What Are You Listening To?

[Russ]

This is pretty great:

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[D_Davis]

[Ivan Drago]

I freakin' love this album.

[EyesWideOpen]

I've been getting a ton of use out of my Spotify Premium account. So far this week I've listened to:

Pharoahe Monch - PTSD
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Kanye West - GOOD Music
Kanye West/Jay-Z - Watch the Throne
Kanye West - Yeezus
Knife Party - Abandon Ship
Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East
The Bird and the Bee - Recreational Love
Son Lux - Bones

[D_Davis]

[Russ]

The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World

Really love this...it's like haunted ambient music, ala the Overlook Hotel, circa The Shining.

[D_Davis]

That's a cool track, Russ.

[Russ]

Right now I am listening to the Far East Family Band's song Nagare from Tenkujin (Kitaro was long gone and this was their final album). Many comparisons to Pink Floyd and German Krautrock.

This is my favorite song by them.

[Russ]

This is from Leyland Kirby's massive 4-hour, 3-CD debut solo effort, Sadly the Future Is No Longer What It Was. As one of the primary figures in the (apparently recent) musical genre of "Hauntology" (mainly thru his guise as The Caretaker), his tracks on this 2009 Box Set release run the gamut, sometimes caustic, sometimes beautiful, but always fleeting and introspective. I listen to this release and I hear echoes of Harold Budd, Angelo Badalamenti and Brian Eno. This is the soundtrack for a film David Lynch has yet to make.

And this track, Tonight Is the Last Night of the World is simply exquisite.

[D_Davis]

New Order is fucking back!

Music Complete is the best thing they've done since their masterpiece, Technique.

What a total surprise.

[D_Davis]

[D_Davis]

Not only is Music Complete good, but it's possible one of New Order's best albums. It strikes the perfect balance between bangin' dance tracks and rock numbers, it is perfectly mixed (but mastered too hot - want to get it on vinyl), and totally infectious. My girlfriend, who listens to a lot of top 40 club music, as well as alt-stuff, said that the modern dance/club acts out there could learn a lot from this New Order album. And I agree. In addition to the music being dancey as fuck, it's also super melodic, and expertly crafted. The more rock-like songs are also top-notch, perfectly capturing all of the elements that made the band so fresh in the 80s, while also looking forward to what is to come.

Peter Hook leaving was the best thing to ever happen to New Order. While he is obsessed with the past, touring around playing all old Joy Division and New Order songs, the band themselves, bolstered by two new members bringing a fresh pair of ears to the table, has taken a firm and bold stance on the now and the future.

Music Complete is an absolute triumph. Easily the best album I've heard this year. Every single track is at least good, with more than half being outstanding, and the opening 5-track sequence is the strongest sequence of tracks New Order has ever put on a studio album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p4ohy9a-_s

[D_Davis]

It's easy to forget how awesome Lenny Kravitz used to be. Been listening to Mama Said this week - man, what an album. So many amazing tracks, so well produced.

[Russ]

Daniel, I know I've been going on about the stuff I've been listening to from Leyland Kirby, but I purchased Eager to Tear Apart the Stars, and it is wonderful; check out the track My Dream Contained a Star. It's available on Bandcamp.

[D_Davis]

That's really pretty. Need to get the album.

[D_Davis]

D'Angelo meets Radiohead

https://soundcloud.com/roman-gianarthur/sets/ok-lady

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[Russ]

"A Fender Telecaster is a much more dangerous weapon than an AK47, its got better penetration, it's a killer. And it's got better communication. You see, the trouble with an AK47, is they're all dead. But if you've got a Fender Telecaster, and you play Peggy Sue like Buddy Holly did, how many people you going to get with that? And they're going to live, and it's going to live forever. i guess thats what i like about rock and roll..." - Alex Harvey 1975

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