Morrissey, "He Knows I'd Love To See Him"
This is from the non-album single November Spawned A Monster, where he continued working with ex-Smiths bassist Andy Rourke, and is some of the better stuff from his solo career. It's just three songs, but they're good...
Flying Lotus, "Takashi"
It's a little hard to describe Flying Lotus accurately. "Electronic" feels wholly inadequate. "Fusion" is accurate, yes, but also feels like it's not really highlighting what he's fusing. There's lots of jazz and experimental electronic music here, some funk...just kind of...
Sorry about that, I kind of got out of the rhythm of doing this daily. I'll get there!
Pigs, "Massive Operator Error"
I've been listening to a lot of noise rock recently. It's a genre that really opened my ears up to a lot of...
White Stripes, "We're Going To Be Friends"
Every now and again, a record breaks through into mainstream attention that surprises me. I would not have bet on the ascetic blues rock revivalists the White Stripes being anybody who would get mainstream attention, but somehow they...
Mostly rock today.
The Strokes, "When It Started"
Every so often, rock "comes back", brought back into cultural relevance by some release that critics declare revinvents the genre. Meanwhile, of course, rock never goes anywhere between these "breakthrough" albums, mainly because old boring people never...