This is one of those feel-good albums, but not the faux-feel-good “wind beneath my wings†kind of stuff – this music just feels good and it makes me happy whenever I listen to it. “The owls go†and “Spring 2008†make me crack up if they come on while I’m walking around. It’s a great break from albums that are big and insane, which is what I end up listening to all the time. If th
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Mandarin is dead - long live Mandarin! The band is well mourned, but unlikely to disappear completely, owing to the talent of its members, who will go on to do great things, but also to their incredible work under this moniker. Their album Fast>Future>Present was brilliant and I thought them a new band with a new sound - but little did I know they were relatively old and had already achieved gre
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Another offering from the Jeweled Antler Collective. This is one of my favorite recordings from that prolific label – many of their releases are too abstract or strange even for my sophisticated self. Skygreen Leopards (name taken from a poem by Kenneth Patchen) are a band composed of two people, to my knowledge (plus helpers, no doubt), but their multitracked vocals and instruments make for...
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This guy is part of Sun City Girls, a group which I understand is a bit insane live. I hardly know anything about them, or Sir Richard Bishop, only that my friend gave me this album and it's completely nuts. By nuts I don't mean like cacophonic, earbursting nuts (as I know Sun City Girls to be) but "how.. is someone playing that?" nuts. The last album that compares is Jack Rose's Kensington Blu
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They were halfway through the recording when the drugs began to take hold. That, at least, is the only explanation I can muster for the break from reason and sanity that takes place just before the four minute mark in “Hearts and Daggersâ€. What was previously an eerie funeral march of a song (“When daylight strikes them, their graves will shatter; flies will gather for hearts and daggersâ€
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Tape is (or were at the time of this album) a Swedish trio who make beautiful, organic/electronic music with a very pastoral feeling to it. Milieu is their second album - their first, Opera, is much like this one, though I prefer the new one. The music they make is incredibly relaxing without being boring - Windy & Carl relaxes me too but Tape does not make 20 minute feedback drones. The album
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The music is all instrumental, and most of it, with some major exceptions, has a similar tone. Dark, a little bit menacing, and a little bit groove-based. “Chiaroscuro†and “Vendetta,†the two first tracks, are good examples of this. A relatively slow tempo set by a nonetheless powerful and precise drummer, some real basic bass work, a dirty-sounding guitar going all over the place quite w
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