"MG 333" by Richard Swift from 'Walt Wolfman'. Originally released 10/18/11 on Secretly Canadian

About a year ago, Richard Swift horrifically fractured his left ring finger. For a moment his nimble guitar and piano work flashed before his eyes. Doctors were saying things like "movement and feeling could eventually return," etc, etc. Certainly, not even a little blip on the sadness radar of humanity, but a massive bummer for a fellow who has carved out a niche as one of independent music's sought after session players and producers -- and especially in relation to the astounding Richard Swift solo output we all know and love.
So, it's with a great, collective sigh of relief that he's back to churning out new material like "Whitman." It's chugging, chiming and triumphant, featuring Swift's always-endearing falsetto and casual call-and-response lyricism. "I've got my own Whitman...Farewell, farewell/I hope it did you good/To say the things/My father never could," Swift pines. The song is a cryptic salute to Walt Whitman, whose American lineage of primal, urgent art can be traced to include Kerouac and Dylan, Bo Diddley and Beefheart -- right on through to modern outsider-pop wunderkinds like Swift. And according to Swift, "Whitman" is a nice taste of what we can expect from his next longform recording.
The same can be said for the remainder of the Walt Wolfman EP. Conceived in the same spirit that gave us 2008's cult favorite Ground Trouble Jaw EP, these blown-out, basement R&B rippers are not for the faint of heart. They require movement and sweat, dancing with a cocktail glass in your grip until your shoes are soaked in booze. Highlight of the set, "MG 333," is a raw and ghostly trance, a blast of kinetic energy and jazz cigarette smoke. Meanwhile, the neu-vintage jive of "Drakula (Hey Man)" and "Zombie Boogie" pack a timelessness that transcends their seasonal titles. And yeah, that's Swift himself on rapid-fire drums across the whole damn set. Shit, he might have been fine without that measly finger after all.

"MG 333" by Richard Swift from 'Walt Wolfman'. Originally released 10/18/11 on Secretly Canadian

Walt Wolfman

MG 333

Richard Swift - "MG 333"

From her forthcoming album, On Your Own Love Again. Pre-order now: http://www.dragcity.com/products/on-your-own-love-again
https://itunes.apple.com/album/id936872257

Jessica Pratt - "Back, Baby"

Christmas 2014. By Ruban Nielson. Riley Geare on drums in the first section. Kody Nielson features on piano at 11:00. Like SB-01 one year earlier, this was available as a free download for Christmas day PST only 2014. 

SB - 02

From the upcoming record Private Energy out October 7th


Lyrics:
My skin glows in the dark shines in the light 
Its the color that holds me tight 
My brown me is the shade thats just for me 
I’m never not missing anything but me. 

Cuz i love you 
and i can’t miss anything but you 
your stuck on me 
and all this time I’m inside you 

Our time together we grow 
we stretch and show 
its tough as it goes and it won’t rub off of you 

There’s friends of similar shades 
of different ways 
who feel the same way don’t ever forget them 

its your brown skin 
it will keep you safe 
it will keep you safe 
it will keep you safe
it will keep you safe 
it will keep you safe 
it will keep you safe 
it will keep you safe

Private Energy

Buy $1.50

It's My Brown Skin

Download via XLR8R:
https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2016/10/monster-rally-full-sail/

Off "Mystery Cove", Monster Rally's new album. Out on 11/11/16, available as a limited edition 12" here:
http://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/monster-rally-mystery-cove-12

When the beach party film revival arrives, Ted Feighan (aka Monster Rally) will be the Ennio Morricone of its resurgence. Mystery Cove, the forthcoming Monster Rally album, is a soundtrack to an imaginary movie both fit for the vaults of TMC and primed for a grindhouse exploitation flick screening. Mystery Cove contains a narrative arc of young lovers on an island getaway. As the grooves spin, Monster Rally reveals a cabalistic presence in the jungle that leads them on an adventure of surf competitions (“The Big Surf”), voodoo terror (“Tourismo”), and plenty of slushy cocktails (“After Hours”). The occult meets the salt-rimmed rum mix on Mystery Cove.

Since his Coral LP, Monster Rally has been an analog to the exotica forefathers. His reinvention of cocktail music via luau-loops and tchotchke breaks evokes a mondo vision of the subgenre. With Mystery Cove, the quiet village is not what it seems, and every resort comes at the cost of indigenous displacement. Beyond the florals and brightly feathered fauna is inferno in paradise.

Mystery Cove

Full Sail

Monster Rally - Full Sail

Bitter Winter / Familiar Ways

ALASKALASKA - Bitter Winter

Lansing

http://www.criticalmob.com/news/more/cover_of_the_week_beck_i_only_have_eyes_for_you

Beck, "I Only Have Eyes for You"

Downtown

Downtown (Extended)

Out of Reach is out now. 
Buy / listen here: https://smarturl.it/outofreachbg

Bananagun - Out of Reach

Stream / Download: https://DumboGetsMad.lnk.to/Elephants

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<a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMTBo9huzi0>“Think of it as Flying Lotus’s Cosmogramma from a psych rock perspective.”</a>
(Anthony Fantano - The Needle Drop, NPR) + <a href=http://www.npr.org/2011/04/29/135839094/dumbo-gets-mad-a-revival-not-a-rehash>Marmelade Kids: song of the day on NPR</a>

"Cooked up in the same kind of kitchen that brought us Super Furry Animals's deliciously strange Rings Around the World and the Flaming Lips's interstellar classic Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"
(Dave Toropov - Slant Magazine)

“Great psych band from Italy – Plumy Tale made my top 50 last year”.
(Joe Tangari - Pitchfork)

"Comincia come un disco degli MGMT per poi assumere le sembianze di una sofisticata colonna sonora d'altri tempi"
(Giacomo De Poli - PIG Magazine)


SB - 02

Unknown Mortal Orchestra