{"id":24211,"date":"2016-06-23T11:06:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T15:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24211"},"modified":"2016-06-25T12:42:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T16:42:54","slug":"listening-to-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24211","title":{"rendered":"Listening To..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/recently_purchased.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>When I do these \"Listening To\" posts, I always have a hard time remembering which albums I've recently purchased. So here's a screen shot of the most recent 16 from my iTunes \"Recently Purchased\" list to help me...<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Joni Mitchell - For The Roses.<\/strong> Haven't heard it yet.\n<li><strong>The Internet - Feel Good.<\/strong> Haven't heard it yet.\n<li><strong>Gastr Del Sol - Upgrade & Afterlife<\/strong>. Haven't heard it yet. (this is going to be a great post, I can tell already)\n<li><strong>Attic Abasement - Dream News<\/strong> A band from Rochester NY. They do a version of the scrappy-but-unhurried, dissonant, ever-so-slightly folk-tinged, alt-rock thing: Silver Jews, Kurt Vile, Three Mile Pilot, etc.. There's some 'post-rock' angular noodly stuff in here. Reminds me of 1995.\n<li><strong>King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black<\/strong> Haven't been able to get into this one much. The very first line of the very first song is \"Health-food faggot with a bartered bride\". And, even though I get that 1974 was a different time, it just sours me right off the bat.\n<li><strong>Madvillain - Madvillainy<\/strong>. A collaboration between the masked rapper, MF Doom, and producer Madlib. This one zips along with 19 of the 22 songs less than three minutes long, more than half under two minutes. The lyrics and delivery are very clever and the backing tracks include tons of those ironic 90s-style samples of overwrought dialog from movies of the 50s and 60s.\n<li><strong>Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal<\/strong>. A great straight-up blues record from the 60's blues revival.\n<li><strong>Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You <\/strong> I got drunk, watched a documentary about the Muscle Shoals studio(s), and decided I had to have this record. Thankfully, it's great!\n<li><strong>Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool<\/strong>. I like this a bit better than some of their other recent records. It's a bit chilly, tho.\n<li><strong>Brian Eno - The Ship<\/strong>. My first late-era Eno record. It sounds exactly like what I've imagined all of his 'ambient' records would sound like. I like it well enough, but I prefer weird glam-rock Eno.\n<li><strong>Autolux - Pussy's Dead<\/strong> I think of them as a groovier and more accessible Radiohead. They have that blend of clipped drums, cold electronics and distant, detached vocals, but it's geared a bit more towards toe-tapping.\n<li><strong>Prince - Sign O The Times<\/strong> I remember really liking this in 86. Now, it feels very dated.\n<li><strong>The Underachievers - Cellar Door : Terminus Ut Exordium <\/strong> Sometimes I buy records because the little 30sec iTunes samples hit me in the right mood. And then the record itself makes me wonder what I liked about the samples. Just not my bag.\n<li><strong>Kendrick Lamar - good kid...; Parquet Courts - Human performance; New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies <\/strong> Already did these in a previous Listening To.\n<li><strong>Mos Def - The Ecstatic<\/strong> A couple of really groovy tunes. A lot that misses.\n<li><strong>Andrew Bird - Are You Serious<\/strong> A bit more engaging than his other recent records, but short on the quirky spark of his first releases.\n<li><strong>Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger<\/strong> Loud and raucous guitar rock, like a modern T-Rex: heavy riff-based stomp with playful vocals on top. Excellent stuff.\n<li><strong>Tanya Donnely - Swan Song Series<\/strong> The former leader of Belly and member of Throwing Muses has been releasing uniformly-great solo records since Belly broke up in the mid-90s. This is a series of self-releases that came from collaborations of various kinds with various people. Though the styles vary greatly, they're all unmistakably Donnely. Wish Belly was coming to NC on their upcoming reunion tour.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whew.<\/p>\n<p>u?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I do these \"Listening To\" posts, I always have a hard time remembering which albums I've recently purchased. So here's a screen shot of the most recent 16 from my iTunes \"Recently Purchased\" list to help me... Joni Mitchell - For The Roses. Haven't heard it yet. The Internet - Feel Good. Haven't heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listening-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24211"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24236,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24211\/revisions\/24236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}