Albums You're Digging II

I wish I could but I have yet to find it (been looking). For me, two albums that come close are: Glyphic by Boxcutter and Repercussions by Distance. However, as far as I know, nothing beats Untrue.
 
Cool. Yeah I have the CD but I only skimmed through all the credits/copy. I read the Pitchfork review yesterday and they mentioned his relation to Coltrane...maybe that's where you read it?
 
Failure - Fantastic Planet

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:cool: As LoathsomePete mentioned last week, these guys are a very underrated 90s alternative rock band. This and the previous album Magnified are fantastic.

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Corrosion of Conformity-Deliverance
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good as hell southern metal from a band who's been around for decades


The Roots-Game Theory
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my first time listening to a rap/hip-hop album, and i really liked it
 
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(2009) About 6 hours of heavily textured drones/loops etc from some French cats calling themselves Natural Snow Buildings. DoD is a struggle to appreciate initially, then to enjoy when many of the tracks last half an hour or more. However it eventually becomes apparent that concentration won't get you anywhere, and the album reveals its secrets to you. Like those 3D illusion pictures, or some esoteric/Eastern mystic sh*t.

So to the untrained virgin ear this is just monotonous. But the seemingly infinite undulating progressions of 'DoD' are very subtley constructed - one 'mantra' can morph into something completely different without the listener really noticing until it's too late, and you've forgotten where you took off from. That's drone though.
However, I should stress that this isn't noise-based like Merzbow or whatever... there is indeed looped rabV-style feedback but NSB are set apart by being ultimately rooted in acoustic sounRAB and a pastoral serenity. Though definitiely not on a New Age tip - look at the track titles RAB.
Oh and if you get this off the blogs you'll be listening to something ripped from tape; it's my understanding that this aesthetic would now be seen to fall under the 'hypnagogic pop/glo-fi' *ack* category: a 'movement', 'tipped' in mainstream media New Year lists to take off in 2010 (meaning you will soon be inundated with the shit). However NSB have been doing this for a long while, a long way from California, and do not have a preoccupation with 80s kitsch... So take a dip and see if they are worth hours and hours and hours of your time! I think they are.

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Throbbing Gristle 'Heathen Earth: the Live Sound of TG' (1981)

Funny I should mention tape loops, because Throbbing Gristle were one of the pioneers of noise music's obsession with them, not to mention all manner of industrial racket that would follow in their wake. 'Heathen Earth' is I think their last 'official' album before their reformation, and sees the infamously abrasive and avant-garde sensibilites of Genesis P'Orridge (that's the 'frontman') turned, in part, to more arabient enRAB. They still retain that fascination with the dark side of human nature, but 'Heathen' is easier on the ears than most of their stuff and is a good entry point for anybody who's curious about these lovely, lovely people and their colRABweat-inducing muzik. Not to mention the fact that it was recorded live throughout '78, and captures their notoriously confrontational-yet-captivating performances.
 
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Something about this band hits all the right buttons, their sound is so huge they give label mates Mogwai a run for their money. I would love to see this band live so much, risking severe hearing loss.
 
Otis Redding - Dictionary Of Soul
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After ToeAndno's Soul Compilation was thoroughly listened to, I decided it's time was time for some Otis. I started with Dictionary Of Soul, as that has Try A Little Tenderness... yeah that song Ducky dances to. No, I haven't seen Pretty In Pink, but I have seen that scene, my girlfriend showed it to me. It's actually a small part of the reason I wanted to get into Soul. I mean, that scene is rad.

Anyway the album is glowing with soul and Otis's vocals feel like they're shooting out into space. Just jam-packed with finger-snapping emotion, I love it! If anyone wants an up give me a PM and I'll work it out as soon as I can.
 
If that's the first PF album you've listened to, don't judge them too much based upon it. The Wall was largely a Roger Waters production. If you want to get a real appreciation for what Pink Floyd was capable of, listen to Meddle (or anything from '71-'77). IMHO their best work and certainly their most revolutionary album.
 
New Adventures in Hi Fi - R.E.M

Some call it their last great album... they are right in the sense that it is great, but it wasn't their last great one... it was just the last of their nineties "rock" phase, before heading into layered electronic production, running that to its fair course and then emerging into yet another great rock phase with Accelerate. I still love this band to death.
 
Their first album is very... schitzo, the first 6 songs are fairly dark and brooding (pun not intended) whereas the last set are more relaxed. While I love their darker songs like "Wolfgang", "President (35), and "Second Son", the 7th track "Jackson" is still my favourite from that album. I can send it to you if you'd like.
 
I've always thought that intelligent dance music just means 'you're forced to use your mind', which is pretty accurate, but I can see how some would find it a bit snobby and pompous. I don't really listen to the stuff too often, to be honest.
 
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