beautiful rocks, inviting hard places (17/6/2018)
daaamn daniel back at it again with the outdated references and good digs |
| 1 |  | Miles Davis
Kind of Blue
congregational, modal jazz
what a diamond, what an intimidating back catalogue,. love jazz when it feels like it's cascading; tumbling into yr brain like the get well soon cards of a person in remission. it's all luv here at the night show |
| 2 |  | Secret Mommy
Plays
a mosaic of pop music left out in the rain
an offering from the king of wrens. i am eternally in the debt of people i wish were 210983190 miles closer to me |
| 3 |  | Sectioned (Metalcore)
Annihilated
music without a conscience, metalcore
the only break comes like half an hour in and it's even more terrifying than the assault which precedes it. something scrupulous about this imo -- like it's been put together after years of research on the exact weight one can bare before they capitulate under the strain. good. thanks. i'll return to this in a few years. |
| 4 |  | Sleepytime Trio
Memory Minus
skramz probably
i like how far back the vox are pushed in the mix here. is that a staple of the era?? someone more erudite pls tell me. it accentuates the desperation to me, makes it feel as though the vocalist is really stuggling and writhing against the constraints set by those serrated riffs. |
| 5 |  | Somi
Petite Afrique
jazz for your soul, soul for your jazz listener
Ohhh hman i am back to this again. this thing is fantastic and i love somi's voice. it's social commentary comes, uniquely, from a place of empathy. it appeals to the good side in every evil instead of casting aspersions, and paints little vignettes of everyday life to convey the struggles of the Alien instead of conjuring some explicit, hamfisted, cliched statement at every juncture.
"isn't that that place that's in the news?? and is that the reason why you've come?" |
| 6 |  | Sophie
Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
industrial wonky love ballads filtered through a screen of what the fuck and processed through the lens of a morphing and evolving self or something idk
immaterial is good material imo |
| 7 |  | Spiral Joy Band
Little Sparrow
group violin improvisations
a gaggle of fuckers that don't know how to play violin, playing violin and FUCK me it's enthralling. forces u to guess whether the "musicians" at play are working with each other, against each other, in spite of each other, or if they're even aware of each other's existence |
| 8 |  | AL-90
CODE-915913
house music buried deep under sun-soaked soil
i think this would feel anachronistic in any era. it's like kinda stuck in a limbo where there's dull lights throbbing and pulsing and the asphalt smells of petrichor and all the dead things in the area are humming along to a steady rhythm coming from somewhere you can't place and FUukcin hell the music is good innit |
| 9 |  | Battles
Mirrored
1) the catchiest botched experiment i've come across in recent memory
2) a peruvian experiment resulting in answers only known to the researcher
another joint entry, with no. 1 going to the screwball, whacked out Mirrored, which somehow manages to be catchy as hell despite making very little sense. no. 2 goes to Arturo Ruiz Del Pozo - ‘Composiciones Nativas’, an awesome synthesis of field recordings and smatterings of native instruments (range of flutes, gongs, things i can't place). "if you're going to play classical at least play something less depressing" - mum. thanks mum, this isn't classical, nor is it depressing, but emotionally it's so tough to pigeonhole i can forgive you for your mistakes. |
| 10 |  | Felt (UK)
The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories
believe i described this as something along the lines of "The Sundays but instead of a seraphic woman singing it's a drunk uncle enthusiastically giving his interpretation of a shakesperian monologue".
it's a weird time, i'm cold but i'm shivering for some other reason i think |
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