finally got around to syncing the mp3player/workstash/homestash to be consistent, and was thinking about cd’s I’ve bought over the last little while

The good:

Red Sparrowes/At The Soundless Dawn: really cool post-rock/post-metal/whatever. In the vein of Isis, Explosions in The Sky, GYBE, etc. Long cinematic[1] instrumentals. Very cool. High recommended.

Adrian Belew/Side B: second part of a triology. I like this one better than Side A, even though Side A features Les Claypool and Danny Carey. This cd is very low key, with a bit of a kraftwerk/80’s electro/new wave sound to it. And of course, plenty of odd lyrics and off kilter guitar sounds.

Jesu/Jesu: Jesu is Justin K. Brodricks new band. Broadrick is mr Godflesh. This album pretty much sounds just like Godflesh. In other words, it freaking rules. Utterly massive plodding machine provided drumbeats, walls of heavy droning feedback drenched guitars. This is the part where I throw a metal hand gesture and start looking for a goat to sacrifice.

Sunn 0))/Grimrobe Demos: Walls of heavy droning feedback drenched guitars. No drums. Still heavy as all get out. I like it. Too bad I’m out of goats now.

Fripp & Eno/The Equatorial Stars: Pretty good, pretty much what you’d expect from these two. Heavily processed soundscapes for the most part.

Drums & Tuba/Vinyl Killer: drums, tuba, and guitar driven math rock. Lots of looping. Tuba makes a surprisingly good bass in a rock context.

Zoe Keating/Once Cello x 16: heavily layered acoustic cello. Very driving and cool. Zoe is 1/3 of Rasputina.

Other Random Stuff:

The Swans/Children Of God/World of Skin: eh. About one in three songs are really amazing. The rest are kind of boring. But they all have _way_ too many vocals in them. Not really my thing I suppose.

Arcade Fire/Funeral: Yawn-tastic. Why did I buy this? Mediocre over produced lifeless indy pop. I’ll gladly give up one hipster point to not have to hear this.

[1] I say cinematic, meaning what I would like movie scores to sound like. But lets face it, 99.999% of all movie scores are horrendous cliche ridden coma inducing symphonic piles of worthless glurge[2]. Hans Zimmer, I’m looking at you. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to see a movie with a good score. How am I supposed to “suspend disbelief” when your blasting the tritest freaking orchestral bs at me in dolby 9.13 sound at 130db.

[2] glurge is not a word. Thats how bad movie scores are. At least there not musicals.