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Got introduced to Red Fang the other week and they have rapidly become a staple of the pre-meeting playlist. "Arrows" and "Prehistoric Dog" are great for getting fired up.
I've also been listening to Spiritual Beggars and Kamchatka in advance of Per Wiborg's new EP release.
Sun's out today so it's time for SKA!
But more often recently it's been grim weatherwise so:
Mountain Caller: Chronicle 1: the Truthseeker
Slomosa: S/T
Elder: Gold and Silver Sessions
Body Count - Manslaughter.
Can't go wrong with the Interrupters! Last gig I saw before lockdown 🙂
Got introduced to Red Fang the other week and they have rapidly become a staple of the pre-meeting playlist. “Arrows” and “Prehistoric Dog” are great for getting fired up.
I’ve also been listening to Spiritual Beggars and Kamchatka in advance of Per Wiborg’s new EP release.
Used to love Spiritual Beggars, but haven't listened to them for years now. Have you heard of Grand Magus? They turned into Powermetal-by-numbers, but their first two albums, self titled and Monuments were great. You might like it.
@p7eaven I can't stop listening to Crack Cloud after seeing your post! So good!
Completely different, but I'll chuck this gem in for today...
Always spinning loads - current mindblowers
Haino/O'Rourke/Ambarchi: Each side has a depth of 5 seconds A polka dot pattern in horizontal array A flickering that moves vertically
Jeffrey Alexander: Reyes
Rose Bolton: The Lost Clock
Owen Gardner: Sammusik
Endless Boogie: Life at WFMU
This week I have been listening to Dirty honey
The thrillseekers YouTube channel, any drum and bass and just spotify recommended. Oh and Louis Theroux’ podcasts
Getting in touch with my feminine side whilst decorating the hall and Le Tigre (not sure why I missed them the first time around)
Dvne - Etemen Ænka
Get the Blessing - Lope and Antilope
Thomas Ankersmit - Perceptual Geography
I recently stumbled upon Polyphia and am now slightly hooked on just watching the videos over and over in awe!
Heard the latest single from Dry Cleaning this morning, I like them very much, the vocalist has a very dry, spoken delivery which I really enjoy.
This is the previous single, ‘Scratchcard Lanyard’
By contrast I also heard this, and I wanted to rewind it and play it again and again, it’s just beautiful! It’s by Shannon Lay, who’s a member of Ty Seagal’s band, who Marc Riley is a huge fan of, and a complete contrast to her work with them as well.
Khruangbin - Mordechai
Durand Jones& The Indications - American Love Call
Curtis Harding - Face Your Fear
Distillers - Coral Fang
Knife Party
Me First and the GimmeGimmes
Wildhearts
Hey!Hello!
AAah, scrolled through the whole thread and see Polyphia just above, YES!
Latest things for me is G Jones.
Pasting some random item of his that's probably not geoblocked.
Trap is weird, but this is amazingly exciting. Also love the fact it like synthwave but, yaknow, less retro.
I’ve just discovered this young lady via a Guardian article that popped up on Flipboard, and I’m just blown away by her playing! I really want to get to see her live, the review is enough to whet my appetite, but after watching the video I went straight and downloaded both her albums. I know what I’ll be listening to when I get back from the pub tonight. 😎
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/29/gwenifer-raymond-islington-assembly-hall-live-review
I love how wild and unhinged this is
Bit of a thread resurrection, one for the aging rockers -
The Doobie Brothers
The Captain and Me
I completely forgot how good this album is 🤘
Gaslight Troubadors.
Rhiannon Giddens.
+1 for Gwenifer Raymond; absolutely stunning.
Andy Tomlinson’s weekly house mixes.
https://www.mixcloud.com/andytommo/decades-of-house-12th-nov-2021/
Binnerette number one (17) has got me into Greta Van Fleet and I’m loving it. Got tickets for us for the Apollo in June
So as a young whippersnapper she’d never listened to Rush, so I introduced her to it and she’s now loving Exit Stage Left
On a completely different note, this new Anz Ninja Tune stuff is just perfect. It’s got an 90’s Janet Jackson vibe, which can only ever be a good thing
Alex Patterson - Connecting The Dots
Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band - Nightmare Forever
Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon
The Doobie Brothers
The Captain and Me
I think that’s the album of theirs that I first heard, great musicians and good songs.
What I’ll be listening to in a little while is a CD copy of Brian Eno and David Byrne’s ‘My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts’.
Nothing odd about that, except I’ve just got it from a bloke in Canada, and what sets it apart from my remastered CD, and my original vinyl copy, is one track.
It’s called ‘Qu’ran’, and it came in for criticism because it’s based around a recording of Algerian Muslims chanting ‘Qu’ran’, which upset a few people, and it had to be taken off, and I believe all copies had to be withdrawn and destroyed.
Oddly, though, the sample came from an album called ‘The Human Voice in the World of Islam’, on Tangent records, and there’s another sample used in track 3, ‘Regiment’, from the same album.
I guess it’s because of what they’re chanting, but whatever, I’m thrilled to finally get my hands on a copy, forty years after it was released!
Wildhearts
Sabbath
Massive Wagons
..My life in the Bush of Ghosts....Great call 😁
Having listened to that, I’ve listened to Talk Talk ‘It’s My Life’ and now I’m listening to Talking Heads ‘Remain In Light’.
The 80’s produced some outstanding music!
Bit of a mixed bag this evening:
Black Roots
Cult Of The Damned
Vitriolic Response
The Ex
And to finish off the evening, well 1am, another from the 80’s, because I’m in that sort of mood, Dead Can Dance ’Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun’.
Last few days I are be mostly listening to....
Richard Ashcroft's 'Acoustic Hymns'
Laurie C's Drum n Bass podcast on Spotify.
Goldie's 'Timeless' on gold vinyl.
Now listening to FSOL on some random Qobuz playlist.
Nothing specific and my Spotify is far too varied to list anyone specific.
I have got a festival booked next year though (y-not in Derbyshire, my local one), so currently going through bands I haven't heard that are on the set list
Goldie’s ‘Timeless’ on gold vinyl.
Now that's class.
I've tried the new Jon Hopkins album - Music for Psychedelic Therapy but can't get into it. I'm a big fan of his work but haven't been in the right mood for this one yet.
Recently I have been on a funk kick.
I have been listening to:
Manchester Orchestra (thanks to this thread for the suggestion)
War on Drugs
Courtney Barnett
Shed Seven
Adele's new one (which wasnt very good)
Oh lots of good suggestions of things I’ve never heard.
For me it’s The Go Go’s: early ‘80s punk/ pop fronted by Belinda Carlisle.
Also for that feeling of Gaelic sophistication Grand Blanc.
I got myself to that there London for the first time in 3 years last weekend, and was in Spitalfields for the biweekly vinyl market. Far too easy to spend a lot of money very quickly, but was delighted to pick up (what the seller claims is) a first pressing of Prince Buster's Fabulous Greatest Hits. Also collected my Al Green on green vinyl from Rough Trade that a family member's been hanging onto for a while; so have been listening to both this week.
I've just got on vinyl a new pressing of Aim- Coldwater music. Love it. Updated my phono preamp to a decent Cambridge one too.
Also enjoying my Don Letts Late Night Tales.
Ghosts of Men - A two piece that I caught at the wee Jägermeister stage at Bloodstock earlier this year. Just brilliant! Great guys too.
Jason Isbell and the 400 unit
The National
R.e.m and The cure
An Evening with Silk Sonic.
Collaboration of Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak, 30 minutes of perfect R&B funk.
I tend to do the whole listen to one album on repeat for weeks thing, and wring every single little gasp of pleasure out of it. Currently alternating between :
Marina - Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land
Garbage - Strange Little Birds
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Prodigy Presents - The Dirtchamber Sessions
The Jezabels - The Brink
Will maybe swap out one or two of them for something I've not listened to in a while in a week or so.
Listening to a lot of electronic music recently, Perpetual Loop and Joey Fehrenbach are becoming firm favourites.
This evening I’ve listened to Górecki Symphony No 3, by Lisa Gerrard and the Genesis Orchestra, followed by David Bowie ‘Toy’, that was released today. It’s about four or five albums worth of music, including ’Toy’, which he recorded straight after his Glastonbury show with the same band. He wanted it released immediately, but his record company refused it. Shame, it’s bloody good!
The whole thing is called ‘Brilliant Adventure 1992-2001’.
And as a complete contrast, I’ve just started listening to the latest album by Dead Sara, ‘Ain’t It Tragic’. Very loud poppy rock, and I’m really enjoying it.
still listening regularly to the one Murder Capital album they brought out (c'mon lads, its been a while hey?)
also Idles 4th album 'Crawler' is growing on me now after initially not liking it. i think i just wanted 12 X Danny Nedelko's, but this ones a tough listen that rewards you if you stick with it, and you just keep hearing new bits each play. theyre evolving/growing up.
Also enjoying my Don Letts Late Night Tales.
Thank you. I listened to this a few times when it came out then forgot about it. Friday listening sorted.
This evening I’ve listened to Górecki Symphony No 3, by Lisa Gerrard and the Genesis Orchestra, followed by David Bowie ‘Toy’
Sweet baby Jesus, that’s a change of pace. 😳
I can’t listen to Symphony no3 without crying. It’s the most heartbreaking piece of music ever recorded. I might have a listen today, the sling some Half Man Half Biscuit on straight after it
Every Time I Die's new album is an absolute tour-de-force
Also Converge have just relesed a new album with Chelsea Wolfe which is wonderfully doomy
Happened across an Australian band called 'Parcels' on Spotify this afternoon and listened to at least two albums whilst I spent some time in the workshop this afternoon.
Trying to get in the christmas spirit by listening to the Bad Religion Christmas album. Who'd have thought carols would make tidy punk songs?
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In terms of full albums, still enthralled by Frank Carter And The Rattlesnakes.
Here's some of the tracks I've been listening to recently that are new to me.
Riverfront - Leo Nocentelli
Them Shoes - Patrick Sweaney
I'm Broke - Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
The Future - Nathaniel Ratecliff & The Night Sweats
All the Money - Bobby Charles
You Rascal You - Hanni El Khatib
You done tore your playhouse down again - King Biscuit Boy
Broke down on the Brazos - Gov't Mule
Nellie - Dr Dog
Rose Pink Cadillac - DOPE LEMON
Mushroom Cloud - Tempesst
Elemental Chemistry - Triptides
What a dream I had - Cool Ghouls
Funkier than a mosquito's tweeter - Nina Simone
Bear - The Frogs
Bury me Deep - Andre Williams
Buzzing in the light - Dr Dog
Hey you - DOPE LEMON
Some of the above I heard through the spotify weekly podcast 'Blues Kitchen Radio'
Fernando Sor, Bach, Pink Floyd, Meshuggah, Slade, Snarky Puppy.
Gorguts - Obscura.
Babymetal and The Rezillos.
Think it was @jimjam who switched me onto Elder via some thread here years ago.
This just popped up in my feed:
Really like what I’ve heard so far, and it seems a good fit for a collaboration.
Very much in the vein (derivative?) of Motorpsycho’s ‘Death Defying Unicorn’ collaboration with Ståle Storløkken & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra which is no bad thing.
Proving again that I’ll be a sucker for some wholesome heavy prog from time to time.
Also this (hilarious and awesome at once):
Also Converge have just relesed a new album with Chelsea Wolfe which is wonderfully doomy
I haven’t checked this thread out for a week or so, so I missed the above, but by a strange and spooky coincidence, my mate mentioned he’d just got it while we were in the pub last night, so I downloaded it and listened to some of it when I got home, plus I downloaded some of Chelsea Wolfe’s stuff because her voice interests me, and I also downloaded and listened to some Sibelius and listened to ‘Finlandia/Karelia Suite’.
All a bit of a contrast.
If anyone's into Hippety Hoppety music, check out Lloyd Luther. Spits some quite spectacular bars, innit fam.
Ceephax Acid Crew
The Knife
Lamb
The new Rival Consoles album Overflow which is not quite what I was expecting.
Dungen - ‘Ta det lugntk’
I've been feeling nostalgic and for some reason this old near-forgotten favourite from 2004 reappeared in my loaf today. Punched it into Tidal and now enjoying in beautiful gnarly hi-fi for the first time and it feels like time-travel. So many great tunes on this one album! Such an embarrassment of musical talent, and the songs cover a wide range of moods and tempos yet somehow it all hangs together just perfectly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta_det_lugnt
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2573-ta-det-lugnt/
Idles just dropped this dark sparkler
[i]Gorguts[/i]
Funny how you can tell exactly what some bands sound like without even listening to them 😀 Maybe thats a good thing for fans of the genre?!
I just got Lonely Guest on vinyl. It's a lovely thing https://falseidols.bandcamp.com/album/lonely-guest
Joe off of Idles is the guest on this one
Mostly David Pajo at the moment.
Probably a bit wild for most folk, but i have had Brand Of Sacrifice's latest album on quite regularly. Its Deathcore, so an acquired taste, but it just makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Its hard to describe, but it just makes me want to move, jump around and get pumped for life!
Morgan Wade - Reckless
Danko Jones - Power Trio
JJ Wilde - Wilde (EP), Born to Die (EP), Ruthless (LP)
Beartooth - Below
A fabulous recent discovery for me is Joan as Policewoman - not sure how I missed her but I also think she is vastly underated anyway.
I discovered her when she played at the Tony Allen retrospective recently at Royal Festival Hall, which was organised by Damon Albarn and was the singularly most barnstorming, wonderful gig I've ever been at.
On that point, I've also recently been really enjoying Fela Kuti and the whole Afrobeats scene.
Other top picks are Iron & Wine, Laura Marling, Emiliana Torrini, Agnes Obel, Jesca Hoop, Sons of Kemet, The Comet is Coming and Manu Katche.
However a few albums really stand out as exemplary:
Wax Tailor - The Shadow of their Suns is an absolute banger! Utterly brilliant and orignal in the mould of Avalanches meets Tricky's Maxinquae.
Chloe - Endless Revisions is a superb blend of electronic, dance and techno wrapped up in a very cool downbeats package.
Beirut - The Flying Cup Club - so original it's hard to classify but I guess it sits in that very cool current fusion of folk, indie/rock, alternative folk genre.
Mostly David Pajo at the moment.
Good call. NP: Aerial M - as performed by.
Funny how you can tell exactly what some bands sound like without even listening to them 😀
I dunno, "gore" would normally be associated with more reckless playing, not necessarily something as technical or given to sudden string quartets as GG.
Murder Capital
Snapped Ankles
Idles
Yard Act
Viagra Boys - will be going to see them in Glasgow this Friday unless it gets pulled or if any further restrictions imposed.
Some things I’ve downloaded just recently after hearing them on 6Music are Japanese Breakfast, something new from Cat Power, a new Christmas themed EP from St Etienne, and the first tracks released from Big Thief’s new album, which I’m looking forward to listening to, as they’re playing Bristol next year - I first saw them at Green Man, then soon after heard them on 6Music, and they’re now getting a lot of attention.
Something else I came across is an album by Jakko M Jakszyk, Robert Fripp & Mel Collins, ‘A Scarcity of Miracles’, two original members of King Crimson and their current guitarist/singer. Lovely album, somewhat jazzy, very easy to listen late at night.
Amyl and the Sniffers
Aus Punk band. Frickin' awesome.
Been giving the music of Protomartyr a bit of a hammering