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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 20 January 2018
Jan 21, 2018, 23:02
Beautify Junkyards – The Invisible World Of… Latest from Ghost Box, and a slight divergence from their quintessential English sound. BJ are from Portugal, and are being sold as a more summery, Latin pop version of Broadcast. Some of the songs also have that late 90s post-trip hop vibe too. It’s a nice album, but like their name, occasionally a little clunky. https://soundcloud.com/ghost-box/sets/invisible-world

Fire! – The Hands. Ooh, this is pretty stonking. Didn’t really like their last one, but this starts with a killer one-two punch, with a couple of tracks driven by merciless fuzz-bass riffs and that sax-in-distress sound. A bit like Big Black in a fight with King Crimson: https://soundcloud.com/rune-grammofon/fire-the-hands

Elephant9 – The Greatest Show On Earth. Another album from one of Rune Grammafon’s core bands. Whereas the last one with Reine Fiske was sprawling and mountainous, this one features more concise heavy prog jazz chicanery, if that’s not a contradiction in terms: https://soundcloud.com/rune-grammofon/elephant9-actionpack1

QST – The Silent Cookbook. Left over from last year, when I failed to give it my full attention. Nice, spacey electronica rather undercut by some clumpy hard house beats. https://soundcloud.com/qstofficial/sets/the-silent-cookbook

Thick Syrup – Living In Leeds. I now realise the title is a pun…

Listen With Father:

Stevie Nicks – Crystal Vision: The Very Best Of… Actually, this should more properly be Listen With Daughter, as my oldest proudly played her first CD in the car this week. Think I might have mentioned her obsession with ‘Edge Of Seventeen’ before, which continues and expands… I knew very little about SN’s oeuvre, but I sure am becoming familiar with it. There’s a techno-ish remix of ‘Dreams’ on this album, which at first I thought was a bit ‘meh’, but quite liked by the end. And a live version of ‘Rhiannon’ where she doesn’t even attempt the high notes, but fair enough…

The Vinyl Countdown – A:

Atomic Rooster – Headline News. Whoa, really pleased to make the acquaintance of this album again, which I played a LOT when it came out (in 1983). Essentially a Vincent Crane solo record (though it does feature AR veteran Paul Hammond on drums), this sounds both utterly of its time and timelessly great. It’s difficult to describe – paranoid AOR prog is near, but in places this really rocks, in others it’s downright disturbing. Anyway, it’s really worth lending an ear to, and with Dave Gilmour on four of the tracks, of particular interest to Floyd fans (and yes, it’s better than The Final Cut). Brilliant title track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtUFBHDtGUM

Artery – Number Four (Live In Amsterdam). I certainly didn’t listen to this as much, maybe only a couple of times in fact, but it’s better than I remember. Artery started off an arty post-punk group from Sheffield, but by this farewell album, they’d turned into spiky garage goth, a bit like Berlin Iggy played by Bauhaus. Simon Hinkler plays guitar, just prior to him forming The Mission with Wayne Hussey. (Can find zilch online from this album, but here’s their cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Diamonds In The Mine’, a live version of which appears on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LHDWhdQTlg)

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