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Roy Ellis: The Boss is Back

Solid set from Roy Ellis back after a long, long break of around 20 or more years. The thing kicks off with a pretty great ska track, One Way Ticket to the Moon, all the slow burn simmer and energy of classic ska updated with solid production featuring a great horn section. Then you get The Boss is Back, the title cut where Ellis announces his return and I'm thinking this is just gonna be a classic album. But, after that great opening it does fall off into some fairly generic reggae tunes, a couple soul tracks and a pretty annoying cover of The Rose. Ellis is in fine voice throughout though and another couple really strong numbers keep the album afloat, but it's fairly up and down between really solid new material and fairly generic reggae tunes. Of course, even the standard issue stuff is at least well done and all the heavier ska tracks are excellent. So, if you're into this sort of thing, definitely worth a listen.

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...Yes yes y'all

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Been heading into the avantgarde/electronic realm lately.

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The Books: Food for Thought - My first exposure to The Books was last years The Way Out. Picked this one up recently and also like it. Actually, I'd strongly recommend it. For me they just find the right balance of keeping the melodies (for lack of a better word) simple enough to be catchy, with eclectic and complex samples to build up the texture and make me want to explore. Just humorous enough to keep from feeling overthought. It's both touching and quirky. The instrumentation and vocals (those that aren't samples) always seem to be just right; they seem to find the right emotion for every collection of sounds surrounding them. I think there's some actual musicianship behind the samples! . I see Pitchfork also gave a review of the album (9 of 10). I agree with it. I keep thinking the first track "Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again" should be the sound track for your local Dept. of Motor Vehicles... insurance claims office. I'm not sure. Great stretch of spoken words in the middle of the track. Probably just me that would enjoy the humor.

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When: The Lobster Boys - Doesn't quite cast the same spell as Thought for Food. The songs are more composed and more whirling, Whereas The Books seem to organically build songs from collections of samples, When decorates and augments songs with sampled sounds. So, more of a jam feel to When; more rhythms more loops. When uses a bunch of middle eastern tones and harmonies and buzzing percussion which add a nice flair; some even come across a bit Beatle-esqe psychedelia. Still, a fun listen. I think my favorite track is Puff Pipe a heavier grooved, droning middle eastern-styled piece with some industrial crashing noises.


btw, like the House of Tribes album above. Well done and very enjoyable.

That Books album is really good. I also really like The Lemon of Pink from them. The funny thing is that on those first two albums I for a while thought they were good but that just a hint more structure and bringing those noises more into the service of more traditional songcraft would be just about perfect. Then, the next couple albums the band pretty much did just that and in retrospect I find myself going back and enjoying the first two much more than the stuff they fleshed out a bit more. Guess I'm not so smart after all.

Man, I love Thought for Food and The Lemon of Pink. Great band.

~Rae

You've both convinced me to toss The Lemon of Pink into my Amazon cart. I went on an extensive filesharing binge recently. Filled in some holes, but mostly explored some new sounds. I feel a need to restore some balance to the commercial karma of the bands I like.

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Boards of Canada was another band I sampled and will need a few more listens to fully weigh in on. But I'm liking their sound and mentally put them in the same taste category. Not really so much in the found samples category; more in that analog electronica category.

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Then, the next couple albums the band pretty much did just that and in retrospect I find myself going back and enjoying the first two much more than the stuff they fleshed out a bit more. Guess I'm not so smart after all.

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That such a spot on observation. Well, not the referendum on your intelligence. I'll let others arbitrate that. The suspicion that with some structure they'd hit another plane. I think it just highlights how much the whimsy of their stuff is important to the experience.

Also love Boards of Canada. My faves for them are <b>Music Has the Right to Children</b> and an EP called <b>In A Beautiful Place Out in the Country</b>.

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^ agreed...both of those are excellent. I've been streaming the new Mtn. Goats here and really diggin' it, which makes me happy. I was a huge fan of earlier stuff, the ****ty sounding but beautifully written 4-track stuff he did when he still had a day-job...the official,produced stuff seemed to lose some of the lyrical gestalt for the last few albums. This one is certainly as produced as other recents but something is hitting right...the lyrics are darkly lovely and haunting, poignantly precise enough. and there's a nice level of nuance with handclaps popping up here and there, amazing bass playing! and just all around tasty album.
It's here for the moment...

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Here's the must own...

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I want to like Don Cherry but I can't get over the lack of fashion sense...:ciappa:

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The only horn he toots is his own...hehe

Gogol Bordello Transcontinental Hustle
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Just what everyone here needs.

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The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

If you like ambient drone music, you should really listen to these guys. I'd probably suggest the more recent Stars of the Lid: The Refinement of Their Decline, but enjoying this one right now and really we are talking fairly small variations between these types of releases. Also, I should mention that Kranky really does produce some well-made vinyl.

Digital remaster of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" Which includes the "Detroit" mixes which were very different from the L.A. mixes. Also included are live versions from that D.C. "Marvin Gaye Day" show later that year.

A Todd Rundgren Collection.

Two Collection of R.E.M.s covering from the IRS years onward.

I begin to dig some artists 10 to 20 years after their heyday so I can find out what they're really about.

Worf

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That Marvin Gaye looks interesting.

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new one from Bill Callahan ( = (smog) ). This is an incredible album...one of the best things I've heard in awhile- some of the mystery of his earlier lyrics, stellar production, cool country vibe with jazzy overtones ala' Astral Weeks-groove, his deep baritone voice that touches on Willie Nelson gravel road-worn-ness...recommended.