10-08-2021 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [2019-2021] # Mike Krol, Deserta, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Rival Sons, The White Stripes, William Parker, Shame, Joan of Arc, Upset, The Heliocentrics, Ani DiFranco
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An L.A.-based garage rocker with a large sense of humor plus a day job as a graphic designer.
Blue and Pink 3:32
Power Chords 3:22
Left for Dead 2:40
from Power Chords 2019
Most of the garage-punk acts that have emerged in the wake of Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees in the 2010s have been bands with no small amount of studied cool lurking behind their sweaty energy. Mike Krol is a vital exception to this rule; Krol is far too concerned with pumping out his fuzzy, no-frills, hook-infused rock and laying his heart out for all to see to have much truck with being cool. And that's a large part of what makes his music work so well. Krol clearly has a sense of humor and isn't trying to reinvent the wheel, but it's clear that rock & roll means a lot to him...
The project of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Matthew Doty finds the sweet spot between synth pop and shoegaze.
Be So Blue 5:30
Black Aura 5:31
from Black Aura My Sun 2020
With Black Aura My Sun, Deserta's Matthew Doty shows off his knowledge of several decades' worth of shoegaze and synth pop as well as his skill at reinterpreting those styles in ways that are familiar, but never boring. Much like Lust for Youth, Deserta excels at creating almost uncannily perfect recombinations of iconic sounds. ..
Sunny-sounding Australian band specializes in "soft punk/hard pop" with a smart and jangly approach.
The Second of the First 3:40
The Only One 3:46
from Sideways to New Italy 2020
After a couple of EPs where they worked on finding their feet as a band, the Australian quintet Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever nailed it on their first album, 2018's Hope Downs. Their three-guitar attack was honed to a fine point, the songwriting suddenly popped like formerly plugged-up ears in a descending aircraft, and their sound had all the mystery of early R.E.M. paired with the power of the Church at their rockiest. The record would have been top of the class during the golden age of '80s jangle pop, and it shone like a glittering diamond in the murky era of chillgaze and stoned psychedelia it was surrounded by in its own time. The band must have realized they had hit on something extraordinary because on 2020's Sideways to New Italy, they don't change the formula much...
Fuzzed-out classic rock revivalists from Los Angeles whose sound evokes the bluesy sound of legendary bands like Led Zeppelin.
Back In The Woods 3:32
Feral Roots 5:55
Too Bad 4:44
from Feral Roots 2019
Since debuting in 2009 with the self-released Before the Fire, Long Beach, California's Rival Sons have been on a tear, delivering a refreshingly unfussy blast of blues-blasted hard rock on an almost yearly basis. Working once again with producer Dave Cobb, Feral Roots, the band's sixth full-length effort... Rival Sons may have complete control of the ship, but they intend to leave a huge wake.
Detroit duo that walked the line between blues-rock primitivism and arty minimalism, unexpectedly becoming kings of garage rock in the 2000s.
Let’s Shake Hands (Jack White) 2:04
Fell in Love With a Girl (Jack White) 1:50
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground (Jack White) 3:03
from The White Stripes Greatest Hits 2020
Like the other archival releases that appeared after the White Stripes called it quits in 2011, The White Stripes Greatest Hits is filled with the same detail, wit, and willingness to subvert expectations that made the band so dynamic when they were active. As with all things involving Jack and Meg White, the collection's hand-curated feel is much more personal than the average best-of or streaming play list. The idiosyncratic track list shuffles the pages of the Stripes' songbook, bringing new life to their music in the process... It's clear a lot of love went into crafting The White Stripes Greatest Hits, and its quirks should make it all the more endearing to fans and newcomers alike.
The pre-eminent bassist in modern free jazz, and one of the New York scene's major catalysts.
Tobasco (William Parker) 5:39
Mayan Space Station (William Parker) 14:42
The Wall Falls Down (William Parker) 13:50
from Mayan Space Station 2021
Over his prolific, five-plus-decade career, bassist and composer William Parker's inexhaustible willingness to collaborate and experiment has led him to work with hundreds of instrumentalists, singers, poets, dancers, and painters, but rarely guitarists. Mayan Space Station is his first time leading a guitar-based power trio with drummer Gerald Cleaver and Brooklyn-based electric guitarist Ava Mendoza (a member of Unnatural Ways). The six selections here were all composed by the bassist for this group. It's one of two Parker-led outings issued simultaneously on Aum Fidelity; the other is Painters Winter, with saxophonist Daniel Carter and drummer Hamid Drake, an overdue sequel of sorts to Painter's Spring from 2000...
Bracing South London post-punk band with a passionate, political viewpoint. South London's brash post-punk outfit Shame follow in the footsteps of unflinching musicians and writers such as the Fall, Television Personalities, and Irvine Welsh.
Alphabet 2:54
Born in Luton 4:47
Station Wagon 6:36
from Drunk Tank Pink 2021
Shame already displayed plenty of ambition and a penchant for drama on Songs of Praise, but they're twice as potent on Drunk Tank Pink. Though it's named for the color used to subdue violently inebriated prisoners, there's little soothing about the band's second album; in fact, by comparison, their debut sounds almost staid. Following Songs of Praise's success, Shame found new ways to tear things up. Guitarist Sean Coyle-Smith got into Nigerian highlife music, ESG, and Talking Heads, while vocalist Charlie Steen used the highs and lows that followed their whirlwind fame as fodder for his lyrics. It's a combustive combination, and James Ford's production makes it all the more explosive...
Indie rock stalwarts led by Tim Kinsella, with a sustained focus on exploring the boundaries of their art.
Destiny Revision 3:44
Land Surveyor 3:36
Feedback 3/4
from Tim Melina Theo Bobby 2020
Sometime following the release of their gorgeous 2018 album 1984, long-running Chicago art rock experimentalists Joan of Arc decided to call it a day. The band formed in 1995 around the impassioned vocals, obtuse thinking, and creatively limitless songwriting of former Cap'n Jazz member Tim Kinsella, and for the next many years, Kinsella and a rotating cast of players stretched the conceptual boundaries of what Joan of Arc was on over a dozen albums. After making the decision to end the group, the most recently active lineup entered the studio, knowing that what they were recording would be the last statement from a band who had spent two-and-a-half decades creating a sound that was both wildly specific and somehow boundless. In true Joan of Arc fashion, final album Tim Melina Theo Bobby (the first names of the players who made the music) sees the group taking their sound in a new direction, even on the way out the door...
Former Vivian Girls and Best Coast drummer formed Upset with ex-Hole drummer Patty Schemel to play her own punk-pop songs. Sounding like a lost band from the grunge pop '90s, Upset were formed by the duo of Ali Koehler, ex-Vivian Girls and Best Coast drummer, and Patty Schemel, who famously drummed for Hole.
Holy Basil 3:10
Over My Head 3:22
Brighton 3:31
from Upset 2019
Upset's take on '90s pop-punk and grunge is more refined and powerful on their second album, 2019's Upset. Since their promising 2013 debut album and follow-up EP in 2015, the band has solidified into a quartet while spreading out the songwriting and singing duties. Original singer/songwriter Ali Koehler shares the mike this time with guitarist Lauren Freeman, who provides an alternate vision that's a little rougher -- both sonically and emotionally -- around the edges. For the most part, Koehler comes at her songs from a poppier, more melodic angle, while Freeman has a more angular and punk-derived style. .. Adding Freeman to the mix was a great idea that made an already good band even better and Upset is a strong step forward from their debut and some of the best retro grunge-punk going in 2019.
This London quintet blends Krautrock, psychedelia, and shoegaze into hypnotic, pulsating music.
Sequence One 4:17
Energy 4:07
from Happy in the Hollow 2019
With Clear Shot, TOY transformed their music by bringing it into hi-def focus. On Happy in the Hollow, they continue to change their sound in several ways. For the first time, the band self-produced their music, though their sessions at Dan Carey's Studio B suggest they're still tight with the producer who helped shaped their sound early on. .. Happy in the Hollow doesn't change the feeling that the members of TOY have one foot in another dimension that they're waiting to transport their listeners to.
Eclectic U.K.-based ensemble blending influences such as hip-hop, jazz, soundtracks, Ethiopian funk, outré electronics, and more.
99% Revolution 5:03
Elephant Walk 4:36
Hanging by a Thread 4:48
from Infinity of Now 2020
It's been nearly three years since London's Heliocentrics issued 2017's mind-blowing one-two punch of A World of Masks and their soundtrack for The Sunshine Makers. Drummer Malcolm Catto and bassist Jake Ferguson, the band's producers, reached a new plateau with those releases. They forged an aesthetic that explored numerous Indo-Asian traditions, library music, fractured '70s funk, film scores, beat jazz, and more, and applied them as carefully woven sonic experiments. They realized long ago that the band's restlessness is their M.O. Here, they've managed to deliver a rainbow stew of hybridized genres, production techniques, subtle but effective sound effects, and massive grooves. The Infinity of Now is the Heliocentrics debut offering for Madlib's Madlib Invazion label. Vocalist Barbora Patkova returns to the fold as a full member. ..The Heliocentrics' multivalently textured sound is by now a trademark signature. Infinity of Now is more adventurous, disciplined, and focused than any of their previous outings. Its dark and murky sonic vision is at once completely out of step with everything else, as well as miles ahead of it.
Alternative folk icon, feminist, activist, and paragon of the D.I.Y. ethos who has charted in the U.S. since the '90s.
Revolutionary Love 7:09
Shrinking Violet 6:17
Confluence 4:52
from Revolutionary Love 2021
For more than three decades, Ani DiFranco has made the personal political and vice versa. Whether playing solo, working the road with her trio, or in a studio with a raucous band, she has consistently shown unflinching honesty in critiquing the myriad ways in which power informs relationships across racial, social, gender, economic, environmental, and romantic lines in an astonishing variety of musical contexts. DiFranco has also called New Orleans home for some time; many of its musical traditions have burrowed their way into her artistic DNA. While on the road in 2019, seeing America tear itself apart under Trump, DiFranco wrote songs and read Sikh activist and civil right lawyer Valarie Kaur's See No Stranger, a memoir/manifesto for accountable, compassionate living in catastrophic times. DiFranco returned home as COVID-19 became a global pandemic. She felt she needed to "get people inspired to vote...believing in democracy, believing in each other and in themselves." In February, just before lockdown, she traveled to co-producer Brad Cook's North Carolina studio and cut this 11-song set in two days with her trio and local luminaries including Hiss Golden Messenger, Mountain Goats, Mipso, etc. With them she illustrated these songs at the blurred edges where soul, folk, and jazz-pop intersect...
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