Hear, hear: NP

[davy]

Rediscovering this bad-ass album at the moment:

[auto-da-fey]

I loved Ash's first album, and then 1977, about 15 years ago, but I haven't followed them since Nu-Clear sounds in the late 90s. Just listened to the new collection of their singles from the past few years, and . . . well, "Jack Names the Planets" this is not. It sounds like stuff you'd hear in the background of football/soccer commercials. Maybe I'm not being completely fair to it, but regardless, it just doesn't do much for me, and I will stick with the first two albums as my own private Ash.

[Antero]

You and me both.

[donblood]

That's the only Stereolab album I've ever owned.

Whoops!  Your mistake.  You should get Dots and Loops.

[elpollodiablo]

Already sick of High Violet! D has been playing that shit nonstop all weekend.

[Benmont Tench]

Half Japanese - Turn Your Life Around

In its own strange way, this may be one of the more inspiring songs ever written.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

That's the only Stereolab album I've ever owned.

Whoops!  Your mistake.  You should get Dots and Loops.

Everything up and including Dots & Loops is required inlistening. I lean towards their more Krautrocky-shoegaze-athons so would call Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements the best of the bunch.

[davy]

Interestingly, Dots and Loops was the first Stereolab album I ever listened to...way, way back in high school before I had any business listening to that kind of music. It didn't hook me. Later, I tried again with Emperor Tomato Ketchup, and it was more to my liking.

I'm still not a huge fan of the band, though I got lots of respect for them.

[davy]

np:



Dang! This would absolutely have made my top 25 last year if I'd known it was released. It's the long-awaited follow-up to The Knuckleball Suite, which I've talked up around here before. He does the folky singer-songwriter thing, but his stuff has a real jazzy kick to it and his voice has to be heard to be believed. He looks like a normal 35 year-old singer-songwriter type, but his voice is the voice of beloved grandfathers. Good stuff.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

That's the only Stereolab album I've ever owned.

Whoops!  Your mistake.  You should get Dots and Loops.

Everything up and including Dots & Loops is required inlistening. I lean towards their more Krautrocky-shoegaze-athons so would call Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements the best of the bunch.

More evidence that Killdozersnakeboy and I are the same person. I am welcome to this.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

More evidence that Killdozersnakeboy and I are the same person. I am welcome to this.

I'll keep an eye on the southern hemisphere, you look after up north.

np: Natural Snow Buildings - The Crystal Bird.
So purty

[Good Intentions]

More evidence that Killdozersnakeboy and I are the same person. I am welcome to this.

I thought we had a special link, you and I.

[davy]

Turns out I was being stupid when I wrote off the 3rd Bishop Allen album based on the reviews. Pretty damn enjoyable indie pop record! Not up to The Broken String's level, but creative and rowdy enough to make up for it.

[auto-da-fey]

that pretty much nails my feelings too. I still find it baffling that they left "The Same Fire" and "The Bullet and Big D" off Broken String though, those are my two favorite of their songs.

I am lazy and unmotivated right now, maybe I'll throw Grrr on myself, I don't really have anything better to do. except maybe sleep, I could use that but just quaffed two cups of coffee.

[davy]

that pretty much nails my feelings too. I still find it baffling that they left "The Same Fire" and "The Bullet and Big D" off Broken String though, those are my two favorite of their songs.

Particularly when one of them could've replaced "Middle Management." Still though, I listened to The Broken String this morning for the first time in a while and I was just astounded (again) by what a clever, surprising, poignant, and fun album it is.

[elpollodiablo]

Despite having heard it ALL DAMN WEEKEND, I took High Violet with me on the train this morning. I really, really love Bloodbuzz Ohio and Lemonworld. None of the tracks grabbed me as immediately as say, Brainy or Apartment Story did the first time, but I'm confident in saying again that this is a better record than Boxer.

[davy]

The Red Elvises are helping me get through this damn paper.

I love these crazy guys!

[diesel_powered]

I'm listening to my metal/stoner/doom Pandora station at the moment. Keeping a Pandora station is really like tending a garden. You have to keep on it, thumbs upping or thumbs downing shit that doesn't fit with the theme of the station, but sometimes it gets hard because sometimes there's stuff that you just can't say no to even though it doesn't really fit. Like, I can't just say no to Nirvana, even though they don't really fit within the scope of a metal station, but if I don't thumbs down it, then I get a bunch of grunge creeping in which is all well and good, but not really consistent with a metal/stoner/doom station. I added in Kiss, thinking that it might be nice to toss in a little touch of variety in terms of Kiss/Priest/Sabbath, but now I have to keep thumbs downing a bunch of Van Halen and AC/DC. And I'm really not entirely sure what they were thinking with the Black Keys. I mean... I get the blues influence, but it's just not right for a station like this.

[narlus]

Abunai! - Round Wound

sorely overlooked psych band.  really good at what they do.

[Good Intentions]

Plagal Grind - S/T EP

I know that a fair amount of you have, bizarrely, never heard this, possibly the very finest work ever done in this vein: young white men, guitars, riffs (and not metal).

[auto-da-fey]

Ani DiFranco, Living in Clip

inspired, I think, by M reminiscing the other day about being a mid-90s Ani fan; I completely melt to think about her wearing combat boots and writing bad poetry. meanwhile, Ani is advising to smile pretty and watch your back.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

The Musicians Of The British Empire - Date With Doug
Love this song.

[elpollodiablo]

Ani DiFranco, Living in Clip

inspired, I think, by M reminiscing the other day about being a mid-90s Ani fan; I completely melt to think about her wearing combat boots and writing bad poetry. meanwhile, Ani is advising to smile pretty and watch your back.

As far as live albums go, that's a really, really good one. I love the version of Fire Door on that.

[YojimboMonkey]

Oh hey, this is coming out:



That looks promising, to say the least.

I am 1 minute into this, and already it's my favorite record so far this year.

I mean, it sounds a lot like Fela, but it's better produced and the drums are more prominent. What could be better?

Yeah I am really grooving on this today, first listen, it's amazing!

[Good Intentions]

In on the Kill Taker, motherfuckers.