Echo Lake, “Wild Peace” (Slumberland, 2012)
Nice dreamy/droney Brit indie-pop. Kind of ambient and shoegazy even in its more C86-boppy uptempo moments. Band and album names accurately reflect its excellently crystalline, chill-out qualities.
Try 2, 7, 9, 10.
7/12/12
Ebn-Ozn, “AEIOU sometimes Y” (Elektra, 1983)
12” single featuring the catchy-as-herpes title track, a frenetically be-bopping pioneer attempt at fusing early-80s electro-pop and hip-hop strains.
Try 1/1
8/16/15
Eat Skull, “Where’d You Go,” 7” (Volar, 20130)
Psych-inflected garage-punk with a smoke-shrouded, spatially scrambled sensibility that should mess up your depth perception quite nicely.
Try A/2
1/23/14
Eastlink, “Eastlink” (In The Red, 2014)
Lots of interesting stuff coming out of Australia lately, and these guys are particularly out there. One pole here is rumbling, scrambled, uproarious fuzz-punk; the other is arcing, oceanic psych-guitar-drone that’s oddly moving. And there’s lots in between.
Try 1, 3
7/15/14
Elvis Costello, “Trust” (Columbia, 1981)
This might represent the pinnacle of Costello’s work. The songs have the structural complexity and stylistic eclecticism that sometimes elsewhere overwhelmed him, but here they have the clear presentation and rock’n’roll fire of his early blasters.
Try 1, 8, 9, 14
4/30/12
Elvis Costello and the Attractions, “Live At The El Mocambo” (Rykodisc, 1993; original release Demon, 1978)
Recorded a few months before “This Year’s Model” came out, this is the first Costello I’ve heard that fully bears out his association with punk, and then some. Basic organ-driven ‘60s garage-rock, modernized through post-Roxy Music angularity, is the m. o. here too, but the level of scorched-earth ferocity of these performances is almost on a level with Pink Flag in structure-shattering extremism.
Try 2, 10
7/26/12
Eastlink, “Eastlink” (In The Red, 2014)
Lots of interesting stuff coming out of Australia lately, and these guys are particularly out there. One pole here is rumbling, scrambled, uproarious fuzz-punk; the other is arcing, oceanic psych-guitar-drone that’s oddly moving. And there’s lots in between.
Try 1, 3
7/15/14