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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 22, 2023 19:15:44 GMT
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Sick Hustle - 4 song EP (2020) - 7.5 / 10 ...&....Live Your Truth Shred Some Gnar - 7 song EP (due out February 23rd - 2022) - ~ 7.5 ++ / 10 An exciting band to watch: The loudest rocking all female band I've heard in a long time - and maybe the catchiest while rocking so hard I've heard period - flirting with metal a bit like Motorhead but also bubblegum like The Donnas with a touch of Suzi Quatro / Joan Jett. Their singles before these 2 EP's are not worth seeking out - they got better and stylistically diverse in the 2020s. This is powerful Rock and Roll made by women - but also it's partially powerful because it happens to be made by women (gettit?) - some of their simpler (or dumber) songs ("Julia") are the ones that stick in your head the most and the off the rails barnburner - "Bye Bye Baby" - is a frantic, shrieking, breakneck new peak. Looking back on them - a year later - I maybe underrated both of of these a little ^ ..........working on an album........allegedly.......
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Post by Nikan on Jan 24, 2023 18:20:51 GMT
Been all about The Smiths (If you didn't guess) these past couple of months... Favorites here: "Reel Around the Fountain" , "Pretty Girls Make Graves" and "Suffer Little Children"". Also find "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" positively insane.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 26, 2023 20:33:52 GMT
Ming City Rockers - Lime (released today, January 26th, 2023) - 7.5 / 10..........
So far this is the 1 full length album I really dig in 2023 - aside from The Circulators EP / Mini album - though this isn't much longer than that is.......
This year has already had a Guided By Voices record and an Iggy Pop one too - and several good ones by young hip bands but this is a better album than them all ...........and deserves your time much more too.
Why?
Because this record gets the intersection of sound and attitude: a 3rd album and the first in several years by Rock and Roll marginal lifers that strikes gold through much of its tracklist:
A kind of formula record - where monster riffs are piled on top of another over weaved out chanting and scuzzy guitars to achieve a giddy, walloping dumbo effect - where you feel you're hearing them halfway through the song .............so you want to play it again.
It's a formula but so is Pepsi and you aren't complaining about that are you?
It all runs together like it's on an endless loop ............far better than their other 2 albums including one produced by Steve Albini - this sounds like they decided to just throw everything against the wall and see what sticks - part Pixies, part 70s glam, part barroom singalongs.........which almost completely removes all extraneous showing off - little discernible soloing and when it comes it's supportive not intrusive.
A soaring, unique, headrush of an album......
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jan 27, 2023 14:48:43 GMT
Oh honeys, I was recently gifted Japanese violinist & composer, Diana Yukawa's new album Spirals and it is beautiful! (Contrary to the belief that I spend my time ferociously throwing limes at my assistants and shrieking loudly, 'more Tequila!', I do have my quieter, serene, more tranquillized moments.)
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Post by VERITAS on Jan 28, 2023 2:35:47 GMT
Five Easy Hot Dogs - 2023 - Mac DeMarco
3.5 / 10
Might sound pretentiously nostalgic but Jesus do I wish DeMarco had reached back into his Salad Days roots to deliver some more innovative guitar work for this latest record. Glad I wasn't holding out hope for a strong resurgence (after almost five long years) like most of the fanbase because this barely makes a ripple...tedious elevator music melded together forming a forgetful blur. "Rockaway" at least offers a riff that almost harkens back to the traditional stuff...
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 28, 2023 13:54:36 GMT
David Thomas Broughton - The Complete Guide to Insufficiency (2005)
This guy is as insufferable as Sufjan Stevens. Mopey, repetitive, uninteresting modern indie-folk that is up its own ass. Absolute dogshit. 2/10
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Post by dazed on Jan 28, 2023 23:28:38 GMT
Lil Yachty - Let’s Start Here.
9.5/10
possibly will end up as his magnum opus. he’s a big fan of tame impala and has said that dark side of the moon is one of his favorite albums. you can really see the inspirations here. such a left turn from his previous style of music, shocking really. no way would i ever think he’s capable of turning out something of this quality.
best tracks: the black seminhole, we saw the sun, i’ve officially lost vision, and reach the sunshine
worst tracks: none. this album doesn’t have one skippable track (other than failure but that doesn’t count so)
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 31, 2023 14:37:45 GMT
The Meters - Rejuvenation (1974)
I don't mind funk, but this is repetitive and uninspired. It limps along for 50 minutes without doing a single interesting thing, just standard syncopation and funk stylings with really, REALLY crappy and repetitive lyrics. 3/10
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Post by Nikan on Jan 31, 2023 20:36:15 GMT
(2011 extended version) Long-ass album, but I liked being there... "So Young" was my favorite by far and away.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 1, 2023 18:37:12 GMT
M(h)aol - Attachment Styles - comes out 2/3 2023 - ~ close-ish to a 7 / 10 in theory........but it's not really ......and it's carried by just a few songs too
Basically an angry, lesbian (one dude), politically aware, Irish (again!) band ......or they might be bisexual going by these song titles .......and they may be funnier than they are angry........sort of like Kathleen Hanna when she was younger ......but I'mmina say Sprints (Ireland, yeah) channels some (not all) of this into a far more tolerable whole.....but this is far more Arty so save your mansplaining This album has one of last years most talked about singles / videos ( No One Ever Talks To Us) and I'd tell you this is - aside from that song and a couple others - better to talk about and think about than it is to actually listen to.......but I'm not the target audience and that video was totally horror movie heaven ....... You know how I say there's not a lot of great political Rock and Roll?......well there's even less of ........whatever this is.....
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Post by Martin Stett on Feb 2, 2023 16:14:03 GMT
The Lounge Lizards - Queen of All Ears (1998)
After greatly enjoying the avant garde jazz of Art Ensemble of Chicago, I stumbled upon another band of the same genre. My lack of musical literacy makes it hard to talk about this one, but suffice it to say that this one didn't light a fire. I liked it okay, but it is an hour long and all of it sounds quite similar. The above song - a sort of lesser Fables of Faubus - is pretty much exactly what to expect for the whole thing. There are no surprises here. Decent as background music, but forgettable as an hour long album. 6/10
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 3, 2023 15:11:21 GMT
Tee Vee Repairmann - What's On TV? (out today Feb 3rd, 2023) - 8 / 10 on first listen - best of year so far - and along with Ming City Rockers quite good, quite scuzzy Lime (released in January) - a bracing slap against these antiseptic times specifically....What's on TV? is a fully thought out extension of the 2 preview singles that I reviewed earlier in the Best New Music thread: Bus Stop and People - where the singer finds himself in a world of asshats that he deems simultaneously funny, scary, suffocating - and most of all scrambling his very short - tv signal - attention span. This should have been cut off at track 11 - because the cool filler instrumental that ends it - track 12 - makes it seem too neat - which it isn't at all. Very Jonathan Richman - Modern Lovers '76 - Mattsby , Viced , @people who get that specific album aesthetic / or have any taste whatsoever: This avoids the trap that most people fall into when copying JR - which is trying to be too much like him. Rather this recreates a Richman-type all these years later in its sensibility/worldview (with touches of early Ramones, catchiest Black Lips) - as an outsider to all the things that make The Modern World........the modern world nowThe longest song on here is 2:37 - it's that concise and goes by in a blur - songs don't so much stick out as "great" - rather they all sound uniformly cool..... and in its song titles this must set some kind of recent record for bored, baffled disinterest: I Can't Figure You Out, Checkout Queue (a somewhat thematic cousin to The 'Mats Customer), Get Outta Here, What's The Use, Time To Kill, Backwards, No Life On This Street....... "Waste my time / take my money / Oh my God you think that's funny .....Used to be so lovely you've gone and turned so ugly" ....... I hear ya buddy... Full album on Youtube:
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Post by Martin Stett on Feb 3, 2023 17:14:06 GMT
CunninLynguists - Oneirology (2011)
I have liked one hip hop album in my life, and that is Alias's epic journey The Other Side of the Looking Glass. His abstract lyrics and universal concepts spoke to me in a way that the standard rap about drugs and sex never does. I'm a square.
Well, I have just added another to the list. This is relatively "soft" and pop influenced in comparison to the harder beats of more famous rappers, which probably puts off a lot of hip hop fans. But to an outsider like me, I appreciate that the tone is basically "hip hop that plays in Twin Peaks." Not to say that there aren't harder cuts, but they don't dominate.
As for the lyrics themselves, this is where the group really shines (as it should, being hip hop). These guys focus on the self-hatred that drives men to ruin through the concept of "dreams" - their nightmares turning to violence, sex, drugs, vengeance, money - all of their worst impulses writ large, monsters slavering over them, ready to devour. And then, making things broader, trying to depict how all of these worst parts are present in pop culture, politics and religion, furthering the cycle of depravity that is at the core of the human heart. Having established this, they seek a way out in the final few tracks, searching for a way to transcend the hell that is themselves.
It's quite an album, and one of the most exciting I've listened to in quite some time. It's no Other Side of the Looking Glass - what is? - but it's still pretty dang good. 8/10
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Post by Martin Stett on Feb 6, 2023 14:01:03 GMT
Van Morrison - Saint Dominic's Preview (1972)
Veering between amateurish wannabe R&B and repetitive, watered-down "soul." Offensive in how inoffensive and utterly dull it winds up being. Everything about this is sooooo 1970's standard "soothing music for the soul" bullshit and I'm getting more annoyed with how lily-white and safe it is with each passing second. 3/10
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Post by Joaquim on Feb 6, 2023 14:02:39 GMT
CunninLynguists - Oneirology (2011)I have liked one hip hop album in my life, and that is Alias's epic journey The Other Side of the Looking Glass. His abstract lyrics and universal concepts spoke to me in a way that the standard rap about drugs and sex never does. I'm a square. Well, I have just added another to the list. This is relatively "soft" and pop influenced in comparison to the harder beats of more famous rappers, which probably puts off a lot of hip hop fans. But to an outsider like me, I appreciate that the tone is basically "hip hop that plays in Twin Peaks." Not to say that there aren't harder cuts, but they don't dominate. As for the lyrics themselves, this is where the group really shines (as it should, being hip hop). These guys focus on the self-hatred that drives men to ruin through the concept of "dreams" - their nightmares turning to violence, sex, drugs, vengeance, money - all of their worst impulses writ large, monsters slavering over them, ready to devour. And then, making things broader, trying to depict how all of these worst parts are present in pop culture, politics and religion, furthering the cycle of depravity that is at the core of the human heart. Having established this, they seek a way out in the final few tracks, searching for a way to transcend the hell that is themselves. It's quite an album, and one of the most exciting I've listened to in quite some time. It's no Other Side of the Looking Glass - what is? - but it's still pretty dang good. 8/10 God tier band name
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 7, 2023 7:41:34 GMT
Sprints - Back Catalogue LP (released December 1st, 2022) - ~ 8 / 10 (Streaming & Limited Edition Vinyl)
their ace debut single ( The Cheek - 2020), their noisy debut EP ( Manifesto, 4 songs, 2021) - which hinted at even better things - and the better thing itself - their stunning 2nd EP ( A Modern Job, 5 songs, 2022). Sprints are not just a thrilling band when firing on all cylinders - one that I've touted all year ffs - they are also a complex one - mixing Post-Punk, noise, Pop, the roar of (good) Metal, Sonic Youth-type Art-Rock freak-outs, surprising humor and lyrics of anxiety that read like they are torn pages from a therapist's notebook ........like fellow Irish future legends Fontaines D.C. they also use repetition to a mesmerizing, righteous effect. This band is either going to make a classic 1st album in 2023........ or they're going to make you think they peaked early with these 2 EPs + 1 single they put on this 10 song introduction.....and break your heart........my #9 of 2022 ^ in any other year it'd have been top 5 .......easily too
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Post by themoviesinner on Feb 7, 2023 10:17:56 GMT
CunninLynguists - Oneirology (2011)I have liked one hip hop album in my life, and that is Alias's epic journey The Other Side of the Looking Glass. His abstract lyrics and universal concepts spoke to me in a way that the standard rap about drugs and sex never does. I'm a square. Well, I have just added another to the list. This is relatively "soft" and pop influenced in comparison to the harder beats of more famous rappers, which probably puts off a lot of hip hop fans. But to an outsider like me, I appreciate that the tone is basically "hip hop that plays in Twin Peaks." Not to say that there aren't harder cuts, but they don't dominate. As for the lyrics themselves, this is where the group really shines (as it should, being hip hop). These guys focus on the self-hatred that drives men to ruin through the concept of "dreams" - their nightmares turning to violence, sex, drugs, vengeance, money - all of their worst impulses writ large, monsters slavering over them, ready to devour. And then, making things broader, trying to depict how all of these worst parts are present in pop culture, politics and religion, furthering the cycle of depravity that is at the core of the human heart. Having established this, they seek a way out in the final few tracks, searching for a way to transcend the hell that is themselves. It's quite an album, and one of the most exciting I've listened to in quite some time. It's no Other Side of the Looking Glass - what is? - but it's still pretty dang good. 8/10 Great album indeed! I'm not a big fan of hip-hop either, but I think these guys are really good. I'd also recommend their 2006 album A Piece Of Strange. Probably the best hip-hop album I've ever listened to.
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Post by Martin Stett on Feb 7, 2023 16:03:31 GMT
Charles Mingus - East Coasting (1957)
Uhhhh. It's jazz? 6/10
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Post by Nikan on Feb 7, 2023 17:05:26 GMT
" Let off some steam Bennet." I really like tracks 1-4. 5 is where is starts to lose me for I don't know why... maybe it's too heavy-sounding for me already, but I lose attention before I gain it back post-#10 until "Hurt" which is a great closer... That's my relationship with it right now.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 7, 2023 18:51:27 GMT
Screeching Weasel Anthem For A New Tomorrow - 30th Anniversary Edition (1993 / 2023) - (at least) 8.5 + / 10 .....out today 2/7/23Screeching Weasel - in this version - with a lineup that included Ben Weasel / Jughead / Danny Vapid / Dan Panic - were not only the greatest Pop Punk band ever (I know, big deal) - they also were one of the only bands in this genre that ever made stylistic sense at all: They actually sounded like kids - not like adults recalling what kids were "like" - you are not that self-aware at 16 as you are at 26 thinking back on being 16 (ie like Nirvana or even Pavement in their same recording era). Screeching Weasel sounded immature - the vocals evoke annoying adolescent brattiness - gloriously dumb - but also insightfully and casually smart at times ..........in the way you only can be when you are that young and thoughts are exploding in your head all the time. They codified this "teen" idea - which existed prior in many bands that reflected their audience and in some cases were closer to actually being teens - - Angry Samoans or The Descendants - but more specifically: They mocked the new cultural self-seriousness where their forebears didn't quite have to: Screeching Weasel was as out of step with Punk as much as anything else - their audience would have likely found the acclaimed "Youth Rock Music" in the era - Nirvana, Hole, Pearl Jam and Pavement, Nine Inch Nails - a corny adult drag. They made the 2 best albums - in this mostly lame genre - this one and 1991's even better imo My Brain Hurts .........that one is more Punk, this one more Pop..........but both sound great now of course when we've become even more comically self-serious. I can make an argument that Screeching Weasel were as good or better on these 2 records than any American band of the early 90s........they define and transcend their musical style..........and remain almost completely ignored by the mainstream press all these years later who would dismiss them as dumb kids the way that dumb adults always do .........which is kind of a victory in itself isn't it? Reissue adds pointless alternative takes .........but sounds great......
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 8, 2023 12:09:04 GMT
Camp Cope - Running With The Hurricane (2022) - ..... 2 / 10 but......the margin of error is + / - 2 pointsAbysmal sophomoric ear rape masquerading as personal growth. "I thought god was a man, I was so wrong about that / Lay me down on my back and tell me / I've finally been caught staring at you for a while / It's you, baby blue" Best. Day. Ever. Who wants a drink? I'm buying.........
"Camp Cope is breaking up. The Australian band posted a farewell message to Instagram, signing off “CAMP COPE 2015-2023.” They also noted th"at the last show they will play in their hometown of Melbourne, Victoria, would be during the Brunswick Music Festival on March 11 with BARKAA."- 6 hours ago
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 15, 2023 7:41:42 GMT
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power – 50th Anniversary Legacy Edition (1973 / 2023) - ~ 8.5 / 10 or more David Bowie left behind the Space Mumbo Jumbo and pulled off his most grounded Rock and Roll move - producing (or salvaging really) - this album's disaster initial mix and screwing it up in a whole different way.......loud, primal, agitated, treble dominant, dirty, with drums and bass almost not present - mauled by guitar and Iggy's voice ..... with severe dropouts that sounded like the album felt.......even if it wasn't meant to exactly sound like that (?) This wasn't the best Stooges album ( Fun House, 1970).........or the best album of 1973 ( NY Dolls) .........or the best album fucked up by someone famous in 1973 ( Todd Rundgren, NY Dolls, again).........it has the attitude but only some of the songs.......but every time you hear Iggy's new mix(es) - Bowie's original mix sounds simultaneously better and worse which is also weirdly better by being so distinct.......not only can't you change history .........sometimes it's foolish to try .......and that's Rock and Roll baby. Bonus tracks, a previously released "you had to be there" live show with both Bowie's mix and Iggy's included .......it's still ferocious and at times frightening even approaching the Fun House level...... but you could literally buy both the original Fun House - and the Raw Power Bowie mix - on CD for less than this edition costs..... with money left over ...... what's the more accurate history lesson?
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 16, 2023 19:36:51 GMT
Intrigue: Steven Wilson presents Progressive Sounds in UK Alternative Music 1979-1989 Box Set (2023) - ~ 7 / 10
Wilson throws a lot of stuff in here to make Prog sound minimalist - so much so - he stretches it pretty far.......and adds stuff that isn't Prog Sounds At All or if it is - just makes it "anything that isn't The Ramones" - in fact - the reverse approach may have been cooler (finding the Punk Sounds in Martin Barre's guitar playing etc.)
This is 4 CD's and the early stuff is way better on the first 2 CD's ......this should have been 2 different releases - because the later stuff goes off into some real who cares marginalia. The first 2 CDs would have gotten a higher rating........
One of the great Pop Culture moments of the 80s is here (on disc 4) - and that I would say doesn't really meet the title of this box set:
The Trent Reznor Rosetta Stone of Goth Metal Funeral Attire "Classic" ........ The Sisters of Mercy's This Corrosion (1987) - is arguably misrepresented by the version included besides being an odd pick - it's better @ 4 minutes not 9 minutes ............and if you have to avoid the single - there's better longer edits.......that kind of thing happens a lot here......
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 21, 2023 1:59:38 GMT
Marc Valentine - Future Obscure (2022) - bit above 7.5 / 10
Last Great Dreamers leader Marc Valentine makes a Mature Singer Songwriter Power Pop album - that's not easy - that I somehow missed in 2022
Sorta like Godhead Genius Peter Perrett in his poppiest stuff (but not quite, be reasonable) - particularly on twin standouts Broken Satellites and Break My Heart Anyway - which are gems. This album really kicks in after the first 4 songs and things that first sounded annoying - his nasally voice (again, like Perrett) - sound winning later on.
Fine record.......but more fine in the 2nd half........
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 21, 2023 8:33:58 GMT
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous Deluxe Edition - 8 CD Box Set - (1978 /2023) - at least a 9 / 10
Stick with the classic original double album which did the hard work for you (and is included) ........but this is all the full concerts in the era that the OG was whittled down from to get us to that amazing double LP
It's all too much .........but it's all smoking hot even with ridiculous tracklist repetition and almost identical performances .......tbh there's not much music in this genre / style I like better than this original 2 record set...........it is in that Paranoid.........Master of Reality......... No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith league.........so it's all ok by me and Thin Lizzy was - like Motorhead - a band that sounded better live than in a studio
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