The oligophrenics that gave NYC Ghosts & Flowers a 0.0? The mooks who said Martha Wainwright's voice sounded like Alanis Morissette's? FUCK 'EM.

They opened for Tropical Fuck Storm in Athens last year... That's a lotta FUCK!

IDK, I don't listen to him* (I only found out thanks to Spotify telling me my 'friends' were listening to it). Just figured it as fairly big news, especially since surprise releases are fun.

*Except for 'The Real Slim Shady', which is so cartoonish and absurd that it's hilarious.

When I was in (get this) *high school* and Eminem came onto the scene, he was a breath of fresh air and a novelty you really couldn’t look away from.

I feel like he stayed interesting for literally one album. He brought a little bit of it back for the third album, I guess, but as soon as shit like Not Afraid and those horrible classic rock sampling tracks from the 8-Mile soundtrack came out, Jesus — man was insufferably self-serious almost as a rule, and all that fun novelty was lost.

I swear, that video where he’s falling off the building for the entirety of it? That is the Creed of rap music. Like holy shit, the lugubriousness!

FACS (featuring former members of Disappears) will release a new album on 3/27: Void Moments

not anticipated because i just ran into it, and not sure if “best” or by whose standards (and who gives a fuck?) but i liked it maybe you do too



brigitte fontaine - terre neuve

https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/699897/a...t-meme-au-dela

What?! I should have known this! Gonna have to re-check my Bandcamp FACS subscription! Dammit! But bitchen news! :D

So the "first single" is called "Teenage Hive", just when Wire releases Mind Hive... I'm thinking they'll never live down the post-punk tag (post-post-punk? neo-post-punk?), even though, fortunately, they're so much more.

ah, thanks for this one. 2 tracks available right now.

2- two forms moving
7- haunted and known

 

Yep, very much looking forward to this.

My faves so far (no order)

Arca - @@@@@
Sign Libra - Sea to Sea
Oval - Scis
Midori Hirano - Invisible Island
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Erik Satie - Hommage (Piano Music and Quartet Transcription)
Kim Petras - Reminds Me (single)
BAND - 30 Timeless Xmas Greats (This was obviously supposed to have been out last year but was delayed until January)

Nice.

There’s a new Vladislav record.
New Caribou, too.
New Arca — though it’s just a “single” — is 60 minutes or something so it can be an album for these purposes, whatever. It’s great

Even though the new album is being released by Troubled In Mind Records, which also put out their other two LPs, and therefore there shouldn't be the conflict you see with many artists who end up having at least more than one Bandcamp page, so far -two weeks away from release date, basically- Void Moments only shows up on the label's site, not FACS':

https://troubleinmindrecords.bandcam...m/void-moments

https://wearefacs.bandcamp.com/

Move that product, people!

Nine Inch Nails just surprise released a new album, Ghosts V-VI. It's on their website for free if you want, I'll report back on it later.

Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists
Coriky - Coriky
Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today

New NIN is okay, nothing super special. Could probably have been helped by being cut back a little, but then again so could the first four volumes of Ghosts...

In other new albums from today, Ringo Deathstarr came out with a self-titled effort. The first two songs aren't great, but it gets better from there; very diverse with beautiful vocals.

https://nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/album/empty

The new Nicolas Jaar album, Cenizas, is a twisting, turning abstract affair and interesting counterpoint to the hard-hitting Against All Logic album he released earlier this year.

Guy’s occupying an interesting and special place in modern music.

Zoomers are even into him on Twitter and Instagram and shit.

The Against All Logic album is better, though.

'Tis a belta

my brother listened to something called Yves Tumor so i listened to it as well and it's really one of the best albums of this year so far

Yeah, the new Yves Tumor is pretty good. Not as good as Safe in the Hands of Love from 2018, but still pretty damn solid.

Listened to this tonight and it is beautiful.

Autechre have posted seven new live shows onto their Bleep store, while Aphex Twin has put six tracks onto his Soundcloud archive.

Major Bummer! The launch of the mothership has been postponed to June (and it's not yet on their bandcamp). It can already be preordered from their label unday records

Gizz gets no love in "my" Gizz thread, so I thought that I would talk about them here, he said, expecting the same response.

I'm excited about the new live album (with three "other" tracks) and concert film THIS month!! Gizz gonna help me get through this fuckedupdedness.

Edit: Chunky Shrapnel, it is called.

 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...n__=%2As%2As-R

Red Summer by ONO finally arrived at my home today, really glad I got the deluxe edition with the Epistle booklet. It's going to be hard for anything to top this 4 best of the year but it is only April. I think this is going to hold its place though. Easily one of the most truly unique groups to ever exist and this is a strong showing in a body of work with a very high standard to begin with. Highest recommendation.
https://ono1980.bandcamp.com/

https://oranssipazuzu.bandcamp.com/

early contender for my aoty

I definitely need to pick that up. They're definitely one of the best bands in the world right now.

Pre-ordering this

TRUE STORY: When I was in third or fourth year at college, I was running out of time to finish two papers, one for communication sociology and the other for semiotics. I had less than two hours to finish both and I went, fuck this, it's impossible to write them both seriously. So I prioritized the first one (teacher was a hardass) and in the time I had left (fifteen minutes, maybe) I made up whatever junk I could come up with for the semiotics class, which was a COMPLETE JOKE taught by a schizophrenic (seriously, he was once institutionalized after yelling at the dean for not enlisting him in the CIA). Anyway, among all the "semiotic" crap I typed, I wrote, " according to Yves Rousseau's proto-cross theory". THERE IS NO SUCH THING AND THERE IS NO YVES FUCKING ROUSSEAU.

Got an A. True story.

Lol, win for having dumb teachers!

Semiotics, ughh

Daniel Avery and Alessandro Cortini have a collaborative album out (well, a month ago), very nice ambient/noise/drone record. Might be better if you don't listen to it on shuffle first time around like I did...

Stones.

Because age is just a number.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNPNweSbp8

Ah, a favourite motto of one R Kelly