My latest shipment of CDs arrived from Aquarius Records yesterday. Seems to be an especially good batch. That second one is True Widow's latest album. The full title is As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth. It's super heavy, slow, and singable. Tape is another band I already knew about — really pretty and hypnotic ambient post-rock. Good for working to. Papercuts was a bit of a crapshoot, based on Aquarius' description of them as a cross between The Shins and Beach House. So far it's paying off.
But my hands-down favourite so far is The Oscillation. I'd never heard of these guys before, but man, is it ever up my alley. Some kind of space-rock/electronic hybrid that sounds like Vangelis one minute, German psychedelic rock the next, and some forgotten, dancy postpunk band the next. Wow. So good. Here's a sample.
Postscript to Monday's post: Lest The Lodge ever be accused of selling out on the grounds that writing commercial music for the sole purpose of acquiring product from the advertising client is antiartistic, gauche, and totally uncool, here are (one? two?) three(!) jingles for an insanely strong beer called Steel Reserve High Gravity Lager, penned and recorded by none other than The Ramones. They're pretty good, too. Of course, The Ramones broke up and started dying right after recording these, so maybe they're not the best pieces of evidence for my case...
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