#MoNM Day 6: C.A. Quintet’s Trip Thru Hell
C.A. Quintet – Trip Thru Hell A forgotten psych-rock opus from 1968, Trip Thru Hell has made a name for itself in crate-digger circles despite selling fewer than 1,000 copies the first time around, with two unofficial reissues in the ’80s and ’90s and a more comprehensive release on Sundazed in 1996. That’s version the … Continue reading
#MoNM Day 5: Elliott Smith’s From a Basement on the Hill
Even having never listened to it before, there’s something comfortably familiar about From a Basement on the Hill. As an Elliott Smith album, it fits. The melodies have the same minor-key melancholy that he perfected a decade before this album was released. The arrangements, while on the whole more restrained than XO or Figure 8, … Continue reading
#MONM Day 4: Television’s Double Exposure
Television – Double Exposure Is it stretching the definition of MoNM to check out a bootleg? I think you can make the case, and given that Double Exposure features a pre-Marquee Moon Television recording session with Brian Eno manning the boards and Richard Hell still in the band, I’d also say it’s pretty darn necessary. … Continue reading
#MoNM Day 3: REM’s Reckoning
REM is a fairly significant musical blind spot for me. I know they’re “important”, that they helped define a major part of the college rock sound of the ’80s, but aside from mid-period singles like “Losing my Religion” and the monster hits from Monster, my exposure is pretty limited. Before this morning, the only albums … Continue reading
#MONM Day Two: Fond of Tigers’ Continent and Western
Fond of Tigers — Continent and Western (Drip Audio) “Soheb,” the opener on “post-everything” Vancouver septet Fond of Tigers’ latest, is a hell of a track to wake up to. Starting with a simple melodic line, it quickly descends into swirling madness and atonal skronk, eventually returning to its opening theme by increasingly demented routes. … Continue reading
#MONM Month of New Music day one: Lullabye Arkestra’s Ampgrave
First off, a note: I’m going to have to be realistic about this Month of New Music thing. I won’t have time for elaborate posts about every album I listen to, so some of these will be quick blurbs. Others might ramble a bit longer (like this one). I’m not one for live-tweeting, so I … Continue reading
The Consumption 