Morning DISers. So, another week, another Friday. What are folks itching to hear today?
For me, it starts (right now) with Lambchop’s LP of cover songs, Trip:
We all know Lambchop of Nixon fame right? According to Spotify an “unclassifiable hybrid of country, soul, jazz, and avant-garde”. Who am I to argue with that description?
And then I will maybe head over to check out Marika Hackman’s new one, Covers. Seems like cover albums are de rigueur in lockdown times. Marika covers songs from the likes of Radiohead, Grimes and Elliot Smith. Should be interesting.
As for description, there’s this, from Bandcamp: “this collection of songs is more akin in tone and feel to her debut We Slept At Last, with a darker and more introspective sound. On Covers, we hear Marika’s emotive voice set against sparse arrangements of guitars and strings with the occasional synth or scattered drum groove.”
Looking forward to that.
Then, for some, there’ll be William Basinski, with Lamentations. Never really clicked for me, but will certainly give this a go later this morning.
In Lamentations, "the ambient composer goes back to raiding his decades-deep personal archives for vintage tape to revive with new perspective and fresh feeling (thanksP/fork).
So, definitely NOT a covers album, then. Disappointing …
What’ll got to share with the community, then?