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PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 10:43 am 
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Really digging Everything's Beautiful by Robert Glasper. It's reworkings of Miles Davis tunes, basically changed beyond all recognition outside a horn part here and maybe a rhythm there. Approved by the Davis estate and Miles even gets an artist credit. Hip hop inflected R&B jazz hybrid stuff with a lot of guests.. Here's an example:



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Devouring new stuff from Modern Baseball, Diarrhea Planet, and Martha. All pretty solid.

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Masterpiece by Big Thief is a recent favorite and almost a lock for my year end list.



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Masterpiece by Big Thief is a recent favorite and almost a lock for my year end list.



Thanks for recommending this. Right up my alley.

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Whitney - Light Upon the Lake

Two former Smith Westerns bandmates' new band. Breezy, summer record. Been playing it a lot lately. The vocal is an acquired taste but I like it. And the music is great.

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Whitney - Light Upon the Lake
The vocal is an acquired taste but I like it. And the music is great.


Pitchfork says they take up the vacated space of Girls. Don't like the vocals much - can imagine Jeff Tweedy singing these songs (which is the benefit and caution).

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Whitney - Light Upon the Lake
The vocal is an acquired taste but I like it. And the music is great.


Pitchfork says they take up the vacated space of Girls. Don't like the vocals much - can imagine Jeff Tweedy singing these songs (which is the benefit and caution).


Agreed re: Tweedy. The music reminds me a lot more of Wilco than Girls. Not hearing that one.


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like Whitney, (mostly) hated Girls


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If you're into say Neko Case, a voice like Mazzy Star, I've been digging on the debut from Lucy Dacus, No Burden
Here's a taste of a live session
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw4B9ygnlbM


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If you're into say Neko Case, a voice like Mazzy Star, I've been digging on the debut from Lucy Dacus, No Burden
Here's a taste of a live session
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw4B9ygnlbM


Great rec, thanks wilked.


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Well, I can understand quibbles about "best," but I'm having fun listening to the new Tiger Army as I'll always have a soft spot for yet another retro/rockabilly album. Certainly nothing groundbreaking or at all new under the sun, but I'm enjoying it as much as most of the other records I've been hearing, especially when I'm wanting something a bit rockin' and uptempo, although this one does have a lot more mellow parts than their other records.



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There's a book about punk bands on tour, one of them was written by a roadie who worked on a Tiger Army tour. It was hilarious.

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Meet Your Death - s/t



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Playing genuinely evil rock n’ roll that draws equally from The Scientists and the deep roots of American blues and jazz, Meet Your Death is the antidote to feeble contemporary hot dog and burger rock and middling pseudo-psyche jams. Walter Daniels, who has played harmonica with artists as varied as the Oblivians and Eugene Chadbourne, returns to the imposing frontman role that he perfected with 90’s Austin legends Jack O’ Fire. An honest-to-god virtuoso on an instrument rarely heard in rock n’ roll and punk rock today, Daniels is the man who gets the call when somebody needs the national anthem played on a chromatic harmonica before a hockey game, or when James Williamson of the Stooges needs a feedback-squealing blues harp solo in the recording studio. Old enough to be the father of the members of most bands he shares the stage with, Daniels cuts a formidable figure, singing high-and-lonesome or growling with the Beefheartian authority that a millennial could never pull off.


Guitarist John Schooley is a veteran of the underground rock n’ roll world, as well, having recorded for Crypt with his first band the Revelators in the 1990s. Schooley has been performing as a one man band since his first single on Goner Records came out in 1996, and continues today, his most recent LP being 'The Man Who Rode the Mule around the World 'on the Swiss weirdo label Voodoo Rhythm. Daniels and Schooley remain an anomaly in today's music world with their willingness to mix blues and country roots (via harmonica and slide guitar) with punk rock. Schooley collaborated with Daniels for the 2014 acoustic album 'Dead Mall Blues' (12XU), but wanted a chance to showcase Daniels’ nastier side, and Meet Your Death became the first time this one man band performed in a band with other musicians in over a decade. Releasing an acoustic country blues record would usually portend a mellowing out for two long-time musicians like Schooley and Daniels, so finding them instead teaming up with a young hotshot rhythm section to release the hard rock album of the year makes the Meet Your Death album even more surprising. Joining Daniels and Schooley are two younger musicians, half the age of their band’s lead singer, who have already made names. Matt Hammer, besides having a perfect last name for a drummer, was a founding member of the Strange Boys, and later provided the blistering backbeat for Orville Neeley’s OBN IIIs. Bassist Harpal Assi has provided low end for hardcore titans Wiccans, Bad Faith and the Daniel Fried star vehicle, Video. Meet Your Death takes Daniels’ harmonica and Schooley’s slide guitar, puts it over a punk rhythm section, and proceeds to massacre songs that most bands today wouldn’t have the guts to attempt - if they even knew enough to be familiar with them in the first place. Digging deep into unknown and under-appreciated back catalogs, jazz pianist Mose Allison and island junkanoo shaman Exuma get the Meet Your Death treatment alongside the likes of Hank Williams and the Beasts of Bourbon. This makes for a collection of songs that will surprise even the most diehard record collector, and downright astound anyone who has previously only been buying cassettes released since 2008. The world is falling apart in the year 2016, yet contemporary rock n’ roll has become an ironic diversion. In an era in which trust-fund wankers recycle glam kitsch for empty chuckles, Meet Your Death fits into the contemporary scene like slipping Clouzot’s Wages of Fear in-between episodes of a Saved by the Bell marathon. Utterly unlike anything currently playing on a contemporary festival stage, Meet Your Death is primal rock n’ roll - anti-fashion, anti-bubblegum, anti-“psych” (what passes for it nowadays, anyway), with improvisational wildness and bad intentions.

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Really digging the new Blood Orange. This thing is going to get played a ton around here. Retro 80s style soul/funk with lots of modern embellishments. Political and personal and still lots of fun.

Here's a track with Debbie Harry pitching in...



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Have any of you listened to this new Against Me song? I like it.


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Here's another one that's been floating in my circle. Some dudes who normally are in punk bands, but they also really really like Teenage Fanclub/Lemonheads/Fountains of Wayne.

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Here's the better half of what I've listened to so far from this year.

Albums
01. Autechre – elseqs 1-5
02. Oranssi Pazuzu – Värähtelijä
03. Chris Cohen – As If Apart
04. Horse Lords – Interventions
05. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
06. Deakin – Sleep Cycle
07. Aluk Todolo – Voix
08. Mark Pritchard – Under the Sun
09. David Bowie – Blackstar
10. Parquet Courts – Human Performance

11. Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered.
12. Avishai Cohen – Into the Silence
13. Brian Eno – The Ship
14. Nap Eyes – Thought Rock Fish Scale
15. iTAL tEK – Hollowed
16. Henry Threadgill / Ensemble Double-Up – Old Locks and Irregular Verbs
17. Rangda – The Heretic's Bargain
18. Whitney – Light Upon the Lake
19. Cavern of Anti-Matter – Void Beats/Invocation Trex
20. Mary Lattimore – At the Dam

21. Anna Meredith – Varmints
22. Death Grips – Bottomless Pit
23. Fire! Orchestra – Ritual
24. Dal Niente & Deerhoof – Balter / Saunier
25. Nonkeen – The Gamble
26. Peder Mannerfelt – Controlling Body
27. The Heliocentrics – From the Deep
28. Aesop Rock – The Impossible Kid
29. Fire! – She Sleeps, She Sleeps
30. J. Gallego – Wash OST

31. Pinegrove – Cardinal
32. Wye Oak – Tween
33. Blood Orange – Freetown Sound
34. Chthe'ilist – Le Dernier Crépuscule
35. Adrian Younge – Something About April II
36. Jachna / Mazurkiewicz / Buhl – Dźwięki Ukryte
37. Thug Entrancer – Arcology
38. Bombino – Azel
39. Open Mike Eagle & Paul White – Hella Personal Film Festival
40. Huerco S. – For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)


EPs, Singles, Splits, etc
01. Aphex Twin – Cheetah EP
02. Lindstrøm – Windings
03. Container – Vegetation EP
04. Sculpture – Zyprazol
05. Pyrrhon – Running Out of Skin
06. Krallice – Hyperion


Reissues/Archival
01. Bill Evans – Some Other Time: The Lost Sessions from the Black Forest
02. Albert Ayler – Bells/Prophecy: Expanded Edition
03. Cornelius – Fantasma (expanded vinyl reissue)


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Alice Bag's solo album is a kick ass mix of punk inflected rock and girl group pop. Really digging it.



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Don Giovanni has put out something that has made my top 10 every year probably for the last 10 years, this year being no exception.

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If you're looking for a fun power pop album, check out the new Connections album, Midnight Run. It's fantastic.


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If you're looking for a fun power pop album, check out the new Connections album, Midnight Run. It's fantastic.


This is very good. Thanks for the recommendation.


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OPA! Wrote:
If you're looking for a fun power pop album, check out the new Connections album, Midnight Run. It's fantastic.


This is very good. Thanks for the recommendation.


Just checked and it's on Spotify, so I'll give it a listen!

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this is my record of the year so far....
nothing has totally blown me away so far....
but im returning to this record more than others.... :rawk:

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Alice Bag's solo album is a kick ass mix of punk inflected rock and girl group pop. Really digging it.




i'm diggin this.. :cheers:

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