June Music

Music I’ve bought in June.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXK2U8DL7r0

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsPk9MtqQ34

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plSXjp7wEA0

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…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btGqaSY4ghE

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO_FzRjmXiY

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x2ry6I4Jjw

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PqLdVAK_Uc

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9iUtezxuMs

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsqNvy9v93s

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.