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Getting the sense I should check out the Rene Hell album.
Music Diary: Wednesday
8:47 am: On the way to work, My Morning Jacket. I've been in a My Morning Jacket mood for a few days. "Golden" had come up on shuffle on Friday and set my mood aright amidst a shitty day, so I've been listening to MMJ on and off ever since. I have a playlist of all my favorite songs by the band ...
I highly recommend going to Harmony in Ultraviolet next for Tim Hecker. I enjoyed An Imaginary Country and put it on my top 20 for 2009, but I keep going back to HiV.
Very excited about Ravedeath.
My Listening Hours: January
I'm trying something new with these My Listening Hours posts in 2011: rather than a week of posts every three months—far too daunting to compose anymore—I'll trot out a much more abbreviated monthly post. Ideally I'll have written at length about most of these records already. At ...
I've probably said this before, but Chairs Missing and 154 are must listens.
In terms of Red Barked Tree, I am familiar with Wire's ouevre and I came to the same conclusion as you did. It's relatively close to the last EP and LP (both of which I prefer) in the general approach - updating the mid-tempo rock of their late 80s LPs(The Ideal Copy, A Bell Is a Cup...) with more traditional rhythms/mixes. The songwriting on this one isn't great and a few of the songs try to force their instrumental hand by being too aggressive (i.e. like Send / Read & Burn 1/2).
Three Tiny Reviews: Wire, Decemberists, Destroyer
I listened to a few new/upcoming releases this week via NPR and, uh, other sources. Here are three quick takes: Wire: Red Barked Tree I'm far from schooled in Wire's ouevre—I have Pink Flag and two compilations covering 1977–79 and 1985–90, but no other full-lengths. That said, I'm not fee...
What's your preferred Pan*American album? Only one I have is White Bird Release. Considered one of the four RRRecords had in stock today, then opted to play it safe with Oneohtrix Point Never's Returnal.
Kranky Pant
I'm not sure what triggered it but I suddenly had a yearning to delve back into old-school releases from Kranky. Only problem is I don't have much in my iTunes library. I was heavy into vinyl around the same time I was heavy into Kranky, and what I still own from the label is mostly tucked away ...
Eno: Definitely check out Taking Tiger Mountain next. It's closest to Warm Jets. "The True Wheel" is such a jam. Past that, I'd vote for Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks over On Land. Music for Airports is nice. Considering your fondness for Cluster, you'll likely enjoy the Cluster & Eno albums. The first one's better but the second one has "The Belldog," which is one of my favorite Eno songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TPxvsejbBc
Wire: Considering that there were at least two commercially released compilations of Wire's first three albums (and I ended up making my own to pass along to some friends), it's amazing how much better their first three albums hold up as albums. (This is not the case for their 1980s stuff.) Chairs Missing is my favorite by a decent margin, not that Pink Flag or 154 are anything less than great. 154 has its flaws, but they make sense within the context of the group's evolution.
I need to spend more time with Mountains and Lesser Matters.
My Listening Hours: Best of 2010 So Far
Harry Nilsson: Pandemonium Shadow Show After living with two different Harry Nilsson greatest hits comps for many years, last year I finally got around to picking up Nilsson Schmilsson, widely lauded as his best album. It's good—it's great!—but it also left me a little cold. Perh...
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