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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 18 April 2015 CE
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 18 April 2015 CE
Apr 19, 2015, 22:35
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Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too. Forgot to mention this last week, gave it another listen today. OK, so the pat/borderline offensive take on these guys is that they’re the new Massive Attack, mainly by dint of the fact that there’s two black guys and one white guy, and they’re making hip hop that isn’t really hip hop. In fact, they’re Really Not making hip hop (practically no rapping for a start), but they sound very little like MA either. They have instead a Sound Of Their Own, something of a rarity these days. It’s not especially challenging, but neither is it in any way ingratiating – it wants you to meet it on its own terms. Probably less mainstream crossover potential than MA (despite the Mercury Prize), but I can imagine a lot of rock/non-hip hop liking people really liking this – there’s a definite Krautish post-punk vibe going on here. After a couple of listens, I remain intrigued, and there’s plenty of stand-out tracks, for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4D5Zn4qgPs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REEPJp_GvAQ

Young Knives – Something Awful EP / Sick Octave. RSD EP, three new tracks plus the brilliant title track (which is from their last album Sick Octave), a rockingly strange amalgam of Kraftwerk, King Crimson and PiL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lIVLgqh-0g The other tracks suggest a band going in a decidedly darker, weirder direction. Clearly flagged on Sick Octave itself, even if they’re sometimes in need of an editor.

William D Drake – Revere Reach. Bloke who used to play keyboards in the Cardiacs. Similarly eccentric English vibe to Young Knives, but sonically more in line with Michael Nyman/VDGG/Hammill/early Genesis/narrative folk ballads. Interesting.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress. Ditto last week, a lot of faff but some stunning passages of orch rock heaviosity too.

Random access:

Sleater-Kinney – The Woods. Mentioned to a friend that I’d never really heard any SK, and this arrived in my inbox. I can understand why a lot of people love ‘em, but feel like they may be retrospectively difficult to really get into. Sludgy production doesn’t help, great howling voice though.

The Wyrding Module – Mellifluous Ichor From Sunless Regions. Occult/hauntological/drone/ritual ambient, but not as enervating/boring as a lot of such stuff can be. In fact, there’s a nice post-punk vibe in places: http://www.upitup.com/catalogue/sharemp3.php?cat_id=62&trk_id=563

Jane Weaver – ‘Don’t Take My Soul’. Video edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKj7CoGFGYE JW looks nice if a bit bemused. She’s got a companion album to The Silver Globe coming out called The Amber Light, which has various extra tracks and remixes, and sounds pretty good having briefly skimmed it on Spotify. Definitely one for Broadcast fans too.
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