It’s been the same four albums for the last few weeks:
Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal collective.
I mulled over buying last year, and was amongst some discs a friend burned for me recently. Musically it’s a kaleidoscopic effect that tend’s to eventually merge into the one kind of thing, and sounding a bit like the Beach Boys meets early Genesis in a very trippy haze. The first two tracks are my fav’s,
My Girl’s, and
in The Flowers, which takes me back to college day’s and ‘having to listen to’ Gabriel era Genesis when a fellow student used to play it at us.
Relayted by Gayngs.
Leftfield soft-rock styled concept album, inspired mostly by 10cc’s
I’m Not In Love, which kinda works if you imagine it as a lush and downtempo soundtrack to a Baz Luhrmann film that climaxes in a prom night.
Celer:
Panoramic Dreams Bathed In Seldomness.
Great night-time drifting off, and my favourite album by them at the mo’. Its romantic and poetic in the style of their more accessible works.
Zola Jesus:
Stridulum II.
This has been the one most played and it’s never out of my head, so it’s likely to feature on my best albums of this year.
I’ve quickly forgotten the initial similarities to Siouxsie’s singing, and the album has very much come into its own. It’s a short affair where the first seven tracks hang well together texturally, and the last two take on a slightly different style, with
Lightstick sounding a bit like Arcade Fire, and
Sea Talk sounding like…
Spin Away by our John
No actually,
Sea Talk sounds a bit like Joy Division’s
Atmosphere, which funnily enough
Spin Away also reminds me of...
