Fever Ray - Dry & Dusty (Mute 2009) Fever Ray - Fever Ray / Mute Winter Leak Season '09 was just gearing up in late December when this record seeped through the cracks to find its way to an audience that had largely been caught sleeping. Rightfully so, too: Here was an album due in late March that shouldn't have had any fanfare for at least a month or two, yet there it was seeping slowly onto the Internet purporting to showcase the feminine side of The Knife [...]
Dälek - Street Diction (Ipecac 2009) Dälek - Gutter Tactics / Ipecac Things were pretty different when we last reviewed New Jersey duo Dälek in early 2007. We were in different cities, we were under a different president, we were still open to the idea of a certain neon-imbued monstrosity that's now completely out of control (Hey there, Elektrobär ). Landscapes and soundscapes alike have shifted paradigms; it's a new world out here, and it's probably for the better. Probably. Of course, some [...]
Telefon Tel Aviv - The Birds (Bpitch Control 2009) Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself / Bpitch Control It's true that I had this review mentally written several days ago, that the words had already formed into complete sentences into whole paragraphs into a general linear train of thought. There was a swoon there for a minute, a genuine burst of unabashed positivity about the whole affair, the hopeful undercurrent that ran through the melodies of "Helen of Troy" or "You Are the Worst Thing in the World" [...]
Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (Domino 2009) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion / Domino It seems both obvious and appropriate that Animal Collective's ninth album is being released on the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, especially considering the fever pitch of excitement currently surrounding both the Collective and our newly minted 44th president... But something about this release has been bothering me since I was awaken to its immense hype by both Pitchfork and The Chicago Sun-Times after a deep autumnal slumber. It [...]
Thought this corner was dead, right? We almost did too. But if Two Thousand Great was the year we stopped making this an enterprise and started making it a hobby (which really means we just stopped), O'Fine is the year we bring Blogger back. For all four of you following: Thanks. It's been a while.
Capillary Action - Paperweights (Natural Selection 2008) Capillary Action - So Embarrassing / Natural Selection After posting a review on Capsule's Blue a few weeks back, I was contacted by Jonathan Pfeffer regarding the new Capillary Action album you see here. I was sure I had remembered the name, but So Embarrassing was not an album I had heard. "I thought our album would be right up your alley," he said. "We've been touring up a storm behind this record so any [...]
Audiversity’s weekly column on music we stumble across during our sonic adventures. No random numbers, just straight audio goodness. PM: We've heralded the brilliance of Over the Atlantic's "Fly to the States" (from their 2006 debut Junica ) before , but recently I was cruising YouTube on a slow night and stumbled upon a mercifully full version of the way they played it live on their last U.S. tour. This is a very different approach from the recorded take: The bass sounds more New Order than hypnotically dubbed-out [...]
Audiversity’s weekly column on music we stumble across during our sonic adventures. No random numbers, just straight audio goodness. PM: I haven't been doing much reading around the Internet lately, so I have no idea what the cool kids are listening to. I just know that Spaniard Ilya Santana has produced a hell of a space-disco slab on his EP Arcanus which came out in May on Ukrainian(?!) label Manuscript . Perhaps best known for a Human League remix of "The [...]
Audiversity’s weekly column on music we stumble across during our sonic adventures. No random numbers, just straight audio goodness. PM: Japan's Nisennenmondai are fairly well known in the Japanese underground noise scene and have been jamming together since they first formed at a Tokyo university in 1999. The trio have a new album coming out later this month on Oslo's Smalltown Supersound , but Neji/Tori is really just two older EPs put together with new artwork by Smalltown roster member Kim Hiorthøy . Thankfully, there are [...]
2562 - Morvern (Tectonic 2008) 2562 - Aerial / Tectonic So, so many albums to hear this summer. They just keep coming, endlessly fascinating and frustrating and so many that are so long, so overly long, that it's tough to care about all but a select few. This is one of the latter. 2562, the Hague area code where the man behind it lives. At the moment, it is tough to argue the brilliance of Dave Huismans and his rogue record, a culmination of 12s tracked [...]
Audiversity’s weekly column on music we stumble across during our sonic adventures. No random numbers, just straight audio goodness. MA (PM): By crook or by diff, we never seem to talk about them here, but it's obvious that the spectre of The Nation of Ulysses looms large over this blog. The thought crossed my mind listening again to 13-Point Program to Destroy America , their 1991 debut, earlier this week. Thanks to a [...]
Audiversity’s weekly column on music we stumble across during our sonic adventures. No random numbers, just straight audio goodness. MA: Been cruising Muxtape this week to see what some of my friends have posted on their respective pages. One in particular recently posted a mix that features The Zombies and their take on George Gershwin's 1935 hit, "Summertime." Literally, this song (from the Charleston, SC-set opera Porgy and Bess ) has [...]
LAST SHOW! Well that's it. Audiversity's reign on 88.7 WLUW-FM Chicago has come to a close. On July 1st, WLUW will no longer be listener-supported community radio; instead it is reverting back to Loyola's student-run station, and most likely with it, all of the downfalls and short-sightedness of college radio. As solely a community member, I will no longer be welcome to contribute. There is no animosity, it's just the reality of the situation, and I am ready to move on to bigger and better things. What exactly is this bigger and better thing? It [...]
Audiversity’s weekly column on music we stumble across during our sonic adventures. No random numbers, just straight audio goodness. MA: One final radio show coming up this week, and though Michael will be sure to go out with an impressive triptych of sets culminating in one extraordinary outro of a song (as usual, natch), I've already used STNNNG's "Grand Island, Neb." which was the final song of my college career way back in Singleversity #14 . Instead, I thought I'd feature [...]
LAST SHOW NEXT WEEK! Audiversity's reign on 88.7 WLUW-FM Chicago is coming to a close -- with June 25th being the last possible show date, though it could very well come sooner with the way the situation is developing. On July 1st, WLUW will no longer be listener-supported community radio; instead it is reverting back to Loyola's student-run station, and most likely with it, all of the downfalls and short-sightedness of college radio. As solely a community member, I will no longer be welcome to contribute. There is no animosity, it's just the reality of the [...]
Audiversity’s weekly column on music we stumble across during our sonic adventures. No random numbers, just straight audio goodness. MA: Once again Michael is MIA and Patrick will be writing in his place. Rest assured that the former's enthusiasm for music has hardly diminished, and perhaps foremost among these is his devotion to jazz. I've been listening to jazz too lately; specifically Japanese jazz because, fuck it, why not? Masahiko Satoh was one of a handful of Far East musicians pushing boundaries in the [...]
Jackson Conti - Nao Tem Nada Nao (Mochilla/Kindred Spirits 2008) Jackson Conti - Sunjinho / Mochilla / Kindred Spirits Though I've been listening to this record on and off for a few days now, I don't have too much to add beyond what Michael has already said over at Dusted, so if you want a detailed description of the history behind the bossa nova grooves and Conti -driven polyrhythms that dominate this album, head there - but let me add my own unsolicited [...]
Audiversity's reign on 88.7 WLUW-FM Chicago is coming to a close -- with June 25th being the last possible show date, though it could very well come sooner with the way the situation is developing. On July 1st, WLUW will no longer be listener-supported community radio; instead it is reverting back to Loyola's student-run station, and most likely with it, all of the downfalls and short-sightedness of college radio. As solely a community member, I will no longer be welcome to contribute. There is no animosity, it's just the reality of the situation, and I am ready to move on [...]
Capsule - Flowerpower (Robotic Empire 2008) Capsule - Blue / Robotic Empire Capsule's Blue officially marks the last time I sleep on a release from Richmond's Robotic Empire. So busy was I worrying over how soon that Nirvana tribute compilation was coming out that I completely passed over arguably the best -core release of the year this side of Board Up the House . Actually, scratch that: Blue doesn't need a qualifier. It's simply one of the best records of the year, straight [...]
Flying Lotus - Golden Diva (Warp 2008) Flying Lotus - Los Angeles / Warp It's no secret that as a collective group of people here on Audiversity, we can really only agree on one guy: Otis Jackson Jr. But if Madlib and all his many wondrous incarnations is our intersection, Flying Lotus tags in as his alternate. This relationship has been in chrysalis for a long time: Steven Ellison emerged from beneath anonymous 30-second "Adult Swim" spots when his Plug Research debut 1983 [...]
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Luce, Silvia Capasso: testo e video della finalista di The Voice of Italy
Ta-ku – Love Lost (Daughter edit/cover)
Sam Thomas – I’m Gonna Be A Witch (Alt-J Remix)
