Ok so here’s the
breakdown and musical shakedown from the lair of yours truly, Count Robot.
3. Twink-Critter Club
Toy piano madness
with smoking horns! This release made the top 3 list based on the packaging of
the CD alone let alone the fantabulous sounds. It comes with tarot cards and a
complex symbology, which is used to entitle all the tunes. Brainer people than I
will be left to decode it all accurately but I will simply say all the symbols,
numbers, runes (?) equal awesome. I’ve long been a devotee to Twink but damn if
the addition of the live horns doesn’t lift this release up. It is impossible
to depressed while listening to such joyously infectious bright tunes. It’s a
secret bunny rabbit party at midnight in a jam-based forest! I would list stand
out tunes but I can’t type all the symbols without a code breaker!
2. Mission Creep-Sea of Suns
Lounge lizards set
the jams into go-go atomic cool party music. Been a long time fan of Mission
Creep. My t-shirt of theirs will continue to log many travel miles. So I was
overjoyed to get their first full-length recording. It’s a groovy collection of
tunes. Dig dropping the laser needle on this disc big time. Having a dull
party, throw this collection of songs on and the dance floor will rock up to a
Love Boat psychedelic jazz bop party town. One of my favorite tracks is Weed
Wacka and Lucky Dog is another stand out. Party down in surf space!
1. Electrik Wurms – Musik, Die Schwer Zu
Twerk
Ok the Electrik
Wurms are a version of the grand psych band The Flaming Lips. Wow. This CD is a
kraut rock spaced out freak out man. Discordant weirdness beauteous sounds flow
over under around everything man. This is one dense layer of sounds. Ok its
only 29 minutes but damn, it’s a trip of strangeness. It ends with a cover of
Heart of the Sunrise, which you would expect to be at least as ten minutes long
as the original but no it’s shorter. It feels like they did a bizarre edit/sample/time/mind/warp
of the original. Man its cosmic.
Please feed me more Electrik Wurms!
Ok so that’s 2014. Come on 2015
bring the good tunes!
There was a great torrent of
releases this year. This list is just so difficult to make….
Yours in awe at all the great music
of 2014,
Count Robot
