Music for 5/13/24!!! Les Savy Fav, Conrad Schnitzler

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@@@ Les Savy Fav: OUI, LSF (Frenchkiss, 2024) Some medium bombastic rock that revolves around the male singer who has attitude but not so much that you want to slap him. Big rock drummer and a maelstrom of rock guitars. Not grunge, not super punk-y nor super classic rock either, just loud and I guess mostly punk/post punk. They have a lot of energy and I appreciate that. It all hinges on the singer, I like him, I’m not shitting my pants but he’s working hard. I like it more the more I listen to it but rock is a hard sell for me these days.

@@@ Conrad Schnitlzer: Slow Motion (Bureau B, 2024) Both listens today are off All Music’s notable releases of the week. This may be too slow motion for me at least the first track. It’s a noodling keyboard synth player doing his thing over a super simple beat with a short delay sound on it. It’s got Eastern flavors to it and the beat picks up a bit on the second track. I think it’s a synth redo of a classical Indian music record but with a drum machine and a keyboard. It’s not really my cup of tea.

Music for 5/12/24!!! Dettinger

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@@@ Dettinger: Intershop (Kompakt, 2024) This an ambient album from 1999 freshly through the mastering rig and back at your earholes for this fantastic fucking election year. The opening track is pretty staid with some up top droning ambient type wave sounds supported by a stripped down funk-ish beat, while the second track gets more into a swirling ambient cloud with a simple stick rhythm, at least in the beginning. I think a lot of records that get remastered are easily digested by normies and music obsessives alike, I get that with this record. It has a simple appeal to it but it’s not supposed to be empty sounding music while most definitely keeping things simple. I would start with Intershop 3, the third track, as it the best and funkiest of what I heard and it is the best example of the formula being used here. The fourth track moves from the straight funkiness to a bit more delayed flavors and I’m gonna tip during this fifth track but it’s got a nice multilayered ambient opening. Check this out

Music for 5/10/24!!! Dehd, Pokey LaFarge

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@@@ Dehd: Poetry (Fat Possum, 2024). If you smashed up the Beach Boys with the dudes who did the Friends with a pubic hair of The Strokes you’d get close to this record. At least the opener ah there goes the second one into the pantheon of white American friendly rock. Little Springsteen in the vocalist on this track, so there’s a whole lotta bands up in this record. It’s not bad by any means, it’s just not where I’m at.

@@@ Pokey LaFarge: Rhumba Country (New West, 2024). Another very ‘American’ sounding record. I’m a long running Pokey Lafarge fan cuz I think he has the style to do this sound tongue in cheek. Mr. LaFarge’s sonic references go further back to the ’50s and 60s, he doesn’t really traffic in many hipster sounds like recycled hippie sounds, psych business, and my least favorite faded ’70s California rock. I don’t super have the time to compare this record with previous LaFarge efforts but this one feels a bit more adult in energy, some of his earlier work I remember as ironic cornball. The corn has been toned down and the sophisticated flavors have been upped. I would start with his 2020 record Rock Bottom Rhapsody but normies and mainstream listeners should know about Pokey LaFarge, he’s a hoot.

Music for 5/9/24!!! Knocked Loose

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@@@ Knocked Loose: You Won’t Leave Before You’re Supposed To (Pure Noise, 2024) I don’t usually find many great records from the Guardian or the New York Times, but the odds are higher with the Guardian than the lame ass NYT. The Guradian is giving this Kentucky metal outfit 5 stars and the first tune is absolutely a face ripper — the singer sounds absolutely at the end of his rope with the occasional help of a female singer, the arrangements are herky jerky and jumping around which I love. The drums are cranked and tasty, rough and sizzly with static but it for sure adds to the proceedings. Yowsa these guys are no hidden gem as this video has over a million streams in just two weeks, so all you fucking metal dirtballs and shitheads have found this cookie pretty quickly, good for you. If the rest of this record rips at this level I’ll be on it like stink on a monkey. Check it out.

Music for 5/8/24!!! Facta

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@@@ Facta: Emeline EP (Incienso, 2023) I got to this smooth R2D2 blippety house music via the UK electronic music mag Crack. There are some high end basslines up in this four song banger and the up top garnish is minimal but tasty. It sure appears that it’s summertime and the new music is starting to heat up or it’s all in my head as this record was released in 2023 but it I found it right around now. It takes time for records to circulate and percolate. This is some stylish ass house music business, it’s got patterns but it has plenty of spiking tones and breaks on the grooves to entertain all the dirty peasants out there. Check this out.

Funny how young people don’t want their #rights snatched.

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From CNBC:

The youngest generation of American workers is prepared to move away from states that pass abortion bans and to turn down job offers in states where bans are already in place, a new survey from CNBC/Generation Lab finds.

The “Youth & Money in the USA” survey of 1,033 people between the ages of 18 and 34 found that almost two-thirds of respondents, 62%, would “probably not” or “definitely not” live in a state that banned abortion.

Not shocking at all, these’ #rightwing pricks are incompetent.