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May 20, 2006

Hail, Robin!

Hey y'all--the wonderful Robin Guthrie has a new solo record out, Continental. You can get it at the Darla Records website (where you can also find bunches of other great stuff, ie, Mahogany, Auburn Lull, the Durutti Column, Knife, My Morning Jacket, those Lowlife reissues I recently blogged about, and Appleseed Cast, a band who just happens to be from my old stomping grounds, Lawrence, Kansas.

Robin is also playing the Seattle Film Festival next month with the equally magnificent Harold Budd, so I bet they'll be playing a smidgeon of the songs from their Mysterious Skin score. Should be pretty majestic. You can get tickets here. Wish I could go!

(Above: great shot of Robin Guthrie playing guitar, circa 1996; shot of Harold Budd, with me looking awful and puffy since I was on tons of painkillers from surgery, at the cast & crew screening of Mysterious Skin, August 2004.)

Since I'm talking about music as usual, here's a list of eleven CDs I'm currently listening to:

Scott Walker, Drift (image #1);
Film School, Film School (image #2);
Wilderness, Vessel States (image #3);
Dykehouse, Nostalgia Radar ep;
the well-named I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Fear Is On Our Side (image #4);
the aforementioned Appleseed Cast, Peregrine;
Trespassers William, Having (image #5);
Sunset Rubdown, Shut Up I Am Dreaming;
White Rose Movement, Kick;
Built to Spill, You In Reverse;
(still!) Mogwai, Mr. Beast;
and, perhaps most of all:
Ellen Allien & Apparat, Orchestra of Bubbles (image #6).