Current Musical Obsessions: upto 2014

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:31 pm

Wouldn't call this an obsession, exactly, and it's something I totally missed in 2012, but Charlie Megira & the Modern Dance Club's "Love Police" album is amusing me a whole lot these days. Punk songs, surf songs, noize and ambient tape experiments, 31 tracks in total, and a large dollop of good ol' fashioned strange.

bort · **Posted:** Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:10 pm

This new Moby album is pretty cool. It's typically Mobyish, especially on the "regular" tracks, but the collabs with Damien Jurado, Cold Specks, Wayne Coyne, and Mark Lanegan give it a little more flavor than his recent fare.

shiv · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 1:49 am

I'm all about Parquet Courts lately.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 3:57 pm

Gojira

bort · **Posted:** Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:06 am

I heard a rumor that the new of Montreal was going to be back-to-the-roots stuff. Glad to report the rumor is true. A bit more uneven, and not quite as fun as what they were doing 10+ years ago (a tiny bit of the "mature" Americana sound that's more popular these days has leaked in), but a step in the right direction. That wild indie-electro shit from the previous 3 albums or so was getting atrocious.

Roach · **Joined:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:39 pm **Posts:** 955

I've been on a whiskey buzz for a few days now which may have contributed, but I've been knocked on my arse by The Resonars record from last year.

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Matt Rendon’s a time-traveling wizard miner with eight arms (or how ever many it takes to play all the instruments on this record). It’s bittersweet. I sure as fuck love the Resonars. Crummy Desert Sound is ‘60s British Invasion gold filtered through lonely-shack, isolated-DIY contemporary Tucson. Think of the rocket vapor over saguaros of Lenguas Largas. In 2013, he’s far from alone in his sound. Chicago’s Treasure Fleet also instantly comes to mind, which is pretty awesome. And I know I’m in the tiny minority when I say that I wait around in the back alleys of musical acceptance, hoping to hear a band that translates The Monks as fluently as The Knockout Pills, but fuck it. I am. Play this for your mom and dad (or are we at grandpa/grandma time? Decades, they pass fast.) and say it’s a long-lost pre-mastered Zombies or Animals record. Give them time to chew it over just to fuck with them. Because, at the root of it, most of those records of the ‘60s, by the time the vinyl got poo’d out and pressed into a disc, after they were fully digested through the intestinal tracts of the recording industry, they lost some of the raw grit and electrical zap of the live performances. Resonars gives you both: the glittering of found gold and the dirty fingernails and glorious sweat of digging in an isolated mine from a sealed-off time. Fuckin’ miner wizard

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Fri Mar 14, 2014 11:08 pm

Buzzov*en

anything and everything i can get my hands on

two guns holla · **Posted:** Tue Mar 18, 2014 2:28 pm

The War on Drugs - have listened to their NPR First Listen multiple times over the past week and am really loving it. Can't wait to get my hands on the album this week.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Mar 18, 2014 2:30 pm

two guns holla Wrote:

The War on Drugs - have listened to their NPR First Listen multiple times over the past week and am really loving it. Can't wait to get my hands on the album this week.

Isn't that Gerald Love (Teenage Fanclub) and Joe Pernice?
I think that I'm gonna need that one, too.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Tue Mar 18, 2014 4:43 pm

PopTodd Wrote:

two guns holla Wrote:

The War on Drugs - have listened to their NPR First Listen multiple times over the past week and am really loving it. Can't wait to get my hands on the album this week.

Isn't that Gerald Love (Teenage Fanclub) and Joe Pernice?
I think that I'm gonna need that one, too.

Nah, its a band from Philly that is more or less a guy named Adam Granduciel.
http://www.npr.org/2014/03/09/285881314 ... -the-dream

seafoam · **Posted:** Wed Mar 19, 2014 3:02 am

Love his output, this one is close to closing in on Slave Ambient for me

jsh · **Posted:** Wed Mar 19, 2014 10:17 pm

true - it's really good. just bought. even more simple songs. slower and less dense. it's beautiful.

shiv · **Posted:** Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:07 am

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib

PopTodd · **Posted:** Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:25 am

two guns holla Wrote:

PopTodd Wrote:

two guns holla Wrote:

The War on Drugs - have listened to their NPR First Listen multiple times over the past week and am really loving it. Can't wait to get my hands on the album this week.

Isn't that Gerald Love (Teenage Fanclub) and Joe Pernice?
I think that I'm gonna need that one, too.

Nah, its a band from Philly that is more or less a guy named Adam Granduciel.
http://www.npr.org/2014/03/09/285881314 ... -the-dream

I was thinking of The New Mendicants.
https://play.spotify.com/album/3ZChhIvcgSW6p5NDD0ezo3

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

I lean more towards Kurt Vile, but like the new War on Drugs a lot.

I've been on a fairly large Lee Hazelwood kick

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

Johnny Thunders

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:45 am

It's been all Everly Brothers and Dave Edmonds for me for like 2 weeks. I need to dig through this thread and find something recent... I'm starting to smell like an attic.

shaMoxie · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:57 pm

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

It's been all Everly Brothers and Dave Edmonds for me for like 2 weeks. I need to dig through this thread and find something recent... I'm starting to smell like an attic.

cap'n, have you even bothered w/ the new Real Estate?

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 1:22 pm

No, but I'll go check it out now.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 1:43 pm

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