I love The Patron, the new Kranky CD by To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie. Dark and murky, noisy but beautiful. It really has a great epic feel to it. I first heard this described as a "World Serpent version of Portishead." World Serpent was the label home of Coil, Current 93 and Nurse With Wound in the 90s, a great home to Pagan psychedelia. This CD sort of takes the trip-hop template and murks it up, and spices it up with a great dose of Godspeed You Black Emperor! style majesty and dynamics. I have been sitting on this track since the last show and I am happy to start the show with it.

This Echospace track "Winter in Seney" I had hoped to play last show, but clearance came too late. This CD, The Coldest Season, is a great collection of fuzzy ambiguous electro. Aquarius files this under the category "heroin house" and that sort of druggy lethargy permeates the CD.

I can't say enough good things about Justin Broadrick. The first project I heard from him is the one most people heard, Godflesh. Brutal and pummeling, Godflesh used guitars and drum machines to blugeon you into submission. Then I was exposed to God, Kevin Martin's destructive jazz nightmare. Then came the wave of Martin/Broadrick collaborations, like TechnoAnimal (Re-Entry may be the best release of the 90s), Sidewinder and the Bug. Jesu is now his main project and it is a combination of that Godflesh guitar power combined with a shoegaze sense of fuzzy melody. Each CD and EP expands and focuses, if that is possible. These CDs are coming out on Hydra Head, a great home for heavy music with something different. I typically have dealt with Laurent there, who is a member of the band Pelican who will hopefully show up here soon. I usually hold on to supportive label contacts for dear life, always afraid that a new label contact will act like I am on crack when I ask to play their music. But the new contact I made seems just as excited as his predecessor in my address book.

I have loved Mike Paradinas' μ-ziq for a long time now. His new release Duntisbourne... is darker than many of his past releases. It is still as psychedelic as his past releases but adds a chaotically dark twist.that I really like. Mike is the head honcho of Planet Mu records and I have to appreciate the way his label takes such a lassez-faire attitude about people podcasting their tracks.

Grizzly Bear had a great CD that came out last year called Yellow House. Friend is his new EP that reworks some of his older material. This track reworks Alligator with Beirut (featured a couple of podcasts ago) and Dirty Projectors. It becomes epic is scale and scope. I can't wait to see how his stuff develops.

Six Organs of Admittance is a beautifully mysterious band. At first glance they appear to be a hippie band but they are so much deeper than that. The new CD continues their decent in the psychedelic murk. SOoA were the first band Drag City ever gave me the go ahead to play and I am glad they are still supportive.

After playing Acid Eater last show, I felt compelled to play a track from a different Yamazaki Maso CD called Acid Eater, this recorded under the group name Christine 23 Onna. More space rocky than Acid Eater, but still has a great retro feel to it, slathered with a layer of noise. If you like it really noisy try his main project Masonna.

I am just becoming familiar with the Yellow Swans. I have seen their name batted around with other noise names that when I saw the new CD on Load, I picked it up immediately. Walls of loud textures, guitar ambiance amped up. Really great CD.

Cold Bleak Heat is a free improv group that has at its base Paul Flaherty and Chris Corsano who have collaborated with dozens of people over thirty-five recordings. This CD is a couple of years old, but still pushes all the right avant-jazz buttons with me.

I love Earthmonkey, and everything else on Beta-Lactam Ring Records. I have played an edit of this track on show 66 from a compilation, but here it is in its 10 minutes glory. Earthmonkey is side group of Nurse With Wound and its pedigree shows. NWW as a rock band.

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