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 WikiTyler 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 WebsiteSuper Furry Animals - Hey Venus!
Super Furry AnimalsHey Venus!
Label: Rough Trade Records
Smug and subversive, cool and calculating the courageously contagious confections from Wales’ most excellent power-pop pranksters clears a well-constructed road between dazzling RASPBERRIES-era posture and cheeky 10 cc seizures. Sequined synths ply rhinestone riffs as the clownish FURRIES shine, combining post-modern playfulness with devilishly ironic nostalgia. SFA play Chicago’s Metro Feb 16.
• Super Furry Animals Website • Super Furry Animals WikiJoe Jackson - Rain
Joe JacksonRain
Label: Rykodisc
Despite a stripped-down sound of voice, piano, drums and bass, JACKSON nevertheless concocts an immaculate universe of sour sages and bittersweet sentimentalists. Sorrowful soliloquies brush against steely social indictments as Rain broods smoothly over classy jazz piano, fires up pounding Memphis soul and turns new wave sophisticated through cutting lyrics, clever irony and consummate razzle-dazzle. Joe is slated to play Milwaukee’s Pabst on April 21st.
• Joe Jackson Website • Joe Jackson WikiPhoton Band - Back Down to Earth
Photon BandBack Down to Earth
Label: Empyrean
Orbiting over semi-savage psychedelia, PB’s lumbering Lotharios freefall into the soulful sludge of zero-gravity blues while Earth moves from the vast to the vital. Re-entering the atmosphere like drunk angels on fire, Earth spins off stompin’ rockers, sixties R & B and cosmic shuffles with laser-guided clairvoyance, causal wisdom and heel-kicking gumption.
• The Photon Band WebsiteKate Nash - Made of Bricks
Kate NashMade of Bricks
Label: Geffen Records
Pulling no punches in her melodic bobbing and street savvy weaving, this cocky British bird is a sweet beat poet camouflaged as a flippant pop princess. The bold and brassy NASH grabs bohemian panache, adding jaunty piano and folky trip-hop to make Made a frank yet bubbly cabaret bursting with thrills and sport.
• Kate Nash Website • Kate Nash WikiSons And Daughters - This Gift
Sons And DaughtersThis Gift
Label: Domino Records
Inspiring the inner punk to take to the dance floor and let loose, Gift boldly goes beyond new wave frontiers. Trashing Clash clichés with post-modern panache, SAD’s razor-sharp shimmies and Cossack rock thunder throbs like slick war path hoopla as images of Deborah Harry and Chrissie Hynde conjure terrific riff rock sock hops.
• Sons And Daughters Website • Sons And Daughters 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 WebsiteKula Shaker - Strange Folk
Kula ShakerStrange Folk
Label: Cooking Vinyl
Slithering hippie metaphysics turns into slightly dour flower power as the newly-worldly KS assess the new century in rump-shaking sass, nature love songs and symphonic psychedelia. Ushering in another round of bell-bottom ashram rock, England’s astralnauts serenade sweet lotus-eaters riding electric funk, battle urban arrogance with over-sized hooks and concoct folk-epics condemning corporate Maya.
• Kula Shaker Website • Kula Shaker WikiFlowers Forever - Flowers Forever
Flowers ForeverFlowers Forever
Label: Team Love
Partying with a vengeance, Tilly and the Wall’s Derek Pressnall toss urgent and eclectic thought bombs for a monster block of wild-eyed vaudeville, sonic torpedoes and toreador flourishes. Shouting and soldiering righteously before bouncing along in unconditional whimsy, woozy brass circle sinister syncopation as gypsy sparks collide against prankster jams and shredded regalia.
• Flowers Forever WebsiteDawn Landes - Fireproof
Dawn LandesFireproof
Label: Cooking Vinyl
New York based Kentucky native Landes tweaks conventions on her combustible Fireproof. Throwing odd instruments, pop afterthoughts and the occasional alt-rock muscle into her skewed waif folk, Dawn draws from both country and city sources. A recording engineer as well as singer-songwriter, Dawn’s refreshingly low key approach makes Fireproof, intimate, quirky and wonderfully brazen.
• Dawn Landes Website • Dawn Landes WikiRufus Cappadocia - Songs for Cello
Rufus CappadociaSongs for Cello
Label: Velour Records
From a single instrument, Songs serves up jazzy slap-bass, swelling raga drones, pointed Arabic whirlwinds and plummeting subterranean melodies. A lustrous sound of unearthly bellowing lifting exotic flicks of whispering kicks flying in oily waters, Cappadocia’s cello squirms with genie-like turns uncurling from an ancient bottle unleashing a gorgeous choir of wordless voices.
• Rufus Cappadocia Website • Rufus Cappadocia WikiView More
Viewing Page 1 - of 40