12 O'Clock Track
Monday, January 21, 2013
12 O'Clock Track Music 12 O'Clock Track: Sannhet's instrumental metal "Absecon Isle"
Posted by Kevin Warwick on 01.21.13 at 12:00 PM
Friday, January 18, 2013
12 O'Clock Track Music 12 O'Clock Track: Electronic synth-pop from Candian hardcore vets Yacht Club, "A Little Messed Up"
Posted by Luca Cimarusti on 01.18.13 at 12:00 PM
Thursday, January 17, 2013
12 O'Clock Track Music 12 O'Clock Track: D.C. postpunk band Imperial China, "Creative License"
Posted by Leor Galil on 01.17.13 at 12:00 PM
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is the fourth song off How We Connect, "Creative License."
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
12 O'Clock Track Music Post No Bills 12 O'Clock Track: Sand, "White Nights"
Posted by Peter Margasak on 01.16.13 at 12:00 PM
But yesterday the reality that Ryan doesn't live here anymore sunk in deeper with me thanks to the release of the debut album Sky Bleached (Cuneiform) by his new LA trio, Sand. The group features another ex-Chicagoan, Devin Hoff, on bass and Tim Young, a ubiquitous session musician, on electric guitar. Four of the ten pieces were written by Ryan in collaboration with his bandmates, while he composed five on his own; the tenth piece is a version of Paul Motian's "White Magic." Ryan and Hoff carve out deep, loping, and lean grooves—a bit fusion-kissed but totally unfussy—for Young to extrapolate within, at great length. Ryan uses a variety of time signatures, but the group never draws attention to any technical trickiness; the performances are marked by impressive rhythmic elasticity and melodic generosity, to the point where this sounds like an instrumental rock band more than a jazz trio, not that it matters in the end. Some of the songs bring a heavy punch and distorted crunch, but more often than not the sounds are clean. Today's 12 O'Clock Track is the airy album opener, "White Nights," which you can hear after the jump.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
12 O'Clock Track Music 12 O'Clock Track: Joey Bada$$ & DJ Premier, "Unorthodox"
Posted by Miles Raymer on 01.15.13 at 12:00 PM
Stream it after the jump.
Monday, January 14, 2013
12 O'Clock Track Dim the Lights Music 12 O'Clock Track: Glenn Jones, "Show Me"
Posted by Tal Rosenberg on 01.14.13 at 12:00 PM
"Show Me" is an ace quiet storm song, a charmingly tacky spectacle that conveys the feeling of walking around in a shop that sells the kind of wiry fluorescent signs you find in aquariums and frozen-yogurt shops. It was written by LaLa Cope, who was a member of Change (one of the greatest and most overlooked disco acts) and also wrote Whitney Houston's "You Give Good Love." The opening keyboard, which Ice Cube expertly sampled on 2000's "Until We Rich," sounds like what might happen if you combined a floor piano with an escalator. The melody is gorgeous, and Jones's singing (he is originally a gospel singer) is strong, never going for glottal bellowing or whiny falsetto. And Jones is supposedly such a novice romantic that he needs to be shown—lord knows how—what he has to do. The song has virtually nothing else to say. It's expert midrange singing about the stupid and simple circumstance of being unsure about whether or not the person you're into feels the same way about you. Many of us have dealt with that situation. Let's just thank Jones for having it take place in a jacuzzi.
Friday, January 11, 2013
12 O'Clock Track Music 12 O'Clock Track: The Men, "Electric"
Posted by Luca Cimarusti on 01.11.13 at 12:00 PM
Thursday, January 10, 2013
12 O'Clock Track Music 12 O'Clock Track: My Dad, "Cut the Mullet"
Posted by Leor Galil on 01.10.13 at 12:00 PM
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is My Dad's take on Willis's "Cut the Mullet."
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
12 O'Clock Track Music Post No Bills 12 O'Clock Track: Brokeback, "The Wire, the Rag, and the Payoff"
Posted by Peter Margasak on 01.09.13 at 12:00 PM
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
12 O'Clock Track Music 12 O'Clock Track: Matt Shadetek, "Madness"
Posted by Miles Raymer on 01.08.13 at 12:00 PM
