Lush: Spooky

I never got into the whole shoegaze thing as much as many here I would imagine, but I did like a few of those albums quite a bit and this was and still is certainly one of them. I lost track of this group and don't know much about the rest of their material but I like the mix of pop and shoegaze on display here, led by the single For Love which showcases their ability to be both hazy and catchy at the same time.

Is that M83 anywhere close to as good as p'fork says? That's by far the best review I've seen of it.

I dunno. I only got through about 4 songs before I switched to the Justice album. It just wasn't bike riding music.

I've liked each M83 album less and less since Dead Cities. If this continues their trajectory, I'll hate it.

But I heard some of one of the songs, and it seemed a lot better than anything on Saturdays=Youth. Still didn't really grab me, though.

Jesus'in it up this morning:





Bifrost Arts :: Come O Spirit
Bifrost Arts :: Salvation Is Created (Bandcamp link)
Sojourn :: The Water and The Blood
Glen Galaxy :: Says Thank You

Tom Waits: Bad As Me

Maybe not a quintessential Waits album but a damn good one. I like this much better than Real Gone, his last album of new material. It starts out frantically with the opening track flying past your ears before you're ready for it but it settles in nicely in short order. He's left behind the clinging and clanging of some of his more recent albums for the most part (although is does crop up from time to time) but a lot of this terrain is familiar, hazy ...sad eyed ballads and caustic uptempo numbers that fuse everything from raucous blues to sultry jazz to carnival noise and everything in between. Not one of his reinvention albums, more of a honing the sounds he's been crafting over the years, maybe letting a bit more of his older styles blend in this time rather than leaving the old troubadour behind. I'll definitely need to keep listening to this for a while.

Whatever Brains - S/t

Real Estate - Days
Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am the Only One
Gong - Angel's Egg
Pearls Before Swine - The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings
Ed Askew - s/t (Ask the Unicorn)
Comus - Song to Comus: The Complete Collection

I like that Real Estate album a lot.

Its been Mogwai all morning.
CODY
My Father, My King
Ten Rapid
EP+6
Young Team
...
and now I've switched gears to Allman Bros. "The Allman Bros. Band" from 1969. I don't think I've heard this album in one shot.

on repeat