I have to revisit this. It is indeed a good one.

that remind me to check his last one. I haven´t had a chance to listen to it.

Personally. I do not think it’s better than Ghettoville, but it’s certaubly good, and one of the year’s best electronic releases

There’s also Arca’s self-titled. Different kind of thing, but also one of the best recent electronic releases.

I can't stop listening to my recording of Low's Do You Know How To Waltz? played on the organ at the Westerkerk in Amsterdam last week. (kerk means church indeed). It's so amazingly awesome! Here's a YT video (which is not mine), and here is a video of the same song in London two days before. But I prefer the sound of the organ in Amsterdam.

btw I'm still hesitant to share it because they've mentioned they might release it and it's for the most part all new songs ....

DAMMIT! :mad: I mean, if there's gonna be an official release, please bring it on, Low, but in the meantime: :(

Wanna talk about successful reunions? This is one of their best! Fuckin' heroic. Plus, the return of Kendra Smith! For one song, but still. (Spoiler alert: if you're thinking about something along the lines of "Too Little, Too Late", fuhgeddaboudit; she sounds like Marianne Faithfull these days. Spooky...).

Ice Cube's first three records. I think Christgau gets him right.

https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_...?name=ice+cube

Dude, I totally missed this.
Thanks for mentioning it. I gave it a listen and it is indeed very good. It is not anywhere near the “Portishead - Third” standard of excellence for reunion/comeback/terminate extended hiatus albums, but it’s quite a fucking treat.

This is one of those times I’m glad that you exist. ;)

Killing Machine- Judas Priest

on a bit of a Priest kick lately. Loving Sin After Sin! Of course Screaming for Vengeance, Defenders of the Faith and Painkiller are all great too.
And Sad Wings of Destiny is just something else.

Sad Wings of Destiny is a total masterpiece for "Victim Of Changes" and "The Ripper" alone.
Killing Machine has a few real Clunkers, but a lot of great nes too. Much simpler songs, but "Running Wild" doesn't need to be complex to be awesome.

Wow, the new Fever Ray album is fucking good.

it’s been a while since i listened to meredith monk, glad to have found this one

Since I was in high school, the closer it gets to Halloween the more Misfits feel appropriate.

And what is a fever ray?

Fever Ray is ... well, you could Google it.

One half of the now-defunct band the Knife. Also a solo artist. Give this new shit a listen. Electro-experimental-art-Punk craziness. Sheer craziness. Dark as fuck. Listen. Google and listen.

No, TINY, dude, I asked what a "fever ray" is, not what Fever Ray the band or person or whatever the fuck is. And I asked because we are living in THE WORST ERA OF BAND NAMES EVER, HANDS DOWN, and I want some fucking meaning! "Portugal. The man". "Protomartyr". "Alvvays". All those fuckers who just take the vowels out of a word. I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE.

Well, Fatty, you could still google it.

I hate shitty band names too, but Jesus take a pill. Fever Ray isn’t that bad.

For degenerate U.S. standards, I'm pretty sure I'm perhaps kinda sorta rather tiny. I'm 1.74m — that's fuckin' short up there, ain't it?

Yeah. People are tall and fat here. That’s like 5 feet, 8 inches, right? Yeah. I’m small too. I’m 5’10” or 11” and somewhere around 140lbs. I feel like a child when I’m around people 15 years younger than I am.

But yeah, you’re short. Americans love their GMO corn and shit. They’re HUGE.

Anyway, fatty, google. ;)

I miss shit all the time as well — for instance, the fact that back in August Brian Case released his second solo album... and that Disappears is no more!



"...spirit design... spirit design... spirit design... we-will-fall..." Heh. Excellent record. So anyway, three now ex-Disappears, including Case, are rockin' it as FACS; I'm assuming they named the new band after Factory Records' cataloguing system. They have three demos on Bandcamp and they're giving 'em away:

https://wearefacs.bandcamp.com/

Disappears is no more? What the shitfuck?! Goddammit!

It’s “spirit desire” though... innit?

I used to think it was “Speed design,” which I thought sounded hella cool for no reason. Was kinda bummed when I learned what it really was, even though it certainly makes more sense.

Spirit design... hmmm...

Yeah, no, I was just soupin'. :)


An e-mail I got from Sonic Cathedral refers to Case as "the former Disappears and now FACS frontman". What can I tell ya. :(

You lie and tell me “it’ll be OK,” you intensitive bastard!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_im_Spiegel

didnt realize how many movies it’s been in till i read the article

damn, that's a pity that Disappears is no more. But FACS is featuring the three cool members, who needs a bassist anyways ?
Don't have time to check out the new songs, but I will definitely do so

Thurston Moore - The Best Day (when I abandoned my marriage and continued fucking another woman)

Grace Lake and Germs Burn are the best songs

He’d already done that/been doing that for a couple years at that point, but yeah. Hah.

was reading about mo tucker and found out that she used to listen to this guy



first track w/ the signing i did not like the production— sounds like a hollywood movie a bit

but the second! oh hell yes... let’s see the rest...

I used to be kind of obsessed with this. Good shit. Hope you like it.

50/50... love the drums, HATE the singing

why do musicians so rarely have the decency to shut the fuck up and just play their instruments?

I don’t know, but I often wish music had less vocals and fewer lyrics. One of the biggest problems with pop, I think, is an insistence on filling every second with words, many of which are bullshit. Most of my favorite artists know how to balance having a lyrical/vocal presence with letting the music stay the focus, and giving instrumentals room to breathe.

One thing prog-rock got right, that. And post-Punk. Even the best hip-hop, the most vocally cluttered genre, gives us breathing room. The worst is usually just words.

This is one of the reasons why I’m such a frequent listener of electronic music. Sometimes I just want to think and live with music playing. I don’t always want to sing along or whatever.

oh holy hell deerhoof is back in insano mode!

i might be late catching up to this because it was amy goodman playing them in her show but o man o man THE MAGIC if not as virtuoso as their earlier work is bannanananananaz.

were peter finch and albert finney separated at birth?

i might have been confusing them for each other my whole life...

Yeah, overlooked album. I kinda stopped paying hardcore fan attention to Deerhoof around 2012, but the new one is goddamn sweet.

“The Magic” is from 2016 though. They have a new one out this year called “Mountain Moves,” which I find pretty goddamn groovy too. Has a feature from Laetita Sadier from Stereolab. Always makes a sweet feature, that one. Like on “Quick Canal” by Atlas Sound (one of my favorite songs of 2000-2010). Good shit.

All-time favorite Deerhoof song is still “The Galaxist.” Goddamn fuck me that’s a slice of heaven right there.

Funk bands? :)

right, we heard them on amy goodman and “oh yeah....”

for my taste their apex is all of reveille.

Fuck yeah reveille. That’s their best album. But “The Galaxist” is my favorite song. Easy.

Helium music.
Great drummer, but I kind of hate that band.