Monday, March 31, 2008

Efterklang - Tripper

Klitchey. There's a woman and guy singing and it's very spacious music, I could live up here. Trumpets now. I like Iceland, there's pianos too. Could this be fodder for car commercials? Acuras moving slowly throughout these songs for sure. Regardless it's a great little jaunt through a haunted forest, with goblins playing ribcage cellos probably. Things are sad now. Usually sad but I can't blame them. Maybe I was wrong with the car commercial talk. Maybe police drama? I like the glitch-pop stuff, it's getting more popular but there's always a new way to reinvent it. This group combines live instrumentation with sequenced electronics in an amazing way, it all really gels together nicely. They use the "Music Box" preset voice on the keyboard a lot. Man these songs are long. Singing again! And the first drums that aren't electronic. There's a military beat and a sorrowful horn section. This is depressing, this is what funerals sound like in Iceland. End of album spoiler: snowstorm.

PILE O' CD

Thanks to Jason Spencer c/o Facebook International Ltd. and Lamescape International Co. GmbH, I now have 12 CDr's of music I haven't heard. I don't have a digital camera but here is a picture of me IRL ATM, pretend that paper is CDs.

Efterklang - Tripper
Daniel Johnston - 1990
Freeform - Outside in
Deerhoof - Halfbird
Yellow Swans - Psychic Secession
Cul De Sac/Damo Suzuki - Abhayamudra (Disc 2)
Soul Junk - 1956
Guided By Voices - King Shit & the Golden Boys
Cex & Nice Nice - Actual Fucking
Tiny Tim - God Bless Tiny Tim
Melt Banana - Scratch or Stitch
Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair - It's Spooky