Welcome to the Release Date Buffet for March 2019! A round-up of all the new records I’ve listened to this month.
Pony: Orville Peck’s first in class debut
From the horses jowls, judge, I damn well hurd Orville Peck neigh and burr it himself, I swears on it!: “Psychedelic outlaw cowboy croons love and loss from the badlands of North America.”
Post-Earth: FEELS better, FEELS good
The phenomenal instrumentation and musicianship plays into a Bangsian motto of “the grimier, the rockier, the better” and they make that idiomatic approach tick on the every part of their sophomore effort while still allowing for more long-form melodic, harmonic and rhythmic skill.
Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost: Foals slick up a slice of progressive dance rock
The onward trajectory of the majority of the track-list sets Foals as prime contrarians dismissing the invalidity of linear progress; Foals have found a sonic trajectory and manipulated it to practical perfection.
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Release Date Buffet February 2019
Welcome to the Release Date Buffet! A round-up of all the records I’ve been listening to this month.
Outer Peace: Quick like silver
Outer Peace is not so much a record as a thirty minute DJ set—nothing makes it past four minutes, everything ephemeral, a slinking sleuthing swirling spinning series of singles that lock together like a jigsaw puzzle yet flow like a stutter-step butterfly flight.
Girl: Eskimo Joe’s damnable, affable debut
“I was this close,” I said, suddenly, interrupting my own train of thought, raising two hands with about of foot of air between them, “to finishing an outline on the damn thing.” But then I thought, if Eskimo Joe only needed deliver halfway on this Girl, then that hands me carte blanche on how to review the damn thing.
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