CRICKETS IN MY LATE NIGHT TENNIS.

Episode 98. mp3. cue. Released March 17, 2008

Apologies for the delay… working 8.5 hour days really reduces the amount of time I have to comb through old music and listen to new tunes and carefully (+ocd-ishly) arrange them into podcast playlists. Don’t you wish I was still a bum? At any rate, until I find a job where I can bring in my own tunes, I’m not fully confident I can keep up the bi-weekly episodes. But I will try!

This week’s selections run quite opposite to the electronicness of last time. We start with some manic, experimental pieces and then settle down into a king-size bed of vaguely folksy reverb that eventually expands into various forms of slightly surreal ballading, before being buried in a grim avalanche of craggy rock and roll.

• Kim Hiorthøy / Beats Mistake / My Last Day (2007)
• Gang Gang Dance / Nicoman / Rawwar EP (2007)
• Kemialliset Ystävät / Superhimmeli / Kemialliset Ystävät (2007)
• Liars / Sailing To Byzantium / Liars (2007)
   
• Black Mountain / Wucan / In The Future (2008)
• The Ruby Suns / There Are Birds / Sea Lion (2008)
• Son Lux / Break / At War With Walls & Mazes (2008)
   
• Plants and Animals / Lola Who? / with/avec EP (2007)
• Band Of Horses / No One’s Gonna Love You / Cease To Begin (2007)
• Fleet Foxes / English House / Sun Giant (2008)
• Shearwater / Rooks / Rook (2008)
• My Morning Jacket / Dondante / Z (2005)
• Samamidon / Saro / All Is Well (2007)
• Ola Podrida / Instead / Ola Podrida (2007)
   
• Joanna Newsom / Bridges and Balloons / The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)
• Orion Rigel Dommisse / Alice And Sarah / What I Want From You Is Sweet (2007)
• Mountain Home / Comes, the Winter / Mountain Home (2007)
• Frida Hyvönen / Came A Storm / Music From The Dance Performance Pudel (2007)
• She & Him / Sentimental Heart / Volume One (2008)
   
• Robert Wyatt / Beautiful Peace / Comicopera (2007)
• Deer Tick / Art Isn’t Real (City of Sin) / War Elephant (2007)
• Richard Hawley / Serious / Lady’s Bridge (2007)
• Drive-By Truckers / Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife / Brighter Than Creation’s Dark (2008)
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss / Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us / Raising Sand (2007)
   
• Constantines / Our Age / Kensington Heights (2008)
• Autolux / Angry Candy / Future Perfect (2004)
• Evangelicals / Skeleton Man / The Evening Descends (2008)
• The Gutter Twins / Idle Hands / Saturnalia (2008)
• Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds / Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl) / Dig Lazarus Dig (2008)