sub "entrances" for "doesn't irritate" or "intrigues"
― brimstead, Sunday, 23 November 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
that Schlarb album (xxxpost) is wonderful ... pulsing guitar drifts and drones, perfect for downshifting and disengaging ... and streaming here if anyone is interested:
http://schlarb.bandcamp.com/album/making-the-saint
― alpine static, Sunday, 23 November 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
knifeworld - the unravelling
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 24 November 2014 01:28 (nine years ago) link
Sanpaku, I am digging your posts on here...That DVA is fantastic!Doesn't sound folky to me at all, but definitely freaky.... Mulatu has an almost afrobeat thang to it, with some top quality skronk at the end there... and great videos too.... Vespering is beeyootiful...
Samaris and Quantic also damn groovy.......
― m0stlyClean, Monday, 24 November 2014 03:55 (nine years ago) link
A sunny day in Glasgow - sea when absent
Melodic major key synth layered indie rock with a real rhythm section. Inspired, dense, rewards patience and multiple listens.
― calstars, Monday, 24 November 2014 04:48 (nine years ago) link
I am in the process of listening to this album for the first time, but I think it's already secured a place in my top 10. It's THAT good. Tami Neilson has such a crazy great voice that it would probably be criminal for her not to make a record like this. Hot shit country/rockabilly has been done a gazillion times, but rarely this well.
https://tamineilson.bandcamp.com/album/dynamite
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 05:10 (nine years ago) link
I'll second some love for the Doug Paisley and Sunny Day in Glasgow records, surprised I haven't been hearing more about either of those.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 November 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
Is the Function & Vatican Shadow album unheralded? It is very beautiful, great night music.
― kraudive, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
Asphalt Orchestra - Plays Pixies: Surfer Rosa
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
i don't actually know if these are "unheralded" b/c i don't read much (barely any) music crit, but i haven't heard much about the following:
norberto lobo, fornalhajanek schaefer, lay-by lullabymeridian bros, salvadoran robotsasac, hyperionbattle trance, palace of winddragging an ox through water, panic sentrykhun narin's electric phin bandmatthew hopkins, nocturnesangkanang kunchai, isan lam plearnlori goldston, creeksideriverside (doxas/doxas/douglas/swallow)
haven't caught up w/ my jazz listening this year
that's just new stuff, tons of reissues came out this yr of course
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
― kraudive, Monday, November 24, 2014 4:21 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i really really like this, after two listens
― brimstead, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
Khun Narin is an ILX fave, apart from that I've only heard the Meridian Bros album off amateurist's list.
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 09:57 (nine years ago) link
did the khun narin love expand beyond that one thread? if so, good!
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 10:29 (nine years ago) link
some more stuff from 2014 i don''t hear about much:
jason lescalleet, much to my demiseleo welch, sabougla voicesmark turner quartet, lathe of heavennoura mint seymali, tzenniper norgard, symphonies 1 & 8 (vienna philh./sakari oramo)toumani diabate & sidiki diabate
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 10:41 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for the heads up on Dark Blue NYCNative! An example of how one thing can suck me into a rabbit hole of year-end binge listening, I looked it up on RYM, and found this list: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Skillets/2014__and_the_inevitable_onslaught_of_adulthood/. Certain key albums intersect with my favorites, and I try to catch up on the 40 albums I haven't heard.
Most of what I'd mention are covered here: Rolling Stoner/Psych/Freak/Doom/Sludge/Retro/Drone/Space Thread 2014: These Start at 11
Beyond those genres, my top entry right now is this: The Sea Kings – Woke In The Devil’s Arms (Iffy Folk)
Glasgow band masters both pretty jangle referencing The Smiths and Go Betweens with darker lyrics, and more broody sounds via Triffids and Nick Cave.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
Also, I thought Wovenhand was being ...heralded due to great reviews, but now it seems to be conspicuously missing from most lists.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
Clearly the way to get people hooked on largely unheralded albums is just to post a list of them with no description or context.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
Is Kassem Mosse's "Workshop 19" album considered heralded?
In techno/house terms yeah, it got some love.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
damn! that Leo Welch one is so good, unbelievably an awesome debut from an 82 yr old gospel/blues singer.
― xelab, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
thanks for the heads up on a new Mark Turner album, i'll have to check that out. Dharma Days is a favorite and i didn't realize that he hasn't released anything as a leader since then.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
Clearly the way to get people hooked on largely unheralded albums is just to post a list of them with no description or context.― Matt DC, Tuesday, November 25, 2014 8:10 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Matt DC, Tuesday, November 25, 2014 8:10 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sorry i guess i don't have the energy for detailed descriptions! maybe later.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
there are some posters on ILM from whom i'll take a recommendation even w/o context, but i shouldn't assume anyone feels that way about me.
Oh wow, didn't know about that Norgard/Vienna Phil! Listening now.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
i guess the isan lam plearn is a reissue. i didn't actually think about that.
anyway you can here fragments of it here: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/angkanang-kunchai-ubon-isan-lam-plearn-remastered/532555-01/
basically almost anything on the EM Label (out of japan) is worth exploring
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
if you've heard those sublime frequencies molam comps you'll get the general idea
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
re mark turner's lathe of heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar_g4lmRFkw
and leo welch
(sorry if these youtubes irritate anyway, i just find that sharing a little of the music is better than whatever i could write about it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKAft2H_R3o
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
i posted about norberto lobo, a portuguese guitarist, on the post-takoma thread but here's a tune. it's really really good. brand new btw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkVe80XzSnU
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
Great thread. Speaking of A Sunny Day In Glasgow, I really enjoy Jen Goma's guesting on the (I guess under-heralded?) Deluxe Edition of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart's Days of Abandon (they've also got Kelly Pratt of Beirut in there, but think Goma sings most if not all of the guest leads). Anyway, the bonus tracks' vocals really help to sell me on the whole thing (the dude vocals seem better when you've got more alternatives), and the rhythm section is pretty toned for "dream-pop" or whatever you call this stuff.
― dow, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
Clearly the way to get people hooked on largely unheralded albums is just to post a list of them with no description or context.― Matt DC,
Second that. If someone is passionate about a particular album, the least they could do is give a one sentence description.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
It is quite rare I like any new Gospel/Blues albums but I love that Leo Welch one.
― xelab, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
been obsessively playing ambrose akinmusire's the imagined savior is far easier to paint since hearing a track from it on a spotify blue note sampler, it's amazing. Don't know how heralded it is but it's hardly been mentioned on here. inevitably linked in my mind with recent events (there's a devastating track called "rollcall for those absent" that features a kid reading out the names of young black men killed by cops), there's a lot else going on here but the sadness & anger seems to stand out especially now
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
I should add Ensemble Economique's "Melt Into Nothing". I've not heard this guy's music for a couple of years when he was doing kinda horror / hauntology influenced soundtrack music. This is a fair bit different, darker in a different way - more 80's guitar goth. One of the tracks sounds remarkably like something off the first Slowdive EP. It's great.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
wow. toumani diabate has a new album out? i've only heard mande variations, but it was really good. is it different from that?
@amatuerist
― ∞, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
that ambrose akinmusire album is another good call, not seen it reviewed anywhere and it is incredible.
― xelab, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 08:48 (nine years ago) link
I'm not the biggest indie fuX0r but I really liked this album, which hasn't got much press afaict:
http://psiloveyouband.bandcamp.com/album/for-those-who-stay-lp
They're a bit like a rockier version of old Arcade Fire (+ some old Radiohead) but they're totally better because they have long guitar solos with lots of effects. (Guitarist made Spin's all-time greatest list!) Some anthemic choruses.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
psiloveyouband
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, not the greatest band name.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
couldn't let it pass unremarked!
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of Ambrose Akinmusire, he plays on Cold Specks' Neuroplasticity; I especially like his intro to the last track,"A Season of Doubt." The singing and songwriting will have to grow on me, but already like several arrangements pretty well.
― dow, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
I guess it's not the PS I Love You who did the great "Where On Earth Is Kevin Shields?"http://www.discogs.com/PS-I-Love-You-Where-On-Earth-Is-Kevin-Shields/release/2012309
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 27 November 2014 07:07 (nine years ago) link
it is not
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Thursday, 27 November 2014 07:52 (nine years ago) link
(i discovered the hard way)
The 2014 reissue of City: Works of Fiction (1990) by Jon Hassell is notable, particularly due to being a great bargain (3 discs, 202 minutes) for those without a legit copy of the original. The 1989 live at Wintergarden The Living City disk, mixed live by Eno, is worth the admission, possibly the best Hassell between Aka/Darbari and his sporadic later work with Maarifa St. The Psychogeography disk of alternate takes and remixes (808 State et al) is a hodgepodge, but should appeal to anyone that digs his protege Nils Petter Molvær.
― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
https://iancrause.bandcamp.com/album/the-song-of-phaethon
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Jorge Drexler: Bailar en la Cueva
Uruguayan singer/songwriter goes pop
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/23/334490703/finding-the-anthropology-in-latin-dance-music
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 November 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
surprised to see little in the way of mentions for the Electric Youth - Innerworld album, which is adorable synthpop
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Thursday, 27 November 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
Irish artist Rebecca Collins, whose _Chameleon Blues_ I loved a few years back but who seemed to disappear off the radar (which never happens, I should have known) has two new albums this year. _Solar_ is my favorite; it reminds me of early (Happiness-era) Lisa Germano at times, Kristin Hersh other times, nothing like her debut at all.
― katherine, Thursday, 27 November 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
The 2014 reissue of City: Works of Fiction (1990) by Jon Hassell is notable, particularly due to being a great bargain (3 discs, 202 minutes) for those without a legit copy of the original. The 1989 live at Wintergarden The Living City disk, mixed live by Eno, is worth the admission, possibly the best Hassell between Aka/Darbari and his sporadic later work with Maarifa St. The Psychogeography disk of alternate takes and remixes (808 State et al) is a hodgepodge, but should appeal to anyone that digs his protege Nils Petter Molvær.― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Thursday, November 27, 2014 12:01 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Thursday, November 27, 2014 12:01 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i 2nd this recommendation.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 28 November 2014 03:01 (nine years ago) link
proud peasant - flight
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 29 November 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link