always: horses

still: avalon

always: revolver

on: new musical offerings

a return to form. and good.  so good.  it's been a bit.  but glad to have you back.

on: new musical offerings

whole here.  half of another.  and all simply brilliant.

andy stott.  faith in strangers.

get it.  now.

on: three x three + one (the top ten new musical offerings of the first half of 2014)

1.  thee silver mt. zion memorial orchestra fuck off get free we pour light on everything

2.  actress ghettoville

3.  millie & andrea drop the vowels

4.  beck morning phase

5.  john frusciante enclosure

6.  warpaint warpaint

7.  neneh cherry blank project

8.  angel olsen burn your fire for no witness

9.  the body i shall die here

10.  eagulls eagulls

on: new musical offerings

parquet courts. sunbathing animal.

brooklyn by way of texas.  a bit wire.  a bit jonathan rich man.  some say television.  but all all good.

most definitely worth the time.

on: new musical offerings

beck.  morning phase.

out today.

reminiscent of sea change.  an exhale.  a return to form.  honestly quite good and to date, easily one of the best of the year.

on: new musical offerings

actress. ghettoville.

out today.  

darren cunningham's fourth.  and according to him -- the 'conclusion of the actress image.'

wicked wicked. and not in the boston sense. this is good.

on: the top three albums of 2013

fka twigs
ep2

early tricky.  maxinquaye.  and the first time you heard martina topley bird...

this is that all over again.





jenny hval
innocence is kinky

remember the girl next door?  remember the first time you glimpsed that perhaps -- just perhaps -- she was no longer simply that girl.  this is the audiation.

run the jewels
run the jewels

and while so many others had a certain other hip hop offering atop their lists.  here.  no.  not here.

here, the bump is preferred to the shock.