What Are you Listening to Right Now?

[Dr. Medulla]

Listening to a boot of a Girls in Synthesis show from last month. Far and away my favourite new band—nasty and abrasive no wave.

Never heard of them but they probably took their name from a Bowie lyric

Pretty sure that's not part of "Dancing in the Street."

calling girls in synthesis, are you ready for a brand new beat?

I stand corrected.

[Dr. Medulla]

Hydras Dream, The Little Match Girl. This is a collaboration between a couple Swedish musicians, Anna Von Hausswolff and Matti Bye. I know AVH because Michael Gira of Swans has hyped her (and the records under her own name are very, very good; intense like Swans, but not punishing), but never heard of MB. There's something vaguely Cocteau-ish here, but more gothic and atmospheric yet. Kory might be the only other person here to maybe find this appealing, but it's quite bewitching to me.

[IkarisOne]

[Marky Dread]

Excellent stuff.

Still love this track.

[Kory]

Hydras Dream, The Little Match Girl. This is a collaboration between a couple Swedish musicians, Anna Von Hausswolff and Matti Bye. I know AVH because Michael Gira of Swans has hyped her (and the records under her own name are very, very good; intense like Swans, but not punishing), but never heard of MB. There's something vaguely Cocteau-ish here, but more gothic and atmospheric yet. Kory might be the only other person here to maybe find this appealing, but it's quite bewitching to me.

I will check this out today.

[Dr. Medulla]

Haven't listened to this for ages, but damned but it's hypnotic. Despite the length and commitment required, I think it's my favourite Dome piece.

[Kory]

Hydras Dream, The Little Match Girl. This is a collaboration between a couple Swedish musicians, Anna Von Hausswolff and Matti Bye. I know AVH because Michael Gira of Swans has hyped her (and the records under her own name are very, very good; intense like Swans, but not punishing), but never heard of MB. There's something vaguely Cocteau-ish here, but more gothic and atmospheric yet. Kory might be the only other person here to maybe find this appealing, but it's quite bewitching to me.

I will check this out today.

This was good—when you mentioned the Cocteaus I was expecting more vocals, but it's very hypnotic and I suspect I'll like it even more when I'm not listening at work.

[Dr. Medulla]

Hydras Dream, The Little Match Girl. This is a collaboration between a couple Swedish musicians, Anna Von Hausswolff and Matti Bye. I know AVH because Michael Gira of Swans has hyped her (and the records under her own name are very, very good; intense like Swans, but not punishing), but never heard of MB. There's something vaguely Cocteau-ish here, but more gothic and atmospheric yet. Kory might be the only other person here to maybe find this appealing, but it's quite bewitching to me.

I will check this out today.

This was good—when you mentioned the Cocteaus I was expecting more vocals, but it's very hypnotic and I suspect I'll like it even more when I'm not listening at work.

The clearest Cocteaus-like song is "The Joys of a New Year," but overall it captured the feel or effect of Treasure to me.

[IkarisOne]

Excellent stuff.

Still love this track.

Amazing ol' Chromey is still out there. More power to him.

[Dr. Medulla]

Anna Von Hausswolff, The Miraculous. In a word, majestic. It's a big cinematic sound and scope, dark but uplifting. And more organs outside your average tabernacle.

[Dr. Medulla]

DL'd a fantastic Godspeed You! Black Emperor! gig from 2002 (Paradiso, Amsterdam) from DiaD yesterday. Jesus but it smokes. Extremely intense.

[Dr. Medulla]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor!, Yanqui U.X.O.. The studio version of much of the above show.

[BitterTom]

Caught a bit of American Pie the other day (I can't remember which one, they merge into one other) and though the film wasn't exceptional, this song certainly was, a beauty.

[WestwayKid]

Caught a bit of American Pie the other day (I can't remember which one, they merge into one other) and though the film wasn't exceptional, this song certainly was, a beauty.

Fantastic stuff! I really got into Van maybe 4 years ago - just after I got divorced. For some reason his music really seemed to speak to me during that time and once I started digging into his catalog I discovered just how consistently good he's been. It's hard to find a bad album by the Belfast Cowboy!!

[BitterTom]

Caught a bit of American Pie the other day (I can't remember which one, they merge into one other) and though the film wasn't exceptional, this song certainly was, a beauty.

Fantastic stuff! I really got into Van maybe 4 years ago - just after I got divorced. For some reason his music really seemed to speak to me during that time and once I started digging into his catalog I discovered just how consistently good he's been. It's hard to find a bad album by the Belfast Cowboy!!

Which album would you reccomend?