18-05-2021 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [2018-2021] # Cursive, Galactic, The James Hunter Six, Sunwatchers, J Fernandez,Coma, Mike Dillon, Morcheeba, Yung, Holy Fuck, The Writhing Squares, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
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Black Hole Town (Cursive)
I Am Goddamn (Cursive)
Get Fixed (Cursive)
from Get Fixed 2020
It turns out that if you don't make an album for six years, you might end up with a lot of ideas for songs... But rather than send out a two-disc set, where they felt some of the material might get lost in the shuffle, they opted to split the bounty into two separate releases, and Get Fixed arrived 12 months after Vitriola.... Cursive are a bit less speedy than they once were, but the gravity and ferocity of their attack is as strong as ever on Get Fixed, and the angular shards of sound and precise volleys of guitar, keyboards, horns, strings, and drums are an ideal complement to the rage and confusion of these songs... Get Fixed is another bitter but meaningful State of the Union Address from Cursive, as well as evidence that when the band's creative process shifts into gear, they can deliver both quantity and quality.
Already 8Ben Ellman / Robert Mercurio / Stanton Moore / Jeff Raines / Rich Vogel)
Goose Grease (Ben Ellman / Robert Mercurio / Stanton Moore / Jeff Raines / Rich Vogel)
Ready Already (Ben Ellman / Robert Mercurio / Stanton Moore / Jeff Raines / Rich Vogel)
from Already Ready Already 2019
New Orleans' Galactic is one of the most restless acts to emerge from the jam band scene of the 1990s. With every album they've expanded their musical palette to embrace other sounds and styles while keeping the musical gumbo of their hometown squarely at the center of everything they do... Galactic juxtapose modern dancefloor and funk rhythms alongside electronic instrumentation in putting across their ass-shaking funk pop & roll... Where Galactic's live sets are chock-full of improvisation and surprise, their studio recordings tend to focus on tight songwriting and arranging; this offering is no different -- there are few solos on this set and there is no jamming... Already Ready Already is bookended by two of three high-powered instrumentals, titled appropriately enough "Already" and "Ready Already." While the former is under two minutes, and the latter is under three, they offer twin impressions of intro and outro to the proceedings... The instrumental "Goose Grease" delivers Galactic's post-midnight brand of Meters-inspired jazz-funk inside a sound-effects tunnel riddled with synths, gunshot samples, and swelling B-3...
I Don't Wanna Be Without You (James Hunter)
I Got Eyes (James Hunter)
Blisters (James Hunter)
from Whatever It Takes 2018
James Hunter has stubbornly been making retro R&B records since the mid-'90s... Whatever It Takes is the James Hunter Six's second outing for Daptone. It was produced by label boss Bosco Mann (Gabriel Roth) and recorded live in the label's California studio, direct to eight-track analog tape and pressed to an acetate. The sound is flat, immediate, and just a tiny bit muddy -- it's all it should be... After signing to Daptone, Hunter met his future wife Jesse after a gig in New York. They were married in New Orleans and moved to England. She is the prime inspiration for many of the songs here, and it's more than likely their marriage may account for the unusual tenderness in Hunter's singing voice. His songwriting is more ambitious than at any other time in his career to date. While these songs unabashedly reflect the early days of soul -- from the late '50s through the mid-'60s -- they do so with a sense of rhythmic invention we haven't heard since the early days of New Orleans R&B and pre-Motown Northern soul...
Nose Beers
Silent Boogie
The Works
from II 2018
The cover art for the second album by free music ensemble Sunwatchers consists of an embroidered tapestry boldly declaring that "Sunwatchers stand in solidarity with the dispossessed, impoverished and embattled people of the world." Along with the album, the group issued a manifesto declaring their status as leftists who feel that capitalism is endangering human existence. The group's core members recognize the fact that they are privileged white American males, and that they are granted more of a platform for expressing their views than those who aren't. As such, they do what they can to promote positivity and unity, and to show support for human rights. The music made by Sunwatchers is devoid of lyrics, however, so their work acts as a form of peaceful, joyous protest, operating under Albert Ayler's decree that "Music is the healing force of the universe."...
Unwind 2:30
Light Years 3:08
from Occasional Din 2018
Sophomore album Occasional Din takes a surprising shift toward more adventurous and acid-bathed sounds. This shift is communicated in the first moments of the album, as field recordings, swirling keyboard lines, and ambient clouds melt into tempered fuzz guitar, falsetto vocal harmonies, and live drums washed in healthy doses of flanger... The album continues this seamless flow from song to song, recalling the song cycles of Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks and at the same time evoking the muted, detached psychedelia of contemporaries like Shy Boys and Chris Cohen... At just over a half-hour running time, Occasional Din is best absorbed on repeat, where the refined details of the songs can reveal themselves fully and listeners can get cozy in Fernandez's brightly drawn internal world.
Snurrebassen 5:40
A-Train
from Voyage Voyage 2019
Coma's first release for City Slang after a run on Kompakt that lasted the better part of a decade, Voyage Voyage is the Cologne duo's most pop-minded, indie-friendly work yet, placing a greater emphasis on vocal hooks and rock instrumentation. While there are plenty of vibrant synth sequences and shuffling tech-house rhythms, the electronic elements are generally stripped down to the basics and combined with bass guitars and live drums, with plenty of space for the duo's introspective lyrics... Retaining the dancefloor energy of their previous releases while delving deeper into personal reflections, Voyage Voyage marks Coma's evolution into a more focused dance-pop group.
Tiki Bird Whistle 3:50
Mulatu Goes to India 3:53
Rumba for Peregrine 2:48
from Rosewood 2020
Named after the deeply red-toned wood that marimba bars are made out of, Mike Dillon's 2020 album Rosewood finds the vibraphonist further honing his genre-bending brand of percussion-based music. The album follows up his kinetic punk-, jazz-, and experimental rock-influenced 2018 album Bonobo Bonobo... With Rosewood, Dillon decided to work primarily as a soloist, only collaborating sparingly with fellow percussionist Earl Harvin and audio engineer Chad Meise. Consequently, while improvisation is still at the core of his sound, he took a more compositional approach, showcasing his deft arranging skills on a mix of original compositions and surprising covers... Listening to the lush sounds at play on Rosewood, it's easy to forget that every instrument you are hearing is a percussion instrument. Dillon has crafted a hypnotic album that pulls you deep inside a percussive, sylvan-toned dreamscape.
Cut My Heart Out 5:02
Sounds of Blue 3:34
Sulphur Soul 3:13
from Blackest Blue 2021
‘Blackest Blue’ will be the band’s 10th studio album in a discography that spans three decades. 2020 saw Morcheeba unable to tour or perform live, which gave Skye Edwards & Ross Godfrey “time to write songs and really get to hone them,” as Godfrey puts it. The result of this time is a refined 10 track album that fuses previous incarnations and sound of the band – such as downbeat, chill, electro-pop & soul – into one cohesive record that dives deep into the soul of the band’s genre-mashing musical heritage...
Autobiograhy 4:02
Progress 3:54
Friends On Ice 4:06
from Ongoing Dispute 2021
Showcasing an angsty, unsettled indie rock with dark post-punk and heavier inclinations, Denmark's Yung made their international debut with A Youthful Dream in mid-2016. The quartet spent the next nearly five years preparing the follow-up, with bandleader and main songwriter Mikkel Holm Silkjær citing members' varied musical tastes as a challenge in finding the right balance of noise and tunefulness...
Luxe feat. Alexis Taylor 6:10
Moment 5:00
San Sebastian 3.14
from Deleter 2020
Toronto electro-rock group Holy Fuck have managed to hone their junk shop aesthetic into a surprisingly coherent form of warped pop music... Like their previous albums, this one was born from impromptu jams and sketches at rehearsals and soundchecks. At this point in their career, the group's chemistry is so strong that the music seems to naturally flow from them, and they've never sounded this tight before. Having incorporated buried, distorted vocals into their last few releases, here they invite a few guests to give a bit more of a human touch to their machine rhythms... Tipping closer to dance-pop than noise-rock, Deleter is one of Holy Fuck's most finely tuned albums, yet the band sound as spontaneous as ever.
Dirt in My Mind’s Eye 4:31
A Whole New Jupiter 19:49
from Out of the Ether 2019
Even though Philly-based band the Writhing Squares is made up of just two people, they conjure enough layers of sonic sludge to sound not just like a large band on full power, but a wall of beautifully gnarled noise calling out from the depths of a black hole. Building on the clatter of decidedly primitive drum-machine rhythms, Daniel Provenzano's overdriven bass lines wobble and churn as his bandmate Kevin Nickles fills in any space with tentacular waves of saxophone, delay-drenched vocals and deep-fried electronics... Even at their most meandering, the Writhing Squares' dense and hulking sound belies its own considered design. Out of the Ether is the strongest chapter of their work to date and points towards even more interesting space explorations to come.
King of Bones 3:56
Echo .13
Question of Faith 5:19
from Wrong Creatures 2018
While it would be incorrect to say that all of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's albums are borne out of tragedy and trial, it often feels that way... In 2014, drummer Leah Shapiro underwent brain surgery to treat a neurological disease. Though she had recovered by the time the band began work on their eighth studio album, 2018's eerie and menacing Wrong Creatures, a sense of spiritual peril pervades much of the album. As Been sings on "A Question of Faith," "I'm a question of faith/I'm a faded mind/I'm what calls you away/I'm what leaves you in Time." It's just this sort of doomed reflection that permeates much of Wrong Creatures. However, rather than simply being a dark and cynical glimpse into a metaphysical void, the album actually feels lighter than recent releases. .. On Wrong Creatures, it's refreshing to hear a band so wrought with spiritual and emotional demons find their rock & roll grace and let it rip.
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