|   Tuesday Rotation | Davey
Nov 18, 2003 10:57 AM | | Been mostly listening to some new CDs that I've gotten in the last week or so.
Nina Nastasia - Run to Ruin
Wheat - Per Second, Per Second, Per Second...Every Second
Laika - Wherever I Am I Am What Is Missing
Josh Ritter - Hello Starling
Califone - Deceleration Two
Head of Femur - Ringodom or Proctor
The Head of Femur disc is destined to be one of my yearly favorites, no doubt of that already. Played it a lot the last week and just love it. Lots of the same appeal as The Flaming Lips <i>Soft Bulletin</i> with many layers of production. But in this case, mostly with real instrumentation more akin to some of the Elephant 6 collective releases such as Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control. Very nice collection of songs with the usual nods to the Beach Boys and Love and the Beatles and other orchestrated pop bands, but also XTC and Talking Heads and the irrepressible Brian Eno in his madcap and often nonsensical pop persona from the mid 70s. They even do a stimulatingly manic cover of his <i>The True Wheel</i>. Brilliant stuff. You wonder what these guys could do with a big recording budget and a mainstream sounding singer, or at least maybe a stronger mixing of the vocals and some pitch work :-). But this kind of charming music doesn't exist outside of the little indie labels anymore, in this case Greyday Productions in Portland. Ever heard of Presto! Recording Studios in Nebraska? That's what I thought....unless you're already a big Bright Eyes fan or something. Lots of info on the web but the review at <a href=http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=106552196611105><b>Splendid</b></a> is a good overview of the sound. There's a few MP3 at the label site if you click on the image below ....
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| Oh yeah, the 2003 Sloshmix too! | Davey
Nov 18, 2003 12:00 PM | | Just got it yesterday and giving it a spin now. Been listening to my own 2003 mix on the computer as well and making some adjustments. Still need to pare it down by a few tracks and make some adjustments. Starting to get too much good music this year and running out of room so many of my favorites are destined to be leftovers :-) |
| Still can't post at the new place? | Slosh
Nov 18, 2003 2:12 PM | | Guess I have no choice but to go there now in spite of having a few days left here. Little point of using this one anymore.
So I take it HoF will be on your year-ender somewhere. Looking forward to hearing it :-) |
| Just got permission a few minutes ago (nt) | Davey
Nov 18, 2003 2:40 PM | | See ya there |
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