Hear, hear: NP

[diesel_powered]

\mmmm/

Too much rock for one hand.

[Good Intentions]

I am reminded again that, goddamn, I like noise.

[Good Intentions]

I'm talking about the start to 'Rend It' in particular. I love the crashing discords it starts off with, and when the song calms down, I can't help but want them to start thrashing again like they hate my ears and want them to die. Which they do, at the end of the track. Exhibit C for why this album rocks.

[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.

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

Yeah, agreed.

Is her tour-doc DVD Render any good? I accidentally walked away with it in a breakup years ago and have always meant to return it after I watch it, but I've managed to not watch it for six years now. It seems like now is a moment of possibility for that to finally happen.

[mixed cats]

This


Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can

is a really good singer-songwriter, girl + guitar indie pop album. I guess this is her second album. I haven't heard the first one yet, but I'll be sure to get on that, because this one is pretty impressive.

This is from a few pages back but her first record was my favorite record of that entire year. I love this one too. I will see her on the 15th, and she will make me feel elderly and unaccomplished.

[edison]

I've been curious about Laura Marling for a while, and you guys are making me even more curious (only heard the first song from her new record, which I thought was nothing to write home about, but also the kind of thing that might be a real grower).

Then again, the Fall's new album, Your Future Our Clutter, is here, and it's a massive, relentless steamroller.

[ellaguru]

This


Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can

is a really good singer-songwriter, girl + guitar indie pop album. I guess this is her second album. I haven't heard the first one yet, but I'll be sure to get on that, because this one is pretty impressive.

This is from a few pages back but her first record was my favorite record of that entire year. I love this one too. I will see her on the 15th, and she will make me feel elderly and unaccomplished.

I'm sad that Laura Marling isn't popping up this way, I'd like to feel elderly and unaccomplished, too.

[mixed cats]

Her writing just sounds like she's been doing it forever, like she's eighty years old and having a fabulous time telling you all the stories she's collected in her adventures.

[davy]

Oh hey, Honky Tonkin' by The Mekons is pretty fantastic. I forgot!

[auto-da-fey]

i couldn't believe it
i couldn't believe it
not if I saw it with my own eyes

pulled out FFG this week--an album I suppose I love as much as any album ever albumed but rarely actually play in recent years--and after a dozen spins I now seem to be working through the Shrimper/Ajax/Emperor Jones era. well hey, I love this stuff, so why not?

[what whale]

i couldn't believe it
i couldn't believe it
not if I saw it with my own eyes

pulled out FFG this week--an album I suppose I love as much as any album ever albumed but rarely actually play in recent years--and after a dozen spins I now seem to be working through the Shrimper/Ajax/Emperor Jones era. well hey, I love this stuff, so why not?

FFG was the first MG album I fell helplessly in love with.  And it's been forever.  This must change.

[davy]

FFG is my #1 pick for non-devastating tMG listening. Not to say it doesn't have its share of poignant moments, just that it doesn't emotionally drain me like The Coroner's Gambit does.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Plan B - She Said
I don't read any UK music press so usually have no idea what's going on. Imagine my surprise when my flatmate points out this guy to me. He apparentlly used be standard rap/hip-hop that was a bit shite. But he's made a concept album about a soul singer called "The Defamation of Strickland Banks". I've got it coming down in itunes right now.
This song is fucking fantastic. Any fans of The Streets should take note.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQjh9H-ymK4&feature=fvst

Edit:
It seems above video is part three of the storyline.

Part one is "Writing's On The Wall"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7s6M_X9T9I&annotation_id=annotation_711886&feature=iv

Part two is "Stay Too Long"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wauIGhax9xg&annotation_id=annotation_891781&feature=iv

[ellaguru]

1: yes, this Plan B is good, thanks Kdsb, I like it.

2: not particularly like The Streets, though? I guess there's rapping on a few of the songs, but it's mostly poppy sweet soul.

[Anne the Man]

Can you guys recommend me anything more that sounds like this? It doesn't have to be by Jean Grae but I am digging the fuck out of this song. Dance, motherfucker!

[narlus]

Mercury Rev - Boces

it's been a long time for this one.

[davy]

I'm kind of excited because I just decided that today is going to be the day I listen to 2 or 3 Tori Amos records. I've been putting it off forever, but I'm listening to Fiona Apple right now, and I'm high on Matt Chamberlain's drumming, and I feel like it's time. Gonna start with From the Choirgirl Hotel.

Incidentally, I just found out that he drummed on last year's Six Organs of Admittance record. I'm not familiar with them but I've heard their name around these parts. Anybody a fan?

[auto-da-fey]

I was looking for Jawbreaker today and all I could find was Jets to Brazil's Perfecting Loneliness, so settled for that; after seven years of indifferent-at-best feelings toward it, for the first time I began to sort of get into it. I think it helped that I wasn't really paying close attention to the lyrics.

Then later listened to Yeasayer's first album, All Hour Cymbals. I've never had any interest in them, but since I'm seeing them Wednesday, thought I'd get acquainted. Liked it more than expected--a deeper bass-led groove than I would've guessed, though the album runs out of steam by the end and the closing track is a horrid up-with-people chant that would make Animal Collective cringe in embarrassment over its coercive sincerity. Hopefully they won't play that one (although if I let my guard down a little, I could actually see its chanty thing working alright live).

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

The new Yeasayer record is really great. They went all synth-pop.

[auto-da-fey]

yeah, I actually heard that one at M's place, but as background music--will inspect more closely tomorrow.

then back to like a week of old Alkaline Trio or something, enough pushing my lazy boundaries here.

[edison]

I saw Yeasayer play in a festival (with alex, who I believe left before me?) a couple of years ago - I'd been curious, but I was disappointed - nothing really distinctive whatsoever about their performance.

NP: Wendell Davis "Gravity's Weak" - the new, mostly acoustic David Freel project I linked to the other day, and which, as it turns out, is really quite excellent.

[YojimboMonkey]

NP: this live version of Fishbone's Sunless Saturday.  The "Fishbone" account on Facebook posted a link to this posterous blog that has a link to the download on another site. 

http://silverbackmusic.posterous.com/fusetv-free-music-from-fishbone-its-good-lega

[auto-da-fey]

where is RavingLunatic when you need him? The Gord is a freaking wuss-folk genius, and other than my high school friend Doug's creepy, Republican-voting dentist father, I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone else acknowledge this fact.

[alex]

I saw Yeasayer play in a festival (with alex, who I believe left before me?) a couple of years ago - I'd been curious, but I was disappointed - nothing really distinctive whatsoever about their performance.

As far as I remember, we left simultaneously (though I announced that I'd leave first, and you decided to leave along with me then), but more importantly, I don't think we stayed in that tent long enough to be able to claim that we "saw them play", let alone to say that we gave them an honest chance. Didn't we stay for, like, a song-and-a-half?

[edison]

Hmm. As I remember it was much more than a song-and-a-half (or maybe just felt like it?). But you're probably right.