January 2011
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TOWNES VAN ZANDT
Townes Van Zandt - Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel
I’ve been obsessed with this song for the past week.
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JANUARY LISTENING
Old Apparatus - Old Apparatus (Deep Medi) Raime - Raime EP (Blackest Ever Black) Iceage - New Brigade (Escho) Higuma - Den Of The Spirits (Digitalis) Twells and Christensen - Coasts (Digitalis) The North Sea - Crusades (Digitalis) Iceage - Iceage (Escho) Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Seeping Through The Veil Of The Unconscious (Digitalis) Grasshopper - Calling All Creeps (Prison...
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POCKET HOUSE
These deeply layered and slowly pulsing tracks by Pocket House are really worthy of your time.
The band are Dominic Hand & Andrew Halford, formerly of Great Eskimo Hoax. Both of whom have Blessing Force associations in their other guise as members of Jonquil and Trophy Wife, respectively.
Collected Brass by Pocket House
Pops by Pocket House
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STEINER
Some gently meandering bucolic guitar drones from Brussels’ Steiner.
Click through for a name-your-price download.
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SHEDDING
Sweet harmonium drones from Kentucky’s Shedding.
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CHASING VOICES
Revisiting Chasing Voices, who I wrote a little about when I started this blog.
Now that the 12” is sold out, you ought to download Acidbathory here and hit Discogs for Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit.
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WOLF PEOPLE
Sadly un-embeddable, but if you head here you can watch a killer high-quality live set from Wolf People filmed for VPRO in Holland last week.
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PARTS OF SPEECH
Parts Of Speech are Kansas based duoBrandon ‘Discoverer’ Knocke and Alexander Thomas.
Their debut album Floyd Biz is currently available for free download ahead of the physical release on Overland Shark, due in the coming weeks.
If you imagine a cassette-culture Junior Boys for the Altered Zones heads then you won’t be far off the mark. And if that sounds like faint praise...
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WHITE RAINBOW
White Rainbow is Portland’s Adam Forkner, who records for Kranky amongst other labels.
Over on Bandcamp he has made seven albums available for name-your-price download. So if you’re broke then you can get them for free, but if you can spare some cash, read on:
“Purchases are via Paypal and besides a 15% cut that Bandcamp skims off the top and the Paypal fees (that hover...
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EIKO ISHIBASHI
Eiko Ishibashi - Shadow
From the album Carapace which was produced by Jim O’Rourke and released earlier this month.
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EVAN ABEELE
Evan Abeele of Memoryhouse recently posted a great solo ambient EP titled Lineage which you can stream below or download for $5.
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SAM GOLDBERG
Winter Hallucinations is a late night listening album of solo guitar & effects by Ohio’s Sam Goldberg, and one which I highly recommend.
Goldberg runs the Pizza Night label, is a member of Mist with John Elliott of Emeralds, records as Radio People for Digitalis and made one of my albums of 2010 in Current on Weird Forest.
WH was a CDR, self-released in 2009, which compiled three...
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THE DOUBLE
To me, The Double’s 2004 album Palm Fronds is a lost classic. One of those records you hold dear and like to think would be received differently if they were to be released today.
I dig the backstory that the drummer broke his hand shortly before recording. And that rather than put the sessions off or get a stand-in, the band instead chose to dissect everything and put it back together as...
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FAMILY PORTRAIT
Ahead of their debut LP on Underwater Peoples, I’ve gathered up some miscellaneous lofi pop bits & pieces by New Jersey’s excellent Family Portrait for you to download here.
Fans of Real Estate would do well to check it.
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BVDUB
Been giving a lot of attention to bvdub’s Tribes At The Temple Of Silence these past few days. This album sees him steer his deep ambient dub toward something that’s almost late nineties IDM in feel, which ends up in a real good place.
The Past Disappears by bvdub
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SSPS
SSPS is the pseudonym of Excepter’s Jon Winfield Nicholson.
Check the warped dancefloor mix below for a preview of his forthcoming releases then head here to download a live set from late last year.
2011 Mix by SSPS
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BARN OWL
Prompted by the Barn Owl & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma London gig that The Local just announced, here’s an essential live set from Barn Owl recorded for WFMU a few months back.
Stream below or click the arrow to download.
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ICEAGE
If someone asked you “do you like the idea of a cross between Teenage Jesus-y no wave, very early US hardcore and no-budget jangly late 70s UK punk?”
The answer would clearly be yes right?
Iceage are a teenage guitar/bass/vocals/drums four piece from Copenhagen.
Their album New Brigade is available on Dais in the US and Escho in Denmark.
Stream their debut 7” below.
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WILL LONG
More gold from Will Long spilled out unannounced a couple of nights ago.
Intrigued, I enquired of his plans for the tracks;
“They’re just one-offs, nothing put towards a release at the moment. It’s just sort of random things I’ve made. If something feels special I’ll do something with it, but nothing at the moment, just self-therapy.”
A blue roof with...
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*AR
The arresting cuts below are taken from Richard Skelton’s collaborative project with Autumn Richardson; “inspired by the landscape, place-names, flora and fauna of Ulpha, in Cumbria, northern England”.
The album is released in an edition of 200 on Corbel Stone Press.
Wolf Notes by *AR
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KEVIN DRUMM
The Root Strata blog has made The Obstacles Of Romantic Exaggeration, a 2CD set by “one of the crown princes of harsh noise” Kevin Drumm, available for download here (CD1) and here (CD2).
The album was originally released in 2010 in an edition of 19 copies.
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PRIMARY COLORS
Teeth Chest by Primary Colors
Industrial percussion, processed reel to reels, analogue synths and a feverish drawl all peaking into the red… Primary Colors are an Oakland two piece with a debut tape titled Feral Scriptures forthcoming on Hardscrabble Amateurs.
Download three tracks from the album here or click through to Soundcloud above to stream the whole thing.
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WILL LONG
Will Long of Celer appears to be on a run of awesome productivity, with five new tracks uploaded to his Soundcloud in the past three days. Here’s a couple of highlights…
Blue Morning For Your Evening by Will Long
1/8/11-2 by Will Long
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EVOLS
Another find that I’m really feeling; classic chiming drone-based indie rock from Portugal’s Evols
Heavy hints of Yo La Tengo, Spacemen 3 and Galaxie 500 here. All the good stuff.
Elegy For Spiral Jetty by Evols
Waves Of Fire by Evols
Stream the whole LP on Soundcloud.
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GRASSHOPPER
This one came via an NPR article on the best cassettes of 2010 and is a real treat. I’ve had Classic Jazz Moods pretty much on loop since first listen.
In their own words…
“Grasshopper is Jesse DeRosa and Josh Millrod’s behemoth answer to jazz infused experimental electronic music. Using trumpets, EVI, and a modest amount of electronics the duo warp classical and...
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Rachel Evans (Motion Sickness Of Time Travel) has a new Bandcamp page where she has made a selection of her previous releases available for name-your-price download.
Check The Fire Cult To Your Dream Child below then head here and score the lot.
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FENNESZ & IRISARRI
Love these two blown-out improv jams between Fennesz and Rafael Anton Irisarri.