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Simian Mobile Disco - Whorl (x3) YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend (x2)
Pretty much all I've listened to today.
The new SMD album is definitely not what I expected, it surprised me in a very pleasant way. Beautiful soundscapes that are perfect for me to work to. Interesting when I pay attention to it, but my brain can easily turn it to background music when needed.
The new YOB is ok, but not great for me so far. Don't care for the first song too much, but the second one always pulls me back in. So far Pallbearer is winning the Summer of Doom for me.
For September AOTM as of now:
1) GOAT 2) Simian Mobile Disco 3) YOB
But there's still quite a few things I need to check out.
I honestly have not listened to much SMD since college when I thought that Hustler video was the greatest thing ever. Whorl is totally different from that stuff and a very pleasant surprise.
Nothing was ordinary about this alt-J show — not that anything is ever ordinary from the artful British band. But on Tuesday night at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City, alt-J would play its first concert in eight months: its first without departed friend and bassist/guitarist Gwil Sainsbury, its first with touring member Cameron Knight, and its first playing songs from the upcoming album This Is All Yours.
The new songs have all the power of the old ones, flush with textured sounds from Gus Unger-Hamilton's electronic horns, steel drums, voices, and dense washes of grit. Lyrically, the new songs are equal parts creepy, lovely, puzzling, and expressive. In that expression is precision; you can see it in drummer Thom Green (watch his left hand) and you can hear it in the guitar dynamics and vocal phrasing of Joe Newman. This isn't a band of pyrotechnic wizards, but alt-J's technical prowess helped make this performance a deep pleasure on an extraordinary evening. Set List
"Hunger Of The Pine" "Fitzpleasure" "Something Good" "Left Hand Free" "Dissolve Me" "Matilda" "Bloodflood Pt. 2" "Tessellate" "Every Other Freckle" "Taro" "Warm Foothills" "The Gospel Of John Hurt" "Nara/Leaving Nara" "Breezeblocks"
5.5/four tet, daphni b2b floating points, avalon emerson 5.12/neil young 5.19/mannequin pussy 5.21/serpentwithfeet 5.25/hozier 6.12-16/bonnaroo 6.28/goose 6.29/goose 9.17/the national + the war on drugs 9.23/sigur ros 9.27-29/making time 10.17/air