10 Albums May Not Have Heard but REALLY Should

These are in no order:

 Autolux- Future Perfect

 Kyuss- ..And the Circus Leaves Town

 Lightning Bolt- Wonderful Rainbow

Frank Zappa- Hot Rats

 Wire- Send

Turing Machine- A New Machine For Living

Adrien Belew- Side One

Madeski Martin and Wood- Comustication 

PJ Harvey- White Chalk 

Fantastic Planet- Soundtrack

Albums of the Week

This album would definitely fall under favorite albums, not just of the week. The track "Under the Radar" is absolutely perfect. It's just long enough to rest your head to, but not long enough to put you asleep. I have it on loop while lying in bed restless.

(For those unaware of Adrien Belew, he's leaned a hand into hundreds of songs, artists, and records. Most notably, David Bowie, Talking Heads, NIN, Frank Zappa, and King Crimson. THE only guitarist I can hear 5 seconds of and know instantly that it's him.)

Another album that is just about always in rotation either in my car or at my studio. Second favorite album of all time. All the lyrics fit this week perfectly.

I started listening to this album last weekend to try and remember why exactly I hated it so much when I first heard it. I remember giving the first listen with Krystle and Nik when I was living in California and I thought the album was soooo boring. Seemed like whatever magic was in the room for their first release was long gone on this album. Well long story short I love it, at least right now.

-Novak

Precursor to "Mood Tunes"

I've been putting off a somewhat tedious post about albums I tend to listen to in certain mindsets. "Mood tunes" is what I planned on calling it. If I ever actually post it, it'll explain that I of course am not programmed to listen to the exact same albums in certain moods and that sometimes they are exact opposites. Sometimes I'll throw on a happy record when I'm feeling a little sad, ect.. 

However this album, The Red Sea goes on and I just fucking see red. This album sounds like each member had vivid thoughts of the apocalypse in mind while performing these songs. Especially tracks like "The Minus Times", more notably at 2:40? Jesus christ. That's pure animosity coming through the speakers when that plays to me.

Now there are plenty of albums that sound like this to me. I honestly don't usually get much inspiration from anger inspired music, and it's hard for me to stay into a band or song long that only touches on such a primitive feeling, but it certainly feels fucking great to put this shit up as loud as it can go and feel like a gorilla for a few hours.

 -Novak