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...
Yautja, "The Spectacle" Yautja are chameleons with different styles coming to the fore in their albums, but this song is also kind of a chameleon. There's some heavy noise rock here, some grind-y bits, but with those sections kind of distinct here, shifting between them...
The Mooney Suzuki, "Oh Sweet Susanna" Sometimes, we get a band on here that I just want to describe as "rock". Just rock. This is a rock band, playing a rock song. Rock. You want rock? Have rock. Yautja, "A Killing Joke" Yautja is most...
Thundercat, "Daylight" Thundercat is very hard to describe. Jazzy, yeah, but with some R&B, some fusion, some soft rock, some soft jazz? This is from his first album, and he doesn't get any easier to categorize down the road. Upsilon Acrux, "Death Before Disharmonic"...
Belle and Sebastian, "I Want The World To Stop" I've written before about how I don't love Write About Love, so I won't rehash that here. It's fine, but it's just a little too slick and it just doesn't resonate with me. I think this...
