Alog – Unemployed
January 27, 2012
CD version goes from good to great with the excellent centerpiece “Last Days at the Assembly Line” and the tracks “Baklandet” and “Bomlo Brenn om Natta” that follow.
Recording Session
Porcelain Raft – Strange Weekend
January 19, 2012
Destroyer – Savage Night at the Opera
January 19, 2012
From the 2011 lp, “Kaputt.”
Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald – I’m Making Believe
January 14, 2012
Unbreakable single.
Gabe Goodman – Midnight Sour EP
January 14, 2012
Just like David Bowie, Gabe Goodman tries out something new with each record.
On this one, he and producer Will Radin beat the Junior Boys at their own game.
“Midnight Sour”
The SIM Album 2012
January 7, 2012
The styles vary greatly — from hip-hop to folk to dark Americana to subtle and not-so-subtle electronic — across the 24 tracks on this mammoth compilation. But exceptional quality runs throughout. Testament to the creative energy of artists working under the auspices of The Studio for Interrelated Media at Mass Art.
Available from Bandcamp.
The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
January 5, 2012
I might have missed this lp, from last summer, entirely had Paul of Jukebox Heart not spoken so highly of it.
Haunting, wonderful, and totally original.
“A Relationship with the Sublime”
The War On Drugs – I Was There
December 28, 2011
Great live performance of a great track from their lp, “Slave Ambient” (Secretly Canadian 2011).
Other Favorite Albums of 2011
December 27, 2011
Other favorite records of 2011!
- Braids, Native Speaker
- Fucked Up, Queen of Hearts
- Jamie Jones, Fabric 59
- Real Estate, Days
- Bvdub, Resistance is Beautiful
- The Men, Leave Home
- Robag Wruhme, Wuppdeckmischmampflow
- Washed Out, Within and Without
- Mark E, Stonebreaker
- Mark McGuire, A Young Person’s Guide
- Lee Scratch Perry, Rise Again
- Zodiak Free Arts Club, Floating World
- Tim Hecker, Ravedeath 1972
- Weekend, Red
- Wye Oak, Civilian
- Thee Oh Sees, Castlemania
- The Field, Looping State of Mind
- Atlas Sound, Parallax
- Panda Bear, Tomboy
- Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Summvs
Favorite Local Albums of 2011
December 22, 2011
My favorite local records from 2011!
- Various Artists, Deep Heaven Now IV Compilation
- Endless Wave, Notes from the Compound
- Guillermo Sexo, Secret Wild
- Prefab Messiahs, Peace Love & Alienation
- Hands and Knees, Wholesome
- Plumerai, Your Guilty Prize
- Reports, Dinamo Cambridge
- Gabe Goodman, Friendly Fires
- The Novel Ideas, Summer Demos
- Kelsey Jarboe, Magical Realism
- To The Wedding, To The Wedding
- Bobby, Bobby
- The Frost Heaves, Frost Heaves 0 Cones 1
- Carter Tanton, Freeclouds
- The Hush Now, Memos
