Heavy Rotation: Week Ending January 29, 2010

01. Deleted Waveform Gatherings – Ghost, She Said, (Rainbow Quartz.2009)
02. Sonic Youth – The Eternal, (Matador.2009)
03. “Circle Man” by The Telepathic Butterflies, (Rainbow Quartz.2009)
04. The Replacements – Sorry Ma, I Forgot To Take Out The Trash [reissue bonus tracks only], (Twin/Tone.1981)
05. The Morning After Girls – [MySpace Music Player Stream], (MySpaceProfile.2009)
06. La patere rose – La patere rose, (Grosse Boite.2009)
07. “Yr Epic Heart” by Viva Voce, (Asthmatic Kitty.2003)
08. “Everyday” by Yo La Tengo, (Matador.2000)
09. Janey Winterbauer + Marc Pearlman – 25:32:47 EP, (Susstones.2009)
10. Doomriders – Darkness Comes Alive, (Deathwish.2009)

Around 2002-2003 a friend introduced to me a crazy-60s-Beatles-Nuggets loving Israeli indie band called Rockfour. At the time I was listening to Nuggets II near nonstop, falling deeply in love with all that garage/psych/proto-punk. Rockfour was a perfect modern band for the binge. Their LP came out on Rainbow Quartz, my friend encouraged me to check out anything from the label. I have to admit, I did not heed the advice, though I meant to … with the best of intentions, I'd vow to seek out RQ releases on each trip to the record store … but I'd get distracted and … forget … bleh … until a few weeks ago when I came across a sampler on eMusic. I downloaded that fucker pronto.

Norway's Deleted Waveform Gatherings is heavily featured on that sampler. I wasn't going to turn Mr. Forgetful (hardy har har), this time. I immediately picked up their third full-length, Ghost, She Said. The record reminds me of Sweden's The Soundtrack of Our Lives, but dirtier, bluesier, and a bit more raucous. Where TSOOL re-captures the exuberance of The Beatles, the trippiness of early Pink Floyd, and the arena-rock of Oasis; DWG latches on to The Rolling Stones, Badfinger, and The Jesus & Mary Chain. The record is all around heaven great. Check out the power-pop twang of “Miss Missing You”, the Honey's Dead acid-pop of “Why I'm Falling”, and the classic harmony-laden power pop of “This House”. Great songs. None on the record is as terribly, frighteningly, bonkers awesome as “The Doc”. Yesterday, I tweeted this about said song: “huge chorus sneaks up and grabs ya by the cheeks, totally getting in yer face.”

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