Utility Fog

Sunday, 8th of February, 2009

Quite a bit of new music tonight.
Too Many Forcefields make excellent post-rock-hip-hop or something, Wartime Sweethearts is an amazing electronic pop(?) solo project, and The Love Explosion are kinda indieshoegazehiphop. They're all playing at the Bald Faced Stag in Leichhardt on Friday and it should rock.
Also rockin' are Captain Kickarse and the Awesomes, new to me but expect more of the post-ROCK on ths show!
Oscar Vincente Slorach-Thorn makes oblique experimental oddness in Melbourne and is a member of Psuche, whose debut I can't wait to hear. Meanwhile, Oscar's own debut album is eclectic, very weird and very awesome.
Also awesomely odd are Vincent Over The Sink, whose album 22 Coloured Bull-Terriers I finally found this week, so we had a couple of their lo-fi abstract pop tracks too.

The new dälek album brings more noise-hop, and is getting better each time I listen to it.
Cam Deas had a track on an early CURT 3" CD, and his latest self-released CD features the many sides to his guitar playing. Later, a beautiful ambient track from Seaworthy on the latest CURT 3".
I discovered this week that the amazing jazz/cross-genre cellist Hank Roberts put out a new album last year called Green, and I picked it up at Birdland (who I've heard are shortly closing their Pitt St store and going online-only!) I played a track also from his 1993 album Little Motor People, and you can expect more from the new album next week.

We also had new ambient Funckarma, and the single off Tim Exile's amazing new album Listening Tree, which takes the former dancefloor drum'n'bass producer into full-blown song territory, without losing the brilliant electronic production (and a good few tracks are intricate drum'n'bass of a sort). More when it comes out, but grab the very limited one-sided 12" while you can!
Also another sneak preview of the amazing Dark Was The Night comp, and one short track from Robert Henke's new album, of which much more next week...

Too Many Forcefields - Bones [promo]
Wartime Sweethearts - Take You Out For Tea [promo]
Captain Kickarse and the Awesomes - Dananah Dank Bedank [Secluded Records]
The Love Explosion - Balmain in the Membrane [promo]
Oscar Vincente Slorach-Thorn - 3d [Alberts basement]
Vincent Over The Sink - mektoub [self-released]
Oscar Vincente Slorach-Thorn - twilight girl [Alberts basement]
Vincent Over The Sink - mrs S & mrs H [self-released]
dälek - Gutter Tactics [Ipecac]
Submerged - Servant [Ohm Resistance]
dälek - Who Medgar Evers Was... [Ipecac]
Cam Deas - We Don't Know [self-released]
Pikelet - Accordion to the Accordion [Special Award Records]
Jonquil - Parasol [Acuarela]
Parenthetical Girls - Windmills of Your Mind [Tomlab]
Minotaur Shock - Two Magpies [Audio Dregs]
Parenthetical Girls - Young Eucharists [Tomlab]
Hank Roberts with Marc Ducret & Jim Black - Azul [Winter & Winter]
Hank Roberts with Django Bates and Arto Tunçboyaciyan - Little Motor People [JMT, now re-released on Winter & Winter]
Hear (Hannes Strobl, Toshimaru Nakemura, Tony Buck) - Track 2 [Room40]
Seaworthy - Mountain Fox And Sky [CURT]
Funckarma - Fanil Dredged [Symbolic Interaction]
Tim Exile - Family Galaxy [Planet µ/Warp]
The Magnetic Fields - I Die, You Die [Bengars Banquet] {stunning cover of Gary Numan from the Random 2CD comp, released in 1997}
Andrew Bird - The Giant of Illinois [4AD/Red Hot]
Telefon Tel Aviv - I Made A Tree On The Wold [bpitch control]
Silver Bone Tone - Swim With Me [available at last.fm]
Robert Henke - [quad_planar] [Imbalance Computer Music]

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