A long one this week. The new Endless Boogie album is here – “VIBE KILLER” – which has predictably been a major distraction. But please check out these new entries: Jim O’Rourke and Kassel Jaeger’s hypnagogic “Wakes On Cerulean”, if we can still use that word with a straight face; Nick Hakim; that killer Ron Gallo garage rock jam; the latest elevated jangle from The Cairo Gang; another track from Jake Xerxes Fussell; and The Magpie Salute – Rich Robinson and Marc Ford from The Black Crowes, with a small army of new accomplices – doing Delaney & Bonnie. Also my regular reminder that the Tribe Called Quest is just the greatest.
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1 Kassel Jaeger/Jim O’Rourke – Wakes On Cerulean (Editions Mego)
2 Joan Shelley – Joan Shelley (No Quarter)
3 Endless Boogie – Vibe Killer (No Quarter)
4 Michael Zerang & Spires That In The Sunset Rise – Illinois Glossolalia (Feeding Tube)
5 Boss Hog – Brood X (Bronze Rat)
6 Paul White Featuring Danny Brown – Accelerator (R&S)
7 Nick Hakim – Green Twins (ATO)
8 Wooden Wand – Clipper Ship (Three Lobed Recordings)
9 Porter Ray – Watercolor (Sub Pop)
10 Feral Ohms – Feral Ohms (Silver Current)
11 Arthur Verocai – Arthur Verocai (Continental)
12 Anjou – Epithymia (Kranky)
13 Yasmine Hamdan – Al Jamilat (Crammed Discs)
14 Ron Gallo – Heavy Meta (New West)
15 Arbouretum – Song Of The Rose (Thrill Jockey)
16 Ed Dowie – The Uncle Sold (Lost Map)
17 The Cairo Gang _ What Can You Do? (God?/Drag City)
18 Sampha – Process (XL)
19 Tara Jane O’Neil – Tara Jane O’Neil (Gnomonsong)
20 Robyn Hitchcock – Robyn Hitchcock (Yep Roc)
21 Various Artists – Running The Voodoo Down (Festival)
22 The Magpie Salute – Comin’ Home
23 Mac De Marco – This Old Dog (Captured Tracks)
24 Mark Lanegan – Gargoyle (Heavenly)
25 Dirty Projectors – Dirty Projectors (Domino)
26 Hiss Golden Messenger – Live At The Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 28/1/17
27 Jake Xerxes Fussell – What In The Natural World (Paradise Of Bachelors)
28 A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service (Sony)