Slipped Discs
Discs You May Have Missed
by John Noyd
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Will Happen Happens Today
David Byrne & Brian EnoEverything That Will Happen Happens Today
Label: Todo Mundo Records
Wide-eyed enlightenment, the blissed-out innocence of “Everything,” is calmly counter-balanced by ominous undercurrents, finicky mysteries playing among Afro-pop guitars, country and western acoustics and extraterrestrial playfulness. Eno’s studio synergy dances alongside Byrne’s Pentecostal allegories for strangely familiar worlds, sweetly creepy treats plucked from glittering, ocean forests.
• David Byrne & Brian Eno Website • David Byrne & Brian Eno WikiElizabeth And The Catapult - Taller Children
Elizabeth And The CatapultTaller Children
Label: Verve Forecast
Anchored by cozy vocalist-songwriter Elizabeth Ziman, EATC navigates breezy jazz, ska and country hybrids - gliding past a catalogue of lilting pop concoctions. Snappy, savvy craft turns the beautifully boppy, “Taller,” into smart, sharp ear-candy coated in sultry cynicism, balancing edgy and amiable admirably; its kittenish bitterness sophisticated, charming and buoyant.
• Elizabeth And The Catapult WebsiteEdward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below
Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic ZerosUp From Below
Label: Community Music/Fairfax Recordings
IMA ROBOT’s Alex Ebert’s alter-ego gathered dozens of friends to help form a perfect storm of high brow hoedowns where solemn bursts into sunny and grand-standing kinderpop whose momentum turns monumental. A massive hippie happening, “Up,” offers effervescent testaments and smarmy camaraderie bundled together in a traveling rock-minstrel circus.
• Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros WebsiteEarthrise Soundsystem - The Yoga Sessions
Earthrise SoundsystemThe Yoga Sessions
Label: Yoga Organix Records
Mystical hypnotists courting karmic charms and suggestive messages, ES’s international aesthetics provide twinkling syncopation and slippery inspiration between breathlessly mellow trance, spiced-up Western pop and swinging multilingual meditations. While cutting-edge DJ reggae hawk slinky trinkets, tabla jazz turn vixenish and, “Yoga,” uplifts and liberates; multiple personalities blended together for divinely dynamic tranquility.
• Earthrise Soundsystem WebsiteEditors - In The Light and On This Evening
EditorsIn The Light and On This Evening
Label: Fader Records
Stone-cold vocals unfold over debonair synthesizer rock; “Light,” galvanizes wickedly deliberate defiance into smoldering allegiance and stylish, mass hysteria. Thuggish Messiahs embracing urgent moon-lit palpitations, The Editor’s barbed grooves and commanding choruses courageously encourage icy retorts impassioned anthems wrenching feverish chills from charismatic menace, glowering insolence fueling twilight wrecking-balls.
• The Editors WebsiteExtra Life - Made Flesh
Extra LifeMade Flesh
Label: LOAF Recordings
Prog-rock opera staged by poet-warriors, “Flesh,” melts raw, visceral visions into fevered fanfares, provocative parables and contorted concertos. Assembling personal circuses sparked by both intense and tentative dynamics, Extra Life’s exalted and altered altar-bound pogroms swarm around ominous admonishments, dressing classical pastorals in Gregorian scorn and savoring intense interrogations between galvanized studio eruptions.
• Extra Life Website • Extra Life WikiErland and the Carnival - Nightingale
Erland and the CarnivalNightingale
Label: Yep Roc
Electronic textures scatter among magical, galloping madrigals, swinging, London-based pop and moody, psyche-spooky folk as E&TC’s intricate Wickerman mix of jingling, jittery side-trips dance to arcane but catchy cadences redressed inside modern Sleepy Hollow closets. Bristling, underhanded homage captured in ghoulish studio rapture, “Nightingale,” grooms groovy roots into macabre insinuations, ominous promises lurking in sly, denied smirks and incestuous jests.
• Erland and the Carnival Website • Erland and the Carnival Facebook • Erland and the Carnival WikiElysian Fields - Last Night On Earth
Elysian FieldsLast Night On Earth
Label: Ojet
Wickedly blissful whisperings slide between sumptuous chamber-folk symphonies , bluesy goth-rock siroccos and coy, alt-pop ballets, “Earth,” works sensual memories beneath placid passions toppling headlong down mesmerizing torch songs, potent potions quenching thirsty bursts from dream-laden maidens. Stirring purrs and banshee sweetness catapult EF’s mythological waltzes into melodic exotica, an embroidered fairy-tale cabaret pried from childhood fears and sentimental tension.
• Elysian Fields Website • Elysian Fields Facebook • Elysian Fields WikiBrian Eno and Rick Holland - Drums Between Bells
Brian Eno and Rick HollandDrums Between Bells
Label: Warp
Spinning vigorously digitized Afro-pop and mesmerizing New Age, Eno pairs mystical rhythms and primordial chorales against Holland’s calm truths and processed epiphanies. Manipulated palettes gallop as velvety ooze moves through synthetic stews, grouping moody mathematics around deprogrammed metaphysics. Integrating techno-speak from cyber-specters and vivid images from androgynous monologists, “Drums,” plummet crystal epistles past philosophical obstacles, scorching horns and jazzy patterns.
• Brian Eno and Rick Holland Website • Brian Eno and Rick Holland Facebook • Brian Eno and Rick Holland WikiElephant & Castle - Transitions
Elephant & CastleTransitions
Label: Plug Research
Cellophane arrangements leap from dream-fragmented memories to deeply sleepy doldrums as E&C’s recombinant collage of opaque retakes, ethereal appeals and random phantoms feed pre-natal fables with shape-shifting glyphs and cosmopolitan cool. Sonic shards carved from ragtag blips, cosmic blobs and gravity-defying grace, “Transitions,” roams combing kamikaze origami into amorphous contortions, a slithering vision siphoning groove-filled ambience and liquid, back-tracked quadratics.
• Elephant & Castle Website • Elephant & Castle FacebookEcho Lake - Wild Peace
Echo LakeWild Peace
Label: Slumberland Records
Poltergeist rock steeped in sleepy reverb, “Peace,” radiates cagey patience; icy, isometric psychedelics traced in fiery spirals. The London duo’s nebulous efforts yield restlessly propulsive results as singer-songstress Linda Jarvis sparkles inside Thom Hill’s spelunker’s wonderland. Purring, whirling space-age stoner sonar stirs shiny calliopes into tissue-paper tempests, stitching galactic mattresses stuffed with serrated jangle, subatomic harlots and corrosive rainbow solos.
• Echo Lake Website • Echo Lake FacebookThe Eastern Sea - Plague
The Eastern SeaPlague
Label: White Lab Black Lab
Bleeding hearts over lean, vigorous rhythms, college-authored indie-rockers TES’s post-baroque opuses breezily weave beckoning beacons; arpeggiated chords sandwiched between reverential splendor circling soaring poise drenched in soft-spoken choruses. From demure to dynamic, the Austin quartet’s urgent coercions bridge modest, methodical confidence redirecting surf-pounding countenance forged from informal retorts. Chaste, impatient, plaintive clockwork cadence, “Plague,” spreads tender blends beneath steadfast syncopation.
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