The Drift: the best in weird and experimental music
Cal Cashin rounds up the month’s best in strange and avant-garde sounds, including a record made with lawn mowers
Good evening fellow Drifters. The moon has once more passed all around the Earth since our last meeting, and that can only mean one thing – it’s time again to celebrate the last month’s strangest, silliest and most beautiful music.
It’s been a bumper month for such things, and with titans like Swans, billy woods, Stereolab, and Sparks releasing albums that rank among their best, it would be very easy to phone it in this month – to just shut up and play the hits. I’m also obsessed, hyper-fixated and enraptured by the new caroline album, but you can get your fix of that masterpiece elsewhere on L&Q, by reading Sam Walton’s fantastic interview with the post-rock octet once you’re finished here.
However, if you’re like me and if you’re reading the fourth edition of The Drift, I suspect you are – you will take great pleasure in digging deeper than the headlines. You don’t need me to tell you that post-reunion Swans still rock, or that it’s nice to have Stereolab back, but you do need me to introduce you to three albums from North Africa’s vibrant underground and a record of ECM-style jazz where the main soloist is a man mowing the lawn.
So, for the adventurous pleasure of everything that made it to Drift #4, here are my five biggest recommendations from the last month.
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