Sweet music to your ears. LP’s, EP’s and everything in between this is the place you will find out about the latest music and maybe even some oldies but goodies.
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My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (reissue)
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Pseudo Kids: Stay Glad EP
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B.O.B: Strange Clouds
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Beach House: Bloom
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mewithoutYou: Ten Stories
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Silversun Pickups: Neck of the Woods
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Off!: Off!
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Father John Misty: Fear Fun
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Death Grips: The Money Store
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Jack White: Blunderbuss
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Reptar: Body Faucet
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Spiritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light
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Miike Snow: Happy to You
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Battles: Dross Glop
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Rusko: Songs
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High on Fire: De Vermis Mysteriis
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Bear In Heaven: I Love You, It's Cool
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Tanlines: Mixed Emotions
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Ear Dropps Come Lately
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Odd Future: The OF Tape Vol. 2
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Drudkh: Eternal Turn of the Wheel
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The Shins: Port of Morrow
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The Men: Open Your Heart
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The Decemberists: We All Raise Our Voices to the Air
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Andrew Bird: Break It Yourself
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Damien Jurado: Maraqopa
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Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral
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Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
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Fionn Regan: 100 Acres of Sycamore
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Loma Prieta: I.V.
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Schoolboy Q: Habits & Contradictions
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Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas
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Howler:America Give Up
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Nada Surf:The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy
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Lana Del Rey:Born to Die
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Cloud Nothings:Attack on Memory
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First Aid Kit:The Lion's Roar
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Chairlift: Something
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Anthony Green:Beautiful Things
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The Big Pink:Future This
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Gates of Mourning:Nightfall Blooms and Golden Horns
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Nicole Miglis:EP
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Kathleen Edwards:Voyageur
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James Blake:Love What Happened Here
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Alcest: Les Voyages de l'Ame
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The Weeknd: Echoes of Silence
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Best Albums of 2011
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Best Songs 2011
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M83:Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
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Feist: Metals
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Wilco:The Whole Love
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Tom Waits:Bad As Me
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Wolves in the Throne Room:Celestial Lineage
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A.A. Bondy: Believers
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Slow Club:Paradise
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Mates of State:Mountaintops
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Gotye: Making Mirrors
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St. Vincent:Strange Mercy
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Mister Heavenly:Out of Love
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The War On Drugs:Slave Ambient
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Blood Orange:Coastal Grooves
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Active Child:You Are All I See
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Yip-Yip:Bone Up
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Maximino:Not So Cold, Cave
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Thee Oh Sees:Castlemania
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Timber Timbre:Creep On Creepin' On
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Watch The Throne
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Little Dragon:Ritual Union
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Liturgy:Aesthethica
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The Cool Kids:When Fish Ride Bicycles
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Gang Gang Dance:Eye Contact
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Bon Iver: Bon Iver
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John Maus:We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
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TOKiMONSTA:Creature Dreams EP
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The Wooden Birds:Two Matchsticks
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Jamie XX:Far Nearer/Beat For
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The Antlers:Burst Apart
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Death Cab for Cutie:Codes and Keys
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Dangermouse & Daniele Luppi:Rome
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David Bazan: Strange Negotiations [Barsuk]
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Thurston Moore:Demolished Thoughts
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Foster The People:Torches
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Explosions in the Sky:Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
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My Morning Jacket:Circuital
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Man Man:Life Fantastic
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Okkervil River:I Am Very Far
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Pygmy Lush:Old Friends
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Elzhi:Elmatic
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Beastie Boys:Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
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Fleet Foxes:Helplessness Blues
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Young Widows:In And Out Of Youth And Lightness
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Gil Scott-Heron/Jamie XX:We're New Here
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J-Rocc:Some Cold Rock Stuf
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Little Scream:The Golden Record
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Cut Copy:Zonoscope
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Panda Bear:Tomboy
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Pains of Being Pure At Heart:Belong
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Acid House Kings:Music Sounds Better With You
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Bibio:Mind Bokeh
Vacation Dad:Hot Pizza
Tags: Andrew Thacker Todryk, Farms band, Fmly, Hot Pizza, Indie, Vacation DAd
8.5/10 dropps
Vacation Dad is the solo project of Andrew Thacker Todryk, member of the band Farms and contributor to the righteous culture blog FMLY (http://www.thefmly.com).
An all around talented musician, drummer, and proponent of raw energy, Todryk will perform to children at the Eau Claire, Wisconsin Music School benefit for free clinics as one entity, only later to split audiences’ heads, clad only in underpants, at a packed basement show in the heart of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Long winded? Yeah. But he’s worth the lengthy description.
His latest studio effort Hot Pizza clocks in at an ever-so-perfect 12 minutes and 12 seconds. It continues to maintain this perfection throughout its entirety. While compacted as one track on his bandcamp profile (vacationdad.bandcamp.com), it will be released as three seperate songs on a four-way split cassette with Panda Teeth, Birthdays, and Many Mansion, available from Breakfast of Champions.
The first four minutes and four seconds of this track (perfection, people!), are titled “Dreamboat.” Ancient textures and cryptic, indiscernible vocals, if words are actually said, float through the whimsical atmosphere. Digital old-world instruments reminiscent of marimbas in a far off wood (yet, curiously all around you) envelop the soundscape. Wild, backwards yips from a native tribe, grace the track and everything’s okay.
The next track, “Wake Up,” is an alarm to wake you from the trance that “Dreamboat” instilled – like an IDM Panda Bear perhaps, or maybe El Guincho on a mushroom trip. An excerpt from my stream of conscious while this track played: Buffalos run rampant in Wisconsin, ya’ll. Think of what their spores are like. Entrancing and awakening. Cyclical, nonsensical… This track is beautiful. One complaint : it’s waaaaaaaay to short.
Don’t think it’s over after that trip. In the latter part of the album, you’ve wandered away from the woods for a bit and got hooked in by the hustle and bustle of your busy city day but now you’re back in your own tree, hanging out, watching the moon, listening to the last track on Hot Pizza entitled “Shine”. The marimbas are back and this time, they are truly discernible. The vocal melodies in “Shine” seem to glorify the culmination of the journey through which Hot Pizza has pressed and pulled your mind. The beautiful disarray comes to a head and sends you off on your own shining path.
Damn, this is good.
-Matt Kamm
Sun Apr 3
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