Summer Quarter (EP) by Madeline Kenney
Head of Roses by Flock of Dimes
Jubilee by Japanese Breakfast

Yes! :)

Price of Blue is sooo good!

I worship at the altar of Jenn Wasner.


Hey, you're from Baltimore - that explains a coupla things... ;)

Can - Live In Stuttgart 1975 (May 28)

Speaking of reissues and archival stuff, I was completely oblivious of this one:

Mary Timony - Mountains: 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition (January 15)

Why didn't you fuckers tell me about it?

Earth is a Black Hole - Teenage Wrist

Was not to my taste (although you'd think emo-y shoegaze-y alternative rock would be; it seemed to take into account the worst parts of all of them), but might be to someone here.

Fred Frith & Ikue Mori collab is solid.
Jim O'rourke's Steamroom 53 is one of the best in the series.

I want that new Biosphere.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band 6 CD/2 Blu-ray Box Set (April 16). Eleven hours of music. Sheezus. Includes Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, in case you were wondering if her album would get the same treatment...

PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her Demos (April 30)

From Stereogum: Civilian Turns 10. What a tremendous album.

Dang, I remember waiting for Civilian to drop as a college kid. Time be flying.

Jenn hinted at a new Wye Oak album this year as well. Sticking with Baltimore, I think Snail Mail should have one out too!

Very much looking forward to new Dinosaur Jr and Kurt Vile be involved.


I really enjoyed the new Mogwai album, though I love all of thier work.

I am not disappoint.

Well fuck me!! Godspeed YBE just released a new one.

Yeah, it’s pretty good too.
The title is a bit silly. I know the band uses “God’s Pee” sometimes as a pseudonym, but it just sounds a bit dumb as a formal album title.

So far I’m liking it more than any Godspeed album since Allelujah! though.

most reviews have been positive so far (I only saw the comments on bandcamp though). Like I said in the Listening thread, I really like the two shorter tracks, the two longer ones I have to listen a few more times perhaps.


About the God's Pee moniker: they been using it for some time, e.g. on their T-shirts. I have these, bought on their previous tours, and last time I saw them was like four years ago:










but, pay attention! I already posted about this album on the previous page :)

What does is mean?

The album is fantastic!

I’m not sure I could have said it more clearly, but I’ll try:
1. I realize the band has used “God’s Pee” in place of “Godspeed You! Black Empreror” for live shows and merch and stuff in the past, and it’s not a new thing.
2. But even considering the fact that (see 1), I find it to be a shitty album title.
3. I like the album though.

Yeah? Yeah.

Yeah!

The upcoming album of Alessandro Baris is well worth it to be included in this thread and not only because Lee's vocals are featured on one of the tracks, whichwas the firstsingle. The second single is beautiful as well. Both are on bandcamp:

https://alessandrobaris.bandcamp.com...etter-to-jayne
https://alessandrobaris.bandcamp.com/track/embers

Release date of the album is unknown as of yet

Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever - July 30th.

I fucking love her first album and I can't wait for this.

To those who wish to make fun of me for this, fuck you.

(I'll post this twice.)

Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever - July 30th.

I fucking love her first album and I can't wait for this.

To those who wish to make fun of me for this, fuck you.

(I'll post this twice.)

Sleater-Kinney - Path Of Wellness (June 11)

Double bill tour with Wilco starts on August 5. Aren't they getting a little ahead of themselves? Somehow I don't think the pandemic will be over by then...

Out today:

Seefeel - Rupt And Flex (1994-96). Great, now they reissue Ch-Vox; I had to pay big coins (for my standards) years ago...

Sons Of Kemet - Black To The Future

Sheesh, the CD set is sold out on Warp.net and Bandcamp already? I do see it on Amazon, though.

Holy crap, now this is my kind of supergroup! Meet Springtime:



Gareth Liddiard (The Drones/Tropical Fuck Storm), Jim White (Dirty Three/Xylouris White) and Chris Abrahams (The Necks) are Springtime. Their new album, due out later in the year, combines elements of free-jazz, lyricism, improvisation, avant-garde and experimental noise.

Debut tune "Penumbra [live in Melbourne]" (any relation to the Drones' song from 2008's Havilah? I'm about to find out!) now on Bandcamp.



What they say about it: "first listen to Springtime (Gareth Liddiard, Jim White, Chris Abrahams) ....... recorded live in Melbourne mid-May, since then we've made two full length records of new stuff and some weird versions of old stuff and lots of crazy stuff stuff stuff.... stay tuned."

On Tropical Fuck Storm Records. Album of the year already, and there's nothing you can do about it.

ETA: It IS the Drones song, given an extra apocalyptic treatment. Mother-FUCK this is good.

Also, new Wye Oak tune. I'm gonna cancel the hookers and the blow I had coming to my place tonight; this is a lot better!

Wow, this archival release looks and sounds amazing:

The Fourth World Quartet - 1975
(CD/16.44.1 / 24/96)

OK, according to Discogs and other sources, there are two "mastering errors" (gaps that shouldn't be there, basically) on the 4CD set that came out on May 14. The Bandcamp FLACs have been fixed, but I understand the physical edition includes a couple more tracks than the virtual one:

4CD mispress
Messed up files
Corrected files

So. A second pressing is coming and you can already preorder it on Warp.net, BUT it'd be damn nice to know whether this was prompted because the discs were fucked up or just because they ran out of copies. And if they are doing the right thing and fixing the screwup, please modify the catalog and matrix numbers - I went through two different copies of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and three of New Order's Brotherhood searching almost blindly for the corrected versions.

Not that anybody's gonna see this post anyway. :mad:

New tribute to Roky Erickson: May The Circle Remain Unbroken (July 16). For now you can only listen to Margo Price's track. I'm very interested in Jeff Tweedy's (shocking of me to say that, I know ;)) and Neko Case's, but especially in Lucinda Williams' cover of the ultimate Roky song, "You're Gonna Miss Me". Lu's voice has changed so much over the years that I can't imagine her screaming the originally screamed bits. But what do I know!

At long last, Nico's Drama Of Exile gets a decent reissue: the full 1981 album, plus (and this time clearly identified) the remixes that supposedly made her go into almost murdering mode. Out August 6 - it only took 40 years, huh. There's still another, "more complete" version to be compiled: one that includes Nico's re-recording of the whole album, which came out in 1983. Hopefully we won't have to wait another four decades for that, because by then most of us here will actually join her, if you believe such hokum.

Bleep/Ochre has informed yours truly that Rupt + Flex's second pressing will indeed be flawless (confirmed to them directly by Warp). After receiving this information, I find Simon Reynolds' recent article and interview with the band more enjoyable. :) Notice, by the way, how he laments the degeneration into meaninglessness of his term "post-rock" (yes, he came up with it; he also translated "hauntology" from pure philosophy to music) and how he basically shits on bands labeled as such who share fuckall with what he envisioned (a phenomenon that is sadly inevitable, I guess):

From Rapture to Rupt: The Journey Of Seefeel

Hüsker Dü Longhorn Tonight is a-comin'! But when, exactly? "Later this year" is all we know thus far, apparently...

Low - HEY WHAT

Anna Tivel - Blue World (July 16; CD August 3; vinyl December 12). Songs from all her albums given a new treatment on her "Map Room Sessions" from February.

ALRIGHT, everybody else can reach for the silver medal at best, because the album of the year has just been announced. Sorry! :D



Out August 20.

Off the charts.