Weekly Roundup 9/3/18
These are the best albums of the week of September 3rd:
The best of the bunch this week was far and away the new Swamp Dogg album "Love, Lose and Auto-Tune". This is a collaboration between the 76 year old Swamp Dogg(established weirdo soul/funk singer) and Bon Iver. Luckily Bon Iver doesn't open his mouth much on this one and sticks mainly to production with excellent results. I would be down to sign a petition to get Bon Iver to stop releasing his own music and do production and studio trickery from now on, the guy is really good at it. As the title suggests this album is mostly sung using all auto tune. It makes for a trippy psychedelic album full of interesting twists and turns. This is a huge leap forward for Swamp Dogg and one of the best funky soul albums of the year.
Escape Ism-The Lost Record(Merge)
Genre: LO-FI, Darkwave, Electro, Garage Rock
Sounds Like: Suicide, Ian Svenonius, The Make Up
Mothers-Render Another Ugly Method(Anti-)
Genre: Indie Rock, Slowcore, Post Punk
Sounds Like: Low, An extremely murky and slowed down Modest Mouse, Jessica Pratt
Princess Chelsea-The Loneliest Girl(Lil' Chief)
Genre: Dream Pop
Sounds Like: Disney Soundtracks, Beach Boys(Post Pet Sounds), Inara George, Nellie Mckay
Spiritualized-And Nothing Hurt(Bella Union)
Genre: Neo Psychedelia, Chamber Pop, Symphonic Rock, Space Rock
Sounds Like: Honestly, just about the best possible version of Spiritualized and there isn't much of a comparible sound.
Sauna Youth-Deaths(Upset! The Rhythm)
Genre: Garage Punk, Post Punk
Sounds Like: Sonic Youth, Parquet Courts, PC Worship
Swamp Dogg-Love, Loss And Auto Tune(Joyful Noise)
Genre: Contemporary R&B, Soul, Funk
Sounds Like: T Pain doing the above genres, Kanye West but only 808s and Heartbreaks and Yeezus but done better, the above genres on some kind of aural hallucinatory drug trip.
Universal Eyes-Four Variations On Artificial Society(Gretchen's American Tapes)
Genre: Experimental, Drone, Noise, Jazz
Sounds Like: Wolf Eyes stretched to an unbelievable breaking point. Pretentious art gallery experimental music done right.
William Elliott Whitmore-Kilonova(Bloodshot)
Genre: Americana
Sounds Like: Dusty Old America, Dusty old America covering songs.
The best of the bunch this week was far and away the new Swamp Dogg album "Love, Lose and Auto-Tune". This is a collaboration between the 76 year old Swamp Dogg(established weirdo soul/funk singer) and Bon Iver. Luckily Bon Iver doesn't open his mouth much on this one and sticks mainly to production with excellent results. I would be down to sign a petition to get Bon Iver to stop releasing his own music and do production and studio trickery from now on, the guy is really good at it. As the title suggests this album is mostly sung using all auto tune. It makes for a trippy psychedelic album full of interesting twists and turns. This is a huge leap forward for Swamp Dogg and one of the best funky soul albums of the year.
Escape Ism-The Lost Record(Merge)
Genre: LO-FI, Darkwave, Electro, Garage Rock
Sounds Like: Suicide, Ian Svenonius, The Make Up
Mothers-Render Another Ugly Method(Anti-)
Genre: Indie Rock, Slowcore, Post Punk
Sounds Like: Low, An extremely murky and slowed down Modest Mouse, Jessica Pratt
Princess Chelsea-The Loneliest Girl(Lil' Chief)
Genre: Dream Pop
Sounds Like: Disney Soundtracks, Beach Boys(Post Pet Sounds), Inara George, Nellie Mckay
Spiritualized-And Nothing Hurt(Bella Union)
Genre: Neo Psychedelia, Chamber Pop, Symphonic Rock, Space Rock
Sounds Like: Honestly, just about the best possible version of Spiritualized and there isn't much of a comparible sound.
Sauna Youth-Deaths(Upset! The Rhythm)
Genre: Garage Punk, Post Punk
Sounds Like: Sonic Youth, Parquet Courts, PC Worship
Swamp Dogg-Love, Loss And Auto Tune(Joyful Noise)
Genre: Contemporary R&B, Soul, Funk
Sounds Like: T Pain doing the above genres, Kanye West but only 808s and Heartbreaks and Yeezus but done better, the above genres on some kind of aural hallucinatory drug trip.
Universal Eyes-Four Variations On Artificial Society(Gretchen's American Tapes)
Genre: Experimental, Drone, Noise, Jazz
Sounds Like: Wolf Eyes stretched to an unbelievable breaking point. Pretentious art gallery experimental music done right.
William Elliott Whitmore-Kilonova(Bloodshot)
Genre: Americana
Sounds Like: Dusty Old America, Dusty old America covering songs.
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