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I used to think that any description of music that had the word “jazz” in it was pretentious and therefore soulless. Yeah, sometimes I’m that harsh a critic! Aside from my undying love for Vince Guaraldi’s Peanut’s Christmas music, I’m a complete ignoramous when it comes to Jazz. But, I gave this a shot. The teaser I posted on Friday was really good, wasn’t it? Well, I spent the rest of the weekend soaking up Radiolarians II and it was glorious!
If you know anything about Medeski, Martin, & Wood, you know they’ve turned the whole concept of what it is to make an album on its head. They wrote, they toured and performed, and then they recorded. What resulted on Radiolarians I was a feeling of being at a jam session, the organic creativity of music shone through. It’s not only duplicated on their new release, it’s superseded.
From the first chords of the first track, I was hooked. Bass heavy, noisy, a little prog-rockish, and some full on, earthiness that you can feel when you’re standing up close to the amp. Well, you know how I am about bass players! There’s a reason, darlin’s …. they feel that tone, you feel that tone… it’s powerful stuff. Track 1, “Flat Tires” wanders off into some piano riffs and swishy drum bits and finishes on a full speed ahead big finish. I was wowed. The rest of the album woos you, takes you in, and you barely notice the intent of it. Radiolarians II feels like that exciting stranger you meet on vacation. He’s just foreign enough to be intriguing, but not enough to be creepy. And you know it won’t last long so you’d better make the most of it, if you know what I mean. Yeah, I’ve been wooed by an Englishman or a Scot like this (mostly Glaswegians I must admit), they’re slick and they make you feel smart and oh so attractive, even after it’s over.You don’t regret a minute of it.
By the time track 3 came along, “Padrecito” I was totally into the piano riffs. I felt so very pleased that I wasn’t hating it, that I actually felt the swell and fall of it as it builds and burns and fades into nothingness. There is nothing soulless about this album. I kept finding new bits to hear, the noise/sound effects in “ijiji” (oh forgive me if there’s a technical term for those), the amazing drumming throughout but especially in “Chasen vs Suribachi,” the cello (?) in “Dollar Pants” and that gorgeous bass drum in “Amish Pintxos.” By track 10, “Baby Let Me Follow You Down,” I was basking in the afterglow. There are albums I listen to intently to review because I want to dissect them and enjoy them more, and then there are albums I listen to intently because I want to dissect them and enjoy them and I know I’ll listen to them again and again. Radiolarians II is that exciting stranger that I want to meet over and over.
Hop back over to this post to hear “Amber Gris” again, xoxo
Official website ….. MySpace ….. Camp MMWMedeski Martin &Wood are also gearing up to host their Camp MMW again this summer. Applications are currently being accepted for the second annual Camp MMW, to take place August 4 – 9, 2009 at the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY. All types of musicians are encouraged to apply. Camp MMW is an incredible opportunity for musicians of varying levels and ages, to live and study with MMW in the Catskill Mountains. Campers will gather together for five days of intensive workshops and seminars, deep listening, musical exploration, and improvisation.
… that they gave me 5 copies of Hungry Birdon VINYL for you to win, my darlings! I’ve been running a contest on Twitter and I’ve got two winners so far, which means I’ve got 3 left to mail out to some lucky, lucky fans. Do you twit? With a title like Hungry Bird, I think Clem Snide should, don’t you? I also happened to have a little conversation with Brendan Fitzpatrick – awesome bass player, and Ben Martin – drummer extraordinaire, about birdwatching after the show (thank you, Drunk Country for the tip!) They’re avid bird watchers, no kiddin! I hope they get to see some cranes soon. Get this band on Twitter, help me out. Let’s make a deal, eh? Go to their website, click on “contact” while you listen to the pretty instrumental music there, and shoot Clem Snide an email telling them you’re on Twitter and you wanna tweet with them. If you’re not on Twitter you should be, it’s where all the cool kids are. After that, go look through my timeline …. there’s a pretty easy way to win those 3 copies of Hungry Bird just sitting there, waiting for you to find it, xoxox
Yep, don’t come ’round here snooting in my bin for mp3s until you’ve been well fed over on WOXY by a special couple (and I mean “short bus” special when it comes to the male half) known as TWoTH – The Woman Of The House, and DC – 1/2 Drunk Country = The Waiting Room. I slept in yesterday and forgot to remind you to listen to them the first time around, so thankfully they always give us another chance on Sundays at 4 p.m. ET. Tune in here and find them being even more ridiculous than ever! DC described some of the mayhem to me, and if they’ve not chickened out and edited the tape, we’re in for some seriously fucked up humor, folks. And as always, there’s the great music for when we just can’t take it all any more.
This week’s show (Today at 4 p.m. ET.) promises:
Elizabeth & The Catapult
Elvis Perkins
Steso Songs
Hungry Kids of Hungary
Electones
Marching Band
Speedmarket Avenue
Super Furry Animals
Portico
Draw Me Stories
Miniature Tigers
Birdlips
& one heap big many more… (as they say)
then come back here and we’ll chat about Clem Snide a wee bit more…. xoxo
Here’s a track The Waiting Room played on last week’s show, it’s goofy and trite and everything I hate about indie music and yet it’s damn catchy…. that show gets me listening to all sorts of things I think I don’t like, grrrrr
Wait Wait mp3Lightning LoveNovember Birthday …. they really are a great group, check out their MySpace to buy their album and see them on tour.
Even if you miss the broadcast, wander over there or there and download it as a podcast, the internet is so cool, man!
Ok, ok, ok, I get it! New music is just flowing out of the ether, guys! Hungry Villagers, Medeski Martin & Wood, Pete Doherty, and Children (of all things!), all have new, awesome albums out and tours coming your way. Here’s a round up, apologies for not being able to devote a whole page to each of these deserving bands (the Tart is job hunting, grrrr)… but if/when they come through Chi-town, you know I’ll give you the low-down on the show!
Hungry Villagers have such an achingly good sound. Did you get to see them at SXSW? I so wish I could have! I’m slightly reminded of early REM here, on this song, but you know, better. Three brothers and a friend make up this band, Jacob, Abraham and David Houck plus Ferrik Hallaron IV, and the vocals are deep, rich, just really earthy and hollow in a tonally pleasant way. What could be a real dragging, depressing sound is lifted up by gorgeous jangly guitar work that would please any Brit-pop fan or 90′s American rock hanger-on like me Don’t let me fool you, they sound up to date as well, go to their MySpace page to hear four more songs. And Houston, they’re playing for you twice tomorrow!
Medeski, Martin & Wood, I must confess are new to me, but that’s only because I’ve not made myself familiar with the jazz and rock fusion genre since the days of Steely Dan. And it’s to my detriment! There will be a full album review of this release coming very soon to this page, so I’ll not go into this in detail now. But suffice it to say, this is turning me on something fierce! It is simply gorgeous. Go hear it now. Don’t blame me if you end up wooing your sweetie to this tonight over a glass of wine and some candlelight. There will be some cheek to cheek dancing involved and not those cheeks, the other ones
Amber Gris mp3Medeski, Martin & WoodRadiolarians II (due out April 14th) …. preorder it!
Medeski, Martin & Wood Shows
04.17.09 – Smith Opera House – Geneva, NY
04.18.09 – B-Side Jazz Fest – Minneapolis, MN
04.19.09 – Loyal Earth Festival – St. Louis, MO
04.23.09 – Congress Hall – Warsaw, Poland
05.01.09 – Beale Street Music Festival – Memphis, TN
05.02.09 – The Studio at Colton Theater – New Orleans, LA
05.23.09 – Summer Camp – Chillicothe, IL
06.04.09 – Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden – Richmond, VA
06.06.09 – 3 Rivers Arts Festival – Pittsburgh, PA
Pete Doherty needs no introduction, surely?But if you’re thinking, “oh no… not him again” just go peek at this song. You might be surprised to find you’re liking it. Always lyrically interesting, it will be fascinating to see where he goes off on his own, no? He’s playing at Troxy tomorrow in London, if you’re around.
You can download an mp3 of “New Love Grows On Trees” by entering your email addy on his site here. Have a listen to him at his MySpace there’s links there to Amazon and itunes to buy the album, darlings.
Now don’t get whiplash here, luvs… but Children is kinda cool if you’re into thrash metal, which I have to admit I get a hankering for sometimes! This is perhaps vocally not exactly what I’m always looking for, but it’s not exactly all growly, there’s some singing in it and I really like that! The guitar work is extreme… great, fast, and hard. How can a tramp like me not like this shit? Ok, and here’s the super cool part; to be released in tandem with the album, pro-skater Ethan Fowler’s Bummer High Skateboards will produce a limited edition, numbered skate deck with Children (to be sold in skate shops, online and at future shows). The deck reflects the cover artwork of Hard Times Hangin’…, done by Kim Krans. Each deck will include a download card on the hang tag where buyers will receive a free download of the album and options to buy other Children merchandise at discount. You know these metal folk know how to merchandise!
Power Spirit mp3ChildrenHard Times Hangin’ At The End Of The World (due out May 12th) ….. go to their MySpace for tour info, etc…
That’s not all darlin’s, I’m cooking up an awesome contest for you! I’ve got some vinyl… and even though I don’t wanna, I’m giving it all away, xx
You never know what to expect out of a guy like Eef Barzelay. If you’ve been following the rumors around his band, Clem Snide, you know that unpredictability is his strong suit. No, scratch that… more like his suit of armor. Eef thrives on faking us out! He lies to us. He stops mid sentence, turns his back to us and turns around in a completely different character. His songs stop suddenly, changing genre, jolting us from easy-peasy mellowness into hard-rockin’, guitar-driving noise. Don’t go pretending you have Eef all figured out, you’ll only goad him on to more chaos. I can feel it just from the glint in his eye when he’s on stage, struggling to tune his guitar. He’s daring us to pin him down.
Last night a packed room of college-aged, 30-somethings, and die-hard music fans (we were the greying weirdos who were up way past our bedtimes, trying to not stand out too much in the youthful crowd) were enthralled with the band Clem Snide. With the wonderfully talented Brendan Fitzpatrick on bass playing straight man to his occasional stand-up show, Eef gave us the kind of comedic genius that cannot begin to disguise the real talent laying beneath it. While he sways and falls and pretends to make up words and phrases, you notice that none of it is off key. None of it is out of time enough to throw anyone off. None of his machinations are unplanned, unrehearsed, I’m guessing. This is the kid who practiced those funny faces in the bathroom mirror for hours and hours. He’s all grown up now and damn that kid can sing and write lyrics that make you ache.
Yet with all that showmanship comes real tenderness. Songs about love and relationships and betrayal and death call for such nonsense on stage. I’m devastated when it turns out that his heart breaking explanation, about an aged couple, one dying of cancer, for “Born A Man,” really is true. I’m elated when he belts out “Ice Cube” with all its witticisms, and melodramatic tragedy, building it to a climatic end. The show, like the man (?) is a rollercoaster of experience, he works the crowd, pausing between songs to banter and endlessly tune that guitar. “This new album has a lot of tunings on it” he claims, each song requiring some adjustment. But I wonder if it’s not just Eef taking a breather between performances, between what must be exhausting episodes of emotional intensity. You really can’t just stand still and sing words like;
she asked him,
“why can we not be together
why is it we have to part
why did you leave with a stranger
when i am revealing my heart?”
because I love the unknown
I love the unknown
he says he loves the unknown
because I love the unknown
I love the unknown
he says he loves the unknown
Yes, “I Love The Unknown” was a definite highlight of this show, but there were many highlights, and this crowd ate them up. It was great to see the faces of the band when they saw the size of the crowd, the smile that spread across them. Chicago welcomed back Clem Snide with warmth, forgiving them for being away four, long years. Songs from older albums were sung loudly by the audience. At one point in the show, the drummer, Ben Martin was announced single and ready to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. His skills with the sticks surely should have garnered him a high price, not to mention his rugged good looks. In between songs, the crowd shouted out requests, all denied by Eef, he was running this show, don’t forget. I’ve recreated the setlist from my notes (yeah I’m the geeky girl in the back with her iphone out at the beginning of every song). In the process, I discovered that the opening song was a debut! It was grand! It was quintessentially Clem Snide. It was punchy and a little spiteful and a little sad, as I remember, and very, very, very good. The working title is “Walmart” and if you see them do it again, let me know what you think of it, and what it turns into, ok?!? Clem Snide is hitting the road with this new album, college radio is declaring it a real winner! All the big blogs have reviewed Hungry Bird and loved it, you will too!
“Walmart”
“Let’s Explode”
“Tuesday, October 24th”
“Something Beautiful”
“Born A Man”
“Yip/Jump Music”
“Fight Song Melody”
“Collapse”
“Ice Cube”
encore – “Ballad of Bitter Honey” (acoustic)
“Mike Kalinsky”
“Me No”
“I Love The Unknown”
“Man In The Mirror”
The running joke of the evening was “25 things about Clem Snide” in a kind of Facebook fashion. Eef was to give us a clearer picture of who this Clem Snide guy really was, and was he really Eef? In the end, he declared it a hopeless exercise. No one who loves unpredictability as much as Eef Barzelay could give us a list of 25 things that define this band. And none of us even wanted one. The beauty is in the surprise of not knowing what’s coming next.
Please come back to Chicago, Clem Snide. We promise to continue to be amazed and surprised and enthralled with you. And bring that gorgeous bass player, Brendan along too, ok? Watching him play was a little slice of heaven for this tart, xoxox
Hanging around blogs gets you into all sorts of trouble. And this kind of trouble is the Sunday afternoon, melancholy kind. You know, when you just curl up on the sofa with a hot mug of something and listen to music that’s soft and swooshy and washing over you. The Kays Lavelle are the perfect band for that mood, and their song “The Aftermath” has been used in a new video by Matty Ross of Sleepysoul Productions. The sparseness of this video speaks for this song so well, I feel. I couldn’t imagine a better way to represent the kind of sadness in it. Matty is genius, and I’m so glad he allowed me to share it with you.
Have a listen to The Kays Lavelle and stop over at their Facebook page to let them know what you think. They’re based in Edinburgh and are three mates who have quite a lot going for them, in my opinion.
There’s lots to see this week in the indie/pop/folk/alt-country scene! My calendar is overflowing and even though I know most of you don’t even live in Chicago, well, I’m hoping someone reads this and goes to one of these gigs to tell me how they went. I don’t always get out when I want to… it’s complicated. But that makes getting out all that much more worth it! So this week, you’d better be alive on Tuesday!
I’m looking forward to this very much. Clem Snide is actually a trio; Eef Barzelay, Brendan Fitzpatrick, and Ben Martin. I’ve been soaking up the songs on their MySpace page and on the pages of friend’s blogs. Everyone I know just can’t stop talking about how good Eef’s songs are. Sneak a peek over to Matthew’s blog for a taste of Clem.
And at the same time! There is playing these fabulous bands: Eulogies with Middle Distance Runner at The Bottom Lounge (this is some seriously good shit!) pure up good indie stuff. I hope they get a good crowd of young folk, they’re coming off of SXSW and must be exhausted!
Bad Connection mp3Eulogies (acoustic version, Homespun session) Here Anonymous out 4/7 on Dangerbird Records
This Fine Progression mp3Eulogies (acoustic version, Homespun session) Here Anonymous….. buy it here
andddddddddd, also on the same fucking night! is this great bluegrass/folk show: Sexfist with Folkstringer at The Red Lion Pub (and I was scheduled to go to this gig and meet a guy named “Chewie” who emailed me about covering his band, Folkstringer, but I’m gonna have to bow out and meet up with him in a couple weeks). I wanted to catch this show… grrrr why does everything good have to be all on one night! Help me out darlings!
I have no idea who’s playing towards the weekend. Obviously in Chicago all the good stuff happens during the week.
Yes, darlings, this is a very thinly veiled attempt to catch up on my inbox. Can you believe I even have this problem!? It was only a few months ago that I was jumping up and down in my living room because someone had finally sent me something to post. But it’s true, now folks send me stuff and I am so happy about it. And I write things about the music and mostly I write about how it feels, because you know, I’m really a dilettante. I’m no musician, I can’t critique something technical, nor do I particularly want to. There’s plenty of blogs and publications out there for that. I won’t ever rate an album or a song on a scale of 1-10, it’s just not me. If something strikes my fancy, you’ll hear about it, regardless of genre or popularity. I’ll proudly cling to my little niche of the internet where people like me talk about what music feels like, it’s a friendly place.
So, Hari and Aino sent me these two indie pop tracks, and you know, I always say I don’t like all that twirly girly twee music, hahahaha. But yeah, I’ll admit it. This stuff is good. It feels thin and willowy and like gauze blowing in the breeze, and her voice is beautiful. It’s a high pitched voice that doesn’t sound little girly, I really like that. It’s rare to find a woman who can sing the high notes without squealing like a 7 year old these days. Enjoy these two tracks, sent out by the group (no, they’re not really a duo, but a Swedish quintet) for your downloading pleasure.
Maple mp3 A Considerate Kind of Home mp3
buy it here at Cloudberry Records! listen to more on their MySpace page
Annnnnnnndddddddd, I’ve been on a shoegaze kick for the past few days, ever since stopping over at Mars Needs Guitars and finding another shoegaze afficianado (and a great link to these guys from Campfires and Battlefields who haunts all our comments sections, the darling!)
So peeking into my box, (no, don’t make the joke!) I tripped into two localish bands asking for reviews. And yes, they are very deserving, talented souls. Jadiiddescribes themselves as a indie/soul/shoegaze and yes, yes, yes, they are deliciously all three. The swirly synthesizer, and is that a trumpet? with dreamy background vocals is just really all very, very, good. Their EP, four songs long, promises a great future for this combination of artists. I think it must be difficult for a baritone voice to sing so tenderly, to counteract the tingly bits, is that a wind chime?, but this singer pulls it off nicely. Jadiid is working an album as we speak, I’ve no idea when it’s out… let me know! Pick up their EP here on their website, and check their MySpace for more tunes.
Looking at all these MySpace pages you begin to realize that so many of your local bands know one another, play in one another’s bands, even in a big city like Chicago. And so I wasn’t surprised to see The Hudson Branch as the first friend on Jadiid’s page. Similarities there? Sure, but not enough to make you want to miss a second of either one of these bands if they’re playing within 20 miles of your city!
Now I have no idea which of these two bands should deserve first billing here, so don’t hold a grudge, eh? But The Hudson Branch’s EP is awesomely charming, with shimmering cymbals and tinging bell bits and drop-y watery noises to offset the more expected indie band vocals and guitars. None of it is the usual of anything, they bill themselves as having a “fresh, original style” and well, yeah… I’ll agree to that. This band features three brothers; Corey, Cobey, and Carey Bienert with Richie Palysas well as Matt and Jake Boll from Jadiid. They say they begin working on their new album on March 7th, it’s gonna be great if it’s anything like these songs.
It’s difficult to review a much hyped album, especially one that has been as hotly anticipated as Metric‘sFantasies! Emily Haines has never sounded better. This pop album (yes, it’s pure indie pop, enjoy it for what it is!) features 10 synth-heavy tracks that veer toward the lighter side of the Metric scale. After listening to some of their earlier work, I have to say, Fantasies has a brighter, sunnier feel, although lyrically it still deals with loneliness (“Blindness”) and frustration (“Gold Guns Girls”). Perhaps I was especially smitten with exactly how Metric manages to turn such despairing lyrics into such snappy songs!
did I ask you for attention when affection was what I need?….there’s no glitter in the gutter, there’s no twilight galaxy
And yet when Emily sings “keep singing along” I’ll be damned if I don’t. Even at it’s slow, thoughtful, sad pace, “Twilight Galaxy” is a good pop song. The same can be said for most tracks on this album. “Gimme Sympathy” is a wonderful blend of synth and guitar work with great drum rolls to move it along. Lyrically, it’s not their best, but the tune is awesome and I can imagine the re-mixers are gonna have a field day with it! In a similar vein, “Front Row” takes the interplay between synthesizer and guitar and just explodes it. This is my favorite track on the album by far, I say to myself. And then I listen to the final track again. “Stadium Love” is simply a fantastic pop anthem. I can imagine some of the reasons they released “Help I’m Alive” as the first single from Fantasies, but honestly, “Stadium Love” is just a better sound, a better showcase for the band as a whole, to my ears.
Every song has it’s hook on this album. That’s the nature of pop music, afterall, it’s not exactly subtle, now is it? And some tracks’ hooks are more prominent than others, of course, but the chorus of “Sick Muse” is simply beautiful, full stop. Juxtaposed with Emily’s voice in the lower range and with lyrics of how “mommy is a sick muse” that angelic sounding chorus of “everybody, everybody just won’t fall in love, everybody everybody just won’t play with me” this song will break your heart. If you’re already a fan of Metric you’ll not be disappointed in this album, by any means. If you’re a fan of female vocalists in indie pop, synth-heavy dance tunes, you’ll love this album as well. For me, being a fan of industrial artists like Ayria, this was a very pleasant afternoon, well spent. I love pop music as much as the next lonely, heart-broken, bee-bopping girl
Tracklist:
Help I’m Alive
Sick Muse
Satellite Mind
Twilight Galaxy
Gold Guns Girls
Gimme Sympathy
Collect Call
Front Row
Blindness
Stadium Love
What does Emily Haines say about the sources of this album?
For me, the major influences on the record were the places we wrote it: Bear Creek, this utopian farmhouse studio, and then our own studio in Toronto, which definitely brought in the electro, dance and rock elements because the city feels so good right now and so many of our musician friends were around. And then for me, being in Buenos Aires, most of the songs I brought to this record came out of being in exile with just a piano and a guitar. And then in the final stages, mixing at Electric Lady in NYC brought everything around to where we first met Josh and Joules.
All of these sources ring out loudly on Fantasies and at the heart of it all is Emily Haines, spinning fantasies and working out her demons… our demons.
go to Metric’s website and pre-order Fantasies to receive an immediate download of two additional tracks!
special thanks to Myles Grosovsky of Sneak Attack Media
An Horse came to Chicago on their way to SXSW, with a local duo, My Gold Mask opening the evening for them. Well, this was quite a night, darlings! I had heard An Horse’s album, as well as their EP and wondered how two slightly thinish, young people could carry this out? Could they possibly make all that noise? Oh hell yes they could. It was a night of glorious duos. If you happen to follow me on Twitter, you’ve heard some of this before. I “live tweeted” the gig! It was a fantastic way to take blog post notes as we went along.
“Postcards” is their hit single, I’ve mentioned it before when I previewed An Horse for you. It’s still up there, go listen! But they gave us much more than what’s revealed on that one song. Opening with a new song (didn’t this LP just come out?! I love that they’re seeming to constantly work on new stuff), they took the stage and owned it! I talked to Damon before the show, he was quite impressed with our little town — “it just went on forever, so spread out!” he said, they had the day off and had done some resting up. They were in fine form, giving us sharp harmonies, insistent percussion and twangs of guitar emerging out from between the spaces betwixt the two of them.
Kate sings, Damon backs her up, weaving up and down around her earnest, at times monotone, throbbing, vocals. But when they sing in unison at moments throughout “Horizons” you think you just can’t bear it, it’s too much, too piercing. And you realize, no… it’s perfect. An Horse has only improved from their time on the road. The final song was a thunderous finale to a great show. Hear this new album and go see them live, they’re going to take SXSW by surprise, you heard it here first! …. MySpace
Before An Horse took the stage, I was delightedly surprised to find another duo, My Gold Mask. In all the ways that An Horse has “indie cred” My Gold Mask appears to have just jumped off the cabaret/gypsy wagon. And that’s no insult to either band, mind you. I’m just saying that the Abbey couldn’t have picked two more different duos that night! Darlings, it was fantastic!
My Gold Mask are working on an album. You really need to go to their MySpace page to hear the rough cuts and demos. I can’t wait to see what it turns into. They describe themselves as “Melodramatic Popular Song / Minimalist / Psychedelic” and if you have a difficult time conjuring up an image for melodramatic and minimalist, that vision is My Gold Mask, m’dears!
Gretta wails into the microphone whilst pumping the pedal on a great bass drum, beating out the beat with a stick on the rim of another and shaking a tambourine. Jack plays this crazy looking guitar… no, it’s not colorful or oddly shaped, Gretta has all the color, all the verve, and she’s definitely perfectly shaped!… Jack has this wooden looking guitar all brown and hung low, sings backup, and he is a wonderful guitarist. I’m reminded of Flamenco music and post-punk goodness and Euro-something or other. Jack’s not a bad dancer either! But Gretta… oh she wails, twists, writhes, captivates us with lyrics over emphasized and strung out. I eagerly await this album. Chicago might not recover from this duo. You’d better watch it! Here’s My Gold Mask’s “Coo Ka Choo (rough cut)” and go hear much more on MySpace!
I used to think that any description of music that had the word “jazz” in it was pretentious and therefore soulless. Yeah, sometimes I’m that harsh a critic! Aside from my undying love for Vince Guaraldi’s Peanut’s Christmas music, I’m a complete ignoramous when it comes to Jazz. But, I gave this a shot. The teaser I posted on Friday was really good, wasn’t it? Well, I spent the rest of the weekend soaking up Radiolarians II and it was glorious!
Medeski, Martin & Wood
Pete Doherty
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