Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada EP
(Kranky, 1999)
Beautiful, slowburning post-rock plus found-shouting by Montreal maddoes. Brill!
According to Drowned In Sound, Godspeed You! Black Emperor have split up. According to Pitchfork, the nine-piece Montreal post-rock collective are still theoretically together, if only to facilitate their on-going hiatus (begun back in 2002) in order to protest, through inertia, at the ongoing horror of the Gulf War. This kind of disinformation and doublespeak is par for the course for a band who, in their fear and distrust of the written word, make Ludwig Wittgenstein look like Girls Aloud. As such, their frowny silence, even during the short window of their open creativity (1998–2002) allowed music journalists to fill the void with, frankly, rubbish. If ever a piece of writing has stopped someone from buying a record it’s every single line written about the “displaced ghosts”, “dynamic fields” and “melodic contradictions” of this lot. Not even MOJO is without sin. Our review of their last album, Yanqui U.X.O. in MOJO 110 referred to the band as “the threnodic dissident sound of anti-commercialism achieving fission as it becomes product”. Not ‘arf, pop-pickers! Therefore, in protest, I give you this: Check it aht! Yew’ll luv it! Wickid!
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 18/02/2008
Further Listening
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Kranky, 2000)
Rachel's - Systems/Layers (Quarterstick, 2003)
Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel (New Albion, 1992)
Previous Disc of the day
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Earl Brutus - Larky
Last salvo of Ginsters Pasty-Warholism from Britpop ramraiders.
12:04 PM GMT 08/06/2011
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Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
6:00 AM GMT 03/06/2011
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Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
Dry computer club Futurists, upon hitting implausible chart paydirt.
6:00 AM GMT 17/05/2011
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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