David Nance "Negative Boogie (Ba Da Bing)"
The new David Nance LP Negative Boogie (Ba Da Bing) is like if Sonny Sharrock was the guitar player for Captain Beefheart as they tried their best to cover Pere Ubu. And there it is friends, the greatest band describing I’ve ever done in a blurb. I should probably just retire now and sit on a beach somewhere regaling bathing suited wait staff about the time I described David Nance as…. Oh right, you were there when it happened. Well have you listened yet? You haven’t!?! Check out “Give It Some Time” immediately and meet me in Bali for tales of the glory days…
Laibach "Also Sprach Zarathustra (Mute)"
Fresh off of their South Korean tour, electro-metal pioneers Laibach are back with an album featuring the sometimes gorgeous, sometimes harrowing orchestral score they wrote for a stage production of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, based on the novel by Nitetzsche… Good lord! That is likely the strangest sentence I’ve ever written. This is really a surprising album from the longtime band. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Mute) is full of passages of outright beauty, which is not something Laibach is known for. It’s also super fun (“fun” and Laibach who knew?) hear the band stretching their musical wings this late in their career. It’s also full of eerie, techno-creep passages (which is far more close to their normal sound.) Until you listen to this record, you’re aren’t going to have much of a clue to it’s captivating sounds, so check out the foreboding “Das Nachtlied.”
Lo Tom "Lo Tom (Barsuk)"
Why write about a supergroup when you can screen cap brilliance like this from the YouTube comments section?
Agreed David Sky Walker! We love this shit too! Best use of comment section since I learned that I really do LOL at that cute dog video (his little legs move like he thinks he’s the one pedaling the bike!) Check out the tune “Overboard.”
Tristen "Sneaker Waves (Modern Outsider)"
Sneaker Waves (Modern Outsider), the third full length album from Nashville’s Tristen is full of songs, each one different. I know.. i know… Every album is full of different songs (now that we’ve moved past the cash grab-y remix albums of the ’90s) but this is different. You don’t really know what kind of genre tune you are gonna get next until each tune starts. Will the next tune be dream pop? Well, if you’re listening to “Got Some” then yeah. What about a tune that sounds like Dolly Parton covering Rick Springfield? Then you must be listening to “Alone Tonight”! There are tons of new genre surprises to be found here – (no ska-metal… I assume she is saving that for the next album) so let’s start with the aforementioned “Alone Tonight.”