Enjoying this Instruments album a lot so far.
Many similarities to Circulatory System stylistically.
Many similarities to Circulatory System stylistically.
Albums you are looking forward to in 08!!!
Originally posted by SPARX:Love their new album! theyre back in fine form.
http://www.dandywarhols.com/ts/?account_id=75183
Mastering on the new Deerhunter makes it almost impossible to listen too. Talk about gross over-use of compression…
Originally posted by azaghal1981:new deerhunter, already? watch out for scotland yard, yo.
Mastering on the new Deerhunter makes it almost impossible to listen too. Talk about gross over-use of compression…
looks like we'll see a new Crooked Fingers album later this year which is a good thing
http://www.myspace.com/crookedfingers
http://www.myspace.com/crookedfingers
Originally posted by BookerT:I'll keep a lookout.
Originally posted by azaghal1981:new deerhunter, already? watch out for scotland yard, yo.
Mastering on the new Deerhunter makes it almost impossible to listen too. Talk about gross over-use of compression…
For the dubstep/minimal tech fans:
2562 - Aerial is a great hybrid of the two genres so far.
Review from indietorrents:
Over a succession of rhythm melting vinyl releases for Tectonic, SubSolo and Philpot, Dave Huismans has asserted himself as the leading practitioner of
forward thinking dancefloor motions currently in operation. Under the' Dogdaze, A Made Up Sound and his revered 2562 moniker Huismans has shocked the now
merged techno and dubstep fraternities with a brilliantly consistent stream of bare bones riddims encompassing brittle 2-step, lurching techno and bass
driven dub with a fractured brokenbeat aesthetic that sounds quite unlike anything else being produced today. Aerial is Huismans' massively anticipated
debut album and contains some of the most deadly material produced under his 2562 guise, formed into a coherent statement of ten tracks set to detonate
headphoness and Soundsystems around the world this summer. This CD edition pulls together four tracks previously dispatched over the course of three individual
12"s released in the last year, plus six sparkling fresh productions primed to dub the world into submission. The set skanks into view with 'Redux' plumbing
the depths of a breezing downtempo dub cut in the finest Rhythm & Sound styles, and clearing the airspace for the snaking syncopations of 'Morvern'. From
here there's a run of tracks culled from recent releases, ready to educate unblessed ears with some bass stepping sanctification, but the real treats for
those who've been paying close attention come in the form of the stunning 'Basin dub' composed from delicate blue chords and a double-timed rhythmic intuition
that couldn't have come from anyone else, followed by the equally crushing 'Greyscale', realisng many a technoXdubstep nerd's wet dream with a sacred stylistic
blend of Burial, Basic Channel and T++ that leaves us floored. Finally another new effort 'The times' signs off the album with some moody and expansive
dub chords whipped into spectral plumes over a coma-slow riddim that brings us full circle and ready for repeat. This album follows in the massively revered
tradition of dub experimentation and rhythm science laid down in the lineage stretching from Lee Perry through King Tubby, Scientist, Steve Gurley, Dillinja,
Photek, Rhythm & Sound, Kode 9 and Burial, so all we can say is that if any of those names have remotely affected you in any way you really need to check
this album out. Without doubt one of the albums of the year - absolutely mighty.
Has anyone heard the new Fratellis album "Here We Stand"?
Originally posted by xneverwherex:I'm listening to the Fratellis album as I write. It's exactly what you would expect from the band that did Costello Music. They certainly didn't get all Kid A on us. But you know what, it's a fun album and will be played a lot in the car this summer.
Has anyone heard the new Fratellis album "Here We Stand"? or the new We Are Scientists "Brain Thrust Mastery"?
Originally posted by Relaxer:oohhh glad to hear it. i was just listening to their single. i used to love costello music but i think i played it to death.
Originally posted by xneverwherex:I'm listening to the Fratellis album as I write. It's exactly what you would expect from the band that did Costello Music. They certainly didn't get all Kid A on us. But you know what, it's a fun album and will be played a lot in the car this summer.
Has anyone heard the new Fratellis album "Here We Stand"? or the new We Are Scientists "Brain Thrust Mastery"?
im listening to we are scientists right now (why i edited the message) and i must say i just love this album as much as their last album. keith and chris seem to be two of the most likeable people ever. must pick this one up soon. am heartbroken that i cant see them in ny, but i should be able to see them again soon and i did get to see them in december so i cant complain too much.
New Of Montreal in October.
Hopefully this blog post means a return to form. The last three albums were good but Of Montreal are at their best when they're at their most absurd (Coquelicot, Gay Parade).
i've finished the new album. i've been working on it for over a year. it's mastered and ready to go.
it won't come out till october though. i am very happy with it. i worry that some people are going to misunderstand it. there's nothing i can do about that
though, now, it is done. anyways,i didn't create it to give people something to like. i created it because i was compelled to.
it is possible to view this album as one long composition, with lots of different movements, or just as a collection of pop songs. i wanted to make an album
that was unpredictable and, at times,startling, yet always hummable and catchy. some of the transitions are intentionally awkward. i did this to keep the
listener off guard and to dismantle people's perception of how an album is supposed to be constructed. i am so bored with art that makes sense and "works".
i wanted to do somethings that didn't "work". very few things pique our interest while they are working as we expect them to, things are far more interesting
when they are not working. shocking people though, just for the sake of it, is so mundane. nothing on Skeletal Lamping was intended to shock. i just feel
that,in most contemporary songs, you can basically finish the artist's sentences,musically and lyrically. i wanted to make an album where that was not
possible.
i wanted to make a record that could truly surprise a listener. to create something that was, in turns, enraging,joyous,discomforting,playful,lovely,unpleasant,freaky,mesmeric…something
that came close to capturing the labyrinthine complexity of this human consciousness.
i spend most of my time in a state of mild confusion and pensiveness. i imagine most people do too. this record is my attempt to bring all of my puzzling,contradicting,disturbing,humorous…fantasies,ruminations
and observations to the surface, so that i can better dissect and understand their reason for being in my head. hence the title, Skeletal Lamping. Lamping
is the name of a rather dreadful hunting technique where, hunters go into the forest at night,
flood an area in light, then shoot,or capture,the animals as they panic and run from their hiding places.
this album is my attempt at doing this to my proverbial skeletons. i haven't yet decided if i should shoot or just capture them though.
Hopefully this blog post means a return to form. The last three albums were good but Of Montreal are at their best when they're at their most absurd (Coquelicot, Gay Parade).
i've finished the new album. i've been working on it for over a year. it's mastered and ready to go.
it won't come out till october though. i am very happy with it. i worry that some people are going to misunderstand it. there's nothing i can do about that
though, now, it is done. anyways,i didn't create it to give people something to like. i created it because i was compelled to.
it is possible to view this album as one long composition, with lots of different movements, or just as a collection of pop songs. i wanted to make an album
that was unpredictable and, at times,startling, yet always hummable and catchy. some of the transitions are intentionally awkward. i did this to keep the
listener off guard and to dismantle people's perception of how an album is supposed to be constructed. i am so bored with art that makes sense and "works".
i wanted to do somethings that didn't "work". very few things pique our interest while they are working as we expect them to, things are far more interesting
when they are not working. shocking people though, just for the sake of it, is so mundane. nothing on Skeletal Lamping was intended to shock. i just feel
that,in most contemporary songs, you can basically finish the artist's sentences,musically and lyrically. i wanted to make an album where that was not
possible.
i wanted to make a record that could truly surprise a listener. to create something that was, in turns, enraging,joyous,discomforting,playful,lovely,unpleasant,freaky,mesmeric…something
that came close to capturing the labyrinthine complexity of this human consciousness.
i spend most of my time in a state of mild confusion and pensiveness. i imagine most people do too. this record is my attempt to bring all of my puzzling,contradicting,disturbing,humorous…fantasies,ruminations
and observations to the surface, so that i can better dissect and understand their reason for being in my head. hence the title, Skeletal Lamping. Lamping
is the name of a rather dreadful hunting technique where, hunters go into the forest at night,
flood an area in light, then shoot,or capture,the animals as they panic and run from their hiding places.
this album is my attempt at doing this to my proverbial skeletons. i haven't yet decided if i should shoot or just capture them though.
New Mogwai album tracklist:
01 I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
02 Batcat
03 Daphne and the Brain
04 Local Authority
05 The Sun Smells Too Loud
06 Kings Meadow
07 I Love You, I'm Going to Blow Up Your School
08 Scotland's Shame
09 Thank You Space Expert
10 The Precipice
01 I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
02 Batcat
03 Daphne and the Brain
04 Local Authority
05 The Sun Smells Too Loud
06 Kings Meadow
07 I Love You, I'm Going to Blow Up Your School
08 Scotland's Shame
09 Thank You Space Expert
10 The Precipice
Originally posted by xneverwherex:08 seems to have a lot of back in fine forms.
Originally posted by SPARX:Love their new album! theyre back in fine form.
http://www.dandywarhols.com/ts/?account_id=75183
The new Tricky mucho better than the last three, leaving LA was a wise choice.
New Martina Topley-Bird is really good too.
So this looks like it should be amazing:
Nels Cline/Carlos Giffoni/Alan Licht/Lee Ranaldo
'Nothing Makes Any Sense' CD
A constantly shifting and engaging long-form piece of developed drone, foreboding melody, and harsh grit, Nothing Makes Any Sense finds Lee Ranaldo (Sonic
Youth), Nels Cline (Nels Cline Singers, Wilco), and Alan Licht pushing their guitars into a cacophonous state that bears much influence from the post-jazz
fields they've all cut their teeth in, but also bearing down a forceful brutality that has sometimes eluded their past material. While Carlos Giffoni uses
his analog Synth mastery to adequately contend and mesh seamlessly with the trio of strings, letting his analog noise pulsate and pierce with its own sense
of contained stampede.
Nels Cline/Carlos Giffoni/Alan Licht/Lee Ranaldo
'Nothing Makes Any Sense' CD
A constantly shifting and engaging long-form piece of developed drone, foreboding melody, and harsh grit, Nothing Makes Any Sense finds Lee Ranaldo (Sonic
Youth), Nels Cline (Nels Cline Singers, Wilco), and Alan Licht pushing their guitars into a cacophonous state that bears much influence from the post-jazz
fields they've all cut their teeth in, but also bearing down a forceful brutality that has sometimes eluded their past material. While Carlos Giffoni uses
his analog Synth mastery to adequately contend and mesh seamlessly with the trio of strings, letting his analog noise pulsate and pierce with its own sense
of contained stampede.
How has there been no mention of this new Thurston Moore album on No Fun?
Whoa!
Kikuri (Keiji Haino + Masami Akita) - Pulverized Purple
"Debut release from this monstrous new Japanese underground supergroup that pairs arguably the two most influential and radical modern Japanese musicians
for the first time, Keiji Haino and Masami Akita aka Merzbow. Recorded live at the Victoriaville Festival in 2007, Haino pretty much dominates the proceedings,
which isnâ??t to say that Akita is reduced to any kind of background contribution but rather that Haino - in the way he does with other heavyweight collaborators
like Tony Conrad et al - immediately establishes the grounds of the exchange. Itâ??s a good move, especially when heâ??s dealing with the kind of overwhelming
firepower and monomania of Akita. When the first track starts out it sounds like classic Merzbow for the first minute or so but then Haino usurps the arc
of the track with some unlikely wordless vocals, forcing Akita into backing down to a cracked Industrial drone while Haino builds loop after loop of forlorn
song. In fact, the first track is most directly comparable to the psychedelic choral song of Hainoâ??s Nijiumu project. After that thereâ??s a bunch of tracks
that see Haino using percussive, acoustic instruments and combining lung-destroying vocals with Akitaâ??s streamrolling analog assault. But itâ??s the final
track thatâ??s the real monster, a 30 minute guitar/electronics/drums jams with Haino playing classic iconoclastic single note lead bombs ala the first track
on Pathetique while Akita destroys a drumkit behind him. A fantastic set that goes well beyond what you might expect from this particular duo. Also features
a picture of Haino wearing baggy trousers and big clumpy boots - what the fuck? Highly recommended.
Recorded on May 21, 2007 at the 24th International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville festival. Mixed and mastered at Peace Music Studio."
Kikuri (Keiji Haino + Masami Akita) - Pulverized Purple
"Debut release from this monstrous new Japanese underground supergroup that pairs arguably the two most influential and radical modern Japanese musicians
for the first time, Keiji Haino and Masami Akita aka Merzbow. Recorded live at the Victoriaville Festival in 2007, Haino pretty much dominates the proceedings,
which isnâ??t to say that Akita is reduced to any kind of background contribution but rather that Haino - in the way he does with other heavyweight collaborators
like Tony Conrad et al - immediately establishes the grounds of the exchange. Itâ??s a good move, especially when heâ??s dealing with the kind of overwhelming
firepower and monomania of Akita. When the first track starts out it sounds like classic Merzbow for the first minute or so but then Haino usurps the arc
of the track with some unlikely wordless vocals, forcing Akita into backing down to a cracked Industrial drone while Haino builds loop after loop of forlorn
song. In fact, the first track is most directly comparable to the psychedelic choral song of Hainoâ??s Nijiumu project. After that thereâ??s a bunch of tracks
that see Haino using percussive, acoustic instruments and combining lung-destroying vocals with Akitaâ??s streamrolling analog assault. But itâ??s the final
track thatâ??s the real monster, a 30 minute guitar/electronics/drums jams with Haino playing classic iconoclastic single note lead bombs ala the first track
on Pathetique while Akita destroys a drumkit behind him. A fantastic set that goes well beyond what you might expect from this particular duo. Also features
a picture of Haino wearing baggy trousers and big clumpy boots - what the fuck? Highly recommended.
Recorded on May 21, 2007 at the 24th International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville festival. Mixed and mastered at Peace Music Studio."
Psychedelica Vol: 3 is imminent. Full tracklisting to be announced
shortly. In the meantime please be sure to visit the myspace site
where you can listen in to 6 fabulous songs from the album by bands
including The Lea Shores, Hopewell, The High Dials, Mono In VCF, The
December Sound and The House of Fire.
Also details of some very special shows coming up, new artwork, all
the latest goss…
www.myspace.com/northernstarrecords
Also visit our website for music which you won't find anywhere else.
www.northernstarrecords.co.uk
Currently in the shop are lost albums and rarities and never before
released music from the likes of Sonic Boom, Sunray, Data 70, Their
Hearts Were Full of Spring, The Lovetones, The Electric Mainline,
Perfect Blue… all your favourites from the Psychedelica series.
Also available Psychedelica Vol: 1 featuring Brian Jonestown
Massacre, Telescopes, Lovetones, The Hiss and Psychedelica Vol: 2
featuring The Quarter After, The Nova Saints, The December Sound and
Belles Will Ring.
shortly. In the meantime please be sure to visit the myspace site
where you can listen in to 6 fabulous songs from the album by bands
including The Lea Shores, Hopewell, The High Dials, Mono In VCF, The
December Sound and The House of Fire.
Also details of some very special shows coming up, new artwork, all
the latest goss…
www.myspace.com/northernstarrecords
Also visit our website for music which you won't find anywhere else.
www.northernstarrecords.co.uk
Currently in the shop are lost albums and rarities and never before
released music from the likes of Sonic Boom, Sunray, Data 70, Their
Hearts Were Full of Spring, The Lovetones, The Electric Mainline,
Perfect Blue… all your favourites from the Psychedelica series.
Also available Psychedelica Vol: 1 featuring Brian Jonestown
Massacre, Telescopes, Lovetones, The Hiss and Psychedelica Vol: 2
featuring The Quarter After, The Nova Saints, The December Sound and
Belles Will Ring.
The new Motley Crue album has leaked. Hurry!
Nice Religious Knives piece on (or is it "in"?) Pitchfork today.
It's about time they got some press.
I've yet to hear Resin but It's After Dark is well worth picking up.
It's about time they got some press.
I've yet to hear Resin but It's After Dark is well worth picking up.
Oh cool…Jens Lekman's DJ just put out a droney jazz album with his own ensemble.
Edit: Not very jazzy. More glitchy ambient than anything else. Similar to Christopher Willits.
Edit: Not very jazzy. More glitchy ambient than anything else. Similar to Christopher Willits.