Thanks to working on a family project, there will be no posts today.
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Here we have Hull of Light, an “…international collective of cosmic cowboys and cowgirls with members from Megason, Suffering Hour, Zeresh (our beloved friends), Underground Spiritual Game & Sleepwalker [夢遊病者].” The music was absolutely not what I was expecting, as a few of these come from a raw, powerful black metal background. Not this EP. This sounds like it would have fit with early 1980s post-punk. There is an aggression, a lo-fi quality to it that screams to be noticed. I thoroughly enjoyed having my ears blasted by this.
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The legendary goth-rock band And Also The Trees have been around since 1979, and are still recording elegant post-punk music that is richly produced with acoustic instruments, drones and electronics. Fine listening.
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Russian experimental band Disen Gage have collaborated with some of the country’s most notorious experimental musicians. Alexei Borisov, for instance, has been featured on these pages before. MOX and Voronovsky are new names. The music is an impressive mix of early-era Tuxedomoon-influenced music supported by a avant-prog bass, drums and guitar. Experimental enough to be weird, but structured enough to be familiar to the ears.
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As I am heading to “North” Macedonia tomorrow, and I am in dire need of a rest, I leave you with a Bandcamp article on old and new post-punk from the Former Yugoslavia. We’ll see you soon! https://daily.bandcamp.com/label-profile/doomtown-records-label-profile
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Today is a travel day, and as I start a small journey from this magnificent city, I’ll let Ultravox serenade you.
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This is some of the most fun, poppy, Beatlesque music I’ve heard in a while. Say Sue Me 세이수미 hail from Busan, South Korea, yet I would have believed it if someone told me they were out of London or Liverpool. Well done, folks.
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Avant-rock legends Pere Ubu have a brand new album out! From the band’s Bandcamp site: “Pere Ubu unveil their new album, ‘Trouble On Big Beat Street’, nearly four years after their previous record for Cherry Red, ‘The Long Goodbye’. ‘The Modern Dance’ (1978) marked the end of Rock ‘n’ Roll. ‘Trouble On Big Beat Street’ marks the end of The Song. Pere Ubu ended with ‘The Long Goodbye’ (their last album, also on Cherry Red, from 2019). Pere Ubu begins again with ‘Trouble On Big Beat Street’. If you missed the last 48 years then imagine a bad- attitude. Imagine…
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A post-punk/ethereal gem has been bestowed upon us by our friends at Lost Tribe Sounds. Arrowounds tie together influences from bands like, “Can, Bark Psychosis, Young Gods, Slowdive, Durutti Column, Seefeel and much of early 4AD,” according to the band bio, but there is an element that makes this band something apart. Noise-rock, post-rock, and a more eerie feeling than their influences betray sets the band apart.
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Russian band Okolo Poludnya produce a very good retro-inspired EP influenced by new wave, synthpop and post-punk.