what are you listening to in 2014?

yeah that one is a little weird inasmuch as he seems oddly close to his mom for a middle-aged man. But it's still a pretty sweet song. And the song about his dad is awesome.

no it's a great song it's just his lyrics on this are so kind of matter of fact and raw that it made me think of my mom dying and i got all sad

Yeah those songs are definitely honest and sweet. He said in an interview his mother thought the song about her was the best gift she'd ever received.

My Aunt is in hospice at the moment and the matter of fact nature of life and death on the new Sun Kil Moon album really resonates.

oh yeah I know what you mean. I tried to listen to a couple songs from it at work today and when I got to the line in Song Remains the Same about the friend dying in the moped accident and the girl who sat in front of him who died and was forgotten I just had to shut it off so I didn't break down in my office. My grandma is also about to go into hospice.

It's crazy that he has (at least) three relatives who died in fires.

some of my early 2014 faves:

Doug Paisley - Strong Feelings
Truckfighters - Universe
Pontiak - Innocense
Behemoth - The Satanist
You Blew It! - Keep Doing What You're Doing

and some older stuff:

Speed Glue & Shink - Eve
Matana Robers - Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
Les Rallizes Dénudés - Naked Diza Star (just picked up the newest 3-disc version of this yesterday!)

mission of burma - vs.
judas priest - rocka rolla
bola sete - ocean

This Cheatahs album is derivative of classic shoegaze, but it's top-tier. Pretty much agree with the Guardian review, but would give an additional star.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/06/cheatahs-cheatahs-review

Heard Teenage Filmstars for the first time the other day due to a kind soul dropping their name on a thread somewhere. Everything I have heard by them on youtube is BLOWING MY MIND. 90s shoegaze done right, and going over the top with experimentalism (recording albums backwards!). Can't believe I've never heard them until now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk1hm6zmD9c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coDkevHTAvQ

Jasper, TX -- An Index of Failure

...and it's only available on silver vinyl !

album playlist the last week...

Captain Beyond- Captain Beyond
King Crimson- Islands
Fleetwood Mac- Then Play On
Hendrix, Jimi- In the West
Camel- The Snow Goose
Bowie, David- The Man Who Sold the World
Bruce, Jack- Songs for a Tailor
Roxy Music- Stranded
Focus- Making Waves
Zappa, Frank- Hammersmith Odeon (D1)
Van Der Graaf Generator- H to He Who Am the Only One
Yes- Tales of Topographic Oceans (D1)
ZZ Top- Afterburner
King Crimson- Epitaph (D4)
Grateful Dead- Live at the Cow Palace (D2)
Parliament- Up for the Down Stroke
Chicken Shack- Blue Horizon Sessions (D1)
Ohio Players- Skin Tight
UFO- 73 to 79 (D4)
Cheap Trick- At Budokan
Erickson, Roky- The Evil One
Yes- Tales of Topographic Oceans (D2)
Edgar Broughton Group- Harvest Years (D1)
Colosseum- Grass Is Greener
Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica
Brown, James- Make It Funky (D2)
Zappa, Frank- Hammersmith Odeon (D2)
Nektar- Remember the Future
Clash, The- London Calling
Birthday Party- Mutiny/The Bad Seed
Dead Boys- We Have Come for Your Children
Hanoi Rocks- Oriental Beat

Teenage filmstars, the later shoegazey stuff totally rules. Love the Star lp. Weird to think it's a Television Personalities spin off.

kate bush - 50 words for snow
coil - the ape of naples / the new backwards / horse rotorvator
zoviet france - mohnomishe
journey - original game soundtrack - http://austinwintory.bandcamp.com/album/journey - so new agey
asmus tietchens - fast ohne titel, korrosion
de la soul - AOI: mosaic thump / bionix
yasuaki shimizu - IQ 179
roxy music - stranded
eliane radigue - psi 847

My Aunt is in hospice at the moment and the matter of fact nature of life and death on the new Sun Kil Moon album really resonates.

― Evan, Friday, February 14, 2014 1:36 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aunt just died this morning. She's had someone else's liver after having failure years ago. She was lucky to have made it through that, but it meant that she was too fragile to fight lymphoma. Sun Kil Moon record(s) are still helpful.

godspeed

sorry for your loss evan

oh evan ..

thoughts with you man.

adult life sucks.

Thanks guys.

Sorry.

Heard some songs I liked on Aussie Courtney Barnett's effort. Kinda a mixture of Nirvana unplugged and the Go-Betweens and uh, something else. She's doing a short US tour now

sorry about your loss, evan.

Thank you

new bums - voices in a rented room
pye corner audio - black mill tapes volumes 1-4.
v/a - radio niger (sublime frequencies)
v/a - killed by deathrock vol. 1 (sacred bones)

enjoying the first hour or so of this i fell asleep a little

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IAfg_Iy7n8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IAfg_Iy7n8

I'm listening to the stuff I'm adding here: http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/5lDWvwFiV72yeLQGjTKfhn

So far we have:

Alcest - Shelter
Warpaint - Warpaint
Toni Braxton & Babyface - Love, Marriage & Divorce
Little Mix - Salute
V/A - Killed By Deathrock, Vol. 1
Phantogram - Voices

The Soul of a Bell
Jesus Dread Conquering Lion Style
Tubeway Army Replicas

Making an effort to develop an appreciation of orchestral/"classical"/whatever music. (There's TONS of it out there!)

Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Piano Nights
E. Parker McDougal ‎– Initial Visit
Ada - Pampa
Mélanie Laurent - En T'Attendant
VA - Man Chest Hair
Beaumont - A No Time Like The Past
Autour de Lucie - S/T & Immobile
Babs Gonzales ‎– Tales Of Manhattan: The Cool Philosophy Of Babs Gonzales
Pal Joey ‎– Hot Music

roots-reggae and dub, and african jazz. this song, from 1957, is hot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9dk2YlnqTg

Pretty much all new stuff: Embrace, Wild Beasts, St Vincent, Polar Bear, Get The Blessing, Planningtorock, Notwist, East India Youth, Neneh Cherry, Warpaint.

herbie hancock - mwandishi, sextant, thrust
edgar froese - aqua, epsilon in malaysia pale, stuntman
yasuaki shimizu - IQ 178 (fantastic, thanks milton!)

http://www.musicfromtheice.blogspot.com/2012/02/sounds-from-yosemites-frozen-lakes.html
The Lyrebirds Of Tidbinbilla
Michelle Bokanowski - L'Étoile Absinthe / Chant D'Ombre
Florian Schneider-Esleben / Eberhard Kranemann ‎– The Origins Of Kraftwerk (Soundcheck 1967) (barely even of historical interest, but it exists)
Swingle Singers 64-67

"Talking Transgender Dysphoria Blues" by Against Me!, over and over and over

Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
Kvelertak - s/t
FM Knives - Useless & Modern
Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves...

Actress - R.I.P.
Nina Nastasia - Outlaster
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Polysics - Neu
Isolee - Western Shore
Shugo Tokumaru - Night Piece
Ellen Allien - Thrills
Codeine - When I See The Sun boxset
Serena Maneesh - S/T
Loop - Gilded Eternity

Right now: the new Notwist!

Mark Kozelek - Tour Documentary Soundtrack is awesome too, especially for me since Admiral Fell Promises is my favorite record and it's heavy on that material

really enjoying couple of random new things by artists I haven't really paid too much attention to
josephine foster - i'm a dreamer
blank realm - grassed in

~inconsequential list or citation of no note~

Mostly new stuff, plus a few reissues:

Farthest South - Spheres & Constellations
Wesley Matsell - Total Order of Being
Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Dreamzone Remixes
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
Valentin Stip - Sigh
Marissa Nadler - July
Kangding Ray - Solens Arc
Vox Populi & Pacific 231 - Cut Chemist Presents Funk Off
Jeff Phelps - Magnetic Eyes

the hold steady - separation sunday/almost killed me
dead boys - young,loud snotty
st vincent - s/t
new pornographers - mass romantic

Shamir - 'If It Wasn't True' - awesome disco/house/funk thing
2NE1 - '멘붕 (MTBD) (CL Solo)' - banger off the new album
BABYMETAL - 'Gimme Choko!' - J-Pop teen metal. Amazing
Asha Puthli - 'The Whip' - Disco gem from the Gobin/Puthli soundtrack to 'Squadra Antigangsters' from 1979

and lots of Sky Ferreira still. Cooling on the St Vincent after initial enthusiasm.

Real Estate - Atlas
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Leonard Cohen - The Best of Leonard Cohen

Darkthrone
Isengard
Storm
Celtic Frost
Gorgoroth
Belketre
JS Bach
Robert Schumann
Franz Liszt (only late piano pieces)
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Bela Bartok
Gyorgy Ligeti
Fleetwood Mac
Randy Newman

amel larrieux
jeri-jeri
prodigy and alchemist
beck
schoolboy q
mark kozelek
molly drake
sharon jones
and still trying to get through that goddam ILM best of 2013 singles nomination spotify list with multiple listens for each track. 733 in, 305 to go

Franz Liszt (only late piano pieces)

then you should listen to

his late symphonic poems

Kind of haven't been keeping track of new releases in 2014 to be honest. I think the only new stuff I've really listened to are St VIncent and that tepid Malkmus record.

Other than that:
Bjork - lots of Bjork
Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore
shitloads of modern jazz: Mingus, Taylor, Davis etc...
Weird atonal cello music by Okkyung Lee, Gaspar Claus, Hera and Hamid Drake etc
rediscovering King Crimson
Actress
Stuff from the metal poll - Hell, Cloudrat etc...

I've gone all country, which is... unexpected. AshleyBrandyKacey over and over, plus the latest Rosanne Cash. Also loving the new Hidden Cameras, which is equally unexpected after the last two.

Essential Afrobeat triple CD
Trentemoller - The Last Resort
new Neneh Cherry album
Sleaford Mods - Singles Collection/Austerity Dogs
Wilco - Summerteeth