a music thread

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Dust, an alarm clock, pennies, Black Pus II.

(one of these items is not actually on my record player)

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Yo Chompers, that is some quality mope-folk you've got going on there.

My name is also Zach and I also record music fairly regularly.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/v4pfjt (more of a sound collage than a song)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/kw52d1 (this is from a few years ago)

Surprisingly, they go together well if you play them in succession.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

I was extremely pleased to find this recently:

http://lastdaysofman.blogspot.com/2006/12/volcano-suns-bright-orange-years.html

The entirety of the long out-of-print first Volcano Suns album up on this guy's blog. I've been trying to find this ever since I first heard "Jak" about four years ago. For those who don't know, the Suns were the band that Peter Prescott of Mission of Burma formed after Burma initially broke up back in the early 80s.

There's a certain similarity between the two bands' sounds, but the Suns are more rowdy and less artsy. The guy at the blog makes note that it sounds like a kind of midwestern melding of The Replacements and Butthole Surfers (despite their being a Boston band and all) It's hot. "Hot" meaning the sounds convey the notion of a very intense heat. Like a soundtrack to summer riots. Do give it a listen.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Anybody here planning on going to 77BOADRUM?

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Oh man, Boadrum was fucking incredible. My head is still pounding. Good vibrations all around, totally whacked-out dancing hippies, you could look up and see people watching from the Manhattan bridge. It started out good and just got better and better. After the sun went down it was just pure magic. A bunch of people have already youtubed it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEw9GtmcrDw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxuzVWAhlkI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrOGRUKqDFY

There was a group of official camerapeople as well so there's probably a DVD in the works. I should hope so.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

I am taking this space to mention how good Fucked Up are.

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Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

!...

There's a new Sambomaster album out.

It's called 音楽の子供はみな歌う (Ongaku no Kodomo wa Mina Utau (something like "all the children sing the music" or some such thing, I dunno, I don't speak Japanese))

It has sort of an ugly cover:

I've gotten a chance to listen to it, and...I found it sort of disappointing compared to the last one, but I'm curious to hear some other opinions. To me it sounds like they're continuing to do what they do well enough, but it lacks the spark of intense crazy-desperateness that was all over the last album (which was AWESOME). The new one has some damn nice hooks on it, but the songs feel all kind of samey and sort of run together in my brain. But I am willing to be proven wrong about this. In fact, I want to be proven wrong about this. Badly!

On an unrelated note, I missed seeing High on Fire this weekend. Twice. But mark my words, I will see this band, before the year is out.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

This album is sooooo good. The ideal listening environment would probably be cruising through the Arizona desert at dawn, in a vintage convertible. Yes. Or on top of a mountain, blasting through a huge PA. Classic rock played post-rock style, I suppose. Neil Young suspended in molasses. Words like "elegiac" come to mind.

What I've heard from this so far has been surprisingly good. I thought that Face The Truth was fairly enjoyable, if slight, but that Malkmus was pretty much doomed to mediocrity for the rest of his career. Thankfully I think I've been proven wrong. I hadn't been impressed with the jam-oriented direction the man had been moving in, but this new stuff seems more solidly-constructed (probably in no small part thanks to the new drummer (a good drummer is crucial)), and the instrumental bits actually feel like they go places. Unfortunately his lyrics are overall getting worse.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Deep, dark ambient constructed out of Debussy samples. Organic + hypnotic. Awesome.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

sure, no problem

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

www.muxtape.com

this site is pretty great.

there's something really nice about just picking shit out at random and hearing stuff i've never heard before.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

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http://www.paperthinwalls.com/listeningparty/index?id=69

This is pretty interesting, and I think sheds a lot of light on why Smile turned out the way it did.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Every time I try to listen to Shots I just wind up listening to the first track on repeat a billion times.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Seconding that Ted Leo is a class act.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

So how do we feel about No Age, guys?

As for me, I dig them. Nouns is a good solid record. Good sounds. The vocals are pretty weak though.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Holy shit, Heavy Winged! I'd forgotten all about them.

Currently listening to the new UFOMAMMUT album. Pretty heavy, I think I'll post it in the axe thread soon.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Yeah that's a good one. You know, pitchfork.tv ain't half bad so far. There's a really good live Black Mountain set on there.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

I'm really digging this Alex Moulton fellow right now. Epic old school synthy-whatever. Apparently he's also a filmmaker. It makes sense, as this is pretty cinematic sounding stuff. Gotta love that cheesy airbrush sci-fantasy artwork!

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

>>

(sort of)

So guys should I drop $52 on MBV tix? I'm sure it would be totally worth it.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Apparently Scott Herren (best known as Prefuse 73) has a new project going on which includes members of SunnO))) and Hella, among others. It's called Risil. It's pretty neat!

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Deerhoof leaked a song from their forthcoming album "Offend Maggie."

In written score format, for people to use to record covers!
http://s3.amazonaws.com/cash_users/deerhoof/OffendMaggie/FreshBorn/FreshBorn_score.pdf

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Guys guys new Byrne + Eno track, "Strange Overtones," you can snag the "official" download here, though you can find it in lots of other places, of course.

I dig the fact that it's going to be a pop album and I really want to like this song, the vocal part is really great, but the beat/arrangement/production are just kind of...cheesy and limp. I'm a big Eno fan, so it's disappointing. Maybe it will grow on me.

Yes I just spoiler-tagged my opinion, don't want to be prejudicing anyone.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Please listen to the new TV on the Radio song, it is all kinds of stellar.

All the crazy sonics and funkiness of the last album, minus the unbearable sense of malaise (surely I'm not the only one who felt this way..?). In fact, they sound downright ecstatic here.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

See, I'm a firm believer that there's nothing wrong with doing stuff that's already been done before, provided you do it with skill and enthusiasm, two things TVOTR have got in spades here. Also I said that they sound ecstatic, not that the song necessarily makes me feel quite the same. Which is a little bit different.

I also for some reason feel the need to explain that, from an "objective" standpoint, I thought Cookie Mountain was a really good record, but I can't stand listening to it because it makes me feel so, so depressed. Don't get me wrong, I like music of all emotional colors, but something about that record in particular just makes me feel really shitty. Can't quite explain it.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Uhh, I wouldn't exactly call that stuff "drone" music, Captain America. If you mean like ugly/evil dronemetal, then by all means get Black One by Sunn O))) if you haven't already.

And if you want nothing but the best in brootal stoner riffage, Dopethrone by Electric Wizard.

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep