JULY 24, 2015
(WEEK # 29)
1.
DUCKTAILS-“ST.
CATHERINE” (7/24) (St. Catherine
is the 2015 album from Ducktails, the solo project of Real Estate's Matt
Mondanile. It is by far his most accomplished album to date. The album is
filled with his baroque pop flourishes and layered with his soothing, but sharp
vocals. Recorded in Los Angeles and Berlin and mixed by Rob Schnapf (Elliott
Smith, Beck, FIDLAR), St. Catherine is a complex, moody work filled with
yearning and lots of the gorgeous melodic fretwork for which Mondanile has
become well known for with his work in Real Estate.)
2.
EARTHLY-“DAYS” (7/24)
3.
ELBOW-“LOST
WORKER BEE” [EP] (7/24)
4.
ELEVENTH DREAM DAY-“WORKS FOR TOMORROW”
(7/24)
5.
FIELD MUSIC-“MUSIC FOR DRIFTERS” (7/24)
6.
FLYING SAUCER ATTACK-“INSTRUMENTALS 2015”
(7/24) (Something thought lost forever
re-enters your life. How do you respond? How do you even begin to negotiate the
vortex of mixed emotions whipped up by such a reappearance? The world shifts
sideways. Logic is confounded. The uncanny takes a hold. West Country feedback
outfit FLYING SAUCER ATTACK are a case in point. In recent years it's become
clear that the Bristol based group were prescient to a considerable degree. The
amplified pastoralism of the group and its various offshoots might have seemed
out of step with the times during its initial emergence at the height of
Britpop, but the rural has since emerged as a rich source of inspiration for
numerous artists in the fields of experimental rock and electronic music. Enter
Instrumentals 2015. Comprised of 15 fresh DAVE PEARCE solo performances
recorded in characteristically lo-fi manner on tape and CD-R, Instrumentals
2015 is an album that will appeal both to FSA diehards and those wholly unfamiliar
with the outfit's recorded output. The 15 tracks present an impressionistic
narrative which transports the listener through the excoriating dronescapes and
rueful introspection of the album's early pieces to the more redemptive
cadences of its closing half. Given its sense of momentum, maintained through
Pearce's thoughtful sequencing, this is an album that should be experienced in
its entirety, the better to appreciate its deliberate emotional arc.)
7.
NICOLAS JAAR-“NYMPHS III” [EP] (7/24)
8.
LOOP-“ARRAY 1” [EP] (7/24) (Towards the end of 2013 saw the reformation of one of
the most revered and respected late 80's UK alternative bands, Loop. The group,
founded by Robert Hampson, hadn't played together since the early 90's but got
together to curate a night at the legendary All Tomorrow's Parties at Camber
Sands. US dates followed in 2014 and they then got back in the studio to start
recording. The result is three brand new releases coming over the next year which
see the band return to their hugely unique and era defining sound whilst
sounding fresh and exciting. The first release is 'Array 1', four tracks of
haunting, aggressive, beautiful noise. ''Precession'', ''Aphelion'', ''Coma''
and ''Radial'' are the first songs to be heard from their recording session
done in Sub Station Studios in Rosyth in Scotland with the current line up of
Robert Hampson (vocals/guitar), Hugo Morgan (bass), Wayne Maskell (drums) and
Dan Boyd (guitar). With only an early version of ''Precession'' having had any
previous outing (at a show at the Garage in London at the end of 2014), this is
the very first new music from the band since their third album, 1990's lost
classic ''A Gilded Eternity''.)
9.
ELENI MANDELL-“DARK LIGHTS UP” (7/24)
10. MISS
KITTIN & THE HACKER-“LOST TRACKS VOL. 1” (7/24) (VINYL ONLY?)
11. PRINCESS
CENTURY-“LOSSY” [EP] (7/24)
12. RADIOACTIVITY-“SILENT
KILL” (7/24)
13. SLEAFORD
MODS-“KEY MARKETS” (7/24)
14. TITUS
ANDRONICUS-“THE MOST LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY” (7/24) (The Most Lamentable Tragedy [hereafter TMLT] is the
fourth studio album by Titus Andronicus [hereafter +@] and the band’s debut for
Merge Records. A rock opera in five acts, it will see release on July 31, 2015,
as a double CD and triple LP. The central narrative of TMLT (“a work of
fiction,” claims singer/songwriter Patrick Stickles) concerns an unnamed
protagonist whom we meet in deep despair. Following an encounter with his own
doppelgänger (an enigmatic stranger, identical in appearance though opposite in
disposition), long held secrets are revealed, sending our protagonist on a
transformative odyssey, through past lives and new loves, to the shocking
revelation that the very thing that sustains him may be the thing to destroy
him. TMLT was produced by frequent collaborator Kevin McMahon and +@ lead
guitarist Adam Reich. The core band is rounded out by the long-standing rhythm
section of Eric Harm (drums) and Julian Veronesi (bass) plus rookie guitarist
Jonah Maurer. Joining in throughout are pianist Elio DeLuca and violinist Owen
Pallett, beside a cast of guests representing some of New York’s most exciting
bands (The So So Glos, Baked, Bad Credit No Credit, Lost Boy?, etc.). TMLT is
both the crown jewel of the band’s discography and the legend that
contextualizes their entire body of work. It reveals that +@ are what hardcore
fans have said they are for years, and what the world must now recognize them
to be: not merely the greatest rock and roll band of this era, but one of the
greatest rock and roll bands of all time.
15. VINYL
WILLIAMS-“INTO” (7/24)
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