Black Diamond
When you think world music I'm sure some wanky Vampire Weekend or Santogold record comes to mind. We know how you work. That's why we are here to keep your record collection relevant and ready to impress at dinner parties. Welcome to Buraka Som Sistema. Two Portuguese DJs and one Angolan MC, with guest appearances by lady party rocker herself, M.
Electron Suite, Mountains in the Sky
It's rad watching artists evolve.
The last album from Melburnian John Lee's one-man-band Mountains in the Sky, CELESTIAL SON, was an exuberant mix of Caribou-style orchestral psych electronica and DJ Shadow-esque trip hop soundtracks.
From the brute force of opener 'Synaptic Cleft' alone, you can tell ELECTRON SUITE is going to be a more guttural - less pastoral - ride.
The Chemistry of Common Life, F*cked Up
As musical genres go, the aesthetic guidelines for hardcore are about as tight as a nun's cooter. Not much deviation or cross-breeding here...
So what a weird delight it is, hearing a lone waifish flute meandering before the raucous hardcore assault of Toronto's F*cked Up begins. This is a band with roots in the fast/loud/Cookie-Monster-vocals blueprint of hardcore, roots that don't keep them from crossing over into epic-guitar-work, shoe-gaze-effects, even.
Delays, Mark Barrage
Mark Barrage's new album is much more avant-Krautrock than dance anthem, no matter how much the one sheet tries to tell you otherwise. One of Melbourne's finest fuzzy pop electronic wizards has another heaped plate ready to shove down your throat. And we're not just reviewing it because he's ThreeThousand's Music Editor either.
Wayward Ways, My Pet Rocks
With the cyclical nature of music these days, one would do well to pull a Rip Van Winkle - hibernate for a good 20 years ‘til your sound comes back in vogue. Ingenius.
Sydney-via-Auckland's The Pet Rocks just released their first album since 1998s PR NIGHTMARE. And WAYWARD WAYS sounds just like the kind of understated, unpretentious, unassuming indie rock you'd have heard widely on college radio across the mid-90s - slacker vocals, bouncing hooks, and just a little bit of fuzz to up your buzz.
Lightbulbs, Fujiya & Miyagi
I really don't know what to make of this album. It's kind of an angular, electronic funk affair, much like if LCD Soundsystem had slightly less sensical, more repetitive lyrics, and threw in touches of The Knife, Air, and hell, a smidge of Goodshirt to try to create a digitally-driven folk-disco record.
Ed Red Volume 3
The third compilation from Parisian purveyors of ‘lectrodance mash and gravy, Ed Banger Records, is out now, proving that Busy P and his gang can still throw thrash metal, rap, and pop through the electro blender and deliver it loud and with lots of treble. This is the way the best days of our lives lived.
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