I had a bootleg LP of Lennie Hibbert's classic Creation back in the day, but the pressing was so cheap that it readily broke when I accidentally dropped it a few years later.

Snagged a digital copy on Bandcamp recently. Proper music.

New Stereolab single, first album in 15 years:



-Song is just kind of ok.

-Video seems to be GenAI slop with predictable "mid century modern bachelor pad" as the input. Pointless.

-Most disappointingly, there is either a real or simulated (more AI??) impression of Mary Hanson's vocals throughout the song, which is just bizarre and distasteful.

Jaap Vink's en dehors:



No synths involved: it's a studio feedback patch of tape delay, reverb, ring modulation, and eq.



(Posted about this before, but it's always relevant.)

That's a lovely record.

A song for these troubled times…

Usurp Synapse. Just checking them out, but they have some good moments