Big concert week last week, we went down to Hampton and saw Sturgil Simpson on his Why not? tour. I got to see him a few years back when he was touring the Metamodern Sounds album, but that was in a much smaller room. Luckily he translates well to a small arena.
And Hampton Coliseum was a good place to see music. I’d never been before and the sound was great.
Great.
La Luz is a band I’ve enjoyed for a while now but this was the first time I got to see them live.
Tight band and they sounded freaking great.
Highly recommended.
It’s only been out a week, but this new Floating Points album has snuck into my top 10 for the year. That damn Berghain playlist has me all up into some house music. I had forgotten how much I love it.
It’s awesome work and driving music.
In a year that has had a lot of great albums for me, this one is right up there. I’ve enjoyed a handful of songs from their earlier releases, but this is a stem-to-stern winner to my ears. The Radiohead influence is pretty obvious, but there is also a nice Storm-In-Heaven-Verve thing going on. It’s tailor made for my wheelhouse. Highly recommend.
It can make it complicated for the other drivers, but it put me in a great mood.
One of these bands I ran across on the shirt of a musician in another band I’m watching. It’s been the source of some fun ones.
It’s like a cloudy, late-summer beach morning out there, cool and humid with the barest hint of a breeze. This Cheval Sombre record fits exactly.
I’ve been listening to (and loving) this one for a couple of weeks and I cannot remember where I found it. It’s a good one, no doubt. Two married couples make up the band and there’s some excellent Gum Country (my fave record of 2020) vibes and enough guitar fuzz to draw My Bloody Valentine and Lush comparisons.
The album artwork is great, too.
Another in a long line of terrific recommendations from Tracy Wilson’s Courtesy Desk newsletter, Winged Wheel’s “Big Hotel”, is, as she describes:
Impenetrable echoes rumble and then evaporate in hypnotizing swirls as if a raincloud is trying to extinguish a volcanic river of neon molten rock. Willy Wonka could play any portion of Big Hotel in his unsettling boat ride tunnel and I think accomplish the same mesmerizing yet mind expanding journey.
I get serious A Storm In Heaven-era Verve vibes, too. This is one that I’ve streamed enough to buy.