The Tim F listening club

tim no pressure but yud should get in to Les Savvy Fav

probably my favorite american band of the 00's

start with Go Forth and then move on to Let's Stay Friends

It struck me last night that this is a very Tim F album. I may be wrong.

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uI2GRTV0i04/V9pUBbNnK2I/AAAAAAAAAuw/ShwFmkUYJE0IBVaks0I2SWcqpEVpIJhNwCLcB/s1600/GBX026%2BLP%2B800.jpg

this album is very ILM, at least

i sense that bijou herbacious neo-soul jazzy vibes from oz have crossed some kind of rubicon this year, or are about to. i can imagine the widening yuppie hegemony, brit empire hand-me-down snobbery, ghastly intensity of the pioneering cafe culture, horrible trite fusion cuisine etc but what else do you have to tell me about it

Do you mean, like, Hiatus Kaiyote?

yeah, but the wave since them. like 30/70 collective, jordan rakei, wallace gollan

maybe also relevant is a post-disclosure zero7 soulection 90s electronica thing with idk flume and stuff?

i'm soft for some of it in undemanding private but was mainly just wondering about irl corroboration if any

rakei is usually like jamie woon without the edge (oof) but recently i've been jamming this excursion of his under an alias https://youtu.be/FwZX1A7RTvQ

I suppose Tim's reaction to Katie Gately's latest belongs here:

Katie Gately

xpost this all sounds like stuff that would be very big (not actually big, but you know) here, but apart from 30/70 Collective's "The Strut" and "Space" (good fake Quadron, that last one) (and Flume obv) I'm not familiar with any of it. Not out of any particular distaste but it's an infrastructure I'm not plugged into.

That said I could make some educated guesses about that infrastructure: modern funk/soul shows on 3RRR, live performances at low-key outside festivals at the Coburg Velodrome and Catani Gardens (possibly untrue but it feels correct), sales through Northside Records, everyone quietly wondering just how much they need to normalise their post-dilla sound in order to make a real splash.

And yes, also all those negative connotations but I'm sufficiently shallow upper middle class myself now that it doesn't bother me so much as demand too little while not being so close to my aesthetic pleasure centres as to be something I actively seek out for comfort. But it's not like there's anything else which seems more exciting right now.

track r/t/c posted is banga