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Skee Mask - Pool

Album nineteen in my eighteen album year-end shortlist. I only heard of Skee Mask through this forum when lots of people raved about this album last May. I intended to listen to it, then completely forgot about it until I saw it in KH's list.

It's absolutely stunning. Eighteen tracks and almost two hours of techno, ambient and dub reminiscent of Warp Records in their mid-90s heyday.

I'm listening transfixed, and out of the blue it's quinze points for Skee Mask from me.

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Are you saying that your Album Of The Year is a record you first heard today sbh? That is a bold move.

It is great though, as is Compro by Skee Mask, which finished second only to Idles in the 2019 KUMB Album Of The Year poll. Basically, our site's resident electronic artist. :newthumb:
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Korea Hammer wrote: Sat Jan 01, 2022 10:49 pm Are you saying that your Album Of The Year is a record you first heard today sbh?
Yep!

I think I'll be listening to it a lot in 2022 though.
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The original "Under the Moon of Love" guy.

Followed by Essex Jump'n'Jiver, Jackson Sloan who was the front man of 1980s band Rent Party

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Conway Twitty is my doppelganger. Not so much in that particular picture, but generally the resemblance is spooky.

He's a good looking feller, obviously. Not, as the ever fragrant Mrs Monkeybubbles reckons, "like a melted Liberace".
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Back searching for the aliens with the 90's ambient sci-fi techno sounds.
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Right now, I'm trying out The Wildhearts for the first time:

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Discovering the talents of Sam Fender thanks to the Album of the Year thread and this is a might cover, what a voice

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Attention pablo jaye, neathiron, Arnold Layne, Junco P and other gentlemen of refinement:
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Not listening yet, but will be when it comes out (18th Feb)

Track Listing:

I’m Getting Buried In The Morning
Rogation Sunday’s Here Again!
Awkward Sean
Tess Of The Dormobiles
Grafting Haddock In The George
Big Man Up Front
When I Look At My Baby
Beneath This Broken Headstone
In A Suffolk Ditch
Persian Rug Sale At The URC
Midnight Mass Murder
Token Covid Song
Slipping The Escort
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This has a distinct flavour of early Go-betweens. Which is unsurprising really, because the singer is Tall Bob's son.

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Tess of the Dormobiles , what a great typical HMHB title.
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Yah - politics are back in music!

What a track!

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WHU Independent wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:37 am Yah - politics are back in music!

What a track!

Yeah, I can get behind that. Catchy, and great lyrics. :newthumb:
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Vaguely obsessed by this Canadian band's two albums since stumbling across them recently. Jangly indiepop that references all my old heroes - The Chills, The Wedding Present, The Go-Betweens, The Bats, The Chesterfields, The June Brides, it's all in there and it sounds great.

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^ Yay.

Squeaked into my top ten if 2021, mostly for reasons of nostalgia but also for some nice hooky songs.
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Monkeybubbles wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 8:33 am ^ Yay.

Squeaked into my top ten if 2021, mostly for reasons of nostalgia but also for some nice hooky songs.
Are you going to see them at the Green Door? Just over a tenner and on a Saturday night, can't go wrong. :thup:
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Korea Hammer wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 6:03 pm Are you going to see them at the Green Door? Just over a tenner and on a Saturday night, can't go wrong. :thup:
Why, yes I am. If you're there I'll hold your anorak.
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Burial - Antidawn EP

Five tracks, 43 minutes in total; about as ambient as it gets - virtually no beats, fragments of melody drifting in and out and lots of background white noise. Quite pleasant, actually.
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