Slipped Discs
Discs You May Have Missed
by John Noyd
Tyler Ramsey - A Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea
Tyler RamseyA Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea
Label: Echo Mountain
Frail vocals emphasize grand scales then plug into something grander as pre-dawn songs turn after-hours jamming. A Baptist of folk-rock RAMSEY’s warm and honest homilies dive inside shipwreck serenades as fluid runs of sparkling acoustic chemistry flow, splashing affectionately upbeat before gliding calmly into almost spiritual waters.
• Tyler Ramsey WebsiteRupa and the April Fishes - Extraordinary Rendition
Rupa and the April FishesExtraordinary Rendition
Label: Cumbancha Records
A collective of multi-lingual flings, teasing beats, pouty polkas and tangled tangos – Rupa’s basket of salty and sultry mingles the sad with pizzazz and elegant despair with can-can chicanery. Novelties surrounded by melancholy, hot jazz laced with sad fiddles and muted trumpets, “Extraordinary,” hops, skips and tumbles into the heart.
• Rupa and the April Fishes Website • Rupa and the April Fishes 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.
Amy Ray - Didn’t It Feel Kinder
Amy RayDidn’t It Feel Kinder
Label: Daemon Records
Beautifully agitated anthems filled with Southern pride and global frustrations snake then shout as Ray’s third solo outing reinforces her rare gift for integrating punk and rock with empathy and melody. Unafraid and hopeful, the soulful, “Kinder,” winds over damaged landscapes through scarred hearts then kicking out the jams while pleading for peace.
• Amy Ray Website • Amy Ray WikiTodd Rundgren - Arena
Todd RundgrenArena
Label: Hi Fi Recordings
Protool pomp etch race car riffs as producer-performer Rundgren’s rails against time and empires, reactivating big-hair hammerhead rock for deep themes, exposed schemes and metaphysical convictions. Unleashing an arsenal of retaliating romps and machine-tooled machismo, “Arena,” channels ballistic outrage and foot-stomping frustration into iron-clad wake-up calls, rapid-fired blasts roasted over fiery blue-eyed soul.
• Todd Rundgren Website • Todd Rundgren WikiDex Romweber Duo - Ruins of Berlin
Dex Romweber DuoRuins of Berlin
Label: Bloodshot Records
Rodeo skiffle blends into alleyway noir bleeding between surf-rock riffs and vintage rockabilly licks as long-lost woefulness surrounds DRD’s noble, ravaged aesthetics. A slew of eclectic standards and roots-rock cameos turn, “Berlin,” monumental - six strings strum and rumble, ambling over finger-picking confessions while bristling twang and tremolo gallop through frontier gallows.
• Dex Romweber Duo Website • Dex Romweber Duo WikiAnni Rossi - Rockwell
Anni RossiRockwell
Label: 4AD
Twittering lyrics flutter past brittle riddles and pickled patty-cake pizzicato. Rossi’s enchanting ellipses are modern, quaint, hermetic and open-hearted. Her oblique chamber-folk rocks as her twisted art-pop talks, poems restlessly squirming in well-scored precision. Spiraling violas, cymbal-less rhythms, melodies touched by vocal yodeling – “Rockwell,” covers strange terrain visiting scenic vistas, cozy burrows and paisley meadows.
• Anni Rossi Website • Anni Rossi WikiRadney Foster And The Confessions - Revival
Radney Foster And The ConfessionsRevival
Label: Thirty Tigers records
Sage and resolute, hard-won and road-tested; life experience informs Radney’s straight-shooting, textbook tunes. Seeking relief in hindsight enlightenment and soulful regrets, “Revival,” engages and captures, corralling its deeply-felt sympathies beneath level-headed epigrams poured over muscular melodies and rousing choruses. A well-versed honky-tonk pilgrim, Radney rallies true-blue homilies into honest, everyman sentiments.
• Radney Foster And The Confessions Website • Radney Foster And The Confessions WikiDave Rawlings Machine - A Friend of a Friend
Dave Rawlings MachineA Friend of a Friend
Label: Acony Records
Assembling a crackerjack team including long-time collaborator Gillian Welch, revivalist and raconteur Rawlings picks and fiddles contemporary Dust Bowl bluegrass. Toe-tapping happiness grazing cautionary tales, “Friend,” renders and remembers faith-based fables and gospel-flavored shotgun swan songs. Train yard bards shooting the breeze, DRM play Madison’s High Noon Saloon Dec 7th.
• Dave Rawlings Machine Website • Dave Rawlings Machine WikiRatatat - LP4
RatatatLP4
Label: XL Recordings
Studio-lubricated moods cross-pollinating Debussy inside Bo Diddley, “LP4,” tickles traditions switching from zither-inflicted flamenco to twittering harpsichords roasted over jive Vocoder bass. Sinuous minuets and mod leapfrog mosaics spawn yawning automatons and computer-triggered funk, cyber-samba sandwiches stuffed into slack-key electro-calypso, neo-classical accents and Afro-pop Krautrock, swift twists and sinfully nimble patchwork quilts tethering history and culture.
• Ratatat Website • Ratatat Facebook • Ratatat WikiRadioseed - There Has To Be More
RadioseedThere Has To Be More
Label: Quince
Serving cosmic cocktails in vibrant trip-hop gospel and shambolic ambient landscapes, Eurovillage’s Peter Wikstrom lays sun-kissed synths over dazzling Belize-teased beats. Androgynous dreamboat psychedelia sashays down air-brushed runways, turbo-lifted into paisley gravy and padded madness. Stratospheric furnaces cook delirious conspiracies, melting swells and poolside exotica. Ushering carpets of calm, “More” extends, suspends and upends convention within imagination’s all-night disco temple.
Ringo Deathstarr - Colour Trip
Ringo DeathstarrColour Trip
Label: Sonic Unyon
Bulldozer composure’s muffled muscle, “Trip,” whips blistering skate-punk bluster into decidedly indecipherable custard. Tasty bandaged tangents languishes over laudable gauze merging kaleidoscopic monsters inside warped torpor as crackling fractals blasting acid-washed passions mask bedroom whisperings under buzz-saw hooks. The Austin trio’s debut usher lusciously crunchy lullabies past demure assurance into backwards catastrophes braving hazy waves, pounding sounds and curlicue grooves.
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