What Are You Listening to? 2020

Just listened to the new Oranssi Pazuzu earlier and now Kairon; IRSE! Ruination
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Finnish hard rock from 1973 with a really piercing guitar tone.
Pretty fantastic.
NOt sure what has picked up directly from this. Think it could be a handy influence.
Hadn't listened to this in way too long. Rockadrome reissued this about 7 years ago and i had bee hoping to get a copy for a while before taht.One of several great semi obscure hard rock/heavy lps from taht era that are pretty necessary.

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Gal Costa's 3rd solo lp , not as out as the previous one Gal but pretty cool. Starts off pretty hard hitting goes a few other places including a cover of Caetano veloso's london , London recorded in solidarity with him being in exile at teh time.
I think Gal had a run of pretty great lps including the 2 before thas and the next couple including a live lp from late 71.

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Various artists cover Nick cave and a couple of songs he covered that he did rathe individual versions of.
Some good stuff here and i think it hangs together as a compilation ok

i love that Icecross record so much.

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Toppermost of Theeee Poppermost, babes

oops meant to incl. https://sunwatchers.bandcamp.com/album/oh-yeah Lots more in their bandcamp stash

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Seven dollars postpaid :)

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Unusually good covers album, her first: says she finally got tired of "writing my way out of" shit.

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Peter Green - The End Of The Game

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that icecross record record is great great great, from the song shit-talking jesus freaks to the song about a nightmare santa claus who talks like a dalek. i'm iffy on early '70s hard rock as a whole but that one is an absolute winner.

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"I've never met a stranger/'Til I've known him, for a while."

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I give up, what is the one w face ov orange plywood, no lime?

i made a playlist of recent-ish stuff that i like. not on the spotify though.

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xp the gate record ?

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i used to have all those dead c albums on cd, can't believe i got rid of those

lately it's been fabric mixes -- surgeon, call super, midland

the surgeon mix is "not great" but idk it bangs, i like the vibe, it sounds like he doesn't care about proving anything anymore. sort of middling progressive techno with some half-tempo dubstep things with dodgy vocals thrown in there. i don't care, it bangs, great for a run.

call super mix is really quite brilliant though you can tell it's made by a "young ambitious artist" or w/e. extremely well executed though. deep stonery vibes.

midland mix sounds like boards of canada in places, i like it, it's good "tasteful" techno/house with a lot of variety, never got into it as deep as the ones above, though it has "city lights" on it which is z best.

i need new things to go gaga over. i thought it would be the edits compilations danny krivit is putting up on bandcamp but a lot of them just loop way too much for my taste.

have to check the call super mix, he is just so great imo. the 2017 2xLP was a favorite.

oh and beatrice dillon - workaround which will probably be my favorite album of 2020

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xp call super is just the best, yeah! you are in for a treat

he also did ... i think it's a bbc essential mix? *checks* yeah here it is: https://soundcloud.com/call-super/the-essential-mix-for-bbc-radio-1

that had me screaming. SO GOOD

xxxxp no, budo, the orange one! Is that Gate too?

yeah

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Good god, DeNiro's insane now
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xposts: yeah to its being gate... an odds & ends collection of guitar/electronics abuse circa mid-nineties (need to catch up on his more recent non-dead c output)

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finally got a hold of a copy of this 25 (gah!) years after reading the excellent accompanying book

some Gallon Drunk over here

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Been listening to the 2nd disc of this which I think I'd heavily neglected. Think that runs from the turn of the 70s onwards. Still pretty great though all the tracks i'm familiar with through covers are on the 1st disc. Bland still has a great voice tyhough not noticing the extremes quite as much as on the earlier stuff. On that he veers from Sam Cooke smoothness to Howlin Wolf level of growl.
I think I'm noticing more growl here than smoothness but still pretty decent quality stuf with some interesting textures from instruments.

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The actist blues trio live in the studio in front of a small audience in 1969. I think this was the same recording session that produced their jam on the Fugs recording of the levitating of the Pentagon which was released as a single at the time as out Demons Out.
This was finally released on cd back in 2004 as the full session. it rocks and grinds and fun things like that. Somewhat Beefheart Mirror Man-y and i assume Beefheart was a cited influence. Singer is really gruff sounding to the point of laryngitic in places.& they cover Dropout Boogie which they would later combine with the Shadows' Apache

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Not really getting a sonic connection to why this sleeve seems to be aping a Brian Eno sleeve. Seems to be some great stuff on here anyway. May just tie in with the Talking Heads being the cover artists though does look more reminiscent of the Ambient Series and is called Music for Homes. Seems to be a mop up of the best stuff of the year
LOve thsi stuff would like to find some more rock of thsi type that I haven't come across before still.

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i ordered about a dozen LPs over the last couple weeks, in various pre-birthday binges, and they've started to arrive at my doorstep! this morning:

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^ Whoa, that is some purdy (and purdy strange) nu-age

yessir. yeah, they had a track on the recent kankyo ongaku comp which i really liked, so i decided to take the plunge. and to be honest, i think the cover is outstanding and had to have a 12" glossy version of it. :)

nice score Karl

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I have that somewhere it's quite nice. Her and at least one member of Blossom Toes who was an in-law of hers.
Folky-poppy stuff not very avant unlike what I assume is her next move.

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What's your take on Disclosure, front tea? Some appealing reviews.

“Phoenicia wireless” and “drift model” are jams