bandcamp: Sly & The Family Drone
Albums of the Year
E – Complications (2020)
Who likes complications? Who needs complications? Pick “Complications” instead. Third time in a row a record by E enters into “Albums of the Year” category, not only listened to this year but appreciated too.
Mailordering from Europe: Silver Rocket CZ
bandcamp: E
Co na to říct? Je nám ctí. A taky milujeme Komplikace!
Moor Jewelry – True Opera (2020)
Moor Jewelry is a collaboration between Moor Mother and Mental Jewelry from Philadelphia, USA. They put out True Opera, one of my favorite albums from this year, as a bloody cassette release only through Don Giovanni Records. Sold out twice. Overpriced on the (discogs) market right now.
Good songs and great heretic punk sound. Live wire/body electric sound. It deserves all formats. Plug yourself in.
bandcamp: https://moorxjewelry.bandcamp.com/album/true-opera
A Certain Ratio – ACR LOCO (2020)
Groove is in my heart. Dojo rules.
Listening Log ’20: Jul-Oct (part II)
More of the same? I don’t mind. Keep on dancing…
The past is full of dead men
The future is a cruelty
Resign yourself
Hey, have you heard them say “Ultimate Success Today”?
Island Pag maybe. A future island.
Belonging to October
Listening Log ’20: Jul – Sep.
psychedelic rock.
https://oranssipazuzu.bandcamp.com/track/uusi-teknokratia
Uusi teknokratia
jazz rock.
noise rock.
prog rock.
sludge rock. (from queercore angle)
power electronics.
jap (punk) rock.
hardcore punk rock.
rock.
pop.
Listening Log ’20: Jan-Jun (part II)
bandcamp: https://uknightingales.bandcamp.com/
bandcamp: https://thecravats.bandcamp.com/album/hoorahland
Listening Log ’20: Jan-Jun (part I)
bandcamp: https://sexswing.bandcamp.com/album/type-ii
Listening Log ‘19 (part III)
Listening log ‘19 (part III) of one who lags behind.
Loraine James – For You and I
For You and I
Stephen Mallinder – Um Dada
Um Dada
Cosey Fanni Tutti – Tutti
Tutti
Lingua Ignota – Caligula
Do You Doubt Me Traitor
Scorn – Cafe Mor
Talk Whiff (featuring Jason Williamson)
Clipping. – There Existed an Addiction to Blood
Nothing Is Safe
Fat White Family – Serfs Up!
Feet
The Murder Capital – When I Have Fears
More Is Less
Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel
Big
Girl Band – The Talkies
Shoulderblades
Pop. 1280 – Way Station
Boom Operator
Inter Arma – Sulphur English
Howling Lands
Beastwars – IV
Omens
Black Mountain – Destroyer
Horns Arising
Big Brave – A Gaze Among Them
Body Individual
Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains
Maybe I’m the Only One For Me
The Verlaines – Dunedin Spleen
None of These Chords
The Verlaines Bandcamp.
2nd Half-Year Album Review
Digital vinyls, part 2. Very predictable choices. Almost all I’ve heard of new stuff during the second half of ’19.
Dälek – Respect To The Authors 12″
Respect to Dälek.
Respect To The Authors
Defiant
Seek Harbor
Carter Tutti Void – Triumvirate
T 3.2
T 3.1
T 3.4
Pere Ubu – The Long Goodbye
Synth heavy prog / art-rock road section. Unexpected curve.
The Road Ahead
What I Heard On The Pop Radio
Mark Lanegan Band – Somebody’s Knocking
Some folks got to see The Membranes thanks to Mark Lanegan Band. I got to hear Mark Lanegan’s current music because of The Membranes. In a way I had closed the chapter of my interest with the demise of Screaming Trees and didn’t follow Lanegan’s solo career. What a twist! Soul disco remake/remodel approach for sordid melodrama mood. It made me check “Gargoyole” (2017) too. It even made me think of mid ’80s New Order.
Playing Nero
Gazing From The Shore
Two Bells Ringing At Once
Richard Dawson – 2020
Jogging with Richard Dawson continues. Newcastle chronicle.
The Queen’s Head
Two Halves
Dead Dog In An Alleyway
Tropical Fuck Storm – Braindrops
“We use lots of techno gear to make rock and roll because rock and roll gear is boring, and all sounds like Led Zeppelin”. Well, it doesn’t have to sound like Page, I agree, but it wouldn’t hurt my ears if it sounded like Bonham, non filtered and directly into lower plexus. TFS drummer is great. Songwriting is excellent again.
Braindrops
Maria 63
Black Midi – Schlagenheim
The young shall inherit the Earth.
Speedway
Reggae
Western
The Messthetics – Anthropocosmic Nest
Scrawler
Drop Foot
Better Wings
Russian Circles – Blood Year
Quartered
Milano
Arluck
Blood Incantation – Hidden History Of The Human Race
Hallelujah! A well recorded death metal album. And mastered too. Finally. Not that I’ve heard many of them in recent times. So be it.
Awakening
Full Of Hell – Weeping Choir
Burning Myrrh
Haunted Arches
Rainbow Coil
Armory Of Obsidian Glass
Uzeda – Quocumque jeceris stabit
“This album is dedicated to those who struggle to conserve the right to be themselves”. Half an hour of pure electricity. The finest kraft. Almost like an example of perfect pairing – the band and their esteemed recording engineer became one mind. I used to be bored by Uzeda records.
The Preacher’s Tale
Blind
Soap
Pile – Green And Gray
A Labyrinth With No Center
A Bug On Its Back
The Monochrome Set – Fabula Mendax
Demons, begone! Angels too. The unbearable lightness of being according to elderly post-punk gentleman Ganesh Seshadri – Bid. What could a fan do but count in case of The Monochrome Set: six album since reactivation, most of them (five that I’ve heard) remarkable in pop-rock context. Namaste.
Summer Of The Demon
I Can’t Sleep
La chanson de la pucelle
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Colorado
Septuagenarian hard rock. Ride off into the sunset.
Shut It Down
Help Me Lose My Mind
Green Is Blue
Swans – Leaving Meaning
Meaning leaving. Leaving.
Sunfucker
My Phantom Limb
Amnesia
