Friday, April 9, 2021

Listening Log Past - Volume 79



What's a Listening Log? Well, the idea is quite simple. It's a monthly segment that consolidates all the mini-reviews Dozens Of Donuts has given on RateYourMusic over the past month (excluding separate, full-length reviews), split between the Past and Present. A straightforward grading scale has been put in place, ranging from A+ to F-, with C acting as the baseline average. There is no set amount of reviews per month, just however many I get around to reviewing. Enjoy! 

March's Full-Length Reviews

Dirty Beaches - Badlands
ACO - irony
King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader
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Lloyd Cole
Mainstream
1987 | Pop Rock | Listen

| Compromising Integrity With Sights Set On Stardom |

Choice Cut ... 'Mr. Malcontent'

For Fans Of ... promising optics, sophisticated romance, tempered anthems

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New Order
Waiting For The Sirens' Call
2005 | Alternative Rock | Listen

| Contractually Obligated To Produce |


For Fans Of ... endurance dance sessions, radio Rock, out-of-touch lyrics

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Radio Dept.
Lesser Matters
2003 | Dream Pop | Listen

| Reminiscing Over A Summer Fling Crush |

Choice Cut ... 'Against The Tide'

For Fans Of ... saccharine wanderlust, memorable melodies, a Strokes / Sweet Trip merger

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Black Dresses
Thank You
2019 | Electro-Industrial | Listen

| Pummeling Oneself With Knives & Hammers |

Choice Cut ... 'DEATH / BAD GIRL'

For Fans Of ... sloppy seconds, harsh distortion, melody under duress

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Roy Montgomery
Scenes From The South Island
1995 | Ambient | Listen

| Carried By Wind, A Lone Tumbleweed Drifts |


For Fans Of ... locale-based Ambient, shifty acoustics, dehydrated treks

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Basic Channel
Phylyps Trak
1993 | Minimal Techno | Listen

| Backbreaking Labor Opposite A Busy Rave |

Choice Cut ... 'Phylyps Trak'

For Fans Of ... industrial streets, factories working overtime, oppressive worker-bees

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bob hund
Ett Fall Och En Lösning
1997 | Indie Rock | Listen

| Enriching & Refining 90's Moxie |


For Fans Of ... proper schizoids, head-bopping rhythms, a solid Pere Ubu cover

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Stina Nordenstam
And She Closed Her Eyes
1994 | Singer/Songwriter | Listen

| A Little Star Observes From A Reticent Alcove |

Choice Cut ... 'Little Star'

For Fans Of ... pure souls, wilting romantics, acoustic library tales

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Paradise Cinema
Paradise Cinema
2020 | Tribal Ambient | Listen

| Drummer Boy Exploring The Uninhabited |

Choice Cut ... 'Liberté'

For Fans Of ... fourth world cinematics, percussion layering, background tropicalia

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Svitlana Nianio
Kytytsi
1999 | Avant-Folk | Listen

| European Peasants Kibitzing Over Magic Realism |

Choice Cut ... 'Ostrożni'

For Fans Of ... hardened medieval Folk, inaccessible discordance, grating rustic idealism

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Black Dresses
Love & Affection For Stupid Little Bitches
2019 | Electro-Industrial | Listen

| Gripping To Melody As Society Crumbles |

Choice Cut ... 'MINDCRUSHED'

For Fans Of ... coping mechanisms, playful bombast, productive teamwork

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Van Dyke Parks
Song Cycle
1967 | Baroque Pop | Listen

| People Watching On The Ol' Village Green |

Choice Cut ... 'Palm Desert'

For Fans Of ... fever dreams, centennial celebrations, left field precursors

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Recondite
On Acid
2012 | Tech House | Listen

| Enduring Through Winter's Blight |

Choice Cut ... 'Felicity'

For Fans Of ... sterile beats, smooth surfaces, chronic dub storms

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Ahnnu
World Music
2013 | Ambient | Listen

| Background For A Particularly Excitable Mind |

Choice Cut ... 'Non2'

For Fans Of ... low-key afternoons, childlike imaginations, casually-foreign loops

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Basic Channel
Quadrant Dub
1994 | Dub Techno | Listen

| Shoulder Struts At 4 A.M. |

Choice Cut ... 'Quadrant Dub II'

For Fans Of ... sweaty nights, emotionless LSD trips, stairs to the stars

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Radio Dept.
Pulling Our Weight
2003 | Noise Pop | Listen

| Melancholy With The Sun Beaming Down |


For Fans Of ... weighted melodies, falling in love, falling out of love

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New Order
Music Complete
2015 | Alternative Dance | Listen

| One Final Spree, Unable To Be Set Free |

Choice Cut ... 'Nothing But A Fool'

For Fans Of ... bloated music, insistent rhythms, Electro-based New Order

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Recondite
Hinterland
2013 | Tech House | Listen

| Desperate To Awaken Dormant Beasts |

Choice Cut ... 'Stems'

For Fans Of ... lethargic Tech House, unimaginative producers, snow-covered landscapes

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