Guest Listed: Doldrums
The Air Conditioned Nightmare Out Now via Sub Pop
May 08, 2015 Web Exclusive
Guest Listed is our recurring series where an artist puts together a list of their choosing. This guest list was put together by Doldrums (aka Canadian musician Airick Woodhead). Doldrums’ new album, The Air Conditioned Nightmare, is out now via Sub Pop.
Top new releases that have blown my mind:
Ratking: “So It Goes”
Listened to this every day walking around New York when I was there this summer. The textures perfectly encapsulate the feeling of that city, of layers of stories all piled on top of each other. We played a show with them at Glasslands Gallery and after the show some kid from the crowd got in a fight with the main dude Wiki, and then the whole crowd split into factions and start brawling. After half the crowd had been kicked out we had to play and basically say, “Hi, we’re from Canada, we come in peace.” But yeah, these guys seem like the real deal, I guess people are blazing themselves to sleep to this all over the world by now.
Ramzi: “Nuptial Bébites”
My friend Phoebé aka Ramzi is a new artist from Montréal. She put this tape out on her own label, Pygmy Animals. Put this on and transform your apartment into a cubist rainforest. This is the only music that sounds like this, as far as I’m aware of, and how she makes it is completely beyond me.
Mica Levi: Under the Skin soundtrack
I like things that make me feel uncomfortable. The sandpaper-like scraping of strings and percussion seem to draw out feelings by some kind of percolation. I find the sounds misshapen and beautiful. The alienated qualities of it are what feel the most human.
’‘Under The Skin’’ Soundtrack Album by Mica Levi from delaVega on Vimeo.
Mr. Twin Sister
It feels like they’ve done something impossible in this era-that is, be a real ‘band’ and come out with the amazing sounding analog techno-influenced album that every indie band wishes they had made. I saw their album release show at Baby’s Alright in New York where they had a full string section and the girls from Ava Luna singing back up-a completely ecstatic experience.
Blowing Up the Workshop: Galcher Lustwerk
There is an extremely heady, focused feeling I get from listening to this hour-long mix. It’s tough and tender at the same time. Rescue remedy for afterhours clubs. This will always be connected to my memory of being on the J train and some guy trying to sell some kind of moonshine cooler thing called Jawbreaker and telling everyone to “Stay Focused” and “Only You Know What You Need.” That stayed with me a long time.
Sean Nicholas Savage: Bermuda Waterfall
A soul man. I’ve learned more from SNS about songwriting than from anyone else. This is the 28 year old’s 11th Album, and I think his best. He invited me down to Santa Monica last month to play on his newest record, and the writing process was something like; wake up, go to the beach, blaze, throw your problems into the ocean, go for pizza, blaze, go to the gallery, hang out with some gorgeous, inspiring friends, blaze, go for tacos and crash out in a stupor listening to ‘80s Beach Boys and Blink 182. Somewhere in that Inherent Vice like shroud I doobie leave a passionate, honest, and musical record was made.
Tonstartssbandht: Overseas
Brothers Andy and Eddie recorded this live in Russia. They are such a sick live band. Andy is playing guitar with Mac DeMarco right now but once they start touring again GO SEE THEM. I air-guitar like crazy to this.
Panda Bear: Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
I saw him play at POP Montréal at a beautiful old theatre in our neighborhood a few months before this came out and recorded a bootleg of it that I listened to every day. This made hearing the actual release all the more exhilarating when I finally downloaded the leak…I mean, bought it at my local record store.
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