Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Re: Albums of 2022
Mon January 24, 2022 12:19 am
dad wrote:I know there’s not a lot of love for Grizzly Bear here, but I don’t care.
Daniel Rossen, one of the members of the former band, is putting out an album this year, and I tend to lean more on his GB contributions. Christopher Bear, the GB drummer is featured on this track. Not sure if he’s on the whole album. It’s good to hear Rossen’s voice again. It sounds like a GB tune, but I like it.
almost uncanny how much this sounds like Jim O'Rourke's last Drag City album:
Mickey wrote:Looking forward to diving in to the new Jake Xerxes Fussell record that just came out, Good and Green Again. Out of Sight is still a favorite.
had never heard of him before. i liked that song a lot.
About a month ago Constellation announced that they would be putting out the debut full-length of Kee Avil, the songwriting alias of Vicky Mettler who has spent some time around Montreal building her reputation as a guitar-slinging noisemonger. Details about the album have now surfaced; it's titled Crease and will be released on March 11. The initial announcement dropped the lead track, "See My Shadow," and now the immediately following song, "saf," is also available for streaming. The two songs pair well with 2018's Kee Avil EP (https://keeavil.bandcamp.com/album/kee-avil-ep), displaying Mettler's interest in using dissonant tones and rhythmic focus to construct her compositions.
Jonathan Parant is best known as one fourth of Montreal group Fly Pan Am, but he's also occasionally nurtured a solo career alongside playing in a number of other outfits in the city. Actors Artificial is a new alias he has unveiled with a debut release, Untimeliness & Default Settings on the Italian label Superpang. The two twenty-minute pieces on this album are definitely FPA-related, though obviously in an extended fashion and with a more grandiose sensibility.
Last year musician, writer, and theorist Eldritch Priest released an album that was one of three heralding the return of the excellent weird music imprint Rat-Drifting. Coming up on March 4, Priest's first album with a vinyl release is coming out via the Toronto label Halocline Trance, titled Omphaloskepsis. It's reportedly a 54-minute piece that comprises a wandering a guitar melody with some digital manipulation along the way. The digital version is divided into eight movements of which the first can currently be heard on Bandcamp: