Rolling weird music 2020

Bit of a vested interest as they're now labelmates, but honestly if you're not listening to Massicot's new one you're missing out: https://massicot.bandcamp.com/album/kratt

They self-describe as "tropical kraut punk", which I reckon is fairly accurate. FFO The Ex?

Will check! SoL coming soon too yes?

Yes! It's out March 13th, so soon now after such a long wait, eep.

Excellent! ILM launch party to come haha

Enjoying the Massicot album, thanks Emily! Tropical kraut punk is otm. It's fun!

not sure if this is the thread for this but i liked Nist-Nah by Will Guthrie:
https://willguthrie.bandcamp.com/album/nist-nah

various sparse metal (the material not the genre) percussion

If search is to be believed, the only other time Delphine Dora has been mentioned on ILM is in the 2018 time travel thread. So, here you go. I like this.
https://wearethreefour.bandcamp.com/album/linattingible

I put a gig on featuring Delphine and Sophie Cooper in a tiny space above a pub. Delphine was magnificent but only 8 people showed up. We didn't put many more gigs on.

I'd kind of forgotten about her, tbh. Will check this out, cheers.

SoL sounding great, super stuff emil.y et al!

Thanks imago, was really hoping you and tt would like it!

Another vote for Massicot, very weird & cool!

The new Slum of Legs album kills, emil.y! Omg I love it. Such densely layered weirdo post-punk! The synth and string arrangements are wonderful. I hope we get to see you perform someday, post-apocalypse.

^^^

Was thinking about doing a thread for that but didn't want to cause any awkwardness but yes - tremendous job e!

I'm honestly blown away by everyone being so nice about it, makes me all warm and fuzzy, thank you guys.

we've had very limited interactions on here if any but this is awesome.

I'm sure it's due to the name but it does remind me a bit of King Of The Slums who were a Manchester band from the late 80s who had a rumbling Fall-ish sound but with a fiddle player, and they were fab and I've missed them for a long time. Anyway the first track on the SoL album is fucking stunning and I love it

rap thread hasn't claimed Zebra Katz yet, can we

new album is fire

New Patricia Taxxon sounding lovely!

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/rainbow-road

What does track 3, Soaring, remind you of? :)

New Emma Phyzema on Bandcamp (mixed by Bob Drake), just had a quick listen, sounds good, I detect a bit of a Dannielle Dax influence.

https://emmephyzema.bandcamp.com/album/chronic-bronchitis

not to take this back to too much orange milk but this is cool:

https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/diagnostics

http://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/coriolis

Interesting sounds...warm and disjointed

imago and tangent: this seemed like something you might dig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghpn99s8I-U
lifted from the k-pop thread

Radio show #7 up on mixcloud, we got some old weird and some new weird for you all: https://www.mixcloud.com/citybeatradio/cryptophasia-007/

https://sidechains.bandcamp.com/track/1-800

reminds me of the old slapp happy song "i got evil"

and of course a little DOOM

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYP-MscXgAAaNFG?format=png&name=small

Perhaps the most astonishing, seductive and compelling of Partch's works, Delusion stands as the Choral Symphony or Ring Cycle do to other composers: a culminating testament to a lifetime of "doing your own thing."

Like composer Conlon Nancarrow, Partch had to wait until late in life for his radical contributions to the arts to receive wide attention. With the 1969 production of Delusion he was "discovered", idolized, and gurufied, as a 43-tone-to-the-octave, ex-hobo, eccentric, maverick, iconoclastic instrument-builder, and a "philosophic music-man seduced into carpentry." Hippy hyperbole notwithstanding, Partch was a genuine far-out radical whose time has come. Again. "Sounds like this have rarely been heard before, at least not on this planet." Delusion of the Fury is a 72' totally-integrated, corporeal, microtonal, elemental work of ritual theater, incorporating almost all of Partch's hand-built orchestra of sculptural instruments. Using mime, dance, music, vocalizations, lighting, and costume, Partch presents two tales concerning reconciliation of life and death, one after a Japanese Noh drama, the other after an Ethiopian folk tale.
streaming:
http://ubu.com/film/partch_delusion.html

Oooooh.

nice

i got to see a full live production of Delusion of the Fury some year ago; it was a singular weird experience and i sorta doubt I'll ever hear a Partch orchestra in concert again
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/arts/music/06part.html

More people need to listen and join in on this thread: White Boy Scream

i like this
https://fire-toolz.bandcamp.com/track/ever-widening-rings

Some of this is really lovely but I just can't get comfortable with the vokills and blastbeats in the mix so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4i2OQc7Gr8

I'm liking the new Cucina Povera album. This one features some nice use of mobile phone interference noise.

huh, that's damaging; will try in a focused listen soon.

Really liked Redundance by Stian Westerhus on first listen: https://stianwesterhus.bandcamp.com/

Makes me think a bit of Robert Fripp playing with Ulver or Toby Driver? He's a very expressive singer. I gather that some of his previous work is just avant-garde guitar composition? I should look deeper into it.

That's great.

Not quite the right thread for it, but – in the deathless spirit of shitty descriptors – Tangram by Material Girl is Endtroducing… for zoomers and it rules.

will check recent additions tomorrow, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_czBcs7tFtE

taxxon having quite the 2020

the above song is off this, which is on first pass really great

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/gelb

Yeah I wasn't sure what to make of the Westerhus at first but I ended up enjoying it quite a bit xxp

The second in Taxxon's ballet trilogy is out already and somehow after a few years of releasing a lot of albums she has turned her craft into something quite extraordinary

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/rosa

no wave band w new album out that might be of interest to ppl who read this thread: special interest

O hell yes Special Interest's Spriraling was amazing, great to know about new 'un.
Speaking of ballet music as breakthrough/honing of craft, have yall heard this?
https://jlin.bandcamp.com/album/autobiography-music-from-wayne-mcgregors-autobiography

the Special Interest is fairly compelling but it is another album that seems to regard melody as some sort of bourgeois luxury

that is probably more cutting than it needs to be as I am rather enjoying the sonics!

You mean the Sonics band or the sonics of the (latest?) Special Interest album?

the latter!

new emamouse is outstanding

https://emamouse.bandcamp.com/album/--3

^this rules

special interest record is r good for summer humid walks

Would Memnon Sa fit in here? I mean one could put the new record in a lot of different categories, but I think it's tunefully weird and can't stop listening to it?

Paolo linked to one of her songs on this very thread a few months back

Thanks for posting that video btw emily! I'm kind of out of touch with things so the only other thing I know from that is TALsounds.

yeh this cucina povera is a really beautiful ep

new eric copeland from a few weeks ago
https://ericcopeland.bandcamp.com/album/dumb-it-down

Constantly trying to resist turning this thread into "Emil.y's Radio Show Promotion Thread" but we've got some guests in for the second half of this month playing rad Ex-Yu/Slavic tunes, I'm dead excited about it: https://www.mixcloud.com/citybeatradio/cryptophasia-013/

kind of enjoying that eric copeland

This Cryptophasia mix is really great thanks. It's so hard to stay on top of weird music - or it is for me at least. Once I became aware of the berserk, sublime dimensionality this substrata of music has expanded to create (and I only feel that way in the most fleeting of glimpses, despite my luck that it's become one of the main planks of my 9-5) I found it disorientating. I feel like the opinion I encountered a lot when I was first a very green, ignorant music writer 17 yrs ago - that we no longer need any kind of interface between us and the music, that all we needed was internet access and our ears - has never been further from the truth. I don't need a return of imperious gatekeepers for sure, but nothing dissolves my critical, aesthetic and emotional faculties like a day spent listening to 14 new tapes, five new streams, and two new LPs, where I have little or no idea of what the provenance is. I need some damn help with my listening. I think one of my new year's resolutions will definitely be to carve out more time to spend listening to shows like this and checking out the shows on Neon Hospice etc. Like, whether this is an obvious thing to say or not, there's surely never been a more important time for rhizomatic connectivity between all points in whatever constitutes the underground.

fully agree. i started this thread recently Keeping Up With Music to attempt to convey the sheer weight of the task upon the serious avant-garde universalist right now. a RYM account alone isn't quite enough; we need guidance, means of 'rhizomatic connectivity' that still does not limit (which is the risk) but which suggests outward paths and lines of deeper inquiry

Hear, hear. Especially in this day and age where it's becoming harder and harder to pass by the self-implied and money-driven gatekeeper that is The Algorithm and Curated Playli$t$. Which suggest only inward paths to swallow you for their personal gain, instead of the outwards paths lj succinctly described. 'We need guidance' is otm.

Emily and Dan's show truly is on the right side here and one to keep a keen eye on!

Ah, thank you!

I definitely get overwhelmed with the amount of music that's out there - I also have some issues that mean I simply can't concentrate on music for as long as I used to/other nerds may do, so I need navigation tools more than ever. Some of that is from relatively traditional modes of journalism, some from here, but I've always found the best way of finding stuff is through actually being involved in music making and "scenes". I don't really mean scenes like cliques, though there is always the risk of that, but if you know people who make stuff then they know other people who make stuff, and you get to know the interconnected underground networks and can follow trails to all sorts of places, rather than getting stuck in a cliquey cul-de-sac. I think the two biggest problems with this, though, are accessibility (not just disability accessibility, but location, age, internet access, a massive pandemic, loads of things), and also that as I've aged my networks have too, and that means that I can completely miss new exciting stuff, because I'm no longer on the same trails as the people who are coming up.

I've spent ages typing this out and now I no longer know if it makes any sense, but oh well, I'm gonna hit send anyway.

thanks for the new dn

I like this album by The Gagmen. Dark/weirdo supergroup with Aaron Dilloway, Nate Young and Andrew WK
https://idealrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-gagmen

huge amount of hastily made weird demos by montreal musicians to raise money for a good cause:

https://demofest.bandcamp.com/

haven't listened to many yet but i really enjoyed these ones by my friends

lukie lovechild https://demofest.bandcamp.com/album/lukie-lovechild-couple-demos
marley kay https://demofest.bandcamp.com/album/marlee-kay-i-think-you-love-her-more-than-me
shithead https://demofest.bandcamp.com/album/shithead-piss-and-shit-for-the-children

thanks for this
great stuff

Did we ever get a 2021 thread for this?

Start one!

yeh that;'ll be good
a bit under the weather this week but i have a few links to throw in if one gets going

Here we go: Rolling weird music // time travel // unclassifiable 2021