Some of the new albums slated for early 2009.
5th Jan
FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON – Environments 2 (Jumpin’ & Pumpin’)
FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON – From the Archives Volume 5 (Jumpin’ & Pumpin’)
12th Jan
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Merriweather Post Pavillion (Domino)
BRETHREN OF THE FREE SPIRIT – The Wolf Shall Also Dwell With the Lamb (Darla)
KTL – IV (Mego)
MERZBOW – Hodosan (Vivo)
THE LOW [...]
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The cover makes New Smyrna appear like one of those Ibiza ambient chill out compilations. Covers can be misleading. Phillip Wilkerson’s album has its share of ambient moments, but this is much more of a minimal affair. Most tracks are based around microtonal clicks and pops, fleshed out with loops that range from dream house [...]
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Here’s the latest batch of Music Musings and Miscellany’s unapologetically subjective selection of the twentieth century’s best 1000 singles. We’re on to the Cs now.
JONI MITCHELL – California / A Case of You (Reprise 1049 1971)
Blue isn’t Joni Mitchell’s most musically adventurous album, but it is her most emotionally true and pure. There [...]
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Sugar Mountain is the third in the Neil Young Archives Performance Series, confusingly numbered 00 (after previous volumes 02 and 03). It was recorded over two nights at Canterbury House in Ann Arbor, Michigan in November 1968, just a couple of months before Young’s self-titled debut album hit the shelves. Like the previously issued Massey [...]
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Details here.
It’s never good to see companies going belly up and people losing their jobs, but I can’t say that I’m surprised. The problems stemmed from Zavvi’s distributor being part of the failed Woolworths group, but I think the days of the soul-less music and DVD supermarket were pretty much numbered anyway. I wouldn’t give [...]
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4AD Records have made a free twelve track sampler available for download. It has a selection of tracks from the label’s 2008 releases and can be found here.
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Here’s the latest batch of Music Musings and Miscellany’s unapologetically subjective selection of the twentieth century’s best 1000 singles. Whizzing through to the end of the Bs.
MADONNA – Borderline / Think of Me (Sire 29354 1984)
Eighties dance-pop at its best.
UNDERWORLD – Born Slippy / Born Slippy .NUXX (Junior Boys Own 1995)
Pounding techno-trance with stream [...]
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Clinical Archives is one of the most prolific netlabels, with a roster of releases that increases almost by the week – and they are all free downloads. These are three of the most recent:
Antanas Jasenka’s Art Action is derived from a laptop set he did at a festival in Austria back in May 2003, and [...]
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