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audio roundup: february
CDs I acquired during the month of February (* denotes 2003 release):
Throbbing Gristle, First Annual Report (previously unreleased early experiments; rough and interesting)
Bauhaus, The Sky's Gone Out (nostalgia)
Beck, Sea Change (better than expected)
Mirah, You Think It's Like This But It's Really Like This (tender, awkward, cutesy, sexy indie-pop songs—utterly enchanting)
The Books, Thought For Food (pretty acoustic guitar submerged under a universe of offbeat samples = my kind of thing)
The Microphones, Mount Eerie* (genuinely odd concept album about life, death, and the afterlife, featuring a cast of thousands from the K Records stable. Afflicted by bouts of both genius and naievete.)
The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs (a breakneck tour of pop genres, and deeply emotionally affecting to boot. Essential.)
Spires That In The Sunset Rise, self-titled* (the long-awaited debut CD-R from this gang of Chicago ladies. Like the house band of some Victorian women's sanitarium. Delirious singsong, howls of venereal madness.)
and Cathy Heard's Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret mix CD (from The Normal's "Warm Leatherette" to Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby," and all points inbetween)
Coming soon—actual content, not just lists of junk lying around my apartment. |
Thursday, March 06, 2003
3:57 PM
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