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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 10 March 2018
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 10 March 2018
Mar 11, 2018, 21:51
Halo Maud – Je Suis Une Île. Interesting avant-pop from French lady. Not quite in the same league as La Feline, and a bit too Bjork-ish for me in places, but there’s something interesting in every song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUk2KJWFq7Y

Cosmo Sheldrake – The Much Much How How And I. Orch pop carnival prog, with lots of big tunes and cleverly processed woodwind and brass. It’s a bit geeky hipster, but Mr Sheldrake is clearly a very talented young man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8a35QScYaQ

Wand – Perfume. Mini-album hot on the heels of last year’s Plum. Appealingly heavy psych pop – Wand are exactly the kind of band that NME should have got behind in a big way (though for all I know, maybe they did): https://wand.bandcamp.com/album/perfume

The Oscillation – U.E.F. More psychy types, but voyaging off in the direction of ‘there’s always been a dance element to our music’… This is actually pretty good, two long tracks full of arpeggiated synth and echoplexed guitars, but sounds a bit dated. The kind of thing that NME (them again) might have proclaimed the future of music in 1989… https://theoscillation.bandcamp.com/album/u-e-f

Jason Sharp – Stand Above The Streams. Drone stuff from sax guy. Good on its own terms, but it feels like there’s so much stuff like this out there, and thus hard to get that excited about it.

Carlton Melton – Mind Materials. Right, I’m not listening to any more albums by these guys. Every track sounds vaguely promising, then proceeds to go nowhere for far too long.

Dead Meadow – The Nothing They Need. This, on the other hand, is how you do contemporary stoner psych. A wonderful album.

Mint Field – Pasar De Las Luces. Spookily reminiscent of Slowdive circa Pygmalion, with a little added oomph in the rhythm department.

Rick Wakeman – The Real Lisztomania. Not only have I listened to a Rick Wakeman album the whole way through, I’ve actually enjoyed the experience. Reissued OST to Ken Russell’s utterly bonkers film from 1975 – if you don’t believe me, take a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peJ_ncxXung

Listen With Father:

Blackwater Holylight – s/t. Thought I’d treat the girls to something a little more contemporary, though frankly this still sounds like it’s from a parallel universe where Buckingham Nicks joined Black Sabbath instead of Fleetwood Mac. One of those albums that seeps into your subconscious and takes up residence… https://blackwaterholylight.bandcamp.com/track/wave-of-conscience
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