Slipped Discs
Discs You May Have Missed
by John Noyd
Magnetic Fields - Distortion
Magnetic FieldsDistortion
Label: Nonesuch
Fuzzed-out and corrosive, MF’s alt-pop honky tonk bangs up against a rusted wall of sound. Misogyny, zombies and mistletoe figure in the swamp of serrated guitars and overloaded amps as lonely robots and goth girl groups play droll love songs and tales of romantic woe. Encased in metallic caverns, Distortion seduces with moody splendor.
• The Magnetic Fields Website • The Magnetic Fields WikiEric Matthews - The Imagination Stage
Eric MatthewsThe Imagination Stage
Label: Empyrean
A bold, smoky-voiced balladeer sauntering through lonely harmonies, grand, sweeping themes and sentimental melodies - Matthews rolls out the big guns with casual gallantry crafting smoldering symphonic spaces and subtly blustery jazz for evocative philosophy at the Heartbreak Hotel. Enveloping the listener slowly, Matthews’ foggy phosphorescence attracts vagabond songs sprinkled among romantic temptations.
• Eric Matthews WebsiteMy Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark’s Teeth
My Brightest DiamondA Thousand Shark’s Teeth
Label: Asthmatic Kitty
Wrapped in lush, celestial robes, MBD’s latest shattering palate of sweet and sour, worldly and unearthly erupts with volcanic lust and soars into nesting banshees. Sumptuous eloquence enshrined in fluid cat-like stealth, “Teeth,” cuts through the clouds with swift, invigorating rhythms and bold, seething leaps writhing in splendid seizures.
• My Brightest Diamond Website • My Brightest Diamond WikiMiles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Miles Benjamin Anthony RobinsonMiles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Label: Say Hey Records
Woozy waves of quiet acoustics and heady electric jams course through rambling revelation and casual confessions. Miles’ wildly inventive shaman shuffles and saintly paintings brew shadowy feelings, wide-eyed daydreams and heart-controlled gusto. Rising half-remembered, MBAR sounds weary but shipshape, steering between hopeful passion, lonely holiness and twister fist fights.
Miniature Tigers - Tell It to the Volcano
Miniature TigersTell It to the Volcano
Label: Modern Art
Sour grapes make sweet poison, indeed as “Volcano,” blithely applies evil touches neatly tucked behind choir-boy buoyancy. Scathing favors happily twisting tongues and filling lungs. conspiring and harmonizing, Tigers’ brightly burning tales skip, quip and stammer, cheerfully smiling through subversively sunny songs where love turns obsessive and hope leaves town.
• Miniature Tigers Website • Miniature Tigers WikiMatt And Kim - Grand
Matt And KimGrand
Label: Fader
Parades of pneumatic analogue thump and pummel, emphatic word slams punctuate robust shout-outs, chipper pep rallies rejoice, reinforcing the duo’s sing-along salvos in pressure-cooker choruses, thundering downbeats and consistently insistent grooves whose in your face tastes prove innocent, intelligent and irresistible. Catapulting convictions cheer, steering old school synthesizers into infectious messages and relentless entertainments.
• Matt And Kim Website • Matt And Kim WikiMi Ami - Watersports
Mi AmiWatersports
Label: Touch and Go Records
Melting high-voltage punk and urban jungle funk into electrifying, hypno-rave aerobics, Mi Ami goes new-wave native, bending rules with explosive results. Feline yelps bite wobbly bass, cat-scratch guitar stab at throbbing, bobbing drums: post-nuclear trance-rock waking up hot and sweaty. “Watersports,” attacks passionately, floating on tightropes, half adenoidal epilepsy and half neo-disco voodoo.
Micachu & The Shapes - Jewellery
Micachu & The ShapesJewellery
Label: Rough Trade Records
A cauldron of mashed rapture, ripped mixtures and proto-punk busking bursts in brazen bombshells of cartoon brilliance, Micachu’s thrift-shop chops squawk and rock in impish waves of innovative grime. Brandishing outlandish vision, fashioning attractive contraptions, producing funhouse party rondos, “Jewellery,” clanks, clatters and contorts, delivering sly, kinetic inventions that surprise and delight.
• Micachu & The Shapes WebsiteIda Maria - Fortress Round My Heart
Ida MariaFortress Round My Heart
Label: Upper 11 Records
Connecting directly with electric aplomb, this lusty Norwegian spitfire scrambles past pretense to wrap sorrow inside a whirlwind of impatience, anger anchored by short, sharp beats and straight-faced sizzle. Unleashing a flood of splintering skiffle wedged between catchy sledgehammer pop and love-torn ragdoll rock, the explosive, “Fortress,” tears down all walls.
• Ida Maria Website • Ida Maria WikiMark Mallman - Invincible Criminal
Mark MallmanInvincible Criminal
Label: Badman Records
Mixing pithy patter and smug double entendres into glam, rock arena fantasies, Mallman’s sleek, cheeky power-pop pandemonium razzes and dazzles through mock melodramas, splattered cabaret and bite-size epics. Subtlety and cynicism create edgy yet earnest innuendos as, Criminal,” unfurl snide asides inside catchy tunes, crafting masterful jabberwocky, designer taunts and stream-lined three shell games.
• Mark Mallman Website • Mark Mallman WikiJosh Mease - Wilderness
Josh MeaseWilderness
Label: Frog Stand Records
Electrified daydreams wrapped around soft-spoken thoughts, “Wilderness,” cozies up and captivates - surreal serenades in snappy packaging, simmering bedroom symphonies floating atop boppy Bacharach ballads. Vaguely hazy porch swing parables, gently whispered waltzes and placid rhapsodies inhabit Mease’s multi-tracking mind, steeped in sleepy choirs and graced with tasteful tangents, basking accents and intelligent design.
• Josh Mease WebsiteCarolyn Mark & N.Q. Arbuckle - Let’s Just Stay Here
Carolyn Mark & N.Q. ArbuckleLet’s Just Stay Here
Label: Mint Records
Frank, beautiful heartache captured inside barnstorming story-songs, “Stay,” chases modern tales down darkened alleyways as Mark shoots sparks fronting Canada’s premiere bronco-busting frontier band. Reflective and revved-up, the group’s boot-strap rebuttals are grimy reminders taken for a spin then drinks, good times flowing over toasty twang and rodeo riffs.
• Carolyn Mark & N.Q. Arbuckle Website • Carolyn Mark & N.Q. Arbuckle WikiView More
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