Nice to get back from a week or so’s holiday and find a heap of new music worth listening to. Quick highlights: Kendrick of course (the U2 track is, against the odds, tremendous); the new Floating Points jam; an amazing Kamasi Washington tune and film; the Como Mamas with a band; and James Elkingt...
Nice to get back from a week or so’s holiday and find a heap of new music worth listening to. Quick highlights: Kendrick of course (the U2 track is, against the odds, tremendous); the new Floating Points jam; an amazing Kamasi Washington tune and film; the Como Mamas with a band; and James Elkington and Jeff Tweedy direct from the Wilco loft. Wish I had something to play you from the new (last?) Träd, Gräs Och Stenar album, but it’s very much of a piece with that gorgeous box set from last year. Also amazed and delighted to get Van’s Bang recordings and much more, finally, in a legitimate form, and the Mulatu Astatke reissue is beautiful.
Have fun on Record Store Day, if you’ve got the strength, and grab me a copy of that unreleased Alice Coltrane disc if you spot one. Also, please buy our new issue of Uncut, which is on sale today: I wrote about our Summer Of Love special and the other key ingredients (Fleet Foxes, Dylan, Twin Peaks etc) here.
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1 Floating Points – Reflections – Mojave Desert (Pluto)
2 Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. (Top Dawg)
3 Michael Mayer – DJ Kicks (!K7)
4 Bedouine – Bedouine (Spacebomb)
5 Kamasi Washington – Truth (Young Turks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtW1S5EbHgU
6 Dean McPhee/Seabuckthorn – Altar Rock/Pine Darkened Slopes (Sonido Polifonico)
7 Can – The Singles (Mute)
8 Lynn Castle – Rose Coloured Corner (Light In The Attic)
9 Waxahatchee – Out In The Storm (Merge)
10 Träd, Gräs Och Stenar – Tack För Kaffet (Thanks For The Coffee) (Subliminal Sounds)
11 Terry Riley & Don Cherry – Duo (B.Free)
12 Mulatu Astatke – Mulatu Of Ethiopia (Strut)
13 Meredith Monk – Key (Tompkins Square)
14 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Murder Of The Universe (Heavenly)
15 James Elkington – Wintres Woma (Paradise Of Bachelors)
16 Como Mamas – Move Upstairs (Daptone)
17 Lillie Mae – Forever And Then Some (Third Man)
18 House And Land – House And Land (Thrill Jockey)
19 Jeff Tweedy – Together At Last (dBpm)
20 Fleet Foxes – Crack Up (Nonesuch)
21 Prince – Deliverance (Rogue Music Alliance)
22 Cannonball Adderley Quintet – Classic Albums 1959-1960 (Acrobat)
23 The Stars Of Heaven – Lights Of Tetouan (Rough Trade)
24 The Stars Of Heaven – The Clothes Of Pride (Hotwire)
25 Peter Perrett – How The West Was Won (Domino)
26 Van Morrison – The Authorised Bang Collection (Sony Legacy)