MLS, Primal Scream and Saturday Musings

Photo courtesy of Squirrel Records (UK Album Version)

It's another beautiful overcast morning here in San Francisco. I finally got my copy of The Manhattan Love Suicides compilation Burnt Out Landscapes yesterday and wanted to brag about how great it is. No big surprise that this is one of my favorite bands at the moment. I wrote more about them here . It came out last month via Squirrel Records in the UK and is scheduled for a domestic release in August via Magic Maker Records. The compilation contains 27 tracks of fuzzy noise pop bliss. Burnt Out Landscapes collects all the tracks from their three limited 7'' singles on Magic Maker Records, Lost Music Records and Squirrel Records, the three tracks from the out of print Cloudberry 3'' cd single. A WOXY radio session from last year's SXSW, four new tracks and a few miscellaneous songs bookend the rest of the disc. I've been listening to it nonstop for the past day and a half. It has done a proficient job at drawing my attention away from the Dime boards as I wait frantically for any scraps of The Fluid reunion shows in Seattle last weekend.
Here's two of my favorite songs from the compilation. Buy it here

Never Far From You

Heart and Panic

As mentioned below, SP20 went on and I was taking whatever morsels of information I could from The Seattle Times, who blogged during both days. For the most part I enjoyed the coverage. However, I was gravely disappointed that the journalists covering the event didn't mention any of the Fluid's (Saturday) set nor Green River's (Sunday). A paragraph briefly mentioned Mudhoney's set (Saturday). One journalist couldn't stop gushing about their professed love for Wolf Parade and their excitement over WP closing out the festivities, and this apparent love dwarfed more important coverage of the festival. Luckily, I scored Green River's set and it takes as many causalities as their show on the 10th, they're flat out killing it.

Onto some other good news a new Primal Scream album is on the way. The bad news is there is no set US release date, like most other Primal Scream albums, the US is neglected off the bat. I am hoping they'll be touring the US, although it's probably highly unlikely. Beautiful Future's gonna drop on July 21st. Here's the video for Can't Go Back. The video definitely reminds me of Vanishing Point/Xtrmntr era Primal Scream. Definitely a move away from the left turn on the more bluesy, Rolling Stones-sounding Riot City Blues, which according to most was a steamer. I am probably one of the five people that actually enjoyed it. I thought there were a couple of solid cuts hiding amongst the filler.

The Duke Spirit are playing Wednesday at Bottom Of the Hill I will be checking that out. A full review will follow that may be appearing else on the web. Stay Tuned for that one.
This is me leaving.

SP20

Green River. Photo courtesy of Kris Sproul.

Oh summer laziness, it's crawling on its last legs. A Banal part time job has bred not only a lack of money but also a lack of creativity. Sitting here watching "Amazing Journey," The story of the Who on VH1 Classic [side note: the doc is edited for tv and I am finding illogical closure with all these lame commericals] while I wait for the housing complex dryer to not heat my clothes correctly. I, wasting space assumed I would attempt some sort of update or rather just complain about how I wasn't lucky enough to go to SP20 in Seattle this weekend. For the uncooth, SP20 is the 20th anniversary celebration of Sup Pop Records, a long list of cool bands playing: Mudhoney, Green River, The FLuid, Pissed Jeans, etc. A history lesson of Subpop can be found here Subpop Wiki . I think I may have found the seemingly best alternatives presented to me at the present junction: Trolling Dime for torrents and constantly refreshing this blog The Seattle Times for band recaps. The torrents have already yielded a killtacular bootleg of Green River from the surprise warm show on the 10th at the Sunset Tavern along with the Fluid. I am crossing my fingers hard that both of the Fluid's sets will go up at some point. The taper of the Green River show hinted at it. This is me somewhat gushing about the Fluid here Old Post . They're playing later tonight at the festival. Now I am spent.