#^d 2016-05-30
#^h Music Week
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<p>Music: Current count 26674 [26660] rated (+14), 424 [428] unrated (-4).</p>

<p>Right. Week cut short on Friday, after I posted
<a href="/ocston/arch/rhap/rh1605-1.php">Rhapsody Streamnotes</a> on
Wednesday. Missed the <i>Festen</i> album there -- you always miss
something. RED Trio is pretty good too. The other Clean Feeds will
have to await my return, in a couple weeks or so. I'll be checking
email, but not much more. Hopefully get some reading done. Maybe
even figure out what the fuck I'm doing with my retired, reclusive
life.</p>

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<p><b>New records rated this week:</b></p>

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<li><b>Adult Books: <i>Runing From the Blows</i></b> (2016, Lolipop): [r]: <b>B+(*)</b></li>
<li><b>Lucy Dacus: <i>No Burden</i></b> (2016, Egghunt): [r]: <b>B+(***)</b></li>
<li><b>Festen: <i>Festen</i></b> (2015 [2016], Clean Feed): [cd]: <b>A-</b></li>
<li><b>Kevin Gates: <i>Islah</i></b> (2016, Atlantic): [r]: <b>B+(*)</b></li>
<li><b>Will Goble: <i>Consider the Blues</i></b> (2015 [2016], OA2): [cd]: <b>B+(*)</b></li>
<li><b>Tony Malaby Paloma Recio: <i>Incantations</i></b> (2015 [2016], Clean Feed): [cd]: <b>B+(***)</b></li>
<li><b>Sei Miguel: <i>(Five) Stories Untold</i></b> (2014-15 [2016], Clean Feed): [cd]: <b>B+(**)</b></li>
<li><b>Nick Millevoi: <i>Desertion</i></b> (2015 [2016], Shhpuma): [cd]: <b>B+(**)</b></li>
<li><b>Myriad 3: <i>Moons</i></b> (2016, ALMA): [cd]: <b>B+(*)</b></li>
<li><b>Oddisee: <i>The Odd Tape</i></b> (2016, Mello Music Group): [r]: <b>B+(*)</b></li>
<li><b>RED Trio/John Butcher: <i>Summer Skyshift</i></b> (2015 [2016], Clean Feed): [cd]: <b>B+(***)</b></li>
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<p><b>Recent reissues, compilations, and vault discoveries rated this week:</b></p>

<ul>
<li><b><i>Fame: Jon Savage's Secret History of Post-Punk 78-81</i></b> (1978-81 [2012], Caroline True): [r]: <b>B+(**)</b></li>
<li><b>Allen Lowe: <i>Louis Armstrong: An Avant Garde Portrait</i></b> (1992 [2016], Constant Sorrow): [bc]: <b>B+(***)</b></li>
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<p><b>Unpacking:</b> Found in the mail last week:</p>

<ul>
<li><b>Andrew McAnsh: <i>Illustrations</i></b> (self-released)</li>
<li><b>Jason Palmer/Cedric Hanriot: <i>City of Poets</i></b> (Whirlwind)</li>
<li><b>Roberta Piket: <i>One for Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland</i></b> (Thirteenth Note)</li>
<li><b>Samo Salamon/Stefano Battaglia: <i>Winds</i></b> (Sazas/Klopotec)</li>
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