10-12-2020 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from recent past] # Jon Spencer, Cat Clyde, The Sufis, Arbor Labor Union, CocoRosie, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Okay Kaya, The Sufis, Sneaks, Urlaub in Polen, Free Nationals, Lee Scratch Perry, Axis: Sova
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Love Handle
Trash Can
from Spencer Sings the Hits 2018
...More than anything, Spencer Sings the Hits suggests the Blues Explosion without the same degree of fire and gravity, and with a little bit of noisy clatter and keyboard blurt added for seasoning. The high-attitude strut of Spencer's vocals is as loud and proud as ever, and the minimalist snarl of his guitar work is similarly confident. But where Judah Bauer and Russell Simins pushed Spencer forward, giving as good as he gave out, percussionist M. Sord and keyboardist Sam Coomes follow the star rather than walking in formation with him, and it makes a difference...
Bird Bone
Not Like You
from Hunters Trance 2019
The melodies of Hunters Trance will inspire you to pour a glass of whiskey and sulk at a bar; it epitomizes the grudge and allure that is notorious of blues-truly authentic and particularly chilling. Cat's voice encapsulates the essence of inspirations such as Amy Winehouse and Janis Joplin to remind us that music that comes from the soul is never outdated and forever transformative. Whether you’re a die hard bluesy-folk fan or not, Cat Clyde’s velvety voice will bury into your heart, stick in your mind, and leave you with that familiar bittersweet taste in your mouth.
Find Your Friends
Cleveland
from Double Exposure 2020
The Sufis' fourth album, Double Exposure, follows in the same lo-fi, weird, and woolly bedroom psych footsteps as their previous album did. Only this time the duo have a much more focused and animated approach to the writing and recording process and punch their performances up just a touch. The sound might be oddly smooth and bathed in cheapo synths, warbly vocals, and drums that sound like they have an inch of water sloshing around inside them, but the songs are shiny and sharp as diamonds. Each track connects like a sucker punch, whether it's the bubbling post-Ariel Pink pop of "Find Your Friends," the compressed jangle pop of "Cleveland," the moody new wave of "Too Far"... they vault to the forefront of the style with an album that shows off their skills as writers, performers, producers, and arrangers like none of their other records has, and few other bands of their ilk have either.
Riddle Snake Blues
How Long Was I Gone
Highway Loop
from New Petal Instants 2020
After changing their name from Pinecones to the even-greener Arbor Labor Union, this Georgia four-piece debuted on Sub Pop with I Hear You, a peculiar mix of stoner rock, post-punk, and psychedelia with a just a touch of twang. The album introduced the group's core guitar duo of singer Bo Orr and fellow axeman Brian Adams who, when not chugging mightily at a middling pace, were prone to writing spry and intriguing circular riffs that spun neatly throughout the songs. It's the latter of those two tendencies that comes to the foreground on New Petal Instants, the band's eccentric 2020 follow-up...
High Road
Hell's Gate
Slow Down Sun Down
from Put the Shine On 2020
Since La Maison de Mon Rêve's "By Your Side," CocoRosie have juxtaposed old and new sounds and attitudes towards relationships in intriguing ways. They continue to mine this territory on Put the Shine On, but this time, Sierra and Bianca Casady's tales of girls and women dealing with men -- especially fathers -- who are absent and abusive are more bemusing than thought-provoking. This is due in large part to the album's sound, which polarizes CocoRosie's collages of unexpected elements into extremes...
I Am Looking Forward
The Source of the Absolute Knowledge
from Dissolution 2019
Finnish songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist Jaakko Eino Kalevi hits the sweet spot between chillwave essence and post-Mac DeMarco yacht pop on his 2018 full-length Out of Touch. That album was warm, colorful, and slightly damaged, full of warped production, buried synthetic elements, and falsetto vocal hooks. Just a year after that friendly, slightly introspective set of tunes, Kalevi took a sharp, abrupt turn with the spaced-out funk of the seven-song mini-album Dissolution. While not completely losing his touch for synth-pop melodicism or wild production, the material here is edgier and colder, more minimal and less friendly. Hard dance rhythms move the tunes and where drippy, lackadaisical basslines once helped the songs find their groove, they're replaced on Dissolution with belching synths and hypnotic drum patterns...
Vampire
I Die Slow
from Both 2018
Kaya Wilkins’ debut, released under her moniker Okay Kaya, is the soundtrack to a state of limbo where identity, feelings, and sexuality continually shapeshift. The defining qualities of Both—ardent lyrics and vocal melodies that lend a soulful dimension to angst—have long been linchpins of Wilkins’ work.... An urge to speak truth on her own terms spurred Wilkins to discard two years’ worth of songs made under corporate servitude and retreat to the safety of her Greenpoint apartment, where, over the course of three years, she recorded the majority of Both...
After Hours
Mercy
Till I Get Home
from After Hours 2018
After recording two really good albums of note-perfect garage psych (2012's Sufis and 2013's Inventions), Nashville duo the Sufis decided to retreat behind the scenes to produce and engineer acts like Paperhead and Universal Friend. After a move to Brooklyn, where they ended up studying with LaMonte Young, the duo (Calvin Laporte and Evan Smith) decided to chuck out the paisley, 12-string guitars, and fuzztone pedals in favor of a wider range of influences and sounds on their third album, 2018's After Hours. Instead of coming off like a modern-day take on the Monkees, this time out the band aims for something less colorful and more nocturnal. To that end, they de-emphasize guitars, bring in vintage synthesizers, and pitch the lead vocals down to a breathy whisper, while writing songs more suited to a long lie-down than a jangling dance party...
Ecstasy
Holy Cow Never Saw a Girl Like Her
And We’re Off
from Highway Hypnosis 2019
Depending on your point of view, 2019's Highway Hypnosis is either the third album from post-punk artist Sneaks, or the first. Sneaks, born Eva Moolchan, has two previous releases to her credit, 2015's Gymnastics and 2017's It's a Myth, but those clocked in at 14 and 18 minutes... While no one would ever accuse Highway Hypnosis of sounding busy, producers Carlos Hernandez, Tony Seltzer and Moolchan have greatly expanded Sneaks' aural palette on this material. The beats have a greater swing, and the grooves are funky in a sneaky, roundabout way her previous work was not, and if her truly memorable bass work isn't as prominent, when it lands on "Holy Cow Never Saw a Girl Like Her," it's powerfully effective... Sneaks sounds justifiably confident on Highway Hypnosis, and this suggests any number of new directions where her talent could travel.
T.H.D.T
Proxy Music
from All 2020
Germany's Urlaub in Polen has always been a hard band to pin down. At their core, they are a two-man guitar-and-drums unit, though both members also handle the myriad synthesizers and ambient electronics that shimmer and buzz through their hypnotic songs. Just after the release of 2011's Boldstriker, the Cologne-based duo of Georg Brenner and Jan Philipp Janzen called it quits, having logged a decade's worth of interesting albums that merged post-punk, Krautrock, and propulsive electronic experimentation. Reuniting after a nine-year gap, they return with their sixth album, All. If anything, the ten-song set feels even tighter than the band's earlier releases, paring away some of the harsh and cavernous sounds of Boldstriker and presenting a leaner, cleaner sort of minimalism that plays to their strengths...
Obituaries feat. Shafiq Husayn
On Sight feat. JID, Kadhja Bonet, MIKNNA
Gidget feat. Anderson .Paak, T.Nava
from Free Nationals 2020
T. Nava (keyboards, vocoder vocals), Callum Connor (drums), Kelsey Gonzalez (bass), and José Rios (guitar) took the name Free Nationals after they formed a tight bond with Anderson .Paak... The L.A. band's distinct identity came into focus with extensive touring in support of their chief collaborator... For the most part, the band zeroes in on their hip-hop-minded approach to reconfiguring polished late-'70s/early-'80s fusions of jazz, soul, and funk. Hints of synchronous Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder, the Blackbyrds and the Brothers Johnson, and even a little Steely Dan/Donald Fagen, are in the mix...
Here Come The Warm Dreads feat. Brian Eno
Mindworker feat. Gaudi
Above And Beyond
from Heavy Rain 2019
Rainford, Lee "Scratch" Perry's 2019 full-length co-produced by Adrian Sherwood, found the Jamaican legend as playful and mystical as ever, and was easily one of his most well-received 21st century releases. Heavy Rain is the album's dub companion, and it pushes the original's sound to the furthest limits while maintaining its character and enlightening spirit... Rainford highlight "Makumba Rock" is further warped by Brian Eno (in the right channel) and transformed into, what else, "Here Come the Warm Dreads." Gaudi's stylophone and whooshing, bubbling keyboards transport "Mind Worker" into deep space, as Perry rises out of the ether as a spiritual guide, declaring himself a soldier and a soul collector... "Above and Beyond" is a stirring duet between Samy Bishai's cascading violin and Paul Booth's harmonious saxophone. More than just a remix album, Heavy Rain stands out on its own merit, demonstrating that Perry's inspiration and creative drive haven't dulled in his advanced age.
Terminal Holiday
Stale Green
Shock Recognition
from Shampoo You 2018
The fourth album from Brett Sova's Axis: Sova project is the first to be recorded by a full-band lineup rounded out by guitarist Tim Kaiser and bassist Jeremy Freeze. Cut live to tape by the trio, the album is more focused and direct than past efforts, with a cleaner, scrubbed-up sound (the Stones-riffing title is no joke) and a greater presence of hooks... the album is filled with riff-happy boogie rock tunes framed by a primitive drum machine, but serving the same purpose as a motorik-style drummer, and embellished by shaker percussion. Opener "Terminal Holiday" settles on a chorus of "I feel so low, Romeo," and its mix of sunny and downbeat feelings is present throughout the rest of the record... Shampoo You is clearly a step toward accessibility, and it's easily the most cohesive Axis: Sova effort to date, but there's still enough weirdness to indicate that the group could never quite play it completely straightforward. This, of course, is precisely what makes them so interesting, and why Shampoo You is one of their most appealing albums.
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