The crazy amount of buzz and praise for the new Car Seat Headrest is kind of blowing my mind. Have I suddenly become an accidental popularity oracle? I know Noisey wrote a mini-article about Book of Sand recently, but I dunno...
A slightly experimental and structurally ambitious garage-rock group started as a solo Bandcamp project by a guy younger than I am who I discovered through his work with Cate Wurtz of Lamezone notoriety.
If you somehow don't know who The Avalanches are, "one of the most important sample-based artistic groups in the world" is a decent descriptor. They had one album in 2000, and are finally putting out another.
Matt Wignall (formerly of Havalina Rail Co.) started a new band called War Girl, and put out a 10" vinyl EP. I was expecting something akin to his other side project, Scouts of St. Sebastian, but this was much more groovy, almost dubby in some songs.
a 7-inch is a single and usually has just two songs on it (A-side and B-side), a 10-inch is an EP which typically has 2 or 3 songs per side, and a 12-inch is an LP, which can hold a normal-sized album (about 60 minutes or so).
I still don't know the differences between the various record sizes.
Can you get this elsewhere? I like dubby things.
If you direct message Matt Wignall on Instagram (username wargirlband), you can order a copy of the vinyl + download. I don't think they're trying to be as difficult as possible; it just comes naturally.
It cost me $27, and I suspect that price may be prohibitive. I can share the mp3s, if you'd like.
a 7-inch is a single and usually has just two songs on it (A-side and B-side), a 10-inch is an EP which typically has 2 or 3 songs per side, and a 12-inch is an LP, which can hold a normal-sized album (about 60 minutes or so).
You're a little off on length but that's OK. LPs are typically 25-45 minutes per disc. 60 is seriously pushing technical limits, unless you're talking about discs pressed at 16 RPM, which are pretty rare nowadays and were mostly for spoken word anyway because of quality issues.
I could talk more about speed and materials, if anyone cares...
The only reason I know 16 RPM discs exist at all is because the Califone players we had in school back in the 1980s had a setting for them. I don't think I've ever actually seen one; even those flimsy "film disc" things played at 33, I think.
New Clipping EP is interesting. There's a song consisting almost entirely of hashtag rap setups and punchlines over a beat made of gunshot noises and a twelve-tone row, and the title track is a sleazy kink jam with weird dance keys over samples from Whitehouse's "Wriggle Like a Fucking Eel". Neat guest list, too.
Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months, & 2 Days In The Life Of...
Macy Gray - On How Life Is
The Flintstones - Music From Bedrock (this is the OST to the 90s Live Action movie. Has some really good songs on it oddly, also, "Walk The Dinosaur")
The OMC - How Bizarre (this has a "for promotional use only" sticker on it for some reason, but I'm pretty sure it's identical to the retail album? Maybe this was a radio station's copy at some point)
Black Box - Dreamland (I picked this up bc it looks neat and I think it's a dance album. Someone wrote "Herman" in black sharpie on the cover)
Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine (the one with "Closing Time" on it)
Charlie Byrd - Latin Byrd (I don't know much about Byrd but I know he's well regarded)
Express Design Studio - Lab Mix NYC 2005 (this appears to be a CD made to promote a brand of jeans. I got it bc there is a Postal Service song on it)
Nature's Magic - Dazzling Thunderstorm (on tape, the rest of these are CDs)
? - ? (everything on this CD is in Chinese, which is why I bought it)
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i woke up this morning to find that my dad had sent me this video via hangouts
I hope that they respond.
I am so in.