APRIL 7, 2015
(WEEK # 14)
1.
ALISON WONDERLAND-“RUN” (4/7)
2.
BAD COMPANY-“BAD CO.” [DELUXE EDITION
2-CD] (1973/2015) (4/7) + “STRAIGHT SHOOTER” [DELUXE 2-CD]
3.
FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS-“THE
COMPLETE RECORDINGS” [BOX SET] (4/7)
4.
COLLEEN-“CAPTAIN OF NONE” (4/7)
5.
JULIAN COPE-“TRIP ADVIZER – THE VERY BEST
OF JULIAN COPE” (4/7)
6.
THOMAS D’ARCY-“FOOLED YOU TWICE” (4/7)
7.
DOLDRUMS-“THE AIR CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE”
(4/7) (The Air Conditioned
Nightmare is the new album by Doldrums. The title was spawned by Henry Miller
upon his return to the US after ten years as an expatriate. Keen to rediscover
the country he left behind, Miller found it a stifling place of big business,
pollution, credit, misinformation and prejudice. “Nowhere else in the world,”
he wrote in his 1945 collection of essays “is the divorce between man and
nature so complete”. The Air Conditioned Nightmare. Seventy years on and the
book lends itself to the title of the anticipated second album by Doldrums, the
band led by 25 year old musician Airick Woodhead. On the follow-up to his 2013
debut Lesser Evil (which yielded tours with Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Crystal
Castles, Grimes and Purity Ring, and remixes for Peaking Lights, Grimes and
Portishead), the DJ, producer and performer makes a sizeable leap from being
darling of the Montreal warehouse creative explosion that gave the world the
likes of Grimes, Majical Cloudz, Blue Hawaii to being a stand-alone artist and
composer on the cusp of something quite special. Doldrums apply a punk rock
ethos to electronic music, creating songs using samplers and DJ gear in place
of guitars. Bold, anxious, dream-like, uplifting, glacial, hypnotic,
constricting, expansive, alien - this is an album that is ever-changing.
“Conflict is at the heart of this album,” explains Airick. “There’s a lot of
paranoid sentiment and dystopian imagery in there. The threat of a mundane
reality ties it together, as does an obsession with plasticity. Songs come from
specific feelings or images. Anxiety is my default state.” The Air Conditioned
Nightmare is an album of texture and taste, an extra-sensory overload. Weaving
through the mix are Woodhead’s androgynous, tweaked vocals singing lyrics like
voices down broken phone-lines. This is music born of the 21st century. The Air
Conditioned Nightmare is an album that is punk rock in its DIY beginnings and
militant commitment to originality. Ten snatched seconds is enough to pull you
in. Ultimately, The Air Conditioned Nightmare stands alone. Doldrums have
created something special. You need to hear it.)
8.
DRENGE-“UNDERTOW”
(4/7)
9.
EAST
INDIA YOUTH-“CULTURE OF VOLUME” (4/7)
10. FUTURE
PUNX / PARQUET COURTS-“THIS IS HAPPENING NOW / SPIKE TRAIN” [SINGLE] (4.7) (***The latest offering from Brooklyn's preeminent post wave ensemble.
"Dull Tools is the record label run by Andrew Savage, of Parquet Courts,
and Chris Pickering, of Future Punx. Next month the label will put out the
first Future Punx EP, I'm So Inspired, on 11/11. This follows two 7-inches from
the synth-centered 5-piece, one of which was a split with Parquet Courts.
Sonically, the two bands draw from different corners of the post-punk spectrum,
but their attention to intricate lyrics and sprawled-out deadpan deliveries are
points of common ground. Along with the announcement of their new release,
Future Punx also have a new video for "Spike Train", a meditation on
dreams, perception, and positive thinking. The video is dark and shadowy, with
quick-moving bursts of light and color, much like the song itself. Check it out
below, along with all upcoming Future Punx dates.")
11. STEVE
HACKETT-“WOLFLIGHT” (4/7)
12. HEAVY
TRASH-“NOIR!” (4/7)
13. HOTELIER-“HOME, LIKE NOPLACE IS
THERE” (4/7)
14. THE
JAYHAWKS-“LIVE AT THE BELLY UP SOLANA BEACH” (4/7)
15. LAPALUX-“LUSTMORE”
(4/7)
16. LORD HURON-“STRANGE TRAILS”
(4/7)
17. MADEON-“ADVENTURE”
[DELUXE EDITION] (4/7)
18. MARINA
AND THE DIAMONDS-“FROOTS” (4/7)
19. MARRIAGES-“SALOME”
[DELUXE EDITION] (4/7)
20. MATT
AND KIM-“NEW GLOW” (4/7)
21. THE MOUNTAIN GOATS-“BEAT THE
CHAMP” [DELUXE EDITION] (4/7)
22. PORTICO-“LIVING
FIELDS” (4/7)
23. JOSH
ROUSE-“THE EMBERS OF TIME” (4/7)
24. TODD
RUNDGREN-“GLOBAL” (4/7)
25. SCUBA-“CLAUSTROPHOBIA”
(4/7)
26. SHLOHMO-“DARK
RED” (4/7)
27. TORO
Y MOI-“WHAT FOR?” (4/7)
28. UZIQ
(MU-ZIQ)-“XTLP” (4/7)
29. VAN
HALEN-“THE COLLECTION” [BOX SET 7-CD] (4/7)
30. VENAL
FLESH-“SACRAMENT TO THE SCALPEL” [EP] (4/3)
31. TOM
WAITS-“A SMALL AFFAIR IN OHIO” (4/7) (In
October of 1977 Tom Waits was a busy man. Tom's remarkable fifth album 'Foreign
Affairs' had been released the month before, of which producer Bones Howe
commented; It's like a black-and-white movie. The record's cover perpetuated
this idea and the live dates Tom was now performing in its wake also, to an
extent, used this concept in design and projection. Waits only played a handful
of US dates in October '77, four to be exact, one each in Boston and New York,
and two in Ohio. On 22nd he'd been at Cincinnati's infamous hole in the wall,
'Bogart's', and on 25th this show, at the well established Agora Ballroom in
Cleveland, was performed in front of an enthusiastic crowd. The show was
broadcast by WMMS FM across the local area and the whole gig, as can be heard
on this CD, must have been quite incredible. Tom is in fine voice and in fine
spirits, using his customary dry humour to keep the audience in fits
throughout. The one rather curious aspect however, is the minimal amount of
material he performs from his just released record. Of the ten numbers, only I
Never Talk To Strangers originates on 'Foreign Affairs', the remainder of the
cuts coming largely from his previous record, 1976's 'Small Change' along with
one track a-piece from the live 'Nighthawks at the Diner' and 1974's 'The Heart
of Saturday Night', and a delightful cover of the old Frank Loesser show tune,
Standing On The Corner. Those in attendance certainly don't appear to have
minded this factor however, and for whatever reason Tom chose to play the
tracks he did, the results, as can be heard here, are nothing short of
startling.)
32. RYLEY WALKER-“PRIMROSE GREEN”
(4/7)
33. THE WATERBOYS-“MODERN BLUES”
(4/7)
34. WATERS-“WHAT’S
REAL” (4/7)
35. WHITE
HILLS-“WALKS FOR MOTORISTS” (4/7)
36. CASSANDRA
WILSON-“COMING FORTH BY DAY” (4/7)
37. WINTER-“SUPREME
BLUE DREAM” (4/7)
38. THE
WOMBATS-“GLITTERBUG” [DELUXE EDITION] (4/7)
39. VARIOUS
ARTISTS-“A STATE OF TRANCE 2015” [2-CD] (4/7)
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