#ben shemie

[badarchitectrecords]

Listen to this new track ‘Y” by Ben Shemie!

[daily-coloring]

Best of 2022 - Albums

What a boring year it was. No big surprises, nothing out of the blue, only a few perfect records. 

01. Rosalia - Motomami - “The Spanish singer’s third album delivers gem after gem, as flamenco rhythms rub shoulders with sassy party flexes.” The Observer

02. Tove Lo - Dirt Femme

03. The Smile - A Light of Attracting Attention

04. Walt Disco - Unlearning - Definitely not for everyone. “Flamboyant goth-glam that doesn’t care what the boomers think.” NME

05. Tamino - Sahar

06. Marian Hill - Why Can’t Be Just Pretend?

07. Marlon Williams - My Boy

08. The Wombats - Fix Yourself, Not The World

09. Joywave - Cleanse

10. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer

11. Nilüfer Yanya - Painless

12. The Fear Ratio - Slinky

13. Wojciech Rusin - Syphon

14. Lyndsey Lawlor - Dearest Philistine

15. Honey Dijon - Black Girl Magic

16. Moin - Paste - “Moin’s approach on Paste is barebones, but discerning – taking a craft knife to 80s and 90s indie music and using it to fashion their most fleshed-out release yet. “ The Guardian

17. Belle and Sebastian - A Bit of Previous

18. Florence + The Machines - Dance Fever

19. Moderat - More D4ta

20. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia

21. Jockstrap - I Love You, Jennifer B

22. MO - Motordrome

23. Virgil Enzinger + Submerge - At The End

24. Ange Halliwell - Lullaby For The Dead

25. Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel

26. Röyksopp - Profound Mysteries - All versions are the same. Mostly great songs + few you can easily skip. Would be a great record if they could release the strongest songs on one record. 

27. Caterina Barbieri - Spirit Exit -  “For music that evokes empty clubs and shuttered churches, built on patterns dictated by a “mechanical fortune teller,” its humanity is its most haunting quality.” Pitchfork

28. Badawi - The Book of Jinn + The War of Art

29. Mykki Blanco - Stay Close to Music

30. Rival Consoles - El Caso Figo

31. Archive - Call to Arms and Angels - “What is so impressive about these songs – all of them, not just the lengthy ones – is the daring and almost fearless way with which they progress. Archive aren’t afraid to have hugely infectious would-be mainstream hits such as ‘Freedom’ collapse inward on themselves. They’re also not shy about dangling the carrot in front of their crescendo-expectant audience only to have things fade out to the gorgeous trickle of a classical piano. In the same token, there are moments when you think you’ve floated into a quiet pasture for respite when Archive will suddenly whip out the electric guitars and flood that space with noise. The transitions can be jarring but tend not to be, as Call To Arms & Angels feels less like a puzzle held together by separate pieces and more like a painting in which the different colors bleed together to form a beautiful image. It all feels interrelated, the product of a bold, creative, and eclectic vision that’s been executed to perfection.” Sputnik Music

32. Bodi Bill - I Love You, I Do

33. Get Well Soon - Amen

34. Methyl Ethel - Are You Haunted?

35. Working Men’s Club - Fear Fear - “The album tells its own superbly structured story, bathing in synthesis and heavily grounded in the contexts of lockdown, while allowing these very contexts to steer the process beyond angst and towards a utopian catharsis.” Clash

36. Stabbing Westward - Chasing Ghosts - “Stabbing Westward fans will get everything they love about the band and fair weathered fans might just be won over with this album. An absolute must buy for your industrial rock collection.” Spill Magazine

37. Hot Chip - Freakout/Release

38. Daniel Avery - Ultra Truth

39. Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa

40. Benjamin Clementine - And I Have Been

41. Purity Ring - Graves

42. Ben Shemie - Desiderata - “Shemie has described Desiderata as "a soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist." While this statement rings true (opener "The Departure" could have fit nicely on the score to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey), it's also a bit of a disservice to the album.” Exclaim!

43. Local Suicide - Eros Anikate 

44. Deliluh - Fault Lines

45. u-Ziq - Magic Pony Ride

46. Ovend - Rush

47. Maggie Koerner - The Bartholomew Songs

48. FKA twigs - Caprisongs - “In a discography filled with experimental pop played at an overwhelming intensity, Caprisongs offers both a feeling of playfulness and self-assurance.” The Young Folks

49. Beyonce - Renaissance

50. Subjective - The Start of No Regret - “Goldie takes a breezy trip through various avenues of electronic music with this real goodie bag of an album that’s focused, well-produced, and great fun.” Music OHM

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no. 01: SUUNS - The Witness (2021)

BANDCAMP | WEBSITE Okay let's get this started! I'm going through my collection in the order I have them on my shelf. Which is rainbow order.

Before I get into the album, though, I have to share my ridiculous slipmat that my mom got me a couple birthdays ago.

That is a signed image from John Jagos. He finally saw me at a show in 2023. ANYWAY.

The Witness is one of 3 Suuns albums I have in here, and the most recent from them. It came after Max Henry departed the band which was a sad moment for me and left me wondering how things would change (I likened it to the same feeling I had when Rostam left Vampire Weekend). Alas he still plays synth on 3 of the tracks ("Third Stream," "Witness Protection," and "Go To My Head" - aside: I also have the latter as a single released as a split with Blonde Redhead). I can still feel his influence all over this album, even as it's a bit more viscous than the last couple of their releases.

I picked this up when a classmate gave me a gift card to one of our local record stores for my birthday. I also got Low - Hey What which we'll get to later! I think this coke bottle colour variant is sooo cool - the minimal design of this record is pretty pleasing with the stark contrast of that shocking red-orange and the soft teal. The transparent records always remind me of candy and I want to take a big crunch out of them...

I truly love this album and this band so much. I was so happy I got to see them earlier this year, as I had really gotten into them just a couple months before the beginning of the pandemic. And also the fact that I remember Ben Shemie saying somewhere that they DON'T LIKE TOURING CANADA lol.

Favourite tracks: "C-Thru" "The Fix" "The Trilogy"

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Video: SUUNS Share Sludgy and Shoegazy "Wave"

New Video: SUUNS Share Sludgy and Shoegazy "Wave" @suunsband @JoyfulNoiseRecs @pitchperfectpr

Montréal-based experimental rock outfit SUUNS— founding members Ben Shemie (vocals, guitar) and Joe Yarmush (guitar, bass) with Liam O’Neill (drums) — can trace their origins back to 2007: Shemie and Yarmush got together to make some beats, and it quickly evolved to a few songs. The duo was joined by O’Neill and Max Henry (keys) to complete the band’s first lineup. The band signed to Secretly…

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Jahn Koutrios, nachneun, Neubad, Luzern, 2020

[wittylittle]

Mon dieu que j’aime la voix de Ben Shemie

Pis Jpeux même pas aller au show samedi :(

[half-a-tiger]

BEN SHEMIE - “Change”, off the Suuns frontman’s sophomore solo album 'A Single Point of Light' out June 12th, 2020 via Hands In The Dark Records.

[zaphmann]

In Memory of John Peel Show 220805 Podcast & Playlist

In Memory of John Peel Show 220805 Podcast & Playlist

“It’s impossible to listen through your show without either liking something a lot or hearing something that I can’t stand – never boring” https://radiopublic.com/in-memory-of-john-peel-show-6nVPd6/ >> the best new music, independent of the industry system – back this show on patreon Paypal to zaph@zaphmann.com heard in over 90 countries via independent stations (RSS)Pod-Subscribe for free here…

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My WVUD playlist and stream, 1/14/2023

Jeff Beck - Air Blower Jeff Beck - Sophie Jeff Beck - Nadia Dalis Car - Sound Cloud Mick Karn - Tribal Dawn Kanot - La Danse Des Corneilles John Lee / Gerry Brown featuring Chris Hinze & Gary Bartz - Infinite Jones Magma - Kobaïa (live 2020) Magma - Walömëhnd Ëm Warreï Fred Pallem & Le Sacre du Tympan - Le sablier Monster Rally - Soft Sand Jules Brennan - Kamakiri Dub Citizen - Cave Painting Ben Shemie - The Future Indefinite (feat. Molinari Quartet) Vaal - Song Zero Gaye Su Akyol - Biz Ne Zaman Düşman Olduk Edena Gardens - An t-eilean Dubh Oren Ambarchi - Shebang IV

(listen on Mixcloud)

[mirrorcities]

I was hiding from me by putting you in the way and I can tell that you were hiding from you

ackerman - 1000 variations of yourself / 12 decembers - who you are, what you want to be, and how they can be the same / waveform* - shooting star / post office winter - your local slaughterhouse / told slant - flashlight on / hayden casey - soften up / ben shemie - magic eye / suuns - make it real / kevin krauter - how / marlene bellissimo - noise war / rain recordings - new sun

links for streaming

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stream these :: Vintage Crop + Honey Radar + Noveller + Dougie Poole + Coriky + Ben Shemie + Vile Creature + Melvins Mudhoney + New Fries + Anura + Cheekface + TENGGER – GIMME TINNITUS - https://bit.ly/2YQb2MV

[garadinervi]

Jahn Koutrios, nachnull, Neubad, Luzern, 2020

[wittylittle]

Je sais que tu aimes la distorsion, ou les effets. Whatever. Moi j’aime vraiment cette « chanson »