Best of 2019 #5: Kim Gordon - No Home Record (Matador)

If you had told me in 2011 that the break up of Sonic Youth was going to be a good thing, I may have slapped you in the face while crying. Man, I loved Sonic Youth. But, their break up has given us more music from each individual in the band, and it's been uniformly great! It's also been interesting to see which member was instrumental in each part of the band's sound. Thurston Moore has given us the same moody, skronky guitar noise-rock that Sonic Youth was known for, and constistently ends up on my Top 10 lists. (2011, 2013). Kim Gordon has gone in some wildly extreme directions, first a wall-of-noise style instrumental guitar band with Bill Nace called Body/Head, a foray into visual art, a biography called Girl in a Band (which I desperately need to read still). some acting, an album with experimental band Glitterbust, and finally, in this year, the first proper solo album under her own name. No Home Record is a dense mix of experimental rock, guitar noise, skittering electronics, echoed vocals and ambient atmospheres. Kim Gordon continues to surprise with her range after 40 years in music.

DNTTA Log for March 6, 2020

Artist - Song - Album (Label)  * indicates Canadian Content 

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Woodhawk - Clear the Air* - Violent Nature (Independent)
Alder and Ash - No More Storms* - The Crowneater (And an Earth)
Sleepy Gonzales - Sleepwalking* - Mellowtrauma (Independent)
Mogwai - Acid Food - Mr. Beast (Matador)
Friendly Rich - Donkey Day* - We Are All Terrorists (Pumpkin Pie Corp.)
Fyonha - Lie Down
The Shangs - Just a Little Boy* - Golden Hits of the Shangs (Independent)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Galleon Ship - Ghosteen (AWAL)
Third Coast Percussion - For All It’s Fury – Cradle - Fields (Cedille)
The Basement Paintings - Koan* - Antipodes (Independent)
Shrouded Strangers - Oilheart - Lost Forever (Independent)