Owed myself a little break from things, celebrated my daughter’s birthday and generally just powered down a bit from all that’s going on, so this one’s late and you’ll be getting two more this week, and Purple Vu as well.
Do you want me to just sign you up for Purple Vu? Let me know. I’d like things to pick up over there.
Well?
Anyway, I appreciated the Still Single-esque pile of records that came through last week and am working through them now. Bands/labels, add on to all that:
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Here then are the reviews, and as always paid subscribers get to read em all. What’s it gonna take for you to convert?
Also wanted to shout out the homie Marc Masters, recently freed from his responsibilities over at Bandcamp but continuing his regular roundups of experimental music like the gent that he is. Go over to https://www.goodexperimentalmusic.com/ and get yourself enlisted.
Meanwhile here’s my stuff:
MJ GUIDER “Another” b/w “Weird Dream” 7” (Modern Love, UK)
Following two stunning full-lengths for Kranky and some wanders in the wild of self-released EPs, New Orleans’ MJ Guider turns up with formal songs on a very hard-to-get little record. All of the elements that made the previous works jump are here: oppressive low-end pressure, like the engine of an asphalt scraper idling in the heat, ethereal vocals tracked above the fray, and obliterated drum loops and nods to the real world (the “You’re So Vein” nod in “Another”) suitable for wandering the cemetery in a black cloak. Heavier than anything from the albums, these two cuts (released by Boomkat’s house label) hint at a new turn in the wheel of this music, a soot-strewn boom-bap akin to the two members of Curve turned to chimney sweeping, the gloss and detail turned inside out, matte, particulate, and ultimately essential. Do whatever you gotta to get one of these.
More news below … a new Eddy Current Suppression Ring LP and some other heaters which you can read about with a paid sub
