Lots of new stuff…
Spotlights – Seismic. Husband and wife (I think) duo making an impressively controlled noise, Deftones meets MBV with a bit of Unwound chucked in. Could have stood losing a couple of tracks, but rather good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiLOZr2psdQ
Oliver Cherer – The Myth Of Violet Meek. Bloke behind the recent Gilroy Mere/The Green Line album, this is sinister/melancholy English folky stuff, like Nick Cave if he’d been brought up in the Forest of Dean: http://digital.waysideandwoodland.com/track/poor-violet
Siinai – Sykli. One of those albums I wasn’t expecting much of, but was pleasantly surprised, mesmeric cosmic post-rock from young Finnish team: https://soundcloud.com/siinai/sykli-ananda
Virginia Wing/Xam Duo – Tomorrow’s Gift. Also surprisingly good, hadn’t completely warmed to either of these two groups individually, but this is like a strange, avant drone version of Broadcast, only more accessible than that sounds: https://soundcloud.com/firerecords/virginia-wing-xam-duo-person-to-person
Hotel Wrecking City Traders – Passage To Agartha. Extended psych/noise workouts, started well, but didn’t really go anywhere. I’m afraid I stopped before the end.
Mt. Mountain – OMED. First track is an absolutely lovely slab of lonesome desert psych: https://mtmountain.bandcamp.com/track/at-deaths-door
JuJu – Our Mother Was A Plant
Nik Turner – Life In Space / Space Fusion Odyssey. After rather liking LIS, thought I’d listen to his previous jazz rock album, which features the likes of Billy Cobham and Robby Krieger. It’s good and actually remarkably credible: https://nikturnermusic.bandcamp.com/album/space-fusion-odyssey
Inner City Unit – Pass Out. This on the other hand is a total piss take, debut album from Turner’s cartoon punk band. Quite a decent version of ‘Master Of The Universe’ though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS2WVhJGCeY
The Zodiac – Cosmic Sounds. Mentioned by others last week, just re-released on el. If you can get past the cod-Morrsionisms of the astrological readings, it’s actually a hugely inventive proto-progressive psych album, thanks to being written by Mort Garson and performed by the Wrecking Crew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rx-XtRIiHs
Listen With Father:
Broadcast – Tender Buttons. I’d never completely appreciated Broadcast until I heard this album, a brilliant moulding of abstract noise into beautifully off-centre pop songs. ‘Tears In The Typing Pool’ had me welling up in the car, but I think I got away with it…
Live:
All Them Witches – KoKo, Camden. Firstly, what a lovely venue, hadn’t been there since it was the Camden Palace, now more than ever like some magical Victorian theatre. And the place was packed for a band that still remain mysteriously under the mainstream radar, yet are clearly in their element live. A seamless mix of blues/psych/stoner/prog, but with a real classic rock air too, but they’re smarter than that too. Anyway, great band, great show.
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