What Are You Listening to? 2020

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Was:https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81zdFHZ8VwL._SS500_.jpg
(various - mono no aware

Now: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/819RvoOoXZL._SL1500_.jpg

the chorus to “way out west” is so heartbreaking

‘isolated
in the night’

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yessss, me too

so good.’the 10s was a pretty sweet decade for ambient, ifam

now:
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ROCK ROCK TIL YOU DROP

hold onto your hat!

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delroy edwards, raw lofi ‘bedroom’ (?) house

Ruth Copeland Gimme Shelter: The Invictus Sessions

there are two or three really solid tunes on the first album but there's also so much kinda risible sad pop, but the 2nd half is backloaded w/jams.

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Wow no lime, good cover for these summer tymes down South esp

Raved about this on Rolling Reissues:

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Parts 1&2 sep pages on bandcamp but I got the 2CD edition w both

Also thanx to Gotpunch for reminder of awes xpost Black Riot: Early Jungle Rave and Hardore!

GOTT PUNCH, I meant!

Some Hard Ore in that ardcore, ay.

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I wish I had a heart of ice

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gonna have to check that Coroner out after this

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Tamam Shud - Evolution

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hell yeah

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Lots of social commentary, incl. field reports or simulation of same, and editorialing, as expected---but most of the music pulled me into the whole news-bluesoid alt americana rock experience immediately---and *back* in when distraction of screen beckoned---awright:https://drivebytruckers.bandcamp.com/album/the-unraveling

editor-i-al-izing!

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Under pressure of atmosphere, memories, incl. of present and future, spooky and urgent----music more varied after "Running With Our Eyes Closed," calmer but still insidious, words finding their way in---"St. Peter's Autograph,", hmmm--but I get some of 'em right away, esp the one about sober life incl. dreams about drinking, a couple nights a week now, like, "I had one glass of wine, woke up feelin' fine,and that's how I knew it was a dream," but some are rougher, like the even realer-seeming dream of calling in sick to treat yourself down town--you deserve it, self, you been real good for so long---"It gets easier, but never easy, " why have I never heard a song about this must-be-fairly-common experience before? So far, Reunions seems like one of his most sustained achievements in quite a while:
https://jasonisbell.bandcamp.com/album/reunions

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Hm, never heard of that, interesting.

Thurston Moore - Spirit Counsel
Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings E&F
Allan Holdsworth - "Looking Glass"
Battles - Mirrored
Battles - Juice B Crypt
John Zorn - Virtue

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Gen Pop and BL'AST!

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90s style soft cyberdelic techno

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found a copy of the "complete" recordings of kid prince moore (& shorty bob parker) who did two of my favourite tracks on this excellent yazoo comp

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..<i>.esp the one about sober life incl. dreams about drinking, a couple nights a week now, like, "I had one glass of wine, woke up feelin' fine,and that's how I knew it was a dream," but some are rougher, like the even realer-seeming dream of calling in sick to treat yourself down town--you deserve it, self, you been real good for so long---"It gets easier, but never easy, " why have I never heard a song about this must-be-fairly-common experience before? </i>

Agree about this, you hear a lot of being fucked up in songs. Sobering up and how someone experiences life onwards is something i have never heard someone describe so recognizably, in a simple everyday life way. I love Isbell for that.

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New Candys Bleeding Magenta

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Victory Over the Sun - A Tessitura of Transfiguration
Sevish - Rhythm and Xen
Carpenters - "All I Can Do"
Queen - "Don't Stop Me Now"
John Cage - "The Perilous Night" (perf. Boris Berman)
Chopin - Nocturne, op. 55 no. 1 (arr. for guitar and perf. by Nathan Bredeson)

that Solstice is so great