Another bunch of tracks.
Just some things I've been checking out this evening.
Anat Cohen Quartet - Putty Boy Strut
From the album Luminosa.
Clarinet player Anat Cohen doing her thing.
Pretty sweet if you take my word for it.
Anna Calvi - Suzanne And I
From her 2011 self-titled album.
I've known about Anna Calvi for years, but quite recently I've been giving her a second chance.
I do appreciate her forceful vocal fireworks.
CMX - Puolikas hyvää
From their new album Alkuteos.
Reminds me a bit of two other Finnish groups, Stam1na and Waltari respectively.
This band is way more laid back and rock oriented, but a lot of the melodies and textures feel very familiar and very, well, Finnish.
Caligula's Horse - A Gift to Afterthought
From their 2013 album The Tide, The Thief & River's End.
Their newest album from just last year didn't really grab me much, although I tried to get into the band.
Having a bit more luck with some of their older material.
There's a lot of good ideas in the musical arrangements here.
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Time of the Assassins
From the album IRM.
I got this album a while ago, basically just taking a chance with it, and it turned out to be one of the better things I've heard i a while.
A pretty much perfectly formed album.
This is one of my several favorite songs off that disc.
It should go without saying that I'm now massively interested in her fairly newly released, late 2017 album, Rest.
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