I have given it two listens and I don't know what all the hubbub is about.

:eek:

Really? I guess I didn't realize there was a hubbub. I saw it got a good review on pitchfork though, so I guess any time that happens, some hubbub is imminent. But they have it a pretty "meh" rating for a "Best New Music" selection. I swear the criteria for that designation is completely arbitrary.

Anyway, hubbub aside, I expected this album to resonante with many of the users here. Space is Only Noise was well received on SYG if I recall. As was the Darkside album. I think SIRENS is better than Psychic, if not Space... and in a year like 2016, it thoroughly spanks the fuck out of most of the more traditional (e.g. Not Elseq) electronic/electronic adjacent releases out there.

Michael Shannon lip-syncs to "Here Comes Your Man": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn36n8UtJNU

Uhmm.... because Frank Black has been a consistently solid songwriter since 1987 and Indie Cindy had some really good songs on it?

Head Carrier is what it is. It fills all the Pixies quotas and never over achieves on them. It's a pretty decent 33 minutes of a talented band having a lazy day at work.

It's not awful, certainly. I guess Pixies having a lazy day just isn't something I'm too interested in. I'm not sure songwriting is a problem. In fact I'm sure it's not. I think the problem is in the execution. It just lacks a lot of what made the Pixies great in the first place. But I'm not trying to be a dick about it.

Really, it's very hard for me to listen to a record with the Pixies' name on it, and feel disappointed. I feel like I'm betraying something sacred. But ultimately it doesn't alter my opinion of the Pixies one bit. They're probablt never going to put out anything that floors me again, but they don't really need to.

And it's got to be damn near impossible for a band like this to give it another go and be truly successful. Many have tried, few have succeeded. When GY!BE came back in 2012, I thought they'd brought it pretty hard. But looking back, something was just missing, not necessarily from the music, but from the environmental ingredients that made their formative albums so great.

Can we all agree "Baal's back" is some killer shit?

Yeah, I think that's my favorite track on the album.

new Graham Lambkin (double CD), titled 'Community', coming out next week on Erstwhile records... in a similar vein, the new Marc Baron CD Un Salon Au Fond D'Un Lac is a beautiful noise/music concrete album, made primarily with manipulated tape/tape machines.. quality consistent with Hidden Tapes--anybody digging this stuff?

heard the samples for community and it's sounding very good, insane how lambkin is existing entirely on his own terms at this stage.

C.O.W. / Chill Out World!

 

The Orb has special place in my heart, always have, eventhough I haven't follow them as much since their Bicycles & Tricycles, but I have to mention them on here since they have new album coming out in two days.

a press release says the title could be considered a reference to Paterson's uncredited role in The KLF's 1990 album Chill Out, and to the cows on the cover of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother LP. occasional Orb collaborator Youth and ambient composer Roger Eno were brought on board for contributions, and The Designers Republic took care of cover art.

Paterson describes COW / Chill Out, World! as "our most ambient album yet".

you can stream it in full on soundcloud. I think I will be getting it on wax as well.

https://soundcloud.com/kompakt/sets/...ll-out-world-1

the new MONO album Requiem For Hell is released tomorrow (14th)!!!
Stream it here: https://soundcloud.com/monoofjapan

it's a killer!!


Furthermore looking forward to albums of Thought Forms and Esben & the Witch. Both will be released on November 4th. How cool is that!

I'm not yet liking the new Wedding Present ...

:eek:
Fucking aces, man!

Aaaand... the new Botany's out!
Gearing up for my first full listen.



If this doesn't land in my top ten for the year, that will be a first for Botany.

This Solange has a real Thom Yorke feel in a good way I think its what is bringing me into it.. feels like if Radiohead went neo-soul on us.. nice..
I don't know if I should call this a guilty pleasure or just admit its a good record

Dude, why would this be a guilty pleasure?
Is it because when she started out she was kind of a Kesha-level teen alt-pop type? I don't know... I never listened to her first album, but her early stuff kind of had that look to it.

Whatever though. It's just a good album. A great album really. And I get where you're coming from with the Radiohead comment. But I think we think of it that way because Radiohead really managed to perfect highly intelligent music with a vocal focus that was both experimental and approachable at once.

The new Nicolas Jaar reminds me of Radiohead a bit too.

the Destiny's Child era makes it hard for me to respect anything Knowles sisters plus i don't usually jump on trending stuff.

my thom yorke comment was not so much about the lyrics themselves but the feel and flow of the vocal delivery

Ok so WOW this is not what I expected or wanted at ALL.

Not saying it's bad, but I listened to 5 songs waiting for what I though was just a really long intro to end. :(

Botany first appeared on my radar because of the incredible worldly, haunting textured beat music they made. It was like Madlib and Amnesiac and Miles Davis all at once. Powerful Fucking stuff.
The second album was not as good as the first but went off in a new direction, channeling hip-hop a bit more directly a la Prefuse 73.

But this .... uhh... this is an ambient mellow electronic album with virtually no beat or rhythm to speak of. Which is fine! I like plenty of ambient electro-shit, but I also own plenty of ambient electro-shit, and so far nothing about this is making me feel like I *needed* to have this album.

The sounds are lovely and contemplative and spacey, but I don't hear any of what made Lava Diviner (True story) such an immediate classic.

In other words, Botany seems to have lost a massive piece of their personality in their attempt to distance themselves from the Madlib, Prefuse and Stereolab comparisons. God dammit.

What an underwhelming experience. I can't think of anything to liken it to... Except... ok, imagine you loved Guardians of the Galaxy because of how full of life and fun and genuinely cool shit was in it... You loved it because, despite being a Marvel movie, of which there are billions, it felt fresh and not at all like just another superhero movie... (Botany's a beat-happy electronic act after all, and there are millions of those, but they managed to make something special within that framework)

So, imagine then that you go see Guardians of the Galaxy II and...
for some fucking reason it's like a 2001 ripoff but with no plot, just a bunch of slow-mo images of the Guardians characters, super up close, or drifting aimlessly through vortexes or some shit... just complete nonsense that has nothing to do with Guardians of the Galaxy, and has exactly NONE of the cool stuff that made the first one special for you!

That's kinda what it's like. And I'm irked because I bought this thing without streaming it first. Such is my confidence that Botany would make something worth buying.

Ugh. Bummed.

New Leonard Cohen. You Want It Darker

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/14/497542...want-it-darker

Seems like his "Blackstar", need to hear it.

thanks!

New Mono's awesome as fuck for sure.

Big Star — Complete Third (3CD set), out NOW.

Bob Dylan — The 1966 Live Recordings (36CD set! ), November 11. Not a new installment of the Bootleg Series, mind you.

Papa M — Highway Songs, November 11.

Gillian Welch — Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg, November 25.

Julia Holter — Bleed For This soundtrack, November 25.

anticipated albums:

Oren Ambarchi - Hubris
Beck
Mary Halvorson Octet - Away With You
Julia Holter — Bleed For This Soundtrack
Lambchop - Flotus
The Necks
Oneida & Rhys Chatham - What's Your Sign?
Papa M - Highway Songs
The Pretenders - Alone
Radian - On Dark Silent Off
Aleksandra Vrebalov & Kronos Quartet - The Sea Ranch Songs

Need new Leonard Cohen!

I would like to recommend you to listen to DANS DANS. It's a Belgian threesome that plays instrumental jazz post-rock kind of. Their new album is called SAND and was released last Friday. I can stream it here (in Netherlands): http://3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/a...Dans-Dans.html
But that probably will not work for you. Perhaps this may help you out: http://news.lnk.to/sand

Most of their previous releases are on Soundcloud:
- https://soundcloud.com/undayrecords/sets/dans-dans-3
- https://soundcloud.com/undayrecords/sets/dans-dans-i-ii

Taking to me here bud?

I really love Duchess Says and their new album is wicked. https://open.spotify.com/album/2ykI9BwAQQutx0mwduGSM8

found the new oval yesterday
still looking forward to two new sarah divachis, sean mccann (so pumped), michael gordon timber remixes. supposedly an arca too??
too much good music this year. there are a lot of decent albums i haven't given a second listen.

There's a new Arca coming?

someone mentioned it on the animal collective forum. i'm thinking maybe they were referring to the mixtape?

oh yeah SALEM is coming out with a new album soon too!

I really need a new DJ Koze album in my life. Soon. His DJ Kocks was great, as was the Pampa sampler, but it's time for a proper follow-up to Amygdala.

Mono is a shit band and always has been.

Wow. Strong words. I happen to disagree pretty strongly myself, but I'm not going to be a dick about it.

Not sure how a band like Mono could inspire such loathing -- it's not like they're in you're face all the time, wearing penis socks or being Coldplay. Hell, you mention them to a lot of folks and to this day they think you're talking about these taints.

But sure, ok, you really don't like Mono. Noted. Best of luck with all that.

preach


- there's new dean blunt x gaika coming in, and lolina's got a new record coming out with scratcha (sort of related, there's a triumph allah full length coming with production from lord tusk)
- jesse osborne-lanthier on halcyon veil, and the record with grischa lichtenberger
- renick bell on uiq
- roy montgomery 4lp on grapefruit

the new Machinedrum isn't terrible.. it's so unabashedly 'pop', i read a lot of negative comments. it was a pleasant surprise

don't be so serious about it, dude.
they're just too boring to my ears, is all. I've even gathered enough courage to see their concert (twice, even), but both times it ended up being an endless tiring charade and with me getting shit faced at the bar. in case you're interested in this thrilling story.

Mono's not shit. Not great. Not shit. They're pretty good live.

They're better than Dinosaur Jr and The Dead C.

Not as good as Thinking Fellers Union Local or Sly & the Family Stone.

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Some facts about Mono right there.

I love mono and who cares what other people think? That's my take on every band I love. È pericoloso sporgersi.