What is spinning?

[jonnyhambone]

yeah, that new Nick Cave is pretty excellent! I'd add that it taps into a similar vein of sparse, but very subtle-y rich and deftly played music that Neil Young hit with On The Beach and Van Morrison on (esp. the first half) Veedon Fleece.

Currently listening to both the Tame Impala albums a lot - Innerspeaker I find even stronger than Lonerism. In a totally different vein, the new one (only one maybe?) from Rhye is gorgeous. Obvious comparisons to Sade abound though its two dudes singing and making the music. The production is lush on it too.

[noddin0ff]

This has been spinning a lot this weekend.

Phosphorescent: Muchacho


Should appeal to those who like a the taste of indie-alt-country. This thing is so full of sound it's hard to believe its more or less a solo project. Starts out sounding like a Fleet Foxes redux, but then carves out its own space in grand sweeps.

I particularly like THIS track, "The Quotidian Beasts". Nice quote from Paste

"...in Muchacho Houck achieves the near impossible by upstaging “Song For Zula” with the scorching pulpit testimonial “The Quotidian Beasts.” Holy ****. Crescendo after crescendo of outlaw fiddle, volcanic guitar and cross-handed Jerry Lee piano fills, everything but live snakes and kerosene as the track erupts with the brimstone fury of Jason Molina’s “Farewell Transmission,” no lurching Crazy Horse but a Goddamned Whipping Post Gethsemane, dark magic and lighting and nails in the spine while whooping and testifying to battles done and battles lost and battles won purely by virtue of staggering up to chance another blow."

I'm not sure I got all that out of the track. Personally, I think of Son Volt when I hear it. But, it's a damned good cut. The aformentioned "Song For Zulu" made me think of U2's Joshua Tree "With or without you", except that Zulu's more personal, intimate, raw and maybe better.

Worth putting on the watch list.

[Hyfi]

Been on a Jeff Kollman kick for a while.

[noddin0ff]

Steve Mason - Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time


Warm grooving and thoughtful trip-hop, psychedlic-tinged alt-pop from former Beta Band frontman. Pulls in a diverse array of sounds without ruining the very nice flow of the whole album.

Easy to listen to, engaging positive sounds, thoroughly enjoyable. Got it on repeat.

Some reviews
Steve Mason - Monkey Minds In the Devil's Time / Releases / Releases // Drowned In Sound
Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time - Steve Mason : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic
Steve Mason: Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time

[Davey]

Electr-o-Pura for me by Yo La Tengo. Never get tired of this one. Just about the perfect mix of styles. Well, that and the next record. But 1995 was the best.

My Bloody Valentine is the best this year, by a big margin. Be fun if that changes. Listened some to Nitin Sawhney Beyond Skin from the turn of the millennium. That's a good one. And the new David Bowie, way too loud and sounds like crap, but some of his best music in a long time. And worked on a comp, remember those? Mine was called Desert Roads, and was inspired by dean_martin's Desert Drive Mix thread, and then the sad passing of long-time favorite Jason Molina. And it had some Mark Linkous too, cause I miss him too. And that led to some PJ Harvey, because they made some pretty amazing music. And you know how that goes. Pretty soon it's about twice what will fit on a CD, but deleting anything is like selling your soul. Imagine what it must be like when it is actually your music that has to be cut

[jonnyhambone]

A couple new ones I've kept cued up lately -
the new Low 'Invisible Way' is just gorgeous. Nicely produced and recorded I think by Jeff Tweedy at his studio in Chicago. My wife heard this right away in a way I haven't..."is this some weird new Wilco album?". It's not that transparent to me, but his sound definitely seeps through. The sound is lush and rich though. Plus Mimi sings, finally, a majority of the songs and the band just sound excellent throughout.
Jim James - 'Regions of Light and Sound of God' I'm not a big My Morning Jacket fan (he's the lead singer/writer) but this is a nice one. Extremely John Lennon-heavy in sound/vibe/vocalization but that's not a bad thing I guess. Sort of reminds me of the feel that some Traffic albums have - of another era, groovy, soulful in a white-boy way but still not contrived...The clincher for me is an excellent use of keyboard-sound that borrows from a more laid-back Mike Ratledge (Soft Machine). The production and mastering on the vinyl is also really nice - Chris Bellman mastered at Bernie Grundman studios...
The new Kurt Vile is just awesome, laid-back groovy psychedelic perfect pop, awesome.

[Swish]

A couple new ones I've kept cued up lately -
the new Low 'Invisible Way' is just gorgeous. Nicely produced and recorded I think by Jeff Tweedy at his studio in Chicago. My wife heard this right away in a way I haven't..."is this some weird new Wilco album?". It's not that transparent to me, but his sound definitely seeps through. The sound is lush and rich though. Plus Mimi sings, finally, a majority of the songs and the band just sound excellent throughout.
Jim James - 'Regions of Light and Sound of God' I'm not a big My Morning Jacket fan (he's the lead singer/writer) but this is a nice one. Extremely John Lennon-heavy in sound/vibe/vocalization but that's not a bad thing I guess. Sort of reminds me of the feel that some Traffic albums have - of another era, groovy, soulful in a white-boy way but still not contrived...The clincher for me is an excellent use of keyboard-sound that borrows from a more laid-back Mike Ratledge (Soft Machine). The production and mastering on the vinyl is also really nice - Chris Bellman mastered at Bernie Grundman studios...
The new Kurt Vile is just awesome, laid-back groovy psychedelic perfect pop, awesome.

I just heard about the new Low and Kurt Vile records from a close friend. I reminded him that we saw Kurt live when his band opened for Pavement during their reunion tour (9/17/2010) and nobody paid them any attention. I tried to watch/listen but fewer than 20% of the seats were filled at that point and everyone was talking so loud that it distracted from the performance. I'll be getting those two for sure.