yeah!
v/a - 'minus 27 and counting - a 22-track unlabel compilation' (unlabel)
eight quid in road, ya can't go wrong. 22 bands i've never heard of. some cool stuff. and some dross. lots of jaggedy misanthropic-sounding prolapse-style head-nod-almost-mosh material for some reason. which is great, cos i dig that shizzle. good stuff from joeyfat, kill yourself, ship's a-going down, matra, rebus (even if the singer has a cold), 30 day hex ('post'-'rock' but good), cove, the ship of the sun (wimpy folk), ahhh loads of people.
wilco - 'yankee hotel foxtrot' (nonesuch, i think)
i dug this out after spending 2 solid weeks listening to 'a ghost is born'. wilco = dadrock for losers, right? well, i thought so, but i'm really liking this. i could start going on about it but most of you already know what it sounds like. i really love 'i am trying to break your heart' (the song, not the movie) with the nice lyrical turns of phrase - "let's undress like cross-eyed strangers" and the like. now i just need to get jim o'rourke in to add interesting soundscapes to my post-country beatles-influenced moany semi-acoustic band.
stoat - 'future come and get me' (no label, not even a made-up-for-one-release one)
well, i may as well admit straight off that i bought this out of friendly loyalty and all that, but it's actually been getting a lot of play... i really like the way that it's pretty much unique; stoat are instantly recognisable. stoat and boxes are the only two irish 'indie' bands i can think of who are willing to sing in their own accents, which is a lot more honest and, well, unselfconcious than most people doing anything remotely familiar. and the songs are really properly good; they may mostly follow the verse-chorus-verse way of doing things but it's obvious that they've been worked and worked and worked, so no surprise that the album took half a lifetime to put together or something. cool.
autechre & the hafler trio - aeo3 & 3hae (die stadt)
crazily fancy packaging - constellation eat your heart out! the music is mostly processed found sound and the like. i haven't properly listened to it - anyone else get it yet? some of it is like listening to fridges humming and all, but this stuff reveals itself over time; i'll get back to you on it...
sooooooooooooo... what y'all been listening to?
v/a - 'minus 27 and counting - a 22-track unlabel compilation' (unlabel)
eight quid in road, ya can't go wrong. 22 bands i've never heard of. some cool stuff. and some dross. lots of jaggedy misanthropic-sounding prolapse-style head-nod-almost-mosh material for some reason. which is great, cos i dig that shizzle. good stuff from joeyfat, kill yourself, ship's a-going down, matra, rebus (even if the singer has a cold), 30 day hex ('post'-'rock' but good), cove, the ship of the sun (wimpy folk), ahhh loads of people.
wilco - 'yankee hotel foxtrot' (nonesuch, i think)
i dug this out after spending 2 solid weeks listening to 'a ghost is born'. wilco = dadrock for losers, right? well, i thought so, but i'm really liking this. i could start going on about it but most of you already know what it sounds like. i really love 'i am trying to break your heart' (the song, not the movie) with the nice lyrical turns of phrase - "let's undress like cross-eyed strangers" and the like. now i just need to get jim o'rourke in to add interesting soundscapes to my post-country beatles-influenced moany semi-acoustic band.
stoat - 'future come and get me' (no label, not even a made-up-for-one-release one)
well, i may as well admit straight off that i bought this out of friendly loyalty and all that, but it's actually been getting a lot of play... i really like the way that it's pretty much unique; stoat are instantly recognisable. stoat and boxes are the only two irish 'indie' bands i can think of who are willing to sing in their own accents, which is a lot more honest and, well, unselfconcious than most people doing anything remotely familiar. and the songs are really properly good; they may mostly follow the verse-chorus-verse way of doing things but it's obvious that they've been worked and worked and worked, so no surprise that the album took half a lifetime to put together or something. cool.
autechre & the hafler trio - aeo3 & 3hae (die stadt)
crazily fancy packaging - constellation eat your heart out! the music is mostly processed found sound and the like. i haven't properly listened to it - anyone else get it yet? some of it is like listening to fridges humming and all, but this stuff reveals itself over time; i'll get back to you on it...
sooooooooooooo... what y'all been listening to?
