2017 Favs

A brief selection…

…Influences…

 

 

Kendrick Lamar “DAMN.”

Ryuichi Sakamoto “async”

JAY-Z “4.44”

SZA “Ctrl”

Vince Staples “Big Fish Theory”

 

King Krule “The Ooz”

Moses Sumney “Aromanticism”

Charlotte Gainsbourg “Rest”

Thundercat “Drunk”

The War on Drugs “A Deeper Understanding”

 

Tyler, The Creator “Flower Boy”

Cigarettes After Sex “Cigarettes After Sex”

Mount Kimbie “Love What Survives”

Jlin “Black Origami”

Slowdive “Slowdive”

 

Four Tet “New Energy”

Sampha “Process”

The xx “I See You”

LCD Soundsystem “American Dream”

Ibeyi “Ash”

 

Kelela “Take Me Apart”

Björk “Utopia”

Fleet Foxes “Crack-Up”

Drake “More Life”

Gorillaz “Humanz”

 

Big Thief “Capacity”

Arca “Arca”

Julie Byrne “Not Even Happiness”

Broken Social Scene “Hug of Thunder”

Joe Goddard “Electronic Lines”

 

 

 

2016 Favs

Influences…

Here it is. The list of my 30 favorite albums of the year. For Your Consideration.

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Bon Iver “22, A Million”

Radiohead “A Moon Shaped Pool”

Anderson Paak “Malibu”

Beyoncé “Lemonade”

Tim Hecker “Love Streams”

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Solange “A Seat at the Table”

Michael Kiwanuka “Love and Hate”

Kanye West “The Life of Pablo”

Frank Ocean “Blond” / “Endless”

James Blake “The Color in Anything”

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Jenny Hval “Blood Bitch”

Kendrick Lamar “untitled unmastered”

Chance The Rapper “Coloring Book”

Angel Olsen “My Woman”

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The Radio dept. “Running Out of Love”

A Tribe Called Quest “We got it from Here..”

ANOHNI “HOPELESSNESS”

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Skeleton Tree”

Aphex Twin “Cheetah”

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Blood Orange “Freetown Sound”

Brian Eno “The Ship”

Young Thug “No, My Name is JEFFERY”

Mitski “Puberty 2”

Danny Brown “Atrocity Exhibition”

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David Bowie “Blackstar”

Kate Tempest “Let Them Eat Chaos”

PJ Harvey “The Hope Six Demolition Project”

Andrew Bird “Are You Serious?”

Drive-By Truckers “American Band”

Review: betterwithmusic 2015

LIBRARY

ONUS

OnusOnus is melodic lines of strings and winds supported in electronic beds. With synths in the background and saturated drum machines. Guitars that appear suddenly, distant. There are broken rhythms and kicks that hit you. The result of mixing dark electronica with dramatic orchestral arrangements.

Influences… Actress, snowy beaches, silence, Arca, Haxam Cloak, Andy Stott, Ben Frost, Björk, Clark, wrong expectations, homesickness, cold snap, Theo Parrish, Herbert, violins and cellos, broken instruments, Hans Zimmer, Debussy, Britten, Shostakovich, Brian Eno, Johann Johannsson, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, hugs…

 

MESSAGE

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12 songs, 27 minutes. Rock, garage, punk (for reference). 12 fresh and direct songs, without additives. With prominence of dirty guitar riffs and frenetic rhythms. Casual sounds and imperfect tricks. As if it was a first concert in a small club. Or we listened to a rookie rock group in one of his first reunions in a garage. When, musically, the intensity is above everything else.

Influences… Black Lips, The Clash, beer & public gardens, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, longboards, Eddy Current, Harmony Korine & Larry Clark, Black Flag, 4-string guitars and 2-string basses, The Cramps, Titus Andronicus, BMX, Ex Hex, Broncho, bad kids, caps and backpacks, Parquet Courts, hangovers, Sonics, Gonzo, OFF…

 

DJ

DJIt is certainly a necessary pause just before publishing “Onus”. Faced with the melancholy sounds of the strings, saturated drum machines and the gray atmosphere that characterizes “Onus”, this song makes a brake, relaxed and fresh. Escape of “Onus” made me most easily find the sound I was looking for for this “DJ” and close the song successfully. I needed to party.

 

 

ON DEMAND

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“In the near future, 2037, a few mega-corporations rule the world. There is a deadly Red-Flu epidemic and only one of these corporations can manufacture the drug to cure it  Omnisource.

A rival corporation, Dynacorp, contracted, you, a corporate spy to infiltrate and steal their trade secret.  — This is your story.”

 

 

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And to close 2015, a foretaste… “Natural Therapy”, coming soon…

Happy New Year!!