metaghostin' Vol. XI - In Fidelity

In Fidelity - 43'07"

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1. Caçada / Chico Buarque / Quando o Carnaval Chegar (1972)
2. She's Too Much for my Mirror / Captain Beefheart / Trout Mask Replica (1970)
3. Emily Sagée's Secret / Giraffes? Giraffes! / More Skin With Milk-Mouth (2007)
4. Invention 1 / Vismal / Inventions (2004)
5. Double Bind / mouse on keys / An Anxious Object (2009)
6. Little Bird / Troop of Echoes / Days in Automation (2010)
7. Signals / The Appleseed Cast / Low Level Owl Vol. 1 (2001)
8. Colorado / Grizzly Bear / Yellow House (2006)
9. Life in the Hair-Salon-Themed Bar on the Island / Owls / Owls (2001)
10. New Grass / Talk Talk / Laughingstock (1991)

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Have you ever noticed that the phrase "beat around the bush" serves as an easily understood sexual entendre that as an act (masturbating in proximity to a hairy vagina)  happens to be something that could be construed as "beating around the bush"?

Linguists, please tell me there is a term for this phenomenon.

Zona Mexicana - S/T (2011)

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

...I'm sorry. These three are personal favorites of mine and having seen them numerous times its easy for me to say they are the math band to beat these days. Tight hardcore styled pure 90's emo with lots of twisty turny mathy goodness dripping all over. I covered them long ago with their first EP and heres another four to blow yer skull. By the by "Waking up with Dedication" has been a live favorite of mine for awhile, thankfully its here in all its structured glory. 

S/T (2011)

The Joe Beats Experiment - Indie Rock Blues (2005)

This is another album I've slept on for far too long. This album had a lot of buzz (at least around Providence) back in the mid-2000s, but I never got a chance to pick it up until I found it in a used record store a few months ago. But since then, I've actually listened to this more than anything else I own.

Basically, this is an album of remixed indie rock songs. Not some annoying frantic mashups, but rather fleshing out existing songs and making them totally baller. The original songs are all pretty great, and surprisingly effective with some extra magical beats. Club-ready songs with depth. Mmmmmm...

Indie Rock Blues

Some trivia: Guess who's in the blue shirt behind Joe Beats?

Tyondai Braxton - Central Market (2009)

Despite my love of Battles and all the fuss surrounding the album, I never picked this up until very recently. (Shameless bragging alert: the first time I heard it was through the control room monitors at the studio it was tracked and mixed at while tracking the A Troop of Echoes album). This is possibly the most whimsical record ever produced. Its packed with fun noises, sweet guitar parts, and reverb-drenched vocals. The song structures can be a little wonky. While most of the buzz surrounds the classical-style compositions, I'm actually into the shorter, more pop-structured pieces a little more. The other stuff is interesting, but a little meandering. You gotta give it up to the guy, this shit is insane and sounds like nothing else out there.

Central Market