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Another wonderful release courtesy of Liz Harris this year. While I'm not feeling this quite as much as her previous output, Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill, it's still a very solid two LPs worth of dreamy, ambient bliss. I can only see this growing on me in the future so perhaps it'll come to rival her previous release in my eyes, who knows? Well worth a listen if you're a fan of all things chill. However if all you listen to is tough guy hardcore to make up for your raging insecurities concerning your potentially questionable masculinity this may not be for you. It's okay to let your sensitive side take over sometimes though. It's not gay. Unless it is gay, but that's cool too. I mean you could totally get married in NYC now. What a wonderful world we live in.
I've been listening to very little other than this album recently and I can't quite pinpoint what about this I find so enthralling. There's just something here that keeps me coming back for more of this gloomy, lo-fi, folky, ambient, inane genre tag, so and so forth piece of awesome. It's the solo project of one Dan Barrett of Have A Nice Life fame, who are without a doubt one of my favourite bands, so this was always going to be brilliant. It comes highly recommended regardless, provided you're not averse to a rather melancholic, depressing 56 minutes ahead of you.
Ardent (hah, yeah right) followers of this blog will have seen the Baths album I posted up quite awhile ago. Had you downloaded it, you would have heard one of the better albums released last year. His songwriting is so inspired, and the textures he achieves require successive listenings, which is definitely a good thing considering how addictive his blend of glitch, ambient and hip hop is. So here's [Post-foetus], his first project. Yes it's good. No it's not as good as Baths. Yes you should get it.
Really chill, minimal techno. Fuzzy loops buzzing around analog drum sounds, cut up basslines and vocals clipped to a point where they become a blurr in the background. The pitchfork write-up actually describes it perfectly.
Guy who did the orchestral arrangements on Sigur Ros' last album. "But that album sucked" I hear you say. Well yes, but that's because of Sigur Ros' writing abilities not because of Bjarnason's orchestral skills. So do yourself a favour and listen to this fantastic slice of beautifully produced neoclassical orchestral music. It's incredible.
So yeah got back from Europe today. Has been pretty sweet. Visited Rome, Florence, Vienna and Prague.
Rome was sweet except the only song MTV ever played was this fucking one:
I mean it was hilarious but lost much of its appeal around the second time.
Vienna and Florence were both really interesting but after Rome they lacked some oomph.
Prague is actually the best city ever and anyone who likes good things should go there and revel in the amazingness that is Prague. It has cheap, amazing food, cheap, amazing beer and it's got history coming out of its ass.
Just don't go on a fucking segway tour.
Seriously.
If there's one thing you cannot possibly look cool doing, whoever you are, wherever you are and however you do it, is riding a segway.
see? they're fucking POLICEMEN with GUNS and they still don't look cool.
Even I didn't.
Alas my memories of the Czech Republic will always be tainted by such an experience.
Anyways, I decided to do a triple album thingy, each album coming from one of the countries I visited, Italy, Austria and The Czech Republic.
Depressive Blackened Doom Metal basically. Idk some say it's blackened doom some say it's depressive black so I combined the two in case there's actually a difference between the genres. Production is cool. Crisp but with that edge of coldness that gives the guitars that luverly saw like quality we like our black metal to have here on LTL. Songs are long, atmospheric and very accessible. Vocals rule too. Cmon, doomy atmosphericy black metal. Listen.
Classical music from the later 1800s that includes influences from Czech folk music and liberal use of tone painting. Má vlast is a series of six musical pieces that describe the wonders of the Czech land through sound. The highlight is undoubtedly the amazing "Vltava" which describes a river. Its use of flutes to illustrate a flowing river is stunning. Smetana is regarded as the father of Czech music. This really is a brilliant piece. Cannot recommend this highly enough. Here's Vltava for you. Just listen to its opening.
Another wonderful release courtesy of Liz Harris this year. While I'm not feeling this quite as much as her previous output, Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill, it's still a very solid two LPs worth of dreamy, ambient bliss. I can only see this growing on me in the future so perhaps it'll come to rival her previous release in my eyes, who knows? Well worth a listen if you're a fan of all things chill. However if all you listen to is tough guy hardcore to make up for your raging insecurities concerning your potentially questionable masculinity this may not be for you. It's okay to let your sensitive side take over sometimes though. It's not gay. Unless it is gay, but that's cool too. I mean you could totally get married in NYC now. What a wonderful world we live in.
