Dreamy & not without hints of Laurie Anderson, new release by Blood Diamonds called “Ritual”. You’ll know Blood Diamonds from his colab with ms grimes. kicking it solo here tho, although it aint w/ out hints of the good lady Grimes.
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Mid Year Top 10
TweetSo, the four of us who ‘do’ Louder Than War put our collective top 10 favourite “albums of the year so far” together for a definitive “Louder Than War” top 50 albums of the first half of 2012. Actually it’s kind of more John’s list - as you can tell by the fact that neither of my 2 favourite albums of the year made it into the top 50! I shall be pushing doubly hard to get both Perfume Genius & the Hype Williams twosome to get into the end of year lists for sure although I guess their chances are both pretty slim.
Anyway here’s my top 10 (11 actually - boosted by Big Joan just for this list, I knew it wouldn’t make the cut for LTW so didn’t choose it there). Video’s for the top three then a bunch of other great albums I could have also picked.
1. Perfume Genius - Put Yr Back N 2 It
2. Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland - Black Is Beautiful
3. DeathGrips - The Money Store
4. Traxman - Da Mind Of Traxman
5. Vibronics – The French Connection
6. Lower Dens - Nooptropics
7. Actress - RIP
8. Grimes - Visions
9. Yva Las Vegass - ‘I Was Born In a Place of Sunshine and the Smell of Ripe Mangoes’
10. OFF! - OFF!
11. Big Joan - The Long Slow Death Of Big Joan
PABH -Tough Love
Sleigh Bells - Reign Of Terror
Hodgy Beats - Untitled
Flats - Better Living
Ceremony - Zoo
Amadou & Mariam - Folila
Lone - Galaxy Garden
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Gonjasufi - MU.ZZ.LE
Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense.
Peaking Lights - ‘Lucifer’
Julia Holter ‘Ekstasis’
Japandroids, ‘Celebration Rock’
Sharon Van Etten, ‘Tramp’
Julia Holter 0 Ekstasis
Gonjasufi - MU.ZZ.LE
Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury - Drokk Music Inspired By Mega-City One
Bass Clef - Reeling Skullways
The 2 Bears, ‘Be Strong’
Vijay Iyer Trio - Accelerando <= (The Token Jazz album)
Quakers - Quakers
ScHoolboy Q- Habits & Contradictions
A Place To Bury Strangers - Worship
The Politix - {pō-‘li-tiks}
The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald)
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
Ty Segall and White Fence - Hair
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath
Sizzla Kalonji - Mr. Danjol
Pariso - Nothing Beyond Everything After
Ministry - Relapse
Meshuggah - Koloss
The Men - Open Your Heart
Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury - Drokk Music Inspired By Mega-City One
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
Bass Clef - Reeling Skullways
Anyone else coming to Simple Things on Sunday? If so you can go to this page on Last.fm & it’ll tell you how many of the 43 bands you’ve scribbled. Can anyone beat my 37 / 43? Fair play to ya if so. Dunno really who I’m mostly looking forward to. Factory Floor mebe after missing their show @ Arnolfini last year. Or Bo Ningen. Grimes.
Or course headlining the thing’s Squarepusher. So here’s a video off his soon to be released next album.
grimes did this interview with the infamous Nardwuar anyway. it was quite long but the signoff was a bit wonderful so i’ve upped an edit of it here.
off course it’s entirely feasible you’ll wanna see the full interview now. if so go here HERE
the vids a bit static at the start - be patient.
