This record rules. It starts out like nice ambient-like jazz or something, and then suddenly it's bleepy alien synth time. Hell yes
Nakata ‎– El Sueño de Lilith

Baroque and playful but also modern and wildly original
Gregorio Paniagua - Batiscafo

The most excellent japanese avant prog pop album, but it's also chamber folk and jazz

This is also one of the best pop albums I've heard

One of the best releases in the entire Genesis P-Orridge extended universe

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Listened before work. It's remarkable for sure, love early electronic/industrial crossovers, the sample work and the ambience and the mechanical almost acid house synths are truly a work of art

Well said.

Whatever "viscerally exciting" is, this is it for me


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Ben Goldberg - Everything Happens to Be

Great compositions and performances. That's to be expected from the lineup (Ben Goldberg, Mary Halvorson, Ellery Eskelin, Michael Formanek, and Tomas Fujiwara) but I didn't expect them to flirt with New Orleans jazz sounds.

I like this album too, but are you hearing "New Orleans" based on Ben's clarinet?

Ja, I hear it in the horns in general with some of the ways they harmonize and occasionally follow each other's melodies.

I'll have to take your word on the New Orleans jazz thing (although it does remind me of Duke Ellington's New Orleans Suite, which I assume is related to it), but I love the music

Taking a break from Hermeto for a couple of hours...

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Another GREAT entry in what I call the extended Genesis P universe. This time Gen produced it.

"Post-punk at its most invigorating and terrifying."

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It's really one of the most brilliant albums of that and any era. AND, as you say, it shows there's a significant overlap between the more experimental postpunk of that era and early industrial.

Do you know The Gospel According to the Meninblack by the Stranglers? It's their most experimental work and sometimes reminds me of 23 Skidoo in its general direction, though it's also very different (for starters it's a ****ing concept album about alien visitations).

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Genuinely thrilling. Two great musicians getting the best out of each other.

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The Legendary Marvin Pontiac

I f*cking love John Lurie SO DAMN MUCH OMG.

Stina Nordenstam – Dynamite (1996)

An alternative rock album that doesn't sound like much else. Very unique voice and guitar sound.

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My favorite Miles era

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Arguably not his most complete album, but for me the most gripping and addictive


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Jun Togawa's 1984 debut, whatever it's called (seen the title translated as anything from "Woman Hysteric" to "Ball Princess"), is one of the most exciting things you'll ever hear. One of those albums that are really varied stylistically but the force of the songwriting, voice and personality of the singer are such that it feels really cohesive. Dark, theatrical, high-intensity stuff. The closer (translated as “Insect Woman” or "Pupating Woman") is the only version of Pachelbel's famous Canon that doesn't sound kitschy to me.

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Amazing album, I have it on vinyl.
She also recorded a punk version of the closing track somewhere :laughing:

One of these days I'll try to take a deeper dive into her discography. I also know the second album, the one with Suki Suki Daisuki, which is excellent but maybe not quite on the same level as the debut.

I like the debut the best by far, followed by Kyokutou Ian Shouka. Unless you count this one live album she did with Tricomi, called 'Good girls get fed, bad girls get eaten' which I love a lot

Listening to it now, a very strong album.

Taking a bit of a break from Techno, this has been on repeat for the past couple days.

One of the peaks of popular music in the 20th century

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I loved his song from Robots!

The perfect opening track for a perfect album. He announces what it is that we're going to hear in the rest of the album: a dark, clandestine, subterranean world of whose very existence we are oblivious. There shall be some marching and there'll some groaning too! Tune in, come for the ride, step right up etc.

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Altin Gün - Yol [2021]

Not unknown on these board, but for those who don't know, Netherland based Turkish (sounding?) psych pop/rock band. This offering is definitely headed more in the pop territory. One of the strongest albums for me from this year.

Trombones is good, but if I'm honest I prefer Heartattack, Blue Valentine and Rain Dogs. Talk to me about Waits. If you have a spare year or two.

just started and found this and it's an incredible selection of sound collagey japanese folk/new age. the emotion in this is incredible

The album isn't out yet but rocking to Lizzo

Tony Banks - Still

Former keyboardist for Genesis. Guest vocalists are Fish (ex-Marillion), Jayney Klimek and, of all people, Nik Kershaw, who also co-wrote some of the songs.

This album is reminiscent of some of Ganesis' later albums, but (IMO) much better.


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Eye To Eye - Eye To Eye (1982)

One of the cooler pop albums I've discovered in quite some time. Some awesome New Wave meets avant-garde flavored singing from Deborah Berg coupled with all the great L.A. session players on the personnel side, plus Gary Katz who produced Aja and Gaucho by Steely Dan.

Peter Gabriel - So

Brilliant album , one of the greatest from the 80s..!

L'Iimperatrice - Tako Tsubo 2021


Tako Tsubo is a breakup album, and Matahari's romantic streak - predicated on the idea of an idealised heroine - has made way for a landscape more anchored in reality. L'Impératrice has certainly kept his taste for dance, groove on a virtuoso bass, vintage synths and glittery melodies. But gave himself the freedom to explore other lands, to step aside.