What, the Strange Days EP or Undertow? I haven't listened to the former yet, but Undertow is pretty darn good. Wolf Eyes hasn't released an Album of the Year-level release in quite a while, but they're proving to be consistent. What I used to get from them, I feel like I now get from Ben Frost. Who also has a new somthin'-somethin' out this year.

That's Mr. Osterberg there, right? (Dunno why I'm asking — that's clearly the Pop...)

Strange Days II. not mind blowing or anything, just a side of them i'm not familiar with.

New Billy Corgan prod by Rick Rubin coming in the fall.

I'm so excited about this!

^^ive missed you so much


this is real fuckin offensive...if you're listening to wolf eyes and not appreciating them for how absurdly dumb they are then don't listen to them at all, and especially don't compare them to self-serious shock-schlock crap like that insufferable humourless cunt ben frost. the nu lineup of wolf eyes has delivered nothing but bombs of a grade skunk genius bar nothing. they were never about the noise, nor are they about jazz now, just playing up the extremities and idiocies therein.

Good.

Shut up dad.

anticipated albums for the rest of the year:


Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
Amenra - Mass VI
Beck - Colors
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Benget Berger - Beaches Indian Brew
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Divine Wind
Big ‡ Brave - Ardor
Bjork
The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light
Ka Baird - Sapropelic Pycnic
James Blood Ulmer & The Thing - Baby Talk ‎
Circuit des Yeux - Reaching for Indigo
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Dead Rider - Crew Licks ‎
Dead Neanderthals - The Depths
Deerhoof - Mountain Moves
Esmerine - Mechanics Of Dominion
Ben Frost - The Centre Cannot Hold
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers
Emily Haines - Choir of the Mind
Mary Halvorson Quartet - Paimon: Book of Angels Vol. 32 ‎
‎Hiss Golden Messenger
James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
Vijay Iyer Sextet - Far From Over
Karkhana - For Seun Matta ‎
Laraaji - Bring On The Sun
Dina Maccabee - The World is in the Work
MGMT - Little Dark Age
The National - Sleep Well Beast
Kemper Norton - Hungan
Linda Perhacs - I’m A Harmony
Pere Ubu - 20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo‎
Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent
Lee Ranaldo - Electric Trim
Saicobab - Sab Se Purni Bab
Sparks - Hippopotamus
Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet - Ladilikan
Kurt Vile & Courtney Barnett
The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
Wolves In The Throne - Thrice Woven
Wacław Zimpel/Jakub Ziołek

Can you recommend me some good recent experimental electronics? I'm thinking something really angular, random and generally fucked up.

I forgot this officially announced. Cool.

you are right


I like the songs released so far. But I don't think it's Haunted Graffiti anymore. Just Ariel Pink. Not sure though. Never been super into the guy, but I think Haunted Graffiti, the band, has been over for a while.

I don't know if this was on anyone's radar--it certainly wasn't on mine--Preoccupations (formerly known as Viet Cong, which was formed by members from the band Women) released a 30 minute cassette.

On first listen I don't think it's that great, but I wasn't too fond of their last album and my mind has slowly changed on that over time. I'll have to give this one a few more listens.

I didn't know this. Thanks for mentioning.

I absolutely LOVED the first Viet Cong album. Loved it. But the Prepccupations album didn't have as strong an impact. I don't hate it, and I've grown to not think of it as a disappointment, but I'm just not as stoked on the direction that record took. I also think the name change was a silly idea, but I'm happy to listen to some new material.

one of the bands that I really liked in all their incarnations.

Yeah they've been solid throughout.

I changed my mind since I wrote that comment. I had only heard the first half when I wrote it. The tracks Structureless Design and maybe Select Your Drone are better than anything on their last album.

I'm gonna give that new Queens Of The Stone Age a spin shortly.

Holy shit, there's a new Ben Frost full-length coming? Thank you! Sweet Jesus thank you for letting me know! Where has my brain been?

da gutter evidently

Wait... I don't get it. Is this a Ben Frost dis? Sounds like a dis if my recent thoughts. Probably a Ben Frost dis.

You don't like Ben Frost?

How is AURORA not, like, a SYG-wide favorite album of the decade?