Anyone want to see the most pretentious video you'll ever see in your entire life?
Anyone want to see the most pretentious video you'll ever see in your entire life?
It's been a rather dull year for new ambient releases.
Glad I discovered this guy today.
And, the second part of Harold Budd's Jane comes out in two weeks. Maybe the last few months of 2014 will show some promise.
Eno/Hyde album High Life on heavy rotation now that it's on spotify.
Time to Waste It is probably my favorite, but the whole album is pretty awesome. All the polyrhythms remind me of early 80s Eno like My Life In the Bush of Ghosts and Remain In Light.
Rustie's latest is pretty much the shit. While somewhat inconsistent, I'm finding myself return to it as a whole. Up Down is more than likely playing at my house at any given point in time.
Stuff I've Watched out of *****
The Last Duel - ***
Only Murders in the Building: **
Squid Games: **.5
Discreet Music, (Eno, 1975)
Stuff I've Watched out of *****
The Last Duel - ***
Only Murders in the Building: **
Squid Games: **.5
Transona Five from Mars Audiac Quintet by Stereolab - one of my favorites
One of the few Rock en Espanhol albums you must listen.
This new Jens Lekman mixtape takes me right back to that perfect sublimity that was Night Falls Over Kortedala. The lovely instrumentation and peppiness of the whole thing benefits from that omnipresent feeling of "this too shall pass"--in the end just as pessimistic a sentiment as it is optimistic--so that the heart-wrenching theme from Contempt, stuck right in the middle, feels right at home and takes the whole thing up a notch.
Seriously, between this, Grouper's FACT mix from last year, and Erland Oye's contribution to DJ Kicks, these "mixtapes" can in a way be some of my favorite releases of any given year. And I don't know what to do about it.
Just got in the mail: People Like Us's ultra-rare 1994 mini-CD on Staalplaat, Guide To Broadcasting.
It's fantabulous.
"We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."
Arrietty's Song by Cecile Corbel.
Yellow Eyes by The Gun Club.
Mark Kozalek is such an asshole, but "War on Drugs: Suck My Cock" is pretty hysterical.
I'm all for artists growing and changing, but good lord do I hate his new vocal style.Quoting Derek (view post)
His last great album was Lost Verses.
Friend of mine showed this to me and I thought it was pretty hot: .
Stuff I've Watched out of *****
The Last Duel - ***
Only Murders in the Building: **
Squid Games: **.5
The Saints - Eternally Yours
Fantastic
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
Just when I thought my top 10 was finished:
D'Angelo.
One little x-mas present to myself was the 2013 release, Don't Think Right, It's All Twice, by People Like Us. I'll say it again: Vickie Bennett is a genius. I've loved her work (sound collage stuff, usually filed under 'Experimental') for almost 20 years, and I'm still amazed at how she continually reinvents herself as an artist.
This release seems like your standard mash-up album, but she's much too crafty and subversive for that. There's always a method to her madness (or as I'm sure she would say, a madness to her method). On paper, a pairing as eclectic as that of 60's Moog pioneers Perrey and Kingsley with Stravinsky's Night on Bald Mountain should never work. Here, it not only works, it's an integral part of a cohesive, thematic whole. There are too many highlights to mention, but I would be remiss if I didn't single out her new Christmas masterpiece, I'm Dreaming.
Since I'm about the only fan 'round here, here's my consensus of her "released" recordings (virtually all her work is available for free at her site or at UBUWEB. I purchased these since I like to support her endeavors.
A Guide To Broadcasting - 7.5
Beware The Whim Reaper - 7
Hate People Like You - 8
People Like Us Meet The Jet Black Hair People...In Concert! (with Wobbly) - 8.5
Hate People Like Us (remixes by various artists) - 7
Thermos Explorer - 7.5
Lassie House / Jumble Massive (reissue) - 8
A Fistful of Knuckles - 10
People Like Us and Friends - live, Vol. 1 - 7.5
Recyclopaedia Brittanica (greatest "hits") - 9
Wide Open Spaces (with Matmos and Wobbly) - 10
Nothing Special (with Kenny G) - 8.5
Music For The Fire (with Wobbly) - 8.5
Welcome Abroad - 6.5
Don't Think Right, It's All Twice - 9
"We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."
The only album I have and have heard is A Fistful of Knuckles, and it is awesome.
I'll listen to more of her music in 2015.
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/People_Like_Us/
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