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YEAH!!

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The upcoming album of Alessandro Baris is well worth it to be included in this thread and not only because Lee's vocals are featured on one of the tracks, whichwas the firstsingle. The second single is beautiful as well. Both are on bandcamp:

https://alessandrobaris.bandcamp.com...etter-to-jayne
https://alessandrobaris.bandcamp.com/track/embers

Release date of the album is unknown as of yet

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Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever - July 30th.

I fucking love her first album and I can't wait for this.

To those who wish to make fun of me for this, fuck you.

(I'll post this twice.)

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Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever - July 30th.

I fucking love her first album and I can't wait for this.

To those who wish to make fun of me for this, fuck you.

(I'll post this twice.)

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Sleater-Kinney - Path Of Wellness (June 11)

Double bill tour with Wilco starts on August 5. Aren't they getting a little ahead of themselves? Somehow I don't think the pandemic will be over by then...

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Out today:

Seefeel - Rupt And Flex (1994-96). Great, now they reissue Ch-Vox; I had to pay big coins (for my standards) years ago...

Sons Of Kemet - Black To The Future

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Seefeel - Rupt And Flex (1994-96).

Sheesh, the CD set is sold out on Warp.net and Bandcamp already? I do see it on Amazon, though.

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Holy crap, now this is my kind of supergroup! Meet Springtime:

 

Gareth Liddiard (The Drones/Tropical Fuck Storm), Jim White (Dirty Three/Xylouris White) and Chris Abrahams (The Necks) are Springtime. Their new album, due out later in the year, combines elements of free-jazz, lyricism, improvisation, avant-garde and experimental noise.

Debut tune "Penumbra [live in Melbourne]" (any relation to the Drones' song from 2008's Havilah? I'm about to find out!) now on Bandcamp.

 

What they say about it: "first listen to Springtime (Gareth Liddiard, Jim White, Chris Abrahams) ....... recorded live in Melbourne mid-May, since then we've made two full length records of new stuff and some weird versions of old stuff and lots of crazy stuff stuff stuff.... stay tuned."

On Tropical Fuck Storm Records. Album of the year already, and there's nothing you can do about it.

ETA: It IS the Drones song, given an extra apocalyptic treatment. Mother-FUCK this is good.

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Also, new Wye Oak tune. I'm gonna cancel the hookers and the blow I had coming to my place tonight; this is a lot better!

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Wow, this archival release looks and sounds amazing:

The Fourth World Quartet - 1975
(CD/16.44.1 / 24/96)

The brothers Miller grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They came of age during the Summer of Love. By 1969 they were engaged in freeform rock improvisations and started their first all-original rock band Sproton Layer. During this time, they would see the MC5 at a free concert in the afternoon, then head over to the University of Michigan New Music department to hear Stockhausen at night.

In 1975 the three brothers attended a small Art School. The Fourth World Quartet, with school-mate Jack Waterstone rounding out the quartet, was born out of their mash-up of colliding interests in free improvisation, classical music and jazz. All members composed, ranging from fully scored pieces to graphic scores. Laurence arranged the Art Ensemble of Chicago's "Tnoona" for the group and Roger arranged the main theme from Igor Stravinsky's mini-opera "Renard the Fox". The boundaries were wide open.

In a few months the band put together this repertoire, a testament to focus and extreme creative activity. If they only played two shows and lasted only a very short time, the connections into the future were many. Included here are two songs by Roger that would later appear on the first Birdsongs of the Mesozoic record in 1983.

By 1977 punk rock had kicked in, and Laurence (guitar) and Benjamin (alto sax) went back to their rock roots and joined the Detroit punk band Destroy All Monsters which included Ron Asheton from The Stooges and Michael Davis from the MC5. In 1979, Roger co-formed Mission of Burma in Boston, which went on to be very influential on the indie rock movement.

This is never-before heard music from a pivotal time period.

releases June 25, 2021

Benjamin R. Miller: electric guitar, alto saxophone, composition
Laurence B. Miller: bass clarinet, composition
Roger C. Miller: piano, percussion, composition
Jack Waterstone: alto saxophone, composition

Recorded March 1975 at Thomas Jefferson College, Allendale, Michigan.
Recording engineer: Rick Scott on a Braun tape recorder.
Mastered by Ian Beabout, ShedSounds Studio.

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Sheesh, the CD set is sold out on Warp.net and Bandcamp already? I do see it on Amazon, though.

OK, according to Discogs and other sources, there are two "mastering errors" (gaps that shouldn't be there, basically) on the 4CD set that came out on May 14. The Bandcamp FLACs have been fixed, but I understand the physical edition includes a couple more tracks than the virtual one:

4CD mispress
Messed up files
Corrected files

So. A second pressing is coming and you can already preorder it on Warp.net, BUT it'd be damn nice to know whether this was prompted because the discs were fucked up or just because they ran out of copies. And if they are doing the right thing and fixing the screwup, please modify the catalog and matrix numbers - I went through two different copies of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and three of New Order's Brotherhood searching almost blindly for the corrected versions.

Not that anybody's gonna see this post anyway.

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New tribute to Roky Erickson: May The Circle Remain Unbroken (July 16). For now you can only listen to Margo Price's track. I'm very interested in Jeff Tweedy's (shocking of me to say that, I know ) and Neko Case's, but especially in Lucinda Williams' cover of the ultimate Roky song, "You're Gonna Miss Me". Lu's voice has changed so much over the years that I can't imagine her screaming the originally screamed bits. But what do I know!

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At long last, Nico's Drama Of Exile gets a decent reissue: the full 1981 album, plus (and this time clearly identified) the remixes that supposedly made her go into almost murdering mode. Out August 6 - it only took 40 years, huh. There's still another, "more complete" version to be compiled: one that includes Nico's re-recording of the whole album, which came out in 1983. Hopefully we won't have to wait another four decades for that, because by then most of us here will actually join her, if you believe such hokum.

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

OK, according to Discogs and other sources, there are two "mastering errors" (gaps that shouldn't be there, basically) on the 4CD set that came out on May 14. The Bandcamp FLACs have been fixed, but I understand the physical edition includes a couple more tracks than the virtual one:

4CD mispress
Messed up files
Corrected files

So. A second pressing is coming and you can already preorder it on Warp.net, BUT it'd be damn nice to know whether this was prompted because the discs were fucked up or just because they ran out of copies. And if they are doing the right thing and fixing the screwup, please modify the catalog and matrix numbers - I went through two different copies of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and three of New Order's Brotherhood searching almost blindly for the corrected versions.

Not that anybody's gonna see this post anyway.

Bleep/Ochre has informed yours truly that Rupt + Flex's second pressing will indeed be flawless (confirmed to them directly by Warp). After receiving this information, I find Simon Reynolds' recent article and interview with the band more enjoyable. Notice, by the way, how he laments the degeneration into meaninglessness of his term "post-rock" (yes, he came up with it; he also translated "hauntology" from pure philosophy to music) and how he basically shits on bands labeled as such who share fuckall with what he envisioned (a phenomenon that is sadly inevitable, I guess):

From Rapture to Rupt: The Journey Of Seefeel

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Hüsker Dü Longhorn Tonight is a-comin'! But when, exactly? "Later this year" is all we know thus far, apparently...

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Low - HEY WHAT

 

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Anna Tivel - Blue World (July 16; CD August 3; vinyl December 12). Songs from all her albums given a new treatment on her "Map Room Sessions" from February.

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ALRIGHT, everybody else can reach for the silver medal at best, because the album of the year has just been announced. Sorry!

 

Out August 20.

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Off the charts.

 

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PJ Harvey - White Chalk — Demos (out now).