I'm not sure who else has already blogged about this masterwork, but Joakim's new album (due out on K7 in September), is a ferocious piece of genius. Musically terrifically diverse, Milky Ways (SUCH A GOOD TITLE) meanders a path somewhere between dance, post-punk, and "out there", somehow managing to carve it's own perfect story into a tradition forged by Television, ESG and more recently, Liars and his own Monsters and Silly Songs. While not necessarily appropriate for the club (unless you want to seriously creep everyone out, which can be incredibly enjoyable), the album is smart, interesting and above all, WHOLE, meant to be played the entire way through.
I give you the opening cut, 'Back ...
Label of the Month
I really have to stop slacking on posts so my blogger's guilt doesn't force me to divulge my best sonic secrets. Because 'Artist of the Month' proved to be far too challenging, March has brought 'Label of the Month', and with it, Cecille. Started in 2007 and hailing from Southwestern Germany, the label is responsible for such modern excellence as SIS, Ilario Alicante and Sven UK, among others. Essentially, the deep, tribal-tinged minimal that this awesome secret produces is ALL I WANT TO PLAY right now. These tracks have all of the elements of ...
News on Artists
We will not be posting an MJ tribute blog, whatever needs to be said has been said, let's leave it at that. However, I'm gonna shamelessly self promote (again. sorry. not really) and take this opportunity to share with you, fellow dreamers, my latest mix. It's a bunch of music I'm pretty excited about right now and exemplifies the sound I'm cultivating as a solo act (Staccato's most recent work is available HERE). As with all of my mixes, this is live, uncut and unedited. The levels are a little funky, sorry, but you get the idea. I ...
Record Review
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse: Dark Night of the Soul
Aside from sounding like a Saturday morning cartoon series gone terribly RIGHT, the professor of eclectic beatism Danger Mouse & Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse fame, along with David Lynch, who needs no introduction, have recorded quite the ambitious album with one metal of a name. ...