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Johnny Jewel

08-02-2019 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from the recent past] # Johnny Jewel, Heron Oblivion, Katie Dey, Airiel, Kate Nash, Israel Nash, Jacob Banks, Electric Six, Marilyn Manson, The Trouble with Templeton, Fat White Family, King Khan / The Gris Gris, Tav Falco, Le Butcherettes

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Producer, label founder, and member of many projects whose eerie, nostalgic synth pop helped shape the sound of the early 21st century. 
Johnny Jewel
Digital Rain 5:19
The Runner 1:42
Seven Corners 2:02
from Digital Rain 2018
Appearing less than a year after the release of Johnny Jewel's solo debut Windswept, Digital Rain is an even more independent effort. Where Windswept included tracks Jewel recorded with bands like Symmetry as well as on his own, each track here is a solo composition -- and feels like it was recorded in solitude. After establishing himself in the arid city of Los Angeles, Jewel began to miss the rain and snow of places where he used to live, and challenged himself to create a wordless, beatless evocation of watery weather in its many forms...

Psych-folk group led by Meg Baird and featuring members of Comets on Fire and Six Organs of Admittance. 
Heron Oblivion
Beneath Fields 7:45
Sudden Lament 3:32
from The Chapel 2017
San Franciscan psych-folk group Heron Oblivion followed their excellent 2016 full-length debut with this live recording, captured in the band's home town in early 2017. Six of the album's seven songs are performed here, and while these takes aren't grand departures from the studio versions, they demonstrate the acute focus of the group's vision. Featuring drummer/vocalist Meg Baird, guitarists Noel von Harmonson and Charlie Saufley, and bassist Ethan Miller, the band alternate between fragile, dreamy folk and heavy psych-rock, often featuring delicate vocals and crushing dual guitar solos in the same song...

Experimental bedroom pop musician from Melbourne, Australia known for her unconventional arrangements and distorted vocals. 
Katie Dey
All 1:30
So You Pick Yourself Up 2:21
Only a Trip and Fall Down Again
from Flood Network 2016
Australian singer/songwriter Katie Dey's singular brand of fragmentary home-recorded pop is fragile, strange, and sometimes frightening. Taking full advantage of the recording and editing capabilities of her laptop, she vibrantly strums her scratchy-sounding guitar and programs nervous, glitchy beats. Nothing is ever straightforward with her music; it constantly feels like it's mutating and being pulled apart against its will. Most jarring of all is her voice, which she distorts into an unsettling digital croak. Similar to tUnE-yArDs, Dey's vocals are not for everyone, and may be a dealbreaker for many listeners. In the context of her music, however, they make total sense, and it's hard to imagine hearing pristine, angelic vocals over such broken, mutilated arrangements...

Ambitious Chicago-based dream pop/shoegaze group masterminded by guitarist/vocalist Jeremy Wrenn. 
Airiel 
This Is Permanent 5:36
Molten Young Lovers 4:39
from Molten Young Lovers 2017
Airiel aren't the most prolific band in the world, but when they do release something, it tends to be big and ambitious. Molten Young Lovers is only the Chicago-based dream pop group's second proper full-length since forming in the late '90s, and that doesn't include a four-part series of Winks & Kisses EPs, each of which contains an epic track hovering around the ten-minute mark...

English pop singer/songwriter who debuted in the mid-2000s with cheeky lyrics and catchy, piano-driven melodies. With each successive album, Nash reinvented her sound, tackling neo-soul, synth pop, and indie rock stylings throughout the 2010s.
Kate Nash
Life in Pink 4:15
California Poppies 4:20
from Yesterday Was Forever 2018
After debuting in 2007 with the U.K. number one Made of Bricks, irreverent popsmith Kate Nash diverged from that album's often staccato, piano-centric sound into vibrant neo-soul for her follow-up. She switched gears again to grittier indie rock on her third studio LP, Girl Talk. Inspired by revisiting diaries from her teens, 2018's Yesterday Was Forever revisits the past in more ways than one, favoring her debut's more efficient, bubbly pop while still incorporating other stylistic interests, including heavier synths, at least on some tracks...

Missouri native with an atmospheric, gently psychedelic Americana sound. Texas-based singer/songwriter Israel Nash began his career in New York in the late 2000s, blending elements of rock and country with gentle psychedelia and undercurrents of rural folk.
Israel Nash
Looking Glass 5:11
Spirity Falls 4:25
from Lifted 2018
Another great album. Need time to resonate to see if it stands up to the last to. Which is quite a task to to they are Masterpieces! But Isreal and Co has impacted me as much as any other artist has and difenitly Lifts my spirits and inspires goosebumps often! (Steven Mcdonald)

Plan B and Emeli Sandé helped to bring this Birmingham, England classic soul-influenced vocalist to a wider U.K. audience. Born in Nigeria and growing up in England, singer/songwriter Jacob Banks crafts his songs around his rich baritone voice, drawing from blues, R&B, reggae, and elements of hip-hop for his multi-layered productions.
Jacob Banks
Chainsmoking 3:12
Mexico 3:40
from Village 2018
U.K. singer Jacob Banks took a long, slow road to his debut studio album Village, first releasing his genre-bending take on blues-indebted R&B on a 2013 EP and trickling out tracks and brief collections from there. While colorful and shifting styles have always been a part of Banks' music, Village offers the highest-definition presentation of his many approaches, as he plays with sonic switch-ups and wandering moods across the 15 spacious tracks...

Detroit rockers who became surprise British hitmakers with a blend of garage rock, post-punk, and disco. Mixing garage rock, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs celebrating hedonism in multiple forms, Electric Six emerged from the same late-'90s/early-2000s Detroit garage-punk scene that produced the White Stripes and the Dirtbombs. 
Electric Six
Chicken Wine 2:25
Sex With Somebody 3:29
Dark Politics 3:59
from How Dare You 2017
Once upon a time -- back in the '60s and '70s, you know, the Bronze Age -- it was pretty much a given that a working rock band put out an album every year, toured behind it, and then rolled back into the studio to repeat the cycle. That time line has all but vanished in the 21st century, but the men of Electric Six have the sort of work ethic that harks back to those halcyon days. Since 2005, Electric Six have dropped at least one album every year, sometimes more, and 2017 has proven to be no exception, as How Dare You was delivered unto their fans in October of that year. Along with being industrious, the E6 are also reliable; while they haven't delivered a lunatic masterpiece like Switzerland or I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master in a while, they haven't been tossing off duds, either, and How Dare You is a testimony that this band's devotion to its own strange creation is not a sometime thing. Still dealing in hard rock bombast, dance-rock pomp, and a wisenheimer's worldview, How Dare You is Electric Six doing what they do best, with Dick Valentine's gloriously mannered vocals expounding on his myriad obsessions as the guitars, keys, and drums pop behind him like an exceptionally long string of firecrackers...

Controversial singer known for his outlandish outfits, skillful media manipulation, and deceptively melodic hard rock. 
Marilyn Manson
Revelation #12 4:42
Heaven Upside Down 4:49
from Heaven Upside Down 2017
After a late-career rejuvenation with 2015's The Pale Emperor, Marilyn Manson extended his creative hot streak with musical partner Tyler Bates on the band's tenth offering, Heaven Upside Down. Originally saddled with the punny title Say10, the album bares sharper teeth and bloodier knuckles than its predecessor, combining Pale Emperor's bluesy, vampire-roadhouse sleaze with the jagged industrial edges that first propelled Manson to notoriety in the '90s. Cocaine and heartbreak continue to fuel the reclusive ghoul, recalling the best of 2007's forlorn Eat Me, Drink Me, a record that gave listeners the first peek at Manson the man. That change in the perception of the artist -- who went from America's Most Wanted to a fallible Hollywood Hills fixture in just a decade -- is part of what makes these late-era efforts so accessible and enjoyable. He can still menace and push the boundaries of taste, but with so many real-world monsters to worry about, Manson's brand of offensive troublemaking and reckless hedonism remains unique and oddly comforting...

Introspective and occasionally epic indie pop from this Brisbane-based quintet led by singer/songwriter Thomas Calder. Australian indie rock quintet the Trouble with Templeton (named after an episode of The Twilight Zone) began in 2011 as the recording project of then 20-year-old Brisbane-based singer/songwriter Thomas Calder.
The Trouble with Templeton
Bad Mistake 3:05
Double Life 5:34
from Someday, Buddy 2016
Built around the talents of singer and songwriter Thomas Calder, the Trouble with Templeton self-released what was essentially a solo album before making their Bella Union debut as a five-piece with 2014's Rookie. The bricolage of indie folk, synthier pop, and more direct alt-rock led to touring opportunities with the likes of Of Monsters and Men and Father John Misty. Playing more to their strengths, however, the follow-up sees the group, which slimmed down to a trio, simplify their approach. The more focused Someday, Buddy re-places the emphasis on songwriting. It takes on an almost lo-fi character with '90s Pavement-type ambling guitars and intimate lyrics as the album oscillates between hushed rumination and lyric-driven outbursts...

Scuzzy rock & roll-inspired post punk with a socialist edge from south London recalling the likes of the Fall, Butthole Surfers, and the Birthday Party. 
Fat White Family 
Whitest Boy on the Beach 4:53
We Must Learn to Rise 7:10
from Songs For Our Mothers 2016
On their first album, Fat White Family sounded like they could be a group of bitter, homeless alcoholics who took to making music on battered gear found in a house where they were squatting. Three years later, the group made something of a creative shift; on 2016's Songs for Our Mothers, those winos have purchased a cheap but reliable rhythm machine and started dabbling in club music...

From his work with mid-'90s underground garage bands to his work with Mark Sultan, King Khan gained a reputation as a wild and dangerous frontman. Brewing up a heady mixture of high-spirited rhythm & blues, real-gone psychedelia, and middle-finger-flipping garage rock, King Khan has earned an international reputation as one of the wildest showmen in underground rock. 
King Khan / The Gris Gris
Discreate Disguise 4:18
Run Doggy Run 3:32
from Murderburgers 2017
Who needs a band when you have friends? King Khan has worked with plenty of musicians over the years, including the garage-punk band the Spaceshits, minimalist blues stomper BBQ, and his own show band the Shrines, but though Khan announced that 2017's Murderburgers would be his first solo album, that doesn't mean he was working entirely on his own. For Murderburgers, Khan brought along producer Greg Ashley, who in turn brought in his own band, the Gris Gris, to back Khan on these sessions. And it turns out everyone in this scenario made fine choices; Murderburgers is one of the most tuneful, eclectic, and satisfying albums King Khan has delivered to date, and the Gris Gris have the chops and the imagination to keep up with Khan at every turn...

Came to prominence in the early '80s, fusing rockabilly with garage band sloppiness and Elvis Presley-influenced whoops. The master of a raw and shambolic fusion of rockabilly, blues, and fractured noise, Tav Falco was, along with the Cramps, one of the earliest purveyors of what would come to be known as psychobilly (though his version of the sound lacked the campy horror movie ambience others brought to it), and he anticipated the fractured but hard-hitting blues wailing of the Gories and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion by close to a decade.
Tav Falco
Nobody's Baby 4:50
Old Fashioned Morphine 4:18
New World Order Blues 4:35
from Cabaret of Daggers 2018
Cult legend, avant-roots/Rock & Roll raconteur Tav Falco is back at it again with the same ferocious line-up from 2015’s Command Performance. Cabaret of Daggers was tracked in Rome, with vocal overdubs recorded at the legendary Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis.

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 is a garage punk band founded in Mexico in 2008 by vocalist/guitarist Teri Gender Bender (Denver-born and Mexican-bred Teri Suarez Cosío), who remains the only constant member. Their chaotic sound bleeds the boundaries of punk to embrace everything from mariachi and funk to industrial noise to loopy, absurdist avant-rock.
Le Butcherettes
Spider/WAVES feat. Jello Biafra 5:47
strong/ENOUGH 4:20
struggle/STRUGGLE 4:14
from bi/MENTAL 2019
"My heart's beating, I'm so excited," says Teri Gender Bender — the wild and wonderfully outspoken singer who fronts Guadalajara garage-punk band Le Butcherettes. To be honest, it's touching that an interview with the good old L.A. Weekly still inspires that sort of emotion in an artist we admire as much as Ms. Gender Bender.
The band's bi/MENTAL album, their fourth, has just landed and it features guest spots from punk royalty such as Alice Bag and Jello Biafra...