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.
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.
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I was working in north Jersey this week, and my friend Sam was nice enough to take me out to a show at Brooklyn’s Union Pool. I’d originally intended to write up a review for the blog but, truth be told, not many of the bands really caught my ear (though the crowd was WAY into both Savants and The Yin Yangs, so maybe I just don’t know what I’m talking about). The one exception was locals Acid Dad, who did a good job mixing the Black Lips’ southern charm and White Fence’s hazy psychedelia. “Brain Body” slows things down a bit, but the payoff about halfway through hits hard.
***EDIT*** – Listening to Savants’ bandcamp page, I think I gave them a raw deal in my original post. So here’s one of their songs, too:
It’s Friday night. It’s summer. Human life is a miracle in and of itself. There exists infinite parallel universes where maybe you don’t possess the ability to listen to every song ever made effortlessly through the speaker on your phone. Yadda yadda yadda. Howsabout you put this one on go get weird with it tonight?
We seem about due for a timely “What’s Ty Segall and his 14 different project up to lately?” kind of post. That wonderful T Rex cover above is off the upcoming Goner reissue of his multiple Ty Rex releases, all packaged together and accompanied by a few previously unreleased bonus tracks, including “20th Century Boy”.
Sometimes I can pretend I’m verbose enough to describe the stuff I put up on the blog, and sometimes I’m better off just copying and pasting the press release. The Butterscotch Cathedral gets the latter:
The Butterscotch Cathedral is the new studio project from Matt Rendon (Resonars, Lenguas Largas) with Chris Ayers & Jim Waters. Featuring three tracks total (Side one is one 18min sidelong track, & side two contains “Loud Heavy Sun” & the 17-minutes suite “Lisa’s Dream”) the project is Rendon’s homage to the great Sixties & Seventies concept records from bands like The Who & The Beach Boys, both of whom Rendon cite as an influence. Won’t you come inside?
“Flood of Mendoza” finds itself tucked into the albums A-side. The S/T album is out 10/2 on Trouble in Mind.