A quick reminder, first, that our new Ultimate Music Guide on Kate Bush has arrived in the shops on this beautiful - in London, at least, -spring morning. We have just done our inadvertent best to smash that mood of vernal optimism in the office by digging into the infernal drones of Jimmy Page's "...
A quick reminder, first, that our new Ultimate Music Guide on Kate Bush has arrived in the shops on this beautiful – in London, at least, -spring morning.
We have just done our inadvertent best to smash that mood of vernal optimism in the office by digging into the infernal drones of Jimmy Page’s “Lucifer Rising” score, from his new, none-more-black “Soundtracks” collection. Plenty here, though, of sunnier intent, not least Rob St John’s lulling “Surface Tension”, drawn in part from sound recordings of the wonderful River Lea, and the dramatic, kinetic new Holly Herndon album. See what you can find from this selection…
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1 The Weather Station – Loyalty (Paradise Of Bachelors)
2 Townes Van Zandt – The Nashville Sessions (Charly)
3 Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Velvets In The Dark/Koala Bears (Violette)
4 Bonnie Stillwatter – The Devil Is People (Temporary Residence)
5 Leon Bridges – Lisa Sawyer (Columbia)
6 Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love (Jagjaguwar)
7 10,000 Maniacs – Twice Told Tales (Cleopatra)
8 Gnod – Infinity Machines (Rocket)
9 Daniel Bachman – River (Three-Lobed)
10 Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress (Constellation)
11 Gong – Camembert Electrique (Actuel/Charly)
12 Mbongwana Star – From Kinshasa (World Circuit)
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14 Sun Kil Moon – Ali/Spinks 2 (Caldo Verde)
15 Tav Falco & Panther Burns – Hip Flask: An Introduction To Tav Falco & Panther Burns (Frinzy)
16 Booker T & The MGs – Hip Hug Her/Doin’ Our Thing (Rhino)
17 Thee Oh Sees – Mutilator Defeated At Last (Castle Face)
18 Procol Harum – Shine On Brightly (Regal Zonophone)
19 My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall (ATO)
20 Blanck Mass – Dumb Flesh (Sacred Bones)
21 Holly Herndon – Platform (4AD)
22 Rob St John – Surface Tension (Surface Tension)
23 Thurston Moore?John Moloney – Full Bleed (Northern Spy)
24 Vince Matthews & Jim Casey – The Kingston Springs Suite (Delmore Recordings)
25 Matthew E White – Fresh Blood (Domino)
26 Danny Kroha – Angels Watching Over Me (Third Man0
27 Todd Rundgren/ Emil Nikolaisen/Hans-Peter Lindstrøm – Runddans. (Smalltown Supersound.)
28 Jimmy Page – Soundtracks (Jimmy Page Productions)
29 Terakaft – Alone (Outhere)