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My Blog List. My Favorite Videos. No Hits Reloaded. Maybe not the best release of the year, but by far the most chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiill. Highly recommended instrumental hip-hop. Posted by sean at PM 4 comments:. Labels: Lemurian , Lone. Posted by sean at AM No comments:. My favorite Les Savy Fav album. My girlfriend's bike got stolen and I spend last afternoon listening to this record while searching campus for her cruiser.
I'm sick of things leaving this world without rhyme or reason. Labels: go forth , les savy fav. Labels: Flying Lotus , Lil Wayne. I am too exhausted to write a decent review of this album, but this album is too fuckin' good to not post A. Posted by sean at AM 1 comment:. Labels: Marnie Stern. It's been awhile since i've posted an album here, and that needed to be amended. Tobacco, in case anyone was wondering, is the leader of the infamously reclusive group Black Moth Super Rainbow, an odd psych synth hippie freakfest of a band whose last album, Dandelion Gum, was praised by many but listened to by few.
The album brought a combination of dreamy pop songs with a sort of analong synth crunch so pure only Boards of Canada could top the band's Moog tweaking. With the new solo album, Tobacco clearly shows who was behind those very Moogs in the recording studio. Fucked Up Friends is nothing new for fans of Black Moth, or at least at first. Tobacco lets his synths shine from track one, with only the occasional guitar or sampled flute show up, if only to accent you guessed it those thick thick synth lines.
However, a vast majority of the album is instrumental, a key distintion between Black Moth and the solo Tobacco. With the lack of vocoded vocals, Tobacco is free to not only let the synths do the talking, but show off something that I felt was sorely overlooked in many reviews of Dandelion Gum: the Beats. Fucked Up Friends is a dynamo of a beats record, with Tobacco showing off his percussive skills as well his keyboard mastery. This record wouldn't seem out of place next to Flying Lotus or some of his other Warp counterparts, the only difference being Tobacco would rather see you in the forest rather than the record store.
Labels: fucked up friends , tobacco. Monday, September 15, I am the worst So I haven't posted the playlists for the last two weeks. I blame it solely on shoutcast, though clearly its my own fault.
But seriously, I'll probably maybe actually post tonights playlist. I'll try and type up a review in a couple of days, though you're on you're own when it comes to getting the album before September 23rd.
I ain't messin' with no RIAA release, no sir. Oh hi everybody. For those of you who weren't aware, I originally started this blog as a way to keep talking about music while away from college on summer vay-kay. The show will broadcast every Monday from pm e.
Anyway, i'm going to start using this blog to list my weekly playlist, as well as continue to occasionally post albums or music news that pique my interest.
Enjoi, and listen to the first Clap Hands tonight at 8pm! Tuesday, August 5, Mahjongg - Kontpab. So i've kind of become obsessed with Mahjongg. That, combined with the fact that the B stage that day was running about an hour and a half late, put me front row for what turned out to be one of the strongest sets I would end up seeing at Pitchfork that weekend.
It was only pm and it was obvious most of the crowd was still shaking off the late morning haze, which is a damn shame, because Mahjongg can fuckin' GROOVE.
This kind of grooving deserves a late night set and strobe lights, not an afternoon warm-up spot for a half-awake crowd. Anyway, I thought they fucking killed. That brings me to Mahjongg's release Kontpab. Lets get this straight: this is not a perfect record.
It's got lowpoints, not enough to tarnish Mahjongg as a whole, but enough that they can't be brushed off. As well, a few other songs can tend to feel a little too rigid ex. Those moments aside though, this record has some amazing tracks. Opener "Pontiac" is a polyrhythmic number based off a Mbira Worlds of Music what whaaaat loop that immediately grabs you from the beginning and doesn't let go until you've chugged through all glorious six minutes. Finally, the epic I guess epic, it's easy to call any song over 8 minutes epic, but seriously, this song is so good finale "Rise Rice" crunches and crushes, making you want to immediately start the whole album from the beginning again.
After listening to this album on repeat I can't help but feel angry that Mahjongg didn't work just a little harder on Kontpab before releasing it into the world. Mahjongg deserves to be a more recognized band with tracks like these, they just need to deliver it next time without the duds.
Labels: Kontpab , Mahjongg. Attended Pitchfork Music Festival last weekend, had an absolutely fantastic time there, saw some mind-blowingly good performances from the likes of Animal Collective, Spiritualized,!!! One band, Caribou, already had me sold before I even stepped foot in Union Park, so it was really just icing on the cake when they crushed it Saturday afternoon. Afterwards, while perusing their merch tent, I picked up this tour-only CD. This is an incredible album, and it's a real shame they put some of this on a CD mainly sold only on their tour.
Track one, to begin with, is a 30 minute DJ mix by Dan Snaith the main force behind the "band" Caribou that covers everything from 60's pop to krautrock to modern electronica. I can't seem to find the tracklist for the mix anywhere, which is a real shame, because every song is amazing.
Tracks are all Caribou originals and exclusive to the tour CD. After being slightly disappointed by the straightforward pop of their release "Andorra", I can only hope these tracks set the tone for all future Caribou releases. Still, the songs hold their own, particularly "Woodcarver Steiner" with its looped acoustic guitar and occasional vocal flourishes.
The most curious song on the album is the closer "Hummingbird". Sounding more like LCD Soundsystem than Caribou, the song is a bleep-bloop foray into electronic drums, something Snaith has until now? Posted by sean at PM 5 comments:. Friday, July 11, Ungdomskulen - Ordinary Son. First, the bad news: Ungdomskulen's release "Cry-Baby" will not save dance-punk as we know it. I wanted it to, and after listening to this track, you'll want it to, but the album simply isn't that great as a whole.
The good news, however, is we still get treated to a few sparkling gems that hopefully foreshadow a very bright future for Norway's Ungdomskulen. This is no exercise in discipline, however. This is a full on, seven-and-a-half-minute progged out jam. It's got two seperate sections for gods sake.
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