South of Reality: Claypool and Lennon's Delirious Collaboration

Background, discussion, and review on The Claypool/Lennon Delirium’s South of Reality (2019)

Relevant Links:

A very early posting on Sean Lennon’s Friendly Fire

A post on Oysterhead

Some thoughts on The Monolith of Phobos

Other favorites from 2016, including The Monolith of Phobos

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Buchla and The Kid

Discussion and review on Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s 2017 album The Kid, as well as a little background on her instrument of choice, the Buchla synthesizer.

Links of interest:
A written review of 2016’s EARS

A little more exposition on Moog synthesizers

The Jellyfish Family Tree Part 10: Falkner and Johnston at the Mohawk

A anecdote that looks at Jason Falkner’s I’m OK, You’re OK (2007) and Daniel Johnson’s Is And Always Was (2019) along the way.

Relevant links:

Part 2: Spilt Milk at Lunch

Part 4: Falkner Knocks Me Down

Part 7: Falkner’s Mercurial Fortunes

Frank Zappa's Roxy & Elsewhere: Troubling Fills in the Air

Discussion on Frank Zappa’s 1974 album Roxy & Elsewhere, as well as some speculation on its influence.

Fall 2019 Preview: Light on Dark Corners

Discussion and previews on a few albums that have been in rotation:

Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch - Twin Peaks: Season 2 Soundtrack and More (2019)

The Knells – The Knells (2013)

Herbie Hancock – Thrust (1974)

Sevish – Harmony Hacker (2017)

Bombay Groovy – Odysee (2019)

Tool – Fear Innoculum (2019)

Relevant Links:

Twin Peaks Then and Now: Autonomy and Association

The Knells: Earthen Riffs, Celestial Voices

Escaping the Undertow: Tool’s Lateralus

Holly Herndon's PROTO: Anxiety and Ecstasy

Review and discussion of Holly Herdon’s 2019 release PROTO.



Copyright restrictions required me to mute the song examples in this post.  Links to the songs are as follows:






There is, unfortunately, no readily available clip of Evening Shades (Live Training), but I would encourage you to seek it out - it might hold the key to the whole album.

Escaping the Undertow: Tool's "Lateralus"

Discussion and review of Tool’s 2001 album Lateralus

I discovered this album during the summer vacation that inspired this post

I consider this to be 2001’s Album of the Year