KILLED in CARS: November 2009

Tom Cora - Gumption in Limbo (Sound Aspects, 1991)

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I am going to review this in due time. I am going through a phase of cleaning up the site some, primarily working on the layout and getting the tagging more clear. Sometimes this will lead to less precise tagging, but I think the overall look of the site will benefit.

Also, I am starting to put a little more into the posts. You can see below that I intend to link directly to the artist's page, the label, and also link to common resources that I use (last.fm, discogs, and RYM). This way, you can check out the record, then communicate with the artist, purchase from the label, and communicate with other people in our KiC community about it.

Nov

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - The Main Ingredient (Elektra, 1994)

Hip-hop. It's a noticeably touchy subject for extreme music geeks. Hip-hop heads tend to exist separately from your typical KiC-affiliated music obsessive. The only reason I can think of is the tendency for MCs to focus on the superficial. Bragging about how dope you are, or how much money you have, or how fucked up it is in dilapidated inner-city America, or being casually misogynistic isn't something our typically introverted heads have an easy time relating to.

Nov

EAQuartett - Electroacoustiquartett (2007)

One of many albums that I have grown to love and would not have heard if not for the semi-dormant Danny. I think the name gives away what type of music this is, although I think that this is every bit as much a microtonal, maybe even a small jazz album, as it is an electroacoutic one. Indeed, if you go back to some of the other microtonal albums I've put up, I think you'll see much more in common here than there is with eai (as far as the typical conventions of an eai record).

Nov

Et Sans - Par noussss touss les trous de vos crânes! (Alien8, 2005)

Like the Fly Pan Am post, I came to this under the guise of post-rock. Back then, I thought Alien8 was exceptional (they're still cool, but not as good, imo), and so, when I was just a review writer trying to figure out what I would say about music, and how I would say it, I asked for this record. I am so glad I did. Read the above for a more detailed note on what I was thinking back then re: post-rock, but needless to say, this has nothing to do with (stylistically, anyway), GY!BE.

Nov

Parenthetical Girls - Safe As Houses (Oedipus, 2006)

Back in my last.fm days, I wrote a long, detailed piece about this album, specifically its lyrics. Clearly, from the music on this blog, you don't see too many albums about lyrics, and I generally ignore them. Instead of re-inventing the wheel and re-reviewing this, and to spare my buddies on here a simple copy and paste, I want to encourage you, as always, to simply listen to the album, and instead of getting caught up in the indie signposts, you should think about the level of cohesion here.