Download or stream.
Been a while since I've laid down a bonus track. Seemed pretty apropos to recent current events. Also way more 2016 tracks than I expected. Eh; that's how it works sometimes. Same as how having three tracks over 7 minutes balloons the TRT.
1. Greys - Cruelty (Outer Heaven)
2. LVL UP - Hidden Driver (Return To Love)
3. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Wish (Pretty Years)
4. Car Seat Headrest - Vincent (Teens of Denial)
5. Cloud Nothings - Modern Act (Life Without Sound) [2017 release]
6. YACHT - It's Boring / You Can Live Anywhere You Want (See Mystery Lights)
7. Ty Segall Band - Thank God For The Sinners (Live In San Francisco)
8. Local Natives - Villainy (Sunlit Youth)
9. The Wrens - Happy (The Meadowlands)
10. Bon Iver - 8 (circle) (22, A Million)
11. Angel Olsen - Sister (My Woman)
12. New Order - Age of Consent (Power, Corruption & Lies)
13. Bonus track
(Janet Jackson - Nasty [Control])
TRT 1:04:33
Rookies: Greys, New Order (somehow), LVL UP
2016 music: Angel Olsen, Bon Iver, Car Seat Headrest, Cloud Nothings (2017, actually), Cymbals Eat Guitars, Greys, Local Natives, LVL UP
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Friday, October 28, 2016
Friday, May 1, 2015
Mux170: May 2015
Boom.
1. Felix Da Housecat - Rocket Ride (Devin Dazzle and the Neon Fever)
2. Belle and Sebastian - Another Sunny Day (The Life Pursuit)
3. Will Butler - Anna (Policy)
4. TV on the Radio - Love Stained (Seeds)
5. Crystal Castles - Air War (Crystal Castles)
6. Chromatics - Just Like You (Tommy)
7. Bon Iver - Inside Out (Spoon cover)
8. Viet Cong - March of Progress
9. Death From Above 1979 - Nothin' Left (The Physical World)
10. Iceage - How Many (Plowing Into The Field of Love)
11. Grizzly Bear - Foreground (Veckatimest)
12. Built To Spill - Living Zoo (Untethered Moon)
TRT 46:15
2015 music: Built To Spill, Chromatics, Viet Cong, Will Butler
1. Felix Da Housecat - Rocket Ride (Devin Dazzle and the Neon Fever)
2. Belle and Sebastian - Another Sunny Day (The Life Pursuit)
3. Will Butler - Anna (Policy)
4. TV on the Radio - Love Stained (Seeds)
5. Crystal Castles - Air War (Crystal Castles)
6. Chromatics - Just Like You (Tommy)
7. Bon Iver - Inside Out (Spoon cover)
8. Viet Cong - March of Progress
9. Death From Above 1979 - Nothin' Left (The Physical World)
10. Iceage - How Many (Plowing Into The Field of Love)
11. Grizzly Bear - Foreground (Veckatimest)
12. Built To Spill - Living Zoo (Untethered Moon)
TRT 46:15
2015 music: Built To Spill, Chromatics, Viet Cong, Will Butler
Friday, November 30, 2012
Mux114: December 2012
A little something for everything. Or maybe a little something for no one?
In the Box.
1. Grizzly Bear - Sleeping Ute (Shields)
2. Spoon - You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
3. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan (Swing Lo Magellan)
4. Lotus Plaza - Dusty Rhodes (Spooky Action At A Distance)
5. Passion Pit - Little Secrets (Manners)
6. LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House (London Sessions)
7. Four Tet - Pinnacles (Pink) (listen to this one with good headphones)
8. Bon Iver - Blindsided (For Emma, Forever Ago)
9. Elliott Smith - King's Crossing (From A Basement On The Hill)
10. Titus Andronicus - (I Am The) Electric Man (Local Business)
11. Frankie Rose - Interstellar (Interstellar)
12. Metz - Headache (Metz)
TRT 49:38
Rookies:
Metz
In the Box.
1. Grizzly Bear - Sleeping Ute (Shields)
2. Spoon - You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
3. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan (Swing Lo Magellan)
4. Lotus Plaza - Dusty Rhodes (Spooky Action At A Distance)
5. Passion Pit - Little Secrets (Manners)
6. LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House (London Sessions)
7. Four Tet - Pinnacles (Pink) (listen to this one with good headphones)
8. Bon Iver - Blindsided (For Emma, Forever Ago)
9. Elliott Smith - King's Crossing (From A Basement On The Hill)
10. Titus Andronicus - (I Am The) Electric Man (Local Business)
11. Frankie Rose - Interstellar (Interstellar)
12. Metz - Headache (Metz)
TRT 49:38
Rookies:
Metz
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Mux087: Bronchitis Sux
Dropped.
Neon Indian
- Klaxons - Echoes (Surfing The Void)
- Junior Boys - Itchy Fingers (It's All True)
- Radiohead - Staircase (Live from the Basement) (web rip)
- Neon Indian - Suns Irrupt (Era Extrana)
- TV on the Radio - Will Do (Nine Types of Light)
- Washed Out - Within and Without (Within and Without)
- Prefuse 73 - The Only Thief To Steal Tonality (The Only She Chapters)
- Feist - Undiscovered Firsts (Metals)
- Bon Iver - Perth (Bon Iver)
- Weekend - Untitled (Sports)
Neon Indian
Monday, August 1, 2011
Mux082: August 2011
Gave this one a little room to breathe.
In the Dropbox.
Washed Out
In the Dropbox.
- Peter Bjorn and John - Tomorrow Has To Wait
- The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Heart In Your Heartbreak
- Jay Reatard - Hammer I Miss You
- Deerhunter - Primitive 3D (Edit)
- Sleater-Kinney - One More Hour
- Wilco - A Shot In The Arm
- Fleet Foxes - Sim Sala Bim
- Bon Iver - Holocene
- Titus Andronicus - Upon Viewing Brueghel's "Landscape With The Fall of Icarus"
- Yacht - Shangri-La
- Washed Out - A Dedication
Washed Out
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Mux081: Swampy Summer
Short and/or sweet, with seven out of nine tracks released in 2011.
To the Box!
Rookies:
Cults
To the Box!
- Fucked Up - Queen of Hearts
- Sleater-Kinney - Light Rail Coyote
- Times New Viking - Ways To Go
- Cults - Oh My God
- Friendly Fires - Hawaiian Air
- Passion Pit - Eyes As Candles
- Battles - Wall Street
- Bon Iver - Calgary
- The Antlers - Corsicana
Rookies:
Cults
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Notable albums for Q2 (and those I missed in Q1)
The fiscal quarter Q2 has ended, and though that means nothing to anyone not working at a giant record company, it seems as good a time as any to highlight stuff that has agreed with my ears. Also, there are probably some Q1 albums tossed in that I've warmed to since my last post.
The Antlers - Burst Apart
I still need to sink my teeth into this. Hospice was my number two album of 2009, and after listening to it a minimum of twenty times (according to iTunes) and seeing them live three times, a bit of fatigue set in. If nothing else, Burst Apart seems to have more aural variety than Hospice, which more or less lurked in the same brooding sonic swamp.
Battles - Gloss Drop
Same here with Radiohead: I want to call it a day and fast-forward to the year-end so I can call Gloss Drop my second-favorite album of the year (after The King of Limbs). While the consensus is that Mirrored > Gloss Drop, I'm completely the opposite. After trying and trying and trying to force myself to accept its greatness (that I am completely incapable of receiving), the only enthusiasm I can muster up for Mirrored is "Race In," "Atlas," "Leyendecker," and "Race Out." The rest sound like more fleshed-out variants on their very-experimental B/C EPs.
Not only does Gloss Drop have one of the best bonafide singles of the year - "Ice Cream" - but the consistency that was so lacking in Mirrored congeals into a reliable but no-less-experimental album. Consider that most of the album sounds like the k-hole trip toward a psychedelic boardwalk amusement park, and while the departure of Braxton (as a deranged, pitch-shifted carnival barker) puts the focus on muscular instrumentals and show-stealing guest spots, the Battles brand of post-math-rock (there, I said it) deliver some epic results. See also "Futura" and "Wall Street" if you need convincing.
Also, my upcoming shows are Marnie Stern (a repeat), TV on the Radio, James Blake, Japandroids, and Battles, and I'm anticipating the Battles show about twenty times moreso than the rest. It helps that it's at an awesome venue in which I'll probably be about five feet from the band. I imagine I'll have to crane my neck to see the crash cymbal, but it'll be worth it.
Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
I keep confusing Black Dice with Black Lips. So I picked this up for the purpose of putting on some long drones when writing. But, lo, my mistake was soon discovered, and I wasn't at all put back by this fine collection of medium-fi (did I just invent a genre?) popish, rockish songs.
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
I listened to the leak, shrugged my shoulders, then gave it another shot once the gigantic waves of praise came in. Premature verdict: I like it. You need to spin it during very specific times (e.g. not blaring from a poolside boombox at 1 p.m. on a ninety-degree day), but that shouldn't deter. And neither should the inevitable backlash, if it hasn't already started.
Boris - Attention Please
Boris is a pretty weird fucking band. Whereas their other release this year - Heavy Rocks - is total stoner bait, this one veers in a very accessible direction; the most since the Japanese-metal awesome of Pink. Though it's a throwaway track (and even though a Heavy Rocks track shares the title and is completely different, goes on over ten minutes, etc.), "Aileron" really hits the spot.
Burial - Street Halo
Not much difference since Untrue, but that's certainly no problem.
Coma Cinema - Blue Suicide
I have an affection for bands who put out records of fairly-short songs. This is one of them.
Just found something rather cool. Apparently on the band's official site, you can legally download, for free, all their albums.
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
Amy Klein from Titus Andronicus likes this album. So do I. Obviously this hints at a much deeper connection am I rite?
Friendly Fires - Pala
Treading a lot of the same ground as their last album (which might be, uh, better). Now if they get around to a third release and it's still this kind of happy electrodance (which plays great when washing dishes, by the way), I might start to get disappointed.
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
Only one listen and it's pretty clear I'm going to be parsing this for a long time. Not that I'll try to sift through the lyrics or any of that rock opera confusion. Apart from that, though, the instrumentation is really, really catchy, which is a bit offsetting combined with Pink Eyes' usual screams.
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
Come for "MindKilla," stay for the infinity-sign interludes that will confuse your OS.
The Kills - Blood Pressures
Track by track, there are some great songs. But there's no unifying album concept except maybe a bit more of a raw, better-drum sound than the equally-uneven Midnight Boom.
Tune-Yards - whokill
You got me. My first listen was all player-hating, probably in reaction to some ridiculous Pitchfork score. Now I've gotten past my own personal backlash and can enjoy something that doesn't really sound like anything else out there.
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
So what if TV on the Radio has gone soft? "Killer Crane," a rather slow burn, is easily one of the best, most ridiculously-tuneful songs of the year. Whoever thought that singing the same notes as a banjo would have such a sentimental effect?
Albums in my possession that I think I'll like but haven't yet heard AND albums with one listen that might make it up here after some repeats:
And of course, Q3 most certainly will have an excellent cornucopia of albums.
My original Q1 picks:
Bibio - Mind Bokeh
Braids - Native Speaker
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
Destroyer - Kaputt
The Dodos - No Color
The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
The Hood Internet - The Mixtape Vol. V
James Blake - James Blake
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Radiohead - The King of Limbs
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
The Antlers - Burst Apart
I still need to sink my teeth into this. Hospice was my number two album of 2009, and after listening to it a minimum of twenty times (according to iTunes) and seeing them live three times, a bit of fatigue set in. If nothing else, Burst Apart seems to have more aural variety than Hospice, which more or less lurked in the same brooding sonic swamp.
Battles - Gloss Drop
Same here with Radiohead: I want to call it a day and fast-forward to the year-end so I can call Gloss Drop my second-favorite album of the year (after The King of Limbs). While the consensus is that Mirrored > Gloss Drop, I'm completely the opposite. After trying and trying and trying to force myself to accept its greatness (that I am completely incapable of receiving), the only enthusiasm I can muster up for Mirrored is "Race In," "Atlas," "Leyendecker," and "Race Out." The rest sound like more fleshed-out variants on their very-experimental B/C EPs.
Not only does Gloss Drop have one of the best bonafide singles of the year - "Ice Cream" - but the consistency that was so lacking in Mirrored congeals into a reliable but no-less-experimental album. Consider that most of the album sounds like the k-hole trip toward a psychedelic boardwalk amusement park, and while the departure of Braxton (as a deranged, pitch-shifted carnival barker) puts the focus on muscular instrumentals and show-stealing guest spots, the Battles brand of post-math-rock (there, I said it) deliver some epic results. See also "Futura" and "Wall Street" if you need convincing.
Also, my upcoming shows are Marnie Stern (a repeat), TV on the Radio, James Blake, Japandroids, and Battles, and I'm anticipating the Battles show about twenty times moreso than the rest. It helps that it's at an awesome venue in which I'll probably be about five feet from the band. I imagine I'll have to crane my neck to see the crash cymbal, but it'll be worth it.
Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
I keep confusing Black Dice with Black Lips. So I picked this up for the purpose of putting on some long drones when writing. But, lo, my mistake was soon discovered, and I wasn't at all put back by this fine collection of medium-fi (did I just invent a genre?) popish, rockish songs.
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
I listened to the leak, shrugged my shoulders, then gave it another shot once the gigantic waves of praise came in. Premature verdict: I like it. You need to spin it during very specific times (e.g. not blaring from a poolside boombox at 1 p.m. on a ninety-degree day), but that shouldn't deter. And neither should the inevitable backlash, if it hasn't already started.
Boris - Attention Please
Boris is a pretty weird fucking band. Whereas their other release this year - Heavy Rocks - is total stoner bait, this one veers in a very accessible direction; the most since the Japanese-metal awesome of Pink. Though it's a throwaway track (and even though a Heavy Rocks track shares the title and is completely different, goes on over ten minutes, etc.), "Aileron" really hits the spot.
Burial - Street Halo
Not much difference since Untrue, but that's certainly no problem.
Coma Cinema - Blue Suicide
I have an affection for bands who put out records of fairly-short songs. This is one of them.
Just found something rather cool. Apparently on the band's official site, you can legally download, for free, all their albums.
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
Amy Klein from Titus Andronicus likes this album. So do I. Obviously this hints at a much deeper connection am I rite?
Friendly Fires - Pala
Treading a lot of the same ground as their last album (which might be, uh, better). Now if they get around to a third release and it's still this kind of happy electrodance (which plays great when washing dishes, by the way), I might start to get disappointed.
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
Only one listen and it's pretty clear I'm going to be parsing this for a long time. Not that I'll try to sift through the lyrics or any of that rock opera confusion. Apart from that, though, the instrumentation is really, really catchy, which is a bit offsetting combined with Pink Eyes' usual screams.
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
Come for "MindKilla," stay for the infinity-sign interludes that will confuse your OS.
The Kills - Blood Pressures
Track by track, there are some great songs. But there's no unifying album concept except maybe a bit more of a raw, better-drum sound than the equally-uneven Midnight Boom.
Tune-Yards - whokill
You got me. My first listen was all player-hating, probably in reaction to some ridiculous Pitchfork score. Now I've gotten past my own personal backlash and can enjoy something that doesn't really sound like anything else out there.
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
So what if TV on the Radio has gone soft? "Killer Crane," a rather slow burn, is easily one of the best, most ridiculously-tuneful songs of the year. Whoever thought that singing the same notes as a banjo would have such a sentimental effect?
Albums in my possession that I think I'll like but haven't yet heard AND albums with one listen that might make it up here after some repeats:
- Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
- Cults - Cults
- James Drake (mixtape)
- Junior Boys - It's All True
- PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
- Okkervil River - I Am Very Far*
- Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread
- Tyler, The Creator - Goblin
- Wild Beasts - Smother
And of course, Q3 most certainly will have an excellent cornucopia of albums.
My original Q1 picks:
Bibio - Mind Bokeh
Braids - Native Speaker
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
Destroyer - Kaputt
The Dodos - No Color
The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
The Hood Internet - The Mixtape Vol. V
James Blake - James Blake
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Radiohead - The King of Limbs
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Mux057: August 2010
Download or stream at drop.io.
1. Spoon - The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
2. Best Coast - Boyfriend
3. Allo Darlin' - Kiss Your Lips
4. Dom - Hunny
5. Baths - Maximalist
6. Big Boi - Shutterbugg
7. ceo - Illuminata
8. Bon Iver - Blood Bank
9. The Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words
10. Fang Island - Sideswiper
11. School of Seven Bells - Bye Bye Bye
12. The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
1. Spoon - The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
2. Best Coast - Boyfriend
3. Allo Darlin' - Kiss Your Lips
4. Dom - Hunny
5. Baths - Maximalist
6. Big Boi - Shutterbugg
7. ceo - Illuminata
8. Bon Iver - Blood Bank
9. The Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words
10. Fang Island - Sideswiper
11. School of Seven Bells - Bye Bye Bye
12. The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
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