What's Spinning Tonight?

What is it that you are spinning tonight?

 

I haven't had the time to listen to this one yet, but I'm excited to try it out. What do you think about the new album?

Hi,

I’ve heard it last weekend at least 10 times in á row’ - It’s simply great☝ !!

/ Jk

 

 

Wonderful Stravinsky

 

Julian Cope – Peggy Suicide - original UK pressing

 

Julian Cope – Peggy Suicide - original UK pressing

I really like "Beautiful Love." The stuff with the Teardrop Explodes is really terrific, too. Also, his Fire Escape in the Sky: The Godlike Genius of Scott Walker is a great collection of Walker's stuff.

 

Was enjoying this various 12” compilation on my commute to work today.
If you want to see the tracks on the cassette, click here.

 

In honor of World Piano Day March 29 the 88th day of the year I've spun some old personal favorites:

Nicky Hopkins- Quicksilver's Edward the Mad Shirt Grinder
Cory Lerios- Pablo Cruise's Ocean Breeze
Keith Emerson- ELP's Take a Pebble
Bill Evans- Waltz for Debbie
Oscar Peterson- I've Got a Crush on You (Exclusively for My Friends vol. 1)
Duke Ellington- Cotton Tail (The Duke's Big Four)
Actually I couldn't take the Duke off still listening to the rest of it

 

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo's Factory - 2002 Analog productions reissue - mastered by Kevin Gray & Steve Hoffman -back when analog reissues were priced reasonably - sounds amazing

 

Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia - superb alt rock band and album

 

Rüfüs Du Sol – Surrender - 2LP on stupid red coloured vinyl. Chris Bellman generally awlays does great mastering for vinyl and this sounds v good, but it's cut so low you really have to pump the gain up to get dynamics and punch. There is not one side that goes for more than 15 minutes, so he had the opportunity to cut this a lot hotter and it rather than sounding v good it would have sounded INCREDIBLE.

 

“The producer Tony [Buchen] has described it stylistically as 'cosmic Americana', and I’m really happy with that description because it marries up to really big musical loves of mine which are that Americana/acoustic/folk tradition and country music, but also I love electronic music and I’m a daughter of the ‘80s so I do love synthesisers and krautrock and a lot of that stuff as well, so I think genre-wise maybe that is what it is.”

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I might be @XV-1 just a little for not posting this local(ized)self release. That beyond all belief instantly sold out on CD leaving plentiful amounts of LP* available.

Teasing aside, this one is pretty widely available on digital to anyone internationally. So I decided to post it here knowing posting it (the LP) internationally will be onerous to many.





*Caveat emptor. Variations within the production/cutting process forwarded in his most recent post did strike me as potential foreshadowing not strong enough to avoid recruiting a well placed test subject.

 

Thank you rando - Great album☝!

/ Jk

 

rando,

Did not express myself clearly enough…
It was not a great album… - It was an OUTSTANDING album!!!

Thank you again rando!!

All the best

/ Jk

 

I haven't had the time to listen to this one yet, but I'm excited to try it out. What do you think about the new album?

Sorry for the late reply. A lot has been going on this week for me, including a new job.

This new album has a lot of the "vibe" of their older material from the mid to late 80's. Even a hint of "Violator" in there as well.

As Johan K said, it's a great album. Considering that it sort of has some meaning behind Andrew Fletcher's passing, as well as what my family and I are going through right now with our father (in hospice), listening to this album has been a bit emotional for me. It hit me really hard with the last track on the album, "Speak To Me". I literally started crying...

I hope you've found the time to give it a listen.

 

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I might be @XV-1 just a little for not posting this local(ized)self release. That beyond all belief instantly sold out on CD leaving plentiful amounts of LP* available.

Teasing aside, this one is pretty widely available on digital to anyone internationally. So I decided to post it here knowing posting it (the LP) internationally will be onerous to many.

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*Caveat emptor. Variations within the production/cutting process forwarded in his most recent post did strike me as potential foreshadowing not strong enough to avoid recruiting a well placed test subject.

My vinyl copy is still in transit - should be here late next week I hope. Yea, Amanda was surprised the 25 copies of the CD sold out so quickly. There are a few copies of the vinyl left from the pressing run of 1000 . be quick to order from Bandcamp.

BTW, the album sounds like later day Lisa Marie Presley. Speaking of Amanda's old band, the Go-Betweens - new album from Robert Forster is excellent. check it out.

 

Depeche Mode – Memento Mori - arrived a few days ago. sonically it sounds good but a little overproduced, but certainly better than spotify in the car.
Long time Depeche fan from the very beginning and for me this really is Depeche by numbers. Nothing new, no longer do they have inventive keyboard sounds and frankly the album sounds like many tracks from previous post SOFAD albums. I still like it thou - it's just new Depeche releases are no longer mind blowing to discover and to listen to.

 

@rando If you want to enjoy some more Aussie chick music, check this out.

Jen Cloher – I Am The River, The River Is Me - wonderful new album from the South Australia Jen.

 

My vinyl copy is still in transit - should be here late next week I hope. Yea, Amanda was surprised the 25 copies of the CD sold out so quickly. There are a few copies of the vinyl left from the pressing run of 1000 . be quick to order from Bandcamp.

Best getting two quiet sides after I tripled your rotation through albums that get posted here.

25:1000 is rather hilarious.

@rando If you want to enjoy some more Aussie chick music, check this out.

Jen Cloher – I Am The River, The River Is Me - wonderful new album from the South Australia Jen.

Is she local to you too?

Just put this on for a minute. Same with the Forster album. Will listen through them later tonight when things settle down, thanks.

 

Best getting two quiet sides after I tripled your rotation through albums that get posted here.

25:1000 is rather hilarious.



Is she local to you too?

Just put this on for a minute. Same with the Forster album. Will listen through them later tonight when things settle down, thanks.

Yea, I have seen her live at a local pub. Tall chick with a great stage presence live and a wicked sense of humour.

 

MC Solaar – Prose Combat - anytime a French person speaks or sings, it's just sexier than any other language - even rap sounds luscious. original 1994 UK pressing - this was reissued a couple of years ago.