May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
This is out now and it's really wonderful.
Happy ... er ... new year, it's the 2023 album recommendations thread!
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This is out now and it's really wonderful.
braindancer
not for long
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
New release from Cut Out here, jungle tracks made in the 90s and now buffed up.
(Disclaimer: he's my husband
but I wouldn't have stayed married to him this long if I didn't genuinely like his music!)
(Disclaimer: he's my husband
but I wouldn't have stayed married to him this long if I didn't genuinely like his music!)
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
New re-issue of The Soundcarriers 2010 album Celeste. Dreamy, sometimes folky , heavy psyche grooves. It's an album to get lost in and is also part of the cult Lodge 49 soundtrack
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New one from Caterina Barbieri - Myuthafoo
Bit short for an LP but what's there is really good. Apparently a sister album to 2019's Ecstatic Computation.
Bit short for an LP but what's there is really good. Apparently a sister album to 2019's Ecstatic Computation.
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Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Witch - Zango
I didn't expect a new album from Witch. Leaders of the Zambian Zamrock scene in the 70s, they played psychedelic-afro-funk-rock and they were great. The Zambian economic crisis caused by a slump in copper prices in 1975 disrupted the whole country and the instability hit the scene, then AIDS almost literally killed the scene off. Emmanuel Jagari Chanda is the only surviving member of the original band. Reissues of their albums in the 2010s saw renewed interest in them and here is their first album in almost 40 years.
I didn't expect a new album from Witch. Leaders of the Zambian Zamrock scene in the 70s, they played psychedelic-afro-funk-rock and they were great. The Zambian economic crisis caused by a slump in copper prices in 1975 disrupted the whole country and the instability hit the scene, then AIDS almost literally killed the scene off. Emmanuel Jagari Chanda is the only surviving member of the original band. Reissues of their albums in the 2010s saw renewed interest in them and here is their first album in almost 40 years.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
flypanam
Sausage to fortune
braindancer
not for long
Anyone checked out the new one from Khanate? Drone-doom business featuring Stephen O Malley from Sunn O))). Blimey, it's potentially the most harrowing thing I've ever listened to - absolutely and relentlessly and hideously bleak. Definitely worth a listen though if that sounds like your cup of tea 
braindancer
not for long
braindancer
not for long
Oh I see they have the Khanate album I posted yesterday at no. 2! Seems a bold choice - I'm not sure I'll ever go back for a second listen....
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
New PJ Harvey is out today.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
and fucking good it is too.
There is also The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake (various artists) out today, to go alongside the new biography.
Normally when folk cover Drake they do so far too reverently, almost as if his songs were holy writ not to be tampered with or re-arranged. This collection finally does away with that nonsense and there is some brilliant stuff on there (as well as few meh ones). All praise to Liz Phair and, uhh, Let's Eat Grandma.
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
Really? I thought it was mostly pretty dull. I'd hoped for some sort of return to form with proper drums and heavy guitar riffs but as usual it's mostly vocal warbling and soft percussion, spacey gentle guitars etc. - fine if that's your thing but it's too far removed from the early stuff I used to love.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
she aint 19 any more. Which is why she won't play owt from the first two albums live these days
This piece points out her desire to never repeat herself.
Despite all the plaudits it got, Let England Shake never did anything for me. I might try a few tracks of the new one and see what I think.
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Nighttime - Heart is the Seeker LP. First time I can remember an AOTY coming out in January, although thinking about it there's no reason why that shouldn't happen now and again. Out on Ba Da Bing! which if I remember correctly is Galaxie 500's label...
which on the LP segues into this:
Was kind of hoping that some kind soul would've put them up as intended, i.e. as one upload, but alas, twas not to be. Anyway, loadsa head-spinning atmospherics, outsider art feel, broad brush strokes but true artistry. Bit like if Nico was a West Coast acidhead.
which on the LP segues into this:
Was kind of hoping that some kind soul would've put them up as intended, i.e. as one upload, but alas, twas not to be. Anyway, loadsa head-spinning atmospherics, outsider art feel, broad brush strokes but true artistry. Bit like if Nico was a West Coast acidhead.
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Bloke from Blancmange, bloke from Young Fathers and, er, another bloke. They're being a bit stingy with trailed tracks, as in this is the only one so far that I'm aware of. Reminds me of recent Wire, could totes imagine Colin Newman doing those vocals, best listened to on headphones as there's some very nice neat details in there. Fingers crossed the other stuff on the album's not a collection of donk-schlager Nana Mouskouri covers coz as long as they're like this one, then it should be super fun all round...
e2a - I knew they'd do this when I wasn't looking...
No schalger-Nana... looks like Ima get this then. I like motoriky stuff, and irony, and ironic motoriky stuff is thus a winner in my world.
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MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
New album from Frankiie, who remind me of Still Corners. Really like listening to this sort of stuff in the summer, I've heard the rest of it and to my ears at least it's a good'un.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
New album from Frankiie, who remind me of Still Corners. Really like listening to this sort of stuff in the summer, I've heard the rest of it and to my ears at least it's a good'un.
Nice, Still Corners last one was my favourite album of that year.
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
And mine. You may already know, but there's a remastered reissue of their Strange Pleasures album due out on 24th July.
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