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Weekly Update Steve Hauschildt, Tindersticks, Warp Sessions, Scorn, TOY
Craven Faults, JOHN, Dr. Dre, Suede, Jim O’Rourke, Andy Stott, Acid Mother’s Temple, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, DJ Shadow, The Clash, Molly Nilsson.
- Published: Thursday 14th November 2019
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- Album of the Week. Spacy electronics meet refined ambient on Steve Hauschildt’s corker of a new record.
- Best Records of October. Missed our feature of our favourite albums of last month? Well you probably did as this idiot forgot to stick it in the last newsletter...
- And did I forget to plug our regular monthly reductions too? I can't remember if I remembered.
- Classic Bargains. A selection of classics records priced at just £11.99! Picks include Nick Drake, The Cure, Beck, Mazzy Star and more!
- No Weekly Playlist this week I'm afraid, but our usual Friday Jukebox will be with you tomorrow. Join us on Twitter at the usual time.
New music
- Nottingham formed indie legends Tindersticks return with their most immediate sounding work in years.
- Krauty shoegazing Londoners TOY release a covers album with a load of tasty selections.
- Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy is back with more alt. country/Americana numbers.
- Blue Hawaii. Canadian indie/electronic group veer towards UK garage and deep house on their new’un.
- The Chemical Brothers issue a mammoth 20 minute remix of a banger from ‘Surrender’.
- The Fall continue as Imperial Wax for a limited single.
- Arthur Russell’s archival releases are always top-tier. This new one is no exception.
- DJ Shadow. The ‘Endtroducing’ legend returns with an LP complete with a range of hip hop royalty.
- Steve Lacy. Weird album cover but cool tunes from The Internet man.
- Oddly named heavy psych group Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell are back.
- Mr Ben & The Bens. The Lancaster indie group take their sound into interesting new territories.
- Moths & Locusts and Wolf Parade members unite to make some occult and dense psychedelia as Anunnaki.
- Les Big Byrd. Your favourite Sesame Street characters are back with a limited single.
- Dungeon Rap. Sounds like if Three 6 Mafia were to make an album with Deathprod...
- London art rockers Pumarosa return with an IDM/drum & bass inspired second effort.
- Ace new album from US post-rock/ambient group Hammock.
- The Young Sinclairs explore all eras and subgenres of psychedelia.
Re-issues
- The Heartwood Institute. A Polytechnic Youth favourite gets a repress.
- The Clash celebrate 40 years of the sprawling double LP ‘London Calling’.
- Japan’s most prolific exporters of psych Acid Mothers Temple reissue a classic. First time on wax!
- Josef K. Seminal post-punks Josef K issue a live record from Belgium.
- JOHN. The hyped UK garage punk group repress their 2019 album already.
- Daedelus. Triple vinyl box set from the wonky instrumental hip hop producer.
- Twin Peaks: Music from the Limited Event Series. Lynch picks some of his favourite’s to appear in the cult TV show.
- Arty Britpoppers Suede celebrate 20 years of ‘Head Music’.
- Squid get their tentacles around this 4-track EP/single.
- Synth-pop meets psych pop on Molly Nilsson’s ‘Twenty Twenty’.
- Dead Meadow. Relaxed stoner rock/psych rock classic.
- The Raconteurs. Mr. White’s Led Zep inspired project reissue their debut.
- UK weirdo experimental rockers Ronaldo & The Loaf reissue their first on cassette.
- Californian stoner Dr. Dre re-releases ‘2001’ as if he doesn’t have enough cash already...
- The Wozard Of Iz (Mort Garson). You loved ‘Plantasia’, now check out this one!
- David Bowie. An early classic celebrates 50 years since its release.
- Unwound at their rawest and best.
Ant’s Electronic Round Up
Ant returns with this week’s electronic/club/experimental biggies.
- Warp radio sesh motherlode; Aphex Twin, Seefeel, Boards of Canada, LFO, Plaid, Flying Lotus, Bibio, Kelly Moran, Mount Kimbie, Oneohtrix Point Never.
- Constantly morphing crepuscular soundscapes and field recordings on an epic 4CD set from Jim O'Rourke on Sonoris.
- Cone melting, Richter scale obliterating, murkiest eruptions from Scorn.
- Mysterious Yorkshire kosmische twiddler Craven Faults remixed by Pye Corner Audio, Don't DJ and President Bongo.
- Carl Stone digitally smashes up pan-global sounds into smithereens and reassembles them into peculiar shapes and loops.
- Rugged, moody, tranquilized house/techno from Andy Stott.
- Totally spooked, ominous drones and Musique concrète from Skin Crime on Hospital Productions - proper toe-curling tension and fear inducing gear.
- Sarah Davachi, Khotin, Orcas, SK U Kno, Space Afrika + more provide serene vibes on Ghostly's ‘Thousands of Eyes in the Dark’ compilation.
- N.M.O. do freaky, trippy alien dancehall/footwork mutants on Gang of Ducks.
- Otherworldly, shimmering metallic pop songs from Ziúr on Planet Mu.
- James Ruskin’s got the bangers covered on Tresor.
- Tough, darkside dancehall/grime hybrids from East Man aka Basic Rhythm.
- Tidy Lee Gamble EP on Hyperdub (note to self: do not dare mention Conceptronica or we will be crucified on social media).
- Dark Entries unearth more ace material from disco legend Patrick Cowley.
- Ultra-dreamy, lush, melancholy ambient from Hollie Kenniff on n5MD.
- Live recording of posh Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto gig in Sydney Opera House. Suitably posh packaging and price tag on Noton.
- Strong Chicago house/techno slammers on L.I.E.S from the archives of Dirty Criminals member DeeCoy aka Daryl Cura.
- High-quality tackle on Rabih Beaini's ever-reliable Morphine label.
- Mecánica Popular return some 35 years after their debut with an LP that’s getting spins from JASSS, Demdike Stare, Cera Khin and Ossia.
- Isnaj Dui, Robin Saville, The Humble Bee, Wil Bolton and more respond to a Stuart Bowditch recording of a Silhouette Cameo 3 plotter cutter. True story.
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Words: Ant and Tom.
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