While we wait for me to get the courage up to finish curating the 30mins. Avant Garde audio initiative, here's another swell whimsical interlude, incorporating as it does one or two of the signature traits of th' Isle O' Foam™ what have endeared it to millions [Enis and Agina Millions, Mule Pucky, TX - Ed.], to lighten your step and put a sparkle in your eye as you go about your touchingly futile quotidian tasks!
"Hey Gwampy! Play some new!" is a cry not often heard on th' IoF©, as it is a place mercifully shunned by the Youngs, but as a cervix to Genwhogivesafucks, today's Freeload™ drags us kicking and screaming into the Now Sounds of Today! Yes, friends, this unfeasibly magnificent Long Playing LP record album comes fresh outta 2016, and is made by people under seventy! Zeitgeistesque, dude-bro!
Here's why it tickles me furry fun buttons:
🎶 Chewns!
🎶 Lyrics you can hear, worth listening to!
🎶 Variety! Just like a real pop record!
🎶 Arrangeminks! No pandemic lo-fi shit here!
🎶 Up-beat! No meditations on loss and isolation!
🎶 Likeable vox!
🎶 Cover that reminds me pleasantly of Soft Machine Third!
There's a little eighties-style pop synth here, but nothing to make your balls retract. Also - some very intelligently written string quartet and horn section charts. The whole deal evokes, and I'm not kidding, shades of Steely Dan. As much as anything else. Look - just download the sucker - you'll love it. Because it's terrific. And because I want you, ya lazy-ass internet grifters, to enjoy it with the least possible effort, I made it easy for yez:
Freeloader Advisory: Two (2) more swell long-playing LP records by this exciting new combo have been added to th' Cornucopia of Profligate Largesse™! See comments! Oboy!
ANYONE ASKING "WHERE IS LINK?" WILL GET PANTSED!
ReplyDeleteHa! Not wearing pants, so there! --Muzak McMusics
ReplyDeleteShall I come in with the B word. No idea why you bring Steely Dan in. 50 years after SgtP'sLHCB I notice their influence in good music. I mean it makes good music awesome. Thank you for bringing them to attention. I had very much trouble solving the captcha, had to ask a friend or two with a degree, Master of Philiosophy & smoking a pipe. They assured me that I should try and find at least one cornerstone, though way out of my comfortzone. And I couldn't so I randomly pick one, the right one as it seemed.
ReplyDeleteI wish you good luck with the Avant-Garde selection. I remember a sentence by Eric Dolphy.
When you hear music, after it’s over, it’s gone, in the air, you can never capture it again.
To hear a record like Holland/Bailey you must remember after hearing, to leave it untill forgotten, so you can get a glimpse of recapturing. That is the truth about Avant-Garde. Getting connected, live, experiencing it. Sitting at home, saying that it is Jazz but is it doesn't swing. When you make your 30 minutes, do you make it an experience, or obnoxious, boring white noise,
What I liked, wow, not 30 minutes, but 30 years ago, was a mix of the full 17 minutes Nonaah solo, with Speedy J's Pull Over beats (without the signal) in progression. And in the Dolphy manner, no recording yet exists
I mention Steely Dan (and I'm not the only one to do so in this context) because there is a quality to their chord progressions - very sophisticated, jazzy - that brings the Dan's songs to mind, and their vocals have a similarly "cool" inflection. Hall & Oates have been quoted as reference points, too. That's why reviews often mention "sounds sorta like" bands, so if you like those bands you'll probably like these guys. Okay now?
Delete(And if by B you mean Beatles - I'm not hearing them *at all*, and neither, as far as I've read, is anyone else. This band's roots and influences are all post-Beatles. If you just wanted to give the Fabs a boost, being the greatest pop group ever, then this isn't the place.)
Sounds like somebody needs all your lovin'. Or, do you want someone to hold your hand?!? FYI - I came in through the bathroom window, looking for something.
DeleteWho's your favorite Fab, pmac? Dreamy Paul, Cuddly Ringo, Fucked-Up Heroin Addict John, or Broody George, the Intellectual of the group?
DeleteAlways go for the broody intellectual, amigo.
DeleteThanks for the Field Music, not an album I have heard, but I saw them live around about 2016 at a festival, what impressed me was they swapped instruments, I believe the two brothers in the band both played the drums and also guitars, whilst singing. Great tunes and melody, The Noisy Days Are Over was played a lot on my favourite radio show at the time.
ReplyDeleteGreat album, thanks, right up my philosophical alley!
ReplyDeleteIt's swell, isn't it? I've grabbed a couple of others by them - don't touch that dial!
Deletethey have a brand spankin' new one set for release.
ReplyDeleteThe Field Music album "Making a New World" is another Dan-esque beauty.
ReplyDeleteGot any more great albums you're keeping to yourself, ya cheap bum?
DeleteHere's their latest, a RSD special of brass band music (?!), AND the gawjuss follow-up to Field Music, "Open Here". Simply locate the engagement-encouraging StealthLink© embedded somewhere in the piece to enjoy executive-style aural relief in the privacy of your own underpass tent!
ReplyDeleteThe link is there, there is the link - if you have the skill-set necessary to find it, why not leave a hint, clew, or cunning indication as to its location? DO NOT (and this means you, Hermann) give away its precise coordinates! Let dem bums woik a little!
DeleteI don't
ReplyDeleteClue #1: What comes after the last letter of the alphabet?
DeletePants me, then!! 'cos several seconds of exhaustive searching has given me zip for the new stealth link!!! ..and I really liked "Commontime"!!
ReplyDeleteClue #2: "What comes after the last letter of the alphabet?" It's right after the z and looks like this:
Delete(Just above the "select all images" image)
Doh!! Yeah!!! I deserved the pantsing!! Wot a doofus I am!!! Thankx, Farq!! Youse a diamond geezer!!
DeleteYou're welcome. The brass band album is a bit of a missed opportunity, but Open Here is swell.
DeleteLate again. So much music. Just played Commonplace. This is a seriously good album, and will get played again soon. Open Here is pending. Thanks Farq.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Ger!
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