Dusty Chalk

Interesting. My sister is so happy with her 2014 Air, she hardly uses her MacBook (non-Air, non-Pro). I was so impressed with it the one time she let me use it, I was tempted to get one, myself, but I’m pretty hard on keyboards...perhaps I shouldn’t?

Yeah, this. But still FLAC on Mac, so it’s my solution of choice.

Sure! I'm having a resurgence mostly because of this video: I really dig odd grooves, so the fact that they do it so frequently so naturally elevates them in my mind. There's a host of live videos on YouTube -- complete KEXP sessions (they of course love them there), full festival sets, etc. Cheers.

That seems relatively mild. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wOxGaG4aVA

Blue Veil, 6 Degrees of Separation excellent hard alt-pop

Grasshopper: Master, you have taught me well, may I show you what I am capable of? The master releases two flies and pulls out his sword. He nods at Grasshopper. Grasshopper unsheathes his sword. He watches them for a couple seconds, and then steel flashes, and two buzzings become one, as one of the flies falls. Master swipes at the remaining fly and there is a fraction of a second of silence, then the buzzing resumes. Grasshopper is confused. Master: Your fly is down, but mine will never have children.

So many things wrong with this

Happy belated! (party favour noise)

I slouch corrected.

Radar tubes And it’s not even an amp, it’s a night light. (Actually it’s more of a conversation piece, and that conversation usually has the phrase, “good lord!” declared at some point.)

Happy birthday, oh you who make so many of us listen to the beautiful music. (party favour noise)

Dig

He’s young, he can do it!

How is it that you’ve already been spinning at least the first track?

https://youtu.be/AzEBH6DZJVk

Totally digging on the Eastern European (WTF, auto predict, you’d rather suggest Eurovision before European? Fuck you. Just fuck you.) folk vibe of Ben Caplan.

Dayum, someone needs to put those in a more deserving room.

Wood paneling...ceiling tiles...yeezh.

If you go back to their earliest albums, they appear to have started life as a power pop outfit. I’m enjoying all four of their releases.

Yeah, that was kinda a rhetorical question.

Ulysses, On Safari yet another SMOD find, but this is hippie dippy psychedelic instead. Listen to this song from their previous album: https://ulyssesgb.bandcamp.com/track/song-that-has-to-be-sung (...and then listen to the entirety of On Safari ) Previous was also retro psych rock, too, with a serious Jeff Lynne fetish, and I dig. https://aurablaze.bandcamp.com/

So is it the best album of 2014 or of 2019?