Another good ol’ punk rock record, nothing more and nothing less.
Beach Slang – A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings
Xander Harris – California Chrome
Eclectic electronic: retro futurist synthwave, ambient, downtempo, electro, jumpig back and forth. That said it is not a very coherent album, but tracks are fine.
Coves – Peel
This one has been sitting in my “play later” list for quite some time. I like it a lot, listened to it several times, but couldn’t put it in a specific drawer in my mind. Now I read a review of the album where it was said to be similar to Garbage and that is a fair point. Although this is how Garbage could sound in 2016, so that’s good, too. I so rarely listen to music nowadays, which could be labelled as classic and simple alternative rock. This is one of those.
VA – Emerging Organisms vol. 5
This is the best compilation album I have heard in quite a while. Didn’t know any of the artists and now have albums queued from all of them. This is a gold mine.
Oneohtrix Point Never did a video for the track Animals starring Val Kilmer. It is so minimal that you are not sure if this is it but still you cannot not watch. Anyhow, I like it.
Pitchfork writes that “Kilmer is falling asleep on the side of a bed”. What did these guys watch? He is clearly listening to the track. That is the best part of the whole thing.
Westworld s01e01
Dark City meets Ex Machina meets something from the wild west. This pilot was great, I’ll be curious to see where we are going from here, or what greater plot pans out.
Also, Black Hole Sun played by the saloon’s automatic piano, and the Pain It Black under the shooting scene… Pretty much wow music choices and covers.
Footnote: HBO goes mad this year with doing The Night Of first, and then this.
Frank Turner – Campfire Punkrock
It is one track actually: Thatcher Fucked the Kids.
Btw, I just realized that Thatcher reads “that Cher”. Yea, she fucked the kids, too.
Oh my gosh. How insane is pledging $780 on Kickstarter. But!
At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
Listening to many post-hardcore stuff nowadays, once again. Brings back the times when I had more of that rage and tried to express more of it. Time to do that again. Externalize.
Cursive – The Ugly Organ
Good rock music and the strings, sometimes with a hint of theatrical edge to it. Like the young little brother of Dog Fashion Disco. Old music, new find.