Album Exchange: Art d'Ecco's "After The Head Rush" & Kim Gordon's "No Home Record"
The show that talks about stuff on purpose is back! And we've returned with a brand-new album exchange for your listening pleasure! This time around, we're discussing Art d'Ecco's 2022 release After The Head Rush and Sonic Youth alum Kim Gordon's 2019 solo debut, No Home Record. Have you heard of either of these albums? If not, then we're gonna tell you all about them, dear listener, because they're great! You can find the new episode below, or find it on Apple, Google, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Spotify For Podcasters (Jesus wept...) and Amazon, so choose your own adventure and let's have a little fun together...
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Art d'Ecco's gone 2 for 2! I smell favoritism. Or maybe just good music. I lean more towards Dustin's feelings here, but "After The Headrush" is great, and it deserves to be in the canon. I have to admit not being a big fan of Sonic Youth, and I gave "No Home Record" a shot after listening to the episode, and it's just not making a big impression on me. Sorry, TRAPS. I appreciate that Kim Gordon's out there experimenting and stretching herself as an artist, but we can't like everything. I appreciate your thoughts on the record, though. Thanks for sharing. It means a lot. Viva TRAPPO.
ReplyDeleteEvil Dead Rise is pretty good. Spooky stuff!
ReplyDeleteI'm so tired all the time. I work all day and at night I spend most of my time trying to draw a comic book that nobody will ever see because I'm sure I'll be utterly ashamed of it when (or if) I finish the damn thing. I feel compelled to do this thing. I used to think it was a hobby, something that brought me joy, and maybe it was in the beginning, but that's not what it is anymore. I just do it because I don't know what else I'm supposed to do. It was supposed to be the story of a teenager who falls in love with an older girl who moves out of their dead-end town when she turns 18 to follow her own dreams of becoming an actress in Hollywood, but that was three years ago. It's all sort of evolved into an existential odyssey as the teenager set out to find her, hitchhiking across America, and now he's slipped through a hole in reality and is tumbling through space and time, living centuries as a multitude of different people on parallel worlds as he keeps trying to find a way to get back "home", but I wonder what that concept even means to him anymore. He's lived a hundred lifetimes in a dozen worlds. Is he even that person he used to be? Is there anything left of him? Can he even remember the face of the girl he claimed to love? Her name? Can he relate to the limited, mundane lives of mortal men and woman when he's done battle with Lovecraftian monsters on timeless planes of existence and watched generations of friends and companions wither and die like the inevitable changing of the seasons? Is any of this even actually happening to him, or is he trapped in some hallucinatory state? I don't know. I have no earthly idea. I don't know where this story's going. Maybe nowhere. I might spend the rest of my life drawing this comic book that nobody will ever see. I guess that's okay. I've been listening to a lot of Black Sabbath recently while I work on the comic. I never really got into them when I was younger, but I find the music is really hitting me as I get older. "Paranoid" is a masterpiece of an album.
ReplyDeleteNo Home Record might be complete gobbledygook, but I really think I like it. I don’t know anything about Sonic Youth, except that every fan of the band I’ve ever met is kind of an insufferable asshole, so I’ve never really given them a shot. But I listened to Kim Gordon’s album after I listened to your show, and it’s just fucking weird and noisy and almost incomprehensible at times. I don’t know what’s going on with this music, but I feel compelled to keep listening to it. Cool stuff. So thank you, I guess. I like Kim Gordon’s weirdo music.
ReplyDeleteI’m a mystery. Like a horse. In America, people listen to “After the head rush”, but in Soviet Union, they listen to “after the bread rush”!
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