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The opener, ‘All Downhill from Here’ alone pops a hilarious pie into the face of your average O’Rourke follower’s expectations It’s a red herring too, of course, because in Jim’s hands the screaming love of rock n’roll is still not just “only rock n’roll” Instead, ‘Insignificance’ consists of rock plus:... -
Recorded circa 1995/96, mostly in John Fahey’s room at a Salem, Oregon boardinghouse, the performances on Proofs and Refutations prefigure the ornery turn of the page that marked Fahey’s final years, drawing another enigmatic rabbit from his seemingly bottomless musical hat, making confoundingly delightful demands upon your...
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Back from the silence from which PG SIX always emerges, the new album release Murmurs & Whispers is the first proper PG Six album since 2011’s Starry Mind Time passes slowly, as they’ve been known to say out in the country, and before you know it, there’s a bunch of it behind you After five releases in the first decade...
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Resolve acts in dialogue with the minimalist inspirations of the first Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings release, 1982’s Nodal Excitation—in effect, looking beneath the hood of several decades of progression to review and renew the revolutionary intent of their microtonal foundation credo This new...
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Named # 1 Album of the Year by MOJO Pitchfork Best New Music 85!! The fourth studio album from BILL CALLAHAN In the song-world of Bill Callahan, the present realities tumble ecstatically like cloth in the wind—sheets and flags and clothes These things borne aloft are not simply physical details in the landscape, but the contours...
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An impromptu live show at Worship vintage clothes store in Los Angeles, serving as a rehearsal for an acoustic set that would be part of a TY SEAGALL And FREEDOM BAND record release show Ty along with EMMETT KELLY deliver five songs and show no rehearsal was necessary Live at Worship by Ty Segall & Emmett...
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Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You is a tale as old as time It’s an album Its songs and music are by and for people together For listening together Before it gets too late Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy stands at the nexus of all the kinds of music he can summon, with friends, with family and community All roads roll though him There...
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In addition to his day job transforming pop music with his own records, as well as those of Gastr del Sol, Loose Fur and Sonic Youth over the past few decades, Jim O’Rourke has been contracted for several dozen film scores over the years as well It makes sense—his abilities as an improviser, composer and producer allow him to...
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PURPLE MOUNTAINS is the new nom-de-rock of DAVID BERMAN (SILVER JEWS) Purple Mountains is also the name of what will be known as one of his greatest albums—full of double-jointed wit and wisdom, up to the neck in his special recipe of handcrafted country-rock joys and sorrows that sing legendary in cracked and broken hearts The...
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At the end of the century, The Fucking Champs spread Total Music™ across the planet, touring relentlessly and producing albums full of undeniable note choices, sounds and songs For III’s 25th anniversary, the band remastered the original master tapes, assigned John Golden to expertly cut lacquers and oversaw artwork...
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Matt Espy is an American drummer and percussionist Born in Dayton, Ohio, he spent his youth playing every genre of music he could find, playing out in clubs starting at age 14 and launching his touring career at 18 He moved to Chicago in 1996 and continued his journey playing rock, avant-garde, jazz, and performance art pieces...
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A 20th anniversary reissue of SILVER JEWS' Amerian Water Even as an unapologetic anti-metallite, I still can’t escape the call of this band’s silvery gleam Still pleasant, still clever, still all the good-great pop action DAVID BERMAN and STEPHEN MALKMUS can dream up o’er the course of an album’s time Twelve chuckle-along...
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"Whatever, Mortal finds our Mr M singing his heart out as often as he can, plus backing himself -- with all manner of guitars and keyboards and bass and drums, as well as more exotic instruments like a freaking sitar, car keys and -- incredibly! -- a lousy goddamn wooden floor!" "Whatever, Mortal" by Papa...
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2023 repress LP version with bonus 7"; one of the great Drag City releases (and one of the great American music solo albums) finally on vinyl again "In 1970, Mayo Thompson (once-and-future leader of The Red Krayola) recorded an album entitled Corky's Debt To His Father Walt Andrus' Texas Revolution label released the record -- but...
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Includes everything that is in the script and nothing that is not in the script A record made by Capricorns especially for Capricorns Featuring the All-Marijuana...
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It’s 2023, and even the turn of century seems a long time ago now—but oddly, Purling Hiss’s guitar-band ethos feels ever more timeless, even as time accelerates and passes us in the outside lane The Hiss aren’t just a simple part of the tradition going back 50-odd years Their DNA, pulsing in waves of punk and classic radio...
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Tilt was originally issued in the glory days of '95-97 "It must be stressed that even those familiar with Walker's career -- the sublime mid-60s Walker Brothers hits, the dramatic maturation of The Voice and Inimitable Presence on the not-to-be-missed first four solo LPs -- were shocked by Tilt Yes, Tilt astonishes The bleak,...
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With a band consisting of MATT KINSEY on guitars, EMMETT KELLY on bas and backing vocals, SARAH ANN PHILLIPS on B3, piano and backing vocals, and JIM WHITE on drums, BILL CALLAHAN continues his journey, tunneling underneath the weathered exterior of what seems to be and into the more nuanced life everything takes on in the dark...
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2023 repress, first reissued in 2008 LP version with bonus 7" "1973: Connecticut native Gary Higgins and his friends record Red Hash and release it on Gary's own Nufusmoon Records Following the release, legal issues halt all promotion and sales, rendering the small pressing of Red Hash a hotly-rumored and much sought-after 'lost'...
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Meg Baird’s songs are rarely made up of tidy stories In fact, for Meg, mystery itself is often the medium With Furling, Meg’s fourth album under her own name, she explores the breadth of her musical fascinations and the environments around them—the edges of memory, daydreams spanning years, loose ends, loss, divergent...
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"Bajas Fresh is on the beach here in 2017, existing and thriving in the same wrecked world as you and me How they finding it so chill and pretty It's been over three years since the last proper Bitchin Bajas album -- a natural paradise of woodwinds, droning organs, analog synths, field recordings, and an ever-expanding sense of...
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Bitchitronics, is ready with the quickness we expect from the Chi-based duo -- which is funny, since their area of expertise and mastery is in the area of synthetic ephemeral sonic languid-ity known more instinctively, inclusively (and let's face it, irresponsibly) as drone music They make slow music at a fast pace is what we're...
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Songs From The Source is a lost-and-found 1973 recording of The Source family These twelve songs were recorded live in the Hollywood Hills as a rehearsal for a concert date that Spirit of '76 -- aka YaHoWaH 13, The Savage Sons of YaHoWa, Yodship, and FireWaterAir, now known as Children of the Sixth Root Race -- had at the Whisky A...
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2022 repress "Eiko Ishibashi's sixth solo album, The Dream My Bones Dream, rides the rails into a partly envisioned, partly imagined past Eiko's previous songs-with-singing records explored the ambitions and intoxications of pop music -- but never so dramatically as with The Dream My Bones Dream Here, her songs open up into...
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"A year after the cassette-only release of Switched On Ra, another format has fallen from whatever kind of rare ether Bitchin Bajas occupy when they're at home The LP edition of Switched On Ra bears all the same riches (only richer of course) in its grooves, adding a lovely screen-printed rendering of the graphics to its...
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Since 2014, Wand have made five albums (and an EP) in the studio and a living playing on the road Business/pleasure: the two sides of their (multiverticed, decagon) coin, flipping in the strobe light of ongoing self actualization And yet, by doing both at the same time—making a record of them playing live—they’ve now made...
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Extended guitar hero Oren Ambarchi returns with Shebang, the latest in the series of intricately detailed long-form rhythmic workouts that includes Quixotism (2014) and Hubris (2016) Like those records, Shebang features an international all-star cast of musical luminaries, their contributions recorded individually in...
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And suddenly! With a tactile clunk, Bajascillators bubbles to the surface 'Amorpha,' a side-long shower of synthetic bells and bass, as patterns interlock and repeat and the beat within the barlines shifts constantly, forms a new, latest miniature of infinity You flip it, and 'Geomancy' resets you, starting anew, with heavy drift...
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Hello, Hi: welcome in to a new room to play the styles and feels that lie under Ty Segall’s fingers, easing fresh air into acoustic space with an assortment of love songs flowering in righteous unconsciousness Plaintive and wistful, but unafraid Like rain washing away yesterday, Hello, Hi pushes open the door, inviting the new...
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An album-length excursion into sweet minimal groove / prog-jazz jamming from Oren Ambarchi's vast soundworld, the likes of which have seen release on Editions Mego, Häpna, and Oren's own Black Truffle over the years Among many others! Oren and Johan have made two duo records and collaborated on a number of others, including...
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"What is Woo Woo are two - the brothers Mark and Clive Ives, who in the 1980s made a pair of addictively appealing yet largely unknown records Their second, It's Cosy Inside, released in 1989, qualifies as some of the most electronic organic music ever made We hearken back to a friendlier time, the 1970s, when Woo first began...
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Emboldened by the success of the recent reissue of It's Cosy Inside, Mark and Clive had a listen to hundreds of previously unreleased tracks recorded in the 70s and 80s to assemble their first new record in two decades, When The Past Arrives, out in March from Drag City / Yoga Records With comparisons to Penguin Cafe Orchestra,...
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The Blind Date Party hosted by Bill Callahan and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and featuring AZITA, Matt Sweeney, Alasdair Roberts, Matt Kinsey, Sean O’Hagan, Bill MacKay, George Xylouris, Dead Rider, David Pajo, Mick Turner, Meg Baird, Ty Segall, Emmett Kelly, Cory Hanson, Six Organs of Admittance, David Grubbs, Cassie Berman,...
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His first album in forever (two years)! Ty glides smoothly into a wild area with a synthtasm of production redesign, dialing up a wealth of new guitar and keyboard settings A seething statement of emotional austerity, Harmonizer enraptures the ear, while enabling Ty to cut through dense undergrowth, making groove moves for the...
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Mess Esque are a duo featuring music and instruments by Mick Turner and words and voice by Helen Franzmann Their self-titled album is a beguiling travelogue of restless, somnambulant wanderings Perhaps best known as one of the Dirty Three, Mick’s been playing guitar and making music with many collaborators for forty years Around...
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BACK IN PRINT!!! NUNO CANAVARRO's Plux Quba hails from three decades in the past, yet the simple profile of its abstract/ambient/cutup collage makes it a record that sits quite comfortably in our IDM-informed future In 1988, Plux Quba was a primal dark horse in the world of pants-forward electronic music—an obscurity issued with...
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“Rock and roll was a relief after the rigor of Henry Cow” That was one of the thoughts in Anthony Moore’s brain in the late summer of 1975 Of course, leaving Henry Cow had meant the dissolution of the band he’d founded, Slapp Happy, as the two groups had essentially merged over the previous year Still, there was...
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