It's not talent it's years and years of experience combined with dedicating hours and hours to each song. Of course they have a lot of talent too but the other things I listed are also factors.
This album is their "Sgt Pepper", "Pet sounds", & "Dark side of the moon" all rolled into one. Pure unbridled monumental talent! Please keep pushing the boundaries.
Prog-grass? Y’all have really done something new with this new record. Stoked to hear the rest of it. Each of the songs have been very unique. Pushing the envelope as established artists takes guts. Kudos!
@@Essex626 I was gonna argue with you and mid sentence i was like... "crap he is right" lol. But them doing it is noteworthy. They are unlike any other bluegrass band. But even Tom Bombadil was in 7s and 9s.
@@orpheansodality2456 already love em, but there is something you cant fake when it comes to people that know each other this well. There is no tighter group, punch brothers and goat rodeo included.
@@lazysmurf420 agree - Nickel Creek has its own energy, and I love it. PB is special, too, of course! I like the way NC captures positive emotions and the way PB captures negative ones.
Back around 2000-2001 my girlfriend and I saw Nickel Creek play in Northern VA for one of our earliest dates. 20-some years later we been married ever since!
This sounds like no one else . . in the very best way! They are creating new music, so unique and sublime. It was brilliant for them to get back together because they have creative synergy. Been enjoying watching Sarah smile like she knows . . this is the music she wants to play!
Man, that CBS Morning show was pretty groundbreaking. They're playing some complex, skewed stuff and they are confident with it. So great to see such strong teamwork from Nickel Creek. More power to ye!
I love how they took that "stomp and clap" thing that's become so typical of modern folk-pop (I blame "Ho Hey" by The Lumineers for popularizing it), but gave it a twist... "how about we DON'T do it in 4/4?" I love these lyrics too- so ready to celebrate with them!
Oh you youngsters...stomping and cliapping as well as call and response have been in recorded and non recorded music since the beginning of time. It is the heart of field music and work songs. But if you need to credit the Lumineers?? "Those who know only their own generation remain forever a child."
By no means do I think The Lumineers invented stomping and clapping in music, which I’m sure has existed for as long as humans have had hands and feet. I’m saying that it's easy to reduce mainstream folk music to this popular stomp-and-clap beat, and when I first heard this song, it almost felt like Nickel Creek were commenting on that with the first few bars. The production work, with the big reverb-y chorus of claps, was definitely reminiscent of the mainstream folk iteration of this beat, but setting it in what I think is a mixed meter was to me a nod that Nickel Creek was bringing acoustic music back to the mainstream long before bands like The Lumineers were credited for doing it, and their work remains significantly more adventurous. Kind of a “haha that’s cute, let us show you how it’s done” thing. (I doubt the members of Nickel Creek truly feel the need to compete/show up their peers in that way, but those were my immediate thoughts, take ‘em or leave ‘em.) At any rate, even if my only frame of reference genuinely was The Lumineers, that wouldn’t be so bad. It’s better than not being interested in music at all, and if it were to lead to an interest in bands like Nickel Creek or the acoustic music acts that came before them, even better.
I am now certain that over the last couple albums Nickel Creek has progressed and evolved into such a sophisticated and virtuosic level of musicianship and composition that I almost feel like they've transcended into an incomprehensiblely advanced complexity of music theory and time signatures that I almost can't take it all in at once. Certainly not in a single listen.
Great performance of a great song! Great to see three immensely talented people maturing into artists that will stand the test of time. For a long time, I hope.
I LOVE y'all, and all your albums, but this one feels like it's on a completely other level in terms of complexity, lyricism, storytelling, and technical musicianship. I feel like I discover more every time I listen to it, and our whole little family is obsessed with it. Can't wait to see you in New York!!
This work has truly burned a hole in my head because I recall the songs off and on all day. The spirit and technical landscape you have shown here is astounding. It is new. it is beautiful. It is meaningful. As a mandolin player, my heart just soars when the fiddle blends into the mando or your voices in acapella or alone are stretched to new places. Bravo!!!!!!
Let me tell you how I've spent the last decade telling about how sad it is that yall aren't together anymore, and now how i get to go tell everyone you're back together again. Happiest news all week.
My God it's good to see you Right here in the flesh Where we can turn the stuff we need to Get off of our chests Into something we can sing through (Something we can sing through) The work that lies ahead As one beleaguered people A camel being threaded Through whichever blessed needle Before we forget This place was our cathedral These strangers were our friends Sing ho! for the gatherings We took them for granted then Didn't we O fellow celebrants Ah but fool us once Right? Ho! for the gatherings For having what we had again Now that we Know fellow celebrants What the hell it meant It's more than good to see you It might be the cure The opportunity to be who We played like we were To be echoes that ring truer Than the shouts before That was me preaching communion Even as I prayed for space Til it was granted in such profusion That I've about lost my taste for it And saying what I'm doing While what I'm really doing Keeps me from doing what I say Sing ho! for the gatherings We took them for granted then Didn't we O fellow celebrants Ah but fool us once Right? Ho! for the gatherings For having what we had again Now that we Know fellow celebrants What the hell it meant Damned if we let the clock tell Us when it's time for bed Cause it'll take a couple cocktails Just to pick up the threads We'd given up for lost til (Given up for lost til) The world finally stopped ending Yes only Once we've woven them together will We sleep like the blessed Having given back the devil Satisfied that heaven's Always been in this cathedral Heaven's always been in this cathedral That we all Rebuild nightly together
This is soulful and complex bluegrass mixed with some...maybe Eric Whitacre-level precise elegant dissonance. I love it. I wish I could afford to fly from Boston to Austin to see them. I missed them this spring up by my way. ❤️
Incredible! So glad you guys decided to put together another outstanding masterpiece of an album 👏! I've been listening to nickel creek since I was 4 or 5! your 2000 self titled album has been my favorite album of all time ever since it came out!! This new one is soooo good though
Put these 3 toghter.again and this is what you get .Nickel Creek. Glad to see after many years the great they were and still are..Hope to see them again after first saw about 10 yrs at the Wilten theater
Outstanding live performance, as always may I say! I'm so impressed by the variety that you are able to put in just one song.. I'm really excited about this new album! One day.. one day I hope to see you guys performing live and in flesh!🫶🏼
The show in Pittsburgh was amazing, but man, we the audience could NOT clap (or sing) along with this, no matter how hard we tried and how hard Chris, Sarah and Sean tried to lead us. Still, a beauty of a moment!!!
Just saw you guys in Greenville, South Carolina and you guys were just a power house. What a wirey and exciting evening. I drove up from Orlando to see you guys. Chris, you were freaking hot dude😂! I was going to try to get a autograph and a picture with you guys but, unfortunately I missed you guys. Oh well, maybe some other time. I am going to see y'all again in Bristol, TN at the Rhythm and Roots Festival.
It's like they picked up in the exact spot where they left off, but bringing 20+ years' worth of more stuff. As I said about them then, It's some of the best, and most original music I've ever heard. This one in particular calls to mind Peter Gabriel with Genesis.
so did they record this live while recording video or lip sync? It is so good in either case I am happy regardless. Incredible all the changing time signatures.
What is this ? Jazz improve country fiddle. Doesn’t mix at all. Very hard to listen to very hard to follow. All songs sound like a run on sentence. God bless anyone who can sing along and follow these weird songs.
It reminded me of some Choral Music I sang in College by Britton I think. I play Jazz Violin, don't blame us. This isn't Jazz. You should give it a chance. Music like this may be hard to listen to at first but ends up being very rewarding.
It's none of those things. It's its own thing, definitely with some jazz, late era Romantic, and definitely some prog rock influence on top of the bona fide bluegrass. Also one of the single best records of 2023.
Who else is making music like this? They just casually throw down a complex composition like its nothing. This is what talent looks like
It's almost hard to listen to, such deep rhythmic composition. But so lovely. Art detected.
This is the evolution of NICKELCREEK, and this album is a masterpiece.
The coordination is amazing
It's not talent it's years and years of experience combined with dedicating hours and hours to each song. Of course they have a lot of talent too but the other things I listed are also factors.
Chris Thile got the MacArthur Genius Grant for a reason!
This album is their "Sgt Pepper", "Pet sounds", & "Dark side of the moon" all rolled into one. Pure unbridled monumental talent! Please keep pushing the boundaries.
Vintage Chrile Thile finely crafted chaos. What an exquisite tilt-a-whirl
Shoutout to Jeff Picker in the back on bass, adding some handclaps and a fourth vocal!
LOVE IT! Sooo good to have Nickel Creek back producing more soundtracks to our lives.
Prog-grass? Y’all have really done something new with this new record. Stoked to hear the rest of it. Each of the songs have been very unique. Pushing the envelope as established artists takes guts. Kudos!
I mean Prog-Grass has been a thing for a really long time. Bluegrass is the country genre with the most tendency towards prog.
@@Essex626 I was gonna argue with you and mid sentence i was like... "crap he is right" lol. But them doing it is noteworthy. They are unlike any other bluegrass band. But even Tom Bombadil was in 7s and 9s.
Check out the Punch Brothers if you'd like more like this! Also features Chris Thile
@@orpheansodality2456 already love em, but there is something you cant fake when it comes to people that know each other this well. There is no tighter group, punch brothers and goat rodeo included.
@@lazysmurf420 agree - Nickel Creek has its own energy, and I love it. PB is special, too, of course! I like the way NC captures positive emotions and the way PB captures negative ones.
How they arent more popular blows my mind, so freaking good.
The rhythms! Newgrass at its finest.
I think we went beyond that with this one. Freaking amazing!
Back around 2000-2001 my girlfriend and I saw Nickel Creek play in Northern VA for one of our earliest dates. 20-some years later we been married ever since!
I enjoyed that concert as well and I am looking forward to seeing them at the NC museum of art soon
This sounds like no one else . . in the very best way! They are creating new music, so unique and sublime. It was brilliant for them to get back together because they have creative synergy. Been enjoying watching Sarah smile like she knows . . this is the music she wants to play!
Why am I crying? Missed these harmonies more than I knew
In their maturity it seems Nickel Creek are writing in the vein of 'progressive rock'....complex, adult, and heartfelt.
So happy to see Nickel Creek still making bangers.
Man, that CBS Morning show was pretty groundbreaking. They're playing some complex, skewed stuff and they are confident with it. So great to see such strong teamwork from Nickel Creek. More power to ye!
This band open my eyes to a beautiful cross of string music fueled by emotion and young hearts! Welcome back!!!!
It’s so great to see you come back. I grew up listening to you guys
I love how they took that "stomp and clap" thing that's become so typical of modern folk-pop (I blame "Ho Hey" by The Lumineers for popularizing it), but gave it a twist... "how about we DON'T do it in 4/4?" I love these lyrics too- so ready to celebrate with them!
saved money not having to employ the hey guys. They are busy.
Oh you youngsters...stomping and cliapping as well as call and response have been in recorded and non recorded music since the beginning of time. It is the heart of field music and work songs. But if you need to credit the Lumineers??
"Those who know only their own generation remain forever a child."
By no means do I think The Lumineers invented stomping and clapping in music, which I’m sure has existed for as long as humans have had hands and feet. I’m saying that it's easy to reduce mainstream folk music to this popular stomp-and-clap beat, and when I first heard this song, it almost felt like Nickel Creek were commenting on that with the first few bars. The production work, with the big reverb-y chorus of claps, was definitely reminiscent of the mainstream folk iteration of this beat, but setting it in what I think is a mixed meter was to me a nod that Nickel Creek was bringing acoustic music back to the mainstream long before bands like The Lumineers were credited for doing it, and their work remains significantly more adventurous. Kind of a “haha that’s cute, let us show you how it’s done” thing. (I doubt the members of Nickel Creek truly feel the need to compete/show up their peers in that way, but those were my immediate thoughts, take ‘em or leave ‘em.)
At any rate, even if my only frame of reference genuinely was The Lumineers, that wouldn’t be so bad. It’s better than not being interested in music at all, and if it were to lead to an interest in bands like Nickel Creek or the acoustic music acts that came before them, even better.
What an excellent,well thought out response!
Hello 👋
I am now certain that over the last couple albums Nickel Creek has progressed and evolved into such a sophisticated and virtuosic level of musicianship and composition that I almost feel like they've transcended into an incomprehensiblely advanced complexity of music theory and time signatures that I almost can't take it all in at once. Certainly not in a single listen.
my second listen of the new album is really even more enjoyable.
Album is an instant classic
Great performance of a great song! Great to see three immensely talented people maturing into artists that will stand the test of time. For a long time, I hope.
Nickel Prog! Love it!
This hits like nothing else-so beautiful!
I LOVE y'all, and all your albums, but this one feels like it's on a completely other level in terms of complexity, lyricism, storytelling, and technical musicianship. I feel like I discover more every time I listen to it, and our whole little family is obsessed with it. Can't wait to see you in New York!!
ditto, ditto, ditto. And we'll be at the NYC show, too!
Agree!
Congratulations on your grammy nominee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go get 'em!
Seen them live in Dublin yesterday. They sound so good
So dynamic and talented for so many years. These folks are a national treasure.
Bluegrass prog!!! Spectacular!
Rock on!
Very intricate arrangement. Quite a creative group. I salute your taking on the challenge. Great work.
This is legendary. Thank you so much for the masterpiece.
This work has truly burned a hole in my head because I recall the songs off and on all day. The spirit and technical landscape you have shown here is astounding. It is new. it is beautiful. It is meaningful. As a mandolin player, my heart just soars when the fiddle blends into the mando or your voices in acapella or alone are stretched to new places. Bravo!!!!!!
that is some of the best music being produced today, so original and played with such authority , Beautiful!
This album brings me pure joy. Thank you for everything you've done and keep doing.
Let me tell you how I've spent the last decade telling about how sad it is that yall aren't together anymore, and now how i get to go tell everyone you're back together again.
Happiest news all week.
Yeah! Thanks for a great album.
I'm so glad you guys are playing again!!
My God it's good to see you
Right here in the flesh
Where we can turn the stuff we need to
Get off of our chests
Into something we can sing through
(Something we can sing through)
The work that lies ahead
As one beleaguered people
A camel being threaded
Through whichever blessed needle
Before we forget
This place was our cathedral
These strangers were our friends
Sing ho! for the gatherings
We took them for granted then
Didn't we
O fellow celebrants
Ah but fool us once
Right?
Ho! for the gatherings
For having what we had again
Now that we
Know fellow celebrants
What the hell it meant
It's more than good to see you
It might be the cure
The opportunity to be who
We played like we were
To be echoes that ring truer
Than the shouts before
That was me preaching communion
Even as I prayed for space
Til it was granted in such profusion
That I've about lost my taste for it
And saying what I'm doing
While what I'm really doing
Keeps me from doing what I say
Sing ho! for the gatherings
We took them for granted then
Didn't we
O fellow celebrants
Ah but fool us once
Right?
Ho! for the gatherings
For having what we had again
Now that we
Know fellow celebrants
What the hell it meant
Damned if we let the clock tell
Us when it's time for bed
Cause it'll take a couple cocktails
Just to pick up the threads
We'd given up for lost til
(Given up for lost til)
The world finally stopped ending
Yes only
Once we've woven them together will
We sleep like the blessed
Having given back the devil
Satisfied that heaven's
Always been in this cathedral
Heaven's always been in this cathedral
That we all
Rebuild nightly together
I love to hear the new music! I am a longtime fan, and I love to hear music that demands something of me as a listener. You are it!
This is soulful and complex bluegrass mixed with some...maybe Eric Whitacre-level precise elegant dissonance.
I love it. I wish I could afford to fly from Boston to Austin to see them. I missed them this spring up by my way. ❤️
Incredible! So glad you guys decided to put together another outstanding masterpiece of an album 👏! I've been listening to nickel creek since I was 4 or 5! your 2000 self titled album has been my favorite album of all time ever since it came out!! This new one is soooo good though
Guessing I will listen to this so many times.
I plan to download the album today in the highest possible sound quality (24/96).
Put these 3 toghter.again and this is what you get .Nickel Creek. Glad to see after many years the great they were and still are..Hope to see them again after first saw about 10 yrs at the Wilten theater
Outstanding live performance, as always may I say! I'm so impressed by the variety that you are able to put in just one song..
I'm really excited about this new album! One day.. one day I hope to see you guys performing live and in flesh!🫶🏼
Hello 👋
Awesome! So happy that they’re back and producing exceptional music!❤❤
Hello 👋
You guys damn near make me want to cry. It's so beautiful! Thank you!!
Wow. That was so good. That song was chalk full of variety. My mind is still reeling from it. Gotta listen to it a few more times.
This band of wonderful musicians making another one take classic song/video.
Seeing them tonight in Augusta!! So excited!!
LOVE!!
The show in Pittsburgh was amazing, but man, we the audience could NOT clap (or sing) along with this, no matter how hard we tried and how hard Chris, Sarah and Sean tried to lead us. Still, a beauty of a moment!!!
ugh this is magical!
Amazing new album ! I’m blown away ❤❤❤
I just discovered their latest album on Spotify. I've never heard anything like it! Blown away too😮
Remarquable song and performance.
Just saw you guys in Greenville, South Carolina and you guys were just a power house. What a wirey and exciting evening. I drove up from Orlando to see you guys. Chris, you were freaking hot dude😂! I was going to try to get a autograph and a picture with you guys but, unfortunately I missed you guys. Oh well, maybe some other time. I am going to see y'all again in Bristol, TN at the Rhythm and Roots Festival.
Can’t wait to see you guys in Portland!
Fantastic album! Same age group as them and been a fan for ages!
Wow!
This is amazing !!!!!!!!!
I'm very excited to listen to this new album! Congrats on continued success!
This song reminds me of What The?! by 311. They both leave me, a 26 year musician, equally baffled.
that’s a fun track!!!
Great song from a great album! Thanks for continuing to give us great music
great song
Nickel Creek are Entertainer of the Year contenders for my humble channel
Holy cow!!!
Haven't seen you since Jacksonville, Oregon... Love, light Truth 🙏🌻💫💙💫🌻🙏
It's like they picked up in the exact spot where they left off, but bringing 20+ years' worth of more stuff. As I said about them then, It's some of the best, and most original music I've ever heard. This one in particular calls to mind Peter Gabriel with Genesis.
Excellent 😊
I'm getting some Oh Hellos vibes from this
Enjoyed seeing you on CBS Saturday Morning 🌄 Great job made a fan!
Good to see you back together -- Sarah and the gang.
I’ve been listening to Gentle Giant. YT suggested this song. Very nice!
I think it good
Impressive 🎈
This album feels like the middle ground of Nickel Creek and Punch Brothers in a big way.
Love , love LOVE NC, but don't try to dance to this one :)
Hope theres still seats for Austin
❤
Sounds like a Punch Brothers B-Side. Well played, surely, but definitely out of their normal ballpark.
NPR-Grass ;)
so did they record this live while recording video or lip sync? It is so good in either case I am happy regardless. Incredible all the changing time signatures.
Saw them in Cincinnati. This is definitely live and it totally rocks!
From a distance I thought that were Jude Law haha
Top notch aural candy!
uummm....eh
when did Jude Law join Nickle Creek?
Very curious song. Their contrasting harmonies are very daring. A little atonal sounding at times.
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Extremely..... odd!🤔
What is this ? Jazz improve country fiddle. Doesn’t mix at all. Very hard to listen to very hard to follow. All songs sound like a run on sentence. God bless anyone who can sing along and follow these weird songs.
It reminded me of some Choral Music I sang in College by Britton I think. I play Jazz Violin, don't blame us. This isn't Jazz. You should give it a chance. Music like this may be hard to listen to at first but ends up being very rewarding.
It's none of those things. It's its own thing, definitely with some jazz, late era Romantic, and definitely some prog rock influence on top of the bona fide bluegrass. Also one of the single best records of 2023.
No different than listening to rap.
Couldn’t find the music here
I hate hipstergrass
Wow. I didn't know doing that to Music was even possible.
One of the best little bands