Skinnerbox, "Trying To Be Cool" Skinnerbox's What You Can Do, What You Can't is a charming album from the third wave, full of personality and a distinctive sound, especially King Django's vocals. Alas, the followup record Demonstration, which gives us this tune, feels really flattened....
Botanist, "Nourishing the Fetus (Mandragora IV)" This is from the third Botanist album, helpfully labeled IV: Mandragora. There's a I and a III, I just don't know what happened to II. Down the memory hole, I guess! The next album is a VI. Who knows?...
Flamingosis, "Those Eyes" Discogs describes Flamingosis as "chillwave" and "disco", and, sure, whatever. There's some synth pop here, some electro-funk, some straight up pop - the sort of thing that sounds nostalgic without actually really evoking anything specific. In this song, there are actually some...
King Crimson, "21st Century Schizoid Man Including Mirrors" The early pinnacle of prog rock, In The Court of the Crimson King set a standard that a bunch of other bands would strive uselessly to surpass, including King Crimson themselves for a while. Now, prog is...
Some bonus tunes today! Morcheeba, "Blindfold" We've had several trip-hop acts around here in the past, and here's one of the lesser known bands from that scene. Morcheeba, like all of the trip-hop bands that hung around for a while, pretty quickly expanded beyond just...
