The King of Limbs (thank you for waiting)

Just a little bit of news:

New Radiohead album, The King of Limbs, is being released Saturday February 19th on XL (UK).  Quite possibly the best $48 I've spent since 2007.

DETAILS
Newspaper Album - PRESALE
Radiohead's new record, The King Of Limbs, is presented here as the world's first* Newspaper Album, comprising:

* Two clear 10" vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve.
* A compact disc.
* Many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together.
* The Newspaper Album comes with a digital download that is compatible with all good digital media players.
* The Newspaper Album will be shipped on Monday 9th May 2011 you can, however, enjoy the download on Saturday 19th February 2011.
* Shipping is included in the prices shown.
* One lucky owner of the digital version of The King Of Limbs, purchased from this website, will receive a signed 2 track 12" vinyl.

*perhaps

Fuckin' Swag

Someone in this city should really have a FREE EARL event to raise funds for the cause. Perhaps the proceeds of Tyler's Yonkers single will be used for this purpose. Odd Future is the future, hands down.

Guilty pleasure: Deep minimal house

If you would have told me a year ago that I would dig house music, I would have dismissed your claims faster than Irina at Ritual can make you prepubescent again. However, after John Roberts' album Glass Eights last year (see número 5), I truly came to appreciate the qualities of the genre, as long as the disco elements are kept limited. The new album Well Spent Youth by Isolée is très bien; I dare you to listen without moving your head/body to the beat in some way.

DAPHNE005

The Modern Love imprint has been habitually rocking my early afternoons this past week. Andrea's You Still Got Me/Got to Forget (below) reminds me a lot of the Hyperdub releases from 2009, with a little techno and house thrown in the melting pot. As usual, PLAY LOUD.

On another note, I love the semi-retired life I have been leading lately. Everyday is like my own choose your own adventure book, and my choices never seem to disappoint. I could really get used to this.

Andrea - You Still Got Me / Got To Forget by modernlove

Gareth Pugh

Things I like:

Whitest girl alive?

Can’t help it.



Decent review here. My only gripe with this album is the cover...really? I mean, at least this is kind of funny.

Demdike Stare

Don't think I've gone all dark on y'all, but this shit is monumentous. If I were to make music, this is how I would want it to sound. Demdike Stare fuses French porno soundtracks, Turkish psych, and obscure Mid-East and East Indian beats with dubby techno glue. The outcome shatters all of my musical expectations.

(Some of the) best...credits...ever...?

SEE THIS FILM.

Richard Kern

My interest started when I saw the book Looker, and now I just can't get enough of this man's work.

Check out this for a taste of his provocative but undeniably real portrayals of sexuality.

A Sentimental Note on Dubstep

I miss old dubstep; the real, good stuff that made me walk and walk and walk and get lost in my own head in the best possible way. Lost, not in my own deep thoughts, but solely on the sounds, the layering, the counts, the components of liquid melted bass that together made my insides warm up like a shot of Scotch. Sonically, the sounds were deep and nurturing, and had this matriarchal feel to them, perhaps in part due to Mary Anne Hobbs' influence on the sub-genre during this period (sidenote- as sad as it was for her to leave her late night BBC 1 radio show, I am of the opinion it was a wise move on her part. She had essentially raised the Bristol scene to a near pinnacle, and could anticipate that the future of dubstep was now out of her control and thrown free to the masses. She got out at a time that would diffuse her association with a genre that was heading in a wobbly direction with increasingly less attention to sound fluidity as it reached the mainstream).

Of course, there have still been great albums that have left me smiling to myself while walking down the street, but it isn't quite the same as that initial feeling I had when I first entered the world of dubstep. I'm not saying I want to be in the pure, simple state I was in before the genre, I merely want the fun of listening to it for the first time all over again.