Wild Throne: Blood Maker EP
The Unsemble: s/t
Nick Waterhouse: Holly
Spirits and the Melchizedek Children: So Happy, It’s Sad
Alexandre Desplat: The Grand Budapest Hotel soundtrack
The quintessential example of an album that can’t be assessed on hearing just one track, the self-titled debut from The Unsemble blurs the lines between soundtrack noir, new wave, musique concrète, chamber drone, experimental jazz, and rock with deceptive ease.
Last month ALARM presented its 50 favorite albums of 2012, an eclectic, rock-heavy selection of discs that were in steady rotation in our downtown-Chicago premises. Now, to give some love to tunes that were left out, we have our 50 (+5) favorite songs of last year — singles, B-sides, EP standouts, soundtrack cuts, and more.
This fall, the mighty super-group Tomahawk resurfaces with its first new music since Anonymous re-imagined Native American music in 2007.
Oddfellows reunites the three main players — guitarist Duane Denison, vocalist Mike Patton, and drummer John Stanier — but adds the potent abilities of jazz standout and Mr. Bungle and Fantômas bassist Trevor Dunn. There’s more news coming soon from Ipecac, but in the meantime, even fan-boys gotta shout: Tomahawk’s back!
Tomorrow is the third Saturday in April, which means that independent record stores across the world will face an influx of limited-edition vinyl, avid fans, and rabid audiophiles. With myriad releases hitting shelves, we’ve provided you with some of our most anticipated picks to make Saturday’s shopping (relatively) quick and painless.
Begrudgingly, online editor Scott Morrow has joined this decade with the purchase (not by him, mind you) of his first iPod.