You might call him slumlord of the dance.

  • Unless Jess, Ronan, Philip, Jack or Gee­ta pipe any­thing else direct­ly into my ear via the blo­gos­phere or the var­i­ous out­lets to which they con­tribute, I can safe­ly say that Gui Borat­to and Jus­tice will prob­a­bly be my token dance records of the year. I still need to hear the Field and Pan­tha du Prince though, so we’ll see what happens.
  • Speak­ing of tokens, I haven’t been all that amped on met­al so far this year either. Noise too. That new Liars’ track pre­dictably brought me down and there’s noth­ing star­ing me in the face that I feel I must hear [okay Air Con­di­tion­ing and maybe a few choice cuts iden­ti­fied over at Paper Thin Walls.]
  • In all seri­ous­ness, tell me what I’m miss­ing in the com­ments, or write me @ black­mail AT black­mail is my life dot com. I’m des­per­ate for new, weird input! Man can’t live on Raven Sings the Blues alone [though it sure as hell is a good start. Check out Raven’s 2007 faves so far in ’07.]
  • Also a must read: David Raposa’s review of the new QOTSA album. Is there any­thing more shock­ing than what I’d hoped would be the guar­an­teed hard rock album of the sum­mer? Raposa dives right in and diag­noses the prob­lem. Bravo.

2 thoughts on “You might call him slumlord of the dance.”

  1. My slim bank account has kept me away from buy­ing any­thing new, and it isn’t like much has snagged my inter­est enough to over­draw my check­ing, but a friend sent me a pret­ty good album by this band from Den­mark called Kirsten Ket­sjer the Rock Band. They like to write good hooks and then see how many ways they can fuck ’em and/or make them work bet­ter. And there is a gen­er­al weird­ness to the whole thing, like the parts should­n’t real­ly fit even though they do. There are a cou­ple tracks avail­able on their web­site: http://www.yoyooyoy.dk/kirstenk/kirstenenglish.htm

  2. as far as noise, i am lov­ing the new Air Con­di­tion­ing and I’m also pret­ty into Lamb­s­bread. Noise is so hit or miss, though. It’s so weird to me that it is get­ting “pop­u­lar” now. my merzbow jokes aren’t fun­ny any more (were they ever…)
    peace.

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