So soft, so caring, embracing, music to be hold by.
Flako – Twelve O’Clock Shadow
My Dying Bride – The Cry of Mankind
I already noted this one before but every once in a while I return to this state of mind where The Cry of Mankind is my only and one saviour. The guitar strings resonate with my soul and the ship horns are like lighthouse beacons in the night. All of its 12 minutes are pure essence without a single note to miss.
Andrea Parker – Kiss My Arp
The other day Rdio was slow on the stream and nowadays these are the moments when I dig up some old favorite records to listen to. So this is how I revisited Parker’s debut long player on Mo Wax. I so much love everything about it and has this deep personal touch that I feel with a select few of albums, like Grooverider’s Mysteries Of Funk for example.
Kiss My Arp is also a stunningly melodic experience. I have Andrea Parker in my mind as the queen of this dry, lean, cold break electro, and probably that’s adequate for many of her compositions. But Kiss My Arp is definitely something much better filled with life and perfectly matches the late-90′s line-up of Mo Wax with its trip-hop sounds and moods.
Merzbow + Xiu Xiu – MERZXIU
Full-on noise, not really rhythmic, rather harsh but calm. Sets my piece of mind right now.
The Gaslamp Killer – The Gaslamp Killer Experience: Live in Los Angeles
The true example of why you listen to a live concert recording. On the one hand it brings the full atmosphere into your home, but also makes you weep because you weren’t there.
The Dale Cooper Quartet – Metamanoir
Broken slow dark jazz. Nicely orchestrated deepness. Bohren and Kilimanjaro comes to mind as similar, although this one has some Dead Can Dance and Portishead in the mix at certain points.
Hiatus Kaiyote – Tawk Tomahawk
Smooth jazzy, laid-back music for a Sunday afternoon chillin’. Also great album cover and band name. Their new album is out right now, but not yet available on Rdio and anyway this one is worth a mention on its own.
Martin L. Gore – MG
It’s hard to say wether this album is something or not, either concerning genre or quality. There is a hint of DM meets Twin Peaks ambient mood, tense beat with synth, soundtrack atmosphere, deep pumping, and all else. This is rather like a personal collection of stuff laying around and being collected for some time I guess.
Crisopa – A Lucid Dream Kit
Beautiful ambient soundscapes, triphopish tempo and grain, IDM electronics.
Braids – Deep In The Iris
Slow to mid tempo music, glitchy electronic, girl sings, melancholic. I rarely listen to music like this nowadays but Khoiba just reoccured to me right now.