I’m treating this as a good live record with a bonus studio compilation. This selection hangs together.
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Listen, mate, life has surface noise.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Welcome To The Pleasuredome (1984).
It was never going to be easy to live up to that earthshattering series of singles, but I should not be thinking “yes, yes, get on with it.”
Read MoreNeil Young & Crazy Horse: World Record (2022).
One for those who understand that Arc is the best Neil Young live album.
Read MoreRobert Görl and Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft: Nur Noch Einer (2021).
Görl pulled out a pile of old DAF tapes for inspiration, wrote new words, and released one final DAF album.
Read MoreHouse Of All: House Of All (2023).
Collecting old ex-members of the Fall into a band sounds like a good idea.
Read MoreSigue Sigue Sputnik: Flaunt It. The most mid album of 1986.
These were not very bright guys, and things kept failing to get out of hand.
Read MoreBedless Bones: Sublime Malaise; After Malaise (2019, 2020, 2023).
The vocals waft, but they waft on top of a beat and you can dance to it.
Read MoreNotes and Reflections: Lana Del Rey
There were eight whole records to listen to. Eight!
Read MoreSpray: The Big Idea will rock and change the world. Ricardo Autobahn interviewed.
“If there’s one thing Spray are excellent at, it’s our drum fills. If there’s one thing we should be remembered for, I’d like it to be the drum fills.”
Read MoreIt’s gonna play all the records in the hit parade, and they’re all Morgan Wallen.
I hadn’t expected listening to the hit parade to feed me an album review.
Read MoreThe complete Fall Peel Sessions playlist.
Is it worth your time? Of course it bloody is.
Read MoreMassenhysterie: Hausfrauengelüste (2019).
More fun than deep, but it’s pretty good and I enjoyed it.
Read MoreBraddock Station Garrison: American Radio (2019).
It made friends with me within the first three chords of “Blockbuster.”
Read MoreSchkeuditzer Kreuz: Isolated and Alone (2021).
Punk rock in early hardcore style through industrial electronics.
Read MoreJustine Ó Gadhra-Sharp: Sídhe (2022).
A nicely varied EP from a veteran of the New Zealand goth scene.
Read MoreDelerium: Signs (2023).
Signs is an extremely pleasant listen.
Read MoreImaad Wasif: So Long Mr. Fear (2022).
Eventually indie folk rockers make it clear which Beatle they modeled their approach on.
Read MoreFlower Face: The Shark in Your Water (2022).
Something to listen to while tending your greenhouse full of carnivorous and/or poisonous plants.
Read MoreB.E.F.: Music For Stowaways (1981).
A fun listen if you know who Marsh and Ware are, and it gives you a good idea of how they were thinking.
Read MoreCapsule: Metro Pulse (2022).
Yasutaka Nakata‘s much-anticipated synthwave masterpiece.
Read MoreVideo: Fall Out Boy: Love from the Other Side (2022).
Fall Out Boy have once again regenerated. I’m not going to say they’re back, because they didn’t leave.
Read MoreShelf-reading at Bandcamp: Industrial — Leæther Strip, Metal Heart, Master Boot Record, Pertubator (2022, 2023).
Yeeeeeahhhh that’s the 2nd floor of Slimelight GOOD STUFF, y’all.
Read MoreLate Night Listening: Status/Non-Status: Surely Travel (2022).
The blogging equivalent of sitting in the garage twiddling radio knobs just to see what might be out there.
Read MoreMixtape: Songs for 2022
Some of these are old. Some of them are new(ish). They are all songs I listened to, with varying levels of obsessiveness, at various times during 2022.
Read MoreRM: Indigo (2022).
Indigo is RM’s first full solo record, released as BTS starts a brief compulsory-military-service induced break.
Read MoreFather John Misty: Chloe and the Next 20th Century (2022).
Some of you may remember his aggressively caustic approach to, well, everything, but I think maybe the man has … mellowed? Perhaps?
Read MoreMaybeshewill: No Feeling is Final (2021).
Always great, they have even gained in skill, orchestration, and passion with their latest album.
Read MoreRecords: P.H.O.B.O.S. (2021), The Birthday Massacre (2022).
Is this thing on? Have a couple of records.
Read MoreFive slabs of listening from 2021.
Two are actually from this year!
Read MoreRecords: Rhys Fulber, Poppy (2021).
Old industrial musician from way back makes a new album during lockdown; android pop star turns grunge rocker.
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