MARCH 18, 2014
(WEEK # 12)
1.
BLACK LIPS-“UNDERNEATH THE RAINBOW”
(3/18)
2.
CARSICK CARS-“3” (3/18)
3.
COATHANGERS-“SUCK MY SHIRT” (3/18)
4.
COLO-“UR” (3/18)
5.
CURRENT 93-“I AM THE LAST OF ALL THE
FIELD THAT FELL: A CHANNEL…” (3/18) (2014 release, the hallucinatory album from the experimental British
group. Clocking in at 68 minutes in length, the disc is packaged in a
full-color digipak designed by David Tibet with a 24-page booklet containing
all lyrics, credits and photographs of the band. Channeling C93 for this River
are: Jack Barnett (These New Puritans), James Blackshaw, Ossian Brown
(Cyclobe), Nick Cave, Antony Hegarty, Reinier van Houdt, Norbert Kox, Andrew
Liles, Tony (TS) McPhee (The Groundhogs), Jon Seagroatt (Comus), Carl Stokes
(The Groundhogs), David Tibet, Bobbie Watson (Comus) and John Zorn.)
6.
KEVIN DREW-“DARLINGS” (3/18)
7.
EKOPLEKZ-“UNFIDELITY”
(3/11)
8.
ELECTRO DELUXE-“HOME” (IMPORT) (3/18)
9.
ELUVIUM-“CATALIN” (3/18)
10. FOSTER THE PEOPLE-“SUPERMODEL”
(3/18)
11. GALLON DRUNK-“THE SOUL OF THE
HOUR” (3/18) (After the critical success of their acclaimed album The Road Gets
Darker From Here (CLOUDS 037CD/LP) from 2012, Gallon Drunk have returned to
their producer Johann Scheerer's Clouds Hill studio in Hamburg. Together with
new bassist Leo Kurunis, Gallon Drunk have created their most exciting, passionate
and groundbreaking work to date -- The Soul of the Hour. A howling celebration
of survival and creative drive against the crushing weight of day-to-day
existence, The Soul of the Hour finds Gallon Drunk pushing ever further into
previously uncharted musical territory for the band. With an emphasis firmly
upon hypnotic, locked-down grooves, free-flowing instrumental passages and all
manner of European inspirational music that courses through the band's
collective bloodstream (singer/guitarist, keyboard player James Johnston was a
member of Faust), Gallon Drunk have stretched out their music into thrilling
and unfamiliar shapes. Though always present in Gallon Drunk's music, the band
has thrust the leftfield aspect inherent in their sound to the fore -- with
exhilarating results. An emphasis upon a more focused, disciplined attack has
fashioned a compelling musical wall of sound of considerable power, melancholy
and fury. The Soul of the Hour offers heartfelt songs of dread, sadness, love
and anguish, ever reaching for the transcendent moment within the incessant
race against the passage of time. Opening with the epic "Before the
Fire," which lets the tension and momentum build over a mesmeric nine
minutes, the album then explodes with the wild, brutal euphoria of "The
Dumb Room," and the relentless hypnotic Krautrock of "The Exit
Sign," continuing with the album's immense title-track, the unsettling
tension carried by Johnston's haunting vocal before erupting into a wild
explosion of Ian White's relentlessly heavy drums and Terry Edwards' glorious
brass section. Throughout the album, Leo Kurunis proves key to the new sound of
the band, as evidenced in the subtle and sympathetic playing on "Dust in
the Light," where rolling toms carry an uncharacteristically fragile upper
register vocal from Johnston. Without doubt the most beautiful song the band
have put to tape, its ghostly feel is reminiscent of Big Star's Third.
Penultimate track "Over and Over" is washed over by waves of
synthesizer -- an immense and dream-like song of anguish and yearning. Finally
we reach the album closer, "The Speed of Fear" where James Brown
meets motorik European psychedelia, insistent vocals and extended, hypnotic
freak-outs building to a crushing final chorus. The Soul of the Hour marks
Gallon Drunk's return in a style of its own, and with an album of true sonic
brilliance.)
12. HAUSCHKA-“ABANDONED
CITY” (3/18)
13. BETH
ISRAEL-“DENTAL DENIAL” (3/18)
14. JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN-“THE CLASSIC”
(3/18)
15. KANGDING RAY-“SOLENS ARC”
(3/18)
16. MAGIC TOUCH-“PALERMO HOUSE
GANG” (3/18)
17. GEORGE MICHAEL-“SYMPHONICA”
(3/18)
18. MINILOGUE-“ISLAND
OF IF” (3/18)
19. PERFECT
PUSSY-“SAY YES TO LOVE” (3/18)
20. DEX
ROMWEBER DUO-“IMAGES 13” (3/18)
21. SHIT
ROBOT-“WE GOT A LOVE” (3/18)
22. SISYPHUS-“SISYPHUS”
(3/18) (Sisyphus
is the new name for the collaboration between Serengeti, Son Lux, and Sufjan
Stevens (formally s/s/s), whose new project under this moniker is a self-titled
album partly inspired by the art of Jim Hodges, and commissioned by the Walker
Art Center and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music series in Minneapolis/Saint
Paul.)
23. SLOWLY
ROLLING CAMERA-“SLOWLY ROLLING CAMERA” (3/18)
24. THE
SOFT HILLS-“DEPARTURE” (3/18)
25. TYCHO-“AWAKE” (3/18)
26. UNWOUND-“RAT
CONSPIRACY” (3-CD COLLECTION) (3/18)
27. VERMONT-“VERMONT” (3/18) (ON
KOMPAKT)
28. THE WAR ON DRUGS-“LOST IN THE
DREAM” (3/18)
29. WHITE
SUNS-“TOTEM” (3/18)
30. WHOMADEWHO-“DREAMS” (3/18)
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