MARCH 25, 2014
(WEEK #13)
1.
MARC ALMOND-“TASMANIAN TIGER” [EP] (3/25)
2.
ASIA-“GRAVITAS” (3/25)
3.
AZTEC CAMERA-“HARD LAND, HARD RAIN”
(DELUXE 2-CD REISSUE) (3/25) In his liner notes for this re-issue, David Fricke calls High Land, Hard Rain "ten songs of
anxious yearning, romantic urgency, big hurt and hard-won learning, distilled
into compact dramas of buckskin-folk jangle and skewed-pop elegance." We
call it the one of the greatest debut albums in the history of rock 'n' roll. That
it was written and conceived by mastermind Roddy Frame when he was NINETEEN
YEARS OLD, well that just defies all logic and sense of fair play. Completely
remastered from the analog tapes this deluxe 30th anniversary edition of High Land, Hard Rain will not disappoint.
4.
THE BAD PLUS-“THE RITE OF SPRING” (3/25)
5.
THE BELLE BRIGADE-“JUST BECAUSE” (3/25)
6.
JOHNNY CASH-“OUT AMONG THE STARS” (3/25)
(1981/2014 ISSUED)
7.
CEX-“MANUMIT ME” (3/25)
8.
CHICAGO UNDERGROUND DUO-“LOCUS” (3/25)
9.
THE COLOURIST-“THE COLOURIST” (3/25)
10. CRIPPLED
BLACK PHOENIX-“WHITE LIGHT GENERATOR” (3/25)
11. SIMONE FELICE-“STRANGERS”
(3/25)
12. FRANCOIS
& THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS-“PIANO OMBRE” (3/25)
13. FUTURE ISLANDS-“SINGLES”
(3/25)
14. GOLDFRAPP-“THEA”
[EP] (3/25)
15. JIMI
GOODWIN-“ODLUDEK” (3/25) (DOVES FRONTMAN DEBUT ALBUM)
16. HALLS-“LOVE
TO GIVE” (3/25)
17. THE
HOLD STEADY-“TEETH DREAMS” (3/25)
18. THE
HOLIDAYS-“REAL FEEL” (3/25)
19. HOWLER-“WORLD OF JOY” (3/25)
20. ELTON
JOHN-“GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD” (40TH ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE
EDITION) (4-CD / 1-DVD) (3/25)
21. KLAXONS-“THERE
IS NO OTHER TIME B/W CHILDREN OF THE SUN” (SINGLE) (3/25)
22. GLENN KOTCHE-“ADVENTURELAND”
(3/25) (WITH GAMELAN GALAK, EIGHTH BLACKBIRD & KRONOS QUARTET) (When he's not manning the
drumkit for alt-rock juggernaut Wilco, Glenn Kotche works tirelessly on his own
as a composer and percussionist with "unfailing taste, technique and
discipline" (Chicago Tribune). His latest work is the multi-hued Adventureland,
a collaborative effort and his first since 2006's Mobile. It all started when
Kotche caught a Kronos Quartet concert in 2006 and set out to write a string
quartet; eventually, the scope of the project morphed into a kaleidoscopic
amusement ride of strings, gamelan, electronics and Kotche's vast arsenal of
percussion instruments. "For the string quartet, I was banging my head
against the wall for ideas," Kotche remembers, "and the solution
didn't really come to me until I sat down at the drums. I realized, 'Hey-four
voices, four limbs!' So I made the cello my right foot, the viola my left foot,
and took it from there. When I transposed that, I had the first three movements
of Anomaly." Kotche premiered Anomaly with Kronos Quartet at the 25th
Anniversary San Francisco Jazz Festival in 2007. Fittingly, the piece's seven
movements serve as the connective tissue that binds Adventureland into a
cohesive whole. From the wild ride of Triple Fantasy (an ingeniously spliced
suite of performances by Kronos Quartet and Chicago's eighth blackbird
ensemble, embellished with various field recordings) to the playfully pop-like
gamelan arrangement of The Traveling Turtle, the recording maps an intense and
fertile period of growth in Kotche's artistic vision. It's capped off by the chilling,
at times even macabre five-part piece The Haunted (for "two pianos vs.
percussion"), which features Lisa Kaplan, Doug Perkins, Matthew Duvall and
Yvonne Lam. "I called this Adventureland because besides being something
that's fun, it's also kind of weird and mysterious, and at the same time scary
and intimidating," Kotche explains. "It's a confluence of new
territory that I'm trying to figure out and navigate, and by approaching it as
who I am-as a drummer, a percussionist-that's where I do have an original
voice, and I do have something to say.")
23. LIARS-“MESS” (3/25)
24. MACHINEFABRIEK-“DUBBELTJES”
(GATHERED EOCENTRICS 2008-2013) (3/25)
25. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE-“MAY DEATH
NEVER STOP YOU – THE GREATEST HITS 2001-2013” (3/25)
26. MY SAD CAPTAINS-“BEST OF
TIMES” (3/25)
27. NUMBERS-“THREE”
(3/25)
28. OWLS-“OWLS
2” (3/25)
29. JON PORRAS-“LIGHT DIVIDE” (3/25)
30. CHUCK
RAGAN-“TILL MIDNIGHT” (3/25)
31. THE
SOFT WHITE SIXTIES-“GET RIGHT.” (3/25)
32. TOKYO
POLICE CLUB-“FORCEFIELD” (3/25)
33. WITHERED
HAND-“NEW GODS”(3/25)
34. WOLFMOTHER-“NEW
CROWN” (3/25)
35. VARIOUS
ARTISTS-“FABRIC 74: MOVE D” (3/25)
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