Album of the Day: alt-J - An Awesome Wave

Should I call them delta? alt-J? ∆? I don't know. I know it's pretty awesome though - stick with it for the first few songs. It has echos of Fink, maybe a little B. Fleischmann/Electric President/The Antlers melancholy, a dash of folk, and clever, clever songwriting. Highly recommended - I've had it in regular rotation for a while now.

Album of the Day: Styrofoam - Nothing's Lost

Another glitchy electronic album released on the excellent Morr Music label, this time by Styrofoam who hails from Belgium, my neighbors to the south. The album features guest appearances by Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie / The Postal Service), Markus Acher (The Notwist), Valerie Trebeljahr (Lali Puna), Andrew Kenny (American Analog Set), Bent van Looy & Japanese singer Miki Yoshimura (Munk).

Album of the Day: The Album Leaf - Into The Blue Again

Urgh. I need something gentle and soothing today for a variety of reasons. The best way to experience The Album Leaf is live - always a great performance, always fun visuals, always a good time. I had a hard time picking a representative album from the AL discography, I have 5 of them (and some EPs) of which 3 have about equal high song ratings (yes, I am an obsessive song rater). There are at least a couple of amazing songs on each album. But I had to pick and it is this one. It's the one which introduced me to AL, it's one of the later ones so technically and artistically more well-rounded than some of the earlier work (or so I think), and I'm pretty sure I'll get to the other ones here sooner or later. Enjoy.

Album of the Day: Four Tet - Pause

How about a nice mellow bit of electronic weirdness this lovely Sunday? Yes, I think that will do nicely. Enjoy this great album, released in 2001.

 

Rating: *****
Comment: one of my favorite Four Tet albums.

Saturday is Make Some Noise Day: Squarepusher

Saturday is make some noise day! And who makes better and more obscure noise than Squarepusher? For me Squarepusher takes me back to my messy 20s, VJing for peanuts and dancing in dank basement clubs to glitchy Drum & Bass, emerging only when the sun has risen again to stagger home and sleep. Good times. Weird times.

This is by no means an easily accessible album, although it may be one of the more accessible ones in the Squarepusher discography. But since when is accessibility a plus anyway? Would you like your steak pre-chewed too? Fuck that shit. Hit it, Tom. Feed me weird things.

Rating: *****
Comment: Not the best squarepusher album but certainly worth a repeat listen.