From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #1778 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, August 10 2016 Volume 16 : Number 1778 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- New albums I've been loving [Tim Jones-Yelvington ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 20:13:23 -0500 From: Tim Jones-Yelvington Subject: New albums I've been loving A few things I've been listening to that I havent seen mentioned here. Xenia Rubinos's Black Terry Cat is one of my two favorite albums of the year to date along with Esperanza Spalding's. Really rich fusion of sounds and voice and groove and politics. Kelsey Lu's EP Earth is BREATHTAKING. Has anyone else heard her/heard of her yet? Mostly just voice and cello, but what she does w/ both... Let's Eat Grandma's I, Gemini is delightfully eccentricbreminds me a bit of both Coco Rosie and the Tiny, a little bit twee but with enough meat to avoid being reduced to that. Did I mention Circuit de Yeux here when I discovered her last year? Her newish "Jackie Lynn" concept album takes her usually avant garde/new musicish sound in a more alt country direction, w/ a detailed and macabre backstory and invented character POV, I like it. For any other folks that like R & B, Jamilah Woods's HEAVN is a gorgeous and healing contribution to a growing body of musical participation in the reawakened black liberation movement of the past three years. I've been a Roisin Murphy fanatic for a long time (and think a case could be made for her being one of the most ectoish women associated w/ dance pop)bher new one Take Her Up To Monto is pretty tricky to get into, but once you begin to appreciate what she's up to, I think it's another masterpiece. ~Tim ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #1778 ****************************