Timely Tunes ~ March 3, 2016

 

School of Seven Bells “Ablaze” (From “SVIIB”)

The songs on “SVIIB” were written while Benjamin Curtis was losing his battle with Lymphoma, but the leading track is the most massive song they ever wrote. Pop music as supernova.

White Lung “Hungry” (From “Paradise”)

White Lung’s last album, “Deep Fantasy”, was one of my favorite records of 2014: 22 minutes of tightly wound melodic aggression. The first single from their forthcoming album takes everything I loved about “Deep Fantasy” and compresses it into a three minute diamond.

Good Willsmith “Not Your Kids” (From “Things Our Bodies Used To Have”)

Celestial improv music that sounds like the guitar solo of Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain” was rocketed into space and sent back by depressed aliens. In reality, this band is from Chicago.

Spotify Playlist: Timely Tunes, Vol. 15

Tracklist

1. Ringo Starr “Goodnight Vienna (It’s All Down To)” (From “Goodnight Vienna”)
2. Daryl Hall & John Oates “Lady Rain” (From “Abandoned Luncheonette”)
3. Joe Bataan “Call My Name” (From “Call My Name”)
4. School of Seven Bells “Ablaze” (From “SVIIB”)
5. Michal Prokop “Around And Around” (From “Blues In Soul”)
6. Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir “Nobody Knows” (From “Like a Ship (Without a Sail)”)
7. La Sonora de Lucho Macedo “Caramelos” (From “¡Gózalo! Vol 1”)
8. Essential Logic “Hiss And Shake” (From “Fanfare in the Garden”)
9. Hole “Plump” (From “Live Through This”)
10. White Lung “Hungry” (From “Paradise”)
11. The Rolling Stones “Little T&A” (From “Tattoo You”)
12. Led Zeppelin “Tea For One” (From “Presence”)
13. Good Willsmith “Not Your Kids” (From “Things Our Bodies Used To Have”)
14. Stephen O’Malley “Dolmens & Lighthouses” (From “An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music, Vol. 6”)