Thursday, April 30, 2015

After the mickeys disastrous defeat last night, I'm looking forward to West Brom on Saturday, let's hope it's Van Persie replacing Rooney and not Falcao.


Music

Guano Padano - Americana: A decent album, that gets better by the listen, but still doesn't quite live up to their last couple of albums. Despite being their most "American" album yet, their schtick seems to becoming a bit samey.

Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$: A pretty good debut album from the New York hip hop man, a couple of tracks veered being a bit too chart worthy, meant in a bad way, but for the most part it's hard hitting.

Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper: I've not really been as enthusiastic about the Animal Collective man's solo outings, but his latest album really grew on me, pretty good stuff indeed.

Pink Floyd - The Endless River: Hard to really review this, as to what it actually was, a set of tracks deemed not really good enough for for one of their main albums, it showed how talented they really were. But it was billed as " the last proper Pink Floyd album" and this wouldn't really be the way you'd want to go out. A lot of decent, almost good tracks, but only two or three to my ears, that I really wanted to hear again.

Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2: The second album from the US hip hop duo hits the spot, excellent stuff.

Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love: The return album from the US Washington state based female indie rock trio is an absolute corker. I have to admit for such an acclaimed act, I've barely heard any of their old stuff. Though i did really like Wild Flag, a side act of two of the band from a couple of years back. A delve through the back catalogue looks to be on the cards.

Swearing At Motorists - While Laughing the Joker Tells the Truth: Another US indie rock band to emerge from the 90's that I haven't really listened to before. An album I had to grow into, but it was worth it, a bit Mark Lannegan, if a two man band could be such a thing.

The Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles – The Last Transmission: I wanted to listen to this, more from a Heliocentrics basis than Mario Van Peebles, and whilst i enjoyed the main album, I enjoyed the instrumental bonus album just as much. I love the spaced out groove, jazz, dun whatever the hell it is, I lovee it.





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