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Good call, these are both rock solid albums that absolutely hold up to re-listen to now.
Woo, fantano comin through for me. Not usually super into his high rated picks but every once in a while, it's like exactly my jam. New album by Ana Frango Elétrico, which is Me Chama de Gato Que Eu Sou Sua. Never heard of her/them before, but damn it slaps.
Rancid - Tomorrow Never Comes
28 minutes and 47 seconds of loud, fast punk about thieves, highwaymen, pirates, robbers, prisoners and killers.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
If you put Motorhead, Judas Priest and Anthrax in a 1971 G20 van, painted flames, lightning bolts and warlocks on the side, then drove it through the stage at a Phish concert this is the album you'd get. A relentless, face melting thrash story album that goes full metal camp where druids get mad about pollution and exterminate humanity as punishment. You know it's good because Pitchfork gave it a 5.4 and hated it.
Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling
The first four tracks are a mix that sound like they were intended to be their retirement letter. Live Again. No Reason. Goodbye. The next seven sound like they decided, to hell with that, and made a career style-spanning masterpiece. Fountains is like a funk filled pimp-walk down Sesame Street. The Weight, you might as well be running from 70's cops with a trunk full of heroin. Skipping Like A Stone, Beck is literally coming to save you and make you feel better. For That Beautiful Feeling is a lazy river that continues to build until it culminates in room-filling All Is Full Of Love-esque triphop bass.
DJ Shadow - Action Adventure
If an album was a picture, Action Adventure would be the one of a shirtless Dolph Lundgren and Grace Jones walking together dressed in leather. Complete eschewing turntables, he creates an 80s-worthy synth and drum machine-laden work with hints of Aphex Twin and Squarepusher. It's nothing he's done before, but it isn't bad.
KGATLW - The Silver Cord
Released four months after PetroDragon and meant to be its companion flip side. Maximum 90s Kraftwerk-inspired house synth, every song on the extended version clocks in at over 10 minutes, just a nonstop groove.
Squarepusher - Dostrotime
Opening with a slow, melodic, acoustic-sounding solo electric guitar track, before gradually delving into what can only be a Squarepusher album since Jenkinson occupies his own category. A description of the third track, in his own words:
Music-only video version:
The scope vid version contains rapid light flashes, so epilepsy warning:
KGATLW - Flight b741
They're falling down on the job, as it's the only album they released in 2024. It's possible that they fully embraced their psychedelic and southern blues rock influences. It's also possible they invented a time machine, traveled back to the late 60s, and Enchantment Under The Sea'd the Beatles and CCR thus creating a musical bootstrap paradox closed time loop. Who can say.
Jack White - No Name
Completely unannounced. It was released initially by giving it away, employees at his Third Man record stores were just told to put a random white vinyl with "NO NAME" stamped on it into customer bags for free. Then labeled copies started being sold at his shows and people realized it was a whole new album of returning back to stripped down White Stripes-esque punk-blues rock.
Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mhori Mei
Billy Corgan pulled his head out of the synths, or maybe just out of his ass, long enough to make another guitar-heavy rock album, that sounds like a natural maturation of the Siamese Dream/Mellon Collie days, without feeling like it's only playing on nostalgia.
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Chat Pile - Frownland
Geordie Greep - Holy, Holy
Geordie Greep - As If Waltz
The animation on this one is hilarious.
I got to see The Hu here in town about 2 1/2 years ago and they were amazing.
Their opener (The Haunt) was an absolute trainwreck though. In their defense they seemed really young and it might have been their first time touring but yeesh it was bad