June Music

Music I’ve bought in June.

Let’s see… I somehow got quite a lot of stuff in June without really trying.

The album from Rosa faenskap is really good. I’ve seen them live a couple times, and it’s great hearing that they’ve managed to capture that explosiveness on tape.

I got two new albums from an old favourite — Tujiko Noriko. She’s a lot more ambient these days than in the old and wild days, so there’s a lot of tunes that sort of just are… there… but in a pleasant way. But the album under the CxBxT name is more crunchy.

Astrïd and Sylvain Chauveau Cover Songs Originally Sung by Women Singers is very nice, but perhaps a bit one note? I’ve always liked Sylvain Chauveau, but I’m unfamiliar with Astrïd — I think I’ll give them a go…

The new Horse Lords album is even stranger than the earlier albums. They’re sampling people doing what sounds like shape note singing? It’s cool.

I’m slowly buying my way through Richard Dawson’s back catalogue — I love his stuff, but I’m really trying to pace myself. I remember when I got into Can a long time ago, and I bought, like, ten albums from them all at once. With the result that they just sat there like an undigested block, and I never listen to those albums. So when I discover somebody with a big backlist, I try to never buy more than one album per six months or something.

Seems to be a methodology that works for me, but it requires some self control, which I just don’t have a lot of.

Anyway, this album (with Finnish band Circle) is great, too.

Speaking of old stuff, I got another album by Wang Chung, because I loved the To Live and Die in L A soundtrack.

And it’s good, but it’s not as good.

And another artist I’ve been buying all albums from — but now I’m all caught up. So then she goes ahead and releases a re-recorded version of her first album. It’s pretty good. A couple versions are perhaps better than the first version around? But many aren’t. In any case, it’s nice.

Tara Clerkin Trio has gotten a lot of attention lately, so I bought the album like two days ago. I haven’t gotten the chance to listen to it more than a couple times, but it seems pretty nice? But a bit surprising that it’s getting so much attention?

And yet another artist I’m buying my way through their backlist, but slowly: Charli XCX! But I have to say that I think the True Romance album is a bit… eh… not my thing.

And… that’s all I had to say about the June albums.