Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3 - Tick Tick Tick - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The brand-new solo album from The Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn, released in tandem with his memoir. Make It Right is a commentary between literal and metaphorical ruminating - a dialogue between memoirist and musician - a vulnerable, more reflective Wynn than previously heard.'Make It Right' features notable contributions from Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Vicki Peterson (The Bangles), Chris Schlarb (Psychic Temple), Emil Nikolaisen (Serena Maneesh), Linda Pitmon (The Baseball project) and a cast of dozens.InchI wrote and recorded these songs in tandem with working on InchI Wouldn't Say It If It Wasn't True,Inch my memoir which comes out on Jawbone Press the same week as InchMake It Right,Inch my first solo album since 2010. With each chapter, I would get ideas for songs inspired by the deep dive into my past and vice versa. The reflections became intertwined after a while, a mutual commentary between literal and metaphorical ruminating. It was a dialogue between the memoirist and the musician, a one-man Q&A, a gentle volley in the tennis court of my mind. 40-love, game, set and match.InchAlthough 'Make It Right' isn't autobiographical, it begins with Santa Monica - the city and boulevard where he was born and concludes with InchRoosevelt AvenueInch, the main thoroughfare of the Queen's neighbourhood in New York City that he calls home today.Wynn will also be touring across the UK, Europe & the USA this Autumn in support of the which promises to be a one-man show blending songs that inspired by the book along with a narrative structure of readings and storytelling.

rhus Symphony Orchestra - English Masterworks [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/08/2012

Cabaret Voltaire co-founder Stephen Mallinder's second solo outing for Dais further distills his signature fusion of minimal synth, oblique wordplay, and Inchwonky discoInch into a riveting rhythm suite ripe for our Age of Escalation Tick Tick Tick. Channeling the temporal malaise of lockdown through a lusher palette of modular electronics and stereo strings, the songs embrace ambiguity and plasticity, loose systems of percolating circuitry and airless funk. Recorded across a handful of sessions at MemeTune Studios in Cornwall with frequent collaborator Benge (aka Ben Edwards), Mallinder cites no guiding aesthetic premise for the collection beyond Inchcowbell on every track, and entirely no reverb.InchFrom the first coiled cybernetic groove of opener InchContact,Inch the album's spatial dynamics are disorienting and asymmetrical, alternately cold and sensual, opiated and claustrophobic. But, throughout, Inchrhythm is the default, the bedrock, the building block - even the melodies are rhythmic.Inch Across 40-plus years of electronic musicianship, Mallinder's sense of timing and tempo has honed into a rare tier of mastery, limber and fluid but knotted with strange frictions. Shades of Detroit technoid industrial (Inchringdropp,Inch InchShock To The BodyInch) crossfade into no wavy punk-funk (InchGuernica Gallery,Inch InchGalaxy,Inch InchThe TrialInch), bad trip IDM (InchWastelandInch), and jittery vapor house (InchHushInch), at the threshold of modes both familiar and foreign.Lyrically the record is equally evasive, rich with allusions and associative linguistics, surveying liquid notions of societal noise, ecological ruin, art world pretension, and the trials of daily life. But the lack of fixed meaning remains Mallinder's main muse InchMusic should draw you in; lyrics should make you think. Most interpretation is misinterpretation.Inch This is music of countdowns a