Lady Lazarus: All My Love In Half Light (self-released, 2013)

October 9, 2013 at 10:57 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Lady Lazarus: All My Love In Half Light

Lady Lazarus: All My Love In Half Light

Seriously stunning album by singer-songwriter Melissa Ann Sweat, who makes sparse, haunting songs usually just featuring her voice and piano, and a roomful of echo. Opener “Lapsarian” features accordion, which is always a good way to catch my attention. The dreamy echo brings to mind artists like Grouper, but more than anything else, the frailness and vulnerability of songs like “Wonder, Inc.” reminds me of Daniel Johnston, specifically songs like “Dream Scream”, which is also piano-based and one of my favorite songs of his. Probably not a coincidence, given that her Bandcamp page features a cover of Johnston’s classic “Story Of An Artist”. “Constant Apples” adds some strings and a thicker layer of fog surrounding the piano. I guess the actual CD release features special artwork and a hand-stitched sleeve; the version we got at the radio station is just a promo with no artwork. But even without that, the music here speaks volumes.

Fluorescent Heights: Tidal Motions tape (Constellation Tatsu, 2013)

October 6, 2013 at 5:08 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Fluorescent Heights: Tidal Motions tape

Fluorescent Heights: Tidal Motions tape

More CTatsu tapebliss. “Day” starts off with lots of dolphin sonar tones, rippling through a sea of tape-dulled frequencies. “Blue Island” has an almost Kraftwerkian melody, but without beats, instead just floating peacefully, and again caked in layers of tape hiss. Everything here has such an innocent lo-fi glow to it, it all feels like you’re peering into this wonderful world of bright yet dulled and simplified colors, and when the songs end, you feel like you’re physically being cut off and pulled away from it. Even though they’re not too different than the previous tracks, the last two tracks on here seem to get more expressive, with “Reaching The Open Ocean” stretching past 7 minutes and feeling way more adrift and free.

Show #210 – 10/05/13

October 5, 2013 at 1:08 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
3:02 AM Oneohtrix Point Never ~ Zebra ~ R Plus Seven ~ Warp
3:09 AM Nobukazu Takemura ~ On A Balloon ~ Scope ~ Thrill Jockey
3:32 AM The Field ~ No. No… ~ Cupid’s Head ~ Kompakt
3:41 AM Jar Moff ~ Tziaitzomanasou ~ Commercial Mouth ~ Pan
3:53 AM Looks Realistic ~ Rainbow Reader ~ Where Does It Come From? ~ Constellation Tatsu
Hour 2
4:01 AM Cocteau Twins ~ Cherry-Coloured Funk ~ Heaven or Las Vegas ~ 4AD
4:04 AM Ensemble Economique ~ Into Nowhere Again ~ Fever Logic ~ Not Not Fun
4:10 AM Kevin Greenspon ~ Betrayed By The Angels ~ Betrayed By The Angels/Apropos Of Golden Dreams (split LP w/ Former Selves) ~ Bridgetown
4:13 AM Ron Tubman ~ Cloud Cover While Rafting The Chorna ~ split tape w/ Sugarm ~ Hausu Mountain
4:35 AM R. Stevie Moore ~ Why Can’t I Write A Hit? ~ Personal Appeal ~ Care In The Community
4:38 AM R. Stevie Moore ~ Colliding Circles ~ Glad Music ~ Personal Injury
4:42 AM R. Stevie Moore ~ Theme From Hurricane David ~ Clack! ~ The Prince’s Stable
4:46 AM R. Stevie Moore ~ Part Of The Problem ~ Clack! ~ The Prince’s Stable
4:50 AM Sugarm ~ Moonshine Mile ~ Wasted ~ Hard Disks
4:54 AM LX Sweat ~ Living In The City (No Way Back) ~ City Of Sweat ~ Not Not Fun
Hour 3
5:00 AM Mind Over Mirrors ~ Putting It Away ~ When The Rest Are Up At Four ~ Immune
5:04 AM Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group ~ Millions Of Decaliters ~ Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group ~ Sun Ark
5:08 AM Somatic Responses ~ The Illusion Of Control ~ Puny God ~ Photon Emissions
5:15 AM µ-Ziq ~ Airto ~ Somerset Avenue Tracks (1992-1995) ~ Planet Mu
5:22 AM Clams Casino ~ Crystals ~ Grand Theft Auto V
5:26 AM Cohorts ~ Another Night ~ Hipinion Remembers The 90s ~ Hipinion
5:30 AM Boards Of Canada ~ Palace Posy ~ Tomorrow’s Harvest ~ Warp
5:35 AM Slow Magic ~ Youths ~ Triangle ~ LebensStrasse Records
5:38 AM Keep Shelly In Athens ~ Flyway ~ At Home ~ Cascine
5:42 AM Jessy Lanza ~ Giddy ~ Pull My Hair Back ~ Hyperdub
5:46 AM Huerco S. ~ Fortification III ~ Colonial Patterns ~ Software
5:48 AM Seams ~ Sitcom Apartment ~ Quarters ~ Full Time Hobby
5:53 AM The Stranger ~ Spiral Of Decline ~ Watching Dead Empires In Decay ~ Modern Love
5:57 AM Isaac Levine ~ One Outcome: Looking Out Of a Car Window On The Way Home ~ Let Me Into Your Life For No Reason ~ Bandcamp

Crush Collision 10/3/13

October 4, 2013 at 1:15 pm | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Crush Collision 10/3/13
(late start, technical difficulties)
11:05 PM Huerco S. ~ Ragtime USA (Warning)
11:10 PM Huerco S. ~ Skug Kommune
11:13 PM Garnetta ~ Robot Spit
11:18 PM KDStallion ~ Soundlab Minisynth
11:22 PM Language ~ Renegade (The Energy Mix)
11:25 PM Les Level ~ House Of Need (Dirty Dub)
11:28 PM MGUN ~ Mask
11:34 PM Esteban Adams ~ Repercussion
11:39 PM MGUN ~ Extort
11:42 PM Housemeister ~ Melbourne
11:45 PM Last Japan ~ Float
11:50 PM Seams ~ Rilo
11:53 PM Clark ~ Growls Garden (Nathan Fake Remix)
11:58 PM AUX 88 ~ Groove Theory

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