History of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1927-1941

Skinny · 2015-11-09T16:20:48-05:00

Contents (albums in bold, songs in italics) Stara Rzeka - Zamknęły się oczy ziemi Freddie Gibbs - Fuckin' Up the Count Boosie Badazz - Touch Down 2 Cause Hell Boosie Badazz - Mr. Miyagi Boosie Badazz - Like This Before (ft. Rich Homie Quan) Kangding Ray - Cory Arcane Boosie Badazz - Thrilla vol. 1 Eartheater - RIP Chrysalis Thug Life - Thug Life vol. 1 Lil Boosie - Youngest of da Camp Lil Boosie - Same Ol' Shit Freddie Gibbs - Shadow of a Doubt Eddy Grant - Say I Love You (Disco Version) Junglepussy - Pregnant with Success Rebles - Taboo (Club Mix) Earthling - You Go On Natural Mr. Flagio - Take a Chance G.A.N.G. - KKK Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Slim Thug - Drank (ft. Z-Ro & Paul Wall) Joshua Abrams - Magnetoception Heather Leigh - I Abused Animal Acre - Better Strangers Food - This Is Not a Miracle Earthen Sea - Ink J.G. Biberkopf - Ecologies Mette Henriette - Mette Henriette Stormzy - Shut Up Shape Worship - A City Remembrancer Ghold - Of Ruin Le1f - Riot Boi Earl Sweatshirt - solace Boosie Badazz - I'm Sorry Upset - '76 Björk - Vulnicura Sunn O))) - Kannon The Fall - The Frenz Experiment The Fall - Frenz Mette Henriette - Mette Henriette Erykah Badu - But You Caint Use My Phone Busdriver - Thumbs Ian William Craig - Cradle for the Wanting Cavanaugh - Time & Materials Z-Ro - Let the Truth Be Told Z-Ro - Platinum Ryley Walker - Primrose Green Aidan Baker - Half Lives Weather Report - Live in Tokyo Kneebody + Daedelus - Kneedelus __________________________________________________________________________________________ An introduction would be redundant. You already know what it is. Anyway, been completely obsessed with this in the last ten days or so, falling more in love with every listen: Zamknęły Się Oczy Ziemi by Stara Rzeka To be honest, I didn't think anything would be able to knock Jenny Hval's Apocalypse, girl from my #1 spot this late in the year (although Freddie Gibbs has an album coming out this month, so all bets are off), but this may just have managed it. It's far less fragmented than his debut, and better in pretty much every conceivable way - its transparent, Robbie Basho-informed folk-picking moments are more direct and hit harder than before, its Tangerine Dream synth undercurrents feel more organically woven into the music, and its droning raga-rock elements are more enveloping, especially when allowed to stray into frayed (albeit far more subtle than ever before) black metal territory or slyly incorporate wailing, Ayler-style sax into the mix. Besides those influences mentioned above, there are even times when I swear I can hear The Beatles at their most plaintive or Pink Floyd at their most frazzled, without it ever sounding forced or cliched or retrofetishistic. I also find that the album works just as well when given my undivided attention through headphones in a dark room as it does whilst soundtracking the mundane shit I do around the house upon getting in from work. Really beautiful stuff, that can be either crushingly dense and claustrophobia-inducing or pleasantly ambient (depending on what you want to get out of it at that particular moment in time). I thought his debut was an interesting curio that hinted at a massive potential, and his second full-length has delivered completely and utterly on that early promise. It's a shame that this is supposedly his last release as Stara Rezka, but it's a pretty fucking astounding way to bow out. Going back to that aforementioned Gibbs album, his latest single is a real grower. Freddie killing it with the Bone Thugs flow over the sort of beat Mike Dean might have bashed out in the mid-'90s. Very high hopes for this album - as much as I adore Piñata, I'd also welcome a return to the harder, more synthetic sound of Baby Face Killa, especially if his rapping is as focused and as tight throughout as it is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23O2U41p6cY Also, I desperately need to bump Boosie's Touch Down 2 Cause Hell up to the top ten of my 2015 chart. It's been in fairly frequent rotation all year, but especially so recently. Haven't heard a harder song all year than 'Mr. Miyagi'. As I said when it came out, there's something delightfully old school (and endearingly naive) about the way Boosie appears to have made a 2006-era major label rap album, one that has obligatory songs that cover all your standard mainstream hip-hop tropes seemingly without any awareness of the direction hip-hop has taken recently in terms of albums being mood or concept pieces that feel like pre-planned wholes. Of course, the fact that he's been in jail probably means that he is pretty unaware of this. Regardless, he's rapping his ass off, spitting with a fire and a passion that Tupac (at his best) would be proud of - even if he's always been a fairly simple, literal rapper, with major limitations in terms of technical ability and vocal prowess, he's still my favourite rapper of the year in 2015, and he's made the best album of his career. He makes you feel his pain and his anger, but never comes across as being particularly bitter (apart from a minor misstep featuring Chris Brown that I tend to skip now). There's a new mixtape out that I really need to cop; will add thoughts on that in this thread as and when I get around to digesting it. But yeah, Boosie is King. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLGdxAIK2oU We outchea.

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Haha! My girlfriend got me into them last August so I know the feeling. They were the last band I ever thought I would be drinking beers to!

Mate, tell me about it. Thought they were the lamest thing on the planet. Turns out that they’re just massive, open-hearted, stadium-ready roots rock in the lineage of The Band and Van Morrison and R.E.M. and The Waterboys. It’s all a bit silly and overly earnest, but when it catches the moonlight at the right angle then they’re pretty difficult to deny. Really great band.
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