That was quick - it’s here already!
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Yesterday was Bandcamp Friday, and this was my haul. I really hope that the new owners don’t bin BF because it’s an easy way to directly support artists (which means that it’s probably going to be one of the first things to go).
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It’s good. I’d say typical/classic Pajo. Brooding, darkish americana, I guess? Bad at describing it but it’s what you’d expect from him. I somehow missed it when it first came out so I’m happy to hear it now.
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If you’re a fan of his other stuff, you’ll like this one too.
Speaking of Pajo, this album is free (name your price): Skateboarding In Pine Ridge | Pajo
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Yes, it’s definitely seasonal, haha
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Ha, a lot of it is space ambient music, which is my go-to background music when working, and some other electronic music. If I had to recommend anything from that list, it’d be Sweeping Promises (post punk), and The Beths (indie/pop/punk).
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Fuck, Midnight Marauders and 36 Chambers both came out thirty years ago today. Thirty. Fucking hell.
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I mentioned to my wife today that it is thirty years since the release of 36 Chambers and she remarked that it was crazy and that made her feel old as she would have been thirteen-ish at the time. That in itself made me feel old as I would have been twenty three or four.
To put this scenario into context - If you were to be in a record store today commenting that you couldn’t believe it’s been thirty years since the release of the first Wu-Tang album and were overheard by a couple of kids in their late teens/ early twenties it would be the equivalent of you,back in ‘93, queuing to purchase your shiny new copy of 36 Chambers, and overhearing two daft old duffers saying that they couldn’t believe it had been thirty years since the release of the first Beatles album. Haha.
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Fuck off, that’s horrible! ha. JK
These kind of things blow my mind.
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New Tara Clerkin Trio album is lovely, buy on sight for me this lot
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Going through old episodes of Dance Energy trying to find something for a thing, and it’s mad now to think how good this was, and it was on at tea time.
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What was the Normski(?) TV show that used to be on too? BPM? Then The Fresh Prince TV show took over that time slot iiirc? Wild times.
Used to religiously tune into Dance Energy.
Remember when he turned up on that channel 4 betting show (Banzai?) for the “guess the celebrity cock” segment? 
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Snub TV was a good one too. In the same slot on BBC2 as Dance Energy iirc.
@buildafire ’s DE post jogged the memory. There’s a bunch of Snub episodes up on YT.
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Yes please!
I worked at a place in the late 90s/early 2000s, where the mastering team were restoring some of MBVs old studio tape recordings. They were told by his manager at the time that no one was allowed to talk to him, or even be on the same floor as him when he came in (except the one mastering engineer), otherwise he might bolt. He seems a lot more open to doing interviews now - back then he was fully tweaking apparently.
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I’m sure a load of people (me included), would still like to listen to it. If you can be arsed, you should make a short vid with captions of the questions and monetise it on Youtube - I reckon you’d get 100s of thousands of plays from nerds like me around the world in a year.
Nice one! I’d like to listen to that.
While we’re in the subject of late 80s music TV, here’s John Zorn and Sonic Youth on the South Bank Show:
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Been listening to Aesop Rocks new album. Just in that initial ‘I’ll work out the lyrics in a few years’ phase.
