
MP3: RV Paintings - Round-A-Bout Bench On A Cold Foggy Day Further into the heavily landscape-responsive zones with RV Paintings who have locked even harder into the very realized Northern Californian psych with the dreamlike/nearly real redwood forests of Samoa Highway . The third release from this Starving Weirdos/Ensemble Economique offshoot (or rather, new project) has been out a little while I think but these are some serious burners; sometimes real creeped out and monolithic but mostly on a spiritual (but gritty) journey that's as grounded in earthly terrains as cosmic plains. [...]
I feel like we should all be jamming out to "Right Now" (and drinking Crystal Pepsi?), because this is the day we've all been waiting for. It's time to stop living in the past and start living in the moment: my annual list of the one-hundred best albums of 2010 is finally ready for you to feast your eyes on it. Look at it. Look at it how you would a naked slut as she spreads her legs for you. It's here for the taking. As is customary now, I've decided not to write blurbs for all 100 [...]

Has Brian Pyle, of Starving Weirdos fame, ever been busier? It feels like only a few months ago that I was writing about Ensemble Economique's rather marvellous Standing Still, Facing Forward record, released on the Amish label, praising the way it blended "the kosmische with minimalist classical to create something powerful and cinematic". With this pair of (even) new(er) albums Pyle has pushed even further out into the fields of drone and imaginary soundtracks. So intense, and so good, is this burst of activity that I'm beginning to wonder why the hell I'm still calling him [...]