There’s some great quotes about it on the wiki article: ‘Further, critical reaction from the fans and even the band members has been mixed. Slug - Passengers: I cannot believe it’s taken me this long to find out there’s a secret U2 album where they let Ol’ Sourpuss himself Brian Eno join the band and make ambient jams as fake soundtracks for anime movies.
Also this song was in the Hunger Games movie for some reason, what a world. This is something I’ve thought of and got mad about when I’m not even listening to the song, it’s a major concern in my life. My big gripe is I really wish they’d gone with a different drum sound rather than the extremely thin snare and bouncy kick they have, it just doesn’t match the power of the rest of it. War - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble: I suddenly remembered this Hypnotic Brass Ensemble album and how much I love this song this month when I was listening to Plastic Beach. There’s never been a good fadeout in music ever but fading out a song like this should be punishable with prison time, it runs out just as he’s really getting his screams going. He is just going absolutely hogwild from the jump and then gets bigger and bigger as it progresses. They should have based Whiplash on this, Miles Teller making king kong noises in the final scene.
I love the conceit of this song, it manages to be hilarious and heartfelt at the same time which is a very rare thing.Ĭaravan - Bernard “Pretty” Purdie: This is the most unhinged version of Caravan I’ve ever heard. This is one of the songs that I always wake up with in my head and used to have to listen to on youtube. I really think that music in 2018 could really do with bringing back the thing of doing a huge monologue in the middle of your song about how you can’t even trust your best friends and interspersing it with screams.Įid Ma Clack Shaw - Bill Callahan: I am so glad that Bill Callahan is on spotify finally, just in time for his starring role in the soundtrack for Wild Wild Country.
Anyway this song is sampled in the Flume remix of Hyperparadise by Hermitude. Anyway this song is great and it’s a great choice of sample to open a song that’s just an extremly dark remix of an already dark song.ĭreamin’ - Loretta Holloway: One of the funniest feelings is listening to a disco playlist on spotify and recognising every second song as the source of the sample in your favourite songs. I saw someone describe it as music that’s so busy it almost goes back around to being ambient again. His album is just a pure assault on the senses but not in the usual breakcore/noise way, it sounds like someone sampled and rearranged the sound of each individual shard of a window breaking. Suicide - Xanopticon: This is probably the most accessible song I’ve ever heard from Xanopticon because it at least sort of resembles the Gravediggaz song it’s sampling here and there. I really love all the use of distortions and white noise throughout the whole thing, the intro to this song specifically is almost overtaken by crackles and pops before the beat kicks in but there’s a great moment in I Never Dream where a snare hit in the middle of nowhere is hugely overdriven for no reason and sounds like a horse kicking a car and it really makes me laugh. You Are Going To Love Me And Scream - A.A.L.: I am still totally obsessed with this Nicolas Jaar album, it’s absolutely mesmerising. My April playlist is finished! It’s a little shorter than usual, but please enjoy 2 and a half hours of hand picked tunes from all walks of life. Hello to my friends, enemies and to those on whom I have not decided.