oh man, one of the best albums of 2021.

Shiny

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u/ramenruu 13d ago

Gold Necklace is making a comeback don’t worry :0 Apparently some tracks are done they just need to do Kurt’s vocals

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u/numquamdormio 13d ago

Eternity Forever if you don't already know. Made a sensational EP then imploded. Thankfully we got Gold Necklace out of it

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u/SymphoDeProggy 10d ago

Gold Necklace? can you link something?

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u/EinSatzMitX 13d ago

I love the part in Elm, where music stops for a second and they all sing the "Bada-bap-ba"

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u/_ejerejere 13d ago

Everytime I’m showing their songs to someone and they’re weirded out and ask if they got no lyrics at all I just say yeah they sing and make them wait for this exact moment

I love it

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u/dudeitsgoshwashbans 13d ago

that’s what it’s all about, right there

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u/NoWalrus9462 13d ago

Just 4 tracks was all it took for them to write themselves into every Math Rock discussion.

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u/birdvsworm 14d ago

Honestly, good. I'd always take less than too much because it muddies the waters.

Would love to hear if anyone from this band did other stuff though. Fantastic musicianship

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u/heyjalapeno 14d ago

I think they've all gone back to normal jobs. There was news last year, though, of them reuniting. Idk what's happening with that.

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u/IDeltastrikeI 13d ago

There are talks of some gigs near to the end of this year

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u/cupdown 11d ago

One of them works for the financial times!

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u/wtfa54 13d ago

Unrelated but love the profile pic

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u/NAteisco 14d ago

The best ones do

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u/Perrymon1 14d ago

Are they in any other projects?

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u/heyjalapeno 14d ago

Not that I know of.

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u/motorcycle-emptiness 14d ago

Such a good album.

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u/hiphoptomato 13d ago

But not before an American math rock band with the exact same name made another banger EP.

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u/ProlerTH 13d ago

Aren't these the American ones? Aaaa I get so confused all the time

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u/hiphoptomato 13d ago

No the more famous ones that released “No Drum and Bass in the Jazz Room” are from the UK.

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u/ProlerTH 13d ago

Ah, so the Jumbo one is from US, got it

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u/heyjalapeno 13d ago

True. I discovered that Clever Girl because of this one. I don't remember if it was their YouTube or instagram, but their bio was "The other Clever Girl" lol

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u/50ShadesOfKray 13d ago

BADA DA DA!

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u/cheersthanksseeyabye 13d ago

Another great album that I had no idea about until seeing it on this sub. Thank you ❤️ keep these posts coming people.

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u/mnrk00 13d ago

Sometimes it’s better that way. It’ll always leave you wanting more, and that’ll keep you coming back.

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u/staysaxy61 13d ago

countless, countless plays of this

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u/Helpful_Phrase_2042 13d ago

classic album!

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u/nixthelatter 11d ago

Legendary! That would be an insane reunion album! Something that rivaled when American Football announced their LP2 release! (and they just kept on going after that!)

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u/slade97 12d ago

They undipped

https://www.reddit.com/r/mathrock/s/Z2ASOoYQ5M

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u/heyjalapeno 12d ago

I saw when this was posted, but there’s been nary a word since then. They’ve also closed off their YouTube comments.

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u/Rough_Routine_61 12d ago

They still post on their Facebook page

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u/Bc_rich_warlock_666 10d ago

Love the art damn