Red Mosquito

durdencommatyler wrote:

psychobain wrote:the new Justin Timberlake album is so good it hurts

Yeah, I want this so hard.

William Tyler has spent the last decade plus as a touring guitar player for both Nashville indie country combo Lambchop, and indie rockers the Silver Jews, but here on Impossible Truth he strikes out on his own, and comes up with something that harkens back to a different age, several different ages in fact, the obvious reference is the guitar soli / early Appalachia of folks like John Fahey, Leo Kottke and Robbie Basho, but imagine that sound filtered through something more Laurel Canyon-y, for a sort of seventies psychedelia, the sound evoking wide open expanses, big sky country, the soundtrack to a meandering drive in a big old car, top down, on single lane roads winding through rolling green hills, no destination, endless possibilities. Opener "Country Of Illusion" adds a bit of raga to the mix, giving the sound an exotic droney vibe, with a little bit of an Eastern tinge, but soon, a subtly rhythmic pulse, some slippery slide, a little bit of twang, and it's a whole different world, we're hearing Morricone, Pell Mell, James Blackshaw, all woven into a heady bit of sun dappled psychedelic folk, that is pretty divine. Steve Reich and Terry Riley may also be influences.
The mood darkens a bit on the "Geography Of Nowhere", the tones wreathed in reverb and delay, the sound looped and layered, minor key and melancholy, but then like the first track, the sound opens up, the mood shifts, as of the clouds parted revealing nothing but blue skies. The record tends toward dense melodic tangles and mesmerizingly repetitive arrangements, with the tone and timbre constantly changing between songs, some lush and warm, rich and lustrous, others more crystalline and high end, more shimmer and glimmer, all culminating in the closer, which might be the weirdest track of all, it starts out a sort of loping Western style Americana, looped melodic figures drifting over swoonsome slide and lush chordal swells, but then in creep what sound like horns, and maybe fiddles? The melodies get more playful, the slide more slippery, the sounds soar and swoop, the horns moaning and bleating, before finally exploding into a full on heavy psych drum heavy noise drenched freakout, the drums driving and motorik, beneath a cloud of roiling psych guitar tangle, that eventually fades out, into a shimmery sprawl of pulsing, echo drenched abstract guitar drift.

surface the north wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Signs you're finally too old to rock & roll: David Bowie releases his first album in a decade and you don't hear about it until today.

Fuck me.

To be fair, he released that album in one of the quietest ways possible.

Heathen wrote:

Milk Music - Cruise Your Illusion

Got this one because the cover reminded me of zuma. You definitely can hear the Neil Young influence on it, especially in the first tracks. Pretty cool lo-fi, fuzzy rock album.

Heathen wrote:

Milk Music - Cruise Your Illusion

Got this one because the cover reminded me of zuma. You definitely can hear the Neil Young influence on it, especially in the first tracks. Pretty cool lo-fi, fuzzy rock album.

Varis wrote:Matt Valentine & Erika Elder - Fuzzweed (Fuzzy, stoned, excellent)

Heathen wrote:

Varis wrote:Matt Valentine & Erika Elder - Fuzzweed (Fuzzy, stoned, excellent)

I'm not feeling this new MV&EE, they have done better stuff in this style IMO. Their "fantasy set" was pretty cool though: http://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/fantasy-set

I've been enjoying the Leif Vollebekk (folk/blues) and Yuya Ota (ambient) albums lately

Varis wrote:That was the first MV&EE I'd heard. Enjoyed it and will look into some of their back catalogue.

fishbob wrote:The Drones - I Sea Seaweed

Already the best album of 2013, unbelievable