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Album 8 - Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music by Orchestra Of Spheres
This came in a bundles of Aussie vinyl from Fire Records. LoFi, with lyrics almost chanted. Guitars and organs. Very pleasant. -
Album 7 - Gnarly Buttons and John's Book of Alleged Dances by John Adams
I try to experience experimental things when I can because when you discover something amazing it can change your life. The problem is you have to wade through a lot of shit, not because they're bad but because experiments have to be prepared to fail. If you know you're in safe hands, then it's never going to be so exciting as when it might be ( Read more... ) -
Books
So through lent I'm trying hard to read in my spare time (and avoid trash TV). So far I've got through ( Read more... ) -
Album 6 - All Tomorrow's Parties 3.1 curated by Matt Groening
This didn't make an impression on me at all. It wasn't unpleasant, but I just remember getting back to the cover of the Simpsons theme and thinking "Oh, so that's happened". It's guitars and drums and vocals hidden in the back of the mix, mostly. I'll listen to it again, but unfortunately not in lent. -
Album 5 - Zinc Stoat presents Call of the Wild
I'm not entirely sure of the heritage of this album. It seems to be a combination of music made for Ken Campbell's The History of Comedy Part One: Ventriloquism, and music made from it. A lot of it is a bit too rambly to be enjoyable in itself, but I can imagine it being great front of house and incidental music. Lots of tight loops, sampled dog ( Read more... ) -
Album 4 - In Sydney by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
This is the swansong of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. Stripped back and live it makes the indie electronica feel a lot more homely and real. Knowing those vocals are being sung by a real person makes a difference somehow. It made me very happy on a boring bus. -
Album 3 - Mating Season by Dijf Sanders
One of the tracks from this appears as Unknown in one of my mixtapes, and thanks to shazaam I finally tracked down what it is. The album pops in and out of styles, laying drums on lazy jazz and shuffly vocals, picking the beat up and then carefully putting it back down. Always making you think just a little bit faster than you would expect. -
Album 2 - The Organ Grinder's Monkey by Meursault
This is mostly a covers album kickstarted to send Meursault to SXSW this year. It does a great job of genre jumping, not least in the choice of songs. At its worst, it's generic Scots indie. At its best, it's a shining example of trust and faith and passion. I'd particularly like to pick out No Children and Thou Shalt Always Kill. I now know how to ( Read more... ) -
Album 1 - No.2 by Christina Vantzou
I have no idea what lead me to this. It's a series of lovingly crafted instrumentals, all starting small and soaring later. Very ambient, rhythmically speaking. Could easily be a film score. In fact, cries out for it. -
It's lent again
Once again lent has rolled around and I've decided to mark it by taking things up.
I'm taking a photo every day. They're on blipfoto. There's also a puzzle running through those posts. Email me the solution (it's a short phrase) to heyisolvedapuzzle at weaselspoon dot com and I'll give you a prize ( Read more... )