竹村延和 (Takemura Nobukazu), "Meteor" This is from his 2000 release, Sign, and is the outro piece after the 35-minute "Souvenir in Chicago". A thing I really like about this is the texture of the sounds, a lot of them are stretched, torn, distorted, and otherwise...
Pinegrove, "Darkness (acoustic)" After a very good and well-received second album (Cardinal), Pinegrove ran into some serious problems that derailed the band after accusations surfaced about Evan Hall. It was a messy situation that Hall and the band tried to handle head-on, eventually going through...
Prince Paul, "A Prince Among Thieves" Hearing this song out of context, the climax/punchline of Prince Paul's briliant album A Prince Among Thieves, really is kind of jarring. It makes so much sense in the original context but is a strange one outside of...
Rocket From The Crypt, "Good Bye" RFTC almost in a Smashing Pumpkins kind of mode here. Can't decide which band would be more insulted by that comparison. Señor Coconut, "Pisco Control (Jive Electico)" Señor Coconut's album of Kraftwerk covers done in a Latin style is...
Emperor, "A Fine Day to Die" Among the various albums to emerge from the second wave of black metal, In The Nightside Eclipse seems to me to be the one that really set the template that a lot of black metal followed. While it's inaccessible,...