Albums You're Digging II

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 05-22-2017, 08:25 AM

i was hoping you would say something about Remo Drive, i like them

Key · 05-22-2017, 06:22 PM

Golden Daze - Golden Daze (2016)

It's like if The Beatles released something in 2016. Listened to this once all the way through and it's fantastic.

Tangents - Stateless (2016)

It's like a mixture of experimental, jazz, post-rock, instrumentals, and whatever else you wanna throw into the mix. Each track is so diverse and different but as an album it really works. I'm only a few tracks into this, but this is what it would probably sound like if Frownland actually took himself seriously and made a decent experimental jazz album instead of the bull****tery he makes now. And yes, that's a compliment for both this album and Frownland's music.

rostasi · 05-22-2017, 08:59 PM

Good tape from a band that was extremely popular in Ethiopia in the '80s.
Started out playing just hotels like the Hilton, but when the bands Dahlak
and Ibex broke up due to some of their members leaving for the US and Sudan,
these guys filled the void by later playing for all kinds of famous singers/performers.
The cassette features early instrumental versions of tunes from people like Aster Aweke,
Tekle Tesfazgi, and the godfather of this style, Mahmoud Ahmed.

Anteater · 05-22-2017, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Kiiii

Golden Daze - Golden Daze (2016)

It's like if The Beatles released something in 2016. Listened to this once all the way through and it's fantastic.

Just dug into this today. Great slice of late 60's psychedelia / mod rock there!

O.R.K. - Soul Of An Octopus (2017)

What happens when you get King Crimson's current drummer, Porcupine Tree's former bassist and an Italian dude who sounds somewhere between Bowie and Patton on lead vox on a record together? Hell if I knew going in, but the end result is a fantastic experimental experience with equal degrees of hooks and weirdness.

Frank Gambale - Thunder From Down Under (1990)

Full review in my smooth jazz journal inbound, but for those who don't know about Frank Gambale's guitar virtuosity...think Satriani meets Pat Metheny with some stylistic nods to Steely Dan circa Gaucho and Allan Holdsworth's sound around 1983 and you'll have an idea to his approach. Great, great record.

Justthefacts · 05-23-2017, 12:51 AM

Head Wound City | A New Wave Of Violence (2016)

I've always loved Nick Zinner for the angular guitar shit he did with YYY's but this is a radically different 24 minute beast. For the first time he grew some hair on his chest and made a hardcore album. Although I'm patiently waiting for another YYY's record, this is a fun listen.

**Frownland** · 05-23-2017, 10:09 AM

Love pretty much everything Gabe Serbian, Head Wound City is no exception. Hell of a live band too.

Blueprint - Vigilante Genesis

Aesop Rock on the beats, doing as good of a job as he always does. This album has some great, emotional storytelling, although Blueprint's delivery feels a little weighed down and doesn't really come into its own until a few tracks in. I wish the EP was a full length so that these tracks could have some time to develop. It could really benefit from some more diverse song structures instead of the one beat approach that a lot of the songs on the album take, but it's still a great record nonetheless.

FaSho · 05-23-2017, 11:31 AM

I was skeptical about another 'theme' album after Beat the Champ was probably their weakest work to date, and maybe I'm just finding a lot of parallels that aren't really there between being an aging goth rocker and graduating from uni, but no album, mountain goats or otherwise, has had such an immediate emotional impact on me in a long time.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 05-23-2017, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by FaSho

I was skeptical about another 'theme' album after Beat the Champ was probably their weakest work to date, and maybe I'm just finding a lot of parallels that aren't really there between being an aging goth rocker and graduating from uni, but no album, mountain goats or otherwise, has had such an immediate emotional impact on me in a long time.

**** right off

Mondo Bungle · 05-23-2017, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Love pretty much everything Gabe Serbian, Head Wound City is no exception. Hell of a live band too.

Blueprint - Vigilante Genesis

Aesop Rock on the beats, doing as good of a job as he always does. This album has some great, emotional storytelling, although Blueprint's delivery feels a little weighed down and doesn't really come into its own until a few tracks in. I wish the EP was a full length so that these tracks could have some time to develop. It could really benefit from some more diverse song structures instead of the one beat approach that a lot of the songs on the album take, but it's still a great record nonetheless.

I didn't even know he did beats at all

**Frownland** · 05-23-2017, 05:07 PM

He's been producing all of his projects since Skelethon I think. Pretty sure he was involved in the production of his earlier stuff too.

I think his best work in that aspect is Bestiary by Hail Mary Mallon.

05-23-2017, 10:09 AM	#14116 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Love pretty much everything Gabe Serbian, Head Wound City is no exception. Hell of a live band too. Blueprint - Vigilante Genesis Aesop Rock on the beats, doing as good of a job as he always does. This album has some great, emotional storytelling, although Blueprint's delivery feels a little weighed down and doesn't really come into its own until a few tracks in. I wish the EP was a full length so that these tracks could have some time to develop. It could really benefit from some more diverse song structures instead of the one beat approach that a lot of the songs on the album take, but it's still a great record nonetheless. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

05-23-2017, 05:07 PM	#14120 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	He's been producing all of his projects since Skelethon I think. Pretty sure he was involved in the production of his earlier stuff too. I think his best work in that aspect is Bestiary by Hail Mary Mallon. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

05-22-2017, 06:22 PM	#14112 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	Golden Daze - Golden Daze (2016) It's like if The Beatles released something in 2016. Listened to this once all the way through and it's fantastic. Tangents - Stateless (2016) It's like a mixture of experimental, jazz, post-rock, instrumentals, and whatever else you wanna throw into the mix. Each track is so diverse and different but as an album it really works. I'm only a few tracks into this, but this is what it would probably sound like if Frownland actually took himself seriously and made a decent experimental jazz album instead of the bull****tery he makes now. And yes, that's a compliment for both this album and Frownland's music.

05-22-2017, 08:59 PM	#14113 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,007	Good tape from a band that was extremely popular in Ethiopia in the '80s. Started out playing just hotels like the Hilton, but when the bands Dahlak and Ibex broke up due to some of their members leaving for the US and Sudan, these guys filled the void by later playing for all kinds of famous singers/performers. The cassette features early instrumental versions of tunes from people like Aster Aweke, Tekle Tesfazgi, and the godfather of this style, Mahmoud Ahmed.