09-06-2018 2:01 ~ FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 2009-2013

09-06-2018 2:01 ~ FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 2009-2013  >>Kurt Vile, Lydia Lunch, Chromatics, The Dead Weather, Le Butcherettes, Cambodian Space Project, Grinderman, Andrea Schroeder, Lydia Lunch, little hurricane<<

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2009-2013

From lo-fi roots and compulsive recording, this fuzzy Philly songwriter grew a huge body of strong and constantly evolving solo work. / Philadelphia songwriter Kurt Vile was already recording himself at home by age 14, shortly after his bluegrass-loving father purchased him a banjo to encourage his youthful creativity. By age 17, Vile was self-releasing cassettes of his home recordings, which in the earliest days were strongly influenced by the raw slacker pop of the Drag City roster. He would continue to record prolifically, releasing cassettes and CD-Rs of his solo material while holding down a day job as a forklift operator.
Kurt Vile
Overnite Religion (Kurt Vile) 5:15
Dead Ali Ve (Kurt Vile) 3:47
Hunchback (Kurt Vile) 4:50
from Childish Prodigy 2009
Don't judge a book by its cover. Kurt Vile's long-haired hippie appearance may suggest West Coast roots -- even though he's actually a Philadelphian -- but his sound comes straight out of the underbelly of the Big Apple. With a slack-singing style reminiscent of Lou Reed or Alan Vega, and his vocals doused in slap-back reverb, the songs on Childish Prodigy shift between gritty numbers driven by guitar fuzz and steady ballads backed by one-key baritone drones...

A pivotal figure in the late-'70s no wave scene, a punk poet/actor who recorded confrontational, sexually charged music. / After leaving the seminal New York no wave outfit Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, poet/actress/vocalist Lydia Lunch (b. Lydia Koch) embarked on a solo career marked by frequent collaborations and band changes, plus an attitude of confrontational nihilism expressed in both her sound and her often violent and/or sexually oriented subject matter.
Lydia Lunch
Gospel Singer 2:55
Baby Faced Killer (Lydia Lunch) 4:19
Kill Your Sons (Lou Reed) 4:15
from Big Sexy Noise 2009
Big Sexy Noise follow up their vinyl mini album, released in summer of 2009, with a full blown CD album. The band, fronted by Lydia Lunch and Gallon Drunk alt-rockers James Johnston, Terry Edwards and Ian White, have recorded a further five Johnston/Lunch originals plus a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover to complement the original six tracks.

Glamorously heartbroken purveyors of evocative electropop. / Beginning as a no wave band with an equally volatile lineup and sound, Chromatics evolved into one of the most influential electro-pop acts of the 2000s and 2010s. On albums such as Night Drive and Kill for Love, the group's evocative mix of Italo-disco, post-punk, and '80s pop was glamorous, heartbroken, and utterly distinctive.

Chromatics 

In the City 7:13

Dark Day 6:17

from In The City 2010

Insomniacs often appreciate boredom in a tranquil, morbid and sometimes depressed sort of way. Watching the sun rise after a night of consciousness is thrilling in a some forms. Beautifully, your eyes heavy with the anxiety of depression and stress seem to stay wide to witness the death and birth of our star... This album was released proceeding the Italians Do It Better debut, ‘Night Drive’, which was much more dreamy than the proceeding albums which would sometimes be labeled as post-disco... String leads, driving bass melodies, guitar lines and drum programming make ‘In The City’ an intricate and dreamy listen. The first track instantly pulls the auditor into a deep psychedelia, tranquil and, in a hidden way, ambiguous and scary...

Another Jack White-related supergroup this time with White on drums and featuring members of the Kills and Queens of the Stone Age. / Crafting a darkly potent mix of garage, blues, punk, and rock & roll informed by the members' other projects, the Dead Weather features Jack White, the Kills' Alison Mosshart, Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Dean Fertita, and the Raconteurs' "Little Jack" Lawrence. The group began in 2008 after the Raconteurs' U.S. tour with the Kills: Toward the end of the tour, bronchitis made it difficult for White to sing as much as usual, so Mosshart was drafted to sing several of his songs.

The Dead Weather 

Blue Blood Blues (Dean Fertita / Jack Lawrence / Jack White) 3:22

Hustle and Cuss (Jack Lawrence / Alison Mosshart) 3:45

The Difference Between Us (Alison Mosshart / Jack White) 3:37

I'm Mad (Dean Fertita / Jack Lawrence / Alison Mosshart / Jack White) 3:16

from Sea Of Cowards 2010

Sea of Cowards arrived less than a year after the Dead Weather's debut, Horehound, an album that sounded like a bootleg of a 3 a.m. jam session -- not a surprise, really, considering that the idea for the band came out of impromptu playing at Jack White's house. It’s also unsurprising that the Dead Weather evolved quickly, given that the group went from releasing Horehound to touring to recording again almost nonstop. Sea of Cowards isn’t a radical change from Horehound’s smoky, sludgy sound -- if anything, White, Alison Mosshart, Dean Fertita, and Jack Lawrence go even deeper into their classic rock and blues fetishes -- but it feels more organic, the product of a band instead of four separate personalities. A quick glance at the album’s liner notes shows they wrote these songs in almost every conceivable combination, yet Sea of Cowards sounds more cohesive: dense and charged like the air just before a rainstorm, replete with fat basslines and heavy organ solos equally inspired by ‘70s album rock and silent movie scores. Most of Horehound's loose ends have been trimmed, but Sea of Cowards still has plenty of weird moments...

Founded in Mexico City, Le Butcherettes are an explosive, sophisticated, Los Angeles punk & roll trio led by songwriter/vocalist/guitarist Teri Gender Bender. Le Butcherettes were founded in Mexico in 2008 by vocalist/guitarist Teri Gender Bender (Denver-born and Mexican-bred Teri Suarez) and former drummer Auryn Jolene. The band quickly garnered underground acclaim for their outrageous live shows: they dressed in '50s-era women's clothing and employed props (for political purposes) -- feather dusters, brooms, aprons, fake blood, flour, eggs, meat, and a real pig's head -- depicting women as slaves of the household. 

Le Butcherettes
Tonight (Teri Gender Bender) 2:37
New York (Teri Gender Bender) 1:58
Henry Don't Got Love (Teri Gender Bender) 4:49
The Leibniz Language (Teri Gender Bender) 5:31
from Sin Sin Sin 2011
Teri Gender Bender (Teri Suarez), the frontwoman, songwriter, and guitarist of Le Butcherettes is a young, literate, angry, and funny poet. The Denver-born, Mexican-bred founder and frontwoman of this trio (which has different studio and live incarnations), has plenty to say on Sin Sin Sin, the band's debut long-player. In these 13 songs, she raggedly stitches together strands from obvious influences (PJ Harvey, the Kills, Blood Red Shoes, and Beck, to name a few), in a manner that's entirely un-self-conscious and emotionally raw, with zig-zagging melody, chord, and riff changes that are as accessible as they are adventurous. Sin Sin Sin is 21st century punk by way of indie rock. Suarez's guitar and keyboard lines create riffs and splintered melodies that her rhythm section -- producer Omar Rodriguez-Lopez on bass, and Normandi Heuxdaflo on drums -- expertly accompany lyrics whose take on postmodern feminism, love, lust, the politics of the drug war in Mexico, race, class, and societal conventions is startlingly original...

The Cambodian Space Project is a Cambodian psychedelic rock band. Kak Channthy (aka Srey Thy) (1980 - 2018), The Cambodian Space Project's lead singer was born into war and poverty. Thy spent the first 10 years of her life moving about the frontlines of conflict (post Pol Pot) with her father, a tank driver, and has never had the opportunity to go to school. She has an enormous repertoire of songs, mostly memorized and improvises many of her vocals.
Cambodian Space Project
Snaeha Doc Toek Kmom [Love Like Honey] (Voy Ho / Pan Ron) 2:59
Ban Juarp Pros Snae [I've Met My Love] (Pan Ron) 2:52
Chnam Oun Dop Pram Mouy [I'm Sixteen] (Has Halan / Voy Ho / Ros Sereysothea) 3:14
from 2011: a Space Odyssey 2011
The Cambodian Space Project is neither entirely Cambodian (its members also hail from Australia and France) nor is its sound particularly spacy (on the contrary, it's a sort of charmingly trashy retro-rock that borders at times on straight-up garage punk). But the group's sound is dominated, very much for the better, by the vocals of Srey Thy, and since her melodies are frequently embellished in a melismatic Southeast Asian fashion and her lyrics are all sung in Cambodian, this debut album ends up sounding like a sonic explosion of cultures and time periods. Thy's voice is a revelation: simultaneously childlike and powerful, it sounds like that of a beautiful bird with tattoos and a Mohawk...

A noisier and more musically experimental side project for Nick Cave and three members of his band, the Bad Seeds.  While Nick Cave's music has evolved from the harrowing post-punk wail of the Birthday Party to the eloquent and often poetic approach he explored on the albums The Boatman's Call and No More Shall We Part with his group the Bad Seeds, the troublemaking noise merchant of his youth has never entirely gone away, and in 2006 Cave founded Grinderman to give this side of his musical personality a new outlet.
Grinderman
Super Heathen Child feat: Robert Fripp 6:30
Worm Tamer [A Place to Bury Strangers Remix] 3:26
Bellringer Blues [Nick Zinner Remix] 4:30
Hyper Worm Tamer (Remix) 5:57
from Grinderman 2 RMX 2012
Nick Cave's garage band to issue Grinderman 2 RMX, featuring 12 last pieces of gnarly noise before their 'indefinite hiatus' 
Although Nick Cave announced the end of the Grinderman last month, the band are set for one last hurrah. They will say farewell with a remix album featuring Josh Homme, UNKLE and the National's Matt Berninger. As the band begins an indefinite hiatus, Grinderman 2 RMX, due in March on Mute, will collect 12 reworkings, mix-ups, demos and B-sides, including a collaboration with King Crimson's Robert Fripp.

Once in a while, Germany offers uniquely talented female singers, and Andrea is one of those. Draw yourself a line from Marlene Dietrich over to Nico, add some dashes Chamber Pop in the vein of The Tindersticks to it and you come close. Discovered and loved by such illustrious people like Charles Plymell or Mike Watt, Andrea Schroeder is an exceptional phenomenon. 
Andrea Schroeder ‎
Paint It Blue 2:49
Bebop Blues 3:17
Wrap Me In Your Arms 3:08
from Blackbird 2012

A pivotal figure in the late-'70s no wave scene, a punk poet/actor who recorded confrontational, sexually charged music. The year 2013 proved to be prolific for Lunch. Her live band offering Retro Virus (her backing trio included guitarist Weasel Walter, drummer Bob Bert, and bassist Algis Kyzis)...
Lydia Lunch
Mechanical Flattery 4:34
Ran Away Dark 2:19
3 X 3 4:36
from Retro Virus 2013
...Now based in Spain, Lunch both affirms and rejects the “grand dame of no wave” (or any such terminology) in Retro Virus, a quartet convened with Weasel Walter (guitar), Algis Kizys (bass, ex-Swans/Foetus), and Bob Bert (drums, ex-Sonic Youth/Pussy Galore). Released on Walter’s ugEXPLODE label, the eponymous Retro Virus was recorded live at Knitting Factory Brooklyn at the close of a November 2012 US tour, and it finds Lunch and company in top form...Looking beyond the somewhat dated production values of late-80s/early-90s avant-rock and “industrially-associated” music (which are occasionally played up here), the tunes and their general feel are surprisingly undated, tough and economical in execution but with an underlying ornateness (some might call that excess — to each one’s own). Lunch is a force among vocalists/presences, and it’s wonderful to be reminded of that so keenly. Her nuance, power, and theatrical dynamism are certainly front-and-center here, but with a cracking ensemble sonically dropped in from the prime era of scum, Retro Virus is also some of the most empathetic music Lunch has made.

A gritty and down-home 21st century blues-rock duo out of San Diego, California. little hurricane formed in 2010 when guitarist and vocalist Anthony "Tone" Catalano answered a musician's call from drummer and vocalist Celeste "CC" Spina on craigslist. Catalano, originally from Santa Cruz, California, and Spina, originally from Chicago, Illinois, shared a common interest in both the blues and vintage musical equipment, and their ragged, passionate sound evolved almost instantly.
little hurricane
Dark End of the Street (James Carr cover) 2:21
Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover) 3:12
I'm on Fire (Bruce Springsteen cover) 2:20
Money (PinkFloyd cover) 4:03
from Stay Classy (A Collection of Cover Songs) 2013
...Having brought their scratchy, backwoodsy blues-rock to the masses, the pair are now back home, resting up until the next tour. However, to see their fans through the hiatus, the band have released a cover album, free on the internet... Overall, a brilliant cover collection which showcases Tone Catalano and CC Spina’s combined talents, as well as their trademark blues sound. Not only do they make the scratchy blues rock of my dreams, but they evidently have pretty good taste in music too. And best of all, you don’t even have to pay for it.