Will try to find an album with a more standard approach to capitalisation tomorrow. These free-thinking libertines are making my list look untidy.
Day 1: The Knife - Silent Shout
Day 2: DJ Seinfeld - Mirrors
Day 3: Skee Mask - Pool
Day 4: Obey Cobra - Oblong
Day 5: Low - HEY WHAT
Day 6: JPEGMAFIA - LP!
Day 7: Sochi Terada - Asakusa Light
Fridays are going to be all about the new releases - if I keep this up then I may actually have something to contribute to the end of year threads by next Decemberā¦
So there is music that doesnāt really grab you or stand out, but just creates a vibe. This definitely falls into that camp. The specific vibe feels very much like Iām disgustingly young and as close to beautiful/glamourous as I will ever get sitting in some impossibly cool rooftop bar a long long way from home drinking numerous cocktails I canāt really afford and failing miserably (or perhaps gloriously) to realise that being this young/free only lasts a very short time. The sun has just gone down and the next time I stand up I will realise that I have been drinking since 3PM.
Soā¦ a happy place, but one Iām a long way removed from.
vibes/10
(ffo Peggy Gou - Itgehane)
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Iāve been doing this as well since seeing the first post but havenāt posted about it until now. Iāll do opinions going forward but have enjoyed everything Iāve listened to so far:
1st Jan: Elori Saxl - The Blue of Distance
2nd Jan: Boards of Canada - Tomorrows Harvest
3rd Jan: Nick Cave - Ghosteen
4th Jan: Jan Jelinek - Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records
5th Jan: Confidence Man - Confident Music for Confident People
6th Jan: Burial - Antidawn EP
7th Jan: Sochi Terada - Asakusa Light
Best things so far have been Elori Saxl, Jan Jelinek and Confidence Man all of which were new to me.
Really liked the Sochi Terada album today - especially the album art! Not a genre I listen to a lot and canāt imagine going back to it that often but I enjoyed it whilst it was on.
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shout out to Loop Finding Jazz Records! A classic nice time of an album
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Yeah I had no idea what to expect and loved it a lot, think I found it on a Pitchfork list
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Love the Elori Sax record - probably my aoty from last year.
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Friday 7th January: Fushitsusha - Gold Blood
Having a bit of a Fushitsusha phase atm, and listening to some albums of theirs Iāve not heard before via youtube. If you arenāt familiar, Fushitsusha is, to me, the logical end-point of rock music: the band that calls the bluff of all that rockānāroll cool-loud-heavy-excessive-ecstatic mythos. You just canāt beat Haino and the boys at that game.
This one is a live album recorded in the US in the late 90ās, it has all the features youād want from a Fushitsusha album, including an absolutely vast guitar tone, moments of shimmering beauty in between crashing energy explosions, wild Haino vocalisations. Maybe not quite a classic on the level of the Double Live albums, but still you canāt really go wrong with this era of Fushitsusha.
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Day 1: The Knife - Silent Shout
Day 2: DJ Seinfeld - Mirrors
Day 3: Skee Mask - Pool
Day 4: Obey Cobra - Oblong
Day 5: Low - HEY WHAT
Day 6: JPEGMAFIA - LP!
Day 7: Sochi Terada - Asakusa Light
Day 8: Depeche Mode - Violator
Double album day today, inspired from a couple of other threads. First, from @Funkhouserās much loved and gladly continuing HGATR thread I decided to give Violator a spin for the first time in agesā¦ and got a bit bored around 2/3 of the way through. Some proper classics on there, but maybe not quite varied enough to hold my interest for the full length (especially as the highlights seem pretty front-loaded). Love the synthscapes, love the voice, struggle not to flinch at the rhyming dictionary lyrics on occasion. Holy cow slaughtered (or at least slapped around the cheeks)ā¦ time to move on toā¦
Day 8: Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
Playing along with @midnightpunkās album listening party thread. Now Punk is something that passed me by to a greater or lesser extent. I was a teenager in the late 90s and tended towards metal when I wanted something aggressive, which led to an unfortunate amount of Nu-metal consumption. Enjoyed Green Day and Offspring well enough, but have never really explored passed the obvious big hits (London Calling, Ever Fallen In Love etc) from the 70s. Always felt like it was a āyou had to be thereā thing.
Anyway - this was fucking great. Obviously there is an element of what we would now call āedge lordingā but in context of the age it led to obscenity trials and pressing plants refusing to release the album so Iāve got a bit more time for it than I do in the modern age when nothing matters, if that makes sense.
Musicianship was a surprising strong point (maybe exposing my inexperience with Punk here), but the rhythm section and particularly the bass were really quite impressive. I can understand why theyāre spoken of so highly - will be exploring the further.
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If you explore further, Station Of The Crass should be your next port of call. If anything it is better than Feedingā¦
Thanks for listening along.
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Day 1: The Knife - Silent Shout
Day 2: DJ Seinfeld - Mirrors
Day 3: Skee Mask - Pool
Day 4: Obey Cobra - Oblong
Day 5: Low - HEY WHAT
Day 6: JPEGMAFIA - LP!
Day 7: Sochi Terada - Asakusa Light
Day 8: Depeche Mode - Violator
Day 8: Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
Day 9: Hannah Peel - Fir Wave
Came across this as the lone name I didnāt recognise in a āTop 20 electronica albums of the year pollā from an account I follow on Twitter. Considering that this is much more my home territory Iām a little taken aback at being unfamiliar with someone who seems quite prominent - a Mercury and Emmy nominated composer no-less.
ā¦and yeah, itās pretty glorious all told. Seems to occupy the same sort of conceptual space as Elori Saxās Blue (which was probably my AOTY last year). Wonderful synth soundscapes evoking nature and the living world. Heck there is even a (very good) track called Ecovocative, which is sort of laying the cards on the table, although I got there without even looking at the track titles. Obviously knows what sheās up to then. The list of stuff I need to explore grows ever more unwieldy.
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I had a busy few days so Iām going to have to try and catch upā¦
Day 6: Myd - Born a Loser (2021)
I posted about this one in the weekly new releases thread at the time it came out.
Itās been a real pleasure returning to this one, even if the season and the weather donāt match the recordās vibe. Itās fun, itās catchy, itās summery and it really breezes by despite its 50-minute running time. I said itāll be up the street of anyone who likes Metronomy or LA Priest but the record is very much a spiritual successor to the likes of Daft Punk and Justice as well.
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Update:
1st Jan: Elori Saxl - The Blue of Distance
2nd Jan: Boards of Canada - Tomorrows Harvest
3rd Jan: Nick Cave - Ghosteen
4th Jan: Jan Jelinek - Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records
5th Jan: Confidence Man - Confident Music for Confident People
6th Jan: Burial - Antidawn EP
7th Jan: Sochi Terada - Asakusa Light
8th Jan: Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Embarassed to say Iāve not listened to them before but this is one of the best heavy records Iāve heard for ages. I loved the vocals a lot.
9th Jan: Caribou - Start Breaking My Heart
I didnāt like this as much as I thought I would. Liked the drums, almost sounds like it shouldnāt work but does but I lost interest a bit towards the end.
10th Jan: Leonie Pernet - Le Cirque de Consolation
Iāve definitely underplayed this since it came out. Some great boppy tunes on there as well as more progressive interesting synth stuff. Need to check out her first record as well.
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Have felt this way about everything Caribou has done. Maybe he should go down the burial route and release EPs instead.
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Day 1: The Knife - Silent Shout
Day 2: DJ Seinfeld - Mirrors
Day 3: Skee Mask - Pool
Day 4: Obey Cobra - Oblong
Day 5: Low - HEY WHAT
Day 6: JPEGMAFIA - LP!
Day 7: Sochi Terada - Asakusa Light
Day 8: Depeche Mode - Violator
Day 8: Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
Day 9: Hannah Peel - Fir Wave
Day 10: Burial - Antidawn
Day 10: Burial - Untrue
God I fucking love Burial. More thoughts somewhere in this threadā¦
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Yeah I only really know his big singles which I like so was expecting a bit more of the same. Was thinking of trying his newer albums but maybe not based on this
Iām still playing catch-up at the moment.
Day 7: LāImpĆ©ratice - Tako Tsubo
Continuing my French pop/electro/nu-disco odyssey and this one isā¦ fine I suppose. It didnāt grab me when it initially came out and it still doesnāt do much for me now. To me, itās too safe, quite one-note and doesnāt know whether to either go full-on pop or disco and so it gets stuck in the middle.
Day 8: Scrimshire - Nothing Feels Like Everything
I didnāt get to spend a lot of time with this album initially upon its release, so I hope I get to do so over the coming weeks, months and maybe even years. The first half of this record is brilliant with its fusion of folk, soul and spiritual jazz but the second half largely loses me at the moment and I think requires a bit more time and attention.
Good idea! I will join in
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Monday January 11th - Vanessa Rossetto: Rocinante
Used my solo train journey yesterday to full advantage by properly listening to this long single piece in one go on the good headphones. Vanessa Rossetto is really great, she makes these amazing musique concrete / electroacoustic collage pieces out of field recordings, electronics, objects, scraps and pieces of found sounds. Very engaging stuff to listen to. This one is a bit different to her usual work as the sound sources are almost entirely her playing violin and cello (I think), but sheās still approaching them in a textural collage kind of way. Feels almost orchestral in places, droney in others, but also sections of taps and scrapes whirling around the sound field. Delicious.
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So I only managed one day of this so far, which is pretty poor even by my flaky standards. I have been listening to music though (more than an album a day; Iām just picking stuff at random from my last.fm here) so hereās a big olā catchup:
#2 - Benoit Pioulard - Stanzas I-III
I like Benoitās stuff but I hadnāt heard this one before. Iāve got a collab record being mastered atm and the guy mastering it used for reference tracks so I thought I should listen to it. And itās predictably great - all decayed and warped and saturated, all slow unravelling progressions you donāt realise are happening until everything has changed. I could live in this sound.
#3 - Mono - Under the Pipal Tree
I didnāt listen to much on whatever day this was but I got this on vinyl as an xmas present. Mono might still be my favourite post-rock band and rougher edged early Mono might be the best Mono. Their recent turn toward heavier stuff doesnāt have the chaotic, scrappy charm of this stuff.
#4 - Amenra - Mass I
Iād not delved all that far back in Amenraās back catalogue and I felt like something skull crushingly heavy. The vocals are a sticking point for most but they work for me - the sludgier end of post-metal where the singer sounds like heās trying to cough up his own pelvis is my preferred end of the spectrum. Not their best work but it has a straight forward brutal charm some of their more complicated stuff lacks.
#5 - Biosphere - Substrata
Another just-got-this-on-vinyl listen. Sublime. Every time I sit down to make music I mean to make something that sounds like Substrata and never manage it. I donāt have the restraint to make something so minimal and hypnotic.
#6 - Burial - Burial
I thought Iād give this a listen after yesterdayās thread. Burial is one of those artists where I like everyone influenced by them more than the original. Itās just never quite clicked. The way people describe the Burial sound is on paper so far up my street itās camped out in my living room but the actual listening to it never lives up to it. This listen was the same. It wasnāt bad. It just didnāt change my life.
#7 - Snufmumriko - Drƶmboken
I didnāt get much time for music on Sunday but I had this playing while I stretched myself in unusual ways in the 30 day yoga challenge. Saying this album is perfect for yoga sounds like damning with faint praise - what was that Eno said about how ambient should be as ignorable as it is interesting? Thereās worlds in this sound if you go hunting for them. It just happens to also sound quite nice while trying not to fall over doing some ridiculous lunging stretches.
#8 - Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow
Never been a big fan of the Captain but I do like to have some of slide guitar boogie ramblinā nonsense on in the background while Iām working sometime. And I read about that new Beavis and Butthead movie which made me think of watching the video for the title track on an episode back when I was about 14 and having no idea what the bloody hell was going on. Good times.
#9 - The Greatest Hoax - Expiration Compositions
I canāt for the life of me remember where I came across this album. But Iām glad I did. Itās nothing earth shatteringly original, merely some of that stately, elegiac, kinda cinematic āmodern compositionā that you can find endless examples of just through searching random words on Bandcamp. Itās a pretty fine example of it though, and it made a lovely soundtrack for petting Mr Socks whilst knackered from yoga this morning.
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My favourite Mono album. Korelia (Opus 2) is sublime post rock!
Bloody love these Belgian dudes as well! I was lucky enough to see them at my first Damnation festival, ooft they crushed Leeds Uni that day!
Edit: #nowplaying Under The Pipal Tree 
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