afterstasis presents an album a day.

[afterstasis]

16-17 - Gyatso
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz/Industrial
Year: 1994

Searing woodwinds merge with aggressive industrial rhythms and glorious distortion. One of the most violent and genre-stretching jazz recordings of all time.

Recommended If You Like: John Zorn, Peter Brötzmann, The Vandermark 5, Ice, The Flying Luttenbachers, and Zu.

Trawler

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Timesbold - Eye Eye
Genre: Alt-Country/Chamber Folk
Year: 2004

I've never seen anything described as "chamber alt-country", but I really can't help but think that describes this album perfectly.
Simply beautiful, melancholic stuff here, well played and produced with an emotive, warbly-voiced singer. These guys should've made it big with this album.

Recommended If You Like: Bright Eyes, Songs: Ohia, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Woven Hand, Smog, and Lambchop.

Sample via tradebit.

EDIT: Blog updated.

[afterstasis]

Good grief, rockband.com...


Scrawl - Velvet Hammer
Genre: Alternative Rock/Indie Rock
Year: 1993

Downcast alt-rock with excellent female vocals and lyrics, produced by Albini to boot.
I've always claimed my disinterest in Liz Phair is due to hearing this infinitely superior album prior to any of her music.

Recommended If You Like: Pixies, The Breeders, Seam, The Afghan Whigs, Versus, and Tsunami.

Sample via emusic.

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Doris - Did You Give The World Some Love Today Baby
Genre: Baroque Pop/Traditional Pop
Year: 1970

Classic pop-soul collides with jazz, the baroque pop of the psychedelic era, and more. In a perfect world you'd hear a song or two from this album each time you accidentally turned on AM radio.
It's got some odder moments, but the constant "Swedish Bjork" comparisons people throw at this album really aren't on base at all to my ears.

Recommended If You Like: Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Dionne Warwick, Sandie Shaw, Lulu, and Cilla Black.

Did You Give The World Some Love Today Baby
Beatmaker
You Never Come Closer


Blog's been updated for a while.

[clashcityrocker10]

That Scrawl album sounds right up my alley.

[LegendofRock3021]

Insanity is excellent, Harry J Allstars and Marc Jonson are also really pleasant listens.

[afterstasis]

Technically doing 3 albums today, hey hey hey.


Perfect - Seven Days A Week/Once, Twice, Three Times A Maybe
Genre: Powerpop
Year: 1997/2004

After both The Replacements and his follow-up band, Bash & Pop, bit the dust Tommy Stinson formed Perfect, whose debut LP was axed by the label in '97 despite already going so far as sending out full promo copies to radio stations for play (Which were thankfully bootlegged!).
Though they broke up that same year it was in 2004 when Perfect finally saw an LP release, a retooled version of Seven Days A Week with a cleaner mix and somewhat different tracklist.
Perfect played a style very similar to The Replacements circa Let It Be, perhaps a bit more powerpop-focused.

Recommended If You Like: The Replacements or really any 80's/90's powerpop whatsoever.

Sample the more recent release via amazon.

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Doseone - Ha
Genre: Abstract Hip-Hop/Art Pop
Year: 2005

Doseone is a very abstract solo project from a member of Subtle, Themselves, cLOUDDEAD, 13 & God, and more.
I've seen loads of hate for this one, but I can't imagine anyone into Why?'s earlier material could resist this album's bizarre charms.

Recommended If You Like: Why?, cLOUDDEAD, Themselves, 13 & God, Hymie's Basement, and Busdriver.

Sample via itunes.

EDIT: Blog updated.

[afterstasis]

Koreisch - This Decaying Schizophrenic Christ Complex
Genre: Grindcore/Sludge
Year: 1999

Absolutely harsh and miserable, like Khanate recording a Today Is The Day tribute or something.
For all the noise and punishment to be found here there's also actually a very good deal of depth and dynamics. It certainly doesn't end up just being an endless wall of static broken up by samples like I've seen some moronic descriptions hint towards.

Recommended If You Like: Khanate, Today Is the Day, Circle Of Dead Children, Assück, Man Is The Bastard, and Throats.

Sorry, can't find any online samples.

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5ive Style - Self Titled
Genre: Funk/Post-Rock
Year: 1995

Featuring members of Tortoise and Wilco, this is an instrumental fusion of post-rock and earthy, playful funk (and a little dub occasionally filtered in).

Recommended If You Like: Do Make Say Think and Tortoise collaborating on a tribute to The Meters.

Deep Marsh

EDIT: Blog updated.

[berkthgar]

Doseone and the last two sound like great picks, will probably listen to them at work today!

[Ultimatum]

Today's stuff and Doseone sound great, have some catching up to do. I've always wanted to check out the projects related to Why?, but I've always been kind of wary.

[seriousbusson]

Both of those sound right up my alley.

Must play now.

[afterstasis]

Pete Dello - Into Your Ears
Genre: Chamber Pop/Psychedelic Pop
Year: 1971

Absolutely incredible Beatles-esque British chamber pop from this former Honeybus member.
Always highly melodic, upbeat, and just really enjoyable to hear, this album is insanely solid and the songwriting is at least as strong as a certain band's "Rubber Soul-Revolver" period in my eyes.

Recommended If You Like: The Beatles, The Zombies, Harry Nilsson, Love, The Left Banke, and The Move.

Do I Still Figure In Your Life
It's What You've Got
There's Nothing That I Can Do For You

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Struggler - It Was A Very Long Conversation But At The End We Didn't Shake Hands
Genre: Post-Punk
Year: 1982

Dark post-punk from Belgium, most likely inspired by the coldwave acts that preceded them. Highly effective in it's subtly unnerving and repetitious nature.

Recommended If You Like: Joy Division, Killing Joke, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Siglo XX, Ausgang, and Skeletal Family.

Sorry, can't find any online samples.

EDIT: Blog updated.