When I bought the 12–inch Aphex Twin single On, I had heard just the title track.

This b–side blew me away.

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If justice prevailed, the surviving members of Television should be on dollar bills in the USA. This album is a masterpiece. I could have posted any song above. OK, fuck it:

Tom Verlaine, the main mind behind Television, took his stage name from Paul Verlaine which kind of says a lot about the music. But the music is North American. There's jazz. There's guitars played like Coltrane, to paraphrase what Verlaine wanted.

I love how we can clearly hear the instruments and voice all cleanly separated in the mix. This is wonderful music. The lyrics aren't the sharpest tool in the box, but what the fuck, that's partly why they're perfect.

What I want
I want now
And it's a whole lot more
Than “anyhow” I wanna fly, fly a fountain
I wanna jump, jump, jump, a-jump
On a mountain

#music #Television #TomVerlaine #RichardHell #rock #MusicTips

Aesop Rock is, for me, a hit-and-miss rapper. I don't mean he's bad at times: he's very good all of the time; for me, I can't take more of his intense lyrical delivery a few songs at a time. To me, he's like a speech-therapist's dream version of Run The Jewels.

This track just rocks. I love the build-up synthy intro; the song is the intro to the album The Impossible Kid. The horns in the song work so well with the beats and Aesop's rap. The lyrics have a lot to unpack.

#music #rap #MusicTips #AesopRock

Shane Parish has made an album of Autechre covers on guitar. In other words, he's turned one of electronic music's grand ole acts of glitchy, instrumental electronic music into acoustic-guitar stuff. It's wonderful!

Example:

The original version:

#music #MusicTips #Autechre #ShaneParish #guitar #Warp

1. A Greek-orthodox priest who releases 'metal' is cool.
2. The album cover is made for cassette tape, which is cool.
3. There's a Proton Mail e-mail address on the cassette cover, which is also cool.

All of those points are spoken by my twelve-year-old metal self (who never existed really because I discovered metal in my forties).

There's an interview with Father Tabakis here. Maybe there's no reason to fear the priest?

#music #MusicTips #metal

Gold Panda's latest album, TON UP, is exactly what I need this morning: hi-energy house that deeply reminds me of the old Paris is Burning style of life.

This album is a lot of fun and high-tempo throughout. Somehow, this album makes me think of SebastiAn's recent DJ session at Peacock Society.

#music #MusicTips #GoldPanda #EdBanger #SebastiAn #HighEnergy #house #techno

In a few months, it's election time in Sweden. The Tidö parties are probably going to lose, which is the best thing for anyone. They're a pack of xenophobic power-hungry political parties that engage in power, disguising their desires as ideology.

Tomma Intet are a Swedish indie-rock collective. Imagine a Californian sect that've been forced to sing choral hymns and gorge themselves only on music by The Radio Dept. Here you are. This song is sweet and dreamy. Kind of like something that George Harrison would have made and added a prog drive.

The chorus goes like this:

Själlösa jävla parasiter ni kan dra åt helvete

...which translates to something like this; translation by yours truly:

Soulless fucking parasites go to hell

If that's not love, what is.

#music #MusicTips #TommaIntet #rock

Today dear Will Sheff releases his sophomore album, Extra Mile. It's a good leap from his first album, Nothing Special.

Will once co-founded Okkervil River and Shearwater, two bands that I love. He's now making thoughtful, visceral, and lovely music to which we hum and swing our hips.

#music #MusicTips #WillSheff #OkkervilRiver #Shearwater

Jocelyn West was previously named Jocelyn Montgomery. She is one of the founding members of the wondrous band Miranda Sex Garden.

West's song on this album is wonderful. It floats, it builds, it takes great care of Hildegard von Bingen's work and legacy. David Lynch's work is also evident, making the voice float and carry through. That said, I'm not sure how much work Lynch did on the album.

From Lynchnet:

In 1998, David Lynch completed work on a new album by Jocelyn Montgomery, the Scottish fiddle player seen in Pretty as a Picture. The album is based on 12th century verses by Hildegard von Bingen. The album was released in the US on August 25, 1998.

Jocelyn Montgomery: The experiences I've had singing Hildegard and performing it, is that it's always been a very natural and instinctive thing. I've always deeply identified with it. It's the most beautiful music I've ever come across ... ever sung.

#MusicTips #music #JocelynMontgomery #DavidLynch #JocelynWest

From the Bandcamp page:

ABADIR, known to his friends as Rami Abadir, is a music producer, sound designer, DJ and music critic born in Cairo, Egypt and based in Berlin, Germany.

When I started listening to this EP, I thought Omar Souleyman had a child with Zuli.

This is Egypt, jungle, and intense percussive movements. I dig this stuff.

#music #MusicTips #Egypt #ABADIR #OmarSouleyman #Zuli