Still a coupla weeks to go for this one to be released, and the next one has already been announced - February 26:

I think NFR is a fucking masterpiece!! The stretch of songs from California to Happiness Is A Butterfly is truly astounding. If she can keep up this kind of work on the new album I will be beside myself.

(Soup Nazi, I'm.......concerned.)

New Gizz in Feb:

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/kin...ew_album _l_w

(Yes, I know. I'm the only one here who loves Gizz. And Taylor Swift (2020 anyway). And Billie Eilish. Etc Etc. The previous Gizz (KG) was a grower for me. I love it now!)

You're concerned? I'M CONCERNED. It's a Sonic Youth board and nobody seems to give a flying fuck that one of the two last surviving New York Dolls has left us, and instead there's all this talk about Taylor Swift and Lana del Rey and Charli XCX and all that BULLCRAP. Not to mention there should be a 10-page thread about why it is impossible to choose just one Wussy album because they're all extraordinary and they're the best band in the fucking world.

^ It's remarkable that while several of your posts are rather thoughtful and eloquent, when it comes to me you knee-jerkishly revert to a garden-variety high school troll. I've followed more artists from their very beginnings than your shitty anime radar will ever give you the chance to.

You're a grown man yelling at a teenager on the Internet because she doesn't really care about your musical opinions.

Well, if you didn't really care you wouldn't have posted anything, but nevermind, guilty as charged: it's a lose-lose for me because I'm supposed to be the adult in the room, so even if I have a point and you're being a brat, it's like, "Hey, dude, come on, she's supposed to be a fucking brat". Kind of a copout from someone who has proven she can grasp complexity, but still, my bad.

Sonic Youth - Personality Crisis [New York Dolls cover]

New Gizz literally always coming, forever

Well yeah. But in this particular case, Feb 26th. :)

(Soup Nazi, I'm.......concerned.)

I listened to that Chemtrails song and heard less than nothing there, Soup I feel you don't worry

i wasn't before, but im curious about this shit now.

thanks for the heads up

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eta: still nope on chemtrails ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

same little melody repeated ad infinitum and not in a philip glass kind of way

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and still nope on lana del rey. maybe she's got clever lyrics or something but for me it's just boring music.

wasn't she the one who ruined sleater-kinney anyway? or am i confusing her with someone else?

otoh i still got a few billie eilish tracks on rotation since this broken record was last played here :D

You're thinking of St. Vincent, a brilliant musician who didn't "ruin" Sleater-Kinney, but... contributed to a not altogether satisfying change. How's that for diplomatic. ;)

https://monoofjapan.bandcamp.com/alb...sary-orchestra

i posted this elsewhere but wanted to link here as recommendation. just released a few days ago and im listening to it a bunch:

arthur hnatek trio - static



see: https://arthurhnatektrio-whirwind.ba...m/album/static

The album: Weezer - OK Human
The verdict: Well, at least it's better than the Black Album...

Tune-Yards - sketchy. (March 26)
Juliana Hatfield - Blood (May 14)

Thumbscrew - Never Is Enough (February 26)

I will not be listening to a Weezer album in 2021 or ever again, thank you

I honestly do not disagree, nothing they've done is better than the one album from 25 years ago (then again, few albums are).

The problem Weezer would have - especially that other bands don't - is that there's very little artistic progression, so you can listen to their white album and spend the whole time thinking 'why aren't I listening to the blue album'?

The problem Weezer has is that they know they suck and are just a residual fart ghost of what they were for a VERY brief time, but they’re for some reason 100% OK with that and they’ve leaned into it so much that they’ve convinced a decent chunk of their newer fanbase that it’s OK, which it is not.

They are the least value-added band in the world at this point. If I were a risk analyst for music, I would recommend Weezer be terminated expeditiously and retroactively dating back to 1997.

If you got the best song off every Weezer album since Green, you could have a pretty good collection - of course, the problem is that the entire top ten is just Blue and Pinkerton (in whatever mix you'd have - I'll go 3/7 or maybe 4/6).

As shit as the music is though, Patrick Wilson can still do some cool stuff.

real good, first album in a couple of decades or something. sounds a lot more like euphoria but perhaps even more knackered? stately minimalist pop that sounds empty but deceptively rich.

Hell yeah

From the archives... BOB QUINE FOREVER!

Flock Of Dimes - Head Of Roses (April 2)

Neil Young - Young Shakespeare Live


Album Releases 3/26/21


Blimey, what a setlist. It looks like a greatest hits compilation but comes from 1971, when he had barely started his solo career.


01 Tell Me Why
02 Old Man
03 The Needle and the Damage Done
04 Ohio
05 Dance Dance Dance
06 Cowgirl in the Sand
07 A Man Needs a Maid/Heart of Gold
08 Journey Through the Past
09 Don’t Let It Bring You Down
10 Helpless
11 Down by the River
12 Sugar Mountain

There's also Way Down In The Rust Bucket (February 26). Dammit, doesn't this guy know I'm broke? Now I gotta rob another liquor store...

Black Dresses - Forever in Your Heart
The Canadian electro-industrial noise pop duo surprise released this today, a comeback record after breaking up in 2020 (thanks TikTok - it shouldn't be as surprising as you'd thought, they literally live together). Opens with a few of the loudest, most powerful songs in their discography, really just lacerating away everything from the last year, and it moves later into being more structured and weirdly pop flavoured. Would recommend for anyone who likes HEALTH, probably the closest analogy I can think of.

Belgian band Dans Dans will release a new album in April. Its first song is shared today. Check it out on bandcamp or youtube!

Dinosaur Jr will release a new album in April, it's (co)produced by Kurt Vile, and here's the first song!!




did anyone hear the new Mogwai yet? Is it any good? I only heard bits and pieces

Nice. NICE. But too much stuff is piling up. Artists I like should coordinate their releases via Zoom or some shit in order not to annihilate my budget. 1-2 per month, tops.

Looking forward to the new Cloud Nothings out tomorrow

Constellation Records sent a newsletter with just this image ....

New gy!be album ????

Oh wait, there's a link to this video too: https://vimeo.com/516864058/459b95a8...eid=c0bf49d73f

G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!

FACS - Present Tense (May 21)

That has to rank as one of the worst album titled ever

St. Vincent - Daddy's Home (May 14th)

Sharon Van Etten - epic Ten (April 16th). Reissue of epic featuring an extra disc with each song from the original album performed by an artist hand-picked by SVE:

Big Red Machine - "A Crime"
IDLES - "Peace Signs"
Lucinda Williams - "Save Yourself"
Shamir - "DsharpG"
Courtney Barnett featuring Vagabon - "Don't Do It"
St. Panther - "One Day"
Fiona Apple - "Love More"

HOLY SHIT!
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