The latest from Spoon is good stuff. They generate some really interesting tension between the dirt simple foundations of their tunes & the quirky, experimental ways they play around with them.
I'm mostly enjoying the self conscious UK band Los Campesinos!.
They have a busy, poppy sound and one absolute gem of a tune, You! Me! Dancing!, the current frontrunner for Baxblog Song Title of the Year.
I'm not usually a fan of "clever" bands, so they're walking a thin line with me- but that track has enough organic heart to keep it on the side of the angels.
Icky Thump by the White Stripes is a welcome return to the magpie musical borrowing that fuels their best stuff. Lighter on pop & heavy on Zepplin-esque blues-rock. Thumbs up. The Stripes are most enjoyable when they're being unapologetically derivative. There's nothing wrong with a ripping slide guitar solo appropriated from Son House when you deliver it with full force & a straight face.
Oh, and Brightblack Morning Light is amazing.
This disc had the same instantly hypnotic effect on me as my first listen to Cowboy Junkie's Trinity Sessions (was that almost 20 years ago? Fucking hell.)
It's like...well, I don't really know.
But it's the new soundtrack for drinking gin at 3am with no illumination except blue Christmas lights strung around the living room.
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