2021 Album Preview Series: August in Appalachia

A preview of recent listening, including:

Bo Burnham – Inside (The Songs) (2021)
Mononeon – Supermane (2021)
Tally Hall – Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum (2005)
Siti Muharam – Siti of Unguja (Romance Revolution in Zanzibar) (2020)
Beauty Pill – Please Advise (2020)
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2 (2005)



Relevant Links:

Post on Beauty Pill’s Describes Things As They Are
Best of 2015
Source for Aphex Twin visuals

ZZ Top, Dusty Hill, and Afterburner

 Review and discussion on ZZ Top's 1986 album Afterburner, with special mention of the late Dusty Hill

King Crimson: Live and on Islands

Review and discussion on King Crimson’s 1971 album Islands and their 2021 Music is Our Friend tour.

Relevant Links

King Crimson 2017 playing Starless

King Crimson 2017 playing Indiscipline

Islands, from 1971

2021 Album Preview Series: Summer Solstice Special

Short reviews and discussion on:

Yes – From a Page EP (2019)
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma (2010)
Onipa – We No Be Machine (2020)
Field Music – Flat White Moon (2021)
Spelling – Mazy Fly (2019)
Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors -  Selected Works 1985-2005(2020)



Relevant Links:

Previous post on Arc of Life
Text post on Field Music

Sinead O'Connor, The Lion & the Cobra, and Fame

 Review and discussion on Sinead O'Connor's stunning 1987 debut "The Lion & The Cobra."

Relevant links: Post on Clutching at Straws, Marillion's 1987 release that I passively refer to in the above discussion.

Sault's Untitled (Rise) and "Real Talk"

Review and discussion on Sault’s 2020 album “Untitled (Rise)”

2021 Album Preview Series: July Showcase

New listening for July 2021, including:

Mammoth WVH – Mammoth WVH (2021)
Clipping – CLPPNG (2014)
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (2021)
Gunship – Gunship (2015)
Frank Zappa – You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore v. 6 (1992)
Midlake – Antiphon (2013)



Relvant Links:
A previous post on Floating Points Crush
A previous post on Midlake’s Tales from Van Occupanthe
A previous post on 80s nostalgia and FM-84