Audio | Bad Vibes

Araabmuzik
Runway Bass

After the last post, I think we all need to cleanse ourselves with ARAABMUSIK.... and get into Runway Bass here.

When Press Releases Go Bad ... Very Bad

Cold Pumas hail from Brighton, land of windswept piers, and have been abiding by the three Rs since their inception : Repetition, Repetition, Repetition. Yet their début long-player, Persistent Malaise is the result of an internal aeon of transient rebirths. Released on the 30th October as a triumvirate split between Faux Discx, Gringo Records and Italian Beach Babes, the album is both a metronomic cathedral of married noise and a funnel of kraut-tinged catharsis. It arrives preceded by a wave of 7”s that have captured the taught and at times nascent evolution of this trio of fraternal pedants.

It gets far worse my friends...

As opined by the album's name, the sonic unease is at times betrayed deliberately by its rhythmic crux. Indeed, several juxtapositions lie between the persistence of those invigorating textural showers, the locked cadences of the songs and the underpinning of lyrics retelling the ubiquitous dread of a relationship’s decline. It feels at times like being the lone watcher of a party slowly decaying around oblivious guests.

The whole thing reads like a emo party in for the Norwich goff population. The best thing though? The band sounds like a shitty Sonic Youth.

I got a PR hit about the Datsuns new album. It made me lulz. I'll always remember when I realised that I wanted nothing to do with the music industry - it was sometime back in the 00s. I went out with some 'music guy' to a pub, who had brought along his friends. Somehow the Datsuns got brought up and I scoffed - 'Wow they sold out pretty quick didn't they? Those motherfuckers from hell...' - this 5ts bro, in a skin tight denim suit, with blinding belly, who had joined this rather sad entourage, started to berate me 'THEY ARE ROCK'N'ROLL STARS - THEY GOT JOHN PAUL JONES TO PRODUCE THEIR ALBUM ... WHO ARE YOU NOTHING! NOTHING!' .... I laughed. I never got compared and failed to the Datsuns ever again - but it sat with me. Anyways if you want the pure authentic ghetto punk acid trip - hit up on the Zig Zags. It's kinda mandatory around these parts. Listen here.

BRB Internets #justworkingonmynovel

Best twitter ever...

This Picture is the Reason Why I Occasionally Fall In Love With The Internets

Brooke Shields + Bad Brains and POT? Yes!

Marching Church
Throughout the Borders

What I wouldn't give to see a double bill of Marching Church (Iceage's frontman) and Horrid Red. Hopefully all set in a Bavarian Castle somewhere, and in the intermission someone walks around in slow mo, with a look of slow motion horror on their face, akin to the Animal Collective fan's face when he realises the new album isn't MPP. or the slow horror that you watching Dina Lohan be interviewed on Dr Phil. Better yet, for manic pop culture thrills, play the track over a slow motion Dina Lohan being interviewed by Dr Phil... yes.... Listen here.

Prince Rama
Those Will Live For Love Will Live Forever

I remember there was an exclusive 7, featuring Prince Rama and Sun Araw, it was announced via my spam ... I was pretty disheartened that google cruelly took away my opportunity to actually get into that, and have it soundtrack my life. No. Of course not google, you let me get spammed daily with shite UK bands, and the one interesting thing - am I allowed it? Oh noes.... anyways, Prince Rama have a new record coming out soon, and they kinda cosplay at being everyone. Including this - 'Those Who Live For Love Will Live Forever which you can download here.

James Ferraro
So N2U

So n2this. I remember when James Ferraro was a drone bro, doing 'worthy' drone records on Holy Mountain, and probably had more than three Japanese/Kraut/Psyche references thrown into his music on some weirdo blog, back when freak was folk, and drone was drone. Something changed up. I hope its the influence of Eric Copeland and his own twisted pop phantasies, or something - cuz Ferraro went from 'drone bro' into seemingly wanting his own number one record, but kinda his way - and his way only. God. 'Elements' are still there, but he's made it into a new sound - and kudos for calling it 'So N2U' - if this came outta Warp, it would be called 'Psihghaie 2000 the Romumland Empire' - so basement dwellers can gaze out on fields and write sci fi fan fiction to James Ferraro, in hopes of securing a BFF internship on Ferraro world. Get into this after the jump...

Inc
The Place

Supposedly there are going to heavy bad vibes until the 5th of October, feel 'let down' by this, as I just feel that I got out of my bad vibes this weekend. Goin' have this as a soundtrack against the weirdness until the 5th. Funny - when people talk about Inc, its like 'ooo avant guard' but in reality, this is kinda - just lite funk, not nite funk, but lite funk. Download it after the jump.

Eric Copeland
Bowlin'

Why isn't Copeland's genius being uttered in hushed tones amongst the blogosphere? Why isn't he getting thirty page write ups in Pitchfork, using ridiculous adjectives, and bad comparisons to Russian novels and Kant? Why is the 'meh' Ariel Pink album being heralded across newspapers as 'the favorite freak you want to know' and Copeland's mastery of the mighty groove, his futurist sound, his utter bloody genius (and sometimes literally as you hear almost blood on these grooves) gets ghetto'ed out? Copeland is a pop masterpiece. His solo efforts easily outrank his cohort's Panda Bear, et al. He destroys and rebuilds. And he's like totally meta. Just get on this. It will change your life. Copeland is the Brian Wilson it is seemingly ok not to know, and yeah - its beginning to get on my nerves. Champion the bro already. OK? Good. Hear the latest creation after the jump.

Oneohtrix Point Never
Stone of Spiritual Understanding

This is heavy. A collab with 'Rene Hell', its kinda rankling, spraying out shots of Exorcist 2: The Heretic, as it sounds if you are being attacked by swarms of bees, before being rescued by some metal band of the early 8ts. But really - it has a loftier aim than that - replicating speech patterns, or something - but the reality? It sounds like the above. Hit it up after the jump.