Other Mixes By tjarrett
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Alternative - College Rock
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An attic space overgrown
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Kenyan Songs and Strings | Chemirocha [Kipsigis] w/Chemutoi Ketienya & Girls | |
from Kenyan Songs and Strings | ||
R.E.M. | Strange | |
from Document (1987) I finally heard the original version of "Strange" (on Wire's Pink Flag) last year, and while I love it, it made me appreciate the R.E.M. version I heard in high school--bravura, loud, beery, and outrT. | ||
Soul Coughing | Rolling | |
from El Oso (1998) It's a pity that Mike Doughty has disavowed the Soul Coughing discography, because tunes like "Rolling" were made for delicious cognitive dissonance--the luxury and assonance of the words and the thick beats. | ||
Zola Jesus | Vessel | |
from Conatus (2011) Zola Jesus was a discovery for me about this time last year. "Vessel" is the strangest arrangement of the album, with Nika Roza Danilova's voice hocketing into the echoing void at the opening over a sort of middle-period Dead Can Dance accompaniment. And that's just the opening. | ||
Beastie Boys | Bodhisattva Vow | |
from Ill Communication (1994) I miss Adam Yauch. | ||
The Roots | Right On | |
from How I Got Over (2010) "Right On": Who knew that Joanna Newsom made such a good chorus for hip-hop? | ||
Shu-De | Yraazhy Kys (The Singing Girl) | |
from Voices From The Distant Steppe (1994) | ||
Christian Scott | The Eraser | |
from Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (2010) Christian Scott's "The Eraser," its strikingly original jazz arrangement of Thom Yorke's original, has been in heavy repeat since I heard the album last year. The whole album is worth checking out. | ||
Thom Yorke | Harrowdown Hill | |
from The Eraser (2006) "Harrowdown Hill" gives you an opportunity to hear Yorke's original glitchy percussion against the jazz acoustic original. Not as starkly tense as some of Radiohead's earlier (or later) works, it feels a little more personal but still despairing. | ||
Sonic Youth | Jean-Baptiste a la fenOtre | |
from Simon Werner a Disparu (2011) Sonic Youth's final(?) recording, a soundtrack, carries enormous tension throughout it even if you don't understand the cinematic context of the songs, which, um, I don't. Still absorbing. | ||
School Girls In Kayne | Tshetlha Di Kae | |
from Tswana and Sotho Voices (2000) | ||
The Jesus & Mary Chain | Half Way To Crazy | |
from Automatic (1989) I dug out "Automatic" the other day--still a great album all these years later. | ||
Sleigh Bells | Infinity Guitars | |
from Treats (2010) I found Sleigh Bells thanks to Molly Young's plug for the band (she plays the gum-chewing cheerleader in the video for this song). I like the second album better as an album but "Infinity Guitars" is still an astonishing kick to the head. | ||
Radiohead | Staircase | |
from The Daily Mail & Staircase (2011) Someday Radiohead will make a full album that "Staircase" fits into and I'll be a happy man. | ||
My Morning Jacket | One Big Holiday | |
from It Still Moves (2003) My Morning Jacket's It Still Moves was the last of the early albums and the one I love best, I think. This one reminds me of growing up in the South. | ||
Bera Pygmies | Skipping Song | |
from Music Of The Rainforest Pygmies (1961) | ||
Sonic Youth | Antenna | |
from The Eternal (2009) | ||
Zola Jesus | Hikikomori | |
from Conatus (2011) | ||
Robert Plant | Silver Rider | |
from Band of Joy (2010) Robert Plant's cover of "Silver Rider," from the underappreciated Low album The Great Destroyer, is both hypnotic and wholly respectful of the original. | ||
Low | You See Everything | |
from C'mon (2011) Low's most recent album is the one I've liked best since The Great Destroyer. "You See Everything" is a great spotlight for Mimi Sparhawk's voice. | ||
Sun Kil Moon | Moorestown | |
from April (2008) Finally we get to "Moorestown." After the psychedelic wonderland of Ghosts of the Great Highway, it took a long time for Sun Kil Moon's acoustic albums to grow on me. But this one had been waiting to find me, and today I realized it was the closer. |