Let's get back to some beats, hmm?
Boom.
1. Washed Out - Entrance / It All Feels Right (Paracosm) (For ECM and JET)
2. Air - Playground Love (The Virgin Suicides Soundtrack) (For JCD)
3. Burial - Near Dark (Untrue)
4. Flying Lotus - GNG BNG (Los Angeles)
5. James Blake - Retrograde (Overgrown)
6. Ty Segall - The Keepers (Sleeper)
7. Savages - Marshal Dear (Silence Yourself)
8. Arcade Fire - Normal Person (Reflecktor)
9. Franz Ferdinand - Love Illumination (Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions)
10. Cashmere Cat - Mirror Mau (The Music of Grand Theft Auto V)
11. Fuck Buttons - Sentients (Slow Focus)
12. The Range - Metal Swing (Nonfiction)
Bonus track: Black Dice - Endless Happiness (Beaches and Canyons) (For MS)
"Endless Happiness" is a bit left field, so there's a fair amount of silence before it kicks in after the end of "Metal Swing." Feel free to stop listening when you, dear listener, think it starts to get a little weird. I've just been on a big Beaches and Canyons kick; it's been my writing music for the past week. And o rite, it's 15 minutes long, so that's why the TRT of this mux is a tad bloated.
Also have to give a shout to Franz Ferdinand's Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions. The band, like !!!, has fallen out of favor in the hipster circuit, but they still put out good records. While there's nothing as experimentally awesome as "Lucid Dreams" on Right Thoughts, there's some great straight-ahead rock charts. If my ear is right, "Love Illumination" is the first time the band has done that level of guitar harmonies.
TRT 65:46
Rookies: Cashmere Cat, Savages
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Sunday, December 15, 2013
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Mux096: March 2012
Early since thar be megachapters on the horizon. Though you fine readers still have two days to choke down the 32,000-word behemoth that is Chapter 42 before 43. (Don't worry, though, since 42 is the longest megachapter by several thousand words.)
Mux096 is in my second Dropbox because the first is filled and shh don't tell them I'm using dummy e-mails to get multiples. It's hard out there for a pimp (in the words of Academy Award winners Three 6 Mafia) in this post-Megaupload world; and it's sweet that you can stream from Dropboxes if you don't want to commit to this awesome download.
1. Radiohead - Palo Alto (OK Computer b-sides)
2. St. Vincent - Northern Lights (Strange Mercy)
3. Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms (Something)
4. Phantogram - You Are The Ocean (Eyelid Movies)
5. YACHT - Tripped & Fell In Love (Shangri-La)
6. Spoon - Paper Tiger (Kill The Moonlight)
7. Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt (Evol) (propers to TS for the suggestion)
8. Sleigh Bells - You Lost Me (Reign of Terror)
9. Burial - Loner (Kindred EP)
10. Cloud Nothings - Cut You (Attack On Memory)
Note 1: On Hyperdub's official website for Burial's Kindred MP3s, it says the brief skips are intentional on the EP tracks, so it's not a bad GarageBand export. I was going to edit them out but I think a Burial hit squad would come knocking on my door.
Note 2: Call it bad sequencing or laziness, but I love "Cut You" so much that it comes totally out of left field out of a manual fade-out of "Loner." Don't have your speakers too high or you might have a minor heart attack when it bursts in.
TRT 43:35
Rookies:
Chairlift
Mux096 is in my second Dropbox because the first is filled and shh don't tell them I'm using dummy e-mails to get multiples. It's hard out there for a pimp (in the words of Academy Award winners Three 6 Mafia) in this post-Megaupload world; and it's sweet that you can stream from Dropboxes if you don't want to commit to this awesome download.
1. Radiohead - Palo Alto (OK Computer b-sides)
2. St. Vincent - Northern Lights (Strange Mercy)
3. Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms (Something)
4. Phantogram - You Are The Ocean (Eyelid Movies)
5. YACHT - Tripped & Fell In Love (Shangri-La)
6. Spoon - Paper Tiger (Kill The Moonlight)
7. Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt (Evol) (propers to TS for the suggestion)
8. Sleigh Bells - You Lost Me (Reign of Terror)
9. Burial - Loner (Kindred EP)
10. Cloud Nothings - Cut You (Attack On Memory)
Note 1: On Hyperdub's official website for Burial's Kindred MP3s, it says the brief skips are intentional on the EP tracks, so it's not a bad GarageBand export. I was going to edit them out but I think a Burial hit squad would come knocking on my door.
Note 2: Call it bad sequencing or laziness, but I love "Cut You" so much that it comes totally out of left field out of a manual fade-out of "Loner." Don't have your speakers too high or you might have a minor heart attack when it bursts in.
TRT 43:35
Rookies:
Chairlift
Monday, August 15, 2011
Mux083: Back To Cool
In the Box.
Black Lips - Family Tree
Burial - Stolen Dog
Iceage - New Brigade
Titus Andronicus - Breed
Tune-Yards - Powa
Rookies:
Amy Winehouse
Iceage
McLusky
- TV on the Radio - The Wrong Way
- Iceage - White Rune
- Titus Andronicus - Breed (Nirvana cover)
- Black Lips - Family Tree
- Tune-Yards - Powa
- Burial - Stolen Dog
- The National - Green Gloves
- Broken Social Scene - Feel Good Lost
- McLusky - Alan Is A Cowboy Killer
- Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own
Black Lips - Family Tree
Burial - Stolen Dog
Iceage - New Brigade
Titus Andronicus - Breed
Tune-Yards - Powa
Rookies:
Amy Winehouse
Iceage
McLusky
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, January 16, 2011
Mux069: Electronic 2
Apologies to the frothing masses who didn't get their midmonth Mux on the midmonth day. I think I've responded to most of the deluge of needy e-mails. If I haven't gotten around to you: I'm sorry. Let's stay friends.
1. James Blake - CMYK
2. Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
3. Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
4. Deerhunter - Helicopter (Diplo & Lunice Remix)
5. Junior Boys - Last Exit
6. Battles - Leyendecker
7. Burial - Archangel
8. How To Dress Well - Ready For The World
9. DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
10. The Knife - Still Light
11. Crystal Castles - Untrust Us (Fade Out)
Making their mux debut:
Burial
How To Dress Well
James Blake
- Download: Mux069: Electronic 2
1. James Blake - CMYK
2. Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
3. Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
4. Deerhunter - Helicopter (Diplo & Lunice Remix)
5. Junior Boys - Last Exit
6. Battles - Leyendecker
7. Burial - Archangel
8. How To Dress Well - Ready For The World
9. DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
10. The Knife - Still Light
11. Crystal Castles - Untrust Us (Fade Out)
Making their mux debut:
Burial
How To Dress Well
James Blake
Saturday, August 22, 2009
JDK Radio 006: Night
Wait until it's dark.
Download via drop.io.
Tracks:
1. The Knife - Silent Shout
2. Crystal Castles - Crimewave (vs. HEALTH)
3. Justice - Waters of Nazareth
4. Burial - Archangel
5. Battles - Leyendecker
6. Tortoise - Ten-Day Interval
7. Broken Social Scene - Hotel
8. Radiohead - Fog
9. TV on the Radio - DLZ
10. RJD2 - Here's What's Left
11. Junior Boys - Last Exit
12. Flying Lotus - Auntie's Lock / Infinitum
Download via drop.io.
Tracks:
1. The Knife - Silent Shout
2. Crystal Castles - Crimewave (vs. HEALTH)
3. Justice - Waters of Nazareth
4. Burial - Archangel
5. Battles - Leyendecker
6. Tortoise - Ten-Day Interval
7. Broken Social Scene - Hotel
8. Radiohead - Fog
9. TV on the Radio - DLZ
10. RJD2 - Here's What's Left
11. Junior Boys - Last Exit
12. Flying Lotus - Auntie's Lock / Infinitum
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