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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 16 September 2017 CE
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Edited Sep 17, 2017, 23:11
Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 16 September 2017 CE
Sep 17, 2017, 23:10
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Luciferian Towers. On first listen, as you’d expect, though it seems more polished than their last album, with less patience-trying atonal drones. Reminded me a bit of Yanqui U.X.O. in that respect. The whole thing streaming here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3GcRp1d7AA

Mt. Mountain – OMED / EP. Moody, atmospheric desert psych from Australian band. These are their first releases from a few years ago, now reissued by Cardinal Fuzz. Recommended: https://mtmountain.bandcamp.com/album/omed

Trojan Horse – Fukushima Surfer Boys. Crazy modern prog types throw some electronic beats and sub bass into the mix, with pleasing results. There’s a lot to take in, but Steven Wilson it ain’t, so hurrah for that… https://trojanhorse.bandcamp.com/album/fukushima-surfer-boys

Oddfellow's Casino – Oh, Sealand. Pastoral psychedelicist gets worked up about Brexit Britain, as well he might. Some really good stuff here: https://microcultures.bandcamp.com/album/oh-sealand

Gilroy Mere – The Green Line

The Radiation Flowers – Summer Loop

Amplifier – Trippin’ With Dr. Faustus

Gökçen Kaynatan – s/t

VA – Kiss The Sky. “Mind-bending” MOJO psych comp, a few clunkers but actually rather good, and props for including the wonderful Hedvig Mollestad Trio. And a couple of cuts that I’d been a bit ambivalent about before, which I can now report are in fact excellent ;-) Black Moutain’s ‘Mothers Of The Sun’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_USHKQ4Ntc8 and Wolf People’s ‘Night Witch’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmKt76_wtHs

Listen With Father:

Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow. Marvellous album, and I’m sure the kids were entertained by seeing their father get particularly excited when this track came on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y3xrZ_ZJIg love Dick Taylor’s proto-Fripp guitaring and such an amazing arrangement.

R is for…

Raw Material – s/t / Time Is… Obscure early 70s combo. The first album is pleasant enough psych/blues proto-prog (though check this piece of spoken word craziness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aExl9tNQSZ0), but Time Is… is the must-hear for fans of King Crimson and Van Der Graaf Generator, being, as one wag on Amazon put it, pretty much a straight combination of the two, but with all the difficult bits taken out. Now, you may well say that the difficult bits are the whole point of KC and VDGG, but it’s still a very enjoyable listen, even if the first track ‘borrows’ rather heavily from ‘Killer’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwe8kspO89Y
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