Friday, March 26, 2021

Jonathan Hultén CHANTS FROM ANOTHER PLACE (2020)


This is some otherworldly stuff.  Hultén is a guitarist for Tribulation, which is by all accounts one of the best European metal bands, but I have enough trouble trying to keep up with PNW metal.  This is extreme in the other end, soft as anything Trees or The Roches put out, but adorned with bones and ash--to me it sounds like Celtic private mourning music, grief ethered into the constellations, spinning madly, dutifully above us.



stay for the guitar solo and then vaya con Dios

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Willie Dunn CREATION NEVER SLEEPS, CREATION NEVER DIES (anthology)



do you dig Gordon Lightfoot but wish he was more timeless and had God's own baritone?


Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a DreamFriday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Great microcosm of the late 20th century American tragedy. High school football is thrilling, mesmerizing, and needs to be abolished immediately.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Anita Baker RAPTURE (1986)

 

 Haché et Vissé de Houston à Bordeaux. Bon courage!    
Anita Baker owns. Her record label makes it a little hard to hear her stuff, they got it locked up in the glass case with all the single malts, ah! the peat


the singles were the best tracks from LDR's new album but we got a new one on the way this summer.

  No One Is Talking About ThisNo One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

beautiful. had me fighting back tears. Lockwood is the most essential writer of the Twitter age.

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 PS That Touché Amoré album got me so fired up I went from being comatose to unable to sleep for four hours, proceed with caution!

Monday, March 22, 2021

Touché Amouré LAMENT (2020)


Lead track slays, clearly the albums high-point...wait track 4 rules maybe these boys work...ok track 5 should be played before each and every storming of the ramparts... we lived through the shift of Indie into a genre that essentially produced demos for car commercials, which then begot the footstomp-folkrock for insurance commercials, and now no one knows how to drum any more in the indiesphere, they just keep 4/4, snare and hi-hat virtually gone, truly a desiccation scheme, a cardiac-repression regime, and the lockdown killing touring led to an explosion of fake bands on Spotify that have never played a gig in their life, a guy and a girl and a laptop like musical oil diffusers, like the way the New Age mental program has some points but essentially exists to de-politicize the otherwise-intelligent population into narcissizing all problems with their life, not identifying the class warfare they're suffering personally and on behalf of their fellow citizens, imagining that they can choose-their-own-adventure into a fulfilling life by managing their thinking and expectations and aspirations perfectly. 

This is the neoliberal training that subtly reinforces consumerism--the correct consumerism will solve your problems!  Your parents bought silly mass-market stuff!  They just accumulated things!  You are much wiser, your purchases reify what a clever lad or lass you are!  

At this point, anyone that remembers how to chuck a shoe at a ghoul  is worth their weight in gold.  

Our Iraq war (born 19 March 2021) is now 18 years old.  The quieter dismantling Libya (19 March 2011) is 10 years old. Syrian 'intervention' is a little fuzzier but 8 years ago it ramped up. Something fell regarding the Spring Equinox, some horrid blood offering 

chuck your Chucks my beautiful friends. 

Lancez vos chausseres vers vos ennemis!

Saturday, March 20, 2021

DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ CHARMED (2020)

(skip back to track 1 for the proper effect)



Bonjour, mes camarades français!  Ma femme parle couramment le français, hélas j'ai perdu mes capacités il y a longtemps.  J'espère que vous endurez bien le verrouillage et que vous serez bientôt libre!

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if vaporwave had some Go! Team energy, like you washed down a handful Excederin (65mg caffeine/pill) with some Orange Julius and wandered Lloyd Center, seeing all the public school girls who seemed decades older, like Leonard Cohen mistresses meeting for their séance