Dave IS rock and very heavy. Leader of The Lurid Yellow Mist and one of the guitar dab hands of SALMON. Australian pop royalty. His web presence is here.
NAS “untitled”
The most “conscious” album to be heard in years. He keeps up the outrage and the lyrical brilliance all the way through.Two great albums ina row, (following “hip hop is dead”).
Lil Wayne “Tha Carter 111″
Punk from New Orleans who owns his label and sold a million copies ina week. First guy to do so in five years. It’s a sprawling and comic epic. This album and Dr Johns album of this year tell the real story of post Katrina New Orleans.
Dr Dooom 2
aka Kool Keith and he kills his other alter ego, Dr Octagon. This is deathly funny, especially if you’re a musician. He delivers a song for all the people who’ve ever put out a record into a world that doesn’t give a fuck except to give you a lot of jive in the track “you’re talkin out your ass!”. No samples, all horror synths.
Kevin Ayers “the unfairground”.
Used to be the singer for the Soft machine and made this album with a lot of young American and English musicians in tight stretch jeans.
Rodney Crowell “Sex and gasoline”
Used to play guitar and sing for Emmy Lou Harris. This is class all the way through. Nothing alt, just class.
Kaye Louise Paterson “International travel”
Melbourne piano playing singer songwriter. Classic reach for a “West Coast” sound that dragged something else into the world.
Tactics “the sound of the sound volumes 1 and 2″
These are worth it for the liner notes alone.
The Lurid Yellow Mist ” we wuz curious”
Its an r&b album. I don’t know how we strayed so far away from what’s going on in the festival paddocks but we just did…
Queens of the Stone Age “Era Vulgaris”
Probably last year but I saw them this year and played the album all the time.
Paul Westerberg “stereo”
2002 but I got to tune into it this year. Tons of people try to do this but he just owns that sound.
