Can't stop listening to this album now.

These arms they never reach
Far enough
These shoulders never strike wide enough
These teeth they never cut
Deep enough in
My skin
To be someone like you
Unable to face basal demands
To be someone like you
Unable to carry
Life's weight

Broken promise
Where's your morals
In this cursed realm
Where hides Jesus

If I could
Leave my body then I would
Bleed into a lake
Dashing away
Disappear

Where's your morals
Where's your morals
Where's your morals
Where's your morals

Looking forward to this Savages band

I am really dubious about that band. Everything about them seems so carefully constructed by their PR team. The slot at David Lynch's club, the massive feature on them on Pitchfork, playing Jools Holland without having released an album, they clearly have some friends in pretty high places. From what I have heard they don't seem to be any better than your standard run of the mill post punk band.

Anyway the new Barn Owl is good, one of my favourite releases from this year. It sounds like a shoegaze version of Earth.




https://soundcloud.com/thrilljockey/...he-long-shadow

Seconded.

i've seen them live 3 times: OFF festival (poland), Into the Great Wide Open (NL) and EKKO, Utrecht (NL). On all occasions is must say the blew me away. Not that it has not been done before, but they are just really overwhelming live. Try to see them if you have the opportunity.
About their PR: I sense that is not just the PR team but themselves aswell. I have driven them around at the Into The Great Wide Open festival and was impressed by the way they focus on their performance/music.

Savages' sound is pretty simple but that doesn't mean it's bad.

In Film Sound

Shannon Wright.

been streaming it for weeks, I love this album, thrashy yet with a touch of elegance. its weird how she progresses yet keeps her distinctions.

Digging this album a fair bit. It gets compared to Thom Yorkes Eraser but I think that s lazy comparison. It's bleek that's for sure.

This sounds to me like a little bit heavier version from P J Harvey. Not bad though.

completely agree with everything in this post re: both savages and barn owl. the former seem to be really bland, both musically and aesthetically. I know the purpose is minimalism, but fucking hell, there are bands other than wire out there. they already did it, and they reached unattainable levels of innovation and therefore are afforded an indelible respect, so why does anyone even bother? savages' music may be 'confrontational', but it is in no way challenging, and as such it negates any impact it may have had.

eMego are absolutely on fire of late. seriously everything coming out on the label recently has been fantastic: sensate focus, locust, CoH, alan licht, ensemble skalectrik, evol, gravtemple reissues...

You might also like this then:

Shannon seems to have a lots of same spirit in his music as PJ and also John Parish have. But on the other hand she´s got nothing to add that what Pj and John already give me.

I love the Var album (the Scandanivan punk super group_

Two great noise rawwwkkkk records from this year and some old dudes making psychdelic blues.

Sightings - Terribly Well
Black Pus - All My Relations
Endless Boogie - Long Island

 

did not realise sightings put out a new record, will have to get on that.

endless boogie are so sick, live they kick arse like no other.



also:

1991 - high tech high life

I dig the new Sightings. The new Wolf Eyes is their best in a long time.

Looking forward to To Live and Shave in LA's three hour long "The Grief that Shrieked to Multiply." Some others I can't remember right now but I'll get back to it.

https://soundcloud.com/tobydriver/ka...do-teaser#play

new kayo dot teaser

also the these new puritans record is great, i love how they've went from a kind of dumb british post-punk band to a total chamber music art rock collective

Thanks for the steady input! Appreciated!

Yeah Endless Boogie are dope, they're 60 and rock harder than kids half their age. Can be a bit cheesy in places but the records are loads of fun.

If anyone wants ear poison I'd suggest checking out the above.

Saw them last month and they were superb, will be getting the record for sure, plus it has great cover art.

Yeah I was at that gig too, they were brilliant. The album has some killer tracks on it, one of my favourites from this year for sure.

it's okay, you're not good enough to listen to them

merzbow - takahe collage

partikel iii with nordvagr also good.



shampoo boy - licht




inga copeland - higher powers tape http://soundcloud.com/cplnd/faith/

the new dean blunt is a beauty

I still haven't heard it, unfortunately, although I did hear him play it almost in full in march. bizarre show, throughout there were rain sounds (which I understand to be on the album?) and a security guard on the stage next to dean, who left for minutes at a time and then reappeared, crooned and fucked off.

you're so lucky to have seen him live... dean blunt & inga copeland are amongst the most interesting artists at the moment in my opinion

Holy shit did Alex ever step up his game for this new Dirty Beaches album.

just got back from ende tymes fest night 3, didnt stay past zaimph, littled noised out, check out my coverage here www.thedeclarationofmusicalindependence.com

I just got the Pharmakon album, it's pretty cool. It reminds me of early Swans in places especially the track pitted.

New Dirty Beaches also sounded pretty good on first listen, the first record especially which I enjoyed a bit more out of the two is very Alan Vega.

I'm on the fence about this one. On first listen I thought about this post (above) and wondered what in the hell you could possibly be talking about. But I listened again, and then again, and noticed the hypnotic quality of the album. I still don't know how I feel about it, but the fact that I keep listening, and slowly finding things to like about it, makes me think it may just be a grower. I'd still be interested to know why you think it's a step up. Just out of curiosity.

New Dirty Beahces album makes me want to travel to an ugly decadent city alone, buying a bottle of cheap moonshine and scoring some high grade un-government regulated narcotic painkillers, stopping in whore houses, dangerous bars and unclean tattoo parlors. All while reflecting on the events with a leather jacket on my back and a pen and paper in my pocket.

I don't need a new Dirty Beaches record to feel like that. In fact, I think you've managed to define my subconscious with uncanny accuracy.

... Guess I know why I keep putting the damn album on without ever really knowing what I enjoy about it. Creepy thought.

Hands in the Dark is possibly my favourite new label. 3 excellent releases by them include the dreamy haze of Death & Vanilla, doomy psych of Robedoor & the meditative ambience of Cankun (above). Check their soundcloud out

https://soundcloud.com/hitd

I've become totally subsumed by this record. It is epic

This album has zoomed straight to number 1 in my list for this year. Just incredible.

That simply MUST be Rodney Mullen there in the picture kicking that three-flip.. The guy would be the Michael Jordan of skateboarding if he just wasn't so emotionally fragile..