Anyone interested in smart independent pop should check out Vienna Teng's Aims album. I suspect it's gonna be the best thing I hear this year, full of smart arrangements, quality across the board, veering from more ambient pieces to beat-heavy music. Last three tracks are particularly killer.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Welp, DD, The Stargazer Lilies's debut album is indeed quality. Been playing it repeatedly and it continues to improve with each listen.
Also grabbed up Callahan's Sometimes I Wish We Were Eagles. Been grooving on his material more... "Jim Cain" feels like a Nick Drake song in its prettiness, though vocal similarities are few and far between.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Yeah, I've been loving the Stargazer Lilies LP. I'm almost certain I never would've heard about them without DD's recommendation. I've been awaiting their debut since their first 4 songs came out almost 2 years ago and it didn't disappoint. So thanks Daniel...this more than makes up for your repeated pot shots at MBV.
I'll give you the first 50, but the next 287 were definitely pot shots!Quoting D_Davis (view post)
Pot shots? You mean well-deserving criticism?
LOL
You heard the new Flips EP, Peace Sword, yet? Great companion piece to The Terror. It's a bit lighter (how could it not be) with some flashes of Yoshimi-era, but really, you could tack onto the end of The Terror and it'd make an amazing, nearly seamless double album.
Yeah - it's fantastic. Can't believe the FLIPS put out two albums that I love this year. Glad I never completely wrote them off.
The Terror is...wow. That thing is dense as can be. And Peace Sword is almost a return to Soft Bulletin/Yoshimi. They actually sound like a band making music again.
So did The Boss ever make a bad album during the 80s? So far I haven't heard it if he did. I've spent the last week listening to Born In the USA.
BLOG
Everything dies, baby, that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies some day comes back
Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
And meet me tonight in Atlantic City
I've been listening to this and showing it to my friends a whole lot this year. It's a mix by Grouper with a bunch of traditional tunes. Surely there's something on it that fits what you're looking for.
http://www.factmag.com/2013/04/22/fact-mix-379-grouper/
It's gorgeous, regardless.
Interesting - I'll give it a listen. Thanks!
BTW, typo in the link: http://www.factmag.com/2013/04/22/fact-mix-379-grouper/
When it comes to the man-machine interface, we usually focus on ways of making the machines act more human. Drum machines and MIDI sequencers are capable of playing with swing and slop to emulate the human qualities that make music more nuanced and interesting.
But what happens when the humans begin to act more like machines? What happens when humans play live instruments (in this case upright bass, piano and drums) with computer-like timing, eschewing slop for a robot-like hypnotic rhythm, changing so minutely as to nearly avoid conscious attention?
The answer to that question is...
Dawn of Midi
The new standard for minimal has been set.
I would recommend you check out Altan. They are awesome. Also, you can't go wrong with Clannad, especially if you are a fan of hauntingly beautiful, ethereal vocal harmonizations.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Wow! Thanks for the Clannad rec. Absolutely the kind of stuff I was looking for. Love this sad drinking music.
I'll check out Altan as well.
I pretty much love all of Burial's music, but this new EP is hitting me harder than anything of his since Untrue. A lot of the appeal of his music is its enigmatic quality, its mysterious sentimentality, but this is the most on-the-nose Burial release yet and, oddly, I think it gains power from that.
Van-Anh Vo's Three-Mountain Pass, a collection of classic and contemporary songs scored to a Vietnamese zither, is pretty wonderful. Translations of Satie and others, a little vocals, but quietly haunting in the approach to ambiant and minimalistic music.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
I don't like this much at all. It feels aimless to me, like something any decent bedroom producer would create over a long weekend. The beat in the first piece is especially tired and uncreative - sounds like an old drum and bass beat. I was really disappointed by the EP, mainly because I've enjoyed a lot of what Burial has done in the past. I don't know - it just didn't grab me at all.
Did you happen to pick up Tim Exile's EP? Similar structure - 3 extended tracks. It's excellent. So sonically adventurous.
M.I.A's newest album Matangi is a return to form! Hooray!
Got my Audioengine A5 speakers today - can't wait to start listening to all of my favorite music on these things. To break them in tonight, it's going to be Eberhard Weber. It'll be liking listening to this music for the first time. These speakers bring out nuances and things in music you never even knew existed in the original recordings. The clarity is unreal, especially for only $300.
New Del album
http://ambrosiaforheads.com/2014/01/...-album-stream/
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