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'Tis November, pontificate yer monthly musical vagaries hereabouts.
I've been pushing through some really fantastic stuff as of late, so I feel like touching on a number of things rather than stamping out the usual handful of album titles I happen to have listened to on the day the desire to post hit me:
So the ambient/drone/noise/weird thing has been a big focus for me this year, but kind of ran out steam for a couple of months. There's obviously a lot of interesting sound out there right now, but I've got to be careful to balance it with more traditional verse-chorus-verse bands or it all melts into a big unidentifiable mess in my head after a while. That said, a few things that really hit my sweet spot over the past couple of weeks. Lustmord's Juggernaut is, I'm quite certain, some of what the world ending will sound like. It's so incredibly huge and ominous and terrifying, and fuck all if having a dude from the Melvins involved doesn't make this even better. Also dark and unsettling: Pocahaunted & Robedoor's Hunted Gathering and Procer Veneficus' Deathwanderings; not creepy, but quite lovely: Destructo Swarmbots, Clear Light (manned in part by some of Dalek's travelling band, which is sort of noteworthy to the right people) and the swank new (and tauntingly brief) Jackie-O Motherfucker album, Valley of Fire.
Also occupying a lot of my time is the gobsmackingly beautiful shit Japan's Noble Records releases, especially the (mostly) instrumental work from Kashiwa Daisuke and Yasushi Yoshida, but nearly everything else is wonderful, too. This stuff eventually led to Aoki Takamasa, Akira Kosemura, and even a bunch of classy Japanese post-rock like Sgt., Miaou, and Toe. It's always a pleasant surprise to find how far the rabbithole can lead when messing around with last.fm (which, for once, is a site that has gotten exponentially better with its corporate buyout)...
And really, I would love for these guys to wind up as one of the next big indie things. So so fantastic, I'm fucking nuts for it.
I've been pushing through some really fantastic stuff as of late, so I feel like touching on a number of things rather than stamping out the usual handful of album titles I happen to have listened to on the day the desire to post hit me:
So the ambient/drone/noise/weird thing has been a big focus for me this year, but kind of ran out steam for a couple of months. There's obviously a lot of interesting sound out there right now, but I've got to be careful to balance it with more traditional verse-chorus-verse bands or it all melts into a big unidentifiable mess in my head after a while. That said, a few things that really hit my sweet spot over the past couple of weeks. Lustmord's Juggernaut is, I'm quite certain, some of what the world ending will sound like. It's so incredibly huge and ominous and terrifying, and fuck all if having a dude from the Melvins involved doesn't make this even better. Also dark and unsettling: Pocahaunted & Robedoor's Hunted Gathering and Procer Veneficus' Deathwanderings; not creepy, but quite lovely: Destructo Swarmbots, Clear Light (manned in part by some of Dalek's travelling band, which is sort of noteworthy to the right people) and the swank new (and tauntingly brief) Jackie-O Motherfucker album, Valley of Fire.
Also occupying a lot of my time is the gobsmackingly beautiful shit Japan's Noble Records releases, especially the (mostly) instrumental work from Kashiwa Daisuke and Yasushi Yoshida, but nearly everything else is wonderful, too. This stuff eventually led to Aoki Takamasa, Akira Kosemura, and even a bunch of classy Japanese post-rock like Sgt., Miaou, and Toe. It's always a pleasant surprise to find how far the rabbithole can lead when messing around with last.fm (which, for once, is a site that has gotten exponentially better with its corporate buyout)...
And really, I would love for these guys to wind up as one of the next big indie things. So so fantastic, I'm fucking nuts for it.
