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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 13 February 2016 CE
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Edited Feb 14, 2016, 19:08
Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 13 February 2016 CE
Feb 14, 2016, 19:06
Knifeworld – Bottled Out Of Eden. New one from Kavus Torabi’s band, he of Guapo, ex of Cardiacs, and DJ partner to Steve Davis. What I’ve heard of their stuff previously has been a bit obtuse for my ears, but this one seems a bit more tuneful and direct. He also does a fine impression of Brian Eno’s very English singing.

Motorpsycho – Here Be Monsters. This is nice in a Floydian way, but it sounds a bit knackered overall. They should take a proper holiday.

Crumbling Ghost – Five Songs. Excellent: http://witheredhandrecords.bandcamp.com/track/swansea-town

Mondo Drag – The Occultation Of Light. As is this if you’re after that ‘70s but not really the 70s’ rock experience: https://mondodrag.bandcamp.com/track/rising-omen

Roly Porter – Third Law. Despite having a name like a Tory backbencher from the 80s, Mr Porter has been getting good reviews, so I had a listen. Hmmm, it’s quite good, but I’m not sure what it is. Interstellar drone? Environmental dubstep? Cosmic concrète? At times, I’m not even sure it qualifies as music, sounding more like the laboured wheezing of the spheres. Here’s one that flirts with a tune towards the end: https://soundcloud.com/tri_angle_records/roly-porter-known-space

Field Music – Commontime. Hard to dislike FM, even as they turn up the dial marked ‘80s soul funk’ a little bit higher each time, but this could benefit from being a few songs shorter.

Cavern Of Anti-Matter – Void Beats/Invocation Trex. Take out the two vocal tracks (particularly the one featuring Sonic Boom) and this is pretty much a five star album.

Black Mountain – ‘Mothers Of The Sun’. I’ve always been a bit suspicious of this lot, but the keyboardist’s excellent solo outings as Sinoia Caves have made me think I need to reassess them. Here’s a case in point, watching this video for their new song, thinking it’s a bit ‘Blackstar’/Jodorowsky on a budget, and the vocals are over-declamatory… but there’s some great keys, and it has quite a cool riff: http://jagjaguwar.com/embed/blackmountain_mothersofthesun.php

Massive Attack – Ritual Spirit EP. I haven’t really listened to much MA since the underwhelming 100th Window, but this is pretty good, and nice that they’ve hooked up with Young Fathers. Tricky’s back too, his track in particular showing what they do so well, taking a simple motif and magnifying it into something, err, massive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWSt_q7M3zI

Hawkwind – Hall Of The Mountain Grill. A real curate’s egg of an album. It doesn’t really hang together, but some great stuff herein nevertheless. ‘Psychedelic Warlords’ is downright funky in places, would have loved for them to have done more stuff like this. The arrival of Simon House completely transforms their sound too – what did your average HW fan make of the title track in 1974 I wonder? Recognised it as a rather wonderful piece of music, I hope, biker tears trickling down bushy cheeks… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFd7elFVaQA (great video BTW, taken from The Black Hole, which was marketed as a kids SF film from Disney, but this end sequence is more like Ken Russell at his trippiest)
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