June 2013 mix
June mix up and ready to go at sendspace.
In June I read The Island of Dr. Moreau, which is maybe not so good a book. It's possible that my judgment was prejudiced by the fact that every time the manimals did their ominous ritual chants, I heard their words to the melody of Devo and Oingo Boingo songs, which punctured the atmosphere.
Several comeback-y records represented here. Alison Moyet's new synthpop album remains impressive. 90s Hyperium act Mellonta Tauta had a melodic heavenly voices sound back in the day, and after 20 years return a little slicked up. Not as consistently impressive as Moyet's new stuff, but definitely worth a listen. Skinny Puppy's could maybe be called a comeback album? I lost track of them when they started drifting into metal, but much of the new album sounds like the later work of a band that recorded "Smothered Hope." "Wornin'" is my favorite, but most of the album goes down pretty easy.
01. Devo - Jocko Homo
02. Oingo Boingo - No Spill Blood
03. The Cure - Out of Mind
04. Christian Death - Kill Your Sons (Live)
05. Beborn Beton - Life Is a Distance
06. Umpire - Substance
07. Lebanon Hanover - Saddest Smile
08. The Knife - Raging Lung
09. Savages - Shut Up
10. Alison Moyet - All Signs of Life
11. Rossetti's Compass - Desire
12. Skinny Puppy - Wornin'
13. Astaron - Sea-Blue Ladies
14. Mellonta Tauta - Paris Noir
15. Yann Tiersen - Bagatelle
16. Sardine V - Pictures
17. Echo and the Bunnymen - Pictures on My Wall
I'm off to California for a couple of weeks and will finish up with 2013 mixes when I return in January.
In June I read The Island of Dr. Moreau, which is maybe not so good a book. It's possible that my judgment was prejudiced by the fact that every time the manimals did their ominous ritual chants, I heard their words to the melody of Devo and Oingo Boingo songs, which punctured the atmosphere.
Several comeback-y records represented here. Alison Moyet's new synthpop album remains impressive. 90s Hyperium act Mellonta Tauta had a melodic heavenly voices sound back in the day, and after 20 years return a little slicked up. Not as consistently impressive as Moyet's new stuff, but definitely worth a listen. Skinny Puppy's could maybe be called a comeback album? I lost track of them when they started drifting into metal, but much of the new album sounds like the later work of a band that recorded "Smothered Hope." "Wornin'" is my favorite, but most of the album goes down pretty easy.
01. Devo - Jocko Homo
02. Oingo Boingo - No Spill Blood
03. The Cure - Out of Mind
04. Christian Death - Kill Your Sons (Live)
05. Beborn Beton - Life Is a Distance
06. Umpire - Substance
07. Lebanon Hanover - Saddest Smile
08. The Knife - Raging Lung
09. Savages - Shut Up
10. Alison Moyet - All Signs of Life
11. Rossetti's Compass - Desire
12. Skinny Puppy - Wornin'
13. Astaron - Sea-Blue Ladies
14. Mellonta Tauta - Paris Noir
15. Yann Tiersen - Bagatelle
16. Sardine V - Pictures
17. Echo and the Bunnymen - Pictures on My Wall
I'm off to California for a couple of weeks and will finish up with 2013 mixes when I return in January.