Red Mosquito

Just got through listening to this and it was pretty enjoyable. Rachel Grimes is a pianist and composer who was a member of the now-defunct chamber rock ensemble Rachel's (whose name had nothing to do with her). This is her second album, and first for Temporary Residence; it's a more fully realized work of contemporary chamber composition as opposed to the solo piano stuff from her debut.

The new Oh Sees is really great.

Yeah, I'm enjoying that one too.

http://www.spin.com/2015/06/50-best-albums-2015-so-far/

Something to consult.

my top so far:

Other Lives Rituals
Steven Wilson Hand.Cannot.Erase
Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell
Mew + -
The Tallest Man On Earth Dark Bird Is Home
Murder By Death Big Dark Love
My Morning Jacket The Waterfall
Blur The Magic Whip
A Place To Bury Strangers Transfixiation

This one's for SNC, but everyone should def. give it a listen.

2 piece from Adelaide South Australia, The Hard Aches. Debut album out 12th June. Here's I Get Like This that I just can't get out of my head. They are looking at being in my town in a few weeks, if so I'll definitely be catching them. I love this sort of stuff - honest, straight forward, emotive. Good shit.



You are welcome.

And I'm pretty sure our very own spenno is in the crowd here.

Oh definitely not, those people are all far too young and exuberant.

Sssshhhh!! That was a cunning ruse to try and get more folk to actually check out the vid!

Oh!

In that case, I'm the guy with the beard.

I knew it!

This one goes into the "lazy sunday, slightly stoned, chilled listen" category. Canadian/New York duo Bob Moses released All in All recently. Apparently it's "music that will make you want to build a highway through a low income neighbourhood" whatever that means. File under "stuff the wiffey likes".

Here's Far From the Tree, the lead off track.

BurtReynolds wrote:

You're better than this, Burt.

Another new thing I recently listened to that was somewhat enjoyable, but may not quite be for me. Others might get a kick out of it, though.

Jaga Jazzist - Starfire



I'm vaguely familiar with the band, mostly in that they've garnered comparisons to Tortoise, who I really like. "Starfire," the title track, is my favorite cut from the album. The rest of the songs are decent but seem to meander quite a bit more than the style warrants, whereas the title track is memorable and to the point.

Something else that's really neat is the new project underway by Justin Small, a member of Do Make Say Think. He's writing, recording, mixing and mastering one new song a week for 52 weeks and is releasing them in a subscription-type format for one Canadian dollar each. It can be opted into or out of at any time. Basically, you pay a dollar a week for a year and get a new song a week for a year.

This is the first one, "Slow Motion Hearts":



Sign up here, if interested: http://justinsmallmusic.com/

Varis wrote:This one's for SNC, but everyone should def. give it a listen.

2 piece from Adelaide South Australia, The Hard Aches. Debut album out 12th June. Here's I Get Like This that I just can't get out of my head. They are looking at being in my town in a few weeks, if so I'll definitely be catching them. I love this sort of stuff - honest, straight forward, emotive. Good shit.



You are welcome.

Thank you, bud. Diggin it.

Got this LP yesterday. Swiftumz, Everybody Loves Chris.

zeb wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

You're better than this, Burt.

The new Jedi Mind Tricks is a VERY welcome return to form. Stoupe is back in, Jus Allah is back out - the way it should be. Really diggin' the album.