Nothing cohesive tonight, but I do have a couple quick notes:
- A reader left a link in comments a link to a recording of that Thorns Of Life show at 924 Gilman on the 31st. A really good recording, too, excellent sound. Big thanks!
- Pitchfork (who, to be honest, I don’t have that much use for these days) posted a great interview with Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne the other day. Well worth the read (and good to hear that those 2xCD reissues of all their albums are still in the works!).
- “Jetstream”, the Doves track that was released at the end of January as a teaser for their forthcoming album Kingdom of Rust
, has been in heavy rotation around here, and still sounds freakin’ awesome. The song’s only shortcoming is that, after building up the tension over its course, it doesn’t really resolve it at the end. But it is the album opener, and given how impeccably sequenced Doves albums generally are, I’m guessing that the next track will provide the tension release. Easily the album I’m looking forward to the most right now.
- I stumbled on the 1999 album Portable Audio Science by Japanese shoegaze band Honeydip on Shoegazeralive, and have been listening to the second track, “Jesus & Mary Jane”, over and over (one of these days I might even give track #3 a try!). Worth checking out if you’re into My Bloody Valentine-style guitar drone.
