Lord Lucan
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Your best recent finds
Sep 04, 2003, 11:50
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Despite having some fun with it all I think Moon Cat's right. All the 'worst of the guilty rubbish hate your favourite crap bah' threads need a bit of a counterweight. As I'm feeling a bit hungry for new thrills at the moment I was wondering what you funksters would recommend of recent-ish releases that might turn my ears on.
As for me I'll happily recommend...
Four Tet - Rounds
Very nice rougn-n-ready electronica with a nice balance of experiMentalism and humabilty. Not revolutionary but some of the best, organic feeling digitalia I've heard in some time.
The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium
These lot are to prog what The Darkness are to cock-rock. This album treads a fine line between total piss-take and very worthy homage to a much maligned genre. Personally this took a few listens to really stick in my mind, but now it's wormed its way into my brain with it's noodlings and riffings I'm hooked. Not for everyone maybe but if you like your Crimsons you should slot this in your tray.
Coil - Live 4
I picked this up cheapo second-hand and wasn't expecting much. Most live albums leave me cold and an electronica one I thought would probably be even more pointless. WRONG! This is a stunning set with loads of variety from ear-crunching buzzing and whirrings to great re-workings of Ostia from Horse Rotorvator and Amethyst Deceivers. John Balance is in fierce voice throughout and as he announces the final track 'An Unarthly Red' with "Now it's going to get messy... I hope" you can sense the crowd losing it to the head-on rush of beats, electronics and schizophrenic shouting. Rave for Viennese mutants.
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Squid Tempest
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Re: Your best recent finds
Sep 04, 2003, 11:54
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I found £5 in the back pocket of my jeans....
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elderford
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Re: Your best recent finds
Sep 04, 2003, 12:00
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American Analog Set
Heard it playing in the HMV in Dublin and bought it there and then just to prove to the disinterested staff how hip i was. whatever it was i bought was already two years old. lofi guitar music from texas but with a gentle acoustic air despite having titles such as "punk as fuck".
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Lord Lucan
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Re: Your best recent finds
Sep 04, 2003, 12:02
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Actually I found a pound coin this morning rummaging through the clothes mountain for a pair of clean socks. Hmm. Think I'll spend it on a box of Jaffa Cakes later. >dribble<
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Billy Milk
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Re: Your best recent finds
Sep 04, 2003, 12:42
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a fantastic album indeed.
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Billy Milk
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Re: Your best recent finds
Sep 04, 2003, 12:47
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i must say i was disappointed in the four tet album after reading so many glowing reviews. pleasant enough but maybe i should listen to it more.
my recent revelations have been indestructible by rancid which sounds like the great lost clash album and so packed with great tunes it ought to burst. trashes the likes of blink 182. a truly fun way to spend and hour.
bruce palmer - the circle is complete. wonderful solo album by buffalo springfield bassist. four wandering jams which somehow summon up a sense of time and place. heck, it gets krautrocky on track 3. featuring a young rick james in decidedly unfunky moments
tangerine dream - live bootleg box. six gigs, not too lo fi. from the 1974/75 tours. great. including the first gig i went to (tangs @ sheffield city hall, oct 74) and it's not at all how i remember it
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Gnomon
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Re: Your best recent finds
Sep 04, 2003, 13:04
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I'm with you all the way on the new Rancid album... I like it lots!
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PaulMakesMusic
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Re: Your best recent finds
Sep 04, 2003, 13:26
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Definately the downloaded folder of original version of this mortal coil songs for me!
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alan lake soon
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Re: Your best recent finds
Sep 04, 2003, 14:25
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King Dice for me! I'd never heard of it/them/him until it fell through the letter box one day. U-all-need!
The King himself recommended NWW's Sililoquy for Lilith which is on it's way from World Serpent.
I had an idea you were a Coil-head, m'Lord? Ian Penman in the Wire LOVED the Coil live CDs esp. 1 & 4. He made them sound SO much more than just live albums. My jury-of-one is still out on Coil, although I did find myself, out of the blue, singing Amethyst Deceivers while out on my bike the other evening.
Why was I singing it? Then realised I'd just gone over Hammersmith Bridge. Funny the way the mind works. Pay yr respects to the vultures, Hammersmith Deceivers...
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Popel Vooje
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Re: Your best recent finds
Sep 04, 2003, 15:21
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If you like the Four Tet album, you might also like Manitoba's "Up In Flames". It is apparently the work of one solitary laptop geek Dan Snaith from Canada, and is, IMO, even better (not to mention more emotive and human-sounding) than "Rounds". Album of the year so far by my reckoning.
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