Crystal Castles just released their new album Crystal Castles 2 a few days ago. I just downloaded it last night and I have to say it is amazing. I have been listening to the first one almost daily since it came out. Now I have a new obsession.
If you like experimental 8-bit awesomeness this should be right up your alley.
The track "I Am Made of Chalk" is like being in the womb of a giant wet computer. yeah...
A whooole lot of Therapy? Venice by Fennesz, which is still utterly awesome. Fabulous Muscles by Xiu Xiu Intervision by Jimi Tenor Girls of Summer EP and The Week Never Starts Round Here by Arab Strap Mondo Cane by Mike Patton We Were Exploding Anyway by 65daysofstatic
For some reason I have gone all jazz tastic. Maybe it the fact that there has been some sunlight. Maybe I just need to give my ears a bit of something different. Here's whats on my current playlist:
Soft Machine – A Concise British Alphabet, Pt. 1 Sun Ra and His Solar Myth Arkestra – Realm Of Lightning - Original Charles Mingus – Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Milt Jackson – SKJ Eugene McDaniels – Headless Heroes Michael Bundt – The Brain Of Oskar Panizza Herbie Hancock – Hidden Shadows - Instrumental Duke Pearson – Xibaba Horace Silver – Song For My Father Herbie Hancock – Watermelon Man Herbie Hancock – The Maze Shaker Ismail – Zombie
all listenable to on spotfy hopefully it's not a faux pas to post the link to it: H_E_R_E
NAZI DUST 7" GET DESTROYED- burnt offerings 7" (total brutality from these local folks, put it on yr future music box here if youve ever wondered what i mean by POWER VIOLENCE ) REALICIDE/CAPITAL HEMORRHAGE split J CHURCH-society is a carnivorous flower 12" MUSE-exogenesis 12"
havent heard any new FU in a while, since i didnt really even like HIDDEN WORLD...guess i will next week live. i know it sounds snobbish, but i also dont care:im only even going because there are three really good locals opening.
Earlier this evening it was Busta Rhymes "Woo Hah Woo Hah!" he's got us all in check.
This very moment I am listening to Soul Coughing's Ruby Vroom album. Again. It finished and I just pushed play again and may very well do it again without remorse.
I also just discovered, about half an hour ago, (well, I say discovered... more learned a new thing, really): Mike Doughty [who I know through his work with They Might Be Giants] is, in fact, M. Doughty from Soul Coughing [that's how he's credited on the albums] and I never thought/registered that there might be a connection between M. and Mike. After all, I have never seen them in the same room at the same time...
Point is: that's more than just a passing connection between two bands I've loved for ages ... jesus... 20 years or more for TMBG... and it turns out Doughty also has four solo albums now! That, as far as I'm concerned, is brilliant - new music to investigate from an old and trusted source? Heck yes, boy howdy!