Slipped Discs
Discs You May Have Missed
by John Noyd
Me'Shell NdegeOcello - Devil’s Halo
Me'Shell NdegeOcelloDevil’s Halo
Label: Mercer Street Records
Effortless confessions bathed in swirling, sterling fusion, “Halo,” glows iridescently, prowling seductively, flooding the senses in creamy funk, luscious vibes feeding jazzed imaginations. Ndegeocello’s magical incantations gracefully penetrate the subconscious floating, half-spoken memories wrapped in supple soul, roaming and overflowing, a squirming firmament of sophisticated riffs, dynamic shifts and drifting bewitching twilight visions.
• Me'Shell NdegeOcello Website • Me'Shell NdegeOcello WikiWallpaper - Doodoo Face
WallpaperDoodoo Face
Label: Eenie Meenie Records
Studio hoodlums commandeer the chronic and ironic, using party-fueled bravado and auto-tuned disco balls to conjugate one funky Pixar slam-down. Techno-gloss lip service carries pastel synths past eighties skating rink rhythms. Wallpaper’s ringtone craftsmanship pulls plugs and rehashes patches as retro-chic meets squeaky clean freaks for robotized revelry, hard-wired free-for-alls upgraded and infiltrated.
• Wallpaper WebsiteHidden Cameras - Origin:Orphan
Hidden CamerasOrigin:Orphan
Label: Arts & Crafts Records
Pop songs draped in self-doubt, starched marches hurtling bittersweet syncopation, THC’s insistent post-modern skiffle tackles existential dilemmas through reverberating harmonies, organizing forceful oratory into glorious buoyancy. A Greek chorus of Canadian comedians, “Origin,” unleashes a somber circus whose pratfalls lines roll off the tongue and whose dark forest voices burst into song.
• The Hidden Cameras Website • The Hidden Cameras WikiYoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band - Between My Head and the Sky
Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono BandBetween My Head and the Sky
Label: Chimera Music
Fables, haikus, purrs and moans, “Head,” creates steamy Edens and cyber-smooth utopias. Surrounded by a cosmopolitan cast of avant-garde forerunners, Yoko’s immaculate future music mixes philosophical tone poems with polished erotic pop as laid-back jazz, digital dance and urban rock toss impeccable improvisations into new intuitive solutions.
• Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band Website • Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band WikiProject Skyward - Moved By Opposing Forces
Project SkywardMoved By Opposing Forces
Label: Rocket Girl
Steamy dreams and writhing twilight flights glow through molasses valleys; unearthly curtains of smoldering, windswept synthesizers and narcotic bass. PS’s celestial grandeur engages galactic techno through floating ghosts and flickering twitches. Cosmic free-falling within oceanic fantasies, “Opposing,” operate pneumatic factories, crossing boundaries into alien electronics, drowsily resurfacing inside thick, moody atmospheres.
• Project Skyward 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 WikiJoao Orecchia - Hands and Feet
Joao OrecchiaHands and Feet
Label: Other Electricities Records
Processed layers welded into seamless streams of jittery digital fidgeting, Joao’s overstocked toy box simmers alongside bantering banjos, wheezing concertinas and listing violins. Blue Man boogie for beats, blips and purring whirligigs, “Hands,” juggles cuckoo clock rock, cyber-fried lullabies and pump ‘n crunch electro-funk for effusive musical Sudoku and groovy, geo-synchronized synergy.
• Joao Orecchia WebsiteCurtis Harvey - Box of Stones
Curtis HarveyBox of Stones
Label: Fat Cat Records
Gently genuine, the congenial, nimble-fingered troubadour whose multi-instrumental skills also include a talent for understated lyrics parlays a childhood affection for bluegrass to fuel his long-awaited solo debut with rich, melodic charms. “Box,” crafts tightly-woven tomes offering immediate relief, imposing subtly constructed rocking chair thoughts to crisp, swinging, altogether calming, fireside desires.
• Curtis Harvey WebsiteLos Cenzontles with David Hidalgo & Taj Mahal - American Horizon
Los Cenzontles with David Hidalgo & Taj MahalAmerican Horizon
Label: Los Cenzontles Records
A bump and grind banquet of sumptuous Tex-Mex, spooky barrio blues, joyful party tunes and soul-searching serenades, this hearty collaboration proudly parades squeeze-box cumbias, spicy folk-rock and intimate audio scenarios. Detailing the migrant worker’s plight, “Horizon,” is anchored by tradition but flowers through invigorating rock-blues fusions.
• Los Cenzontles with David Hidalgo & Taj Mahal Website • Los Cenzontles with David Hidalgo & Taj Mahal WikiBrazos - Phosphorescent Blues
BrazosPhosphorescent Blues
Label: Autobus Records
Brazos’ alt-folk affectations give way to minimalist chamber pop; textural confections fostering poetic ambitions, ceaseless free verse tumbling over cascading counterpoint. Twittering figures build sensuous tensions while, “Phosphorescent,” generates images and visions bound to exultant beats, hobo hopes stitched with hippie mantras seething beneath solemn streets, a stage-struck bohemia of everyday opulence and casual insight.
• Brazos WebsiteGlass Ghost - Idol Omen
Glass GhostIdol Omen
Label: Western Vinyl Records
Nebulous tenors narrate disembodied biographies swimming in impish synths, slithering between machine beats and tumbling, jungle percussion. A short-circuited circus of post-modern androids sorting through shattered reality, Glass Ghost hosts day-glo hymns addressing bureaucratic static. Mesmerizing, intoxicating and strangely familiar, “Idol,” calls forth Major Tom promises from Kafkaesque scenarios and Clockwork Orange dreams.
• Glass Ghost WebsiteTegan and Sara - Sainthood
Tegan and SaraSainthood
Label: Sire Records
Examining how far from perfect we are, T&S volley teasing, time-bomb tempos into impetuous, kinetic calisthenics, confronting choppy-water obstacles to snare love’s illogical lobbying. Tactful battleaxes parlaying blasts of bashing pop into frantic romance, “Sainthood,” is frosted to neon perfection - a pipsqueak blitzkrieg buffed into intense, anxious, well-timed insolence designed for maximum impact.
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