Ooh, didn’t know there’s a new Manchester Orchestra out <buys>

Been pretty much alternating between F***ed Up, the new Mogwai album and Titus Andronicus this week.

I bought a pair of £16 Logitech speakers for my PC so started testing some music when I discovered:

German Techno Bunker
Dark Minimal Techno Trip

I like it … they go “boom, tish, boom, tish, boom, tish … with some good sound effects which I thought is very nice as background music. Best thing of all nobody is singing.

Or HÖR BERLIN … “boom, toom, boom, toom, boom, toom” … Brilliant!

Not sure what they doing with the turntable but I guess mixing some music … question is if they play those music which is not technically created by them do they have to pay license fees or something …

Oh ya … think I need more powerful speakers … headphone sounds brilliant too.

Just breached the cellophane of On Impulse album by Sonny Rollins. That’s currently spinning.

Queen’s greatest hits
ABBA Arrival
The Very Best of Sarah Vaughan (gold vinyl!)

The Black Keys – Delta Kream

I haven’t listened to them for a while, don’t know why I really like them. Love this album with its bluesy feel.

Billie Holiday, Lee Dorsey, Tina Charles and the BeeGees…

I finally got round to getting Apple Music so have been indulging a little ‘retro’ of late.

Also, Rosalías non-cd collaborations.

And Tripping with Nils Frahm and still waiting for the full Hania Rani album to drop.

Lee Dorsey is a good shout. Might have to make a playlist consisting of mainly him and Rufus Thomas

Inez and Charlie Foxx
Rimsky Korsakov
Seeed

I’ve ended up down some wormhole of music. I’ve been listening to Japanese Folk Metal, Nekgrogoblikon, and Rainbowdragoneyes….

As per @wordnumb, the new GY!BE album is fantasic, and I’m really enjoying the new John Grant single ‘Boy From Michigan’ too (which is being played to death on 6Music at the moment).

Other notable mentions in regular rotation are:
clipping. – Splendor and Misery
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
Karnivool – Sound Awake

Today I listened to:

Holly Herndon – Proto
Sunn O))) – Pyroclasts

and the new St Vincent album, but I didn’t like it.

Crack Cloud

Paul Weller’s new record, Fat Pop
Royal Blood’s new one
Foo Fighters new one
Steely Dan’s, Greatest Hits
Vaya Con Dios, Time Flies
Descendants 3, soundtrack – kids can’t have Daddy’s influences all the time.

One recent song I keep going back to is by Self Esteem – ‘I Do This All The Time’, which I just love to bits! It’s got the Baz Luhrmann thing going on, with the wonderful world-weary delivery.
I rather like the Paul McCartney single that’s out at the moment as well, with Phoebe Bridgers singing, but Phoebe can do no wrong in my book anyway.

Been listening to this
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=WLI71xx56Mg&feature=share

But also

And this

Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future has been on repeat quite a bit since the weekend. Been waiting for it for so long, not disappointed.

Stone Giants (Amon Tobin) – West Coast Love Stories, just a single but album due in July.

Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders/LSO – Promises, best thing since the Gabriels EP.

Show Me the Body

The Dreadnoughts
Burning Flag
Tuba Skinny

Harmonia and Neu… can’t go wrong there @gordimhor

See also…

Manchester Orchestra – “Million masks of god”. It’s got a lot to live up to though, compared to “Last black mile to the surface”

I often find MO are growers. MMoG did prompt me to listen to ‘Like a virgin …’ over the weekend too, I have new speakers and needed to hear it through them.

I often drify back into You+Me accidentally and realise I still love it, take some Dallas Green, add some P!nk, shouldn’t work, is amazing.

Also, never tire of some things like Of Monsters and men, Ben Howard, Phoebe Bridgers (especially the duet with Nanthaniel Ratcliffe), but then also Bronx, Everytimeidie and as ever a smattering on Thrice and Alexisonfire.

I tend to lean towards classical guitar music.

Bob James
Loose Ends
Herbie Hancock
Chic
Patrice Rushen
Ronnie Laws
Cloud One
Isley Brothers
Earth Wind & Fire
Pieces of a Dream
Hiroshima
Aquarian Dream

Cheers @kelvin Hadn’t actually heard La Dusseldorf before so saved it for listening later

My main new stuff from this year has been;

Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark

I should ask this more often it routes me to stuff i would never find

Clad someone else likes that Arab Strap album…

Album of the year so far for me.

@gordimhor … and to loop up with someone else’s recommendation in another thread… if you’re liking the Harmonia/Neu stuff, check out Trans Am and Phil Manley’s solo stuff (Life Coach).

mmmm…. Trans Am were great. np: Tesco vs Sainsburys.

My video/yutoob habits are different.

Mostly bulerías:

Y una canta rumba:

And I have a real soft spot for quality girl pop:

Titus Andronicus
Chubby and the Gang
Taylor Swift’s 2020 albums
Moving Targets
Bob Mould…always Bob!

Love Ire & Song – Frank Turner
Besieged – McDermotts 2 Hours
Anything by Pixies

Haina Rani

Love Rani.

This is essential listening:

https://porticoquartethaniarani.bandcamp.com/album/portico-quartet-hania-rani

Home was my favourite album of last year. Easy. I think I listened to pretty much nothing but that the whole of July.

the teasers for Music for Film and Theatre make 18 June a loooong way off. I like visuals too.

Nice to see the harder to get cd stuff on Apple Music (like the Portico stuff). I need to get it lined up and listened to properly…

New vinyl turned up in the last couple of weeks mixed in with my usual iTunes randoms …
• Dexys Midnight Runners: Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
• Amy Winehouse at the BBC
• Soul to Soul: Club Classics Vol. One
• Paul Weller: Fat Pop
• Paul Weller: Midsommer Musik

Looking back through the list of what was played on my phone today were tracks by:
Ohmme
The Joy Formidable
The Velvet Underground
Ana Brun
Linda Ronstadt
Biffy Clyro
Hayley Bonar
Rush
Mogwai
Kathryn Tickell & Peter Tickell
Carly Simon
Moby
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Kate Miller-Heidke
Kris Delmhorst
Aoife O’Donovan
She & Him
Chatham County Line
Myrkur
Curve
Natalie Imbruglia
Lyla Foy
Donald Fagan
The Kinks
Gang of Four
Ron Sexsmith
Widowspeak
The Band
U2
Karine Polwart
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Guillemots
Mark Lanegan
Mastodon
Genesis
Steely Dan
Angus & Julia Stone
Diana Ross
The Dukes of Stratosphear
The Bangles…
And that’s why I prefer to play on shuffle, I never know what’s going to surprise me, it’s just like my own radio station with no added waffle, and that lot barely got me into the morning.

Today I have mostly listened to
Radiohead – Pyramid Song ep
Rocks Foe – RELX pt1
Maru – Blindfold
21 Savage – Spiral From The Book Of Saw Soundtrack

Found Nekrogoblikon earlier in the year. Still love it. Rapidly becoming one of my favourite bands. Quite silly, but super catchy, and good on proper speakers.

There is a prog rock opera thing going on in there too. something to do with Immortal Goblins from space on a quest to find a way to die.

Uh-huh

For the metal/rock inclined:

Boss Keyloid – progressive heavy rock

Crowbar – Miserable riffed fulled NOLA metal

Gojira – new album, still not back to the heyday, but some good tracks