Sometimes, this music is awesome.
Jungle Fire, "La Kossa" Jungle Fire, out of LA, play Afro beat and funk, clearly heavily inspired by the usual folks like Fela Kuti and James Brown. Nothing wrong with that! Anyway, this is from their 2017 album on Colemine records, and I...
Bell Witch, "Suffocation, A Burial: I - Awoken (Breathing Teeth)" First things first, that is a MAGNIFICENT name for a metal song. A roman numeral, a parenthetical, just all kinds of extra junk. Spectacular. At any rate, the other day I referred to...
Squarepusher, "Dust Switch" Music is Rotted One Note is such an incredible album. I am always blown away by it. I recognize that's not insightful, but it's where we are. Trumans Water, "Speeds Exceeding" I think I&...
New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble, "Haitian Fight Song" This version of the great Charles Mingus song is actually the version that got me to go look up Mingus and learn more about him and buy a bunch of his records. It's such...
Pyrrhon, "The Invisible Hand Holds A Whip" Every three years, discordant death metal masters Pyrrhon fire off a new album, and every three years, it whips. I first encountered them with their second record, The Mother of Virtues, and have eagerly followed them...
