amclark2 - Thoughts on that one? As with most LCD I find the tracks are either home runs or strikeouts (except for "Drunk Girls" which is both a home run on the music and a strikeout on the lyrics).
i'm really enjoying it, but it's my first LCD album, so I have no preconceptions. It reminds me a lot of Eno/Fripp/Byrne/Bowie/Pop stuff, which is good, but has it's own special twists too.
I found the sequel, The House on the Causeway, disappointing, but I still find this quirky acoustic/electronic concept album about a fictional sunken village and its denizens charming.
British Sea Power are back with another brilliant and slightly baffling album, Valhalla Dancehall, which takes inspiration from deep breath vintage Playboy magazines, population control, crazy golf, Dadaist artist Kurt Schwitters, hedonism, nature and "French Hitchcock" Henri-Georges Clouzot. And other stuff, naturally. You can read lead singer Scott "Yan" Wilkinson's memories of making Valhalla Dancehall here it seems to have involved him spending over a year in a freezing cold barn while watching Heartbeat with mice.
One of the first three LPs I bought many years ago and still one of my favourites. I had to order it specially in stereo way back then when it came out, as most LPs were then only in mono in our local record store. I still have that LP plus two CDs, since I bought the reissue a year or so ago!
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Rare Frequency Podcast 11: Arc of a Driver
(free, electronic, experimental)
John Zorn, Bar Kokhba and Filmworks volumes for most of the day.
You've Got to Have Freedom.
Possibly my favorite cover art of the year.
amclark2 - Thoughts on that one? As with most LCD I find the tracks are either home runs or strikeouts (except for "Drunk Girls" which is both a home run on the music and a strikeout on the lyrics).
Craig
Red Sparowes - Aphorisms
Got this for free or nearly on Amiestreet and then didn't really listen to it. Not bad.
Would a day be complete without me listening to something from Africa?
Styne Vallis by Reigns
I found the sequel, The House on the Causeway, disappointing, but I still find this quirky acoustic/electronic concept album about a fictional sunken village and its denizens charming.
Perry Como - Carolina Moon
(note: I'm not using Mog, that's just where I was able to find the album. I guess this one came from Amie.
Geoff Mullen - Armory Radio ( Barge Recordings 2007)
One of the first three LPs I bought many years ago and still one of my favourites. I had to order it specially in stereo way back then when it came out, as most LPs were then only in mono in our local record store. I still have that LP plus two CDs, since I bought the reissue a year or so ago!
Ass - "Salt Marsh"