What are you Listening to Right Now? Febus XIV

HolyMoly wrote: PAVEMENT - "Wowee Zowee (Sordid Sentinels Edition)" (1995) 2 disc deluxe edition of the classic 90s indie rock album.  What is it about this band? It took me so long to acquire the taste, but once I did, I was hooked. I was thinking about, and decided the special nature of their sound is similar to a garage band just messing around, making up songs on the spot.  Lots of bands do this, and maybe for one minute out of an entire hour, something really cool and inspired comes out, some weird chord change out of nowhere, some crazy guitar lead, all that stuff, that will never be duplicated.  Pavement sounds like that one minute ALL THE TIME.  And they write stuff that way, and can play it the same way every time, but it always sounds like a really inspired moment of making it up on the spot.  Uncanny!

^You know, when they started out, they sounded so much like The Fall that Mark E. Smith was a bit offended by them.

They were certainly heavily influenced by The Fall, but even their first album doesn't have that many Fall sound-alike songs.  And I don't think Wowee-Zowee has any at all.

Anyway, for me now it's:
Iceage– New Brigade

I would recommend this band to fans of punk and post-punk. Their first album New Brigade is a noisy fusion of goth rock and hardcore punk. It's actually on Youtube for those interested (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTm1XJe-TZE). Their second, 2013's You're Nothing, ups the hardcore influences and punches out even better, more emotive songs with better production. Both these albums clock in under 30 minutes. Their most recent is this year's circa-45-minute Plowing Into the Field of Love, which features vocals and lyrics (very good ones) prominently, while the band mixes in the country twang of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and the threat of near-collapse of the Fall, but still played with a hardcore intensity. There are also horns featured on the album along with John Cale-esque viola work. I was confused my first listen, but once I played this bad boy on speakers, I kept coming back to it and it has easily become one of my favorites of the year.


Edited by Polymorphia - December 22 2014 at 13:19

SUN CITY GIRLS - "Kaliflower" (1994)

Unicorn Porn - Solstice

Black Metal Guru... just like that song by Darc Bolan.

now:

UNITED WATERS - "Sunburner" (2014)

one of my favorites of the year.

^I dig the album cover.

Jack O' The Clock - Night Loops

That man must have... issues.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience– Axis: Bold as Love