jayhawks - mockingbird time (deleted)


d. charles speer & the helix - leaving the commonwealth (record everyone should check out)


dm bob & the deficits - they called us country (deleted)


nikki lane - walk of shame (decent)


kuedo - severant (undecided)

After reading a couple of blurbs, this one sounds right in my wheelhouse. Thanks-

Atlas Sound - Parallax
The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient

The Black Belles - s/t




you can sample tracks HERE

Love their last 2 records. Love Three-Lobed, but Thrill Jockey is doing a good job of getting their stuff into people's hands. Wish I would've made more of an effort to see them back in July.

NP:


A Plea For Purging :: The Life and Death of A Plea For Purging

Still have a soft spot for hardcore bands.

fuck, "Names" is still brutal.

Chan, I need a new album from you. OK? Thanks.

John Coltrane - Ascension

Is it art or sonic vomit? Or both?

I don't think there is any middle ground on this album. Either love it or hate it.

Roly Porter:Aftertime

I'm really digging this, but too lazy to write something up so here's the blurb from Boomkat:

Superb new album of industrial-strength drone, art-techno, noise and moody synth experimentation from Roly Porter, formerly of Vex'd, returning to his Bristol home of Subtext. Operating in a similar sphere to the last Subtext drop from Emptyset, Porter mines a rich seam of eerie, corrosive greyscale and moreover heavy, righteously dub-wise electronics, with a warped but careful sense of modern classical composition: in short, the perfect soundtrack to wandering the creaking corridors of the Event Horizon. This really is one of the most suffocatingly atmospheric records we've heard all year, with an ice-cold and uncompromising aesthetic, but beautifully paced and compellingly borne out: from the opening 'Atar' on in, with its noir synths, punishing low-end and drones hovering like enemy attack helicopters. At first 'Tleilax' sounds like it could've come off one of Leyland Kirby's Intrigue & Stuff 12"s, before the arrival of machine-gun drum machines and shouted vocal snips - this wouldn't have sounded out of place on the latest Prurient album, but there's also something in its texture and attitude that clearly identifies it as a product of the British post-rave tradition. Navigating beauty and brutality like it ain't no thing, the album takes in reverbed chamber instrumentals like 'Kaitain', bone-crunching, Earth and KTL-indebted doom-fests like 'Rossak' and sub-bass pressure poems likie 'Giedi Prime', with some elegiac, almost Vangelis-like interludes thrown in fod good measure. It's perfectly balanced, and it moves quickly - every blast of scouring power electronics is followed by a melodic, reassuring swell of strings, and it's in these contrasts, expertly handled, that Aftertime's magic lies. Highly recommended for fans of Earth, Raime, Sandwell District, Fennesz, Emptyset, Ben Frost, Tim Hecker, Kangding Ray, The Haxan Cloak and the like.

I'm kind of in the middle on it, actually. For Coltrane's later stuff with Pharoah Sanders, I've always liked Meditations way more.

...

Today:

Procol Harum - s/t
Frank Zappa - We're Only in It for the Money
Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk
Dug Dug's - s/t
Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream
Guru Guru - UFO
Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
This Kind of Punishment - A Beard of Bees
Pere Ubu - The Tenement Year

also, Rodney Crowell & Mary Karr - Kin

^recently picked that Ariel Pink up on vinyl. Still haven't listened to it in quite a while, though.

I'm still a once a month listener. It's brilliant