Rolling herky-jerky 2019

Time travel got claimed by the bleeps (or were they bloops?) and YOUR ILLUSTRIOUS HOST has selected to further personalise this, the cream of 2019's psych/avant/weird-pop litany.

We begin our cosmic roundel with LOST CROWNS, surely to be confirmed in the pantheon upon the January 25 release of their debut album Every Night Something Happens. Here's a taste:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guTLvKG3IZM

YOUR OWN contributions are gleefully accepted, but heed: they ought herk, and jerk.

(h/t Tim for the name!)

Are we going to include indiepop here? I think we are. The following Of Montreal-esque wonder was shown to me by tt and on first listen I'm blown away. Behold...Scary Jokes

https://thescaryjokes.bandcamp.com

Listening to ILX Listen: 2019

It is here!

https://lostcrowns.bandcamp.com/

Sounds pretty good on first listen!

Isn't it marvellous?

Ooooooooh this is really good

Cheer-Accident vibes on the first track

:)

it's all monstrously brilliant but the odd-numbered tracks stand out from the even-numbered ones, perhaps

'she saved me' might be the pick. what an exceptionally beautiful composition

man you weren't kidding about this album, this is great

also reminds me that I haven't heard the second Stars in Battledress album yet

You must see to that then frogbs, The Women From The Ministry is their finest song.

So I missed this! I mean I saw them recently and I know they have more stuff coming, but...

https://spratleysjaps.bandcamp.com/album/her-hands

liking lost crowns :D

:)

nice that we can still visit each other's halves of the time travel house, haha

this Anthroprophh is from last year but it's worth hearing

https://youtu.be/Ic1NN14ySJ4

^that first segment is just Trout Mask worship, but who's even doing that rn

(you probably remember it from metal poll...I'm just saying don't write it off, it's p batshit

It is! I like this album from what I heard and this is a highlight

idk what this is, crazy-ass French avant-garde prog with accordions and mandolin, first thought was "LJ would probably like this"

https://tracteur.bandcamp.com/

ha this is really fun

https://emmephyzema.bandcamp.com/releases

Intriguing!

this rules

^^^Will get to it eventually

I can't remember if anyone else here is a fan of The Mercury Tree but in any case they've gone all microtonal
https://themercurytree.bandcamp.com/album/spidermilk

Yeah I'm well into that already - a certain musical ilxor hipped me to them in private recently. It's great! I've not heard the whole thing yet but it is surely going to end up one of my favourite recent records - the songwriting instincts are all there on top of the microtones

microtonal

Sold.

I mean, I'd already heard the previous one (through you iirc), but I was hipped to the new one.

Cool :D My memory's quite bad when it comes to that sort of thing

I admit I find this one a bit of a struggle but I'll get there

It feels like they've learnt a lesson or two from Cheer-Accident

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHT27-Dzweg&feature=youtu.be

i returned to this album recently. it really is amazing

uff, here's the link properly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHT27-Dzweg

What do you make of this, imago?

https://youtu.be/8W7mksaFNtU

I've been listening a little to some singeli, mostly off a tip from ultros' rym page. I'm down for the most part, but I do always catch myself wishing it was more of a headfuck. However, I do think it's herky-jerky enough for the thread...

(on 2nd thought, that might not have been the best track to post.

This is from the album ultros actually reviewed, & is probably the closest it came to slaking my thirst for bonkers underground shit)

Oh my god what is this hahaha

https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/uingizaji-hewa

tags: afrobeat electronic world afrofuturism ethnography feild recording gabber singeli techno Kampala

wow this is quite something

Well that sure woke me up!

It’s funny how singeli pops up on different threads every now and then (Rolling Global Outernational, Rolling Experimentalist Electronic/Misfit Club Music and the like).
We also discussed the Sounds of Sisso compilation for a bit on last year’s Rolling Afropop thread.
But there was never much of a follow-up, so I’m very happy to being alerted to that Jay Mitta album. Can’t wait to check it out. Thank you for that, herky-jerky Drugs A. Money!

Yeah I never thought to bring that up here, I need to listen to more of that stuff.

Also the Emme Phyzema albums were far better than I was expecting tbqh, very complex and a little menacing. One track off Dispelling Differences reminds me of Psudoku.

I keep thinking there's prob a dog latin thread somewhere that deserves some singeli in it too haha xp to breastcrawl

NSRO have a new album out covering songs from Rock Bottom, in case you missed it:

https://darkcompanionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/folly-bololey

I've never heard either this or the original so I can't speak as to its quality

Just listening to that Duke album now, blimey. This rules.

these records are so good thanks :D

pace of islam chipsy!

This one came out today:

https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/mateso

triple espresso shot

so good, my favorite of the nyege nyege albums posted here

this is almost exactly what I imagined Omar Souleyman's music sounding like

Just listening to that Duke album now, blimey. This rules.

― emil.y, Saturday, June 1, 2019 6:27 PM (five days ago)

My BF pointed out that I had actually already heard some of it as he'd put a couple of tracks on a mix he'd made. Pfffft my brain keeps nothing in. Still rules though.

Recent article on singeli: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3442

My BF pointed out that I had actually already heard some of it as he'd put a couple of tracks on a mix he'd made. Pfffft my brain keeps nothing in. Still rules though.

really wanna hear that mix if those were the forgettable tracks

that Lost Crowns youtube is a bit too fey whimsy for me ... sorry

I like this new Poil - https://poil.bandcamp.com/album/sus

I still like Poil, this is ace -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1UbIbkg5zs

https://deloriansbbib.bandcamp.com/album/de-lorians

Maybe a bit too old-fashioned to be herky jerky but I still dug this. Real motherfucking 70s prog hours!

file under: Zappa minus Zappa

btw I just realized the Duke album is basically that one bonkers section of "Peking O" extended to 40 minutes

there are some really inspired moments on the delorians record. zappa minus zappa is accurate lol, cause one of the first things i thought of was jean-luc ponty.

Kings Kaleidoscope are bringing the Lord's herky-jerky in 2019! It's about time the Christian rock scene went indieprog tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ldbggv2zaQ

https://hyperallergic.com/518162/the-pranksters-of-pop/

I had high hopes for 100 gecs after reading that but, it's boring? idk

I agree! But I am open to being convinced

My son loves them, wants me to take him to their upcoming show. I think they are fun and silly, if not exactly mindblowing.

I love them but can see why others might not

Sorry for continuing to pollute this thread, imago. I have no idea where this goes; I'm not at all confident that it's blackgaze enough for rolling metal, but it's a absolutely nowhere near herky-jerky either, as I understand it. I'm posting it here bcz I think you might like it as it's kind of like Sigur Ros goes Bonkers in Phoenix

https://flypanam.bandcamp.com/album/cest-a

(Lol and as it happens there's already a FPA thread :/ )

(This Kings Kaleidoscope album isn't bad at all, either)

FPA are definitely mining some sort of lo-fi MBV thing! Will investigate further...ty

Do it! It'll be worth your while

this came out a few minutes ago and i haven't played it yet but they are BACK: https://thedisplayteam.bandcamp.com/album/spinner

Charlie Cawood's second solo album sounding great so far - classical chamber pop, basically, but with a certain melodic sensibility I have been known to enjoy

https://charliecawood.bandcamp.com/album/blurring-into-motion

I like that! Smooth sailings.

The Garden's album last year was one of my most-listened, and this new single is nice too, with a bit of herk and jerk though also tuneful:

https://thegardenmusic.bandcamp.com/track/thy-mission-feat-mac-demarco

lush stuff all round

Hey imago do you know about Collider yet

I feel like they might be the Medicine-Game Theory amalgam of my dreams

obviously was humming some Loud Family to myself as I opened this thread haha

will have to give them a go

Meh don't hold me to that, I was stoned when I posted that, I hear some of Miller in the melodies and vocals, but really musically it's a lot busier and more herky-jerky in the intended sense than anything I've heard on a Game Theory record

I can't speak with any authority about them, but maybe the Cardiacs are a more appropriate reference point? Like maybe 'Cardiacs-meet-Medicine'? I wish ultros was still here...

I listened to it! Wouldn't say Cardiacs at all, maybe a bit of Game Theory. Reminded me most of Swirlies, really. Plenty of promise!

I hear traces of Monsoon Bassoon too.

oh that's not a bad shout yeah

Swirlies/Medicine (esp the later albums)/Monsoon Bassoon/Marnie Stern and probably some Japanese producer's covert math/shoegaze-tronic band fronted by a dozen moody schoolgirls who are all named after different styles of hat.

Where is Ultros?

Talking fo Japan, did I ever blab on to you about Croissant Chicago?

https://croissantchicago.bandcamp.com/track/--11

You did not! Thank you - will dive in shortly...