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Fatalist 1123 posts |
Oct 08, 2017, 23:21
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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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Fatalist 1123 posts |
Oct 08, 2017, 23:24
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Gravel wrote: Third Eye Foundation - Ghost Great to see this get a mention, was pretty obsessed with 3EF for a while after hearing this album.
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keith a 9572 posts |
Oct 09, 2017, 07:03
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Stranded – Roxy Music Hippopotamus - Sparks My Pet Fish - Malka Spigel Musique Originale Du Film Donne-moi La Main – Tarwater Adrift – Tarwater The Epic Years 1976-78 (Pure Mania, V2, plus BBC and live stuff) – The Vibrators Modern Kosmology – Jane Weaver Chair's Missing – Wire
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drewbhoy 2555 posts |
Oct 09, 2017, 12:20
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The Knowledge - Squeeze Some Fantastic Place - Squeeze Domino - Squeeze Cradle To The Grave - Squeeze In///Parallel - Dhani Harrison Vol 1 - Travelling Wilburys Vol 3 - Travelling Wilburys Big Music - Simple Minds Iconic - Simple Minds Acoustic - Simple Minds
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Monganaut 2373 posts |
Oct 09, 2017, 17:38
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Lucky enough to catch Shellac live on Friday evening. Been a fan for over 20 years, and this was the first chance I had to see em' in the flesh. Gotta say, they were excellent, way better than I was expecting, plus they played pretty much all my favourite tracks, so RESULT!!! Shellac - Live at Action Park/ Terraform/Excellent Italian Greyhound/Dude Incredible Ozric Tentacles - Pungent Effulgent Primal Scream - Evil Heat Wild Billy Childish - Thatcher's Children/Best Of Tyrannasurus Rex - Prophets, Seers and Sages Doors - Morrison Hotel (40th Anniversary Mixes) Mort Garson - Zodiac Cosmic Sounds Hadn't realised this had been reissued earlier this year, so had to score a hard copy after JB Lamptoast mentioned it last week. My missus had never heard it, but she used to be a massive Doors fan. Within about 10 seconds of the first track she stated "These guys sound like they REALLY wanna be the Doors". Which the excellent accompanying booklet pretty much spelled out was the raison d'etre of the project. Can - The Singles Caught that rather enjoyable XTC doc over on Sky Arts. Not the biggest fan, was with em' till about English Settlement (plus Dukes Of The Stratosphere), but Andy was on fine form. Thought it was a lovely little programme. Anyhows, that's about it fer another week, keep well y'all.
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Monganaut 2373 posts |
Oct 09, 2017, 17:47
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Fatalist wrote: 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… Have to agree, this is a belter of a record. Was with them from the off (two of me old mates at the time were in the band, but had gone by the time of Tender Buttons). The way she sings the line " The long distance runner, has stopped on the corner, but I won't give up, although I've stopped too" always has me playing a little 60's kitchen sink head movie. God I miss em'.
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Fatalist 1123 posts |
Oct 09, 2017, 17:57
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Monganaut wrote: Fatalist wrote: 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… Have to agree, this is a belter of a record. Was with them from the off (two of me old mates at the time were in the band, but had gone by the time of Tender Buttons). The way she sings the line " The long distance runner, has stopped on the corner, but I won't give up, although I've stopped too" always has me playing a little 60's kitchen sink head movie. God I miss em'. God yes, that is a hell of a line. I think after TB, the B-sides collection The Future Crayon is probably my favourite album of theirs.
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riverman 845 posts |
Oct 09, 2017, 20:03
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Finally been catching up on some new releases: Yair Elazar Glotman and Mats Erlandsson – Negative Chambers. Excellent atmospheric album by these two multi-instrumentalists. Yair Elazar Glotman – Compound. Two new releases in a month! Here Glotman plays contrabass in a trio with a pianist and percussionist. Two long tracks sounding a bit like the Necks – given the instrumentation. But Glotman is a sound artist so more processing of sounds etc. Gardener – A place where nothing was. Debut release on a new tape label run by Alex Macarte of Gnod. Two tracks of drone and ambient modular synth noodlings. Lovely. Johannes Malfatti – Surge. Long 50+ minute drone piece, a meditation on time. The surge relates to a glacier surge event, represented in the music by a sudden change in drone tone. Jasss – Weightless. Debut album by a Spanish woman whose name I can’t remember - Jimenez? Exists somewhere between techno and industrial with a bit of jazz and drone thrown in. Really enjoying it. Elodie – Vieux Silence. Beautiful album on Stephen O’Malley’s Idealogic Organ label. Not heard them before but they are a duo, joined here with a trio (piano, clarinet and pedal steel). Gorgeous improvisations! And a couple of releases from earlier in the year: GAS – Narkopop Gnod and Radar Men from the Moon – Temple of BBV. From the archives: Orthodox - Axis and Baal
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Monganaut 2373 posts |
Edited Oct 10, 2017, 00:10
Oct 09, 2017, 23:55
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Never bought Future Crayon, mainly cos' I had the singles, and most, if not all the tracks were their b-sides. There are still a few Broadcast rarities out there, quite a lot of compilation tracks such as 'Misc' have not been collected/ reissued officially, Also the 'Mother Is The Milky Way' tour EP, and those 3" microtronic tour EP's. Be nice if Warp got it together and stuck em' out. They did quite a few remixes for other atists across there career, some better than others it has to be said, but I guess it depends on the remit they were given, and how much of a free hand they had. Was never totally sold On Tim Feltons follow up band Seeland, but they did have a cracking EP called 'Under Abrahams Mind', which had a couple of nice covers. One of John Foxx's 'Underpass, and the other being Fenwyk's 'Mindrocker. The Advisory Circle's remix of 'Call The Incredible' is just sublime. Have a listen if you've not heard it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q-S7PqymLg Underpass - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zQeug2jDyg
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mingtp 2270 posts |
Oct 10, 2017, 11:18
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Fatalist wrote: 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. Saw them at Bristol Bierkeller on Saturday and completely agree that it's bizarre that they're still under most people's radar. Me and my friend who came with me both thought that there's really no one else like them. Great stuff.
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