What you want with a cackling hen? - New NP thread

[davy]

WHERE'S THE SECOND-RATE JONI?

[narlus]

Hey Narlus. Your PM box is full. Did you ever get a copy of that "Eight Trails, One Path" comp. I seem to remember you were after it but didn't get one on record store day. I can (last I checked) get you one if you're still looking. PM me if so.

damn, i should clean it out, and check this thread.

I ended up getting a copy from Cory direct. I did see a copy yesterday at Bullmoose in Portsmouth NH if anyone needs one. I got the last copy Cory had.

[Nick Ink]

   Voices & Organs - Orphanage (2006)                            /              Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos (2011)

Came home in a sort of weird morose piano mood. But in a good way. I've loved Orphanage ever since I listened to it on headphones whilst unfeasibly tripped out on some drug cocktail or other in a Korean hospital 6 years ago. A strange, beautiful and somewhat obscure album from a Swedish collective who disappeared without a trace. Short tracks bleed into one another creating a complex and continuously surprising collage. Lo-fi vocals mumble half-remembered hooks as piano keys stumble, organs wheeze and an always-mutating chatter of samples and background noise floats in and out of the mix. There are fragments of familiar things - refugee piano notes from Library Tapes’ first album, stray jazzy acoustic riffs that recall Belle & Sebastian, the small-scale, twittery psychedelia of Mum, even an occasional brass flourish like something from In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - but these glimpsed reference points are gone before almost before you can place them.

[Nick Ink]

Simon Scott -Below Sea Level

I thin this is much better than Navigare and Bunny, and more on a par with my favourite of Scott's releases, the Traba EP. It's far more ambient, working on a more micro scale with field recordings from the Fens in the East of England. Rutger Zuyderfeldt contributes funny noises to one piece, and ithe whole album actually sounds close to a Machinefabriek release that to Scott's earlier, more dramatic, structured albums.

[auto-da-fey]

All true. Alaska Days was basically a lo-fi power-pop album, and song-wise, it was their strongest album.

this totally sold me, by the way--on one listen, really digging it.

[auto-da-fey]

I'm not sure if it counts as overlooked but it certainly doesn't get the respect it deserves. I think this can be discussed within the context of both the Stones and Neil Young.
np:

Serious shit.

QFT. his run from the late 60s through 1977 or so was at least on par with Townes Van Zandt. easily the greatest former Byrd.

[RavingLunatic]

All true. Alaska Days was basically a lo-fi power-pop album, and song-wise, it was their strongest album.

this totally sold me, by the way--on one listen, really digging it.

Awesome. I feel like Poole is one of those bands that's a musical secret me and my younger brother share and which no one else in the world has heard of. There are several bands like that from my first couple years in college. These days I'm not as adventurous in seeking out new music and don't run across that sort of stuff as often.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

I'm not sure if it counts as overlooked but it certainly doesn't get the respect it deserves. I think this can be discussed within the context of both the Stones and Neil Young.
np:
gene clark - white light
Serious shit.

QFT. his run from the late 60s through 1977 or so was at least on par with Townes Van Zandt. easily the greatest former Byrd.

Yeah, I only really discovered him a year or so back on the advise of a friend. The above, the Gosdin Bros and that first record with Dillard have been on heavy rotation in my house. I'm kinda surprised I haven't noticed people constantly wax lyrical about the guy for years. He seems overlooked maybe? Unless I just wasn't paying attention (which is quite likely).

[Killdozersnakeboy]

[RavingLunatic]

Is that Black Noise album Pantha du Prince put out a couple years ago any good? I like the sound of This Bliss quite a bit. It's all smooth, rounded, elastic--techno filtered through a wrestling mat. But it does get pretty boring for me at times. If he were to reduce the length of the songs by about 60-70% it's the sort of thing I think I'd listen to quite a bit. As it is, I don't come back to it often.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

I like Black Noise a lot but probably listen to Bliss more often. Bliss only has a couple of tracks that break ten minutes with the majority sitting around 6 mins which I'd consider bare minimum in this area. I've just put Black Noise on now. It really is a lovely sounding album.

[Nick Ink]

Now I want to listen to Pantha Du Prince too. If anything, those albums should be longer!

But it's Sunday morning and I have the beautiful new Celer & Machinefabriek 7 inch (their 4th record together this year) on repeat:



edit: to say, my daughter's middle name is Heesoo, so that's also nice :-)

[RavingLunatic]

iamamiwhoami - Kin

Sort of like Fever Ray, only not quite as good and maybe a little more pop-oriented. I think she's done videos for all nine songs on the album. My two favorites are "Goods" and "Kill". I don't really care for the videos.

[Daniel]

Seriously good mashup of the Death Grips Exmilitary vocals with Deerhoof's discography from 2001 to 2011. Listen here.

[Nick Ink]

The Human League - Dare

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

The Human League - Dare

[fishjim]

Nick Ink, do I recall you saying Dare is the greatest album of all time? If so, I'll join you two. 

[peacocks]

I listened to the Human League Unlimited Orchestra album Love and Dancing last night and it has a ton of stuff from dare on it, so awesome.

[Nick Ink]

Nick Ink, do I recall you saying Dare is the greatest album of all time? If so, I'll join you two. 

I did say that. I was just talking to Mrs Ink and Mama Ink about how 1981 was my cultural Year Zero. I was 12, and I vividly remember the surge of excitement and the thrill of discovery that came with the purchase of that year's touchstone albums:

The Human League - Dare
Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell
Japan - Tin Drum
OMD - Architecture & Morality
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Duran Duran - Duran Duran

The fashions seem often to be pilloried these days, but looking back at those albums, I see art, innovation, experimentation and sonic adventure (ok, maybe not the Duran Duran so much, but y'know, I was 12). Everything I love in music has its roots in those 7 records.

[Captain]

Listening to EyeHateGod because it's the best!

[Good Intentions]

Good work.

[RavingLunatic]

Nick Ink, do I recall you saying Dare is the greatest album of all time? If so, I'll join you two.  

I've never listened to the Human League, but I now feel obligated to seek this album out. They're an 80's synth band of sorts, right?

And np: Good Night & Good Morning - Narrowing Types

Last year they had a self-titled EP that opened with the stunning track "Sister," which you can listen to here. The rest of the EP was pretty good, but never scaled the same brilliant heights as that opening track. This is only my first time through, but this debut full-length is starting to sound magnificent. It reminds me of a mixture of Bedhead and the Wind-Up Bird album Whips. Popmatters had a good review of the album earlier this week. They mention Stars of the Lid, so maybe Nick and some of the other ambient fans here would be interested. A few quotes from that review:

It’s both a rare and glorious moment when a music listener discovers a new band that leaves them absolutely floored. It’s going to be very hard to imagine that this won’t be the case for anyone who comes across a copy of Good Night & Good Morning’s Narrowing Type. This is an incredibly young band, but their grasp on structure, history, and songwriting suggests a band several albums in and several years older. Narrowing Type, to put it quite simply, is a masterpiece.....One minute the most prominent influence is Low, the next it’s Stars of the Lid, the next it’s Explosions in the Sky....the band continues to grip with its haze of gorgeous ambience....And Narrowing Type closes with its longest track, “Abroad and Neutral”, where nearly everything culminates into one spectacular entity, drifting along until it evolves into the same kind of beautiful/terrifying hazy feedback that permeates much of this record. It’s as stunning and spectacular as everything else....

You can stream the whole thing over at Bandcamp if you want.

[Nick Ink]

Nick Ink, do I recall you saying Dare is the greatest album of all time? If so, I'll join you two.  

I've never listened to the Human League, but I now feel obligated to seek this album out. They're an 80's synth band of sorts, right?

If this post was from anyone else on this board, I would threaten to hunt them down and savagely beat them to a pulp for such cruel piss-taking. But seeing as it's you Looney, I'm going to assume this is sincere and recommend you spend the next 72 hours in a locked room with a minimal supply of food and water and Dare on repeat. When you've finished, return to LPTJ for further instructions, for we have much work to do.

OT - I am presently grooving on an inner plane, grooving grooving back again to the new Moritz von Oswald Trio album, Fetch.


The new Moritz von Oswald Trio album, Fetch

[justinh]

Seeing http://youtu.be/BgMhMRC4Fr8 on TOTP back in the day really made an impression on me.  Phil Oakey had the coolest hair. "Don't You Want Me" is awesome and all, but "Love Action" is my favorite HL song.  

edit: fixed!

[lucky strike]

everything about that link is fucked