Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues. I’ve been on a Nick Cave/Grinderman jag lately. I couldn’t tell you why…it just seems right for the time of year.
St. Vincent: Strange Mercy. I’m not sure how I feel about this one yet. Entertaining lyrics + a studio-intensive sound that’s hard to describe (unless you’re familiar with Dirty Projectors).
Wilco: The Whole Love. I like this more than I have the last couple of albums, and it feels like older Wilco, so maybe there’s a reason.
Pink Floyd: Meddle. I watching a Liverpool soccer game when I heard “You’ll Never Walk Alone” played at the end. That reminded me of the PF song “Fearless”, which I hadn’t heard in decades, so I ended up buying this album on a lark (I’ve had it on vinyl for probably 30 years, but haven’t had a record player in 10). Anyway, there are a lot of memories here from being a teenager.
Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree. All I can say is, I’m glad John Darnielle has kept his humor after what has apparently been a fairly fucked-up existence.
Damn you, I am listening to Pink Floyd Meddle right now because of you…a friend told me earlier today he bought some old PF vinyl at a library sale today.
I listen mostly to obscure metal and jazz bands that most of you will never have heard of; for sanity’s sake I try and include genre descriptions so that no one will have to click links thinking they are going to listen to pop music and then be all surprised when they hear loud guitars and people screaming/yelling/growling-like-Cookie Monster-on-a-bender. Not everything I listen to sounds like that, but since I’m pretty used (by now) to people not liking the music I like, I try and help people with what they can expect to hear.
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Turbid North’s Orogeny has been stuck in my car’s CD player for over 3 months. They play a kind of amalgamation of death metal, thrash, viking metal and black metal, doom and stoner metal, with a hefty dose of jazz rhythms for good measure. Check out the album closer Floating The Ionosphere and The Hunter. So far, this is the best album I’ve heard all year…
…but…
…I just picked up YOB’s newest album, Atma, and now it’s getting heavy (he he) listening time. Here’s the opening track Prepare The Ground and the title track, Atma.
Zoe Keating has also been in the rotation lately, particularly 2010’s Into The Trees. If you haven’t heard of her, she is a cello player who uses loops and self-samples to create songs. Yes, she does this live, much like Reggie Watts does with his vocals. Here’s Escape Artist performed live.
I like the description at least. Look forward to checking them out when I can get to YouTube. The heavier the better but I can’t get past cookie monster vocals unless the band is really solid.
I’m currently listening to Mastodon’s The Hunter a lot. It hasn’t blown me away but I like it a lot. I also picked up a couple of live Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers) albums. None of it is new but he’s one of my favourite singers.
Once I get the new Tom Waits album I’m pretty sure everything else will be on the back burner for a while.
I picked up Imelda May’s “Mayhem” after hearing it on a local station (WXRT). Had someone just told me “Here’s some jazzy rockabilly inspired album” I never would have touched it but I’ve been digging it. Also, it seeded a pretty snazzy Pandora station for me to listen to at work; nice and peppy to keep me going throughout my working day.
I’ve been listening to the Nicola Roberts (formerly of/still with? girls group Girls Aloud) album “Cinderella’s Eyes” lately. The first video is her fantastic song with producer Diplo, and the second video is her even more fantastic song produced by the Dragonettes. The whole album is amazing, if you like this type of music.
I’ve also been listening to Debauche a lot recently – they’re a local band in the Gogol Bordello vein. http://debauchemusic.com/
I pick ed this up when it was released, and put it down the same day. I like the fact that the songs are shorter than they were on the execrable Crack The Skye, but the monotony of the vocals and the lack of any real hooks made me decide that Mastodon won’t be getting any more of my money. It’s a shame, really… the promise of Leviathon and Blood Mountain was awesome, but now that they’ve pretty much left the song-writing and musical direction up to Brent, they’ve lost me as a fan.
Hope you enjoy Turbid North; post here or PM me and let me know what you think.
Check out YOB, too. No CMVs and they are in the running with Electric Wizard for the title of “world’s heaviest band”.
The vocals are pretty monotonous but I was big Helmet fan. They seem downright operatic compared to Page Hamilton. I hear what you’re saying. I think they work best for me when mixed in with their earlier stuff and played on shuffle. I didn’t hate Crack The Skye but it does say a lot that the only two songs from it that I listen to are the instrumental versions that were released as bonus tracks.
I will check those out, thanks.
Mostly just my Pandora channel. My main channel is centered around LCD Soundsystem. It goes in to a lot of subgenres of electronic and rock, from dance pop like Hot Chip to modern rock like Black Keys, Arcade Fire, and Franz Ferdinand to some chill electronic by acts like Ratatat and RJD2. It’s got a lot of songs so I’m happy with it.
Kesha–I have her Animal album, Cannibal EP, I Am the Dance Commander + I Command You to Dance remix album, and about 50 or 60 unreleased tracks. My goal is to be able to identify each song within one second of hearing it. I’m doing pretty well except with some of the unreleased tracks I’ve downloaded recently.
Oh man, not only do I remember that song from the Ummagumma version, but occasionally I’ll say its title in a cautionary way to my kids if they’re about to do something dumb (at which point they invariably pause and say “whaaaaaaat…?”). Snowboarder Bo, I listened to a couple of Yob tracks on YouTube. If you could find me something like that without the growly vocals, I’d love to hear it…
I hear what you’re saying. I think they work best for me when mixed in with their earlier stuff and played on shuffle. I didn’t hate Crack The Skye but it does say a lot that the only two songs from it that I listen to are the instrumental versions that were released as bonus tracks.