May Music

Music I’ve bought in May.

Wow, I bought a lot of albums in May.

Richard Dawson - Gondola (Official Video)

I really liked the Richard Dawson album — it’s so humane an vulnerable. Class.

Mourning [A] BLKstar - "Stop Lion 2" (feat. Lee Bains) | Music Video

Mourning [A] BLKstar finally released a new album — I think it’s pretty good?

Kraftwerk - Heavy Metal Kids

There’s a weird Kraftwerk live album from 1971 when Ralf or und Florian was back a the university, and they made a song called Heavy Metal Kids!? Wat!?

Stereolab - Aerial Troubles (Official Video)

Wow! A new Stereolab album! And I saw them live a few days ago and they were incredible! Unfortunately the new album isn’t.

Ministry - I'll Do Anything For You (Squirrely Version) [Official Music Video]

And wow! Al Jourgenson has acknowledged his first album and has re-recorded it. And it’s really good?! It sounds incredible, but the most surprising thing is how serious he takes the original versions. It’s great!

(And that’s a good contemporary video.)

Rock Show

Man, Stereolab was fantastic. I first thought they kinda needed more people to fill out the sound, but then it all started to make sense with like the third song, and I was totally on board.

They played hits, obscure old songs, and new stuff, and it was all amazing. I was surprised at how many songs they played from Dots & Loops/Cobra Phases (I can never remember which songs are from which of those two albums) — there were about four? Which I really liked, because Dots & Loops is mah favourite.

Fan. Tastic.

I missed most of the warm-up thing, because I didn’t think they’d started yet, but apparently in Nantes things start on time! How rude!

(And the venue has super-duper sound isolation, so when I was in the lounge, I didn’t hear a peep.)