SEPT 13 (WEEK #37)
1. ANTHRAX-“WORSHIP MUSIC” (9/13)
2. APPARAT-“BLACK WATER” (SINGLE TRACK) (8/1) + “SONG OF LOS” (REMIX EP) (9/13)
3. AIDAN BAKER-“LOST IN THE RAT MAZE” (9/13)
4. BARN OWL-“LOST IN THE GLARE” (9/13)
5. BLIND PILOT-“WE ARE THE TIDE” (9/13)
6. BLITZEN TRAPPER-“AMERICAN GOLDWING” (9/14)
7. BLONDIE-“PANIC OF GIRLS” (9/13)
8. THE BLOODY HOLLIES-“YOURS UNTIL THE BITTER END” (9/13)
9. A A BONDY-“BELIEVERS” (9/13)
10. GUI BORATTO-“3” (9/13)
11. CANT (CHRIS TAYLOR OF GRIZZLY BEAR & GEORGE LEWIS JR OF TWIN SHADOW)-“DREAMS COME TRUE” (9/14)
12. ALICE COOPER-“WELCOME 2 MY NIGHTMARE” (9/14)
13. KEVIN DEVINE-“BETWEEN THE CONCRETE AND CLOUDS” (9/13)
14. DOWNLOAD-“HELICOPTER + WOOKIE WALL” (9/27)
15. 808 STATE-“BLUEPRINT – BEST OF” (9/13)
16. GIRLS-“FATHER, SON, HOLY GHOST” (9/14)
17. GROUPLOVE-“NEVER TRUST A HAPPY SONG” (9/13)
18. HAUNTED HOUSE-“BLUE GHOST BLUES” (9/13) ***The blues has grown up a lot in the last ten years, since guitarist ANDREW BURNES left New York for Georgia, bringing a de facto end to the powerful abstract blues of HAUNTED HOUSE. In the time since, a new generation--sometimes referred to as Freak Folk or New Weird America and spearheaded by Tom Carter, Jack Rose and Ben Chasny--has followed in the footsteps of LOREN CONNORS, John Fahey and a handful of others who have long maintained that the blues is something more than 12 bars and a backbeat. After the demise of Haunted House, Connors continued preaching the gospel, often with his wife--the enigmatic singer SUZANNE LANGILLE--to anyone who would listen, playing a slow, distorted, reverb-drenched blues as slowly the world began to come around. Then, in the summer of 2010, the stars aligned just so: Burnes was in town for a few days, percussionist NEEL MURGAI was available, and the Brooklyn's Issue Project Room was booking matinee concerts in their courtyard. The band had only existed for a brief two years and had been absent for a decade, but they picked up right where they left off with only a brief soundcheck as rehearsal. Another matter of months, and they were in the studio, recording at long last the follow-up to their 1999 Erstwhile release Up in Flames.
19. IN THE COUNTRY-“SOUNDS AND SIGHTS” (9/13)
20. THE KOOKS-“JUNK OF THE HEART” (9/14)
21. LADYTRON-“GRAVITY THE SEDUCER” (9/13)
22. LAWRENCE-“TIMELESS” (9/13)
23. DAMIAN LAZARUS (MIXED BY)-“GET LOST 4” (9/13)
24. LAURA MARLING-“A CREATURE I DON’T KNOW” (9/14)
25. MATES OF STATE-“MOUNTAINTOPS” (9/14)
26. MEMORYHOUSE-“THE YEARS” [EP] (9/13)
27. MILAGRES-“GLOWING MOUTH” (9/13)
28. THE MIST-“HOUSE” (FROM RADIO PEOPLE, EMERALDS, OUTER SPACE, IMAGINARY SOFTWOODS, ETC) (9/13)
29. MOGWAI-“EARTH DIVISION” [EP] (9/13)
30. NEON INDIAN-“ERA EXTRANA” (9/14)
31. LAURA NYRO-“ESSENTIAL LAURA NYRO” (2-CD) (9/13)
32. PAJAMA CLUB-“S/T” (NEIL FINN AND HIS WIFE) (9/13)
33. PLASTIKMAN-“ARKIVES REFERENCE 1993-2010” (12-CD BOX SET) (9/13)
34. CHUCK RAGAN-“COVERING GROUND” (9/13)
35. TODD RUNDGREN-“[RE]PRODUCTION” (9/13)
36. SHIMMERING STARS-“VIOLENT HEARTS” (9/13)
37. SLOW CLUB-“PARADISE” (9/13)
38. ST VINCENT-“STRANGE MERCY” (9/14)
39. SULLY-“CARRIER” (9/13)
40. TORO Y MOI-“FREAKING OUT” [EP] (9/13)
41. WILD FLAG-“S/T” (9/13) ***WILD FLAG is a Portland, Oregon and Washington, DC-based quartet consisting of CARRIE BROWNSTEIN, REBECCA COLE, MARY TIMONY and JANET WEISS. The members of Wild Flag have played in numerous and notable bands including SLEATER-KINNEY, HELIUM, QUASI, THE MINDERS, STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS, and others. The four musicians who make up Wild Flag have known one another for well over a decade; playing together felt almost inevitable. Brownstein and Weiss were in Sleater-Kinney and toured with Timony's band Helium on numerous occasions. Brownstein and Timony played in a side project called THE SPELLS. Rebecca Cole's Portland-based band The Minders was a frequent opener for Sleater-Kinney. Weiss and Cole play together in the 1960's garage-rock cover band The SHADOW MORTONS. After collaborating on a score for a documentary, the ease with which they worked together proved infectious and promising. Wild Flag was formed. In April 2011, they went to Sacramento, California, where they recorded their self-titled album with engineer CHRIS WOODHOUSE at the Hangar. All tracks were recorded live except for the vocals.
42. A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN-“S/T” (9/13) (ON KRANKY.) ***A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN is the first installment of the new collaboration between STARS OF THE LID member ADAM WILTZIE and composer DUSTIN O'HALLORAN. The duo agreed to leave their normal home studio comfort zone and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, and to hunt down a selection of 9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end. Other traditional instrumentation was used including string quartet, French horn, and bassoon, but always juxtaposed is the sound of drifting guitar washed melodies. The recordings began in one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in west Berlin on a 1950s imperial Boesendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree. One last final session in a private studio deep in the norther cusp of Italy on a handmade Fazioli piano, and the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara, Italy, with the assistance of FRANCESCO DONADELLO. All songs were processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape. Their secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was for the duo to push themselves to live dangerously, realizing that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic replicating ingemination. In "Requiem for the Static King Part 1" (created in memory of the untimely passing of Mark Linkous) they have taken the age old idea of a string quartet and then shot it out a cannon to reveal exquisite new levels of mellow bliss. Of the 13 minute track "Symphony Pathetique," Wiltzie says "after almost 20 years of struggling to create interesting ambient drone music, I feel like I have finally figured out what I am doing." Notable guest musicians include Icelandic cellist HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR and violinist PETER BRODERICK. A Winged Victory for the Sullen is not a side project. This is the future of the late night record you have always dreamed of.
43. WOODEN SHJIPS-“WEST” (9/13)
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