Conflict at Serenity Pools: Ladders of Misfortune (self-released, 2023)

October 15, 2023 at 11:58 am | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Conflict at Serenity Pools: Ladders of Misfortune

Conflict at Serenity Pools’ already robust self-released discography has generally dipped into psychedelic indie electronic and ambient house waters, but their newest album has the most straightforward alternative pop songs they’ve written so far. Simple, hooky indie pop with hushed vocals and some reverb effects but nothing really approaching the realm of shoegaze. “Jasmine” is a bit longer (almost 5 minutes) and has a sort of motorik rhythm, but it’s still poppy. “Saying Goodbye” is short, wistful, and folky, and a delay-heavy a cappella cover of “Nature Boy” provides the album’s most haunting moment.

Show #688 – 10/15/23

October 15, 2023 at 11:19 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

12:06 AM Slauson Malone 1 ~ No! (Geiger Dub) ~ EXCELSIOR ~ Warp Records ~ 2023
12:09 AM Patrick Elkins ~ Fever On the Inside ~ Fruits of the Spirit ~ editions JAV ~ 2006
12:12 AM L’Rain ~ Pet Rock ~ I Killed Your Dog ~ Mexican Summer ~ 2023
12:15 AM Celestaphone ~ Paintings of Panspermia ~ Paper Cut From the Obit ~ Drumhex ~ 2023
12:17 AM Grails ~ Pool of Gems ~ Anches En Maat ~ Temporary Residence Ltd. ~ 2023
12:21 AM Slauson Malone ~ Ttrabul 2 (see page 42) ~ A Quiet Farwell, 2016–2018 (Crater Speak) ~ Grand Closing ~ 2019
12:23 AM MIKE, Wiki & The Alchemist ~ Memory Loss ~ Faith Is A Rock ~ ALC ~ 2023
12:25 AM Armand Hammer ~ Supermooned (feat. DJ Haram) ~ We Buy Diabetic Test Strips ~ Fat Possum ~ 2023
12:28 AM Jlin ~ Obscure ~ Perspective ~ Planet Mu ~ 2023
12:32 AM Creation Rebel ~ Salutation Gardens ~ Hostile Environment ~ On-U Sound ~ 2023
12:36 AM Vagabon ~ Lexicon ~ Sorry I Haven’t Called ~ Nonesuch ~ 2023
12:39 AM James Blake ~ Tell Me ~ Playing Robots Into Heaven ~ Republic Records / Polydor Records ~ 2023
12:43 AM Lusine ~ Zero to Sixty (feat. Sarah Jaffe) ~ Long Light ~ Ghostly International ~ 2023
12:48 AM Voigt & Voigt ~ Nicht Mein Job ~ Total 21 ~ Kompakt ~ 2021
12:53 AM Saoirse ~ RM 1 ~ fabric presents Saoirse ~ fabric Records ~ 2023
12:58 AM Justin Walter ~ 11.27 ~ Destroyer ~ kranky ~ 2023
1:01 AM BCMC ~ The Swarm ~ Foreign Smokes ~ Drag City ~ 2023
1:07 AM Carlos Niño & Friends ~ Transcendental Bounce, Run to It (feat. Maia, Deantoni Parks & Nate Mercereau) ~ (I’m Just) Chillin’, on Fire ~ International Anthem ~ 2023
1:10 AM Quicksails ~ Sightless Sound ~ Surface ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2023
1:14 AM Tiger Village ~ Regurget VIII ~ The Celebration ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2023
1:18 AM Patrick Elkins ~ 2020 ~ 21 Hits ~ editions JAV ~ 2018
1:20 AM Conflict at Serenity Pools ~ Always on My Mind (Kevin Crooks) ~ Ladders of Misfortune ~ self-released ~ 2023
1:22 AM Wave Temples ~ Temple of the Shark Hunter ~ Panama Shift ~ Not Not Fun ~ 2023
1:24 AM Chlorinefields ~ Horsey ~ Read the Room EP ~ sweet beesh records ~ 2023
1:28 AM Off World ~ Empasse ~ 3 ~ Constellation ~ 2023
1:31 AM Dinosaur Jr. ~ The Little Baby ~ Green Mind (Expanded Edition) ~ Cherry Red Records ~ 1991
1:33 AM Boris ~ ワレルライド -Wareruraido- (Demo Version) ~ Heavy Rocks reissue ~ Third Man ~ 2002
1:35 AM The Body ~ A Cloud Broke Open ~ I Shall Die Here / Earth Triumphant ~ RVNG Intl. ~ 2014
1:39 AM TURQUOISEDEATH ~ Guessabelle ~ Se Bueno ~ Longinus Recordings ~ 2023
1:46 AM TraumaCorp SE ~ huffingonthatgaspack.wmv ~ BOOTING UP IN SAFE MODE WON’T SAVE YOU ~ Brokecore ~ 2023
1:54 AM John Coltrane ~ Sun Ship ~ Sun Ship ~ GRP ~ 1971

Patrick Elkins: Fruits of the Spirit (We’re Twins, 2006/Editions JAV, 2023)

October 14, 2023 at 2:26 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Patrick Elkins: Fruits of the Spirit

Ypsilanti weirdo folk legend Patrick Elkins released this album on We’re Twins Records in 2006, right before the label shut down. It was the label’s only professionally pressed CD rather than a CD-R, and 500 copies were pressed, but most of them just sat in a closet for years. Label founder Jason Voss has now started a new label, Editions JAV, and is returning the remaining copies to circulation. Recorded and produced by Fred Thomas, it’s closer to noisy garage-pop than folk, with lots of distorted guitars, dubby effects, melodica, drum machines, and a general electrified atmosphere. The songs are usually short and fragmentary, though “Tornado Belt” is a more dramatic string-laden ballad, and “Fruit of the Spirits” is sort of entranced drone-folk with plenty of moaning and warped effects. “Fallout” is 38 seconds of throat-shredding punk screaming, but not at punk tempo. “I’ll Be Your Celibate Monk” is one of the weirder, more unpredictable moments, and “Fever on the Inside” is a drum-heavy caveman rock pounder that sounds as unhinged as anything on 1/2 Gentlemen/Not Beasts. Finally, “Suicide Muffins” is a grand entry into the canon of upbeat songs with dark, even morbid lyrics, but it’s tossed off gleefully in about a minute.

Crush Collision 10/12/23

October 13, 2023 at 4:09 pm | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

10:00 PM Bad_Mix ~ Bye Bye São Paulo ~ Rotas Vivas EP ~ 40% Foda/Maneirissimo ~ 2022
10:04 PM NHK yx Koyxen ~ Formulated Rhythm ~ Climb Downhill 1 ~ Hypercolour ~ 2023
10:11 PM Clio ~ Eyes ~ single ~ Planet Records Classics ~ 1984
10:16 PM Will Simpson ~ Flesh ~ single ~ Native Drum ~ 2023
10:19 PM Outlander ~ Vamp (Kevin Saunderson Voice Remix) ~ Vamp remixes ~ R&S Records ~ 1997
10:24 PM Yorobi ~ Projection Palace (Reflections Mix) ~ Projection Palace ~ On My Own Terms/Time ~ 2023
10:28 PM Meat Beat Manifesto & DHS ~ Pandemic ~ Man From Mantis EP ~ Love Love Records ~ 2023
10:32 PM Octo Octa ~ Goddess Calling ~ She’s Calling EP ~ T4T LUV NRG ~ 2021
10:37 PM Skin Up ~ A Juicy Red Apple (Sweet Mix) ~ A Juicy Red Apple ~ Love Records ~ 1992
10:42 PM ANNA & Kittin ~ Forever Ravers ~ Speicher 112 ~ Kompakt Extra ~ 2019
10:47 PM Pangaea ~ Installation ~ Changing Channels ~ Hessle Audio ~ 2023
10:52 PM Schlachthofbronx ~ Ready and Bad featuring Flowdan ~ More Rave and Romance ~ Rave and Romance ~ 2023
10:54 PM Pessimist ~ Love In The Jungle ~ Atyeo EP ~ Ilian Tape ~ 2020
10:59 PM Azymuth ~ Avenida das Mangueiras (SS Translation by Theo Parrish) ~ Light as a Feather (Deluxe Edition) ~ Far Out Recordings ~ 2012
11:07 PM Oyisse ~ Pema ~ Elembo EP ~ Hakuna Kulala ~ 2021
11:10 PM Sepehr ~ Diaspora Simulacra ~ Sounds From the Iranian Ultraverse ~ Shaytoon Records ~ 2022
11:14 PM Ahmet Sisman ~ Ryk 185 ~ The Third Room Fundraiser Compilation ~ The Third Room ~ 2020
11:20 PM Todd Osborn ~ 5 (feat. Luke Vibert) ~ Unbroken Dreams of light ~ Blueberry Records ~ 2020
11:23 PM Cybotron ~ The Golden Ratio (Version) ~ Maintain The Golden Ratio ~ Tresor ~ 2023
11:28 PM Jeremy Black ~ Good Bear ~ Charade EP ~ EVOL ~ 2021
11:33 PM Oliver Ho ~ Silver ~ V-Series: Colours for the Blind ~ EPM Music ~ 2023
11:38 PM Maelstrom ~ Turbulence ~ Spasm / Turbulence ~ C-KNOW-EVIL ~ 2019
11:43 PM Black Rave Culture ~ Amtrak ~ Black Rave Culture Vol 3 ~ Black Rave Culture ~ 2023
11:46 PM Loraine James ~ Glitch the System (Glitch Bitch 2) ~ Gentle Confrontation ~ Hyperdub ~ 2023
11:49 PM Buried Secrets ~ Distant Voices ~ The World of Monnom Black II ~ Monnom Black ~ 2019
11:55 PM The Advent ~ Don’t Do It ~ Shiolas ~ Paraíso ~ 2023

Celestaphone: Paper Cut From the Obit (Drumhex, 2023)

October 8, 2023 at 6:09 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Celestaphone: Paper Cut From the Obit

Celestaphone’s music stretches past the boundaries of hip-hop, to the point where his latest basically ends up feeling like a prog-rock album with a heavy jazz-funk influence. Playful pianos, elastic grooves, and morphing, thought bubble-like keyboard blips detail the vivid sound beds for terminally online word salad. The tracks often flow into each other, creating surprising beat switches and genre dovetails, like the BBQ/pool party-ready funk near-instrumental “Day”, while some of the lyrics (including a Mac Dre reference early on) and Celestaphone’s flows clearly mark out his lineage in the pantheon of West Coast hip-hop. Still, the music is gleeful jazz-prog and even post-punk rather than G-funk. The knotty synth-funk instrumental “Nay” dissolves into the woozy scientific terror-dream “Paintings of Panspermia”, and tucked away near the end of the album is one of the hardest Moor Mother verses I’ve ever heard (on a track with Armand Hammer, no less), and an entire song where Paul Barman bursts with joy about how much he loves babies. A really surprising and fun LP where sarcasm bleeds into celebration as we’re taken on a ride down a twisting, non-obvious path.

Show #687 – 10/8/23

October 8, 2023 at 4:09 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

12:00 AM Slauson Malone 1 ~ I Hear a New World ~ EXCELSIOR ~ Warp Records ~ 2023
12:03 AM Creation Rebel ~ That’s More Like It ~ Hostile Environment ~ On-U Sound ~ 2023
12:07 AM Prince Far I ~ Different Dagger ~ Under Heavy Manners ~ 17 North Parade ~ 1977
12:10 AM Jonathan Snipes ~ Seaworthy ~ Zum Audio, Vol. 5 ~ Zum ~ 2023
12:13 AM Martes martes ~ Martes at Night ~ Dragon Cat Fox Cat Scn (Expanded Edition) ~ Editions JAV ~ 2007
12:17 AM Conflict at Serenity Pools ~ Stained Glass Curtain ~ Ladders of Misfortune ~ no label ~ 2023
12:20 AM Chapterhouse ~ More Than I Can Take (Demo) ~ Chronology ~ Cherry Red ~ mid-’90s
12:25 AM Mary Lattimore ~ Blender in a Blender (feat. Roy Montgomery) ~ Goodbye, Hotel Arkada ~ Ghostly International ~ 2023
12:31 AM Colleen ~ Night Looping – Movement III ~ Le Jour Et La Nuit Du Réel ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2023
12:36 AM High Pulp ~ Dirtmouth (feat. James Brandon Lewis) ~ Days in the Desert ~ Anti/Epitaph ~ 2023
12:41 AM Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek ~ Suspense In the Grip of Suspense ~ New Future City Radio ~ International Anthem ~ 2023
12:45 AM Cardiacs ~ Too Many Irons in the Fire ~ A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window reissue: The Workhouse Sessions ~ The Alphabet Business Concern ~ 1988
12:48 AM Pangaea ~ If ~ Changing Channels ~ Hessle Audio ~ 2023
12:53 AM redHat ~ Wondering ~ Rebirth EP ~ Sonic Terror Digital ~ 2018 ~ playing at UFO Factory this Wednesday night!
1:00 AM Vladislav Delay ~ Ele ~ Entain ~ Keplar ~ 2000
1:15 AM King Crimson ~ Trees ~ The Complete 1969 Recordings ~ Discipline Global Mobile ~ 1969
1:25 AM Brendon Moeller ~ Through ~ Pathways ~ Constellation Tatsu ~ 2023
1:31 AM Monokle ~ Glassy Eyed ~ Ultraflowers EP ~ Constellation Tatsu ~ 2023
1:35 AM Anadol ~ Orman Yangını ~ Hatıralar ~ Pingipung ~ 2017
1:38 AM MINDTRX ~ Psycho ~ Move Reality EP ~ Ut0p!a ~ 2023
1:42 AM Kid Lib ~ Falling ~ Myor Massiv 03 EP ~ Myor ~ 2019
1:48 AM SlowPitchSound ~ Rising Tide ~ The Reality Is Depth EP ~ self-released ~ 2023
1:50 AM Mark McGuire ~ Aquaduct ~ A Pocket Full of Rain ~ Husky Pants Records ~ 2009
1:55 AM Bill Orcutt ~ In a Column of Air ~ Jump On It ~ Palilalia ~ 2023

Martes martes: Dragon cat fox cat scn (Expanded Edition) (Editions JAV, 2023)

October 1, 2023 at 3:28 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Martes martes: Dragon cat fox cat scn (Expanded Edition)

Martes martes was a solo project of former WCBN DJ Jeffrey Nolan Carey during the 2000s. This CD contains an album he released on Jib Kidder’s short-lived Capt Bass label, plus an EP on another long-gone imprint, Burning Tongue Records. Carey plays a lot of delicate acoustic instruments, and even toys, including harp, dulcimer, recorders, French horn, and more, as well as samples and Mario Paint. It’s very delicate and homemade, not unlike Frank Pahl’s music and films, or the fragmentary folk of Maher Shalal Hash Baz. There’s also a significant new age influence here, but the earlier private press weirdo kind, not the commercialized health food store and spa kind. It’s all playful and curious, and “miniature” enough to appeal to fans of strange experimental indie stuff, yet it feels too well-crafted to tag it as “lo-fi”. Drum machines, clapping, piping woodwinds, and sophisticated guitar plucking collide on the gleeful march “Pine Marten Traveling Song”. Other songs make nice music for playing in the forest during autumn. “A Ydych Chi Wedi Gweld Bele’r Coed Yn Eryn” takes things in a different direction, with mbira melodies and eerie whirring. “Martens at Night” is a lovely string-heavy piece, and the string quartet version of “Autumn Walking Song” (track 14) is also in this vein. “Foggy Morning” starts bleary and then wakes up with a barrage of ringing alarm samples. Curiously, the CD ends with hissing and beating sounds of a lung machine.

Show #686 – 10/1/23

October 1, 2023 at 2:27 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

12:00 AM Setting ~ A Sun Harp ~ Shone a Rainbow Light On ~ Paradise of Bachelors ~ 2023
12:10 AM Martes martes ~ Tanuki Song I ~ Dragon Cat Fox Cat Scn (Expanded Edition) ~ Editions JAV ~ 2004
12:13 AM Oneohtrix Point Never ~ Plastic Antique ~ Again ~ Warp Records ~ 2023
12:18 AM Jlin ~ Duality ~ Perspective EP ~ Planet Mu ~ 2023
12:24 AM Conflict at Serenity Pools ~ Jasmine ~ Ladders of Misfortune ~ no label ~ 2023
12:28 AM Sparks ~ Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is ~ The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte ~ Universal-Island Records Ltd. ~ 2023
12:32 AM The Breeders ~ Go Man Go ~ Last Splash (30th Anniversary Edition) ~ 4AD ~ 1993
12:34 AM yeule ~ x w x ~ softscars ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2023
12:36 AM The Armed ~ Clone ~ Perfect Saviors ~ Sargent House ~ 2023
12:39 AM DEBBY FRIDAY ~ let u in ~ single ~ Sub Pop ~ 2023
12:43 AM Whale featuring Tricky ~ Tryzasnice ~ We Care ~ Hut ~ 1995
12:48 AM Leslie Keffer ~ Mineral Cloak ~ Veiled Matter ~ NO PART OF IT ~ 2023
12:53 AM Nihiloxica ~ Source of Denial ~ Source of Denial ~ Crammed Discs ~ 2023
12:57 AM Witch ~ Stop the Rot ~ Zango ~ Desert Daze Sound ~ 2023
1:02 AM Jovia Armstrong ~ Birth ~ Inception ~ Black Earth Music ~ 2023
1:07 AM Yussef Dayes ~ Raisins Under the Sun (feat. Shabaka Hutchings) ~ Black Classical Music ~ Nonesuch ~ 2023
1:12 AM Laksa ~ Madu’s Break ~ Delicates EP ~ Ilian Tape ~ 2018
1:18 AM Salami Rose Joe Louis ~ Cathartic Interlude ~ Akousmatikous ~ Brainfeeder ~ 2023
1:20 AM Sparklehorse ~ I Fucked It Up ~ Bird Machine ~ Anti/Epitaph ~ 2023
1:21 AM Genesis Owusu ~ Balthazar ~ STRUGGLER ~ Ourness ~ 2023
1:24 AM Khruangbin ~ So We Won’t Forget ~ Live at Radio City Music Hall (split LP w/ Nubya Garcia) ~ Dead Oceans ~ 2023
1:29 AM Emeralds ~ Genetic (Rehearsal) ~ Does It Look Like I’m Here? (Expanded Remaster) ~ Ghostly International ~ 2010

Setting: Shone a Rainbow Light (Paradise of Bachelors, 2023)

September 30, 2023 at 3:06 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Setting: Shone a Rainbow Light

Jaime Fennelly’s Mind Over Mirrors project increasingly went in a cosmic Americana direction with its last few albums, and here the harmonium/synth master teams up with Black Twig Pickers’ Nathan Bowles and drummer Joe Westerlund (Megafaun, Califone, many other projects). Setting’s debut album starts with “We Center”, a magnificently zoned-out piece more on the Krautrock/raga end of things. Then “Zoetropics” mixes harmonium drifting with choppy rhythms and banjo, making me think of Penguin Cafe but also going somewhere they wouldn’t dare. “A Sun Harp” is more of an Alice Coltrane-esque spiritual jazz excursion, with hypnotic zither and piano working splendidly against rapidly tumbling drums and washes of synths and strings. “Fog Glossaries” is a much more melancholy, rolling procession with tolling bells and eventually drums that sound like a train rumbling by. All four tracks are very different, and they’re all pretty fantastic, so it seems like this project could go in any number of directions from here.

Show #685 – 9/24/23

September 24, 2023 at 2:23 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

12:00 AM Davey Harms ~ The Illegal Horns ~ Zum Audio, Vol. 5 ~ Zum ~ 2023
12:03 AM Mukqs ~ Bare Knuckle Maths ~ Stonewasher ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2023
12:07 AM MrDougDoug ~ SaD DaDi ~ SOS Forks AI REM II ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2023
12:11 AM In-D ~ Virgin In-D Sky’s ~ Curses Presents Next Wave Acid Punx ~ Eskimo ~ 1988
12:15 AM Gnoomes ~ One Step ~ Tschak! ~ Rocket Recordings ~ 2016
12:19 AM Gnoomes ~ Feel Now ~ Mu! ~ Rocket Recordings ~ 2019
12:22 AM Martes martes ~ Pine Marten Traveling Song ~ Dragon Cat Fox Cat Scn (Expanded Edition) ~ Editions JAV ~ 2007
12:27 AM Ital Tek ~ One Eye Open ~ Timeproof ~ Planet Mu ~ 2023
12:31 AM Off World ~ Orientation ~ 3 ~ Constellation ~ 2023
12:35 AM Quicksails ~ Lost Breath ~ Surface ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2023
12:38 AM Tiger Village ~ Cat Chew ~ The Celebration ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2023
12:44 AM Loraine James ~ Gentle Confrontation ~ Gentle Confrontation ~ Hyperdub ~ 2023
12:50 AM Lawrence English & Lea Bertucci ~ Geology of Fire ~ Chthonic ~ American Dreams Records ~ 2023
12:54 AM Jayda G ~ Lonely Back In O ~ Guy ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2023
12:59 AM D-Breeze ~ Crazy for Love (Autechre Remix) ~ Fabric Presents Helena Hauff ~ Fabric ~ 1999
1:04 AM Gerald Cleaver ~ MDD ~ 22 / 23 ~ Positive Elevation / 577 Records ~ 2023
1:12 AM Detroit’s Filthiest ~ Dripping in Soul ~ single ~ Motor City Electro Company ~ 2023
1:18 AM Dead Man’s Chest ~ Drum Shanty ~ Diamond Life 07 ~ Myor ~ 2019
1:23 AM Lusine ~ Dreaming (feat. Asy Saavedra) ~ Long Light ~ Ghostly International ~ 2023
1:28 AM Irreversible Entanglements ~ Protect Your Light ~ Protect Your Light ~ Impulse! ~ 2023
1:32 AM Linda May Han Oh ~ Phosphorus ~ The Glass Hours ~ Biophilia Records ~ 2023
1:39 AM Fievel Is Glauque ~ I’m Scanning Things I Can’t See ~ single ~ Fat Possum ~ 2023
1:41 AM SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE ~ human debenture ~ i’m so lucky ~ Saddle Creek ~ 2023
1:45 AM Carlos Niño & Friends ~ Maha Rose North 102021, Breathwork (feat. Laraaji & Photay) ~ (I’m Just) Chillin’, on Fire ~ International Anthem ~ 2023
1:51 AM Daryl Groetsch ~ Lily Pad Daydreaming ~ Gardens in Glass ~ Daryl Groetsch ~ 2023

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