February Pull
Some very experimental Davis here, He Loved Him Madly is a wonderful and calming, yet paced track. Only missing the OBI strip to complete the JP reissue aesthetic…
It’s nice to have something other than Bitches Brew and ‘Round About Midnight in my collection, and a friend suggested I listen to this album, Get Up With It. Upon noticing the first track’s length, and the length of the album in general, I looked for it on streaming services, and upon hearing that first track online I had to pick it up. I was never too fond of Davis’ drummers, but the relaxed nature of He Loved Him Madly is just perfection, great bounce and groove.
Four CDs from The Chariot
Ahh, the 00’s trend of Christian metal, hardcore and post-hardcore, and in that vein, The Chariot is a bit of an enigma, sort of mathcore, sort of metalcore, sort of post-hardcore–but not exactly any of these things. I’m ashamed that I never owned these CDs before, but I saw them on their final tour, and it was a great show. So energetic, so wild, so much energy… Now I consider most of the bands that survived the 2010’s and a lot of them either burned out or ended up playing tired and stale versions of metalcore that had been done so many times before…
Christian Fennesz on the album Venice (Front Cover)
Fennesz… Not much I can say here, since words wouldn’t do his music justice–yet I’ll try. A melancholy runs through the album, and the thoughtfulness it brings to the listener is quite an effect. I’m not exactly versed in his earlier music, and I didn’t enjoy Endless Summer as much as I feel I should have, enjoying Black Sea quite a lot more. This album was a lot more reminiscent of the Fennesz I tended to like, the sad and slow and pensive tones, washed in static and processing… It’s quite the experiential album…
Christian Fennesz on the album Venice, inside cover