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Ty Segall, Barry Adamson, Klaus Johann Grobe, Dean Wareham, Cheval Sombre, Edan, Homeboy Sandman, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Christian McBride, Makaya McCraven, Etienne de Crécy, Baxter Dury, Delilah Holliday, Thom Yorke, Yo La Tengo, Kamasi Washington
Ty Segall, Barry Adamson, Klaus Johann Grobe, Dean Wareham, Cheval Sombre, Edan, Homeboy Sandman, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Christian McBride, Makaya McCraven, Etienne de Crécy, Baxter Dury, Delilah Holliday, Thom Yorke, Yo La Tengo, Kamasi Washington
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| Ty Segall covers I'm a man by Spencer Davis Group |
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27-10-18
Ty Segall - I'm a Man (The Spencer Davis Group cover) 3:07
...Segall’s improvisational style of psyched-out rock lends itself nicely to the genre, and what better way to dive right in than with a cover of Spencer Davis Group’s rumbling 1967 single “I’m A Man” — or as it usually reads in my head, “I’m a maaaaaan.” If you’re a Mad Man fan, or just a human with functioning ears on this earth, you have probably heard this song before and might find yourself humming it in times when you need to hype yourself up...
Barry Adamson - The Snowball Effect 4:24
If the post-punk era produced a renaissance man, it's Barry Adamson. He was an integral member of Magazine and the founding incarnation of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. He played on synth pop albums by Visage and Pete Shelley. He's written and arranged for Nitzer Ebb, Ethyl Meatplow, Scott Walker, and Simple Minds, to name a few, and has contributed music to soundtracks like Derek Jarman's The Last of England, David Lynch's Lost Highway, Allison Anders' Gas Food Lodging, and Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers...
Klaus Johann Grobe - An diesem Abend 5:19
After switching from the polished prog rock sound of their first album, Im Sinne der Zeit, to the relaxed disco/synth pop sound on their second, Spagat der Liebe, Swiss duo Klaus Johann Grobe don't mess much with the formula on their third record, 2018's Du Bist So Symmetrisch. It worked so well on Spagat der Liebe, the team of Sevi Landolt and Daniel Bachmann didn't really need to do anything different, and they don't...
Dean Wareham and Cheval Sombre - The Bend in he River 3:19
As one might expect, 2018's Dean Wareham vs. Cheval Sombre finds the Luna frontman teaming up with fellow New York psych-folkie Cheval Sombre (aka Christopher Porpora) on set of thoughtfully curated covers. Less expected is the album's loose cowboy theme. As evoked by the title, this collection of songs by country luminaries like Townes Van Zandt, Blaze Foley, and Marty Robbins (as well some traditionals, standards, and lesser-known covers), brings to mind a late-'60s spaghetti Western buddy movie with Wareham playing the wandering troubadour and Sombre the cool-eyed poet/gunslinger...
Yo La Tengo - For You Too 4:13
...Over a wind tunnel of electric guitars, Ira Kaplan’s voice echoes along with the persistent rhythm, mirroring the self-actualization in the lyrics. With a familiar and instantly memorable melodic pattern, he sings about the consistency of his personality like someone who’s long grown resigned to it...
Edan & Homeboy Sandman - Rock & Roll Indian Dance 3:10
Endlessly creative MC Homeboy Sandman and multi-talented psychedelic rap maestro Edan first collaborated on "Talking (Bleep)," a playful standout from Sandman's 2016 album Kindness for Weakness. Two years later, the duo teamed up once again for Humble Pi, the first studio album to bear the name Edan since 2005's cult classic Beauty and the Beat, which pre-dates Sandman's entire career. Both artists are in top form on the brief but explosive release. Edan's fetish for echo and obscure acid rock records is as evident as ever through his mind-bending productions, and Sandman's effortlessly complex lyrics are typically biting as well as insightful...
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Hanoi 6 9:47
...The album features local musician Minh Nguyen and the Nielson’s father, Chris, and a press release notes that takes inspiration from jazz, krautrock, and avant-garde music. Today, they’re sharing a selection from the album, which comes in as “Hanoi 6,” and it’s a hypnotic blend of horns and gently shifting undercurrent...
One of the most in-demand jazz bassists of the 1990s and beyond, Christian McBride is renowned for both his work as a leader and sideman.
Christian McBride - Ballad of Ernie Washington 5:34What's a jawn? Well, it's Philly slang for something that you cannot name yet, or do not see the need to name. In Christian McBride's case, jawn refers to his immensely talented ensemble of fellow jazz musicians on his engaging 2018 album, Christian McBride's New Jawn. A titanic presence on the jazz scene since arriving in the '90s, McBride spent his early years playing propulsive neo-bop before re-engaging with his hip-hop, funk, and R&B roots on a series of genre-bending fusion albums...
Kamasi Washington - Fists of Fury 9:43
...“Fists of Fury,” the opening song of Washington’s new double album Heaven and Earth, represents a slight change of pace from his previous work: It endorses physical combat as a way to fight injustice. “I use hands to help my fellow man,” vocalists Dwight Trible and Patrice Quinn declare in unison. “And when I’m faced with unjust injury/Then I change my hands to fists of fury.” Backed by a full choir, a bright piano solo, and Washington’s shrieking horn, the song grows more restless as it plays, settling into a calm groove before rising to a volcanic peak...
Makaya McCraven - Voila 5:00
...“It’s like, gag me,” he says of the idea that jazz needs saving. Part of the inspiration behind his latest album, Universal Beings (due out October 26th on International Anthem) was the music’s current vitality. McCraven recorded the project with four different ensembles, in four different cities: New York, Los Angeles, London and Chicago, his adopted hometown...
Etienne de Crécy / Baxter Dury / Delilah Holliday - Centipedes 1:29
On paper, the combination of French house pioneer Étienne de Crécy, caustic monologist Baxter Dury, and new-breed riot grrrl Delilah Holliday of Skinny Girl Diet seems like it wouldn't work. Or maybe it was just mad enough to work, because their 2018 album, B.E.D, is a delight. The performers work to fit their individual skills into a cohesive unit; de Crécy builds sparse, bubbling musical beds over which Dury intones his tales of woe and disdain, while Holliday brings some velvety drama to the proceedings...
The perpetually haunted voice of Radiohead reserved his solo billing for further electronics and beats experimentation.
Thom Yorke - Has Ended 4:56
...Now he’s released another sample from the soundtrack double-album: a droning, psych-rock composition called “Has Ended,” featuring echoing, processed vocals from Yorke and a synth-sitar underpinning. If you enjoy Yorke at his most Can-worshipping, then “Has Ended” may be the song for you this morning...
Ty Segall, Barry Adamson, Klaus Johann Grobe, Dean Wareham, Cheval Sombre, Edan, Homeboy Sandman, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Christian McBride, Makaya McCraven, Etienne de Crécy, Baxter Dury, Delilah Holliday, Thom Yorke, Yo La Tengo, Kamasi Washington
