@joel Can I suggest that the rules be extended to saying something about the album, for example what it’s like, why you like it anything really rather than just post a picture. If an album is one you recommend you should be able to at least type a few words about it.
My son gave me King Krule’s debut album for Christmas in 2013 and this is his third offering. Hard to categorise but a bit Tindersticks mixed with a little Prefab Sprout with some wonderful skewed jazzy type musical backdrops. You can imagine Tarantino mining these songs for his films.
It’s rare for me to see someone perfectly describe all the things that are swirling around in an album and for me to actually hear all of them in the music.
For someone who has just stepped into neoclassical I think he smashed it out of the park.
If you are into the genre, this is my recommendation of the week. I remember buying their first EP back in 1984. And I have been following the band ever since, and was lucky enough to see them live in 1999 at the Wacken Open Air festival with a near perfect performance.
3 things have always been consistent in this band.:
They always had great guitarists. Amongst them, Joey Tafolla and Chris Broderick. Current guitarist Ken Rodarte is also no slouch.
Can’t say that I don’t miss getting pummeled in the head by the previous Swans lineup when listening to the new and maybe final Swans lineup on this and the previous album, which owes much to Michael Gira’s other long-running band, Angels of Light.
But I always loved Angels of Light, anyway, and it’s yet another awesome piece in a monumental career as well as an unexpected gift after the end of Swans was already announced, pre-pandemic.
I hope they nevertheless put the hammer down one more time on Nov 21 in Berlin and push me deep into my front row seats
Can’t recommend this enough. An album about loss and one that’s achingly beautiful and atmospheric and above all moving. Album of the year for me. It’s got Carrie & Lowell vibes it’s going to stick with me I feel like Cassandra Jenkins Overview of a Phenomenal Nature has another album written after loss.
