Showing posts with label New Vinyl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Vinyl. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 07, 2017

The 1 Hundred



Just as there are certain records that continually sell year after year, there are some titles that are continually either just under the radar of popularity, or maybe just need a bit of a highlight to remind you they are still out there waiting for new ears. As an experiment we are going to build a list of one hundred titles, all currently in stock, that we think you should lend an ear to.

Of course this list will have to be fluid and ever changing, so we'll try to keep updating it, adding new titles as the old ones find new homes... let's see how it works? OK?

Each of the titles below will have a link to page with a review and a sample song, so have yourself a click fest and see what you can find.

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American Music Club - Mercury // New Vinyl
Gastr Del Sol - Upgrade & Afterlife // Used CD
Gold Sparkle Band - Fugues & Flowers // Used CD
Helado Negro - Awe Owe // Used CD
Victor Herrero - Astrolabio // New Vinyl
Jeremy Jay - Dream Diary // Used Vinyl
Mikrowelle - Twang Boom Tschak ...Peng // Used CD
Mount Eerie - Black Wooden // New CD
Mountain Movers - S/T // New Vinyl
Mountains - Mountains Mountains Mountains // New Vinyl
Painkiller - Collected Works // Used CD (4 disc set)
Zak Riles - S/T // Used CD


The 1 Hundred :: American Music Club - Mercury

American Music Club - Mercury // (1993 Virgin / reissued 2014) // New Vinyl

from AllMusic // Rated 8/10:

Leave it to American Music Club to make their major-label bow with the most perversely idiosyncratic record in their catalog. Produced with eccentric panache by Mitchell Froom, Mercury spotlights the band at their darkest and most eclectic, favoring odd rhythms, bizarre effects, and extreme arrangements ranging from the synthetic lounge grandeur of the worshipful "Johnny Mathis' Feet" to the swirling sonic maelstrom of the fatalistic "Challenger." Under the cover of defense-mechanism titles like "What Godzilla Said to God When His Name Wasn't Found in the Book of Life," "If I Had a Hammer" and "The Hopes of Dreams of Heaven's 10,000 Whores," Mark Eitzel paints some of his bleakest portraits to date; even the most superficially upbeat tracks -- "Keep Me Around," "Hollywood 4-5-92," "Over and Done" -- are relentlessly grim at their core. A triumph of abject misery.