The Vinyl District
February 4, 2021
Part one of the TVD Record Store Club’s look at the new and reissued releases presently in stores for February 2021.
NEW RELEASE PICKS: Douglas Lee,
Themes for Falling Down Stairs (Self-released) This album, available on 180gm vinyl, CD, cassette and digital, was released back in October, but it just recently entered my consciousness, and since the entrance was an impressive one, here we are and here it is. This looks to be Lee’s first record, but it’s obvious he’s accumulated experience along the way, as the compositions are his, and he plays a variety of (often unusual) instruments together with leading a large band that’s immersed in a neo-lounge jazz/ soundtrack mode (of a sort) that’s a bit like a puree of Henry Mancini, Nino Rota, Combustible Edison, and Angelo Badalamenti, with Mike Patton and John Zorn giving slow nods of approval from the sidelines. This batch of references will hopefully establish that Lee’s approach
Bernie Brooks
, January 28th, 2021 09:44
The Body s latest LP, I ve Seen All I Need To See, is a monstrously heavy, crushingly bleak monument to humankind s ruin, says Bernie Brooks
Today, for the first time, I found it difficult to listen to The Body. Two days ago, on 6 January 2021, armed insurrectionists sacked the US Capitol Building, however buffoonishly, at the behest of an outgoing president, himself a buffoon egged on and enabled for weeks by prominent members of his own party, themselves clowns working to subvert the will of the people as decided in as fair an election as we can manage on this side of the pond. In any case, it was a dark day, a deeply embarrassing, depressing day, of which the ramifications are still unclear. To be sure, now more than ever, the mainline Democratic position of national unity and healing and bipartisanship, as embodied by Joe Biden, seems more quixotic, more naïve than ever. So, as I popped on my headphones and sat down to write this, the
The Body Harness the Heart of Darkness on Pulverizing I ve Seen All I Need to See
Published Jan 27, 2021
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Even without counting the Body s plethora of collaborativeefforts, much of this Rhode Island duo s output has a stacked guest list. The most memorable moments of the band s 22-year career wouldn t exist without guitarist/vocalist Chip King and drummer/programmer Lee Buford joining forces with talents such as Lingua Ignota and the Assembly of Light Choir. The Body s penchant for exploration and collaboration makes their return to primitive sludge metal note-worthy in and of itself but that s only one facet of
I ve Seen All I Need to See. This is a band rediscovering their roots in the depths of pandemonium.