What the hell is going on in Toronto that has everybody so loud and angsty? Dilly Dally seems to be the latest in a long line of very good, very raucous bands crossing over from north of the border.
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Any excuse to keep posting this lovely song off of On Your Own Love Again is a good one.
Real talk: I’m scheduling pretty much the entirety of my August SOTD’s in advance since I’ll be on the road most of the month, and I’m about zonked out on describing music. If I’m putting it up here, then I like it. Good? Good. This one will appeal to fans of the Black Lips and Parquet Courts and the like.
There was a week or two earlier this year where Woodsman’s S/T album was about the only thing I listened to, so it’s no surprise that I love this unreleased track that was recorded in those same sessions.
Here’s a good juxtaposition with yesterday’s Gun Outfit post: FIDLAR seem to know exactly what type of band they want to be, and so take the express route to writing some loud, distorted pop punk tunes.
I’m having a hard time describing Gun Outfit. “Indie” certainly doesn’t do them justice, and “Dream All Over” is far too lively to call folk music. There’s an air of psychedelia to the proceedings, but not enough to classify it under the wide net of “psych rock”. It sort of reminds me of Widowspeak’s take on the slowburning type of 70’s guitar folk, overlayed with a haze of ever-present smog indicative of Gun Outfit’s home base in LA.
TLDR: It’s a good fucking song, and you should give it a listen.
Dutch post-punkers Rats of Rafts find a groove on “Sleep Little Child” and ride it’s peaks and valleys for nearly eight wonderful minutes. If you enjoy the band’s neighbors to the northeast, like Iceage, Lower, and Lust for Youth, you’d be well served to give this a listen.
Tape Hiss is out on Fire Records on 10/16.
!!! just announced a new album, As If, due out 10/16 on Warp. When you’re as good at what you do as !!! is, there’s no real need to reinvent the wheel, and “Freedom! ’15” finds the band doing exactly what they’re known best for: dancefloor funk that should get plenty of festival crowds moving for the next year or two. A+ artwork, too.
I was a bit surprised at how quietly APTBS’s Transfixiation was received upon release earlier this year. Some of that may have had to do with the band’s “Our-practice-space-closed-up-woe-is-us” marketing strategy, but the album itself is exactly the kind of in-the-red noise dirges (bordering on industrial at times) one would expect from them.
Anybody who listens to the show with any regularity has probably caught on to my predilection for The American Analog Set. And while singer Andrew Kenny has kept somewhat busy since that band’s dissolution with The Wooden Birds, news of his artistic output tends to leak out quite slowly. That’s why I’m so excited to hear that Kenny is providing an original score for Alex R. Johnson’s upcoming film Two Step. Part of that score includes a solo take on The Wooden Birds’ “Long Time to Lose It”, posted above.
More info on the movie can be found here.