As the producing-team behindגGrails, Alex Hall and Emil Amos have hybridized and warped various cultureגs versions of psych music over the past decade. With their new project Lilacs and Champagne, theyגve created another umbrella under which to tweak hip-hop, tape-collage and the darkest creases of 70′s film-soundtracks with their lysergic and perverse style of head-music. The projectגs name and imagery evoke a strange thrift-store mystery LP you might come across, unsure if youגve discovered an exotic dub record, a flowery Bacharach AM radio classic or something by an obscure duo of Swedish avant-techno producers.
The record began under the influence of Madlibגs production styleג¦.which had suggested that writing songs using an Akai MPC sampler would force the two to stretch their legs and explode any expectations created by records theyגve made in the past. But rather than sampling the funk and soul canon of traditional hip hop, they pulled from disparate sources such as Polish private press hippie records, indistinguishable radio noise or the chopped and reversed sounds of Jayne Mansfieldגs head being decapitated. Layers of instruments and found sound were then painted over the original samples until entirely new directions were created and taken to their logical conclusionג¦ creating something simultaneously alien and familiarג¦ something like the sound of Nurse with Wound collaborating with J-Dilla.
Re: What albums are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:43 am
by Nav
The xx - Coexist
Re: What albums are you listening to?
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:43 am
by LameAim
Re: What albums are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:45 am
by darkwingduck
I just found out about JEFF The Brotherhood. Need to listen to all their stuff. KILLER sound from just a two piece!!!
don't believe there's a better dude in music. album feels like soberness from the jump, which takes some getting used to, but already love it
don't see anything up on youtube or soundcloud yet, so http://gardenandgun.com/media/live-oak-jason-isbell
Re: What albums are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 2:14 pm
by LilLeftBrain
peace to
Re: What albums are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 5:33 pm
by wheels
Main 4 in the rotato™
and Charli XCX
Re: What albums are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 9:09 pm
by Tommy Bunz
Glad someone else is appreciating that Charli. Fucking love her.
You see this? shit is fire
Re: What albums are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 6:36 am
by Spartan
Re: What albums are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:41 pm
by kato
Lazerhawk is dope
Re:
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 9:27 am
by Dusty Fingers
LilLeftBrain wrote:
nice n chill
Excellent artist. I have never checked this release. Will give it a spin today!!
Right now it's
Sun Kil Moon - April
Re: What albums are you listening to?
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 8:34 am
by Dusty Fingers
Re: What albums are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 5:26 pm
by Joe Pesci
Don't think it warrants it's own thread but the new Eagulls album is a pretty great callback to post-punk in the vein of Killing Joke
Re: What albums are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 8:38 pm
by Positive A
That new Real Estate...
Re: What albums are you listening to?
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 12:17 am
by Dusty Fingers
Joe Pesci wrote:Don't think it warrants it's own thread but the new Eagulls album is a pretty great callback to post-punk in the vein of Killing Joke
Hell yes it is. Check out No Age if you haven't. New Cloud Nothings will be amazing as well and Perfect Pussy should come with a strong debut.