Repetition Repetition - “Apartment Life”
“Apartment Life” is the opening and for me, most interesting track on Fit for Consequences: Original Recordings, 1984–1987, the first ever widely available collection of recordings from this cult “two-man electric minimalist band.” As a weird guy in his 30s whose main priority is relaxing and chilling out, the intersection of art music and new agey wallpaper bullshit is a zone I’m spending a lot of time in these days.
Horsegirl - “Sport Meets Sound”
I really love this new Horsegirl record. Every five years or so a band will decide they want to be The Raincoats for a little while and I always appreciate it when that happens.
The Bug Club - “Jealous Boy”
A few weeks ago I saw some post from Sub Pop about a new record from The Bug Club, a band I’d never heard of before, which is weird because I’m the type of guy who’s usually aware of what bands are currently on the Sub Pop roster. I listened to a few songs from their new album Very Human Features and it turns out it’s the type of clever, referential guitar music that frequently gets me going. Since then I have listened nearly every day, either to the album in full or at minimum few tracks here and there. “Jealous Boy” is definitely the peak for me currently, simply two and a half minutes of extremely good indie rock.
Resavoir & Matt Gold - “Hazel Canyon”
I like this Resavoir record so much I can overlook the fact that the guy from Resavoir is also in Whitney.
Tortoise - “Crest”
Tortoise’s 1990s output has been so monumental for me, a constant companion over the last 15+ years, that I rarely find myself listening to anything released after TNT. Every now and then I’ll throw on their “newer” stuff and generally have a good time and find myself thinking I should listen to 21st century Tortoise more often. For example the song “Crest” from their 2004 album It’s All Around You is great!
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - “Monte Carlo / No Limits”
Ryan Davis’ 2023 album Dancing on the Edge took the Silver Jews’ frequently imitated hyperliterate Americana and pushed it to unhinged extremes. Across a bunch of 9 minute long songs, each overstuffed with an ungodly amount of lyrics, Davis rattles off esoteric allusions, crooked turns of phrase, and proper nouns backed by a big ol country band. The second single from his new album, New Threats from the Soul, “Monte Carlo / No Limits” incorporates breakbeats and extended feedback passages into an otherwise pretty straightforward country rock hangout, it’s awesome.
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - “Strange Dreams”
RIP Ariel Kalma. I always really liked this collaboration he did with Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe for RVNG Intl.’s FRKWYS series.
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin - “Yek (Single Edit)”
The apparently (apparently kid voice) ongoing Ghosted series has become a reliable soundtrack to when it’s time for me to lock in. Exercises in minimalist, trance-inducing atmospheres from a trio of experimental music legends that I could easily have on repeat all day long.
Close Lobsters - “A Prophecy”
I’m always looking for a new B-tier indie pop band from the 1980s to get into so I put on Foxheads Stalk This Land at work recently and really enjoyed it. My favorite from the record was probably “A Prophecy,” a blissed-out jangle pop nugget with a perfect, immediately familiar guitar hook and swooning chorus.
The City - “I Wasn’t Born To Follow”
Light in the Attic reissued Now That Everything's Been Said, the sole album from Carole King’s short lived band The City, in 2015 when I worked in a music distribution warehouse and had unfettered access to pre-release promos of records from the dozens of labels we worked with. By that point I was all in on whatever LITA was putting out and was hooked, despite not having a ton of awareness of Carole King’s work beyond that. I’m still revisiting The City record pretty regularly these days; you probably know The Byrds version of this song, but did you know this version also kicks ass?
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