Fantano is one of my least favorite people on the internet. The only he's ever done that I enjoyed was his show report on Sunn O))).

Wow, this one is such a train wreck that you can't miss it!  Really, it is such a crazy mix of low-fi, punk guitar, synthesizers, rap, funk, and soul vocals... how can this work?  But it does!  Give this one a listen if you're not afraid of something a little experimental. 

Did I mention Damon Albarn produced and guest on the album?  Seriously, check it out!

The Child of Lov - The Child of Lov

Odd, it does work. Even the weird-ass album art (shame about the pineapples).

So much hype – but boy does it deliver! One of those striking statements with real swagger and confidence. People will no doubt hate on it because of the inevitable saturation. Others will remember it as the soundtrack to dazzling good times.

Sorry about a lack of updates here. Lately I've been keeping my music impressions to my diary thread on head-fi for the most part.

Got the new Boards of Canada, Tomorrow's Harvest. It's really stellar! I imagine the hype has gotten too massive for the album to possibly live up to it now much like the new MBV, but I don't really care: the album has met and exceeded my expectations. It seems like more of a return to Music Has The Right or even their High Scores EP, less unplugged and organic compared to Campfire and less writhing and twitchy than Geogaddi. It has an almost coldwave feel at times with cleaner synth lines, and overall there seems to be more emphasize on conjuring up thick swirling ambience to serve as the canvas for these arpeggiated synths. There's less feet-dragging on a lot of the beats, less emphasis on odd time signatures. The grooves that emerge from the haze are very propulsive. Of course the devil is in the details, and there are definite BoC-ish flourishes like garbled transmissions and meticulously conceived bridges. Gotta say, so far I love this album.

Also *really* digging the new Boris LP Praparat. It's the album many fans of Boris' earlier stuff have been waiting for I think. Extremely heavy, crushing sludge that manages to be soaringly epic and beautiful at the same time. The band's noisier more experimental side is reigned in here, and I really feel this is their strongest effort in years. At the same time there's some new territory here for Boris in the form of some cool Eastern European folksy embellishments, but overall this is Boris doing what they do best. They still got it.

Very annoyed by this. This is a really solid album, with shit CD mastering and pretty much the worst imaginable vinyl release - a double picture disc in a sleeve that feels like a plastic bag. For $60.