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Thanks to Kiiii AKA Cats With Hats one of our most creative and talented resident composers here on MB. It’s been an honor to have you share about your creative process here on the lamplighterfreakfighter journal. For those who are interested you can listen to Grey here: https://catswithhats.bandcamp.com/album/grey I highly recommend it. It’s an excellent work of art. |
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...TheJewels3.jpg Run the Jewels 3 This is a fantastic review: https://consequenceofsound.net/2016/...-the-jewels-3/ I’m not going to deny that this an exciting album that sets an outstanding pace and has hooks you can hang your hat on. But it’s still just so stubbornly dry. It never surprises you. The sonic landscapes are really cool but it never melts and redesigns itself as something new while holding the hook. The hypnotic vibe gets freaky but sometimes hip hop like this needs to transform but this is too conservative. It’s like they’re afraid that greatness would be mistaken for silliness. Push. Boundaries. Further. And don’t use Kamasi Washington. Yuck. |
https://imagescdn.juno.co.uk/full/CS607934-01A-BIG.jpg Dredge Portals Album by God Body Disconnect https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/dredkgKe-portals A dark ambient concept album about a man living paralyzed and in a coma in an apparently dreary hospital room. The vocals force you to go all in. The spoken word is passable but I’d prefer something you just read yourself. The music, however, is fantastic |
http://www.dpc-rec.dk/wp-content/upl...er-300x300.jpg Blood Moon Album by Blue Foundation, Drop the Gun, Erika Spring, Findlay Brown, Jonas Bjerre, and Mark Kozelek https://bluefoundationofficial.com/#river Well constructed soft rock shoe gaze pop from a Danish dude, Tobias Wilner, who apparently networks in Brooklyn recruiting whoever he can to juice up his project. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-afgPgLmJ8y...dale+small.jpg Tobias Wilner Honestly, he does a damn good job at it. There’s something very easy going about Denmark. Not that I really know never having been there but this fits in my Denmark box of hey this is cool because it’s from Denmark. Like a more self-assured Japan. Recommended. |
http://www.cryochamberlabel.com/wp-c...al-610x610.jpg The Humming Tapes by Cities Last Broadcast https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/alb...-humming-tapes https://heathenharvest.org/2016/07/0...hosts-of-time/ Dark ambient Have you ever been hit hard by pneumonia? https://www.drugs.com/health-guide/images/204871.jpg Or eaten deep fried pork chops? http://www.yeahilike.com/wp-content/...eep-Frying.jpg Or gotten frostbite? https://www.omicsgroup.org/articles-...bite-46597.jpg Do you have hope? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_h64RoBbTSC...oy%2Bscout.jpg Have you ever been told, by someone who was completely serious, that the customer is always right? http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_v1wklkHth9...ways+right.bmp Do you like the song Mind Games? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...-mindgames.jpg |
http://exclaim.ca/images/goodbye_2.jpg Goodbye To Language Album by Daniel Lanois This is one of the many records that makes me really believe in the exceptionality of 2016. Pitchfork has a nice review here: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums...e-to-language/ Steel guitar in a gorgeous ambient setting. Besides the info on Pitchfork and Wiki I’ll add something I think is significant. Lanois played a huge role in creating Neil Young’s Le Noise which I consider one of Young’s best records. And I ****ing LOVE Neil Young so that’s no small statement. I very highly recommend checking out both these records. The one I’m reviewing officially is an absolute gem. |
https://i.postimg.cc/9Q6RdDzY/883-C7...BA0507-E83.jpg 1 by Off World https://offworld.bandcamp.com/album/1-3 1 is an exceptional experimental synth record. Kiiii if you read this I suspect that you in particular will love this. It has some of the endearing qualities of early electronic music but it’s also influenced by Eno and Tangerine Dream. The web presence is quite small so I imagine this band has room to grow. I recommend this to anyone who’s into early electronic, dark ambient, or experimental music of any kind. Great record! |
http://alllossless.net/uploads/posts...370_500mvw.jpg Statea Album by Murcof and Vanessa Wagner https://infine-rec.bandcamp.com/album/statea http://masaryk.tv/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/murcof.jpg Mexican composer Murcof http://www.abbayeauxdames.org/wp-con...er-710x478.jpg French pianist Venessa Wagner These are interesting and excellent interpretations of mostly 20th C classical compositions. Here are the originals These are well-known for good reason. |
https://imagescdn.juno.co.uk/full/CS627680-01A-BIG.jpg Monument Builders Album by Loscil https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/monument-builders One of my favorites of 2016, Monument Builders is a definitive album of the iconic year. iconic: executed according to a convention or tradition That’s what I mean. 1968 and 1987 and 2016 are in my mind the three greatest years . I say years italicized like that because I mean years as if the numeralized solar orbit is a living composer. Otherwise the Ramones and Coltrane wouldn’t be universes unto themselves. 68 and 87 were years of revolution but 16 was the harvest. In 2016, Siddhartha became Buddha. This was a product of the actualization. |
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