NP: 2017 Edition

[Dust]

I mean, of course I like my own song, but it's so much softer than Digging Out.  Hopefully I can do both.  I should have the time for it.

[Goose]

It's what I started the listening session at the studio with, thinking that it was the best bit that I've got in my arsenal.  And they liked it for sure, and I hope we get to work on it at some point.

But they picked out this song, of all of them:

crutches (01.15.17)

Apparently this one's pretty good, eh?

Its definitely got potential.  The arrangement is definitely a little sparse right now, some studio time could probably help flesh that out.

[Dust]

Indeed!  The produced I'll be working with loved the main synth hook, and he wants to try running it through a bunch of different analog units to really blow up the sound.

I'm excited for it, man.  That I have to wait another week kills me.

[Dust]

The National - Coversation 16

MIA - Born Free <- Amazing video.

[TPD]

MIA - Born Free <- Amazing video.

yesssssssssssss

[Dust]

Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money

Dedicated to Boofu and Boom, whaaaaat!

Edit: Because they're the most hood out of all of us, obviously.

[Aaron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEfS-GkSWMQ   

It's a cover group of younger girls. The Drummer is a bit out of place. But not too bad for an old dude. (It's Carey, the comments say it was a golf tournament and the girls were gonna play The Pot, so he asked to play drums for them.) Dude has a big grin on his face. Shit's great. 

[luna]

yesssssssssssss

Yes x2939484939

[chimera]

Shit's great.

He's a sweetie-pie like that; he's done stuff for the School of Rock in the past too.

[Aaron]

He's a sweetie-pie like that; he's done stuff for the School of Rock in the past too.

Ya, I saw a School of Rock vid as well with him on drums. I think the best thing is the people missing joking in the comments about the drummer not being that good/not keeping up ect. But ya, he is smiling in most the vid and looks like he is having a really good time. He really does seem like a legitimately hella cool dude.

[rynne]

Solange - A Seat at the Table
Moor Mother - Fetish Bones

Two albums on the theme of being a black woman in 2016, on the absolute opposite ends of the musical spectrum.

Solange's album is gorgeously sparse, with her melodic, airy vocals floating above warm but skeletal soul and R&B courtesy of Raphael Saadiq. (Her True EP pulled a similar trick for 80s pop with collaborator Blood Orange). It seems like the messages of songs like "Don't Touch My Hair," "F.U.B.U.,"  and "Cranes in the Sky" are powerful enough that they don't need to be shouted.

Conversely, Moor Mother's album is neither melodic nor spare. The reference points I'm hearing are first-wave industrial noise collage, Lydia-Lunch-style no-wave street horror narratives, and Dälek's industrial hip-hop re-imagined as slam poetry. (Though not a damn one of those is sited by Moor Mother herself, who instead nods to Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, and riot grrl as influences).

Both are pretty great.

[luna]

Anyone picked up the new DM album? Any good?

[Dust]

Don't judge me, but I love this.

Kaleida - Think

[luna]

We've been listening to s lot of pink Floyd lately. The 3 year old keeps requesting The Wall. I'm sure chim would approve

[Goose]

My 2 year old keeps requesting a combination of BabyMetal and Backyardigans.  I have weird kids.