wirewool podcast 005

wirewool podcast 005

To make up for the lack of posts this week. And now on Soundcloud. Enjoy, if possible.

wirewool podcast 004

wirewool podcast 004

Threw this together last night, and it sounds it. Enjoy!

RIP Teddy Pendergrass

Teddy Pendergrass - You Can't Hide From Yourself

Man, what an awful day. RIP Teddy.

Jay Reatard RIP

Jay Reatard - Oh Its Such A Shame

It really is. RIP Jay.

Love is the

Nina Kraviz - Pain In The Ass

A great deal of house music in 2009 was preoccupied with insisting that it was house music. Whether it was someone intoning 'House music' over a beat, or DJ Sprinkles commenting on what house is sold as, there was a lot of talking. Which I like. Theres this weird subgenre of house tracks that involve someone making no sense whatsoever on top of the track, the music sounds even more alien with a vocal that is not remotely musical. Nina Kraviz sounds really annoyed about something here, and the whole thing sounds so odd and trippy that I can't help but love it.

Liars - No Barrier Fun

So, Liars: first album was post-punk, 2nd was pagan shouting and organs, 3rd was all drums, 4th was the return to quasi-indie rock, and now 'Sisterworld' sounds kind of like a band who have been through all the aforementioned changes. I was a bit underwhelmed by 2007's 'Liars', but 'Sisterworld' is great stuff - less abraisive and narrow minded than their drum-obsessed period, but just as pummeling, and as tuneful as their fidgety debut. Its as good as you can hope for from an experimental-leaning guitar band, absolutely worth checking out.

Cab ride takes too long

Tindersticks - Factory Girls

Tindersticks, like Lambchop, have settled into a nice groove of, um, nice grooves. When they first appeared in the mid-90s, they were the embodiment of morose beauty (i.e. they had a string section). As the number of bandmembers dwindled, they veered more towards the overt sensuality of soul, lyrically and musically. And they're generally better at it than, say, Belle & Sebastien. It's not an affect. 'Falling Down A Mountain', the new album, is a relaxed affair - they seem to keep their tenser, dissonant stuff for the Claire Denis soundtrack collaborations - and kinda perfect for late winter. Quite gorgeous.

Thriller - Swarm

I can't believe I didn't listen to this when it came out last year. I mean, it's totally up my street. This is dub techno, by way of UK bass obsessives, managing to make something new of a genre that I love to death, but have to admit is not consistently surprising. It's dark, off-kilter, dense.... love it. So much.

When I start to

Ke$ha - Tik Tok (Untold Mix)
Uffie - MCs Can Kiss (Starkey Redid)
Miley Cyrus - Party In The USA (Chopped & Screwed)

SORRY FOLKS, LINKS GOT YANKED BY THE INTERNET POLICE

3 artists most people probably find immensely annoying made trendy. Ke$ha's 'Tik Tok' didn't make a huge impression on me when I first heard it, but Untold's remix makes it more palatable by smearing oversaturated keyboards over it, and a more dancefloor oriented tempo. Uffie, who laudably admits (well, not in so many words) that's she's a dreadful MC on 'MCs Can Kiss', gets a wonky do-over from Starkey, so that's more keyboard blares. Not an improvement per se - Feadz's original production is pretty good, but it does lessen Uffie's actual input, which is good.
Best of all is the Chopped & Screwed version of Miley Cyrus' 'Party In The USA' cause I just love anything chopped & screwed, and obviously it sounds much better this way.

New Year

The Impressions - Make A Resolution

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS

Normal service actually will resume tomorrow.