rolling on from last year’s, always a fun concept
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C Turtle - Expensive Thrills
only a year old but totally missed this last March, and don’t think it made it into the weekly release thread either
fuzzy noisy 90s indie, but not the usual touchstones. A bit more in the Polvo, Silkworm, loud-slowcore direction, maybe some 2nd gen emo of Braid, Mineral. But then other tracks are like the loud end of Pavement or the catchy end of early Dino Jr
Loving it and their earlier EPs, supporting julie in March and hoping to catch the headline date they’re also fitting in up here
(don;t think much of the tuneless 6 min ramble song towards the end though, that’s a skipper)
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme
Started listening to their stuff last year after they were mention alongside Beck in the Beastie Boys listening thread, but only got to this album this week. The kind of 90s alternative that I dig and the little hints of hip hop throughout is a nice little bonus. Definitely my favourite of theirs so far.
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Nina Hagen Band - Nina Hagen Band
“The Godmother of German Punk”. After posting her 1994 single in the How Good Was The Year thread, I realised I only really know a few tracks of Nina Hagen’s and not any full albums, so thought I’d rectify that, starting with her first album and one of two as the Nina Hagen Band. I love how her operatic voice and theatrical performance contrasts with the quite pub rock sound of the music. The 1978 show on Rockpalast is well worth a watch to get the full force of her, and their, performance. I’m going to keep going through her back catalogue but I think it gets hit-and-miss pretty quickly.
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Glad you’re enjoying. Only given it one listen so far, but the first So Totally album is probably also worth giving a go.
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All of Youth Lagoon and his ‘solo’ albums. Also just wanna mention how amazing this single is from the new album:
(Great video too)
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Loved ‘Idaho Alien’ off the last one
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This Alice Damon LP from 2021. I heard Treetop Winds on the radio and have been hooked ever since. It would fit in the ambient/drone thread. Reading the blurb on Bandcamp just now there’s more to investigate.
Yes, incredible song! I just love everything about him - his production, his lyrics, his voice especially (it’s crazy that he lost it for so long).
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this Mortimer album. expected something corny, but I feel like The Clientele must be fans of this album?
a very distinctively pretty take on the psych pop of the time
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this is very cool and I’ve never heard it before
this might be why (I’m always hoping for that + a few lengthy fuzz guitar freak outs)
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oh yeah, the latter is something I’ve come to appreciate more (probs as a result of getting into The Oh Sees)
apparently these were supposed to release a second album on Apple Records. George Harrison-approved, which adds up!
I got onto the album because Eric Matthews was brought up in the forgotten artists thread. went from him and Richard Davies back to the Cardinal s/t, and followed their cover of a Mortimer song back to the source
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not quite in the same vein, but here’s something I came across fairly recently
(technically I think I might have heard this first in 2024, but only got into it in 2025 so I can still put it here) - some nice west coast harmonies (not sure where they are actually from) with pretty far out fuzzy guitar from about 1:30 onwards. There’s a youtube comment calling it Crosby, Stills, Nash and Fripp, which seems apt!:
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George Duke - The Aura Will Prevail (1975)
George Duke - I Love the Blues, She Heard Me Cry (1975)
Don’t know his work at all, but I heard a track on Afrodeutsche’s 6Music show which was all mid-70s funk and jazz and soul and absolutely my bag. Started with his 5th and 6th albums both out in 1975 and both great; I see there are 30-odd albums to go at, and the most famous one seems to be 1979’s A Brazilian Love Affair. He was also in the Mothers of Invention and Frank Zappa played on some of Duke’s solo albums.
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Hanne Lippard - Talk Shop (2024)
Possibly doesn’t even count as a music album tbf, it’s more spoken word sound art, in which “the Berlin based multidisciplinary artist taps an almost dada sensibility, delivering a suite of poems and texts where singular words and sentences are looped and repeated creating a sensory experience of the efficiency and stress found in our private as well as public life”. I loved it, whatever it is.
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Looooooooooooooove me some George Duke. Those two albums in particular are his best IMO.
Remember listening to it for the first time and thinking “ooooooh, so this is Thundercat’s biggest influence” 
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I discovered The Closest Thing To Silence by Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer thanks to @GoldFlakePaint’s Curious Listening playlist - I’ve enjoyed music by all three artists in various permutations/ensembles before but somehow this release completely passed me by at the time.
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Beautiful record!
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