Nyx Nótt – Au Pieds De La Nuit. New instrumental album from Aidan Moffat, ‘im out of Arab Strap. Lots of strings and echo-y drums, strangely oppressive but very good in places: https://soundcloud.com/melodic-records/radio-nyx
A Formal Horse – Here Comes A Man From The Council With A Flamethrower. Winner of best album title of the year. Young people doing something interesting with bits of the past, guessing they own a few King Crimson albums: https://aformalhorse.bandcamp.com/album/here-comes-a-man-from-the-council-with-a-flamethrower
75 Dollar Bill – I Was Real. Hmmm, ethno-blues-drone stuff that goes on way too long, but nice in relatively short doses: https://75dollarbill.bandcamp.com/album/i-was-real
Andrew Wasylyk – The Paralian. There’s a lot of this not quite post-rock/not quite pagan folk/not quite soundtrack music thing around. By any estimation, this is clearly ‘good’, but it didn’t completely engage me: https://aotns.bandcamp.com/album/the-paralian
BEAK> – Marc Riley sessions. I love these guys (and whoever took the time to post this): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrNPRXQmA3o / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoIBO2vQj-Y
Talk Talk – Kid Jensen sessions. Ditto. Whenever people refer to TT’s early stuff as ‘synth pop’, you can be pretty sure they haven’t actually heard it. These sessions from 81 and 83 are amazing, really revealing them more as post-punk art rockers who just happened to have a way with a decent tune… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slu2ClPUxUk / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyTdLUWUaBo
VA – Revolution: Underground Sounds Of 1968. Some gems on here, this in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYmT8r_ss0Q
Live:
IQ – The Garage, London. Asked to attend a gig by a band I haven’t seen in 35 years (eeek!), so had little idea what this was going to be like, but I actually rather liked them. It’s ‘modern prog’, but done with a minimum of bombast and even some subtlety in places. Also pleasingly heavy ;-)
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