New Music Friday: Symphonic Synth-Funk, Lysergic Dream-Pop
June 5 releases include Suzanne Ciani, Tara Clerkin Trio, Lifted and Blood Incantation.
Y'all get two posts in two days! (Please don't unsubscribe.) Viking's Choice thrives, now 20 years in Washington, D.C. It's a busy release day, featuring an absolute legend of the Buchla synth, Costa Rican dream-pop, sampled metal and verdant drone by a cosmic metal band.
Suzanne Ciani, CIANI/ORKEST
No one understands the versatility and playfulness of the synth like Ciani, brilliantly paired here with an orchestra. Symphonic synth-funk, cinematic disco and string-swept techno.
Tara Clerkin Trio, Somewhere Good
Enter the unknown oblong. The coolest left-field '90s hit warped into something timeless. Broadcast as a genre, but fuzzier, fizzier and maybe even funkier.
Lifted, Movie
Sound collage as cinéma vérité, but with fluorescent shades of neon-noir. You are walking around inside of this sound: unfamiliar, but not uninviting. Max D + Co La = Lifted.
Dylan Thomas., Todo se desvanece
Somewhere between a coffee-buzzed Interpol and a hungover Cure. We should be looking to Costa Rica for more lysergic dream-pop like this. Vinyl reissue.
Olivier Alary, Vestiges
There's a simple-yet-unstable grandeur of 12 amplified lap steel guitars colliding with droning electronics. A sustain that tempts infinity, yet teeters at its edge.
Jake Muir, Pareidolia
Black/death metal samples stretched and disintegrated beyond recognition. Exquisitely obsidian sound design and atmosphere.
Blood Incantation, All Gates Open
If the heavy synth drone of Timewave Zero was the Monolith floating through space, then this is the cosmic Shire: verdant, shimmering and fantastical.
Damien Jurado, Soft Violence
Demos for a scrapped volume in the Reggae Film Star series (aka when Jurado got his groove back). Just Damien, a cheap acoustic and a cassette deck.
The Sterling Jubilee Singers, Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb: Gospel Quartet Singing in Jefferson County, Alabama
Nothing mends my broken heart quite like a Black, a cappella gospel quartet. There's personality in each voice, yet harmonized for one purpose.
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