2023 Albums

I just like to say "Space level creepy" cause everyone understands what it means.  That being said, I don't think that level of creepy applies in this instance.

Starsky wrote:
We’re all sensitive people with so much to give.

Scott McMicken and THE EVER-EXPANDING

Spectral Lines by Josh Ritter

Thomas Bangalter

Starsky wrote:
Thomas Bangalter

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter has announced a new solo album. Mythologies arrives on April 7 (via Erato/Warner Classics). It’s his first independent orchestral work. Bangalter was originally commissioned by choreographer Angelin Preljocaj for the ballet of the same name back in 2021. Billed as a production about the “founding myths that shape the collective imagination,” it was premiered by the Opéra National de Bordeaux and Ballet Preljocaj the following year.

Mythologies is a 90-minute-long score in which Bangalter reimagines his composition style. In a press release, it’s described as “not” drawing on electronic music, but rather “the large-scale traditional force of a symphony and, as such, it embraces the history of orchestral ballet music.”

ok, I'm going to say it
sight unseen…this sounds godawful

well, if you go in expecting dancefloor bangers, then yeah, it'll be awful.  but if you happen to like classical and/or ballet music? 

sweetcell wrote:
well, if you go in expecting dancefloor bangers, then yeah, it'll be awful.  but if you happen to like classical and/or ballet music?

Then why wouldn’t you just listen to people who do that for a living

Creep-hatch wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
well, if you go in expecting dancefloor bangers, then yeah, it'll be awful.  but if you happen to like classical and/or ballet music?

Then why wouldn’t you just listen to people who do that for a living

Perhaps this is just a genre I listen to more than most, but there is wild overlap between "people who compose modern classical music" and "people who make something closer to EDM".I don't know whether this is going to be good or not but just because Daft Punk was Daft Punk sounding doesn't lead me to believe one of their dudes cannot write a decent modern classical piece.

Well I’ll wait for the glowing reviews

I think if someone was open to their work on the Tron reboot soundtrack and enjoyed it they might enjoy this….

Anyone expecting “One more time”….well…that ship sailed decades ago

Either way, am glad he is still making music

Ian Hunter
DEFIANCE PART 1 LP
Sun Records
April 18th

First single with Ringo and Mike Campbell is pretty darn good "Bed Of Roses"
https://youtu.be/B1B-oHjTiI0

just a few guests on the album as well

1. Defiance (feat. Robert Trujillo & Slash)
2. Bed Of Roses (feat. Ringo Starr & Mike Campbell)
3. No Hard Feelings (feat. Johnny Depp & Jeff Beck)
4. Pavlov’s Dog (feat. Dean DeLeo, Robert De Leo & Eric Kretz)
5. Don’t Tread On Me (feat. Todd Rundgren)
6. Guernica (feat. Mike Campbell & Joe Elliott)
7. I Hate Hate (feat. Dennis DiBrizzi)
8. Angel (feat. Taylor Hawkins, Duff McKagan & Brad Whitford)
9. Kiss N’ Make Up (feat. Taylor Hawkins, Billy Bob Thornton & Billy F Gibbons)
10. This Is What I’m Here For (feat. Taylor Hawkins, Joe Elliott & Waddy Wachtel)
11. I Hate Hate (Alternate Version) (feat. Dennis DiBrizzi & Jeff Tweedy)

https://store.sunrecords.com/product/X3LPSR49/ian-hunter-defiance-part-1-lp?cp=null

The Smile has announced a new live record - EUROPE: LIVE RECORDINGS 2022. It is a vinyl only limited edition EP and will be released on 10th March across record stores.

Lloyd Cole
On Pain
June

Julian, wrote:

Creep-hatch wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
well, if you go in expecting dancefloor bangers, then yeah, it'll be awful.  but if you happen to like classical and/or ballet music?

Then why wouldn’t you just listen to people who do that for a living

Perhaps this is just a genre I listen to more than most, but there is wild overlap between "people who compose modern classical music" and "people who make something closer to EDM".I don't know whether this is going to be good or not but just because Daft Punk was Daft Punk sounding doesn't lead me to believe one of their dudes cannot write a decent modern classical piece.

judge for yourself: Mythologies: X. L'Accouchement


less "classical" and more "cinematic", imo.  would be great with some visuals, but on its own it doesn't do much for me.

sweetcell wrote:

Julian, wrote:

Creep-hatch wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
well, if you go in expecting dancefloor bangers, then yeah, it'll be awful.  but if you happen to like classical and/or ballet music?

Then why wouldn’t you just listen to people who do that for a living

Perhaps this is just a genre I listen to more than most, but there is wild overlap between "people who compose modern classical music" and "people who make something closer to EDM".I don't know whether this is going to be good or not but just because Daft Punk was Daft Punk sounding doesn't lead me to believe one of their dudes cannot write a decent modern classical piece.

judge for yourself: Mythologies: X. L'Accouchement


less "classical" and more "cinematic", imo.  would be great with some visuals, but on its own it doesn't do much for me.

as predicted…meh squared
YMWV

Couple new ones of interest…

Brooke Combe
Black Is The New Gold
Modern Sky
April 21

Been following Brooke for awhile now and they have pulled together all the tracks released on streaming so far for this one.  Great voice and solid rock/soul tracks produced by James Skelly.  Hopefully this one lands on Bandcamp, as the shipping from one UK site for just the CD was almost as much as the CD. 

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The Damned
Darkadelic
earMusic
April 28

First single/video "The Invisible Man" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iSbPP0siTk

Smokey Robinson
Gasms
4/28

first single: If We Don’t Have Each Other

I did not need to think about an 82 year old Smokey Robinson's gasms.

yet, here we are.