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...
The Avalanches, "The Divine Chord" A thing I admire about Johnny Marr (who guested on this song) is that he's cheerfully helped on about a zillion things in his post-Smiths career, and they're pretty all over the map. And he seems happy to do it....
Elvis Costello, "Turpentine" I have largely ignored Costello's work past his salad days. Imperial Bedroom is more or less the last of his records I regularly listen to. No real reason for it, honestly, I just kind of feel like I have enough Costello. I...
The Delgados, "If This Is A Plan" There are times when I kinda run out of things to say about a band. That's not even interesting things, mind you, just things in general. I suppose I could just straight repeat myself, but the tags would...
Black Flag, "Loose Nut" When I finally got around to listening to Black Flag, I didn't really know much about the band other than they were a legendary hardcore band, and that was kind of it. I wandered into a record store and just bought...
