BardSpec – Hydrogen. A couple of death metal guys in disguise do spacey/industrial electronica. Quite a bit better than I expected it to be: https://bardspec.bandcamp.com/
The Focus Group – Stop-Motion Happening. I started going into a hypnogogic state listening to this – it was like being in an episode of The Prisoner.
The Myrrors – Hasta La Victoria
Woods – Love Is Love
Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2 – Star Stuff. From earlier this year, a really quite impressive take on jazzy psychedelia – even the American indie boy vocals work well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blz2IpGR1Sg
Brian Eno – The Shutov Assembly. There’s actually quite a bit of the Eno back catalogue I’ve never heard. This comes recommended, but it felt a bit 90s digital to me.
Radiohead – Live at Glastonbury on your telly. They’re just bloody good, aren’t they? Rolled out all the ‘hits’ at the end (most of which didn’t bother the top 20 at the time, now received like sacred texts), but I love the fact they started the set so quietly. ’15 Steps’ was particularly good.
Listen With Father:
Traffic – Heaven Is In Your Mind. Great comp from the late 90s. Hard to tell these days, but I think they particularly liked ‘John Barleycorn Must Die’, which of course they should.
UFO – ‘Doctor, Doctor’. As I’ve mentioned before, the single album I’ve actually heard the most in the past six months is the School Of Rock original cast recording. Some sickly Lloyd Webber moments, but for the most past it’s genuinely quite rocking (in a very tongue in cheek way), and the kids absolutely love it. So, having played them some of the songs that get referenced in SOR (‘Smoke On The Water’, ‘Walk On The Wild Side’, ‘Satisfaction’ etc), I thought we’d have a little stroll through some of the finer hard rock singles of the late 70s to see what they thought. I discovered two things in particular: 1) the original version of ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’ is shockingly unavailable on Spotify, and 2) the girls totally loved ‘Doctor, Doctor’ (live version, naturally) to such an extent that a repeat play was immediately demanded, this time accompanied by a vigorous interpretive dance…
K is for…
Killdozer – Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite. Not even sure if I’ve ever played this through before, picked up in a charity shop for much cheapness. Killdozer are a band best appreciated in small doses, and at times it felt like they were a prank being perpetrated by the US hardcore underground on a gullible UK press. This is their first release I think, and features some surprisingly tuneful playing in among all the references to child molesters and serial killers – and the title suggests that the redneck punk thing was of course just an image. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9iOIFInCbI
DJ Krush – Strictly Turntablized. There was a couple of years or so in the 90s when Mo Wax was the hip label, not least because of putting out the first few DJ Shadow singles, which really didn’t sound like anything else at the time. DJ Krush, also on Mo Wax, was promoted as his Japanese equivalent, but the comparison doesn’t really hold water – DJK is sparser, and the beats are starker. Yet it’s sometimes similarly hypnotic, urban fugue music. The pseudo-graffiti cover and title is utterly of its time though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjzc4hve6QM
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