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Ty Segall is not much of a lyricist but he sure does love playing guitar. I prefer his more garage and psychedelic cuts. I listened to Manipulator so often I had to quit cold turkey, random snippets would play inside my head all day and night. Anyway I think enough time has passed to listen to it again a couple times. Inspired by Ty’s upcoming collab with Corey Madden, Freckle.
https://tysegall.bandcamp.com/album/manipulator
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The title track of “Hello, hi” captures Ty’s silliness but also his heavy guitar sound. He’s super prolific but I only have a handful of his albums. I’ll probably pick up more.
https://tysegall.bandcamp.com/album/hello-hi
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“Moment’s Notice” came up on my shuffled Favorite Songs playlist and I was like, damn, this is a fine song. The album is one of the greatest recordings ever, so, yeah. Gave it a couple listens. But three for this track. So good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbkLmwLzU6g
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Local Boston band, and one of their tracks totally sounds like The Cars. Gave it four listens so far? Kinda forgettable. Got it on the strength of Nice Clean Shirt, which is still the best song on the album.
https://beeef.bandcamp.com/album/somebodys-favorite
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Oh, you thought I forgot? Well, I did! HA! Anyway here’s today’s album, Dream Talk by Still Corners. I’d enjoyed several singles (“Heavy Days” is a rocker) as well as their 2021 album The Last Exit. It’s all western-twinged “dream pop” with Tessa Murray singing over Greg Hughes doing most everything else including the production (I do wish they’d hire a drummer though.) If you like their stuff, here’s more of it. Recording sounds pretty pretty good, a bit bright, but not bad, not bad at all. Glad I caught up with them.
https://stillcorners.bandcamp.com/album/dream-talk
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“In 100% SAHARA GUITAR, Etran de L’Aïr are back to claim the throne, with their first studio album! And what a sound it is. Recorded in sunny studios on the WEST COAST, the brothers take that old Agadez sound to new levels, adding even more guitars into the mix, weaving layers of reverb-laden melodies and shimmering harmonies into a tapestry of sound. How much guitar can they fit into one record? The answer is 100%”
https://etrandelair.bandcamp.com/album/100-sahara-guitar
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I discovered XTC in high school and really got into them as an undergraduate at Indiana University in the late 80’s, so they will always have a special place in my heart. This is not my favorite album, but I accidentally triggered English Roundabout and then of course had to listen to the whole album. It’s a double album! Friends, I did not make it. It’s beautifully recorded and very musical (so so far from their spiky roots) but Andy Partridge is so clearly Not Well it just kind of brings down the whole album for me now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSIyaZoG0sU
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Today's album isn't actually very good, but has two songs that were popular when I was in junior high school. "One Thing Leads to Another" has 50M plays on Spotify, "Saved by Zero" has 5M plays, and "Red Skies" (not from this album) has 2.5M plays. Definite power law for this band, not every song is a banger lol
But so, so much of its time. If you're Gen-X, enjoy! Otherwise, yeah, not missing much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach_the_Beach
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Okay, it’s been awhile. I’d been anticipating this new Ty Segal project since I first heard the singles “Who’s Sitting on the Moon” and “Taraval” and pre-ordered the album. And those songs are great! Unfortunately, while there’s ten songs on the album, it feels very casually thrown together, with a few great songs, a couple decent songs, and some short instrumentals to fill it out. Segal and the deep-voiced guitarist and singer Corey Madden clearly have talent and enjoy playing off each other. The songs sound great in spatial audio, especially the last one which is basically a demo track. But the album as a whole doesn’t deliver on the promise of the singles. It falls short. It’s fun! But… I wish they’d taken the time to record a more finished album. They just chose not to here.
https://freckledfreckles.bandcamp.com/track/whos-sitting-on-the-moon
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So what's the opposite of a casually thrown-together EP like Freckle? Steve Gunn's The Unseen In Between sprang to mind. I listened to this album heavily a couple years a go, but it's been awhile. At first I was unimpressed with a re-listen, and continued on to Other You. But when I woke up the next morning my mind was filled with the first album, and I think Paranoid is a good representative sample. Here's a talented singer-songwriter, known for his guitar playing, but with an intriguing voice and oblique lyrics that wend through the melodies. Signed to Matador, lots of effort goes into each album, session musicians, producers, touring internationally, magazine interviews, the works. Old-school, in a good way.
https://stevegunn.bandcamp.com/track/paranoid
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I guess it will take a few years to complete this hashtag lol
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I’ve listened to this album a dozen times over the past week. Debut album five years in the making from Australian band Arbes, Counterways. The singer has a lovely voice and the musicians frame it while still showing their chops. Very spacious production, clean. There’s some noisy guitars but not a shoegaze band. Some tracks veer musically into The Sea and Cake territory (who I love), except the lyrics make sense, and Jess Zanoni can sing. You’ll probably notice other influences, real or imagined, but overall I’m really enjoying it.
https://arbes.bandcamp.com/track/impasse
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The Basin Street Blues came on from Miles Davis’ Seven Steps to Heaven I was stepped out the door for a walk and let me tell you, this album made a world of difference on a rainy Monday morning. The title track is my favorite from the album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQMJv3HuZdU
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It’s probably time to share Hannah Cohen’s latest album, Earthstar Mountain, since I’ve listened to it 14 times. Two tracks, Draggin’ and Earthstar, are standouts. It starts out a little folksy but stick with it. This is another album that took years to put together, and it shows (in the best way.)
https://hannahcohen.bandcamp.com/track/draggin
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Quick re-listen. I’ve been listening to Audiotree Live’s recording of Finom, but this little EP from the studio sounds terrific. A nice break for my system from Jazz, which just really is hard to get right. I love Jazz! But some music just sounds better in my space with my system, and this is some of it. Forgiving. Enjoyable.
If you don’t know Chicago group Finom… check them out
https://finom.bandcamp.com/album/mine
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Hard to believe Drive to Goldenhammer is the debut album from Nottingham’s Divorce? Seems excellent? Still catching up on reviews and interviews. I’d started with Hangman and All My Freaks and people are like, “oh those are the weakest songs lol”
https://divorcehq.bandcamp.com/album/drive-to-goldenhammer-2
"Going into this album blind, it is incredibly easy to forget that this is the first full-length release by Divorce. From the offset, its quality and confidence evoke a band with years of experience and songwriting expertise. It is a brave album, consistently unafraid to take risks and switch up the inherent mood of the record between songs. At the same time, the band rarely stay in the same place for too long, going from the gentle vulnerability of the opening track to grunge-inspired efforts like ‘Jet Show’ and even cinematic tracks like ‘Where Did You Go’. You could say a lot of things about this album, but you could never claim it to be repetitive or uninteresting.”
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/divorce-drive-to-goldenhammer-review/
It’s just hard to get work done while listening to this album because it has so many beautiful moments, argh
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange “Sorry, boss! Just listen to these beautiful moments!”
“Nuthatch, when you’re right, you’re right”
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange I just figure Craig Federighi calls you “Nuthatch”.
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange I just figure Craig Federighi is your boss.
@jacobvo@mastodon.social the less Craig knows about me, the happier everyone will be haha.
I’m actually in Acoustics, which is Hardware, so Ternus is my SVP.
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange I just figure you’ve stopped reading these toots by now.
@jacobvo@mastodon.social I get a notification every time you tweet Jacob
@jacobvo@mastodon.social I get a notification every time you tweet Jacob
@jacobvo@mastodon.social and by tweet I mean toot no not that kind
@jacobvo@mastodon.social and by tweet I mean toot no not that kind
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