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Mickey wrote:
Brett wrote:
Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown I've been kicking myself for not finding out about Jeff's solo material before now, as this is right up my alley and I daresay closer to the direction I'd like to to have seen Tortoise go after Standards. A bit jazz, a bit hip-hop, a bit funk, a bit electronic, a bit R&B, and it's all run through a simultaneous feeling of wistful nostalgia and exuberant hope. This has shot towards the top of my list for this year and I imagine it will fight hard for the number one spot.
I truly cannot get enough of this album, but it has also driven me to Jeff's previous solo work--which isn't quite as good but has still been a delight.
Hey, I had a similar thought that it felt like a logical extension of Standards!
Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown I've been kicking myself for not finding out about Jeff's solo material before now, as this is right up my alley and I daresay closer to the direction I'd like to to have seen Tortoise go after Standards. A bit jazz, a bit hip-hop, a bit funk, a bit electronic, a bit R&B, and it's all run through a simultaneous feeling of wistful nostalgia and exuberant hope. This has shot towards the top of my list for this year and I imagine it will fight hard for the number one spot.
I truly cannot get enough of this album, but it has also driven me to Jeff's previous solo work--which isn't quite as good but has still been a delight.
Yeah, I picked up his 2016 album, The New Breed, as well, and it feels like a prototype for the new record. There's similar approaches to composition there from a structural and emotional standpoint, but Max Brown is more successful at hitting the mark more often.
And Trag, yessir, the album reminds me most of Standards and TNT, which is peak era Tortoise in my reckoning.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Yeah the first track of The New Breed is great but the rest of it doesn't hold my attention the same way.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Really enjoying Bill Frisell's new album Valentine -- I always love it when he works in the trio format, great interplay but also laser-beam focus on his guitar playing, which is always the main event...
Current ranking of the 2020 albums I've heard (updated):
Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
Could u listen to a Hero's Death please?
This was fine. Opening three tracks are not my bag. Samey, droning, wallpaper music that almost got me to switch records. But A Lucid Dream is really interesting. And the You Said - Living in America run is great.
Had this been an EP, I think it would rank much higher on the 2020 release list for me. As it stands, it's an interesting, if sometimes monotonous, listen that has some great highs. There are plenty of songs I imagine I'll return to frequently. Wouldn't surprise me if the entire album grows on me. There's much there to work with. But upon first listen, I'd say it's a middling record. I think it'll just be fatigue level that determines how often I choose to spin the entire album from the start.
Current ranking of the 2020 albums I've heard (updated):
Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple Gigaton - Pearl Jam Kitchen Sink - Nadine Shah It Is What It Is - Thundercat RTJ4 - Run The Jewels Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas Such Pretty Forks in the Road - Alanis Morisssette That's How Rumors Get Started - Margo Price Saint Cloud - Waxahatchee Far From Home - Aubrie Sellers
Dias Raros - Melenas Gaslighter - The Chicks LP2 - Lo Tom Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was - Bright Eyes Suite For Max Brown - Jeff Parker Reunions - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Bad Vacation - Liza Anne Set My Heart on Fire Immediately - Perfume Genius The Waterfall II - My Morning Jacket Ascension - Sufjan Stevens
Old Flowers - Courtney Marie Andrews Source - Nubya Garcia grae - Moses Sumney Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers Wake UP! - Hazel English Homegrown - Neil Young On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment - Ambrose Akinmusire UR FUN - Of Montreal folklore - Taylor Swift Women in Music Pt. III - HAIM
Amazones Power - Les Amazones d'Afrique Summerlong -Rose City Band Angular Blues - Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade After Hours - The Weeknd Modern Dead - Denai Moore Old Time Feeling - S.G. Goodman For Their Love - Other Lives Strange Fascination - Chatham County Line The Loves of Your Life - Hamilton Leithauser SAWAYAMA - Rina Sawayama
Logan Ledger - Logan Ledger Song For Our Daughter - Laura Marling Sideways to New Italy - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever La vita nuova - Christine and the Queens Transmigration Blues - The Dead Tongues What's New Tomboy? - Damien Jurado Petals For Armor - Hayley Williams Rose In The Dark - Cleo Sol Are You Gone - Sarah Harmer Expectations - Katie Pruitt
Folk N' Roll, Vol 1: Tales of Isolation - J.S. Ondara Saturn Return - The Secret Sisters Whole New Mess - Angel Olsen TO LOVE IS TO LIVE - Jehnny Beth Muzz - Muzz Thank You Ancestor Finger - Harper's Jar The Unraveling - Drive-By Truckers The New Abnormal - The Strokes American Death Squad (EP) - Jeff Ament Straight Songs of Sorrow - Mark Lanegan
A Hero's Death - Fontaines D.C. Notes On a Conditional Form - The 1975 Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa Likewise - Frances Quinlan I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep - Ghostpoet It Was Good Until It Wasn't - Kehlani Aporia - Sufjan Stevens Hannah - Lomelda Eclipse - Addy
I'm Your Empress Of - Empress Of There Is No Other... - Isobel Campbell Neon Cross - Jaime Wyatt Beginners - Christian Lee Hutson color theory - Soccer Mommy Heavy Light - U.S. Girls Cold Water - Medhane From Liberty Street - Mapache Invisible People - Chicano Batman 3.15.20 - Childish Gambino
Music To Be Murdered By - Eminem Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs - Colter Wall Marigold - Stu Larsen
Another new album from Automatisme, his second full-length this year, is called Terrain Reduction, out now on the Chilean label, G89 Records. It's a further permutation of his interest in time and space conveyed and manipulated through generative sound creation. Here's the Bandcamp link to the album where it can all be listened to except for the second track, "Terrain," which is only available to those who purchase the album or support the label on Patreon:
Out today is this new, 21-minute piece by Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion), "Starling Troubles Sparrow," on the Australian imprint Longform Editions, which is basically what it says on the tin, a label that specializes in releasing long pieces of music. Efrim's contribution is a looped piano phrase that he applied various filters to in real time and then further processed through an amplifier chain to be re-recorded. It's kinda like a shambling, punk-rock version of the Disintegration Loops. Check it here: https://longformeditions.bandcamp.com/track/starling-troubles-sparrow And a Youtube link for those that prefer:
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Going to take the new Microphones album on a spin today, looking forward to it.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Pre-ordered the new Angel Olsen, Bill Callahan, and Elvis Costello albums today. My new music listening this year has been very jazz-centric so I am looking forward to these.
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Kevin Davis wrote:
Pre-ordered the new Angel Olsen, Bill Callahan, and Elvis Costello albums today. My new music listening this year has been very jazz-centric so I am looking forward to these.
I gotta sadly confess that I’m not into the Angel Olsen new singles at all. Hopefully they don’t portend anything resembling the album.
I just listened to the performance of "Whole New Mess" she did on Fallon and enjoyed it very much. As usual, I find her lyrics a little half-cooked for how dramatic her presentation is, but I don't care -- I love her voice. Solo electric guitar in this style always gives me Superwolf vibes so I suspect I'll enjoy the album
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Mickey wrote:
Going to take the new Microphones album on a spin today, looking forward to it.
This is very good.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
I haven't previewed any of the tracks yet, but my understanding is that the whole thing is completely solo.
Interesting. I'm so excited to check this stuff out. I liked her last album but it took a few listens and still felt like a step down from previous work. Still, always excited for new stuff from her.
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