Singleversity #11

Audiversity’s weekly column on random music in a predetermined number of words between 1 & 150. This week's randomly generated number: 48.

(Ed. - Originally this was called Threeversity, but in the spirit of simplicity we've decided to retroactively relabel all of these posts. The content remains unchanged.)

MA:



Produced by Lee “Scratch” Perry, "Ashes and Dust" is an eerie remix of Augustus Pablo’s seminal “Vibrate On” from 1977. Perry sounds lost among Pablo’s sensuous melodica and the phase-shifting proto-disco riddim. Is he praising Jah or asking for guidance out of his unstable mental state? Simply haunting.

JR:



Silver Apples: Most slept-on band yet to be excavated by the blogosphere. Put this NYC duo in the same deep breath as Can, Kraftwerk, or Suicide. Circa 1968, Simeon & Taylor were justly ruling like futuristic shaman poets piping psychedelic electronic music into the depths of your subconscious.

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Broken glass started my relationship with Pretty Girls Make Graves. I'd heard "Liquid Courage," but "Holy Names" offered a more poignant, less anthemic side that's rarely celebrated. Though they're breaking up and I've moved on, I will always have a place for "rooftops with secret views." Aging romance.