Singleversity #41

Audiversity’s weekly column, slightly modified, on random music in a predetermined number of words between 1 & 150. This week's randomly generated number: 74

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What a fascinating and endearing set of music Arthur Russell’s Instrumentals 1974 (especially "InstrumentalsA") can be to slightly jaded ears. Russell’s electric cello is buried in the distant corner of the grooving, guitar-woodwind-and-hand percussion mix, but his yearning melodies tint the track a languishing hue. In typical Russell habit, the piece was shelved after its initial test pressing, but Audika was kind enough to include it as part of 2005’s reissue First Thought Best Thought.

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I've been floating between Montreal and San Diego this past week. As a tidy capstone and for a different kind of Gravity separate from Silver Mt. Zion, Clikatat Ikatowi will go down in history as yet another underappreciated San Diego punk act with a penchant for violent noise and careful catharsis. Not up for the group's affiliate acts in Heroin, Thingy or the Black Heart Procession? Try "Affirmation" from 1996's Orchestrated & Conducted instead.