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New Music Recommendations 2012
We have a wealth of musical wisdom here and it seems many enjoy having an ongoing thread were we can share new music finds with the rest of the forum. Here we go!
If you're enthusiastic about a new album you've picked up feel free to tell us about it. Post, discuss, inform....but be civil:)
No genre limitations, anything goes as we have all sorts of interests here. Classical, Jazz, Indie, Folk, Rap, R&B, Blues, Techno, Ambient, Modern Classical and on and on....post em all..
Let the music play.......
If you're enthusiastic about a new album you've picked up feel free to tell us about it. Post, discuss, inform....but be civil:)
No genre limitations, anything goes as we have all sorts of interests here. Classical, Jazz, Indie, Folk, Rap, R&B, Blues, Techno, Ambient, Modern Classical and on and on....post em all..
Let the music play.......
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Terrence Dixon "From The Far Future Part 2" Tresor release that had been on my list for a while and I finally got around to picking it up. I'd sure been missing a fine one. Real nice bit of dark tech/house with lots going on under the hood, just how I like it. Changing musical gears.... I've been listening a lot to the older J. Tillman release, Vacilando Territory Blues so I picked up a few of his other older records. Singing Ax, Cancer And Delirium, Minor Works and Year In The Kingdom. All just outstanding albums, especially Singing Ax. Very highly recommended. |
Jon Cleary - Occapella - Having fun with the songs of Allen Toussaint. I 1st heard Cleary briefly on HBO's Treme (a great source for new music!). After digging a bit I came to the realization that I've been listening to him and his music for years! He recorded with Taj Mahal on 2 favorite Taj records; 'Phantom Blues' & 'Senor Blues'. Also on Bonnie Raitt's 'Silver Lining' & 'Souls Alike'. He was a member of their bands, playing keyboards, with Bonnie and Taj both recording songs of his on their albums. So I owned performances of his and his music, I just wasn't aware of it! Cleary originally hails from England (!) but he's been a New Orleans native for over 15 years, the dude's a phenom!! Funky, soulful, bluesey good-time music, a great score!! |
Featherface . They just put out a full-length called Actual Magic that hasn't left my car stereo for a month. |
Andy Stott "Luxury Problems" Ok, this one is 10/10 for me and if you liked "We Stay Together" and "Pass Me By"....you'll love this. The master of totally f**k*d bass, beats and twisted vocals weaving in and out of rhythms from some dark warehouse in the wee hours. Playing this is a physical experience. Your innards will pulse and vibrate from the depths of the bass. Wicked or downright nasty. Vatican Shadow "Atta's Apartment Slated For Demolition" "Ghosts Of Chechnya" "Jordanian Descent" "Ornamented Walls" Yup, four releases over the past couple of weeks. Dominick Fernow's been quite the busy man and I'm quite happy about that. His VS work always leaves me at a loss for words when I think about describing it. There is nothing quite like it out there. All I'll say here is that it's one of my go to artists, this stuff sticks. Military, Middle Eastern balance of noise + rhythm that drones from attack to religious to orchestral. Brilliant work. Old Apparatus "Alfur" Electro acoustic bass beauty from another unique artists. As brilliant as his other work, highly recommended. |
Some 2012 releases I'm diggin': Frankie Rose - Interstellar. Ex-Dum Dum Girls hits a home run. Great indie-pop-rock. Animal Collective - Centipede HZ. Not as immediate as Merriweather Post Pavilion but still mighty fine and deep. the XX - Coexist. More of the same but that's a good thing. Santigold - Master Of My Make-Believe. Not nearly as good as her debut but still pretty decent. Corin Tucker Band - Kill My Blues. The one from Sleater-Kinney who is NOT in WILD FLAG. Much improved over her first solo record from a few years a go. Robert Rich - Nest. Ambient masterpiece. Liars - WIXIW. Lots of electronics added to their usual sound. Swans - The Seer. Bombastic beauty that is the Swans. Tame Impala - Lonerism. Been wating for this. Psychedelic rock fans can do much worse than this and their first album. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!. Crescendo-core ala Mogwai meets Stars Of The Lid. Alcest - Les voyages de l'âme. Black-metallers turned shoegaze. Eclipse - Bleed & Scream. Total dirt-rock and throwback to 1987. |
A couple I have really been enjoying recently and highly recommend: Juju & Jordash "Techno Primitivism" "Staggering new album of fusioneering 'Techno Primitivism' from the A'dam-based Israeli ex-pats, Juju & Jordash. It's fair to call this their debut album proper - following their eponymous set of singles and an early digital collection with this striking mission statement, a mazy and immersive sound distilling elements of dub, jazz and psychedelia in a tactile house and techno framework. It's testament to both their nuanced skills as live musicians and studio boffins par excellence, a mind-melt moire of analogue hardware knowledge and hands-on vibes rendered with a diffuse sense of synthesised space. We could be here all day picking out highlights, but if you're only gonna check a few then the unfathomably wide mixing trickery applied to 'Stoplight Loosejaw' is a great start, as is the Mark Ernestus-meets- Sun Ra vibes of 'Backwash', or the Augustus Pablo-in-Chicago styles of 'Shakshuka Dub', while you can't go wrong with the stoned descent of 'Dr. Strangepork' (great name!) and the pensile, Carl Craig-like Detroit romance of 'Track David Would Play'. It's kinda hard to believe these guys aren't praised more widely, but with 'Techno Primitivism' now out there, we suspect that's about to change. Outstanding." Memotone "I Sleep. At Waking" "Following a slew of 12s, avant beatmaker William Yates has finally rustled up this delicious full length for the Black Acre label. Blending a passion for experimental classical music with a clear understanding of bass music, Yates vision is quite strikingly unique, fitting somewhere between James Blakes pointed piano experimentations, Demdike Stares murky atmospherics and late-period Third Eye Foundation. Yatess talent is finding a connecting thread between the sounds hes obsessive about, and this makes for an an absorbing full length." I couldn't really describe either one so I included the summary from Boomkat.com. I'll just say I concur and love them both. |
Richard_stacy, it would appear that we are musically kindred spirits. From 2011 I would add: Marconi Union - Beautifully Falling Apart (Ambient Transmissions Vol. 1) A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie - Bordeaux Leyland Kirby - Eager To Tear Apart The Stars Nils Frahm - Felt Black Swan - In 8 Movements Antonymes - The Licence To Interpret Dreams Olafur Arnalds - Living Room Songs Dustin O'Halloran - Lumiere Harold Budd - In The Mist Ryan Teague - Causeway Robert Haigh - Strange And Secret Things Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante - The North Green Down Emanuele Errante - Time Elapsing Handheld Hauschka - Salon Des Amateurs Nicholas Szczepanik - Please Stop Loving Me Olan Mill is releasing Home next week, which promises to be stellar. Limited edition CD of 300 copies. I'd love to hear about some of your favorites. Hopefully others will be exposed to some overlooked and under explored musical genres. Anyone interested in the electronic, ambient, neo-classical musical genres check out Fluid Radio Click on the Channel 1 link for streaming music. BTW, I am also a fan of Rhythm & Sound! |
The Mountain Goats "Transcendental Youth" Johon Darnielle does it yet again, the guy is a machine. Another brilliant record, highly recommended as are each and every record in his catalog. [https://www.google.com/url? url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DEUYOFTBD120&rct=j&sa= X&ei=DExoUIy_KafV0QH8j4GQCw&ved=0CCEQuAIwAA&q=The+Mountain+G oats+white+cedar&usg=AFQjCNE6XLMdOu6yLaYD3CKHpU00K2WUwg] and...one of my favorite TMG songs as well as one of my favorite song titles, Ezekiel 7 and The Permanent Efficacy of Grace. Not from the new record but sure is a hell of a video... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ- zZJu6LKI&feature=player_detailpage] |
just loaded most of the above on mog. best i've heard of late is the fresh & onlys, long slow dance--sorta 80s jangly guitar pop; i hear traces of the smiths and the poppier side of the church--distinctive vocals and good guitars with actual hooky songs that embed in your head after a while. rewards repeat listens. |
through the graces of my new true love, MOG, i went on a manic new release binge. my comments thus far: bob mould, silver age. the ever-intense one is back to rocking really hard--this sounds like his classic 90s stuff with sugar. never known for a rich sonic palette, he pretty much sticks to his basic angsty barrage. which is a damn good thing. animal collective, centipede. apparently a big critic's band--they won the pazz and jop poll a couple of years ago. they do that beach boys-meet pink floyd thing that seemingly every other indie band is doing. they're pretty good at it,too--exploratory and psychedelic--but after awhile you can't help but notice that they don't actually have any songs. cat power, sun. another much-hyped tortured artist type. for some odd reason i keep buying her records, although she doesn't rock, isn't very tuneful and doesn't sound very interesting. |
Evening Hymns "Spectral Dusk" (Folk Rock, Folk) Real nice record. Pretty, well played and well written. Bandcamp: http://eveninghymns.bandcamp.com/ From their Bandcamp page: Evening Hymns are sung from the cathedrals of tall trees. They capture the spirit of moments, of friends around a bonfire on a foggy beach, the crunching of snowshoes in the silence of a winter night and memories of tribal boys growing up with pellet guns, fishing rods, and handmade forts. Spectral Dusk covers very personal issues, and takes Evening Hymns to the next level, musically and lyrically, from their acclaimed debut record Spirit Guides (2009). A study of loss, pain, and hope and a pathway drawn out of the dark into the light, Spectral Dusk finds Jonas Bonnetta dealing, through music, with the loss of his father three years ago. This record spills its guts out on the floor, and yet so softly it leaves the listener no option but to reflect on their own mortality. An album as dense as it is spatial, Spectral Dusk moves from droning bliss (Irving Lake Access Road) into anthemic chants (Cabin In The Burn). A record to be experienced more than listened to. An environment to exist in for an hour. A small retreat from the world. Recorded in a log cabin in Northern Ontario with the bands closest friends, it features members of The Wooden Sky, Timber Timbre, City and Colour, and more. Spectral Dusk is being released in Canada on Shuffling Feet Records (distributed by Outside), in Germany on Strange Ways Records and in France on Kütu Folk Records, and will be supported with tours in Canada and Europe later this year. |
DeepChord "Sommer" (Field Recording, Techno, Dub Techno, Ambient) We've been inundated with Echospace releases lately with last months "Silent World" releases, "Sommer" and the upcoming "Summer Night Versions" and lucky for me as this is easily one of my favorite artists. They have yet to disappoint and the bar is set sky high. Rod Modell continues to grow and demonstrate why he is at the forefront of electronic music. His sound is immediately distinguishable with analog warmth, atmosphere and beats that seem to rise and fall from places that only he is capable of pulling from. He creates those rare sonic spaces that transport, that breathe with life and posses a soul. I'll spare y'all any attempt to describe this record and only offer my absolute highest recommendation. This is a desert island record for me. |
Hi Marty. If I could not get WAOB, my next choice would be III. TCG has progressively smoothed out their sound, and progressed beyond their garage-country roots. This is arguably a good thing -- as it arguably was for Wilco -- but not quite my bag. If WAOB is out of print, feel free to send me a PM (jdoris@wustl.edu) and we'll see what we can do. Cheers, J |
A little OT here (sorry) John, I picked up 2CG's "Speaking In Cursive" at your recommendation and really like it quite a lot. I can't seem to find a sanely priced copy of "Wall Against out Backs", so I was wondering what the next choice in their catalog might be? TIA, Marty PS It sounds to my ear like some of the quirky rhythms on Cursive seem to predict the Mumford & Sons sound. |
