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Originally Posted by Kuhb

The new Throwing Muses is great. Kristin Hersh has such a presence

I gotta listen to that one ASAP, sure enough...

Wow!

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Robert Wyatt guests on new Mary Halvorson album

The UK artist appears on three tracks on the US guitarist’s second Code Girl release

Guitarist Mary Halvorson has been a long time admirer of Robert Wyatt’s music. She opened her 2018 Wire playlist with his “Sea Song”, saying: “I’m starting with Robert Wyatt because his influence probably runs deepest. He is a true individual and innovator and I’ve spent years with many of his albums on repeat listen.”

Now she has enticed the singer, who announced that he was stopping making music in 2014, out of retirement to sing on three tracks on Artlessly Falling, the second album by her Code Girl group.

“Robert is one of my heroes,” says Halvorson. “It’s such a big deal to me that he was open to singing on this record, because his music has been an enormous influence on Code Girl, and just about everything else I’ve done. I wrote the three tracks he sings on specifically for him, and I was floored by the grace and brilliance with which he approached this music. It was a dream come true.”

Since announcing his retirement, Wyatt has reappeared intermittently, playing cornet or trumpet on albums by David Gilmour and Paul Weller, while in 2018 he contributed vocals to Janek Schaefer’s Wyatt-inspired album What Light There Is Tells Us Nothing. But his appearance on Artlessly Falling represents his most significant return to music making, and coincides with the publication of the book Side By Side, a collaboration with his wife the visual artist Alfreda Benge, and the Domino label’s release of the 2004 compilation His Greatest Misses, which is being issued on vinyl for the first time.

Artlessly Falling is released by the Firehouse 12 label on 16 October, and also features Halvorson’s regular Code Girl collaborators vocalist Amirtha Kidambi, bass player Michael Formanek and drummer Tomas Fujiwara, as well as trumpeter Adam O’Farrill and saxophonist María Grand.

WOW! :eek: Hey, how come I had to find out via The Wire? This should be ready to pre-order on Bandcamp. Not that I have any money. But I gotta do sum'!

Mary H is becoming one of the 21st century's most important artists. Very much looking forward to the next release

The Archives Vol. II: 1972-1976 Box Set

Release date : November 20

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Originally Posted by _tunic_

The Archives Vol. II: 1972-1976 Box Set

Neil, you son of a gun you. :)

I'm psyched about Archives Vol. I... by Joni Mitchell!

Right now her version of "House Of The Rising Sun" is above Dylan's and The Animals' for me. Listen here: https://jonimitchell.com/

Now available for preorder. Listen to "The Lemon Tree", with the voices of Robert Wyatt, Amirtha Kidambi and Maria Grand - POSITIVELY CELESTIAL. It's a crime that we have to wait a month to hear the full album. :)

The Food House LP is pretty good, definitely grows on you as it gets on. A fair bit of diversity, too.

https://nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/album...ith-nils-frahm

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Tripping with Nils Frahm — the live album is out on Erased Tapes from December 3.

The concert film with the same name is produced by Leiter in association with Plan B Entertainment and will premiere the same day via the curated online cinema MUBI.

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Recent goods:
M Geddes Gengras
Ana Roxanne
Drew McDowell
William Basinski
Profligate (former board member!)
Eiko Ishibashi
Yelle
AG Cooke
Charlemagne Palestine
Jim O'Rourke

I just got Fetch The Bolt Cutters (Fiona Apple) a few days ago, and I cannot listen to anything else. It's brilliant.

On another note: King Gizzard are starting to bore me.

Now that we're into the last 10% of the year, it's time to start crowning our AOTYs, no?

For me, it's @@@@@ by Arca. While technically a single, I think a 62-minute mixtape should be able to count as an album, especially when it's as adventurous yet coherent as this one was. Alternating between manic deconstructed club and more ambient songs about identity and self-image, it's definitely one to set the tone for the 2020s.

If it doesn't count, then SIGN by Autechre.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters gets my vote*. :)

Edit: *Unless something even better comes out in the next 32 days.

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Originally Posted by Skuj

Fetch The Bolt Cutters gets my vote. :)

More power to ya (and to Fiona), but it's not even December yet. I still remember when you got Rolling Stone's best-of-the-year list in, like, the March issue (of the next year, you follow). Today it's all NOW NOW NOW, so actual physical magazines need to have their shit ready by late September or something if they want it to appear in the December issue. It's degenerate and I will not have it!

I added an asterisk.

Anyway, it may be blasphemy to say this at the Sonic Youth board, but here goes:

Trump Is Right!!!

KIDDING!!!

I meant to say: I love the new Taylor Swift.

Taylor Swift is garbage. Come on. There was a time when everyone of us would agree on that point. That’s commercial bullshit.

I never bought a Swift album in my life, until folklore. I couldn't even whistle one of her songs until this year. She was this Great Big Pop Sensation that had seemingly been around forever, and surely I have no interest in that.

But folklore is fucking good!!!

I haven't listened to folklore. I've heard plenty of Swift singles thanks to my mother being a fan, and based on that I'm willing to go into bat for Red as one of the great pop albums. 'I Knew You Were Trouble' is an all timer.

Apparently one of the criticisms of folklore is that she was trying to have one foot in both camps as mainstream pop and indie folk, and it would've been better if she'd gone all the way in either direction. But I should probably not trust what Internet randoms say about Taylor Swift.

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Originally Posted by Skuj

I just got Fetch The Bolt Cutters (Fiona Apple) a few days ago, and I cannot listen to anything else. It's brilliant.

On another note: King Gizzard are starting to bore me.

Fiona made a gem this year indeed.
And yeah, King Gizzard is boring :(