May 2012

1. d'Eon - #109 A great Popol Vuh/Cluster-esque kettle of swirling keyboard goo that will restore your faith in komische.   Pick it up, because it's both good and free.
2. Sly And The Family Stone - Luv N' Haight Sly Stone's career has been an amazing trainwreck, which is a real pity.  Perhaps it's time for a Rick Rubin/Daman Albarn intervention?
3. Fields Of The Nephilim - Submission Two (The Dub Posture) If you don't own Dawnrazor, The Nephilim, Elizium, Earth Inferno, and Revelations, then pick them up and we can talk afterwards.
4. Earth - Sigil of Brass If you are unfamiliar with Earth, I personally recommend everything from Hex onward.  If you are familiar with Earth, then check out Dylan Carlson's Kickstarter project (I'm a backer). 
5. Belbury Poly - Cantalus I meant to pick the album up when it came out, but somehow it slipped through the cracks.  I guess I'll have to fix that now. 
6. Gerard Doulssane - Evening News I'm not sure where I got this particular album from, and the interent is feeling particularly unhelpful right now. 
7. Tom Waits - Paris Mood (Un De Fromage) Tom Waits is the greatest living American songwriter.  The Island albums were the best ones and Marc Ribot was his best guitarist.  That is all.
8. Igor Wakhevitch - Twilight And Call Of The Ascending Spirit I recently got turned on to Wakhevitch, even through he apparently had a renaissance in the late 90's.  It's modern composition that doesn't play into Minimalism or Serialism, but pulls from the rock vernacular without going all "Switched On," prog, or ELO.
9. Trial Of The Bow - Inverloch This is here in celebration of half of the most underrated doom band ever naming their new project after this song.
10. Gil Melle - Hex (Continued) This is from the Andromeda Strain soundtrack.  Check out more about the Creel Pone label that this was released on here. 
11. Scorn - Night Tide You know that Scorn album that you haven't listened to in years and is gathering dust in a plie of CD's that won't fit in the rack?  Pull it out and listen to it again.
12. Demdike Stare - Shade Phenomenally dark dub that is still burning up the internet.  Completely worth picking up.