Currently Listening

I just picked up these albums today..

Pocahaunted - Island Diamonds on Not Not Fun Records. This is really good! I just started it over again after it played once through already. My friend Ben told me about them forever ago, but I did not actually hear them until last week on Pseu Braun's show on WFMU. It is pretty spaced-out; two girls with chanting and effects. I am into it, it is trance-inducing. They are maybe treading some thin pc ice, but too I heard recently about this German art collective that gathers annually to have a big pow-wow in full regalia. two thumbs up anyhow.

Beach House - Devotion on Carpark Records. Also a bit spaced-out, and very sweet. I think they call this sort of music "dream-pop". It reminds me of old Mazzy Star records, and something else too. I really like it. The opening riff on "Gila" evokes so much that I can not explain. Somehow I missed seeing them at the Baltimore Round Robin show last month. The title is very much the theme of the record, performed by a pair that I can only assume are a couple in life.

Kria Brekkan - Apotropaiosong Armour CDR exclusive to Other Music. The disc was wrapped in a paper photograph of Kria Brekkan, glued actually so that I was unsure if I was to break the seal. Inside the disc is blank and there is no text to speak of. It compiles some recent work - I am so into her work, and up until now the only proper release I have is a seven inch but no turntable. (But see the first post in this blog for more.) The tracks here feel small, and quiet in some ways, but I must be used to listening to her live songs. The samples are more apparent though and despite that it is likely only her, the work is not lonely. Eerie, echoed and beautiful.