Recommended • Issue #2
Sep 23, 06:57 PM
Welcome to another fine issue of “Recommended,” the section of my blahg where I ramble on about music that I find thats exciting and challenging and worth checking out.
Today’s choice:
Odd Nosdam – Level Live Wires
(his space on anticon)
Every once in a while an album comes along that instantly sounds familiar and feels like a hug from on old friend you havent seen in years. Its the kind of album that youve pretty much heard and experienced before, but theres something about it… It feels like the matured realization of the ideas you already know and already love – but its not just a collection of existing ideas that are taken and mashed together, it stands on its own. On Level Live Wires, it feels like Mr. Nosdam is telling you a story – a shadowy and mysterious bedtime story.
If Four Tet slowed things down to a hip-hop pace and let Belong and (early, tape-hissy) Stars of the Lid into the room for atmospherics, and maybe if their elderly neighbor was listening to AM radio and it somehow got sucked into the recording equipment, you might get something like this album…
I cant stop listening to this thing! I havent spun an album this much back to back since Kid A came out. Buy it.
Disclaimer: Im now an affiliate for both eMusic and iTunes, so I will see a little money if people follow my links to these companies and sign up for a new eMusic account or buy music in iTunes. Granted it wont be much probably, but I thought I’d be open about that up front. I’ll be posting about plenty of free stuff too Im sure.