Thank you so much Recent Music Heroes for including Farewell, Doomed Planet! on their Best Albums of 2019! See the full list here.
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CJSW Katharsis/Processed
Lovely ambient and downtempo jams on CJSW’s Katharsis/Processed this weekend; catch up with the archived episode on their website, and thanks to Kevin and Krzysztof for including “Cosmonaut Chorus” among such great company.
Listening: WMBR Sound & Fury, KCUR Night Tides, Dandelion Radio Beatbox Saboteurs
Catching up on listening…
Dave Goodman’s fascinating remembrance of former Boston City Councilman Chuck Turner on WMBR’s Sound & Fury closes out with “Departure,” and is followed by Peter Bochan’s A Shortcut Thru 2019:
“Beau Travail” on the ever-lovely Night Tides from KCUR:
And finally, the Beatbox Saboteurs show on Dandelion Radio this month includes some Farewell, Doomed Planet! as well; see the broadcast schedule here.
WTUL and CITR Charts
Farewell, Doomed Planet! has made both the CITR (Vancouver) and WTUL (New Orleans) charts this week, spreading the joy of post-apocalyptic junkyard drone pop (thanks Jasper) almost 3,000 miles. Thanks to all the DJs who have made this possible! See the WTUL charts on their website and the CITR charts on Twitter.
The Letter “Music I loved in 2019”
Thank you so much to Blair Millen for shouting out Farewell, Doomed Planet! as a “genre-bending” album that “deftly crossed various musical plains with aplomb.” Blair’s got loads of great recommendations; see more over on The Letter.
CJSW SpeakEasy and Nightmare Delirium
Catching up on some more CJSW plays from the weekend:
CJSW’s 2019 Rewind: Noise
Start your year off with some NOISE!!! thanks to CJSW‘s “tunes that had lots of play in 2019” Noise show with Paula Fayerman, including “Baleen Executioner” off Farewell, Doomed Planet! Listen over on the CJSW site.
Avant Music News Best of 2019
A huge thank you to Avant Music News for including Farewell, Doomed Planet! on their Best of 2019 list. Lots to peruse here; see the full list, plus their Albums of the Year, over on the blog.
Best ofs: Counterzine, An Earful, Houdini Mansions
First of all, big props to blogs who wait til the actual end of the year to make their year-end lists! I really appreciate being recognized on the following:
anearful Best Of 2019: Electronic: Farewell, Doomed Planet! “I can imagine watching the big blue marble disappear in the porthole while listening to her loopy melodicism and watery textures, which brought both Eno’s Apollo and David Torn’s guitar to mind.”
Houdini Mansions Favorite 100 Albums of 2019: Strategic Tape Reserve’s ShopLand World: Music for a Discovery Park of Miniature Supermarkets (including my track, “What Penumbras“) at no. 30
And “What Penumbras” also made it to no. 175 on Counterzine’s Top 200 Tracks of 2019, as listed on Twitter
WTUL Charts
Thanks to WTUL for two consecutive weeks on the charts! Farewell, Doomed Planet! is #2 overall and #1 electronic album for the week ending 12/29. See the full charts here.
Elizabeth Joan Kelly 