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03-08-2018 11:37 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from the recent past] # Walking Papers, Warmduscher, Walking Papers, Boss Hog, Esperanza Spalding, David Bowie, Baxter Dury, Belle and Sebastian, Harlan T. Bobo, Chicano Batman, PJ Harvey, Moon Duo, Samara Lubelski

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Seattle-based hard rockers featuring members of the Missionary Position and Duff McKagan. Seattle-based quartet Walking Papers make no-nonsense, guitar-heavy rock & roll. 
Walking Papers
My Luck Pushed Back (Jeff Angel / Walking Papers) 3:54
This Is How It Ends (Jeff Angel / Walking Papers) 6:29
from WP2 2018
Packed with enough dirty guitar riffs to fill a smoky roadside bar, Walking Papers' second album, WP2, is another dose of no-nonsense rock & roll from the Seattle-based group. Recorded in early 2015 -- shortly after wrapping up touring behind their self-titled debut -- WP2 arrived three years later in 2018, due to bassist Duff McKagan's obligations with his other band, Guns N' Roses. Improving upon their first with polished production and a livelier vigor, WP2 is blues-drenched rock that fans of Queens of the Stone Age and Screaming Trees should enjoy. Frontman Jeff Angell's voice carries the project, his gritty delivery reminiscent of Bono filtered through the murk of Mark Lanegan...

London-based rock & roll band featuring members of Fat White Family, Insecure Men, and Paranoid London. 
Warmduscher
Big Wilma (Saul Adamczewski / Jack Everett / Craig Higgins / Ben Romans-Hopcraft / Quinn Whalley) 2:05
The Sweet Smell of Florida (Saul Adamczewski / Jack Everett / Craig Higgins / Ben Romans-Hopcraft / Quinn Whalley) 4:15
from Whale City 2018
There's a lot about Warmduscher's music that qualifies it as good-time rock & roll (albeit of a distinctly deviant variety), but there's a whole lot more going on in Whale City. Their weirdly wild 2015 debut, Khaki Tears, set them apart from any standardized classification, and with the follow-up, they certainly continue to plow a furrow as outliers...

Raw and raucous blues-punk ensemble fronted by the husband-and-wife team of Jon Spencer and Cristina Martinez.  All-star N.Y.C. blues-punk combo Boss Hog was helmed by the husband-and-wife team of singer Cristina Martinez and singer/guitarist Jon Spencer, who'd previously teamed up in the legendary cult band Pussy Galore.
Boss Hog
Billy (Boss Hog) 3:47
Signal (Boss Hog) 2:54
Sunday Routine (Boss Hog) 3:49
from Brood X 2017
Boss Hog have always been a band content to work on a time-line that would puzzle most bands, perfectly willing to go five years between releases as they attended to their other projects. But 2017's Brood X arrives over 16 years after their last proper album, 2000's Whiteout, as Cristina Martinez sets aside her duties as a working mom and Jon Spencer takes some downtime from his Blues Explosion. If Boss Hog sound a bit different than they did at the dawn of the 21st century, that's to be expected, but Brood X (and the 2016 companion EP Brood Star) reveals that they've changed very little conceptually; their dirty mixture of punkified blues, raw funk, and stoned but committed show band swagger is a bit less swampy, but it will still make you feel good and greasy after a few spins...

15-07-2018 10:19 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from the recent past]

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15-07-2018 10:19 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from the recent past] # Lithics, Wand, Angel Olsen, The Heliocentrics, Gwenno Saunders, Jo Passed, L'Orange, Warmduscher, Walking Papers, Boss Hog, Esperanza Spalding, David Bowie

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Mating Surfaces is the second full length release, and first for Kill Rock Stars, as well as a couple of EPs from Portland, OR band Lithics. The band like to keep a little bit of a mystery to themselves as they have very little online presence outside of some local independent articles, and that carries over to the music as well.
Lithics
Excuse Generator 2:18
Boyce 5:02
from Mating Surfaces 2018
Mating Surfaces is the second full length release, and first for Kill Rock Stars, as well as a couple of EPs from Portland, OR band Lithics. The band like to keep a little bit of a mystery to themselves as they have very little online presence outside of some local independent articles, and that carries over to the music as well. There are many shifts and turns that can happen at the drop of a hat and every once in while vocalist/guitarist Aubrey Hornor’s usually detached vocals are sprinkled with emotions. There are some touches of some classic post-punk influencers like early Fall and Sonic Youth, but more-so in the sense of some fearless and wild abandonment in the name of experimentation...  Mating Surfaces is a record that is filled with tension and walks on the border of full on breakdown that it never really succumbs to until it’s fitting ending.

Los Angeles-based garage psych quartet championed by Ty Segall.  When the Los Angeles group Wand formed in 2013, they played a wickedly spooky brand of psychedelic garage rock tinged with heavy metal. Over the course of three albums recorded in a couple years, the band's leader Cory Hanson wielded full control over their claustrophobic sound. The band's lineup changed along the way and Hanson loosened his grip on their sonic boundaries, allowing the new bandmembers more say in their newly classic rock- and modern pop-influenced approach.
Wand
Perfume 7:29
Pure Romance 3:37
from Perfume 2018
After an album that saw Wand shifting from Cory Hanson's project where he called all the shots to a fully fledged band, consequently losing some of the claustrophobic brilliance of earlier work, the 2018 EP Perfume is another democratic effort that suffers the same fate. While the seven songs included aren't exactly bad, they just lack the attention to detail and spooky outsider psych feel of Wand when it was only Hanson pulling the strings...

St. Louis native whose intimate indie folk bridges classic country crooning and stylized garage rock.  Raised in St. Louis, Missouri and later relocating to Chicago, Illinois, indie folk singer/songwriter Angel Olsen began performing in St. Louis coffee shops in her teenage years, eventually branching out and tapping into a network of like-minded artists.
Angel Olsen
Fly on Your Wall (Angel Olsen) 3:38
Sweet Dreams (Angel Olsen) 3:11
Special (Angel Olsen) 7:21
from Phases 2017
Arriving a year after her Top 50 album My Woman, 2017's Phases compiles rarities spanning Angel Olsen's prior output, including early demos, stand-alone singles, and unreleased material from the My Woman recording sessions. Having made a gradual but marked shift in her sound during that time, it offers tracks representing the sparer, country-inflected lo-fi of her earliest work as well as the full-band retro rock present on My Woman... While likely of interest mostly to dedicated fans due to the eclectic nature of the recordings, it may also pique the curiosity of those less familiar with Olsen's growing, distinctive catalog.

Eclectic U.K.-based ensemble blending influences such as hip-hop, jazz, soundtracks, Ethiopian funk, outré electronics, and more.  Hailing from the United Kingdom, the youth-oriented ensemble the Heliocentrics are hard to pigeonhole, though some have dubbed them a contemporary acid jazz band. Led by drummer Malcolm Catto, the band straddles hip-hop, funk, modern creative jazz, soundtracks, library music, psychedelic electronica, and world musics.
The Heliocentrics
Visions of Himself 1:37
The Pit 5:26
Night and Day 4:02
from From the Deep 2016
On their 2016 release From the Deep, eclectic British rare groove enthusiasts the Heliocentrics take a dip through their archives, unearthing a multitude of tracks cut at their former recording home base, Quatermass Studios. As with most of their recordings, however, these outer-dimensional transmissions could have been beamed from seemingly any time in the past, present, or future. The band's heavy, spacy grooves resist easy categorization, laying down heavy, fluid drum patterns and filling them with cosmic synth squiggles, dubby echo, and the occasional squawking horns...