Bisk - FITL2: Fire, Burn, Flames
New one from UK rapper Bisk. Expect hazy, lo-fi hip hop.
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Did not have this on my bingo card.
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the Supersonic by Oasis drum beat on track 2 was unexpected.
But yeah, Will Putney’s production is absolutely fucking perfect for this band. Can’t even be mad that they basically sound like Stray From The Path now because it’s so bad ass
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LOVE the Body Count album but The Purge bit where Ice T just recaps the plot of the movie had me picturing this
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.VRIL - Saturn is a Supercomputer
“Vril has curated a collection of boundary-pushing studio experiments, resulting in a mesmerizing body of mind-bending electronic music… this is a proper sci-fi trip, and in fact includes ambient sections, electro, industrial hip-hop beats, and elastic rhythms - but despite all that, it remains truer to techno’s original sense of futuristic visionary sound-making than 99…9% of what is called techno now.”
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love this! really brightened up a hungover winters morning
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Jakob Bro - Taking Turns
Beautiful, laid back Danish jazz from , based on the cover art Jakob Bro’s quintet?
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New “Big Bad” Kyle Bobby Dunn album. Expecting ambience
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tommy oeffling - waste of water
Second album of the year from lo-fi indie one man project from Milwaukee. FFO Alex G, Lotus Plaza.
Love this guy!
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Late-night R&B and street soul with a heavy 80’s lean from Qendresa. ‘Tearz’ sounds like tuning into an old pirate radio broadcast.
Organi - Babylonia
Wasn’t that fussed with any of my What’s New list, but The Notwist just posted about this album on their Alien Transistor label and it’s a delight.
60s/70s-drenched laid back psychedelic pop? Very nice.
Paint - Gift Shop EP
Somewhat shoegazey indie pop quartet from Fremantle, Western Australia. Their second EP.
Sasha - Da Vinci Genius
Superstar DJ Sasha mixes filmic, classical and electronica in this score to the immersive Da Vinci Genius exhibition.
Various Artists - Tru Thoughts 2024
Sampler of the soul, jazz, electronica and hip hop releases on the Brighton label this year.
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Man, just found out that two unreleased Olivia Tremor Control songs were put out out today.
But the way I found out was by hearing that one of the main guys, Will Cullen Heart, died today. Bill Doss of the band died a good few years ago now. Way too soon in both cases 
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Daria Lourd - For The New Moon On November 30th 2024
New album from the artist known as Bored Lord when DJing. All made on hardware instruments, the result is a kind of acid dub.
That new Body Count album is brilliant fun
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Jazz Sabbath - The 1968 Tapes
Fun conceit that Jazz Sabbath were late 60s English Jazz movement pioneers all ready to release their debut album in February 1970 until, oh no, their pianist had a heart attack. By the time he got out of hospital a few months later, some chancers from Birmingham had only gone and plagiarised them, releasing two albums of so-called heavy metal versions of their songs.
This is the third Jazz Sabbath album, with War Pigs among the covers/originals(?)
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Vox Vulgaris - Early Music for Late Humanity
A lot of publications will be kicking themselves at publishing their album of the year lists before having had enough time to consider this album from Swedish medieval folk group Vox Vulgaris, with its polyrhythmic percussion and lively playing of long forgotten instruments (and occasional never forgotten bagpipes), aimed at reflecting the upbeat side of medieval celebrations. I cannot not admire a band who can cite quotations like these two in one Bandcamp release notes:
“In modern times the shawms and loud trumpets generally banish the sober fiddles from the feasts, and the young girls dance eagerly to the loud noise, like hinds, shaking their buttocks womanishly and rudely.” (Conrad von Megenberg, 1349)
A groove knows neither direction nor aging; it only knows transfiguration and renewal. It is “a bewildering sequence of sudden changes by leaps and bounds, indeed, a constant reversal to older, new, and foreign ideals”. Each change is incompatible with any other, leading to instances of perfection in their own right. “There is no steady evolution from simplicity to complication; nor is there a reverse development.” (Curt Sachs, 1962)
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Kendrick Lamar was a couple of votes ahead of Kim Deal at the top of last week’s poll, with Djrum in third.
Not a great deal of stuff in this week’s thread as we’re slowing down for Christmas, but some good uns, I thought. What did you like out of this lot?
- .VRIL - Saturn is a Supercomputer
- Ai kamano - cocoon
- Ben Lukas Boysen - Alta Ripa
- Bisk - FITL2: Fire, Burn, Flames
- Body Count - Mercy
- Boogarins - Bacuri
- Crazy P - Any Signs of Love
- Daria Lourd - For The New Moon On November 30th 2024
- DJ Koze & Damon Albarn single
- Electrelane - BBC Radio Sessions vol. 1
- Emika - Vega
- Hidden Mothers - Erosion/Avulsion
- Jakob Bro - Taking Turns
- Jamie Hamilton & Phaedra Ensemble - Versionland
- Jazz Sabbath - The 1968 Tapes
- Juanita Stein - The Weightless Hour
- Kyle Bobby Dunn
- Laura Cannell - Firelore
- Mark Barrott - Everything Changes, Nothing Ends
- Nightmares On Wax - Carboot Jazz EP
- Nocow - eto ne to
- Organi - Babylonia
- Paint - Gift Shop EP
- Pale World - Later in the Day
- Qendresa
- SGO - One More Year
- Sasha - Da Vinci Genius
- Stina Stjern - Vivid Peace Restored
- The Innocence Mission - Midwinter Swimmers
- The Moment of Nightfall and Tony Jay - Winter Dream EP
- The Olivia Tremor Control singles
- The Unthanks - In Winter
- tommy oeffling - waste of water
- total tommy - bruises
- Toshiki Soejima & edbl - Carefree EP
- Various Artists - Tru Thoughts 2024
- Vox Vulgaris - Early Music for Late Humanity
- Work Money Death - People of the Fast Flowing River
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@dantrobus gotta ask how you keep on top of the Aust indie releases? I mean, Paint are from my home town and I’d never heard of them before.
Admittedly, I’m way too late-middle-aged to be keeping abreast of the local live scene, and even if I wren’t it’s pretty much dead now anyway (along with the local music press). But it feels like hardly any Aust acts release their material through bandcamp, and if they so, as soon as they get signed, that’s the end of it.
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Nowhere special really. In Paint’s case, I was just browsing through the upcoming releases on Album of the Year and thought the EP cover looked promising, so found them on Bandcamp.
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