International new releases special:
Abul Mogard – And We Are Passing Through Silently. These tracks are all remixes of other people’s music, but Mr Mogard’s aesthetic is so strong – basically swathing everything in glorious slow motion drone – that they might as well be his own songs. No idea who he is (there’s some suspicious-sounding story about him being an elderly Czech ex-factory worker), but this is strange and lovely stuff: https://soundcloud.com/abul-mogard/fovea-hex-we-dream-all-the-dark-away
Gnoomes – Mu! Noisy Russian shoegaze types inject a bit of life into the genre. Good.
Minami Deutsch & Damo Suzuki – Live At Roadburn. Motorik improvisations with fairly negligible input from Mr Suzuki to be honest, OK but nothing you haven’t heard before: https://soundcloud.com/fuzz-club/sets/minami-deutsch-damo-suzuki-live-at-roadburn
L’Eclair – Sauropoda. Groovy dub psych from Swiss combo. Pretty nice, but again, not exactly ground-breaking.
Prana Crafter – MindStreamBlessing. Vinyl reissue. More of the usual from Mr Crafter – meditative guitar & keys tunes, kind of rustic cosmic – but lovely stuff nonetheless: https://eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/prana-crafter-mindstreamblessing
Katu Kaiku – Luna. Finnish alt jazz. Err, I quite enjoyed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGiOMhIVFbk
GU-RU – Tales From The Ashram. Acid Jazz/Euro disco in psych/prog disguise. Some great tracks, but a bit like Jamiroquai on a Canterbury Sound tip at times: https://gu-ru.bandcamp.com/album/tales-from-the-ashram
Peter Hammill – Not Yet Not Now
VA – Jobcentre Rejects. Yet another NWOBHM compilation, but this one is an absolute corker, a lot of the tracks sounding as much like glam and/or power pop as they do metal: https://jobcentrerejects.bandcamp.com/releases
The Budos Band – V. I am loving this, as should all sane people.
Lonker See – One Eye Sees Red. The latest Prog mag has an article on the Polish scene, and one of the albums flagged was this one from last year, cool-sounding alt space rock: https://instantclassic.bandcamp.com/album/one-eye-sees-red
Listen With Father:
The Prodigy – ‘Firestarter’ / ‘Breathe’ / ‘Poison’. One daughter was entranced, one not so much. Easy to forget just how ground-breaking The Prodigy once were, and what a transgressive presence Keith Flint was in the pop charts.
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