#89

New Nils Frahm! Released today (28 March) for Piano Day. But I’m posting it in this thread anyway, rules be damned.

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#90

This Waxahatchee album is something special isn’t it? Just joyful and wonderful. Exactly what we need.

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#91

Indeed!

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#92

Thank you! Sounds very much up my alley. First track has a real Curve rhythm section, with some semi-Brian Molko vocals

@ttf and @TAFH33 may be interested to hear the cover of Saturnine.

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#93

in fact, there’s a fair bit of TheFutureEmbrace about the album

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#94

I’d never heard of them before, but this is big praise and I’m going to have to try this later. Very excited to hear that bands are covering Saturnine now. The T’s of the world are starting to make music.

#95

For anyone interested in the excellent originals:

Machina II version (my favorite):

Judas O Version:

#96

You forgot the piano version!!!

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#97

I didn’t know it existed! I really need to set aside some time to carefully go through the reissues.

#98

Glad you like it. I personally am blown away by just how damn good they are. Not heard a band like this come along in a long time. And it was all done remotely: they’ve never even met each other.

(I should declare an interest here, which is that my own band Mašīna provided one of the remixes for Loveblind’s third single, Goodbyes Without Goodbye. It’s not that I’m recommending their records because I’m on one of them, though – it’s the other way round: I asked to remix one of their records because they’re bloody brilliant. Still can’t believe they said yes.)

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#99

Tbh most of the bonus discs are a massive missed opportunity…lots of unnecessary “remixes”, instrumentals (snooze) and alt versions that mean many of the great outtakes and bsides dont appear

#100

Dua Lipa is a banger - this the kind of upbeat pop music I need right now
Waxahatchee continues her hot streak
and Sorry’s debut is a nice confident slice of post-punk’/indie rock

Sufjans is boring and lacking in ideas and texture and I don’t care for dirty projectors newest effort.

#101

BANGER

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#102

Was a big fan of their first album and this new one is even better.

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#103

Having a very civilised day on the sofa with a book and the Béla Fleck and Toumani Diabaté album. Top Sunday afternoon music:

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#104

noooo

I like the vocals. P4k review got it right. Nico-esque. except y’know, not a Nazi.

‘Recon’ is like ‘Procession’ by New Order dropped in molasses and suspended in dust motes. she actually borrows the vocal melody. the organ is even mimicking the synth.

#105

A band from my hometown, Ralph TV with their debut album. I guess they’re like funky dreampop. They did something I wish more bands did and kept the original version of an older track, instead of re-doing it for the album.

Making Movements, Loverboy and Taxi Boy (which was on their self-titled EP) are my faves.

ETA: It’s on Nice Guys, which is one of my favourite labels.

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#106

Just got round to this. Good fun and a little sexy. Think I’ll shimmy round the kitchen to it while making my dinner.

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#107

Not sure how much love this Cleo Sol album has been getting but it definitely needs some. Nice and breezy, lush production and vocals. Great in the summer. I don’t keep my finger on the pulse really but the last R&B album I think I dug this much was SZA - CNTRL.

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#108

Interesting. I’ve plugged away with it a few times and I think it’s OK and nice enough but it’s not really doing too much for me besides. I think the problem for me is having Why Don’t You on there - in part because it’s three years old compared to the rest of the album but in terms of production and quality, it towers over everything else on the record. I would’ve liked her and Inflo to have kept with the more luscious and fleshed-out production from Winter Songs and the couple of singles following that EP.