Amoeba hollywood Staff

Spirit Only (LP)

Becker & Mukai

Low-energy, dubby jams in the style of Krautrock kings Can.

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Tony B
Amoeba Hollywood
Cashier/Poster Pal/Info. Leo Sun. Gemini Moon. Sag Rising. Hot Tip: Brush your teeth sitting down.

One of my new favorite bands signed to one of my favorite labels, Dais Records. Hazy and beautiful stuff from these guys. Excited to see where they are headed.

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Heavier than ever. So psyched they are back. This new stuff made me revisit all of the old albums and it all still sounds amazing. There's no one like Yow.

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Any time Actress puts something out, I take note. One of the coolest and provocative electronic artist of the last 15 years. Check out all of his stuff for sure. "AZD" from 2017 is one of my favs.

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Awesome Mid 90's Techno-Ambient-Break-Sample stuff from FSOL. I missed this one the first time around... been playing this a lot lately.

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Distant Call - Collected Demos 2006-2009 (LP)

Broadcast
Trish Keenan 4EVA. It's truly special for us to be able to listen in on these demos. Broadcast was perfect. Read more
Bennett
Amoeba Hollywood
scalpygonzales1.bandcamp.com

Skull (LP)

Zyklon B Zombies
I couldn't believe when I saw this reissued. I'd been tantalized by over way-outta-my-price-range 7"s by this band but had never been able to even track down a sound clip online. Then Lo and Behold! Bless the reissue era. It's totally wild. Wild wild noisy and inspired and funny and scary. Hard to beat the sounds of Japan 1993 Read more

Dream House 78'17 (LP)

La Monte Young/Marian Zazeela
Speaking of reissue blessings! This one on wax for the first time in forever. Truly a one of a kind game changer. The last 5 years or so I think has seen a massive surge in interest in minimalist/drone/ambient music. Reaching popularity levels these artists never could have dreamed of. Perhaps its an appealing respite from the bang bang chaos of seeing 30,000 10 second video clips a day etc. Perhaps its a reaction to an exhausting 7 decades of 3 min pop songs drying up. Dono. But I'm right there with it and this is as good as it gets in the form. Read more

Mu (LP)

Don Cherry
There's also been a surprising (and very related) surge in Don Cherry love. Everyone loves Don Cherry! Everyone loves his love and his sublime aspirations, his simplicity and elegance and radical edge. Some of the best records ever made, for real, including this one here with the mighty Ed Blackwell on drums. Trumpet Drums duos. What a world! Read more

Sidney Bechet Plays Sidney Bechet (LP)

Sidney Bechet
This one surprised me a little more to see pop up last month! A new era of Bechet love would be incredible to see. The best horn soloist of his era. An "in" for a lotta jazzers to an older tyme sound that would otherwise sound corny to our ears but sits at the root of everything that matters. Bechet makes you get it. Beautiful beautiful lyrical new orleans playing. Like silk. Read more
Killian
Amoeba Hollywood
Punk kid from CT

Submarine (LP)

The Marias

What Happened To The Heart? (LP)

Aurora

Funeral Soundtrack #4 (LP)

Destroy Boys

Supernatural (LP)

Barns Courtney

I Love You So F***king Much (LP)

Glass Animals
Derich Heath
Amoeba Hollywood
dheath.bandcamp.com letterboxd.com/derichheath

I was expecting Ben to suck but it's actually kinda badass? The relationship between the kid (good little actor) and Ben is effective and there's an alluringly surreal quality to this film. Take, for instance, the townsfolk: after each rat attack, said locals gather to observe the aftermath and just stand there silently, frozen in place like a still life. This happens several times and it's very strange. Equally weird is the fact that the ten year old boy is an incredibly gifted musician and songwriter who sits at a piano and writes the title song off the top of his head. He plays Moonlight Sonata on a harmonica at one point. Gene Siskel gave Ben a highly positive review, praising the film for its successful mixture of gross-out horror and genuine drama. He was right. It's a rock solid b-movie.

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Cosmopolis (BLU)

David Cronenberg

Moving up my Cronenberg list. The surreal atmosphere of Cosmopolis could choke a horse; all the elements are off-kilter yet easily recognizable. Unmistakably this planet, the era we inhabit. Eric Packer, the dead-eyed billionaire who cruises through a cramped and crumbling urban hellscape in his tomb-like stretch limo, feels real to us despite behaving like a fucking alien. He displays no visible emotion for any living thing, or the fact that his empire is dissipating all around him, but cries his eyes out over a dead pop star he's never met. Like most of Croney's recent efforts, it's heavier on ideas than on spectacle and largely driven by dialogue. It's not easy to get on board with the unusual melding of Cronenberg and DeLillo, but this time around I was fascinated. Cosmopolis is a layered, relevant piece of work where every line delivered both speaks to our world and helps evoke an entirely new one.

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Conan the Barbarian is cool and everything, but Dillinger is by far the best movie John Milius ever directed. A fast, mean, ultraviolent crime story brought to life by an amazing cast. Harry Dean Stanton makes such an impression with a minimal amount of screen time. Milius was pretty young back in '73 and his raw, unpolished (somewhat scatterbrained) style works for the material. There's a sense of immediacy to it. You might expect him to present these criminals as macho badasses - which he does, to an extent - but he's equally interested in making fun of fragile masculinity and chipping away at American myths.

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Nighttime (LP)

Killing Joke

Everyone should own this album. It should be distributed to schoolchildren.

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Understated, contemplative character study about a kind old soul re-entering the life he abandoned in search of his beloved pet pig. The film follows no predictable pattern or formula. First time writer/director Michael Sarnoski displays real control, creating a slightly stylized yet relatable environment while delving into a criminal element rarely depicted on-screen: the culinary underworld. Shady restaurant black markets. What he's saying about love, loss, passion, and remorse is communicated with powerful clarity thanks to a tight script and remarkable acting from Cage, who turns in his finest performance since Leaving Las Vegas.

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