Weekly LP love: Cults s/t
While we were in a vintage shop in Los Angeles, a song came on with Shangri La-type vocals that were blurred with echoey, hazy guitars and lots of synth. I think Jeremiah and I simultaneously looked up at each other and asked the girl behind the counter who it was. Pretty sure it was the next day after arriving home from our trip that we went out and bought the LP. Turns out the album actually debuted last year following loads of Internet hype after the girl/guy duo that is... Read The Rest →
Weekly LP love: histoire de melody Nelson
Listed as one of the top 1000 recordings you should listen to before you die, French pop star extraordinaire, Serge Gainsbourg’s 1971 album Histoire De Melody Nelson is very much worthy of that list. The album’s mix of liberated guitar, funk style bass, near spoken word vocals, and swelling orchestrated string and choral arrangements by Jean-Claude Vannier who composed almost the entire music in collaboration with Gainsbourg for the album, have proven to be highly influential to artists such as Beck, Air, and Portishead. And all this music comes with... Read The Rest →
Weekly LP love: women s/t
This album and band has a particularly special place in our heart. There was a record store in the old town center in Prague, Czech Republic, that we frequented probably once a week when we lived there to cure our homesick blues. It was the only one we could find that carried music we loved as well as loads to be discovered (not to mention the owner was super cool and spoke very good English). This was a band we discovered in that store. We picked it up almost solely... Read The Rest →
Weekly LP love: cucumber castle
This weeks Lp is in honor of the tragic loss of Robin Gibb. Most people, when hearing a mention of the Bee Gees automatically associate them with John Travolta, white pants, and one finger pointed in the air during a very short-lived disco movement. And while that album, featuring ‘Stayin Alive’ is still one of the top selling albums in history and consequently gave the Bee Gees the most fame in their carreer, they were capable of so much more than a fleeting genre. Cucumber Castle, clear in the hilarious... Read The Rest →
