New Albums

Airports have some of the glossiest surfaces in modern culture, but the fear underneath remains. Hence this record is not a utilitarian accompaniment to airports, in the sense of reinforcing the false utopia and fake idealism of air travel. Unlike Eno's Music for Airports, this is not a record to be used by airport authorities to lull their customers.

The album is a bittersweet, enveloping and enormously engaging listen. It is ambient, but focused. This is not sonic mush, nor adolescent noise. Nor is it a dance album. Much of the raw material of the album was made in airports over the last three years. While on tour, the Black Dog made 200 hours of field recordings, much of which was processed and combined with new music in the airport itself, waiting for the next flight. This vast amount of content has been slowly distilled into a set of particularly evocative pieces of music.

Composed in large degree of drones there is little in the way of beats until half way through - but rhythm is plentiful within the buzzing synthetic warmth. This record is not necessarily a comfortable listen. But it captures the spectrum of emotions stirred by airports. There is tension and disappointment. But there is also romance and excitement. All this on this record.
http://www.musicforrealairports.com/live/album.php

In his second full length release for Warp, Flying Lotus has taken his craft to bold new levels, new conceptual depths spun together for a psychedelic, genre melting trip. Bringing together collaborators such as former Suicidal Tendencies bassist Stephen "Thundercat" Bruno, Rebekah Raff, Dorian Concept, Ravi Coltrane, Laura Darlington and most strikingly , Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Cosmogramma bristles with a maximal energy, crossbreed innovation and distorted beat-bass funktions. A beautiful fever-dream of an album that variously resonates with the ghosts of Dilla, Parliament, Hendrix, Sun Ra, Love plugged into the kind of next-level bass waves that are crashing across continents right now. Destined to be lauded as a future classic...
http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=23694

Kassidy Young Spaceman wrote: »

His previous two albums are quite good. If im right, Mary Anne Hobbs dubbed him the Hendrix of his generation.... perhaps a bit too far. Id like to see him live though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqsx-QNa-44

that would my favourite track of his.

ianuss wrote: »

I was just listening to UNKLE's new album. It's frikkin sh1te! I think James Lavelle has finally gotten lost up his own ar5e (and I actually used to like him).

I actually can't believe that the same name gets credit for Psyence Fiction and Never Never Land. I know they've had various members leave the band but the difference in quality is staggering. From start to finish the album is drenched in mediocrity. This is one album to swerve

ianuss wrote: »

In short, no!

I was the same as yourself - huge fan of their early stuff but I've been disappointed by everything since Never Never Land - that'll probably be the last time I buy an UNKLE album - although, in saying that, I have to agree about the remix releases. But I reckon that's more to do with the remixers rather than UNKLE

ianuss wrote: »

Maybe you'll let me know what the album's like after you've had a listen?