sleeplog24(1)
January 2024 … So I’m not doing another rec comp, for a lil bit at least, ima spend some time with myself and the things that I would like to listen to BUT one thing I did like about the rec series I did last year was giving each record I jam sufficient time to formulate words re my opinion of it - it seems like a good check/balance against cursory listening, as well as giving me a regular writing exercise to keep my juices loose. I also found having my year laid out for me in lists helpful when reflecting on my exploration and where to go next. PLEASE DONT REC ANYTHING I mean I might listen to it but that’s not what this list is for. Also won’t be adding a record a day, just whenever I jam something. I promise not to bump this obnoxiously (or at all) this is more for me. Will probs do one for every 3 month quarter ig. Edit (31.01.24): lol okay we’ll do one a month. |
| 1 |  | Undeath
Lesions of a Different Kind
2nd January 2024
Death Metal [2020]
I was craving dirty vanilla basic filth after a year light on metal and this is that thing!!! Dirty, gristly, groove forward, tight pockets, skank-face, large riffs. An big slab of slaps. [4] |
| 2 |  | The Jesus Lizard
Goat
3rd January 2024
Noise Rock / Post-Hardcore [1991]
I’ve been onoffonoffonoff with this record, jammed in a train at some point in 2022 and was mostly just sad that not every song was Mouth Breather WHAT a RIFF feck. Rejammed after PxHxCx initiation last November - I am more enamoured with the flailing limbs and ambiguous fuzz than I remember. THAT riff remains the highlight with the insane rhythmic underwear, and the screm/holy mid point of Monkey Trick, and the jangle of the guitar work on Karpis. Currently a listen of a million brilliant moments, but not a holistic jam that knits together (but, having said that, the atmos/swagger is consistently, gloriously deranged). The highlights carry her home. [3.7]
Edit: actually fuck it if you turn this up really really loud any imagined issues I had with it evaporate. The sauce. [4] |
| 3 |  | Panopticon
The Rime of Memory
3rd January 2024
Atmos Black Metal / Americana [2023]
Too big? Or is my brain too smol? I prefer my time with 2014/15 panopticon - less grandiose, more rip your throat out and shove daisies down gullet. Maybe it’s the aggressive bluegrass I’m missing? Tbf, I just reread sunny’s write up and got caught up in the hype again. Will ponder. [tbc]
Edit: nah my gut was correct [3.5] still great, drumming especially, and “Cedar Skeletons” woot, AND finale of the finale is ascension itself. |
| 4 |  | The Stooges
Fun House
3rd January 2024
Proto-Punk [1970]
That this came out in 1970 is silly what. Live tracked all the way baby best guitar-music anything I’ve heard in ages. Haywire bop-able love how this swings casually into jazz territory for the final 3 cuts and then explodes. Legit earthfucking; the nosiest, grooviest, rockiest rock of all the rocks; the big beat. [4.3] |
| 5 |  | The Mountain Goats
All Hail West Texas
4th January 2024
Folk [2002]
I have been listening to the sunset tree pretty consistently since June 2016 it is a 5 and i HAVE NOT fucking CHECKED ANY OTHER mountain GOATS what am/was I doing. Lo-fi nonsense about nothing and everything, beating pulse of folk, essential and pointless and essential again. My words aren’t very good but I like this guy’s rym write up: “An arrestingly straightforward lyricist and an everpresent drone that's surely just a result of the low budget but sounds like the constant awareness of death.” The pirate’s life for me too please. [4]
Update (05.01.24): gaaaaa [4.3].
Update (12.01.24): gaaaaaaaaa [4.5]. |
| 6 |  | Misfits
Walk Among Us
5th January 2024
Horror Punk [1982]
I quickly dismissed this when i gave it a halfhearted listen in idk 2017 but think was taking too seriously - big ol’ bag of popcorn punk nonsense pink and bloody and WHHOOOOAAAAAHHH. [3.5] bumped from [3] will check Static Age |
| 7 |  | Soulkeeper
Holy Design
5th January 2024
Mathcore [2023]
Shit damn I did not get my fix of this lane of glitch’d to heck screm last year and this nutty calculator bomb is the ticket requested by the doctor. Incoherent songcraft a la (idk) Knocked Loose where the beatdowns just tumble into one another, elegant transitions be damned, but w/ delicious knotty INTERNET undertones. Produced like a broke/brick well/wall but FUN and guilty pleasure exemplified! [3.5] |
| 8 |  | Otis Redding
Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
5th January 2024
Southern Soul [1965]
Because THE otis song is so subdued (the one about the bay with the dock) I had assumed that was his entire thing … NOT SO!! Cover of Satisfaction on this is blistering, jiving, diving, BRILLIANT!! As are all the other up tempo cuts. Soulful slow burns burn slow just like you’d like them to. Not much original material here but it’s all delivered so so so so good, captivating. [4] |
| 9 |  | Otis Redding
The Dock of the Bay
5th January 2024
Southern Soul [1968]
First song is essential. Agreed with the rest being anticlimactic step down b-side sauce but /shrug/ first cut carries it. Had no idea he passed so young, and that this was released post. Big rip. [3.3] |
| 10 |  | Ryuichi Sakamoto
12
6th January 2024
Ambient / Modern Classical [2023]
Exhale. [4] |
| 11 |  | diSEMBOWELMENT
Transcendence into the Peripheral
6th January 2024
Death Doom Metal [1993]
ATTENTION: SPOTIFY MIX SUCKS. Find a version that isn’t compressed to fuk and you are in for a treat (or trick). Spooky sluggish deth. Evil. Seismic. Lurching. More adjectives that are dripping with unknown fluids. [4] |
| 12 |  | Old Saw
Country Tropics
7th January 2024
Ambient Americana [2021]
The tin is accurate. Ambient. Americana. To fall in love I think you’d need a more personal connection with the aesthetic this plays off than I do. The soft whiff of banjo strings and ragtime wood ain’t quite triggering the neurons. V v v pleasant though. [3.5] |
| 13 |  | Laura Jane Grace
Heart Burns
7th January 2024
Folk Punk [2008]
LJG has had the weirdest fucking career trajectory of brilliance and the worst music and this is the worst music well no I jammed because I heard Harsh Realms on some playlist and thought damn that’s a tune and now I have jammed this extended play and I am not pleased. [2] |
| 14 |  | Ghost (SWE)
If You Have Ghost
7th January 2024
Metal / Pop [2013]
Harmless cheese but. [2.5] |
| 15 |  | Cat Stevens
Tea for the Tillerman
7th January 2024
Pop Folk [1970]
Came for father and son, and stayed for father and son tbh. Head and shoulders above everything else here. What else here, however, is still lovely folken popin’, w/ rich soupy prod on the guitar and keys. I also handnt realised Wild World was Cat Stevens - good to know. A pleasant place to be. [3.5] |
| 16 |  | Sonny Rollins
Saxophone Colossus
7th January 2024
Hard Bop / Cool Jazz [1957]
Hot on the tails of Moanin’ for my current fave bebop jazz romp. Easy listening melts like butter into ear canal causing blindness of the ear to all but the smooth sax hugs. Occasionally the butter bubbles and tastes like sugar. Drumming keys and bass all nutty too. But I mean who am I kidding I still know fuck all about jazz my appraisal is worthless go get your own. [4] |
| 17 |  | Ryuichi Sakamoto
1996
8th January 2024
Modern Classical / Chamber Piano Trio things [1996]
Smol intimate clinical whimsical lil renditions of (it says here) Sakamoto’s most famous-est compositions at this time (1996). Sweet like walking in late afternoon rain shower in city with friends. Kinda wish the bigger moments had the full orchestral treatment behind them, and that the quieter moments had the fractal and less obvious more intimate beauty that (for example) the songs on 12 have, but this is soundtrack classical in that straightened-tie-up-to-well-fastened-top-button kinda way, so I guess a restraint of that context? Rendition of Merry Christmas Mr Laurence is lush regardless, and love The Sheltering Sky. [3.5] |
| 18 |  | Xiu Xiu
Knife Play
8th January 2024
Post/Synth Punk [2002]
Panic attacks and blind dates. The swirling, frightening glimpse of coming apart completely. Idk man this got me really fucking emotional really rather quickly. The pop glaze to these shrapnel heck bombs is beguiling. Surely one of the best debut LPs, uh, ever? Impeccably well realised. [4.5]
Update (09.01.24): First listen hype has subsided more level headed opine = [4.3] but heck man I will be doing more Xiu Xiu soon. |
| 19 |  | Green Day
Insomniac
9th January 2024
Pop Punk [1995]
Feel like this had the Pinkerton syndrome - weird rough furball of a record dumped on sidewalk after genre masterclass. None of the melody of Dookie, more punk tendencies and chunk in the riff department, that would pop up on Nimrod. A missing piece of the GD canon I forgot to check and am happy to have coloured in. [3.5] |
| 20 |  | Radiohead
In Rainbows: From the Basement
9th January 2024
Art Rock [2008]
Dumb that I hadn’t heard/watched this sooner but ticking off them boxes. Better than most bands entire discographies. [4.3] |
| 21 |  | Beach House
Depression Cherry
10th January 2024
Dream Pop [2015]
Originally listened to space song after watching one of those “I’m a person with a father and I’ve made him listen to this song that I like by the way he is a pastor let’s see if he cries” YouTube videos and so checked the song and liked it but didn’t like the album. I tried again last night and got to the second track before getting bored and almost falling asleep on sofa bed. HOWEVER this (it turns out) is a very good “doing” album. Walked to train station in mild frost and was filled with childish glee like toddler waiting with innocent excitement for binmen. Did some reading around an author I am reading who died and almost cried. Walked up train station steps in standard 2-by-4 formation and filled with calm and sense of place. It was a very good album for those contexts. Background music feels like a cop-out; more that kinda of ambient “soundtrack my life baby” kind of vibe. [3.7] |
| 22 |  | John Coltrane
Giant Steps
11th January 2024
Hard Bop / Modal / Post-Bop [1960]
A sax hurricane. Grab hold of rhythm section or else you will be thrown into nearest tree. Took me (gosh) 10 listens to start enjoying (loving) a love supreme; this took a crisp 5, learning to interface with breathlessness and being lost. Far less challenging and far more riotous when you really do cling on for dear life to the double bass / drum wombo combo; Coltrane sure ain’t holding your hand, but is willing to let others guide you home. Syeeda’s opening riff is happiness. More listens reveal more love. Dreamy. [4]
Update (13.01.24): Two factors appear to have unlocked this for me: (a) jamming 25 repeatedly (idk why) (b) speakers rather than headphones (this floods a living room beautifully). I lied, there’s a third: the unshakeable weight of jazz being this impenetrable, impressive, technical, demanding, impossible THING has been, against the odds, shaken! I am both worthy and unworthy. [4.3] |
| 23 |  | Yersin
The Scythe Is Remorseless
12th January 2024
Crust Punk [2024]
Stumbled upon via Dewi’s insanity 2024 list and DAYMN this slaps. First breath of 2024 and she is filthy and rich. Breakneck riff forward fun boi whistles by in blink of eye and leaves craving for more riffs. [3.5] |
| 24 |  | Sacrilege (UK1)
Behind the Realms of Madness
12th January 2024
Crust Punk / Stenchcore / Thrash [1985]
Jamming 23 I realise I do not know enough about this sound and I wanted more and this is that THING. Lo-fi like beating dust out of duvet with mallet. Ferocious like a cat in presence of unopened catnip. Stupid good fun tbh. Has a sloppiness and virtuosity that is endearing. [4] |
| 25 |  | Ornette Coleman
Science Fiction
13th January 2024
Free / Avant-Garde Jazz [1972]
So damn playful!!! Impromptu spoken work, almost rock/metal licks at times, muscular rhythm section working to its own hymn sheet while rest of band play catch up. It’s restless and excitable and filled to the brim with sherbet and ecstasy. [4]
Edit (later that day, after third back to back listen): heck. [4.3] I now just want to listen to jazz and nothing but jazz I am shook dazed confused etc etc etc |
| 26 |  | Meshuggah
Koloss
14th January 2024
Djent / Prog Metal / Jazz Thrash (patent pending) [2012]
So I went on a run trying out new bone conduction headphone things and wanted something beefy and rhythmic so slotted the shugga in my pocket and it did just the trick. Feels very post-Bleed: songs doing the long form same thing repeats repeat repeating with the juicy drumwork intervals doing the things to keep mind locked in. I was already a megafan so checking this off as the second to last record of theirs I hadn’t heard was a nice slice of comfort pie. [3.7]
Update (15.01.24): Listened again with big boy headphones and did not perceive how FUNK this is holy shit. Huge grooves make the ground shake. [4] |
| 27 |  | John Coltrane
Blue Train
14th January 2024
Hard Bop [1958] (ignore what sput says)
Back to the trane I jammed this as part of Jazz February 2023, early on in the month, and felt overwhelmed. Warming up to the blue flickering flame. Also realised that whatever remaster is on Spotify fucking blows (Rudy van whatsit?) no i do not want each instrument presented one by one 3 inches from my face I would like myself and these nice people to have space to breathe too bright signal boosted to shit. OG better. [4] Interesting to pan back to this after the mindmelter of Giant Steps - far more trad, relaxed, in line with 16 and the Blakey stuff I dig đź’™ |
| 28 |  | Pestilence
Consuming Impulse
15th January 2024
Death / Thrash Metal [1989]
Ngl my dip back into the shugga got me thirsting for riffs. Wrote this off as good chugga not much more-a and I was dumb. Stripped down, back-to-basics chainsaws. Scream Bloody Gore on loopy juice (from what I can remember about SBG, need to rejam). Thrash influence retained = joy. Old rating [3.5] bumping to [4] though struggling to think of a reason not to [4.3] hmm fuck it |
| 29 |  | Death
Scream Bloody Gore
15th January 2024
Death [1987]
I am a silly billy. Rejamming this after years it fucking GOES. Far less primitive than I remembered. Flawless atmos, sick riffs, brilliant rhythmic switch ups. Also [3.5] from 4 years ish ago bumping to [4.3] better than Symbolic |
| 30 |  | Morbid Angel
Altars of Madness
15th January 2024
Death [1989]
Clearly my ears were not fully formed enough at age 22 or whenever I heard this first. Bananas. We are basically doing the death metal GOATS all in one evening where is my goblet of blood? [3.5] bumped to [4] appreciate how techy this gets but I think I prefer the chonk of 28/29 actually no nooo noooooo what is that DRUMMING ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hahahahahahahha
hahhhhhhjhh [4.3] *expires* |
| 31 |  | Autopsy
Mental Funeral
15th January 2024
Death / Doom [1991]
Ending this tour de death with the oddest ball of the bunch. Again, one I’d heard, and enjoyed for how strange it’s sticky, bulbous, stodgy ick is, BUT it actually does even better as the softer, groovier, doomier counterpart to speed running 28-30. The airy drum thuds sound like cobwebs and purgatory. Bassy guitar snarl sounds like a thousand eyes bursting. Gurgle gullet yelps yelp with the gurg and grunt. The business. [3.7] bumped to [4] but I mean logic dictates I’m gonna keep listening and …
yeah
[4.3] |
| 32 |  | Obituary
Cause of Death
16th January 2024
Death [1990]
Another day, another death metal marathon? I’m undecided, particularly as this is the worst of the classic era loftily rated LPs jammed so far. More groove oriented and less frantic than 29 or 30, and lacking the beguiling horror of 31 - I can see the moving parts behind the cheese and they don’t inspire me. The sort of thing I’ve heard replicated in the modern dm scene, doesn’t have that late 80s flash in pan magic. Or maybe I have just jammed too much consecutive dm lol. [3.5] |
| 33 |  | Death
Leprosy
16th January 2024
Death [1988]
Maybe I just re-discog-run Death? I’m well versed in Human, Symbolic and Perseverance, but hazier on the first three, and never jammed ITP. This is better than I remember, but not the third eye opening moment that was rejamming SBG and being opened up to just how raw and fucked it’s energy is. This has more thought behind the rudder. Kinda more and less interesting because of it. [3.5] originally bumping to [4] and sticking firm … for now |
| 34 |  | Death
Spiritual Healing
16th January 2024
Death [1990]
Fuck it I guess we discog running. Did try this YEARS ago like all of the last 6 records, but pretty sure I only gave a background listen, dumped a 3.5 on it and ran towards Human. Common theme: I think I was ignorant of the rhythmic depth here, the weird tempo shifts, the horror-hued character of these riffs, in the whole Death corpus tbh, took very much for granted. A slapperooni that keeps the raw aroma of the first two LPs while incorporating maybe a touch more of that knotty, ambitious songwriting that began to bubble up on the next record. [4] I mean ratings are dumb all of these are great |
| 35 |  | Death
Individual Thought Patterns
16th January 2024
Death [1993]
So rejammed Human, which I’ve 4.5’d for a while, and realised it’s probs a 5, but moved on swiftly to this, which is its own tangled chonk. Far less readily graspable than the meat and potatoes of early Death or Symbolic era tbh, it pulls in so many directions. Spectacular first listen, interested to see where this goes. [4] |
| 36 |  | Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto
Getz/Gilberto
17th January 2024
Bossa nova [1964]
Sweet milk and honey guide me to sleep. Something very magical about this in minus 4 degrees celcius, crackles with soul and warmth and respite. [4] Literally jam this whilst the degrees in the air are sufficient to dry out your face stretch it tight against cheek skull section and form tears it is magic.
Edit (18.01.24): Shockingly good album on winter morning frost lapping at feet as I sway and sway and sway. [4.5] |
| 37 |  | Antonio Carlos Jobim
Stone Flower
18th January 2024
Bossa nova [1970]
Do all the Bossa Nova classics get sick album art by default? Or is it the holistic image that has led to them standing the test of time? Seems to be a theme in jazz in general tbh; all the classics look fire.
Music: less easy hand holding bliss than 36, more complex, not pushing my emotions in the same assertive happy manner, more understated and bleak, daddy holding cigar and waiting impatiently for me to get it. Coarse, textile. Melodies on Amparo are full of suspense and feeling but not simply sunshine and rainbows. Very affecting stuff. [4] |
| 38 |  | full body 2
demo 02
18th January 2024
Shoegaze / Atmospheric Drum and Bass [2022]
I saw this because it was on the list by the person that came up on my Sputnik feed so I listened to it and it was dreamy and nice and hazy. Kinda magical, actually. [3.5] |
| 39 |  | Joao Gilberto
Joao Gilberto
19th January 2024
Bossa nova [1973]
There’s something in these guitar motions that is very Pink Moon, and something in the cadence of the vox that wobbles with 90s/00s folk that I’ve heard from Japan - influencers and influencees all over the shop. Breathy, respite, excellent winter music, create your own dissonance of art and circumstance. I need a thread I can gush on hmm. [4.5] |
| 40 |  | Green Day
Saviors
19th January 2024
Pop Punk [2024]
New Green Day Hype!(?) It’s trash, but the good kind that doesn’t stink out your entire house? Catchy bops for middle aged punks. [3]
Update (20.01.24): I wanted to like this more than I actually like this. Aside from some excellent guitar rawrs and big ass hooks, this is glorified bowling for soup circa weezer (late career) nonsense and (while smacking of all the good intentions in the world) isn’t worth more than a spin or two. [2] |
| 41 |  | Harlem River Drive
Harlem River Drive
20th January 2024
Latin Funk / Soul [1971]
Listened to for (a) album art and (b) band’s connections to Eddie Palmieri and (c) a genre I’ve never tried. Funky and soulful equals about right. Otherwise I’m not too keen on this aesthetic. [3] |
| 42 |  | Boris
Boris At Last -Feedbacker-
20th January 2024
Noise Rock / Drone [2003]
Rejammed this after a few years of having not jammed it. It remains good. Gooder, even, than remembered. [3.7] to [4]. Moving on. |
| 43 |  | Cortex
Troupeau Bleu
21st January 2024
Jazz Funk [1975]
Funky jazz from France with utterly sublime beautiful arresting perfect vocals, what I associate with Stereolab but over smooth as butter groove jazz munchies. Heavily sampled in the hip hops, it says here. Tall glass of milk, creamy, sweet. [4] |
| 44 |  | Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges
Clube da Esquina
22nd January 2024
MPB [1972]
Continuing the tour de Brazil idk why but this is magical went for a 6am walk in the dark there were stars and darkness and grass and cow pats probably I couldn’t see a fucking thing but this got right up there in my soul vestibules and sang and sang and sang. [4.5] |
| 45 |  | Disavowed
Perceptive Deception
22nd January 2024
Brutal Death Metal [2001]
Quick and dirty. [3.5] |
| 46 |  | King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
Live at Red Rocks '22
22nd January 2024
Psychedelic Rock [2023]
I started listening to this; I did not finish; it is 9 hours long. Currently a [4] after about 1.5 hours of jams. Keep em coming Stu.
Update (23.01.24): More jams: concert 1 done: very microtonal, in hindsight: second concert kicks off proper thrash stoner hugeness. Just incredibly fun. Surely the best way to gizz with the wizz? Every single rendition here is better than the album version I swear, the energy, improv, production, ad libs and in jokes. Currently sitting at [4.5] we shall continue…
Update (25.01.24): Fuck me this has taken days to get through. The epitome of gizz, for good and bad. Too big for its own good - 86 songs!!!! - but essential in its uncompromising girth. Mandatory listening for any long time fan; big skip for lizard skeptics. [4]
Update (30.01.24): Fuck it [4.5]. Essential for a gizz fan. |
| 47 |  | ATKA
Untitled Album 1
24th January 2024
Mathcore / Grindcore [2018]
Box of wasps nonsense. [3.5] |
| 48 |  | Miles Davis
'Round About Midnight
26th January 2024
Hard Bop / Cool Jazz [1957]
After 4 days plowing through the big gizz wizz jizz, jazz is back on the menu. Like every impatient non-jazz head, I waddled like tourist into the classics, immediately jumping for Kind of Blue, In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew when having a nosey around Davis (all lovely LPs, fwiw). Having heard this now, however, finally, I realise I (obviously) got it backwards. This is so light and mischievous and accessible by comparison to those jazz big bois, light toe tapping moonlight reflecting off club windows, 50s suits crumpled from excessive vigour, possibility hangs in the air, anything can happen Thursday. Opening of the opener is classy. [4]
Update (28.01.24): Keep listening and fear this may not be quite my tempo, horn tone grates a touch. Cool jazz that isn’t piano led may not be my preference. [3.5] |
| 49 |  | Sun Ra
Jazz by Sun Ra
26th January 2024
Post-Bop [1957]
Blissfully not that weird! Following the theme that it’s probably better to check legendary artists’ formative stuff before summative which is a fucking obvious theme but not something I do nearly enough, eager to hop to the opus and work backwards. I’ve always been offput by just how off the wall Sun Ra gets, so the fact this is so down the line OG hard bop stuff with weird special spaceial spectral overtones is great great great great great. Feels hyper composed in a way I’m not used to from this era, and lacks a bit of replay value consequently. [3.5] cool history lesson |
| 50 |  | Negative Approach
Negative Approach
27th January 2024
Hardcore Punk [1982]
I used to fucking hate the early hardcore thing, having grown up on the loud plastic umpth of post 00s metal and hardcore, BUT I am coming around to the gristle filth and energy of le days that were good and old. Angriest vocalist of all time contender yelps out caveman fury atop caveman soundscapes with fellow caveman for audience of caveman. [3.5] |
| 51 |  | Black Flag
Nervous Breakdown
27th January 2024
Hardcore Punk [1979]
One of the EPs I used to hate (and I still do really not vibe with Damaged) but gave this a rego and it’s so much better than i thought it’s the lo fi jank that endears. [2] bumped to [3.5] |
| 52 |  | Black Flag
The First Four Years
27th January 2024
Hardcore Punk [1983]
Great comp of the dusty rough EP scuzz. [3.5] |
| 53 |  | Minor Threat
Complete Discography
27th January 2024
Hardcore Punk [1981-1985]
Love how you can discog run the goats of hardcore in like 3 hours this is handy also this is HUGE I prefer the first two EPs over Out of Step, youthful blood and sweat >>> clever riffs and drums and bass, although v v v cool to see their evolution over such a short span of years and tracks, and how their later sound dovetails nicely into your Fugazi(s) etc. and big Dangers vibes. [4] |
| 54 |  | Faith/Void
Split
28th January 2024
Hardcore Punk [1982]
Archaic and dusty piss riffs, big bleak, big yell. More creepy character oozes from Void, almost black metal in its moonlight drenched deth. Faith side is a snooze, and both have an aura of frantic youth that feels juvenile off the back of Minor Threat. [3] for Faith [3.5] for Void [3] overall. |
| 55 |  | Die Kreuzen
Die Kreuzen
28th January 2024
Hardcore Punk / Proto-Post-Hardcore [1984]
Waaay ahead of its time slapperooni bass scuzz clot free me. Drum/boing pits pats, shrill screm, clever tension in the space between the filth, particularly All White. Also giving a whiff of black metal (first wave) darkness, and interesting to read about the influence this had on weird different places (Voivod and Napalm Death in particular). Could have come out tomorrow and still been innovative and characterful. Minutemen play Slayer riffs was a cute comment on the thread and accurate. Vox in the vein of an Admiral Angry ear split also enjoyable. [4] |
| 56 |  | Die Kreuzen
Cows and Beer
28th January 2024
Hardcore Punk [1982]
The sloppier younger brother of the s/t, rendered mildly obsolete? Maybe, idk, this has more trad hardcore messiness to it, which is fun, but I can’t see myself reaching for it if the s/t is also on ice and good to go. That being said, I found two mixes/versions, and the more frantic lo-fi variant is making me smile. Though I think I prefer the bootleg mix lol it’s confusion. [3] |
| 57 |  | Clifford Brown and Max Roach
Clifford Brown and Max Roach
29th January 2024
Hard Bop [1954]
Agreed entirely with the write up for this. Immaculate in it’s accessibility, wish I’d had this in my toolkit sooner, but holds up well despite how early it’s DOB is, pre all the big boys that fill the best of lists, but holds its own with them. Simpler, sure, but love the interplay, charismatic, organic, soulful trumpet riveting kit work, piano and double bass doing the things in between. [4] probs underrating |
| 58 |  | Duke Ellington
Ellington At Newport
29th January 2024
Big Band [1956]
Listened to the OG abridged version and adore all the lil ambient sounds, crowd whistles, yelps, whoops, encouragement, mega danceable party big fun vibes, unserious and escapist. [4] maybe I cop a complete copy and boogie forever? Big Band has never been my thing, too pristine(?), but the live setting jettisons that to fuck. Closer is essential. |
| 59 |  | Gorilla Biscuits
Start Today
30th January 2024
Melodic Hardcore [1989]
Idk man I like hardcore angry and not melodic. Maybe I’m not in the right mindset. [3] |
| 60 |  | Think Again
Never
31st January 2024
Japanese Hardcore / Burning Spirit / Crust Punk [2012]
Now THIS is the kind of melody-forward hXcX I can fuxX with!!! Big energy skronking noise stupid heavy but light and rainbow hue achieved via almost old school heavy metal preference for relatively clean guitar leads amidst the sludgy crusty filth. Spiritual successor to 24 feels like. [4] thank you rym charts |
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