I hadnāt heard Pipal Tree for a bit as itās not on Spotify and tragically Iām a slave to the big green bastard these days. Iād forgotten just how bloody good it was!
Really want to see Amenra live.
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Just ordered UTPT on vinyl! I thought I had it on CD and was trying to justify it, then looked and only have the digital version, vinyl ordered! Last one off Amazon
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On my phone so canāt be bothered to type long thoughts today. Listened toā¦
Day 11 - Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
ā¦ appropriately enough, will post more thoughts tomorrow
Back on the trolley then. Itās nice to see this gathering a bit of momentum. Think Iām going to have to put aside at least one day a week for stuff other people recommend here. Anyhowā¦
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 / Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
Day 9: Hannah Peel - Fir Wave
Day 10: Burial - Antidawn / Burial - Untrue
Day 11: Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
I knew Seventeen and think Iād heard a couple of other tracks somewhere as I listened but this has been on my list for a while. I really loved bits of Tramp, but not the whole record - this seemed a lot more consistent. Subjectively, her voice goes better with the more sparse synth nostalgia thing than with the more stripped down guitar approach, but then maybe thatās just because I donāt really go for stripped down guitar approaches in general.
This caught me in the right mood - Iām just properly starting the big job I think I will probably end up doing for the rest of my life so reflective and somehow slightly wistful is my speed at the moment. There was a four track run on thisā¦ Memorial Day through to Seventeen I thinkā¦ that was actually quite close to perfect. Will have to do a proper control trial and go back when Iām feeling less primed for Exactly This Sort of Music and see how it holds up.
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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 / Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
Day 9: Hannah Peel - Fir Wave
Day 10: Burial - Antidawn / Burial - Untrue
Day 11: Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Day 12: Citrus City Records - Citrus City Vol 1
Investigated this after they had an article in bandcamp weekly. Every flavour of reverted dream-indie you could shake a pastel-hued cabbage at. Iāve got a lot of time in my life for stuff that sounds and hits exactly like this. I was getting really into Ariel Pink and John Maus just before they decided that fascism was cool and finding stuff that scratches a similar weird lo-fi itch is an absolute pleasure.
Itās a well sequenced little sampler too. Between the lovely floaty cloud music you occasionally get something that goes just a bit harder and stands out as a contrast. There was one track on there that if it had been released between 2002 and 2007 might have landed on the front of the NME - turns out it is far easier to enjoy things when you donāt have an attention-deprived coke-head in cool shoes screaming at you about how cool it is.
ā¦also
Day 12 - John Muir - Mana
Apparently (according to RAās review) there was briefly a genre called Illbient in the 90s, that sounded a bit like this. Samples stretched and destroyed beyond all recognition and repair, woven into totemic waves of noise and glistening treble textures.
Itās almost too nebulous to take hold of, but just structured enough to hold my interest. I will admit I didnāt quite āgetā it but not in a bad way. More in an intriguing way that I expect repeat listens to reveal something wonderful. Hopefully I turn out to be right.
ā¦and one more, just for luckā¦
MF Doom - Hmmā¦ Food
I canāt really add much to the writing in the excellent HGATR thread on MF Doom, except to say that if anyone hasnāt already listened to his work they really really should. Somehow this isnāt even the best album he released in 2004 and it still utterly kills.
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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
9th Jan: Caribou - Start Breaking My Heart
10th Jan: Leonie Pernet - Le Cirque de Consolation
11th Jan: Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
This was cool and I can understand why itās rated highly but not really for me.
12th Jan: Autechre - Amber
Had a great time listening to this in a cab on the way to the pub. Really love the lead synth sound on Slip.
13th Jan: Quicksand - Interiors
Spotify played me Multiverse by them on a daily mix and I liked it a lot. At first I thought it was Deftones but I was wrong. Really liked this album but no song stood out to me as much as Multiverse did so gonna try something else by them. I donāt know them at all so 1995-2017 seems like quite a big gap between 2nd and 3rd album.
Looking forward to new music day tomorrow
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This is a good idea. I will try to listen to as many of these suggestions as I can. Mine for today is a psych/stoner-rock classic that seems appropriate for a dark cold January night:
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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 / Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
Day 9: Hannah Peel - Fir Wave
Day 10: Burial - Antidawn / Burial - Untrue
Day 11: Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Day 12: Citrus City Records - Citrus City Vol 1 / John Muir - Mana / MF Doom - MMā¦ Food
Day 13: FM-84 - Atlas
I was introduced to FM84 by an old uni housemate. When we lived together he subsisted entirely on a diet of metal and Bjork (oddly), so I was quite surprised when he stuck this on when we got home from the pub. Iāve been meaning to check the album out for a while.
80s synth wave Ć¼ber alles. Perfectly, immaculately even, produced synth workouts that could be the soundtrack to the driving scene in literally any 80s movie. Neon splendour.
But do I like itā¦ yes, in a qualified sort of way. Itās obviously very very good at what it is and there are a couple of stand out tracks (running in the night has 20,000,000(!!!) plays for a reason), but it is easy to get bored of this sort of pastiche over the course of an album. I have to quell the part of me that feels like music should be āsaying somethingā - just invoking nostalgia feels somehow cheapā¦ but then I really like it and maybe I should just let myself enjoy the surface thing instead of questing around for depth.
What is quite inspiring is that allegedly he got to 20,000,000 plays by internet word-of-mouth with no marketing budget or label support whilst working a day-job (albeit as a designer at Apple). Maybe our dreams arenāt entirely implausible after all.
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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 / Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
Day 9: Hannah Peel - Fir Wave
Day 10: Burial - Antidawn / Burial - Untrue
Day 11: Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Day 12: Citrus City Records - Citrus City Vol 1 / John Muir - Mana / MF Doom - MMā¦ Food
Day 13: FM-84 - Atlas
Day 14: Earl Sweatshirt - SICK!
Never listened to any of Earlās work before, although I was aware of the story (missing member of Odd Future at the start, much discussion and rumour about where he was, turned out he had been sent to a reform school by his parents, got out to find overwhelming fame awaiting him with nothing released at a ridiculously young age, issues ensued). The impression I get is that he instantly noped out of the spotlight and decided to pursue something more esoteric, whereas Tyler shot for the stars.
Esoteric works for me - the one criticism I have is that the vocals are sometimes a little indistinct, which for someone vaunted for his lyrics and wordplay is a little off-putting. I probably need to give it another couple of spins to get used to his cadence/flow (probably didnāt help that this was a car album). As such my reaction is more to the overall sound and feel rather than the lyrical content, but thatās no bad thing when the sound is this engaging. Turns out that murky bleak hip hop works for me. Happy (sad) days.
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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 / Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
Day 9: Hannah Peel - Fir Wave
Day 10: Burial - Antidawn / Burial - Untrue
Day 11: Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Day 12: Citrus City Records - Citrus City Vol 1 / John Muir - Mana / MF Doom - MMā¦ Food
Day 13: FM-84 - Atlas
Day 14: Earl Sweatshirt - SICK!
Day 15: Fƶllkazoid - II
Another album from @midnightpunkās listening club - was busy with something else during the actual album club night, but stuck it on my list for today instead. I thought I had given this a listen before a long time ago, but I either must have been thinking of something else or I had no recollection whatsoever of the record.
Which would be odd, because I really liked it. Actually seems to take a similar form and function to some of my favourite electronica (BLONDES particularly came to mind) - big blissful repetitive canvases for subtle evolution and textural improvisation. The instrumentation is obviously different, but the form and function are much the same. As such I fucking loved it. Thanks again Mr Punk.
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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 / Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
Day 9: Hannah Peel - Fir Wave
Day 10: Burial - Antidawn / Burial - Untrue
Day 11: Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Day 12: Citrus City Records - Citrus City Vol 1 / John Muir - Mana / MF Doom - MMā¦ Food
Day 13: FM-84 - Atlas
Day 14: Earl Sweatshirt - SICK!
Day 15: Fƶllkazoid - II
Day 16: Eris Drew - Quivering In Time
After reading positive reviews in both Pitchfork and Resident Advisor I took a dive on thisā¦ and almost gave up halfway through. Despite the reviews promising something that sounded very exciting the first half felt like fairly standard breakbeat, albeit very well produced by someone who knows exactly that theyāre doing. There just wasnāt enough development in the tracks to hold my attention - I always struggle with music that feels primarily percussion led, especially when the percussion is looped.
Glad I stuck around for the second half though - Baby and Sensation were both far more interesting although tellingly deviated further from the Dance Floor Ready template to do their own thing. By the time Iād heard those two there was enough goodwill built up for me to enjoy the end of the record.
Day 16: Good & White Hills - Gnod Drop Out With White Hills II
I took in a Gnod gig with the esteemed @colossalhorse back in November in support of their latest record. Iād only really heard that and Chaudelande previously so, having had a splendid evening sublimating into sheets of noise, I thought Iād start a proper back catalogue binge. If La Mort Du Sens is at one end of the spectrum for Gnod (the hardcore adjacent sloganeering noise sculpture end) then this is at the other end - the expansive noise-psych-jam end. Those ends are more different than you might imagine and I have used the word āendā too many times now.
Butā¦ yeah. Well into this. Looking forward to further bingeing.
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Need to get better at updating this every day
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
9th Jan: Caribou - Start Breaking My Heart
10th Jan: Leonie Pernet - Le Cirque de Consolation
11th Jan: Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
12th Jan: Autechre - Amber
13th Jan: Quicksand - Interiors
14th Jan: BAYNK - ADOLESCENCE
Listened to quite a few new albums on Friday but this stood out as my fave. A bit more poppy than I was expecting from the description of them but still loved it. Remember stood out to me as the best track with a lovely percussive synth and catchy chorus.
15th Jan: Anthony Joseph - The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives
Really had no idea what to expect with this but as heās a poet I knew itād be something I should listen to carefully. Really didnāt choose a good environment to do so in but Calling England Home contained some brilliant storytelling.
16th Jan: Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
I liked their album last year but they were new to me then. Going back and listening to their first has given me more appreciation for them as a band. On first listen I liked it more than I did the album from last year but Iām interested to re-listen to it now having heard where they started.
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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 / Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
Day 9: Hannah Peel - Fir Wave
Day 10: Burial - Antidawn / Burial - Untrue
Day 11: Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Day 12: Citrus City Records - Citrus City Vol 1 / John Muir - Mana / MF Doom - MMā¦ Food
Day 13: FM-84 - Atlas
Day 14: Earl Sweatshirt - SICK!
Day 15: Fƶllkazoid - II
Day 16: Eris Drew - Quivering In Time
After 16 days of music I was largely unfamiliar with I found myself in the mood for some stuff I already knew. Soā¦ one of my AOTYs from a few years ago that had fallen out of rotation recently
Day 17: EMA - Exile in the Outer Ring
Probably one of the last albums I discovered via out venerable host-site before it ceased journalistic operations. I hadnāt really clicked with her first record (The Grey Ship is a totem of wonder and a proper all-time favourite track - everything else made me wish I was still listening to it) but this was generating some buzz so I gave it a spin. Listening again I was pleased to find that it holds up. Iām a big fan of the whole āis it a guitar or a synth thingā (cf: about half of what Iāve made as Sunbane) and the massive drones that provide the bedrock of much of this record are that writ large across the sky. Thereās actually some overlap in texture of some of the Bug & Earth record from a couple of years ago, just instead of using the textures for overpowering drones she used them for scathing alt rock. The bite and desperation in the voice and the lyrics get me in entirely the right place too.
ā¦also had a play of Radioheadās Glastonbury 2003 set on YouTube. I got my final sign-off for specialist training as a Consultant in Medical Genetics today, 14 years after finishing medical school. I guess it made me somewhat reflectiveā¦ I was at this one, celebrating scraping through the first year exams.
Somewhere in that audience is a 19 year old sunnyb who just discovered the joys of MDMA watching his then (and probably still) favourite band nailing a set based on records that meant more to him (and probably still do) than is remotely healthy or sensible. I caught myself thinking about how young Thom looked - then I realised that this was literally almost HALF MY FUCKING LIFETIME AGO. Nuts. That performance of Where I End and You Begin is just perfectā¦ and yes they played The Gloaming.
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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 / Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
Day 9: Hannah Peel - Fir Wave
Day 10: Burial - Antidawn / Burial - Untrue
Day 11: Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Day 12: Citrus City Records - Citrus City Vol 1 / John Muir - Mana / MF Doom - MMā¦ Food
Day 13: FM-84 - Atlas
Day 14: Earl Sweatshirt - SICK!
Day 15: Fƶllkazoid - II
Day 16: Eris Drew - Quivering In Time
Day 17: EMA - Exile in the Outer Ring
Day 18: Iceage - Seek Shelter
Another revisit of something I listened to once last year, enjoyed and then didnāt get back to. Iāve seen quite a few long-term fans turning their nose up a little at this. Weāre all a bit too mature and not nearly 90s punk-rock enough to start muttering about āselling outā around these parts, but I got that sort of vibe from some of the discourse. When I made the mistake of playing Vendetta in Music League I was rewarded with 4 points and comments that it sounded like Kasabian.
After a listen today I can conclude that these people were talking bollocks. I will concede that it is very very different to their earlier noise-post-rock work, but it is actually possible for bands to make more than one type of music and have both be equally valid. Scuzzy swaggering gospel tinged rock in the best possible way. Rather than Kasabian they put me in mind of Primal Scream for some reason - I think itās that the more keening vocal moments run quite close to some of Bobby Gillespieās prettier vocal takes. I have a lot of time for Primal Scream (considerably more so than the average human tbh) and so this is no bad thing.
And Vendetta slaps. Does anyone else get suspect a Succession inspiration in there (ābeating on an iron door, youāre looking like an animalā for boar on the floorā¦ plus the line āevery man is someoneās successorā) or am I just spending too much of my time watching prestige drama about unpleasant billionaires.
ā¦also, a cheeky little EP thatās worth a listen
Simon Farintosh - Aphex Twin on Nylon
This recommendation is brought to you by Spotifyās All-Seeing Algorithmā¦ Six Aphex Twin covers (obviously tending towards his more melodic pieces and away from his drill core odysseys) on classical guitar. Includes Jynweythek Ylow, which is my favourite piece of music that I still have to look up the spelling of. Didnāt seem to get much coverage at all - sounds exactly how you would expect it to, which is to say bloody lovely. Worth the 12 minutes of your time it will take you to enjoy it. Good work that algorithm.
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I watched bits from the 2003 Glastonbury set quite a lot in the last year or so, would always be in the recommended vids if I watched any of their Public Library videos. Looked like everyone was On It for this set, There There, National Anthem and Idioteque particularly high energy. Thereās a nice shot where Ed chucks his maracas to an offstage roadie, plus Thom doing some fully ācome on you cunts lets have some Radiohead acidā hype-up gestures at the crowd
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I have mixed feelings about the latest Iceage. I thought the first single āThe Holding Handā was strong, but my first listen to the album left me not wanting to hear it again for a few months. Iāve revisited a couple of times since, with the most attention paid in December when trying to rank 2021 albums. It landed in the 35th spot for me, with a rating of 6/10. Turns out I quite like 4 songs, think 3 of them are awful, and the other 2 are mediocre. I donāt dislike the direction they took, in fact it feels a little warmer and somehow more realized than Beyondless, but the songwriting quality is too inconsistent to make a good album. Really too bad, as The Holding Hand, Gold City, Shelter Song, and High & Hurt are pretty good (in that order). The cover is nice too.
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It was an amazing gig 
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Yeah, the whole vibe that weekend was really amazing (not just because of the drugs). Perfect weather, Radiohead and REM on successive days, just general goodwill all round the site. Radiohead seemed genuinely thrilled to be there too - the 1997 set seemed really nervy but in a good way and the most recent one didnāt really seem to click into gear properly for whatever reason (only watched those from my sofa though). Deeply fond memories of the whole week though.
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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 / Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
Day 9: Hannah Peel - Fir Wave
Day 10: Burial - Antidawn / Burial - Untrue
Day 11: Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Day 12: Citrus City Records - Citrus City Vol 1 / John Muir - Mana / MF Doom - MMā¦ Food
Day 13: FM-84 - Atlas
Day 14: Earl Sweatshirt - SICK!
Day 15: Fƶllkazoid - II
Day 16: Eris Drew - Quivering In Time
Day 17: EMA - Exile in the Outer Ring
Day 18: Iceage - Seek Shelter
Day 19: CAN - Ege Bamyasi
Didnāt post yesterday - too tired. Tago Mago was a regular part of the soundtrack to my lab work during my PhD a couple of years ago. God bless the invention of bluetooth headphones. This was my first time with Ege Bamyasi - Iām not sure if it is genuinely more approachable or if Iām just so inured to weird music that I canāt tell the difference any more. Either way if I wanted to introduce a normal human to CAN then I would probably start with Vitamin C or Sing Swan Song. A good time with beans.
Day 19: Happy Mondays - Pills ānā Thrills ānā Bellyaches
Fancied a re-listen after the HGATR thread (4/5 if youāre wondering). My hot-take on this record is that Step On is one of the worst things on it and that the crap sloganeering (ātwisting my melon manā) makes them feel like a novelty act to anyone checking them out after the fact. It certainly put me off when I first investigated themā¦ Kinky Afro, Godās Cop, Loose Fit, Holidayā¦ thatās where it at.
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