No point in messing about this week: scroll down to hear new music from, among others, Neil Young, Cool Ghouls, Bryan Ferry, Frazey Ford, Kendrick Lamar, Joan Shelley and the extremely promising D.D. Dumbo, plus a couple of amazing full gigs from Hiss Golden Messenger and a Purling Hiss/Spacin' supe...
No point in messing about this week: scroll down to hear new music from, among others, Neil Young, Cool Ghouls, Bryan Ferry, Frazey Ford, Kendrick Lamar, Joan Shelley and the extremely promising D.D. Dumbo, plus a couple of amazing full gigs from Hiss Golden Messenger and a Purling Hiss/Spacin’ supersession, both courtesy of the invaluable www.nyctaper.com.
And also stick with the Beatles art experiment by Rutherford Chang: 100 old copies of “The White Album” is quite something, gradually, especially if you’ve a taste for stuff like MBV and Fennesz…
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1 Cool Ghouls – A Swirling Fire Burning Through The Rye (Empty Cellar)
2 Neil Young – Who’s Gonna Stand Up (solo, Crazy Horse and orchestral versions) (Reprise)
3 Shellac – Dude Incredible (Touch & Go)
4 Thompson – Family (Concord)
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6 Robert Wyatt – Different Every Time: Benign Dictatorships (Domino)
7 Various Artists – New Orleans Soul: The Original Sound of New Orleans Soul 1960-76 (Soul Jazz)
8 Hiss Golden Messenger – September 18, 2014 Rough Trade NYC (www.nyctaper.com)
9 Ariel Kalma – An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings: 1972 – 1979) (RVNG INTL)
10 Perfume Genius – Too Bright (Caroline)
11 Loscil – Sea Island (Kranky)
12 Kendrick Lamar – I (Top Dawg)
13 Rutherford Chang/The Beatles – The White Album: Side 1 x 100
12 James Last – Non Stop Dancing 1973 (Polydor)
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14 Lee Ranaldo & The Dust – Acoustic Dust (El Segell Del Primavera)
15 D.D Dumbo – Tropical Oceans (4AD)
16 Joan Shelley – Electric Ursa (No Quarter)
17 Kassé Mady Diabaté – Kiriké (No Format!)
18 The Young Sinclairs – This Is The Young Sinclairs (Ample Play)
19 Gazelle Twin – Unflesh (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray)
20 Steve Gunn – Way Out Weather (Paradise Of Bachelors)
21 Frazey Ford – Indian Ocean (Nettwerk)
22 Rumer – Into Colour (Atlantic)
23 Fugazi – First Demo (Dischord)
24 Spacin’ & Purling Hiss – September 5, 2014 Hopscotch Music Festival, Tir na Nog, Raleigh, NC (www.nyctaper.com)
25 Anthony D’Amato – The Shipwreck From The Shore (New West)
26 Bryan Ferry – Avonmore (BMG)