Thursday Random Eight (10/01/2009)

Tom Waits - Yesterday Is Here: Waits could do no wrong during the Frank's Wild Years era.

Thuja - Untitled Track 01: From Pine Cone Temples, seemingly a growing favorite on the Random Eight. This is pretty much noise; high percussion, eerie groans, and ambient droning spanning 12+ minutes.

Caribou Vibration Ensemble - Brahminy Kit: About twenty musicians (if not more) filled the stage to play at this group's recent ATP festival showing giving a pretty crazy mix of drums, horns, guitars, and probably a bunch of other things as well.

Peter Holsapple / Chris Stamey - She Was The One: A minimal, great song from the Mavericks release.

Tom Waits - Sixteen Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six: Waits could do no wrong during the Frank's Wild Years era.

Clint Mansell - Pi R 2: From the Pi soundtrack, one of my favorite movies and my first real introduction to how fantastically Mansell could score a film.

Archers of Loaf - Form and File: Proving that the words "concept album" do not need to fill one with dread.

Cocteau Twins - Violaine: I heard this BBC Sessions playing in a CD shop a while back and felt compelled to buy it. I had never listened to this band previously and I doubt if I even knew one song. I don't think it has lived up to whatever it is I heard in the store that day, but it is kinda awkwardly haunting which I guess is always a sell for me.