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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 9, 2024 19:26:46 GMT
oh, also didn't care for Yo La Tengo records I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (2006) or their latest This Stupid World from 2023. I only liked one track from their 2000 album And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out so I'm thinking their blend of avant-pop and noise rock just isn't for me. Found the tracks on most these albums meandering and grating.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Jun 6, 2024 10:27:22 GMT
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising (2019) - 7/10Well doesn't seem like this girl and me are ever gonna vibe. She's Santa Monican (briefly Santa Monican?); but she doesn't sound or act Santa Monican, so ummmm maybe it's hard to know what she's doing here or staying true to this town. Urbanpatrician is rarely ever found not loving a female folk singer. Also the difficulty with genre classification here, because it kinda doesn't feel like what I'd call definitively folk. Or maybe chamber folk is the term? It sounds very old timey, music stuck in an older era like 60s Nico, but it's keeping within the boundaries of indie rock which assigns it a wider appeal. But it sounds like haggardy 60s female folk with contemporary tinges of Mexican Summer. I would also suggest it sounds kinda like opera too. So now we're going back to the 1700s. Very olden. The melancholy would suggest it kinda sounds like what you hear in an opera about waiting and longing for a lover to come back home. She's pretty tho...... ![](https://schonmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Weyes-Blood-by-Kathryn-Vetter-Miller-edit-24-1000x666.jpg)
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Post by urbanpatrician on Jun 6, 2024 10:28:09 GMT
The Knife - Silent Shout (2006) - 8/10Pretty good stuff. I don't think it quite touches classics like Mezzanine - Massive Attack, Musick to Play in the Dark 1 + 2 and Horse Rotorvator by Coil which are among my favorites of the genre, but it still is something that electronic fans should listen to. It feels like a combination of Massive Attack and Coil, actually. Massive Attack in its club beats, and Coil in its apocalyptic dire incantations, although it doesn't sound nearly like the way Coil does it, but it's really hard to compete with them. The "weird noises" or how people like to call it are so indie it makes you eat organic pop tarts and find Richard Linklater more masturbatory than hot naked women. Tracks like Silent Shout, Na Na Na, Marble House, and The Captain belong in the electronic hall of fame go-to shelf section. There are some other good tracks but doesn't quite touch amazing, but I'd say most of the forgettable tracks are in the 2nd half where it starts to lose a little bit of trail steam. ![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/The_Knife_-_Silent_Shout_%28album%29.png)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 7, 2024 8:47:17 GMT
Royal Headache - Live in America (will be released June 21, 2024) - ~ 9 / 10 maybe?.......
One of the few great Rock bands of the 2010s - they broke up after just 2 studio albums - release a visceral, minimalistic live record that is part radio station live set / part in concert recording....... stuff that has just been sitting in a vault - for several years....
Royal Headache were sort of like an Australian version of the Faces - capable of raging wildly but also they could break your heart too......and this may be their best release ......
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Post by urbanpatrician on Jun 7, 2024 9:36:28 GMT
Nirvana - In Utero (1993) - 8.5/10 Well..... I like this album a lot. Cobain shows he's clearly an experimentalist, and a guitar wiz. Here is the extent of his talents, secluded in the woods and tree vines - an artist heavy and mad at work. It's the feeling it gives off. In Utero in many ways is Nirvana's Paul Boutique, flirts with the mainstream but doesn't really feel like a mainstream album. It's an experimentalist's album all the way. Hits are sparse. A perfect example of changing course after a very mainstream 1991 and 1992. By 1993 it feels like their change of course was intentional - kinda feels intentionally designed that way the way this album is constructed.... the way it shows many phases of noise rock, speed rock, sonic boom and finally blood shot 120 into your veins at its peak would indicate Nirvana was trying for critical praise from the true music guys. As Duvall would say: he loves the smell of napalm in the morning. I like the sound of speedy guitars. I've said before I prefer it to Nevermind. But I'll listen to Nevermind again to see if I change my tune, Whatever anyone likes about Nevermind, feels like someone can like In Utero just as much, but Im guessing not in the same way. I actually could live without Pennyroyal Tea and Heart Shaped Box. Those kinda feel overrated. Serve the Servants is.... passable. And Radio Friendly Unit Shifter is meh. But the other 8 I can find at least something to say about. But my favorite streak is by far Frances Farmer Has Her Revenge thru Milk It. It's my most listened to 5 consecutive tracks by Nirvana. I think it falls short of Goo, but I'd take it over Daydream Nation. Somewhat on the same level as Paul's Boutique.... ok maybe a little bit better. But Nirvana has nothing as awesome as Sabotage. Sabotage > Smells Like Teen Spirit. (And yes, I know it's not on Paul's Boutique) ![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/In_Utero_%28Nirvana%29_album_cover.jpg)
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Post by urbanpatrician on Jun 7, 2024 10:52:49 GMT
Nirvana - Nevermind (1991) - 8.5/10 Well, pardon my pun.... but Nevermind. I used to say that this album did nothing for me. Nope... not anymore. I can hear that catchy rock from all the way here. I do agree it's different than In Utero. But I still prefer In Utero. But they're not that far apart where a lot of people have a clear preference between the 2. I really don't. Now I clearly prefer Loveless to Say Anything, I clearly prefer Mezzanine to Blue Lines, The Soft Bulletin to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Goo to Daydream Nation, and 69 Love Songs to Get Lost. But that's another story. I will say I prefer In Utero simply because I like about 8 tracks from it. Could live maybe without Tourette's, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, Pennyroyal Tea, and Serve the Servants. From Nevermind.... I like exactly half. The first 5. Bloom, Lithium, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Breed.... and then all the way near the end with Stay Away and On a Plain. I don't care for the rest, and I'm not gonna bother with Something in the Way/Endless, Nameless because it's 20 minutes long on my version. ![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51qpgEq-3XL._SX300_SY300_QL70_FMwebp_.jpg)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 9, 2024 0:36:19 GMT
David Bowie - Rock ‘n’ Roll Star! (June 14th, 2024) - At least 7 ++ / 10 ......probably more than that.......
5 CD boxset around his best record (Ziggy, duh) - and marginalia of what he cut before during and after.......unlike the mostly bloated Hunky Dory expansion which argued a good, overrated album with some high points as a work of space genius.......Rock 'n' Roll Star argues several works of far-reaching genius as Rock and Roll - in the mileau of what Bowie actually "liked" and in the different takes how he got to it - no longer bluffing, but selling his vision........and like all bitchy dilettantes he has great taste.......Velvets, Who, Berry, and er, um, David Bowie himself....
The extras in this boxset are gorgeous .......maybe the best looking boxset I've ever seen.......it's like displaying in your house worthy or something
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 11, 2024 14:32:36 GMT
Susumu Hirasawa - Kyuusai no gihou (Technique of Relief)
If you've seen the films of Satoshi Kon, you'll be familiar with his collaborator Susumu Hirasawa. If you like what you have there, you'll like what you have here. Lots of techno influence, midi-strings and layered voices chanting to create a sort of classical/new age/technopop mashup that is distinctly his. And it's damn good stuff. I think this overstays its welcome a bit - 53 minutes should have been around 40 - but it is all of a piece and very coherent, and always listenable. A strong 7/10
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Post by Archie on Jun 11, 2024 20:21:09 GMT
New Charli XCX is a certified banger.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Jun 18, 2024 10:14:37 GMT
Charli XCX - Brat (2024) - 8.5/10Well.... Charli XCX girls have a chance to bloviate her now with this new work that's getting some people turned on. Do I think it's definitively a career changing album for her? Nah. It's like other Charli XCX albums but I will say every track is different. They work their magic in different ways than what the other tracks bring, and that's what makes this stand apart from her other works. And why Pitchfork has designated this a high score. She is in the Lana Del Rey, Phoebe Bridgers, Taylor Swift, Molly Rankin category of big female acts with indie cred. Also huge cults behind them, and now established boosts from the critics. All this kinda proves why the female gender is so above the male gender circa this year of our lord 2024. White guys are running out of talent. The females are still doing great work, but unless you're a black dude you're not doing anything the critics equate to the level of the females. Also.. why is music still at the very least good right now - and movies are so awful? Such a paradox. The sounds of 'so Julliard' or 'So Julia' of an excited female finding her way like an icon in 360 - gives off the feeling of cameras cracking and lights popping on her while she walks the runway. The mellow yet kinda subtlely tinged with sorrow touches of angst in Sympathy is a Knife. Sip the wine I go so cold......the addictive reverbs of I Might Say Something Stupid. So I is also such a low key spotlight moment. The kinda finale song that screams Kodak moment of the album. And finally the so confusing sometimes to be a girl. Girl. Girl. How do you feel to be a girl. Girl. Girl. Is so damn catchy. Spice girls with substance. Let's not forget the worships Lana Del Rey mention. This album takes you different places. I like several albums. But I'm the first to admit some albums are great because they latch to a certain sound and keep within those parameters but just giving us more of a good thing. But this album is not like that. It pirouettes between different formulas and goes different places, and the distinctions between tracks makes it unique. It's just a great great album. ![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/mcs/media/images/71669000/jpg/_71669308_charliexcxpromo2.jpg)
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 19, 2024 13:41:43 GMT
The Dillards - Back Porch Bluegrass
The playing may be "impressive" and "virtuosic," but it is also repetitive and emotionally one-note. If you've heard one song, you've heard them all. And there are 15 friggin' songs here. 4/10
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 29, 2024 17:23:59 GMT
Radio Sounds (2020) The Speedways - 9/10If you stopped this 12 song album after the first 9 songs you'd have one of the best albums in this genre - ever - or at least since The Exploding Hearts essential "Guitar Romantic" (2003). Then there are 2 filler songs before the great closer (and maybe their very best song in their 2 album career) "In A World Without Love It's Hard To Stay Young" - so that's 10 special songs which pretty much makes this, a no-shit genius top 5 record of 2020 ....or higher. ..............AND this band is creative too in a genre where that's not usually an asset - this song, loops Marilyn Monroe's interview quote "If I'm generally anything, I guess I'm generally miserable" into a whole song and never once mentions her by name - either first or last - just the quote of her voice which makes it about any girl....... and not about just any girl. That's an inspired idea......... and it's entirely their own creation. Released 4 years ago today - June 29, 2020 - one of the most joyous - and replayable - Rock records of the MAR years (my #2 of 2020 ^) ...........by one of the best current bands ..............just played it...............stiil fantastc......
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Post by Joaquim on Jun 29, 2024 17:40:55 GMT
Radio Sounds (2020) The Speedways - 9/10If you stopped this 12 song album after the first 9 songs you'd have one of the best albums in this genre - ever - or at least since The Exploding Hearts essential "Guitar Romantic" (2003). Then there are 2 filler songs before the great closer (and maybe their very best song in their 2 album career) "In A World Without Love It's Hard To Stay Young" - so that's 10 special songs which pretty much makes this, a no-shit genius top 5 record of 2020 ....or higher. ..............AND this band is creative too in a genre where that's not usually an asset - this song, loops Marilyn Monroe's interview quote "If I'm generally anything, I guess I'm generally miserable" into a whole song and never once mentions her by name - either first or last - just the quote of her voice which makes it about any girl....... and not about just any girl. That's an inspired idea......... and it's entirely their own creation. Released 4 years ago today - June 29, 2020 - one of the most joyous - and replayable - Rock records of the MAR years (my #2 of 2020 ^) ...........by one of the best current bands ..............just played it...............stiil fantastc...... That song plus The Day I Call You Mine and Kisses are History are the standouts from this album for me
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Post by Joaquim on Jul 18, 2024 4:38:15 GMT
![](https://www.emp-online.fr/dw/image/v2/BBQV_PRD/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-master-emp/default/dw97d6756f/images/4/7/0/0/470029.jpg?sw=1000&sh=800&sm=fit&sfrm=png) Ahhhhh we’ll say 9.5/10
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 22, 2024 22:01:55 GMT
Jack White - No Name (July 21, 2024) - 7.5 + / 10
Surprise album drop.........and it's his loosest, least thought out, freest solo albun to date ........and also actually free to download I think (?) - his best since Blunderbuss and that's a masterpiece........this one isn't....... but it is great fun, bursting with ideas, and LOUD........it's music that feels like fucking or self-immolation
THE air guitar album of 2024 .....
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