Re: Those 2025 albums worth a damn
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 4:58 am
Incoming 2026 album of interest:
definitely.
I think I texted something to RIngo about how it would fit in the Ditch Trllogy perfectly. there's that smoldering anger towards LIFE in a few songs.DaveA wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 9:27 pm "the new Mint Mile LP in and that is some proper shit. The most Crazy Horse type stuff T. Midge & Co. (in any iteration) have gotten up to, mostly on account of the bass and guitar sound, which almost feels like it's dipped in a bar room atmosphere (complimentary)."
And appropriately, surprising none of us, the sound of it is fantastic.PASTA wrote: Sat Dec 06, 2025 2:16 pmI think I texted something to RIngo about how it would fit in the Ditch Trllogy perfectly. there's that smoldering anger towards LIFE in a few songs.DaveA wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 9:27 pm "the new Mint Mile LP in and that is some proper shit. The most Crazy Horse type stuff T. Midge & Co. (in any iteration) have gotten up to, mostly on account of the bass and guitar sound, which almost feels like it's dipped in a bar room atmosphere (complimentary)."
Thanks for this - I needed a reminder to listen to this one - it's super great. The guitar on Yamaha I think (and maybe the bass?....I was in the car) were drenched in this sputtery fuzz that made me feel like a speaker was broken or something was on the verge of failure in a good way. Will def rip that element off in the future.DaveA wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 9:27 pm Yeah, so I just squeezed a test drive of the new Mint Mile LP in and that is some proper shit. The most Crazy Horse type stuff T. Midge & Co. (in any iteration) have gotten up to, mostly on account of the bass and guitar sound, which almost feels like it's dipped in a bar room atmosphere (complimentary). Was around for a good deal of the eighties and got whiffs of the seventies then and the new one has that vague sort of patina with also a footing in the contemporary. I almost detected a little Bowie influence in the first track's vox. Second-to-last Albizi is a high note! Well done. Also, I've test run a few records in the past few weeks and this pressing was the very quietest LP of all of them. Like, NO surface noise. Woo-haa!
Also, that Money Chicha record mentioned upthread turned out to be swell. Has some deft colorful stuff on it. Not on-brand for PRF but way too good for a band I'd never even heard before.
And the new expanded and remastered The Return of the Durutti Column reissue is FUCKIN' ACE, if you weren't aware!
I listened to both available tracks when it was announced. Pretty incredible. I A/B’d them with the originals. Also stoked that he is playing that 2 night Bill Orcutt residency in Brooklyn in March that I am going to.