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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 25, 2023 11:23:01 GMT -5
We haven't had one of these threads in a couple of years, but I've always appreciated these threads in the past as a good place to learn about music I might be interested in from people whose musical tastes I respect. So yeah, use this thread to post about any good new albums that you've been listening to lately. As with previous iterations of this thread, I'll keep a running list of the albums that everyone posts about here in the first comment. The last time we did one of these threads, Monodrone was running it, and he also kept a list of "consensus favorites" for any albums that got three or more mentions. I think I'll also keep that list going once we get any albums that qualify. The TIF 2023 Good Albums ListRoy Batty's Pet Dove 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs3RA1N1AC - The Predator NominateFever Ray - Radical RomanticsFireworks - Higher Lonely Power
MSPAINT - Post-AmericanPigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Land of SleeperDellarigg Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 17: Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997)
U2 - Songs of Surrendermonodrone MSPAINT - Post-AmericanZulu - A New Tomorrow |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 25, 2023 11:28:31 GMT -5
To start things off, I was looking for some January 1 releases on New Year's Day itself, so I could start the year out listening to some 2023 music, and came across the new Fireworks album Higher Lonely Power, which I love, and has been in heavy rotation for me this January.
Also, 90s noise rock act 3RA1N1AC have put out an EP of previously unreleased material, The Predator Nominate. Pretty good.
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 29, 2023 6:32:38 GMT -5
Volume 17 of the Bob Dylan Bootleg Series is upon us, this time focussing on the Time Out Of Mind sessions from 1996/97. It's a companion piece to Volume 8, Tell Tale Signs, which covered this period without bearing down too hard on Time Out Of Mind. They were obviously keeping stuff back for this release, 15 years later. Between the two of them, this is a comprehensive look at Dylan's reignition as a talent after a rough patch.
The deluxe version has 5 - count 'em - 5 CDs.
The first is the album newly remixed, with some of the Lanois swamp production toned down, so we get to hear what the musicians heard in the room while recording.
2 & 3 are early iterations of the songs, plus alt versions of some that didn't make the final cut or were held over till the next album, often in quite different form, as is Dylan's way. This is the main interest for me, though unfortunately there aren't any completely new, previously unheard songs. The best of those turned up on the aforementioned Tell Tale Signs in 2008. We get different, early versions of a few of them here, like Mississippi, Marching To The City, Dreaming Of You, and Red River Shore.
Disc 4 is live performances from the years after the album's release. His singing is ... not too bad, though the sound quality is not of the best. Literal bootlegs, by the sound of some of them.
And disc 5 is a round up of the relevant tracks that first appeared on Tell Tale Signs. Not really essential, as anyone who gets this will likely already have that.
All very nice for the Dylan devotee in your life. The Bootleg Series is the model of how to deal with a large vault, in my view ... though, that said, a more comprehensive Tell Tale Signs release incorporating the pick of the early takes from Time Out Of Mind would've been neater.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 29, 2023 8:12:51 GMT -5
Dellarigg, have you read Dylan’s new book yet?
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 29, 2023 9:55:33 GMT -5
Dellarigg , have you read Dylan’s new book yet? I have not. |
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Post by monodrone on Mar 10, 2023 6:45:10 GMT -5
MSPAINT - Post-American MSPAINT is the name of a band? Of course it is, everything else has been taken at this point. What are they doing? They're making music that I'd categorise as 'broadly hardcore' but with synths instead of guitars. It's really good! convulserecords.bandcamp.com/album/post-american
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Post by monodrone on Mar 10, 2023 7:01:29 GMT -5
Further adventures in modern hardcore with Zulu - A New Tomorrow. I was going to pick a track but it goes in a too many different directions be summed up that way plus the whole thing's only 28 minutes long so you should probably just listen to it all.
Once again this is 'hardcore with a but', in this case the influence of soul and R&B with samples from Curtis Mayfield and Nina Simone along with instrumental cooldowns added to the mix to break up the otherwise oppressive powerviolence that makes up most of the runtime. It's good stuff.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Mar 16, 2023 11:21:32 GMT -5
It was pretty much inevitable that I was going to like Radical Romantics, the new album from Fever Ray. I don't think I'm as big a fan of it as I was of Plunge, and I think that with a career spanning over two decades and being involved in several of my all-time favorite albums, Karin Dreijer's music in 2023 lacks the radical inventiveness of their best work. Radical Romantics is exactly what you'd expect of a new Fever Ray album, and while that doesn't feel as fresh and groundbreaking as something like The Knife's Shaking the Habitual, it's still really good.
I'm also going to add Land of Sleeper by Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs to my list. This shit rules. Very fun stoner metal.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 16, 2023 14:20:00 GMT -5
It was pretty much inevitable that I was going to like Radical Romantics, the new album from Fever Ray. I don't think I'm as big a fan of it as I was of Plunge, and I think that with a career spanning over two decades and being involved in several of my all-time favorite albums, Karin Dreijer's music in 2023 lacks the radical inventiveness of their best work. Radical Romantics is exactly what you'd expect of a new Fever Ray album, and while that doesn't feel as fresh and groundbreaking as something like The Knife's Shaking the Habitual, it's still really good. I'm also going to add Land of Sleeper by Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs to my list. This shit rules. Very fun stoner metal. Try as I might, I just could not get into Plunge despite liking the first Fever Ray album. However, I plan to check this one, particularly since Olof joined them on 4 tracks. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Mar 21, 2023 10:29:22 GMT -5
IMO the new 100 gecs album 10,000 gecs is good. Adding it to my list.
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Post by Dellarigg on Mar 21, 2023 11:44:46 GMT -5
As discussed elsewhere, I'm enjoying Songs Of Surrender by U2.
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Post by Dellarigg on Mar 21, 2023 11:46:03 GMT -5
Dellarigg , have you read Dylan’s new book yet? I happened upon this in the library yesterday, and had a quick look at the chapter on The Clash. I will not be reading further. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Mar 31, 2023 12:05:46 GMT -5
Gonna add Post-American by MSPAINT as well. This shit rules. Thanks for bringing it to my attention by posting about it here, monodrone. |
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Post by monodrone on May 11, 2023 7:20:39 GMT -5
IMO the new 100 gecs album 10,000 gecs is good. Adding it to my list. I have listened to this now and yes, some good songs there. More recent good things. The St. Pierre Snake Invasion - Galore The St. Pierre Snake Invasion have been around for a while. I saw them open up a small festival second stage 10 years ago and was immediately hooked by this very charismatic and engaging group. Their debut album from 2015 is clearly very heavily Future of the Left/Mclusky influenced (to the extent that lead vocalist Damien has been touring with a slightly reconfigured Mclusky over the last few years) but they've grown up and branched out since then. Galore is a lot of different things sometimes happening at the same time, sometimes not. That could come across as disjointed in the wrong hands but thankfully these are the right hands and its surprisingly smooth sailing between moments of weird math rock and stoner desert grooves among other things I can't articulate well. If you wish Queens of the Stone Age sounded more like Future of the Left then I dunno, give it a go or something. |
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Post by monodrone on May 11, 2023 7:29:50 GMT -5
Colossal Squid - A Haunted Tongue
Adam Betts is a drummer. One of the better drummers I've had the pleasure of seeing in person when he was part of the extremely good math rock trio Three Trapped Tigers. Since their disbandment he's been writing under the name Colossal Squid, a solo project with him playing drums and some synth trigger pads. It's good stuff. Here's a live version of the title track from his latest album.
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on May 12, 2023 13:41:46 GMT -5
monodrone have you listened to Dave Lombardo's new all-drums-all-the-time solo album? Seems like it might be up your alley... (My non-drummer's perspective is that this is some pretty good shit)
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on May 12, 2023 13:50:56 GMT -5
I'll also share one that's really gotten under my skin – Dorthia Cottrell's solo album Death Folk Country. It's not as doomy as her work with Windhand, but her voice (which has always been the thing that set Windhand apart from the dozens of other bands doing similar stuff) lends itself well to the spare, eerie sound. " Black Canyon" is probably my favourite track from the album but instead I'll share the spoooooky video for "Family Annihilator". I hope that baby's OK! |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on May 12, 2023 15:56:03 GMT -5
COVET have a new lineup and I missed the chance to see them behind their new album, but if you liked their first two albums, you'll probably also like their newest, catharsis. This video (and most of the album) has the old drummer, who I will miss, but I've seen some clips of recent shows with the new lineup and they're still pretty tight.
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Post by repulsionist on May 12, 2023 16:59:19 GMT -5
Some Kind of Munster, found that Lombardo record via an article on him in The Guardian on Monday. Nice one mentioning it here.
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on May 12, 2023 18:13:09 GMT -5
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Post by monodrone on May 15, 2023 9:44:55 GMT -5
monodrone have you listened to Dave Lombardo's new all-drums-all-the-time solo album? Seems like it might be up your alley... (My non-drummer's perspective is that this is some pretty good shit) It's been on my radar after also reading that Stereogum interview but I hadn't got round to it yet so I appreciate the nudge! There was one current project of his not mentioned in that article though and it is EMPIRE STATE BASTARDEMPIRE STATE BASTARD is Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro and Mike Vennart formerly of Oceansize, currently of Vennart/Biffy Clyro's bonus live guitarist. As a long time fan of both of those guys I feel like I've been hearing about this mysterious 'heavy as fuck' project for years with it often feeling like something that wasn't going to come to fruition but here we are. It's real. They've played shows. They thought it would be cool to have Dave Lombardo play drums for them so they asked him and to their surprise he was up for it. Only one song is out in the wild so far but it's a ripper and I fully anticipate the album ending up in this thread once it's released. |
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Post by monodrone on Jun 26, 2023 10:09:33 GMT -5
Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun
It's a good year for hardcore-adjacent music. I don't know what they think they are (I kind of do - they've tagged the album as 'rock', 'punk', 'hardcore', 'indie rock' and 'alternative' on bandcamp) but to me Militarie Gun are an alt-rock band with a hardcore singer (Ian Shelton who is also a member of the very good straight up hardcore band Regional Justice Center). Here there's more scope for melody in both the instrumentation and the vocals but with the unmistakable gravel-toned edge of the modern hardcore vocalist always bobbing along just under the surface. It's good stuff.
I like it when he goes "OO OO"
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jun 27, 2023 10:27:36 GMT -5
I've given Queens of the Stone Age's In Times New Roman a few listens now (it came out on Friday), and I'm enjoying it, with the standout (to me, at least) being the Bowie-esque Carnavoyeur:
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 27, 2023 15:47:40 GMT -5
Having enjoyed revisiting Oasis recently, I thought I should take a look at Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, who I mostly ignored since their 2011 inception. Turns out they’re not bad, listenable even, and not just the expected mid-paced chug, though there is some of that. Who Built The Moon is the best/most surprising of them.
There’s been a new one out in the last few weeks, Council Skies. I’ve only heard it a few times, but it sounds fine, especially if we factor in that he’s almost 30 years into his career now. He’s doing no worse than McCartney or the Stones at the same stage, anyway, and unlike them he can call on Johnny Marr to help out.
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Post by moimoi on Jun 28, 2023 20:07:52 GMT -5
Having enjoyed revisiting Oasis recently, I thought I should take a look at Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, who I mostly ignored since their 2011 inception. Turns out they’re not bad, listenable even, and not just the expected mid-paced chug, though there is some of that. Who Built The Moon is the best/most surprising of them. There’s been a new one out in the last few weeks, Council Skies. I’ve only heard it a few times, but it sounds fine, especially if we factor in that he’s almost 30 years into his career now. He’s doing no worse than McCartney or the Stones at the same stage, anyway, and unlike them he can call on Johnny Marr to help out. I agree this one is better than expected. I'm hearing more of a moody, shoegazey influence and I think this is good for ole Noel. |
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 30, 2023 6:58:40 GMT -5
I'm delighted to announce that Driving To Damascus, the final studio album by Big Country, first released in 1999, is out again today in a 4 CD deluxe edition. B-sides, alt. mixes, demos, unreleased stuff - it's all here in one tidy little box. I have the vast majority of it in one form or another, but it's good to have it collected physically, even if it was a lot more expensive than the last time Cherry Red did this with one of their albums.
Naturally, I'm delighted. It's a strong album, with - of all things - a couple of co-writes by Ray Davies of The Kinks. It sounds like them, while also taking the sound to different places, pointing towards a healthy future. Back then, it was hoped it would be a comeback album after a short wilderness period without a deal ...
... but woes were never far away in this period: the lead-off single, Fragile Thing, was doing well, receiving lots of airplay, when it was deemed ineligible for the charts because the CD packaging contained too many folds. (This was a thing back then, it seems, with Paul Weller also falling foul of it. All very bizarre.) Everything more or less fell apart after that, all momentum and spirit gone. Terrible shame.
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 30, 2023 7:00:49 GMT -5
So that's - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Council SkiesBig Country - Driving To Damascus (Deluxe Edition)added to my tally, if Roy Batty's Pet Dove would be so kind. |
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Jul 3, 2023 6:32:54 GMT -5
Billy Nomates getting online abuse over her Glastonbury set* reminded me just how good her album is. So put that one down for me:
Billy Nomates - CACTI
*as for that Glastonbury set, she's a brilliant, dynamic, absolutely mesmerising performer... and yeah I also think it would be better with a live band rather than a backing track. Should still be possible to express that without being a misogynistic cockend though, and I appreciate that the economics of touring are absolutely fucked.
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