Music for 10/23/19!!! Benny Mails, clipping., Joviale

@@@ Benny Mails: High On Stress (Self-released, 2019) I got to this UK rapper via a Line of Best Fit email. I’m addicted to UK hip hop, I can’t stop listening! Trappish beats, fat bass, and then Mails hits the mic and it sounds like Boris Johnson tryin’ to rub one out in the bus station! #nonsense Is it possible the British accent can not work within the aesthetic framework of hip hop? Further complicating matters is that I don’t understand the vocal hook, he gets high on stress, he’s so vexed. I guess he might be saying that he’s got so much going on and he up in it that he’s high on the stress. Or it may not make sense, but as he said that he’s vexed that makes two of us. Peep it, it’s fabolos in a way.

@@@ Clipping.: There Existed an Addiction to Blood (Sub Pop, 2019) Also from Line of Best Fit. With a title like this I thunk it was a metal or a noise record, but it’s not, it’s a hip hop record. After a spitfire intro rhyme bomb Mr. clippin. heads into a track with what might almost pass as a Laurie Anderson sonic arrangement. The MC is like a razor, he’s extremely sharp in his pronunciation and he’s working overtime. He gets a lot of words and verbal energy out into the listener’s ears. Halfway through the track the tune explodes into its full self with a complete beat, super fat bass and a giant synth serving as a wall for the chorus. The fifth track, La Mala Ordena, will be my last peep for this record. I dig this track a whole bunch, fresh sounds and above average rhyming. The roughness of this records exists at a more conceptual level — these aren’t stories of gangsta adventures it’s more meta than that. About two thirds of the way through this song the whole song just turns to abstract distorted noise and they run out the track with that shit. This outfit is fresh.

@@@ Joviale: The Crisis EP (Blue Flowers, 2019) Also from Line of Best fit. Last listen of the day and it’s gonna be lighter than the clipping. record above. This is British mainstream electro pop so it’s not quite as gaudy and Hollywood while it does push out a distinctly upbeat musical vibe. The singer is smooth and sweet but no panting and breathless nonsense. The sounds have an ’80s feel to them and the second tune Ride Away even has a wee Prince feel. I don’t love the guitar sounds and I find her voice to be front and center as the deserved main attraction. If folks want a different take on singer/songwriter pop check this out.

YTD recordings listened to: 551
Good music, not list worthy: 325
Not good music: 187

Best: 0
Honorable Mentions: 0

Possibles: Retox, Defeater, Jonwayne, Okkyung Lee, Slidhr, The Chewers, Susie Iberra/Roberto Rodriguez, The Coral, T.O.M.B., Lozen, Erase Errata, Mastery, Hartley C. White, Weed, Cold Water, Luther Dickinson, Graeme Barrett, Fast Asleep, Goldlink, Cavanaugh, Satoko Fuji, Moken, Juan Atkins, Lantern, Twin Peaks, Djelimady Tounkara, The Oh Sees, Denny Zeitlin, MILF, Unfun, De La Soul, Carl Sagan’s Skate Shoes, Noname, Klara Lewis, Krullur, The Lowest Form, Hard Proof, Yotoco, Jungle Fire, Sandoz, Oddisee, RAM, Fiver, Succumb Succumb, Gloom, Priests, Propaganda, This is the Kit, Roberto Gonzalez, Integrity, Tuba Skinny, The Expanders, Criolo, Billy Strings, Flowers of Sulphur, Portal, Lawaii, Etran De L’Air, Ruby Karinto, Elysia Crampton, Parquet Courts, Moskus, Kendl Winter, Tkay Maidza, Barro, Daniel Khan, Tallawit Timbouctou, Sumac, Tropical Fuck Storm, Harriet Tubman, Ammar 808, Anais Maviel, Chaka Khan, Pom Poko, Fried Egg, Horndal, Wyxz, Tarek Atoui, Hawktail, Saicobab, Shannon and the Clams, General Purv, Shipping News, Big Thief, Emma Louise, Andre Bratten, Nathan Corder/Tom Weeks, Oli XL, Buzzherd, Logistic Slaughter, The Muslims, Tobe Nwigwe, Saint Abdullah, Bug Martin, Kaleta and the Super Yamba Band, Toko Telo, Brittany Howard, The Garifuna Collective, Mariachi El Bronx, Bonnie Baxter, Danny Brown, clipping.

Misi Lakatos and his Gypsy Band Side 1

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Et, tu Ambassador?? #fakelynchingnews #sunkPumpkin

From the Guardian:

Music for 10/22/19!!! The Blassics, Allah Lahs, Danny Brown

@@@ THE BLASSICS: Togetherings (Odd Funk, 2019) Today’s three listens are from last week’s All Music notable release email. Notable people, notable. This will be another Afrobeat listen on top of yesterday’s Alma Afrobeat Ensemble record. It must be Afrobeat season. The record opens up with the tune clipped below, In a Sincere Way, with some horn pumping as well as slashing funky guitar and flute action. This is the full Afrobeat ensemble experience and they are bouncing up and down on this melody pretty hard. The singer comes in humbly and distinctly not American, I dig him. The second tune, Hagerun Geleba, comes out slinkier at a lower tempo but with solid band energy. It’s an 11 minute banger so it’s gonna go slow. I had to check out the fourth tune, Why is the Chicken Running, as it’s a very pertinent question for today’s world. I can’t answer and I won’t hold these guys and gals responsible for answering such a difficult question. The song is almost two thirds over before the singer comes on and he’s not singing so the question of why the chicken is running does not look like it’s going to be answered by this record. Great title though, and I liked the first track clipped below best of what I heard.

@@@ Allah-Lahs: Lahs (Mexican Summer, 2019) The first tune on this record (that I got to via the All Music notable release email, every week!) takes an indie vibe and lovebabies it with a Doors-era like jam. So a bit twee, just a bit, and a lot of older ’60s hippie vibes. Hmmm, I never liked the hippies. The vocalizing here is closer to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young than the messianic Jim Morrison. Though it only weighs in at 4 minutes it does have a full jam quality, guitar solo included. The second tune, Keeping Dry, heads out of old hippie land and gets into a mathy, twee thing. The singer sounds like an awfully friendly kinda fella and it’s a comforting listen for sure. Taking two genre formulas that I struggle to like and smashing them together is a tough one for me, but as I always say I’m an idiot and check it for yourself.

@@@ Danny Brown: uknowwhati’msayin? (Warp, 2019) Off this week’s All Music notable release email. I’ve checked out Brown’s music before but I can’t say I know a lot about his story. This first tune Change Up comes off Spaghetti Western/Hip hop with a tremolo-y guitar and Brown’s distinctive tone on the microphone. If Brown’s music is not left field hip hop what is? In this second tune he’s got loops of whispers, a screechy violin sample, and a voice that sounds like it’s coming out of a jail. The third tune, Dirty Laundry, is sonically rich and you have to be somewhat deaf to hear that Brown has been making music for a long ass time. Superior arrangements, it’s up to whether you dig Brown and his lyrics as to how deep you’ll get into his music. Or maybe you think hip hop is only for gangster business. I think he’s awesome and his could give a fuck approach on the microphone contrasts with the tightness of the sounds. The fourth tune with Run the Jewels is one of the first (if not the first) Run the Jewels tune I’ve felt. Imma circle back on this.

YTD recordings listened to: 548
Good music, not list worthy: 325
Not good music: 187

Best: 0
Honorable Mentions: 0

Possibles: Retox, Defeater, Jonwayne, Okkyung Lee, Slidhr, The Chewers, Susie Iberra/Roberto Rodriguez, The Coral, T.O.M.B., Lozen, Erase Errata, Mastery, Hartley C. White, Weed, Cold Water, Luther Dickinson, Graeme Barrett, Fast Asleep, Goldlink, Cavanaugh, Satoko Fuji, Moken, Juan Atkins, Lantern, Twin Peaks, Djelimady Tounkara, The Oh Sees, Denny Zeitlin, MILF, Unfun, De La Soul, Carl Sagan’s Skate Shoes, Noname, Klara Lewis, Krullur, The Lowest Form, Hard Proof, Yotoco, Jungle Fire, Sandoz, Oddisee, RAM, Fiver, Succumb Succumb, Gloom, Priests, Propaganda, This is the Kit, Roberto Gonzalez, Integrity, Tuba Skinny, The Expanders, Criolo, Billy Strings, Flowers of Sulphur, Portal, Lawaii, Etran De L’Air, Ruby Karinto, Elysia Crampton, Parquet Courts, Moskus, Kendl Winter, Tkay Maidza, Barro, Daniel Khan, Tallawit Timbouctou, Sumac, Tropical Fuck Storm, Harriet Tubman, Ammar 808, Anais Maviel, Chaka Khan, Pom Poko, Fried Egg, Horndal, Wyxz, Tarek Atoui, Hawktail, Saicobab, Shannon and the Clams, General Purv, Shipping News, Big Thief, Emma Louise, Andre Bratten, Nathan Corder/Tom Weeks, Oli XL, Buzzherd, Logistic Slaughter, The Muslims, Tobe Nwigwe, Saint Abdullah, Bug Martin, Kaleta and the Super Yamba Band, Toko Telo, Brittany Howard, The Garifuna Collective, Mariachi El Bronx, Bonnie Baxter, Danny Brown

I wouldn’t wipe my ass with Facebook money!

From CNBC:

I could give a fuck, fuck Mark Zuckerberg.

Would I want to see the Pumpkin swinging from a branch? hmmmm…. #strangefruitindeed

From the Daily Beast:

I guess somewhere there are supporters who dig this rhetoric.  But they’re gonna vote for him even if he denies them healthcare and then urinates on them.

However, the people who he needs to defend him in the Senate….well, he’s making that harder with this flavor of bullshit.

It’s hard to have sympathy or agree with any metaphor he’s using here when he’s taking every opportunity to punch down and be a prick.

This dude needs some self-awareness for Christmas.

Soul of Italy Side 1

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