Rolling weird music 2020

Formerly known as herky-jerky, time travel, experimental etc etc

Charlie Looker of Extra Life and such has just tweeted about this, by Stern, an old friend of his. It is weird, and really good. File under lo-fi underwater prog:

https://sterntheband.bandcamp.com/album/sunder-hawk

my new band is going to be called Toby Driver Used To Be In My Band

Martillero, from my favourite 2019 album

https://solteronasenescabeche.bandcamp.com/album/lenguaje-y-comunicaci-n

'Weird music' works for me, feel like herky-jerky and experimental are both too specific, and while time travel worked for a while the last thread was too much orange milk and not enough other stuff. My tip for this year is to keep an eye out for BodyVice, Natalie Sharp's newish project.

That Stern album sounds great in places.

Quietus head honcho releases album of spoken word & electronics: https://teslatapes.bandcamp.com/album/self-help-grand-hotel-ibis -> sounds pretty good in a Shadow Ring/Call Back the Giants way.

Haha, it has gained sentience and begun to communicate in song!

I don't know if it's a bit self-absorbed to do this, but I think time travellers might enjoy the stuff I play on my radio show, so here's a link. There's four so far and we do it monthly, and I talk a lot of cringey rubbish in between songs so you can laugh at me.

thanks!

Very curious to hear both D0ran's venture and your show!

will definitely be tuning in to your occult frequencies emil.y!

from last year but painted faces “tales from the skinny apartment” fits the bill, utterly stoned demented murk

This is pretty rad

https://maternalvoice.bandcamp.com/album/in-threes

SLUSHWAVE FOR AUSTRALIA

http://globalpattern.bandcamp.com/album/slushwave-for-australia

I don't know if it's a bit self-absorbed to do this, but I think time travellers might enjoy the stuff I play on my radio show, so here's a link. There's four so far and we do it monthly, and I talk a lot of cringey rubbish in between songs so you can laugh at me.

― emil.y

i don't think it's self-absorbed, the word i'd use is "cool", thanks!

took 12 minutes until it hit something where i was like "oh! i know this!" (was that omar khorshid? idk). but everything so far is awesome.

Awww, thank you so much - it means a lot!

Stabscotch are back, and they are sounding incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w356crY7q8Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k7gAMuGzlQ

The Last Alchemist will take some beating as SOTY and that's after one listen

https://stabscotch.bandcamp.com/album/twilight-dawn

Album/double EP/'gemini release' announced. Gonna be huge

Lol at the Schlippenbach reference on the review of the first album posted. So many laughters out loud

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ NEW MACHINE GIRL 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

https://machinegirl.bandcamp.com/album/u-void-synthesizer

on the first track this is insane amazing

I give it 5 bags of popcorn and I'll throw in 10,000 gecs <3

It's very Digital Hardcore!

This rules :D

to think of the saps paying Grimes so much mind and ignoring this, the real 90s-reloaded cybercore

this is insane:

I’m selling my records. Like, all of em. I’m having an open house (date TBA). Not exactly invite only but I won’t be publishing my address. If you’re interested in what I have, check out this spreadsheet (broken down by genre) and DM me for more info. https://t.co/9LW1dyfDBP

— Anti-Gravity Bunny (@justinsnow) February 27, 2020

sounds like something isn't great w/ him or his family, so i'm not trying to make light of that. just saying ... selling all those records is like whoa

I remember when that ^^ dude's iPod broke and he crowdfunded getting a new one. Hope he's doing OK.

This came out last year but only just come across it: Kutiman, an Israeli musician making stuff that could have come out in the early 80s. Sounds like Craig Leon or some of Richard Pinhas' stuff. It's good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2WJ3gq1hh8

https://infiniteleisure420.bandcamp.com/track/--130

i love me some kutiman, he's going interesting directions

to think of the saps paying Grimes so much mind and ignoring this, the real 90s-reloaded cybercore

🙄

Bit of a vested interest as they're now labelmates, but honestly if you're not listening to Massicot's new one you're missing out: https://massicot.bandcamp.com/album/kratt

They self-describe as "tropical kraut punk", which I reckon is fairly accurate. FFO The Ex?

Will check! SoL coming soon too yes?

Yes! It's out March 13th, so soon now after such a long wait, eep.

Excellent! ILM launch party to come haha

Enjoying the Massicot album, thanks Emily! Tropical kraut punk is otm. It's fun!

not sure if this is the thread for this but i liked Nist-Nah by Will Guthrie:
https://willguthrie.bandcamp.com/album/nist-nah

various sparse metal (the material not the genre) percussion

If search is to be believed, the only other time Delphine Dora has been mentioned on ILM is in the 2018 time travel thread. So, here you go. I like this.
https://wearethreefour.bandcamp.com/album/linattingible

I put a gig on featuring Delphine and Sophie Cooper in a tiny space above a pub. Delphine was magnificent but only 8 people showed up. We didn't put many more gigs on.

I'd kind of forgotten about her, tbh. Will check this out, cheers.

SoL sounding great, super stuff emil.y et al!

Thanks imago, was really hoping you and tt would like it!

Another vote for Massicot, very weird & cool!

The new Slum of Legs album kills, emil.y! Omg I love it. Such densely layered weirdo post-punk! The synth and string arrangements are wonderful. I hope we get to see you perform someday, post-apocalypse.

^^^

Was thinking about doing a thread for that but didn't want to cause any awkwardness but yes - tremendous job e!

I'm honestly blown away by everyone being so nice about it, makes me all warm and fuzzy, thank you guys.

we've had very limited interactions on here if any but this is awesome.

I'm sure it's due to the name but it does remind me a bit of King Of The Slums who were a Manchester band from the late 80s who had a rumbling Fall-ish sound but with a fiddle player, and they were fab and I've missed them for a long time. Anyway the first track on the SoL album is fucking stunning and I love it

xp lol

xps Pat Fish a.k.a. The Jazz Butcher!!

yes!! I remember something related to Jazz -- that was quite nice!

meanwhile I kinda just want to listen to TFUL282 I Hope It Lands on repeat -- why? idk

that is the best TFUL282 album

went through that Stan Brakhage series 10 years ago, it comes to mind at the oddest moments, every episode is good

been ransacking everything at this website: http://theatticmag.com/features/2337/'this-is-not-intentionally-music'.-a-cedrik-fermont-interview.html

found website through googling Svitlana Nianio

& sarahell, you see this?

https://pleasekillme.com/pink-section-inflatable-boy-clams/

I keep thinking it must be a different band and it seems like an affectionate name only big fans would use.

Is this Grateful Dead? Why does everyone call them The Dead?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, August 21, 2020 12:52 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

sorry, i mistyped, meant The Gay Dad

milty -- i got the reissues of those back when my band was a duo -- so 2014? 2015? ... Inflatable Boy Clams was a fave of my bandmate, whose ex-gf is, I think, dating that one guy from the 19th century bullshit band

Whenever I try giving the Dead another chance I end up listening to the Paul Butterfield Blues Band’s ‘East-West’ for the 23806th time.

oh, that reissue came out before "flyergate" -- I think I stopped buying Superior V1aduct releases after flyergate ... geez, it seems surreal to think about the innocent times of flyergate compared to the election, G.S., ... now ...

xxxp lol

Dadheads

anyway -- the way she sings "horrible mistake" on that song ... sigh, the best.

Oh mom, get back to me, bring me some snacks
What I want to do in Marin is to relax
Oh yeah I dig Marin, the views... are good
And everything is bettering me, I mean I feel, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah

God, I love Inflatable Boy Clams.

Same here. I remember playing them for a date once and he was so obsessed with I'm Sorry that we listened to it a few times while getting ridiculously baked. We set the fire alarm off lol

Sarahell will know this person, too, which helps make the story funnier for the two of us.

omg who?!!!!!

table is the table was at the first gig my band played!

the way she sings "horrible mistake" on that song ... sigh, the best.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

best fucking band

at the 2004 reunion show in PDX this dude got up on stage, went around, and hugged each member individually. random fan otm.

(I got tons of love for IBC as well, but y'know there's only like 5 songs or w/e)

Sarahell, he's in the Y0ung3r Lover5

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

some of you might like this album rolling punk 2020
― flopson, Thursday, August 20, 2020 2:47 AM (six days ago)

I came here to post the home blitz. It's great.

Latecomer to the new Cucina Povers album here. Gonna have to go back and relisten to her previous but this seems like a big leap forwards? Definitely pushing my buttons more than the one before (which I still really liked!) . I don't even really know what's going on but getting strong 'ancient music of a place that's never existed' feels. Multitracked vocals and some sparse synth that's played exactly the way our alien forebears intended, can't even think what else sounds like it really

I guess the glory days of Fonal Records are the neatest point of comparison? Islaja and stuff like that

(perks up ears)

Just noticed the dumb auto correct in my post - it's Cucina Povera obv

Just listened to the first few tracks and my it is gorgeous.

I guess 'weird music' fans might be into the Deathbomb Arc showcase? I didn't manage to follow along on the night but it's archived. Features a certain Soft Pink Dude, among many others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnp7XRXOWqw&

loving the Cucina Povera, thanks. I feel like someone else here tipped me to her recently?

Paolo linked to one of her songs on this very thread a few months back

Thanks for posting that video btw emily! I'm kind of out of touch with things so the only other thing I know from that is TALsounds.

yeh this cucina povera is a really beautiful ep

new eric copeland from a few weeks ago
https://ericcopeland.bandcamp.com/album/dumb-it-down

Constantly trying to resist turning this thread into "Emil.y's Radio Show Promotion Thread" but we've got some guests in for the second half of this month playing rad Ex-Yu/Slavic tunes, I'm dead excited about it: https://www.mixcloud.com/citybeatradio/cryptophasia-013/

kind of enjoying that eric copeland

This Cryptophasia mix is really great thanks. It's so hard to stay on top of weird music - or it is for me at least. Once I became aware of the berserk, sublime dimensionality this substrata of music has expanded to create (and I only feel that way in the most fleeting of glimpses, despite my luck that it's become one of the main planks of my 9-5) I found it disorientating. I feel like the opinion I encountered a lot when I was first a very green, ignorant music writer 17 yrs ago - that we no longer need any kind of interface between us and the music, that all we needed was internet access and our ears - has never been further from the truth. I don't need a return of imperious gatekeepers for sure, but nothing dissolves my critical, aesthetic and emotional faculties like a day spent listening to 14 new tapes, five new streams, and two new LPs, where I have little or no idea of what the provenance is. I need some damn help with my listening. I think one of my new year's resolutions will definitely be to carve out more time to spend listening to shows like this and checking out the shows on Neon Hospice etc. Like, whether this is an obvious thing to say or not, there's surely never been a more important time for rhizomatic connectivity between all points in whatever constitutes the underground.

fully agree. i started this thread recently Keeping Up With Music to attempt to convey the sheer weight of the task upon the serious avant-garde universalist right now. a RYM account alone isn't quite enough; we need guidance, means of 'rhizomatic connectivity' that still does not limit (which is the risk) but which suggests outward paths and lines of deeper inquiry

Hear, hear. Especially in this day and age where it's becoming harder and harder to pass by the self-implied and money-driven gatekeeper that is The Algorithm and Curated Playli$t$. Which suggest only inward paths to swallow you for their personal gain, instead of the outwards paths lj succinctly described. 'We need guidance' is otm.

Emily and Dan's show truly is on the right side here and one to keep a keen eye on!

Ah, thank you!

I definitely get overwhelmed with the amount of music that's out there - I also have some issues that mean I simply can't concentrate on music for as long as I used to/other nerds may do, so I need navigation tools more than ever. Some of that is from relatively traditional modes of journalism, some from here, but I've always found the best way of finding stuff is through actually being involved in music making and "scenes". I don't really mean scenes like cliques, though there is always the risk of that, but if you know people who make stuff then they know other people who make stuff, and you get to know the interconnected underground networks and can follow trails to all sorts of places, rather than getting stuck in a cliquey cul-de-sac. I think the two biggest problems with this, though, are accessibility (not just disability accessibility, but location, age, internet access, a massive pandemic, loads of things), and also that as I've aged my networks have too, and that means that I can completely miss new exciting stuff, because I'm no longer on the same trails as the people who are coming up.

I've spent ages typing this out and now I no longer know if it makes any sense, but oh well, I'm gonna hit send anyway.

thanks for the new dn

I like this album by The Gagmen. Dark/weirdo supergroup with Aaron Dilloway, Nate Young and Andrew WK
https://idealrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-gagmen

huge amount of hastily made weird demos by montreal musicians to raise money for a good cause:

https://demofest.bandcamp.com/

haven't listened to many yet but i really enjoyed these ones by my friends

lukie lovechild https://demofest.bandcamp.com/album/lukie-lovechild-couple-demos
marley kay https://demofest.bandcamp.com/album/marlee-kay-i-think-you-love-her-more-than-me
shithead https://demofest.bandcamp.com/album/shithead-piss-and-shit-for-the-children

thanks for this
great stuff

Did we ever get a 2021 thread for this?

Start one!

yeh that;'ll be good
a bit under the weather this week but i have a few links to throw in if one gets going

Here we go: Rolling weird music // time travel // unclassifiable 2021