Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul
Wolves In The Throne Room - Malevolent Grain
Animal Hospital - Memory
Everlovely Lightningheart - Sien Weal Tallion Rue
Mass of the Fermenting Dregs - World Is Yours
A Storm of Light / Nadja - Primitive North
James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Boom Boom Satellites - Back On My Feet
Portland Cello Project - The Thao And Justin Power Sessions
Bloody Panda - Summon
Greymachine - Disconnected
Jesu - Infinity
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Grizzly Bear - Vecktamist
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
Final - Infinite Guitar 3 / Guitar & Bass Improvisations 3
Pyramids With Nadja - Pyramids With Nadja
Nadja - Under The Jaguar Sun
Tyondai Braxton - Central Market
Various - Transmissions From Sinai
King Midas Sound - Waiting For You
Ben Frost - By The Throat
...in case you were wondering
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Temptation
Don't need it, probably have most of the music on it, but as someone who owns one or two Japanese import CDs and stupidly limited bits of vinyl I'm finding it really difficult not to preorder. Stunning bit of packaging isn't it?
Monday, June 1, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Haven't bought one of these for a while
A CD! (plus it makes an interesting picture against that background - all gets a bit fractal)
Friday, April 17, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Vinyl Fetishism
And so it continues...
The above pictures are from Sunn O)))'s vinyl only albun Dømkirke. As live documents go I can begin to understand the good points of releasing these things in vinyl format purely for the fact that the photography and artwork are really given chance to shine. I still don't buy the idea that this can only be listened to via an 'analogue' format.
This is a ridiculously limited companion piece to Larsen's La Fever Lit called LLL. Another live album with really nice artwork - this one seems to have a heavy duty screen print.
Since I am SURE you are aware of Sunn O))) I'm going to post a Larsen tune. This isn't from LLL rather it's big brother La Fever Lit, unlike most of the stuff they do it has vocals so isn't terribly representative, but hey! I like the tune:
mp3: Larsen - LeFrack City Limits
The above pictures are from Sunn O)))'s vinyl only albun Dømkirke. As live documents go I can begin to understand the good points of releasing these things in vinyl format purely for the fact that the photography and artwork are really given chance to shine. I still don't buy the idea that this can only be listened to via an 'analogue' format.
This is a ridiculously limited companion piece to Larsen's La Fever Lit called LLL. Another live album with really nice artwork - this one seems to have a heavy duty screen print.
Since I am SURE you are aware of Sunn O))) I'm going to post a Larsen tune. This isn't from LLL rather it's big brother La Fever Lit, unlike most of the stuff they do it has vocals so isn't terribly representative, but hey! I like the tune:
mp3: Larsen - LeFrack City Limits
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
3am music
This is from the new Fink album (out at the end of May I think). It's a lovely little melancholic number full of half spoken lines and has a slightly... weary but nostalgic feeling to it. Maybe that's just me.
Musically it starts as a fairly simple acoustic number but has this clever trick where it changes style halfway through without you noticing until you're nodding your head, and there is this beautiful little two note piano riff towards the end.
Really nice song, looking forward to the new album.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
A new addiction - what could possibly go wrong?
Over the last few months, despite the steady stream of sulking, procrastinating and general stagnation, I've been slowly and surely downsizing my CD collection. Part of me is using the 'de-cluttering exercise as a means towards content' as an excuse, although personally I think my subconscious is up to something more serious...
So, what's the first thing to do after clearing up a ton of physical space by digitizing the CDs I may listen to again and selling most of the others?
That's right! I buy a record player and start collecting music on an even more bulky and awkward to store format.
The first fruits of this new obsession can be seen above, let's have a look at them in more detail.
Wolves in the Throne Room - Live at Roadburn 2008
This is a live recording of the excellent 'Black Metal'-esque band (or, as has been pointed out by other more informed sites, due to there pro-environment leanings they could be described as 'Brown Metal'-esque) Wolves in the Throne Room from last years Roadburn festival. Two sides of vinyl and a DVD with some extra music all excellently recorded and well worth tracking down.
Nadja/A Storm of Light - Primitive North
I've mentioned this before and in the flesh it's even nicer to own. Two bits of lovely blood-moon coloured vinyl one of which features a beautiful etching and a CD containing all the music so I can fetishize the vinyl properly by keeping it virginal, pure and unplayed.
Everlovely Lightningheart - Sien Weal Tallion Rue
There are two things I'll never understand about this band: first is why they insist on releasing such limited quantities of their music, and second is what they were doing on a heavy metal label like Hydrahead. Anyway, this is their final album - one of the grand total of 300 produced. I've got the 'purple puke' coloured version, along with a meat-based doily collage, a couple of badges and a bit of cloth with unspecified stain (oh yes!). The music has a very much 'geographical' feel, by that I mean the atmosphere created by the songs definitely puts me in mind of landscapes such as the one pictured in the gatefold. Not that the music is particularly static when invoking talk of geography - there is a definite feeling of traveling associated with each track as the musicians subtly shift melodies and instrumentation. BTW Yes I am aware this sounds like bollocks but I'm not a very eloquent person and wanted to say something more than "it sounds nice".
Since so few people are going to hear this I feel obliged to give you a sample, so from the second disc may I present Yarrow Lophophora...
mp3: Yarrow Lophophora
I'm off now to resist the temptation to spend $200 on a Boris album - wish me luck!
So, what's the first thing to do after clearing up a ton of physical space by digitizing the CDs I may listen to again and selling most of the others?
That's right! I buy a record player and start collecting music on an even more bulky and awkward to store format.
The first fruits of this new obsession can be seen above, let's have a look at them in more detail.
Wolves in the Throne Room - Live at Roadburn 2008
This is a live recording of the excellent 'Black Metal'-esque band (or, as has been pointed out by other more informed sites, due to there pro-environment leanings they could be described as 'Brown Metal'-esque) Wolves in the Throne Room from last years Roadburn festival. Two sides of vinyl and a DVD with some extra music all excellently recorded and well worth tracking down.
Nadja/A Storm of Light - Primitive North
I've mentioned this before and in the flesh it's even nicer to own. Two bits of lovely blood-moon coloured vinyl one of which features a beautiful etching and a CD containing all the music so I can fetishize the vinyl properly by keeping it virginal, pure and unplayed.
Everlovely Lightningheart - Sien Weal Tallion Rue
There are two things I'll never understand about this band: first is why they insist on releasing such limited quantities of their music, and second is what they were doing on a heavy metal label like Hydrahead. Anyway, this is their final album - one of the grand total of 300 produced. I've got the 'purple puke' coloured version, along with a meat-based doily collage, a couple of badges and a bit of cloth with unspecified stain (oh yes!). The music has a very much 'geographical' feel, by that I mean the atmosphere created by the songs definitely puts me in mind of landscapes such as the one pictured in the gatefold. Not that the music is particularly static when invoking talk of geography - there is a definite feeling of traveling associated with each track as the musicians subtly shift melodies and instrumentation. BTW Yes I am aware this sounds like bollocks but I'm not a very eloquent person and wanted to say something more than "it sounds nice".
Since so few people are going to hear this I feel obliged to give you a sample, so from the second disc may I present Yarrow Lophophora...
mp3: Yarrow Lophophora
I'm off now to resist the temptation to spend $200 on a Boris album - wish me luck!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Things that I've been listening to today:
I think this is the latest release involving Nadja (difficult to say really as the discography is a little bit 'epic' to say the least). Anyway, I've been listening to a copy of the above nadja/A Storm of Light split I *cough* found *cough*and I just needed a way to shout out FUCK ME THIS IS GOOD!!! that didn't involve actual shouting.If you like your metal to be big, epic, loud, slightly transcendental etc, then you should do yourself a favour and buy a copy. It's available on 2x12" (blood moon or glacier colours *sweet!*) with a copy of the same music on a bundled CD so there is no excuse really - other than the price in these harsh economic times, but what are you going to do?
...
Guess who has purchased a record player so he can start listening to even more of this sort of obscure avante-garde metal? Oh Yes... Yes indeed!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Who needs to go to the real world...
...to see a beautiful sun rise. And who exactly am I kidding? :-/
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Shoshin
What you see here is the exact point when music takes on a very much real, very much physical and very much spiritual presence - and all you can do is get down on your knees and praise the gods of the Sunn amplifier, the gods of the speaker stack and the gods of the Les Paul guitar. And you will, and it will be good...Too much?
OK, tonight I have mainly been watching Sunn0))).
It was very loud...
I bought a t-shirt...
That is all...
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Things to do at 4:30am if you're bored and stuck outside Waterloo station...
#31.Explore!
Possibly asking for trouble a bit, but if you've missed the train back home and are a bit drunk, having a bit of an explore seems completely reasonable.
I think this tunnel is where Banksy staged an exhibition last year and is still full of really cool graffiti.
Wouldn't mind going back and taking a few more pictures when I'm feeling a little less... unstable.
Possibly asking for trouble a bit, but if you've missed the train back home and are a bit drunk, having a bit of an explore seems completely reasonable.
I think this tunnel is where Banksy staged an exhibition last year and is still full of really cool graffiti.
Wouldn't mind going back and taking a few more pictures when I'm feeling a little less... unstable.
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