MAY 13, 2014 (WEEK
# 20)
1.
AMEN DUNES-“LOVE” (5/13)
2.
TORI AMOS-“UNREPENTANT GERALDINES”
(DELUXE EDITION CD/DVD) (5/13)
3.
THE APACHE RELAY-“THE APACHE RELAY”
(5/13)
4.
JOSEPH ARTHUR-“LOU” (5/13)
5.
THE
BLACK KEYS-“TURN BLUE” (5/13)
6.
ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT-“WILD CRUSH” (5/13)
7.
CHEAP GIRLS-“FAMOUS GRAVES” (5/13)
8.
COH-“TO BEAT” (5/13)
9.
MAYA JANE COLES-“FABRIC 75” (5/13)
10. DOUGLAS
DARE-“WHELM” (5/13)
11. DARK
MATTER-“DARK MATTER” (5/13)
12. KRIS
DELMHORST-“BLOOD TEST” (5/13)
13. DJANGO
DJANGO-“LATE NIGHT TALES” (5/13)
14. RADNEY
FOSTER-“EVERYTHING I SHOULD HAVE SAID” (5/13)
15. FRONT
LINE ASSEMBLY-“ECHOES” (REMIX ALBUM) (5/13)
16. GERONIMO!-“CHEAP
TRICK” (5/13)
17. DAWN
GOLDEN-“STILL LIFE” (5/13)
18. GUIDED
BY VOICES-“COOL PLANET” (5/13)
19. COLLIN
HERRING-“SOME KNIVES” (5/13)
20. HISS
TRACTS-“SHORTWAVE NIGHTS” (5/13) (Shortwave Nights is the debut album by Hiss
Tracts, a new duo featuring David Bryant (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Set Fire
To Flames) and Kevin Doria (Growing, Total Life). The sonic preoccupations of
Bryant and Doria are well-documented across many highly acclaimed recordings
over the past fifteen years, from the organic, group-based, semi-improvised
collage albums of Set Fire To Flames to the glimmering, immersive minimalism of
Growing and the more maximalist full-spectrum noise works of Total Life.)
21. THE
HOWLIN’ BROTHERS-“TROUBLE” (5/13)
22. HUNTERCHILD-“HUNTERCHILD”
(5/13)
23. KING
DUDE-“FEAR” (5/13)
24. KREIDLER-“ABC”
(5/13) (2014 marks twenty years of Kreidler. The band has outgrown
adolescence, but remains juvenile, reckless, impetuous. They recorded their new
album ABC in Tbilisi, Georgia. And there will also be a film by Heinz Emigholz,
who accompanied the last album Den with film clips. Six tracks characterized by
elliptical shifts, where suddenly the bass and drums take over the helm -- or a
choir appears. Kreidler worked together with Georgian singers: either hovering
freely in the meditative pop piece "Ceramic," or defining a new space
within a space, as in "Nino." Nino perhaps most clearly suggests that
the album was recorded in Tbilisi, Europe's southeasternmost metropolis, on the
former Silk Road at the intersection of East and West. "Nino" opens
the album -- a piece made for setting off in a convertible with the top down,
moving at the steady pace through the speed-limited traffic zones with the
speakers pumping. A female voice takes over for "Alphabet" and the
mood rises. It rocks as only Kreidler can rock. Then a short pause with
"Destino," which displays a melancholy longing that leads to abstract
no wave funk. "Modul" is similar to Nino, yet even more relentless.
"Tornado" concludes ABC. A scruffy smoothness unifies the tracks,
which rely less on layers or the shifting of variable patterns, and more on
riffs. Yes, riffs. But not hashed-out on guitar or bass -- Alex Paulick is more
the sequencer, the lead sound, or the cloud. It is the synthesizers of Andreas
Reihse and Detlef Weinrich that provide the definitive propulsion. And wasn't
it the case with Den that Kreidler even considered making a record without
drums? What a peculiar endeavor. Once again, Thomas Klein's distinctive playing
was destined to press the songs further forward, onward, ahead. As always with
Kreidler, ABC is about the exploration of freedoms within a previously determined
framework. It is a formulation of convergences, of possibilities within a
procedural movement, based on a notion of democracy, with socialism in mind,
where one understands that restraint is not merely a strategy of a conceptually
inclined band, but that it serves to strengthen the validity, precision and
majestic authority of expression. The cover uses photographic works by Thea
Djordjadze. The Georgian artist usually works directly within a space,
combining sculpture, painting and found objects into ensembles. Many of her
photographic works are comparable, arranging diverse elements in a black (or
white) box. Her works reflect art and cultural history, refer to Georgian folk
art, or even Soviet modernity.)
25. LA
SERA-“HOUR OF THE DAWN” (5/13)
26. LANTLOS-“MELTING
SUN” (5/13)
27. LITTLE
DRAGON-“NABUMA RUBBERBAND” (5/13)
28. KIRSTY
MACCOLL-“ALL I EVER WANTED – THE ANTHOLOGY” (2-CD COLLECTION) (5/13)
29. MIMICKING
BIRDS-“EONS” (5/13)
30. MIRAH-“CHANGING
LIGHT” (5/13)
31. MORRISSEY-“WORLD
PEACE IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS” (SINGLE) (5/14)
32. MYSTIC
BRAVES-“DESERT ISLAND” (4/29)
33. THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART-“DAYS
OF ABANDON” (5/13)
34. PATRICK
PARK-“LOVE LIKE SWORDS” (5/13)
35. THE
JEFFREY LEE PIERCE SESSIONS PROJECT-“AXELS & SOCKETS” (5/13) (The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project, which sees the late Gun Club
singers' friends, former band members and fans paying tribute to his
extraordinary genius, is releasing its third and penultimate outing. Axels and
Sockets features many names from the first two volumes, including Nick Cave,
Debbie Harry, Mark Lanegan, Lydia Lunch, Warren Ellis, Mick Harvey and Kid
Congo Powers, along with new additions to the collaborative fold in the form of
Iggy Pop, Mark Stewart, Thurston Moore, Jim Sclavunos, Primal Scream and Andrew
Weatherall. Co-ordinated by Pierce's later musical partner Cypress Grove, the
Project again strives to pay homage by avoiding the clichés of the conventional
tribute record, creating fierce, iconoclastic new music out of song-sketches,
demo recordings, scribbled lyrics and leftover riffs Jeffrey tragically didn't
live to complete, while some put their own spin on personal favorites from his
esteemed catalog. Axels and Sockets casts the Project's net wider than ever,
kicking off with Iggy Pop making his debut appearance dueting with Nick Cave on
"Nobody's City" before Debbie Harry invokes the early punk-pop
Blondie sound with the Amber Lights (Mick Harvey and JP Shilo) on "Kisses
for My President," which Jeffrey wrote about her before she knew he
existed (He was president of the Blondie fan club). Cave also completes his
trilogy of duets with Debbie on "Into the Fire." Returning too are
Mark Lanegan, along with Bertrand Cantat, Crippled Black Phoenix, Gallon
Drunk's James Johnston and Cypress Grove. Also making their debut are Mark
Stewart and Thurston Moore (their take on "Shame and Pain" marking
the first time Jeffrey's vocals have appeared on the set), Primal Scream, whose
version of "Goodbye Johnny" is remixed into smoky hoodoo noir by
Andrew Weatherall, KatieJane Garside and Andrea Schroeder. The set also
introduces younger bands with Leeds' Black Moth, who are produced by Bad Seeds
drummer and project co-coordinator Jim Sclavunos and Cornwall's Honey, helmed
by Jeffrey's old partner-in-crime Kris Needs. With only Volume 4's grand finale
to come, the Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project continues to loom as a
towering statement in preserving and immortalizing his fearsome legacy.)
36. PROSTITUTES-“PETIT
COCHON” (5/13)
37. GRUFF
RHYS-“AMERICAN INTERIOR” (5/13)
38. SEAN
NICOLAS SAVAGE-“BERMUDA WATERFALL” (5/13)
39. THE
SOUND-“JEOPARDY”, “FROM THE LION’S MOUTH”, “ALL FALL DOWN”…PLUS EPs,
SINGLES, BBC TRACKS, BOOKLET AND REMASTERING 4-CD BOX SET
40. STRATEGY-“BOXOLOGY”
(5/13)
41. SWANS-“TO BE KIND” (2-CD)
(5/13)
42. SYD
ARTHUR-“SOUND MIRROR” (5/13)
43. SYLVAN ESSO-“SYLVAN ESSO”
(5/14) (Sylvan
Esso is a collaboration between vocalist Amelia Meath and electronic musician
Nick Sanborn. Meath's powerful voice is front and center, unjoined by fellow
harmonizers as it is in her folk group, Mountain Man. Sanborn, who plays bass
in the genre-destroying Megafaun, creates intricate, pulsing grooves for
Meath's voice to inhabit. Their self-titled debut a collection of vivid
addictions concerning suffering and love, darkness and deliverance arrives as a
necessary pop balm, an album stuffed with songs that don't suffer the
longstanding complications of that term.)
44. PRINS
THOMAS-“PRINS THOMAS 3” (5/13)
45. TOBACCO-“ULTIMA
II MASSAGE” (5/13)
46. WALLS
& ORAM-“SOUND HOUSES” (5/13)
47. WOVENHAND-“REFRACTORY
OBDURATE” (5/13)
48. WUSSY-“ATTICA!” (5/13) (Attica! is
the 5th album from Cincinnati's Wussy, and the first to be released jointly in
the US and UK. These 11 new tracks were recorded with old Afghan Whigs pal John
Curley at Cincinnati's legendary Ultrasuede Studios. John Erhardt rejoins
forces with former Ass Ponys bandmate Chuck Cleaver as the band's fifth member
on some Dark-Side-inspired pedal steel, adding a further psychedelic element to
Wussy's ever-developing swirl of noise. Attica! is the band's loudest and
quietest record to date, finding Cleaver and co-leader Lisa Walker at their
lyrical best and Wussy as a whole at their weirdest and finest. About Wussy:
Fronted by former Ass Pony Chuck Cleaver and the previously unaffiliated and
brilliant Lisa Walker, Cincinnati's Wussy is a rock band that'll remind you on
the deepest level why you love rock bands. The central conceit: Submerging
pristine, literate songwriting in the rumble and roar of a full band. The
secret weapon: A chemistry so rare, powerful, and under-recognized it inspired
Robert Christgau--America's tersest rock critic--to publish a 2,000-word love
letter to ''the best band in America.'' (David Schmader, The Stranger)
49. YOUNG
WIDOWS-“EASY PAIN” (5/13)
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