October Sounds

A lovely holiday in Wales with cavern zip-lining, a fantastic musical theatre showcase performance, a fab gig in Stirling, yet another Corr Cabins #cabin build failure, a recorder playing day, work in-person days, wonderful socialising, a trip to Carlisle, anniversary Splatter art, spoon whittling, garage tidying, Autumnal night-cycling, much taxiing, costume making and some writing!

• Frost (C) - SUNN O)))

  Check out for monolithic soundscapes and eerie atmospheres. Found these guys via Bandcamp a fortnight ago then, by weird coincidence or algorithmic divining, a week later they signed to Sub Pop. Go them. Orthodox Caveman and Etna are all on my playlist too.

• complex - Katie Gregson-MacLeod

  The kid took me to this gig and it was awesome. Criss-cross-applesauce whole audience sit-down between sets was fun too.

• She Sells Kosmo Synthesizers On The Sea Shore, Playing The Korg MS10 - LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

  And Sam gets an award for best advice song title of the year KEEPING BUSY THE MOST EFFECTIVE THERAPY I’VE FOUND.

• Love Me Different - Hayley Williams (with Bleachers)

  Standout song from the set. Big rotation on this album this week - lots of early Gwen/No Doubt and Garbage vibes.

• Under The Water - Nation of Language

  An intriguing set. The band comes over as being so full of themselves, but the sound they make is great, so I guess that’s okay?

• Prepositional Phrase - Aidan Noell

  Member of Nation of Language and maker of great synth sounds.

• Weightless - Marconi Union

  It had passed me by that this track was so popular - 140 million streams on this YouTube alone. There is, of course, a 10 hour long version. Check out Silence Is Gliding too.

• Teeth Grinder - Dead Air

  Huge riffs. Would love to make it to have made the Sneaky Pete’s gig.

• American Edit - Dean Gray

  My second favourite mashup album (right after Radio Soulwax 2).

• Goner - Goodnight Louisa

  Love the synth bass.

• Recovery - Rival Consoles

  A decade old and still gorgeous, dancey and chill all at once.

• the chase - They Are Gutting a Body of Water

  Some intense sounds on this album.

• I’M FINE! - dodie

  I love the dreamy swell in the middle. Similarly the scream swell in Smart Girl.

• Comeback - Hi-Lo Jack

  Music’s not a zero-sum game - this genius can exist and not detract from Lawrence and that’s a very fine thing.

• Ghostbusters - JER

  The ska version we didn’t know we needed.

• Like I Had Before - Idlewild

  A classic Idlewild sound. Best track on the album by a mile.

• just (feat. m. sage) - Claire Rousay

  The tags on Bandcamp sum it up: ambient musique concrete.

• Opening - Essie Jain

  Crunchy harmonics.