Another month, another list. Here's nine tracks I've been enjoying in October 2021, featuring moody post-punk, Thom Yorke sampling hip-hop, and lots of synths as per...
The Roches - Losing True
Think I'm starting to get obsessed with this band. If you told me even five years ago I'd be digging a folk-rock vocal harmony group from the late 70s etc and so forth...
Aphex Twin - Xtal
A bit more like it. Some classic Aphex with the first track from Selected Ambient Works 85-92, made when he was 12 or some shit. Proper ambient techno mate.
The Isley Brothers - Footsteps in the Dark, Pts. 1 & 2
It was a good day when I heard this. So hard not to start quoting Ice Cube when it starts...
CRS - Us Placers
So this is CRS AKA Child Rebel Soldier AKA Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, and Pharrell Williams. And Us Placers was meant to be the first track of a whole album made up of them rapping over Thom Yorke and Radiohead samples. Instead, it all fizzled out and Us Placers made it to Kanye's, sorry Ye's, 2007 mixtape Can't Tell Me Nothing. I completely missed all this somehow.
Eurythmics - Love Is a Stranger
Picked up Sweet Dreams, Eurythmics' second album in the Dog's Trust, Cowbridge last month for a quid. Well worth it.
Mr. Flagio - Take a Chance
It wouldn't be one of these lists without some italo-disco in here somewhere. Epic, Daft Punk vibes from 1983.
Zombie Zombie - The Beach
A squelchy analogue cover of New Order's The Beach AKA the instrumental and slightly different version of Blue Monday.
Passarella Death Squad - In Heaven
Brooding, throbbing techno that I heard on an old Andrew Weatherall show. A proper moody chugger.
Section 25 - Knew Noise
Big PiL energy here, all doomy, hectoring post-punk with a tidy bassline. This came out on Factory, so I'm a bit baffled why I hadn't heard it before.
