2021 Album Elimination Ep. 8: Ghost of Vroom vs. MonoNeon

 

Preview featuring Ghost of Vroom Preview featuring Supermane

2021 Album Eliminations Ep. 7: Beauty Pill vs. Gunship

 

Preview featuring Beauty Pill Preview featuring Gunship

2021 Album Eliminations Ep. 6: clipping. vs. Coriky

Preview featuring clipping.

Preview featuring Coriky

2021 Album Preview Series: Variety is the Spice

 Overview of September listening, including:

The Who – The Who Sell Out (1967) The Knife – Shaking the Habitual (2013) Chad VanGaalen – The World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener (2021) Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (2021) Our Oceans – Our Oceans (2015) The Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (2021)

Relevant Links: Previous post on Mdou Moctar

2021 Eliminations Ep. 5: Bo Burnham vs. Frank Zappa

 

Previous post on YCDTOSA v. 5 Preview featuring Inside

2021 Eliminations Ep. 4: black midi VS. Transatlantic

Post on Cavalcade Preview featuring The Breath of Life

Promises, Time, and the Chime

Review and discussion on Promises, the 2021 collaboration between Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra

Relevant links: Previous post on Floating Points Roundup featuring Promises

2021 Album Eliminations Ep.3: The Hawkins VS. Mammoth WVH

Preview featuring the Hawkins

Preview featuring Mammoth WVH

2021 Album Eliminations Ep. 2: Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, & the LSO VS. Soup

Preview featuring Promises

Preview featuring The Beauty of Our Youth

CHVRCHES, Bones, and Synth Trends of the Teens

Review and discussion on The Bones of What You Believe, a 2013 release from CHVRCHES.

Relevant links

A bit about nostalgia
A bit more about nostalgia and M83 

 

2021 Album Eliminations Ep 1: Gunship vs. Disheveled Cuss

2021 Album of the Year Elimination – Gunship vs. Disheveled Cuss

Preview Post including Gunship

Preview Post including Disheveled Cuss

Gunship – Gunship

Disheveled Cuss – Disheveled Cuss

black midi and the Crimsonesque Qualities of Cavalcade

 Review and discussion on black midi’s 2021 album Cavalcade, with an eye on the common ground between their aesthetic and prog-rock legends King Crimson.

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Previous post on Schlagenheim

Previous post on King Crimson’s recent tour and the 71 album Islands

Black midi in black midi by Patrick Fitzroy

Talkhouse Podcast with Morgan Simpson and Bill Bruford