Ooh, good choice! I have that album too, bought it on holiday in Cornwall last year.
I’ve been listening to a lot of Soma FM Radio these days. Especially the 480 Minutes show on Bagel Radio and the good old stalwart Indie Pop Rocks.
I swear they’re still using the same “please send donations” recordings for the last 15 years.
The other thing I’ve been listening to is a lot of Slim Gaillard. I’m determined to get “vout” back into regular usage. I remember hearing about him back when I was a student, and then fairly recently re-encountered him with this utterly bizarre and transfixing documentary about his (rather extraordinary) life. Mad as a box of frogs, but utterly warm and charming.
I’ve also been enjoying somebody’s YouTube VHS dump of Night Music, which I believe is the spiritual predecessor to the ever-popular BBC show Later… with Jools Holland and I just love how bumbling and awkward it is. There are also some absolutely stonking performances and some rather wonderful ad hoc collaborations.
Currently been listening to Rossz Csillag Alatt Született by Venetian Snares.
This album is some kind of masterpiece. Orchestral Jazz Breakcore Drum and Bass? What am I even experiencing here? Either way it’s been on for about a week and I don’t intend on putting it down any time soon.
Here’s a video of somebody playing one of the songs from a different album blindfolded:
Bandcamp is doing another of its “Bandcamp Fridays” today, waiving its share so that the artists receive more cash from a purchase. It’s a good time to get yourself some new music; and there’s a lot of good stuff on the site (FLAC downloads available too):
I don’t often find computer game soundtracks are anything I’d want to listen to on their own, but I was just pointed at this one for Fran Bow, and it’s rather lovely.
The Wipeout and Wipeout 2097 tracks were essential listening on those nighttime drives through and around London back in the day. I still get tingles every time I hear Landmass or Chemical Beats and start visualising those ships on the starting line.
That should be a full playlist of the album, but (for me at least) the forum is only embedding a player for a single song. If you remove the space from the following URL, you’ll get the proper result:
Some albums get in your head, and some you feel with your whole body, and then others reach inside your guts and move things around unexpectedly, and make a home for themselves in there. This is one of the latter for me. I’ve never a clue how anyone else will respond to it either… but if it gets its hooks into you, they’re probably there to stay.
Luckless (eponymous)
That embed ought to play the whole album, but for some reason it defaults to beginning at track 3, so you’d have to manually select track 1.
I love this album to bits. I’ve listened to it so many times, and yet I’m still taken aback whenever I play it, as if I’ve subconsciously concluded that I must have built it up too much in my head, only to discover once again that no, it’s actually that good.
