Melanie De Biasio – Lillies. More moody, brooding post-jazz from the Belgian chanteuse. Not as exploratory/out there as last year’s 25 minute ‘Blackened Cities’, but often claustrophobically intimate, in a good way. https://melaniedebiasio.bandcamp.com/album/lilies
Charles Howl – My Idol Family. This is the kind of light psych-inflected indie pop that I normally run screaming from, but I actually quite like this, probably because it possesses a pleasingly caustic edge in places, a bit like early Auteurs or Blur: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hhZ8gQnBx48
Scanner – Fibolae. Hmm, the kind of album that would have sounded pretty groundbreaking 20 years ago, but now… not so much.
Monolord – Rust. Was Cope once a fan of these guys? Not terrible, but poor man’s Electric Wizard springs to mind. Didn’t make it to the end.
Esmerine – Mechanics Of Dominion. This was also on its way to an early bath, being that kind of earnest neo-classical stuff mentioned last week that really wants to be Taken Seriously, but it dramatically improved halfway through with a healthy injection of Rock Wig-Out, the title track being particularly nice: https://esmerine.bandcamp.com/track/mechanics-of-dominion
The Belbury Circle – Outward Journeys. Loving this, Ghost Box are going through a particular purple patch at the mo. Brilliant track: https://soundcloud.com/ghost-box/the-belbury-circle-forgotten
Trojan Horse – Fukashima Surfer Boys. Worth lending an ear if you think ‘modern prog’ has stalled with Steven Wilson. https://trojanhorse.bandcamp.com/album/fukushima-surfer-boys
Cluster & Eno – s/t
Listen With Father:
More rock hits from my youth lovingly recycled for my daughters. ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’ (Rainbow) and ‘I Love Rock & Roll’ (Joan Jett) particularly popular, surprised both haven’t been given some Glee-esque make-over by whoever has replaced One Direction in the affections of the nation’s teenage girls (not that I’d know if they had)
T is for…
Tarentel – The Order Of Things. First wave post-rock, mathy, droney, orchy stuff, pretty decent but not quite as engaging as it wants to be. On saying that, I remember sampling the hell out of the cellos on this track: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xjMLTMtrzhM
Theorem – Nano. First wave minimal techno on Richie Hawtin’s label, like Plastikman with a bit more colour, quite hypnotic https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7N07Ym50jE Stuff like this and the Tarentel now seem utterly ubiquitous and therefore a bit devalued, but when they first came out, it genuinely sounded like they were at least trying to do something different.
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