Fuck yeah. Just got four disc box set. The Original 4 Skins and The Good, The Bad and The 4 Skins are a fun time. Played A Fistful of...4 Skins last night. Sounds a lot like Last Resort. Probably because of the singer.

Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain

More classically influenced than I usually go for, but I'm trying to expand my horizons. There's a real serenity and construction to this - sweeping.

Kinda exactly what I'd thought it would be - a really nice listen, a bit mystical, a bit wandering...

check out Miles Davis & Gil Evans - The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings set. There are almost 30 minutes of unreleased recordings from this album session. That set is great anyway. Lots of unreleased material.

I'm gonna explore him and Coltrane's discographies soon for sure.

Jack White - Lazaretto
Jack White - Boarding House Reach

He's just throwing paint at the wall a lot of the time, but it's always so fun - a musical funhouse. Doesn't hurt that he's excellent at both riffs and catchy vocal hooks.

Dracula 2xLP, Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet. Just as good on cold winter day as it is on cold autumn eve.

The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards

Incredibly badass... fat, juicy guitar tone, big riffs, a swaggering no fucks given vibe all around.

Sage the Goddess - Goddess Land Vol. 1



Rap & R&B covers from an underground Toronto artist

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2FnHivuoHUpAfpoJD8D0XL

Bomb Builder - Drop the Big One 7". Ohio punk from 2002 with people from 9 Shocks Terror, Gordon Solie Motherfuckers and many others.

Brody's Militia - Funeral Arrangements 7". This, the split with No Value and my personal favorite Violence Solves Some Things 7". Fuuuuuck yes!

Oscar Brand - Election Songs of the United States

Every true American, for Millard Fillmore sings!

I have a deep interest in the political history of the US, and I love campaign songs like these.

Aphex Twin - Selected ambient works volume II

New Model Army - Unbroken

This is the heaviest they've been in well over a decade.

Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today

80’s New York hardcore packed with attitude and ferocity, complete with fast guitars and Rollins-esque vocals.

Joanna Brouk - The Space Between 1981

I'm a big fan of solo piano music, but it wasn't always that way. I really had no interest until I heard Steffen Schleiermacher play John Cage. I'd sort of liked some of the Stockhausen piano pieces for their novelty and angularity, like Klavierstucke, but I didn't have any deep interest in it. The piano recordings you find of both Cage and Stockhausen from the 60s and 70s are sterile and pretty much soulless. All of them. It's so consistent that you'd get the reasonable impression the pieces were intended to be like that. Then Steffen Schleiermacher records 18 CDs worth of Cage and changes everything. I acknowledge this all sounds pretentious, and it probably is. Nevertheless, if you have the hankering for something relaxing on a Sunday morning, or an overcast afternoon, while being truly interesting and passionate, give the John Cage - Steffen Schleiermacher – Complete Piano Music Vol. 1 - The Prepared Piano 1940-1952 material a go. It's too bad he hasn't completely re-worked all the Stockhausen piano pieces. They deserve it. He does Phillip Glass and Morton Feldman though. You can't go wrong with almost anything he touches.

This Brouk cassette isn't really like Cage at all. It's more ethereal and airy. It's maybe even a little new agey, like if Paul Kelday, Colin Potter, or Carl Matthews messed about on a real piano; but it is also relaxing and interesting in that late-70s/early-80s cassette culture way. Very cool stuff.

Alkaline Trio - Break

Everyone's favorite morbid and goffik pop punk band is back with a new album and... well, it's pretty good. Not as good as the last one ("Is This Thing Cursed?") but still pretty good. This track in particular reminds me of something that'd be on "Good Mourning". In any case, I'm glad Matt's not wasting his time in blink-182 anymore.

Cold As Fuck LP. Compilation of MN weirdness circa 2010.

Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 | Daniel Barenboim & the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (complete symphony) on YouTube

Some very fast and slow parts. Excellent.

The last non-metal musician I played was Bjork on my phone at Spotify

Carlos Kleiber's Schubert Symphonies 3 & 8 and Brahms Symphony 4 and CPE Bach/Telemann.

When I first got into classical someone recommended this conductor. I like all of his non-opera stuff and I wish there was more. His Beethoven are so good I don't want to listen to anyone else's.

Ornette Coleman - Tomorrow Is The Question!

Pretty lively.

New Model Army - Unbroken

This is great. Only thing I'd say so far is it leans on a lot of their classic stuff, but that's what happens with a band this old... the songs are incredibly cathartic and driving.

you might like this:
https://demotapesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/released

and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FckLlgPY67U

Have to try em soon, sure...

John Lee Hooker - House of the Blues

Gorgeous old stuff. Great blues guitar.

Listening to atonal music like brutal death metal and Yulianna Avdeeva - Franz Liszt - Bagatelle sans tonalité, S.216a. I see some link somewhere.

Project Hubbard

A 9-CD set with Rob Hubbard's music. Original, remixed and performed by bands. Mostly Commodore 64 muzak covers, but also some DOS game tunes and Rob's original stuff.

Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I

Such a perfect collaboration. Haunting and melancholic at times but also hard hitting when it needs.

Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out, etc...

Immersive and surreal - really fucking lovely sounds and songs.

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

I love old school music like this. It's like I'm unlocking some hidden memories in my brain.

Spinning it too and even if we're only in mid-Febuary, I totally see that album very high in my end of the year list, all genres included.

I bought it this morning - really fucking jazzed about this actually; a genuinely fresh, vital feeling work. I haven't tried anything else she did aside from the album with Converge. I'll have to digest it more and then try her back catalogue - I've heard it's all pretty different.

Hotline TNT put out an album last year called Cartwheel that I absolutely love.

It sounds like Indie Rock released in the 90s in my opinion.

Yes, she's very well-rounded in that sense while still maintaining her persona. Abyss and Hiss Spun are the more doom-adjacent while Birth of Violence covers more of her appreciation for that tradition of female singer-songwriters. This, I find, marries the ethos of BoV with her earlier gothic shimmery moods on Pain Is Beauty (a personal favorite).

I'll try more of her albums this weekend when I have time to relax for sure. I admit I was initially like 'oh another gloomy goth singer' but this new one was unlike anything I figured.

Cardiacs - Sing to God

Just madness - a carnivalesque circus jam. Wild, frenzied energy. Even the production is completely weird and ear-catching - sort of a strange hollow, tinny sound where I'm always wondering if I need better headphones for this.

I made it through the first couple songs off this new Chelsea Wolfe album because of the hype flying around here, but I just don't get it with her.

so fucking cool. Endless copies of the TD albums for $3...of which I was a fool and didn't complete my collection.

Two new Vampire Weekend songs

"Capricorn" is a hazy half-ballad type with moody sections and a subtle grace. "Gen X Cops" gets a bit more urgent and smart with the lyrics ("dodged the draft but can't dodge the war/forever cursed to live insecure/the curtain drops, a gang of Gen X Cops assembles...") but just doesn't seep as deeply as "Capricorn".

David Bowie - Station to Station

I hadn't given this a listen in a while - what a crazily focused piece, just nothing but these sweet grooves.

Carl Ruggles: Evocation (orchestral version) (1943). Some atonal music.

Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas by Steven Divine and Bojan Cicic

New release. Listened to about half of this. It's killer.

Miles Davis - Nefertiti

This is a really rich piece of work; a lot of ideas. Just lush with music.