[Kuhb]

Still loving this new Coltrane (hard to believe I'm typing that)... being from '63 the band is in similar form to the Afro Blue Impressions live album which is probably my favourite of the Classic Quartet. This is really special

[The Soup Nazi]

Robert Christgau on this year's Tune-Yards and Courtney Barnett albums:

tUnE-yArDs: I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life (4AD) Merrill Garbus has a gift for embarrassing people, especially by caring so deeply about the unpackable racial complexities her music has always addressed head on. It's these complexities she's now chastised for making a mess of in a time-slip when African-Americans have earned the right to charge appropriation whenever white musicians venture into racial territory, which is such a relief to the many white people eager to let things ride. On an album marked by the theme statements "I must be witness to everything," "Honesty, honesty gone / Don't know right from wrong," and "I know I'm not to be trusted," she acknowledges more white guilt than she's probably incurred, so of course sometimes she's clumsy about it. Who isn't? But with decisive input from bassist-lifemate Nate Brenner, her musicality—smoother here, perhaps due to the black-pop softeners some reviewers descry—remains something to believe in. Proud against her better judgment, she can't stop exploring her art or living her life. "Sitting in the middle of the Sixth Extinction / Silently suggesting the investment in a generator," she gives no sign she'll ever stop flailing away at everything that makes her crazy and compels her to sing. A MINUS

Courtney Barnett: Tell Me How You Really Feel (Mom + Pop) Cheeky title notwithstanding, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit didn't just sit. It was an album where a band powered up at just the moment its singer evolved into a guitarist to reckon with as she came up with the best-observed lyrics of her life. Three years later, what little observation there is peers inward—half the songs sound written in a flat she hasn't left in a week. If anything, the band is sharper. But rather than a singer dynamic enough to match it, we get a dynamic guitarist who also happens to be the sole lyricist and solo singer. So be grateful for the Margaret Atwood lift "I wanna walk through the park in the dark / Men are scared that women will laugh at them / I wanna walk through the park in the dark / Women are scared that men will kill them," especially for sparking the crucial add-on "I hold my keys between my fingers." And for a finale called "Sunday Roast," where someone she likes comes for a visit. A MINUS

[Savage Clone]

Tune yards is embarrassingly bad garbage. Nothing she has ever done is worth the space it takes to listen to it or see it. That is honestly some Emperor's New Clothes stuff in Action. A total Snow Job.
Seriously, it's unlistenable. She is a total and complete hack. Almost as bad as kimya Dawson. But that's a pretty high bar of hack.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Savage Clone

Tune yards is embarrassingly bad garbage. Nothing she has ever done is .........................

 

[Severian]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

 

BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAA

Love Tune yards, love that face, I give this reply a 9/10.

[Savage Clone]

That post of mine was definitely predictable and pretty unnecessary, but sadly it probably won't be the last time that happens.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Savage Clone

That post of mine was definitely predictable and pretty unnecessary, but sadly it probably won't be the last time that happens.

Wait, I think you took my "Bored HRC pic" reply the wrong way; what I was trying to say is your criticism of Tune-Yards was putting me to sleep because I LOVE Merrill Garbus. I don't think you can take back the positive reputation you gave me, though...

[Savage Clone]

I took it exactly that way. I don't mind when people give me a hard time. And like I said, I admit it was a rather predictable and unnecessary post, which definitely translates to boring. Fair.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Wait, I think you took my "Bored HRC pic" reply the wrong way; what I was trying to say is your criticism of Tune-Yards was putting me to sleep because I LOVE Merrill Garbus. I don't think you can take back the positive reputation you gave me, though...

Uh, yeah dude I got it. I know what you meant, and I was agreeing with you and also diggin on that sweet sweet Hillface (seriously. Love it. She’s a bitch, but I love it). What are you not getting, Xennial?

OOPPS. You weren’t taking to me. Self-obsessed Xennial, right here.

Gonna let this sky here rather than deleting because I believe in transparency or whatever.

Love you, SN

[The Soup Nazi]

 

Laurel Halo — Raw Silk Uncut Wood

http://www.laurelhalo.com/

https://www.latency.fr/catalogue/raw-silk-uncut-wood

https://honestjons.com/shop/artist/L...ilk_Uncut_Wood

https://latencyrecordings.bandcamp.c...ilk-uncut-wood

[_tunic_]

 

Cat Power will release a new album called Wanderer in October, first album in six years! (but that last one I didn't like so much either)
Preorder it here. And a trailer can be found here.

It's self-produced, not sure if that's good news or not. If anyone knows who is contributing on the album besides Lana Del Rey, let it be known.

 

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by _tunic_

If anyone knows who is contributing on the album besides Lana Del Rey, let it be known.

Searched a little here and there, that info doesn't seem to be out yet. Lana Del Rey... No good! But here's what's really important: Chan looks a bit like Aubrey Plaza in the promo pic!

 

[The Soup Nazi]

 

Fuckin' awesome: FLACs already available for $5 AUD.

https://jencloher.bandcamp.com/album...loft-and-loews

NOT fuckin' awesome: "The Live at The Loft and Loew's EP will be available as a super-limited edition vinyl pressing available only at Cloher's upcoming shows."

[The Soup Nazi]

 

The Necks release new album Body

https://northernspyrecs.com/product/body/

https://thenecksau.bandcamp.com/album/body

[The Soup Nazi]

From The Wire:

 

Ana da Silva & Phew share two tracks from a forthcoming album
Created over a long-distance partnership, Island will be released September 2018

[The Soup Nazi]

Holy shit — an indescribable wow, indeed...

 

Well, I guess it's all or nothing with me, because on August 17th:

A new album
World On Sticks
will be ready to pre-order

PLUS
A concert film
Sam Phillips: Live @ Largo at the Coronet

AND
A live album of the concert
(with 4 extra songs not in the film)
will be available to purchase and download

That is a lot of stuff... and I forgot to mention the record/tote bags! This was a tough decision for me because I'm not a keychain, mug, mousepad, headband, sticker selling (or buying) kind of person. I wish I had more Etsy in me and could knit sweaters, carve totem poles (like my Great Uncle Frankie who was a folk artist), or sew a Sam Phillips pup tent for you, but for now it'll have to be music and a record bag. When I was thinking about cover art for World On Sticks, I did a Japanese brush/cave painting sort of symbol to represent the title and just happened to think it looked good on a white record bag and... I wanted one. I think the marketeers would disapprove and tell me to make something YOU want... (like sweaters and pup tents?) With your suggestions, I will work on that.

For now, I hope you will enjoy the filmed concert with drummer Jay Bellerose, guitarist Greg Leisz, Patrick Warren manning the piano and keyboards, Jennifer Condos playing bass, Eric Gorfain playing violin, guitar, & banjo, and the Section Quartet. I have often imagined any one of these musicians accompanying me everywhere for 24 hours. Can you imagine a string quartet playing behind you at the DMV? Or Jennifer playing bass behind you in line at the grocery store? Or listening to Patrick play piano while you're in the dentist chair? I love them all and am so happy to have recorded and filmed them... you can watch a preview below.

I hope you are having a wonderful summer...more about the new album soon!

All the best from Sam

http://samphillips.com/

[tesla69]

how much more boring shit are you going to post about over and over?

why not go get an id over at brooklyn vegan and post there, posters there love clueless asshole bullies with their heads up their ass.

[The Soup Nazi]

Careful, t69. We know where you live. Me and my buddies, bad hombres from shitholes, are gonna rape you. We're gonna RAPE YOU.

[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by tesla69

how much more boring shit are you going to post about over and over?

why not go get an id over at brooklyn vegan and post there, posters there love clueless asshole bullies with their heads up their ass.

Do you post anything about new albums? Actually can't remember any

[Severian]

Originally Posted by tesla69

how much more boring shit are you going to post about over and over?

why not go get an id over at brooklyn vegan and post there, posters there love clueless asshole bullies with their heads up their ass.

Wow, I know he’s a self-professed Nazi, but this is just fucking mean.

Why are you a fucking asshole? Why don’t you go be a fucking asshole somewhere that isn’t here? Literally don’t care where. Just ... how’s about taking your “Such-a-massive-gaping-asshole-I’m-frequently-mistaken-for-a-bullet-wound” attitude and getting the fuck out of here if you’re going to be such a diseased urethra all the time?