39 clocks - zoned Beak> - Beak> Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here Eternal Tapestry - The Invisible Landscape Broadcast - Haha Sound Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts Moon Wiring Club - A Field Full of Sunken Horses Pig Destroyer - Prowler In The Yard Roj - The Transactional Dharma Of Roj Starzy Singers - Rock-a-bubu The Fall - Our Future Your Clutter Who Knew - Bits and pieces of a major spectacle Wet Hair - Dream
but my BIG BIG BIG recommendation this week is Vialka - Succes Planetaire International (2009). god this duo are the shit! Gypsy punk with afrobeat, chinese ballads and desert rock in their little frames! I´ve spent the past week boring people to death about brilliant they sound...
Holy cow, the new Antony and the Johnsons album "The Crying Light" is stunning. I mean, I was sitting in my studio, doing NOTHING but listening to this album pour out of my speakers. Run and find this album, go somewhere you can focus on it, and listen to this album all the way through.
Laethora - The Light In Which We All Burn Ribspreader - Congregating the Sick Year of No Light - Ausserwelt Swallow the Sun - Hope Revocation - Existence is Futile Misery Index - Heirs to Thievery Blood Red Throne - Altered Genesis
Today is the 30th anniversary of Ian Curtis' suicide. Get your bleak on.
(It's been raining here for so long it can nearly be measured in weeks. I'm newly single and I don't know where I'll be in two months. Bleak comes easy these days.)