Last music album you listened to or concert you saw was...

[MovieHound]

In the vein of the "Last movie you saw was..." thread, a thread for music. Write a review, provide a rating or a recommendation, or just say whether or not it was good. Albums, concerts, television performances, whatever; as long as it's music, it's in.

[MovieHound]

Picked up Civilian by Wye Oak the other day.



They're a duo from Maryland, iirc. One guy does the whole rhythm section, playing drums with one hand and a keyboard with the other. The singer also plays guitar, switching between what you'd call rhythm guitar and lead guitar in a traditional four-piece rock band. The album reminds me a bit of Fleetwood Mac, and a bit of The Cowboy Junkies (although a lot less soporific). I also suspect the pair have listened to some country and some indie rock in their day.

[TheOne]

Jill Johnson is a Swedish country singer

[Jack Tripper]

I think it was good......very moody.....a lot of deep/heavy sounds (perhaps a bass....or a guitar....I'm not very musical so I can't pick out the instruments)..... stretched out over long tracks often with little vocals....the lyrics too are rather dark....somewhat poetic....drawing in on drab natural images.........it made feel like I was walking through the streets of 18th Century London.....with the filth and the squalor...the Dickinson London you could say.....it sort of pulls you into that world and makes you enjoy it's darkness......here is a sample track :

[J3scribe]

6 String Theory by Lee Ritenour. Lee is a modern jazz guitarist and 6 ST is a celebration of guitar. Almost every song is an ensemble or duet featuring the most highly respected musicians of our age, featuring the likes of: B.B. King, Joe Bonamassa, Guthrie Govan, John Scolfield, Keb’ Mo’, Slash, George Benson, Steve Lukather, Neal Schon, Johnny Lang and others. Genres represented cover the full range of blues, jazz, rock fusion, blue grass and classical. A little something for everyone.

It's a pretty fascinating project if you're a guitar lover. Lee explains a bit about it here....



Unfortunately there are no videos of full songs from the album. The project is very proprietary.

[merlin!]

Last concert I went to was the Uproar Fest. Shinedown was a headliner and they played a few from their latest album.



It's a typical Shinedown product. I'm really hooked on the the following track though...

[MovieHound]

Never Better (2009) by P.O.S.



I haven't really followed rap & hip-hop for the last couple of decades, so I don't know if this represents the new normal or is a departure. P.O.S. himself certainly doesn't fit the stereotype, a punk rocker from Minnesota who plays guitar for alternative-rock bands and co-founded the Doomtree collective.

Recommend if you enjoyed: Um... His AllMusic page lists De La Soul and Minor Threat together under "influences", which I guess makes as much or as little sense as anything else. He toured with Bad Brains a few years ago, which sounds like an awesome show.

[MovieHound]

The Seer (2012) by Swans.



Dark but not gloomy. A little spooky. It's a two-disc album; the first is mellower, while the second has a little more energy. Named by some websites as among the best of 2012. I haven't listened to enough albums to be able to make that call myself, but it is darned good. Karen O of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs does the vocals on one song.

Recommended if you enjoy: Scott Walker, Diamanda Galas, dropping acid.

[MovieHound]

Two albums I've been wearing out this week:


Celestial Lineage (2011) by Wolves in the Throne Room
Nordic-sounding black metal from the frozen wastes of Olympia, Washington.

I quite liked the Wolves' first two albums, I evidently missed their 3rd entirely, and this is their 4th. Two Hunters, from 2007, would probably be among my first recommendations for any black metal newbies, and some of the songs here echo that album a little too closely. "Woodland Cathedral" in particular sounds so much like "Dea Artio" I had to go back and have another listen to the latter song just to be sure I wasn't losing my mind. The woman who did some of the singing on Diadem of 12 Stars is back. While I didn't really weep over her absence from Two Hunters, I kind of liked having her back for this one. She did something with Sunn 0))) that I haven't heard yet, in addition to a bunch of other stuff. If I still played Dungeons & Dragons, I would totally write dark, spooky adventures based on Wolves' albums, using the song titles as chapter names: "Thuja Magus Imperium"; "Permanent Changes in Consciousness"; "Subterranean Initiation"; "Rainbow Illness"; "Woodland Cathedral"; "Astral Blood"; and "Prayer of Transformation."



---

Conatus (2011) by Zola Jesus
We would've called her "goth" back when she was just a gleam in her momma's eye; I dunno what the kids are calling it now.

Zola's 3rd full-length album, not counting her collaboration with LA Vampires. This album betrays her '80s post-punk roots a little less brazenly than Stridulum did, and she doesn't sound like she's recorded the unpublished works of Ian Curtis here. Not that Stridulum wasn't a hootenanny, but it was unabashedly 1985, for better or for worse. This time, she's blending in some Massive Attack with the Siouxsie, and I think it works nicely when she's not just monkeying around with the effects in her mixing software, as on the opening of "Vessel" (the rest of the song is better, though, so don't quit on it right away). I'm not singing her praises as a songwriter just yet, but her voice makes me want to have sex. She ain't Robin Guthrie or Lisa Gerrard, but the mere fact that I'd mention her in the same sentence as those two means she's doing something right.

[lil' wutz]

what a nice idea for a new thread.
I've been invited to a Parkway Drive concert by my best friend, 'cause his wife had some probs with her wisdom teeth.
Was the first time I saw them live and they were awesome. And the crowd showed me that I'm getting old. All those kids that got picked up by their parents after the concert. wow.
The vid I found on YouTube, thanks god there's always some idiot going to a concert just to take a video of it.

[MovieHound]

And the crowd showed me that I'm getting old. All those kids that got picked up by their parents after the concert. wow.

[lil' wutz]

Ok, third try to post this.
By now it was the day before yesterday when I invited my mate to another concert. German trash metal legends TANKARD as headliner, absolutely equally cool support were ACCUSER!
We went there at 7pm and when Accuser started to play we already had our first couple o´beers. Accuser are having lots of experience so their gig was very professional, good sound, good riffs, good headbanging. They played for 1 hour and the hall was cooking (possible to say that in English? Sounds very German ) I can't remember when I've seen 2 rows of metal fans banging their heads simultaneously. ^^


After Accuser and only 10 mins of soundcheck Tankard entered the stage. Btw it was a small club with only around 400-500 people in it. Tankard played for 1.5 hours and as long as they could. Awesome shit. Their music is simple. Their texts are even more. But they know how to rock the house. FREE BEER FOR ALL! At least they tried to get the host to be generous. Some amateurish stage-diving and oldskool pogo-dancing gave me the trophies I still feel today. At the last song the (really really) fat singer jumped into the crowd and dived a little as well.


After the concert we had some beer with the band and met a Japanese fan (from Tokyo) who's been there for the gig. Fucking brilliant evening.

Some youtube for music

[MovieHound]

777: Cosmosophy by Blut aus Nord (2012)

I know, I know... "French black metal?" It was a conundrum for me too, but then I started imagining a night with Marion Cotillard in a candle-lit room with red silk sheets and a couple of bottles of red wine, and it all started to fall into place. A candidate for 'album of 2012', although I can't claim to have made any kind of comprehensive survey of the year's releases.

[lil' wutz]

777: Cosmosophy by Blut aus Nord (2012)

I know, I know... "French black metal?" It was a conundrum for me too, but then I started imagining a night with Marion Cotillard in a candle-lit room with red silk sheets and a couple of bottles of red wine, and it all started to fall into place. A candidate for 'album of 2012', although I can't claim to have made any kind of comprehensive survey of the year's releases.

Never heard of them before, but they are on my list now.

[elturko78!]

Last album that I reviewed on an article a couple of days ago was one called ''Ondatrópica'', which was a project developed by the British Council’s Music Team in order to the Olympic Games. A fantastic musician and producer from England, called Quantic, joins with colombian musician Mario Galeano Toro, to take us in a journey over six decades of tropical music. They use old recording methods in new compositions and classics from the genre, also bringing to the studio a bunch of old musicians, all of them involved in the golden age of cumbia.
On this album, Mario and Quantic achieve his dream: reinterpret the tropical musical heritage of Colombia with new approaches in composition, arrangement and production. The rhythm more popular in South America has a brilliant album to represent him. A perfect mix of classicism and modernity. Enjoy!


A Black Sabbath Cover: