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Kuhb 06.30.2018 01:41 AM

Still loving this new Coltrane (hard to believe I'm typing that)... being from '63 the band is in similar form to the Afro Blue Impressions live album which is probably my favourite of the Classic Quartet. This is really special

The Soup Nazi 07.11.2018 09:28 PM

Robert Christgau on this year's Tune-Yards and Courtney Barnett albums:

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tUnE-yArDs: I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life (4AD) Merrill Garbus has a gift for embarrassing people, especially by caring so deeply about the unpackable racial complexities her music has always addressed head on. It's these complexities she's now chastised for making a mess of in a time-slip when African-Americans have earned the right to charge appropriation whenever white musicians venture into racial territory, which is such a relief to the many white people eager to let things ride. On an album marked by the theme statements "I must be witness to everything," "Honesty, honesty gone / Don't know right from wrong," and "I know I'm not to be trusted," she acknowledges more white guilt than she's probably incurred, so of course sometimes she's clumsy about it. Who isn't? But with decisive input from bassist-lifemate Nate Brenner, her musicality—smoother here, perhaps due to the black-pop softeners some reviewers descry—remains something to believe in. Proud against her better judgment, she can't stop exploring her art or living her life. "Sitting in the middle of the Sixth Extinction / Silently suggesting the investment in a generator," she gives no sign she'll ever stop flailing away at everything that makes her crazy and compels her to sing. A MINUS

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Courtney Barnett: Tell Me How You Really Feel (Mom + Pop) Cheeky title notwithstanding, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit didn't just sit. It was an album where a band powered up at just the moment its singer evolved into a guitarist to reckon with as she came up with the best-observed lyrics of her life. Three years later, what little observation there is peers inward—half the songs sound written in a flat she hasn't left in a week. If anything, the band is sharper. But rather than a singer dynamic enough to match it, we get a dynamic guitarist who also happens to be the sole lyricist and solo singer. So be grateful for the Margaret Atwood lift "I wanna walk through the park in the dark / Men are scared that women will laugh at them / I wanna walk through the park in the dark / Women are scared that men will kill them," especially for sparking the crucial add-on "I hold my keys between my fingers." And for a finale called "Sunday Roast," where someone she likes comes for a visit. A MINUS

Savage Clone 07.11.2018 10:50 PM

Tune yards is embarrassingly bad garbage. Nothing she has ever done is worth the space it takes to listen to it or see it. That is honestly some Emperor's New Clothes stuff in Action. A total Snow Job.
Seriously, it's unlistenable. She is a total and complete hack. Almost as bad as kimya Dawson. But that's a pretty high bar of hack.

The Soup Nazi 07.14.2018 07:26 PM

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Tune yards is embarrassingly bad garbage. Nothing she has ever done is .........................


 

Severian 07.14.2018 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
 


BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAA

Love Tune yards, love that face, I give this reply a 9/10.

Savage Clone 07.14.2018 08:11 PM

That post of mine was definitely predictable and pretty unnecessary, but sadly it probably won't be the last time that happens.

The Soup Nazi 07.14.2018 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Savage Clone
That post of mine was definitely predictable and pretty unnecessary, but sadly it probably won't be the last time that happens.


Wait, I think you took my "Bored HRC pic" reply the wrong way; what I was trying to say is your criticism of Tune-Yards was putting me to sleep because I LOVE Merrill Garbus. I don't think you can take back the positive reputation you gave me, though... :D

Savage Clone 07.14.2018 08:21 PM

I took it exactly that way. I don't mind when people give me a hard time. And like I said, I admit it was a rather predictable and unnecessary post, which definitely translates to boring. Fair.

Severian 07.14.2018 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
Wait, I think you took my "Bored HRC pic" reply the wrong way; what I was trying to say is your criticism of Tune-Yards was putting me to sleep because I LOVE Merrill Garbus. I don't think you can take back the positive reputation you gave me, though... :D


Uh, yeah dude I got it. I know what you meant, and I was agreeing with you and also diggin on that sweet sweet Hillface (seriously. Love it. She’s a bitch, but I love it). What are you not getting, Xennial?

OOPPS. You weren’t taking to me. Self-obsessed Xennial, right here.

Gonna let this sky here rather than deleting because I believe in transparency or whatever.

Love you, SN

The Soup Nazi 07.16.2018 11:45 PM

 


Laurel Halo — Raw Silk Uncut Wood

http://www.laurelhalo.com/

https://www.latency.fr/catalogue/raw-silk-uncut-wood

https://honestjons.com/shop/artist/L...ilk_Uncut_Wood

https://latencyrecordings.bandcamp.c...ilk-uncut-wood

_tunic_ 07.18.2018 12:05 PM


 






Cat Power will release a new album called Wanderer in October, first album in six years! (but that last one I didn't like so much either)
Preorder it here. And a trailer can be found here.

It's self-produced, not sure if that's good news or not. If anyone knows who is contributing on the album besides Lana Del Rey, let it be known.




 

The Soup Nazi 07.20.2018 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by _tunic_
If anyone knows who is contributing on the album besides Lana Del Rey, let it be known.


Searched a little here and there, that info doesn't seem to be out yet. Lana Del Rey... No good! :mad: But here's what's really important: Chan looks a bit like Aubrey Plaza in the promo pic!

 


:D

The Soup Nazi 07.20.2018 09:01 PM

 


Fuckin' awesome: FLACs already available for $5 AUD. :eek: :)

https://jencloher.bandcamp.com/album...loft-and-loews

NOT fuckin' awesome: "The Live at The Loft and Loew's EP will be available as a super-limited edition vinyl pressing available only at Cloher's upcoming shows." :mad:

The Soup Nazi 07.26.2018 04:37 PM

 


The Necks release new album Body

https://northernspyrecs.com/product/body/

https://thenecksau.bandcamp.com/album/body

The Soup Nazi 07.26.2018 05:28 PM

From The Wire:

 


Ana da Silva & Phew share two tracks from a forthcoming album
Created over a long-distance partnership, Island will be released September 2018

The Soup Nazi 08.13.2018 07:38 PM

Holy shit — an indescribable wow, indeed...

 


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Well, I guess it's all or nothing with me, because on August 17th:

A new album
World On Sticks
will be ready to pre-order

PLUS
A concert film
Sam Phillips: Live @ Largo at the Coronet

AND
A live album of the concert
(with 4 extra songs not in the film)
will be available to purchase and download

That is a lot of stuff... and I forgot to mention the record/tote bags! This was a tough decision for me because I'm not a keychain, mug, mousepad, headband, sticker selling (or buying) kind of person. I wish I had more Etsy in me and could knit sweaters, carve totem poles (like my Great Uncle Frankie who was a folk artist), or sew a Sam Phillips pup tent for you, but for now it'll have to be music and a record bag. When I was thinking about cover art for World On Sticks, I did a Japanese brush/cave painting sort of symbol to represent the title and just happened to think it looked good on a white record bag and... I wanted one. I think the marketeers would disapprove and tell me to make something YOU want... (like sweaters and pup tents?) With your suggestions, I will work on that.

For now, I hope you will enjoy the filmed concert with drummer Jay Bellerose, guitarist Greg Leisz, Patrick Warren manning the piano and keyboards, Jennifer Condos playing bass, Eric Gorfain playing violin, guitar, & banjo, and the Section Quartet. I have often imagined any one of these musicians accompanying me everywhere for 24 hours. Can you imagine a string quartet playing behind you at the DMV? Or Jennifer playing bass behind you in line at the grocery store? Or listening to Patrick play piano while you're in the dentist chair? I love them all and am so happy to have recorded and filmed them... you can watch a preview below.

I hope you are having a wonderful summer...more about the new album soon!

All the best from Sam

http://samphillips.com/

tesla69 08.14.2018 08:13 PM

how much more boring shit are you going to post about over and over?

why not go get an id over at brooklyn vegan and post there, posters there love clueless asshole bullies with their heads up their ass.

The Soup Nazi 08.14.2018 08:37 PM

Careful, t69. We know where you live. Me and my buddies, bad hombres from shitholes, are gonna rape you. We're gonna RAPE YOU.

h8kurdt 08.15.2018 01:30 AM

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Originally Posted by tesla69
how much more boring shit are you going to post about over and over?

why not go get an id over at brooklyn vegan and post there, posters there love clueless asshole bullies with their heads up their ass.


Do you post anything about new albums? Actually can't remember any

Severian 08.15.2018 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by tesla69
how much more boring shit are you going to post about over and over?

why not go get an id over at brooklyn vegan and post there, posters there love clueless asshole bullies with their heads up their ass.


Wow, I know he’s a self-professed Nazi, but this is just fucking mean.

Why are you a fucking asshole? Why don’t you go be a fucking asshole somewhere that isn’t here? Literally don’t care where. Just ... how’s about taking your “Such-a-massive-gaping-asshole-I’m-frequently-mistaken-for-a-bullet-wound” attitude and getting the fuck out of here if you’re going to be such a diseased urethra all the time?

_slavo_ 08.15.2018 08:37 AM

I wasn't expecting drama in this kind of thread.

The Soup Nazi 08.16.2018 03:59 PM

Out October 5:

 


I can't be the only one here who listens to McCaslin, can I? I know several of you dig Bowie's Blackstar (and how could you not), so I would imagine you'd at least be interested in the guy's music.

Severian 08.16.2018 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
Out October 5:

 


I can't be the only one here who listens to McCaslin, can I? I know several of you dig Bowie's Blackstar (and how could you not), so I would imagine you'd at least be interested in the guy's music.


Hey I just defended your honor up there. Fucking show some respect before you go talking about “music” or whateverthefuck. Geez.

The Soup Nazi 08.16.2018 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Severian
Hey I just defended your honor up there. Fucking show some respect before you go talking about “music” or whateverthefuck. Geez.


Listen, TINY... You're just a little girl with grey eyes. Never mind, say something. Wait until the crowd cries. Oh, wait until the crowd cries. You're just a little girl with grey eyes...

Kuhb 08.16.2018 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
Out October 5:

 


I can't be the only one here who listens to McCaslin, can I? I know several of you dig Bowie's Blackstar (and how could you not), so I would imagine you'd at least be interested in the guy's music.



Loved his playing in Dave Douglas' groups. Will check out

Severian 08.17.2018 05:36 AM

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Listen, TINY... You're just a little girl with grey eyes. Never mind, say something. Wait until the crowd cries. Oh, wait until the crowd cries. You're just a little girl with grey eyes...


BBBBBBOWIE!!!!

The Soup Nazi 08.20.2018 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Kuhb
Loved his playing in Dave Douglas' groups. Will check out


Try starting with Casting For Gravity, the album which caught Bowie's ear and which includes a tremendous version of Boards Of Canada's "Alpha And Omega".

https://donnymccaslin.bandcamp.com/a...ng-for-gravity

Severian 08.20.2018 06:31 PM

New Low, New slow, New Low!
New Sporitualized, New Spiritualized, New Spiritualized!

Alt-indie space drone nonsense I love forever!

_tunic_ 08.21.2018 12:01 PM

Mono New New Mono Nomo Mew!!
モノニューモノモノモノ!


and a Mogwai sountrack end of this month


wondering if you'll still like the new Low after you hear it ....

Severian 08.21.2018 06:37 PM

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wondering if you'll still like the new Low after you hear it ....


Why? Being a dick or do you have some reason to believe I won’t?

Actually I don’t technically “like” it right now, but it qualifies as one of the most anticipated albums of the year for me so... WHAT?!

I hear it’s their most experimental album ever. :D

d.sound 08.22.2018 08:30 PM

the new animal collective and gang gang dance albums are very good. it's 2004!

i'm looking forward to the upcoming tim hecker.
i really really really want to hear the new jeff witscher.

Severian 08.23.2018 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by d.sound
the new animal collective and gang gang dance albums are very good. it's 2004!

i'm looking forward to the upcoming tim hecker.
i really really really want to hear the new jeff witscher.


(In booming old-timey British king voice)
Silence! We doth not credit what you say of the fallen Collective of Animals!!!

(Regular voice)

But yeah, Gang Ganh Dance! I was surprised to hear they still have it. I always thought they were going to become something big on the underground scene... Eye Contact and Saint Dymphna were both really strong records, and there was a time when I would have pegged them as possible Sonic Youth successors. But then... away they went.

Animal Collective’s whole story is just too sad. So many strong releases between ‘03 and ‘09, then... poof! Went to shit. Not quite Modest Mouse-after-2002-level shit, but I’d say they lost just as much magic after peaking.

d.sound 08.23.2018 04:43 PM

Well said. Here comes the indian, sung tongs, and oddsac are next level genius, and then... Centipede hz. Wtf garbage. Deakin's album is brilliant. I'm looking forward to geologist finally releasing something. Tangerine reef really is dope tho. If you ever meet them they are some of the nicest people ever. Them and phil elverum were my heroes back in 04.

Severian 08.23.2018 05:58 PM

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Well said. Here comes the indian, sung tongs, and oddsac are next level genius, and then... Centipede hz. Wtf garbage. Deakin's album is brilliant. I'm looking forward to geologist finally releasing something. Tangerine reef really is dope tho. If you ever meet them they are some of the nicest people ever. Them and phil elverum were my heroes back in 04.


I’ve met Phil Elvrum a few times, but not AC.

Centipede HZ was truly where it busted up. And after “Fall Be Kind” showed some real interesting prospects for a post-Merriweather progression... ugh! They just tried to remake Merriweather, only they did it in a clunky and irritating way. And Painting With is bleh meh garbage too.
Sounds like fookin’ corcus music that knows it could be more than that but refuses to be

“Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper” was solid though

d.sound 08.23.2018 11:46 PM

Ive met phil too. So sweet. And so was Genevieve. Her fav sy album was washing machine too.

Ive said hello to a lot of musicians over the years but ac was the one of the few that approached me to talk, even more than once, even after getti g big.

Severian 08.24.2018 07:47 AM

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Ive met phil too. So sweet. And so was Genevieve. Her fav sy album was washing machine too.

Ive said hello to a lot of musicians over the years but ac was the one of the few that approached me to talk, even more than once, even after getti g big.


Same (well, he didn’t come up to me, but he remained approachable even after becoming successful). I wonder if we hail from the same area? I spent a lot of time near the region where Phil made a name for himself, and still resides if I’m not mistaken. We’ve probably talked about this before. Sorry. My memory is terrible.

d.sound 08.24.2018 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Severian
Same (well, he didn’t come up to me, but he remained approachable even after becoming successful). I wonder if we hail from the same area? I spent a lot of time near the region where Phil made a name for himself, and still resides if I’m not mistaken. We’ve probably talked about this before. Sorry. My memory is terrible.

i live in ohio and used to liv in wv. i got into phil in 2000. saw him in pittsburgh like a week before glow pt 2 came out. i've been to over a dozen shows over the years including following him for four dates deadhead style thru virginia and n carolina. he got to recognizing me. so many special shows. museums, churches, a barn, a hot and seemingly abandoned warehouse, in the rain outside a foundry with trains going by... once my friend got a personal performance in a tree house way back when he was still with khalea.
the man is the true definition of genius. his shows in 2004 solo with a hollow body electric and a boss delay pedal were beyond the beyond. he had soooo many songs and ideas. i'm thankful to have witnessed all those mini songs that never got released like dark foundation and dark hills. i had the good fortune of recording a number of shows. most of them were posted to the meps board and archive.org.

The Soup Nazi 09.10.2018 11:44 AM

Out now: Julee Cruise, Three Demos.

 


https://juleecruisesb.bandcamp.com/album/three-demos

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Three Demos is a very unique release, featuring the very first demo recordings for songs from Julee Cruise's initial LP with David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti, Floating Into the Night.

These early versions are fascinating glimpses into the genesis of what became Floating Into the Night and the minimal key ingredients that made the material alchemize. An early version of the album opener "Floating" originally began with a stunning spoken-word intro later dropped entirely from the album version. A revelation in their overarching simplicity, the three-song collection is devoid of the LP's additional arrangement flourishes, and yet still manages to present the same emotional depth charge with only voice, synthesizer and lyric.

A deluxe reissue of Julee Cruise's second album The Voice of Love is also available via Sacred Bones Records, exclusively on 2xLP and CD. Order at http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/pr...-voice-of-love

The Soup Nazi 09.10.2018 12:02 PM

Out September 28: Klara Lewis & Simon Fisher Turner, Care.

 


https://editionsmego.bandcamp.com/album/care

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Editions Mego is proud to present the first outing from the legendary
English musician, songwriter, composer and producer Simon Fisher
Turner alongside the highly acclaimed emerging Swedish sound artist Klara Lewis.

Care is a unique outing rife with delicious dichotomy. The opening
track positions the aggressive directly against more fragile moments.
On the subsequent track medieval melodies sprout from a dense rhythmic hiss. Witness a Middle Eastern song appearing amongst a haunted rattling reverb in the epic "Tank" whilst a beautiful force of hope can be found within the sound world of the the closing track "Mend".

The wide scope of references and constant pull of forces make this debut offering a timeless patchwork of sonic spaces. Care is an album which sways in such a salubrious manner one can't help but delight in its unique form of location/disorientation.

releases September 28, 2018

Composed & Edited by Klara Lewis and Simon Fisher Turner

Photography Klara Lewis.

Design Nik Colk Void

http://editionsmego.com/release/EMEGO-253

The Soup Nazi 09.10.2018 12:13 PM

Out October 12: Kurt Vile, Bottle It In.

 


https://store.matadorrecords.com/new...s/bottle-it-in

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Travel can inspire in surprising ways: Kurt Vile discovered as much making his first record in three years, the eclectic and electrifying Bottle It In, which he recorded at various studios around the country over two very busy years, during sessions that usually punctuated the ends of long tours or family road trips.

Every song, whether it's a concise and catchy pop composition or a sprawling guitar epic, becomes a journey unto itself, taking unexpected detours, circuitous melodic avenues, or open-highway solos. If Vile has become something of a rock guitar god—a mantle he would dismiss out of humility but also out of a desire to keep getting better, to continue absorbing new music, new sounds, new ideas—it's due to his precise, witty playing style, which turns every riff and rhythm into points on a map and takes the scenic route from one to the next.

Using past albums as points of departure, Bottle It In heads off in new directions, pushing at the edges of the map into unexplored territory: Here be monster jams. These songs show an artist who is still evolving and growing: a songwriter who, like his hero John Prine, can make you laugh and break your heart, often in the same line, as well as a vocalist who essentially rewrites those songs whenever he sings them in his wise, laconic jive-talkin' drawl. He revels in the minutiae of the music— not simply incorporating new instruments but emphasizing how they interact with his guitar and voice, how the glockenspiel evokes cirrocumulus clouds on "Hysteria," how Kim Gordon's "acoustic guitar distortion" (her term) engulfs everything at the end of "Mutinies," how the banjo curls around his guitar lines and backing vocals from Lucius to lend a high-lonesome aura to "Come Again."

These journeys took Vile more than two years to navigate, during which time he toured behind his breakout 2015 album b'lieve I'm goin' down, recorded a duets album with Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist Courtney Barnett, opened for Neil Young in front of 90,000 people in Quebec, famously became a clue on Jeopardy, hung out with friends, took vacations with his wife and daughters. "I've been bouncing around a lot and recording all over. My family would meet me in the middle of America, and we'd go on a road trip somewhere. I would record in between all that stuff."

As Vile prepares for another round of lengthy tours and countless shows, these songs should prove good company, reminders of the love and responsibility he has toward those he leaves at home and those
 he meets along the way. That makes the sentiments resonate more strongly and lends Bottle It In an emotional weight. "It's like that moment on the airplane," Vile says, "when you're on your way somewhere and you have that burst of panic. When you're terrified of dying, that's when you want people to know you love them."


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