king crimson

A decade before Prince became TAFKAP (The Artist Formerly Known As Prince) and adopted an odd symbol instead of a name, this band of mysterious origins also did the same. They insisted their name was the odd pictogram which appeared on the cover of their Doot Doot single, but at the insistence of their record company CBS they had to adopt a...
> fromthevaults/3315/freur-pronunciation-audiobiography-hold-me-mother-1983/

Sometimes there is just That Voice . . . a vocal delivery which is arresting, sublime, idiotic and otherworldly all that same time. And so it was with the vocals of David Surkamp, the singer with the prog-rock band Pavlov's Dog out of St Louis, who seemed to possess in equal parts the sound of Robert Plant's high drama, Leo Sayer on steroids...
> fromthevaults/3297/pavlovs-dog-julia-1975/

This quintet from Texas -- now on their third album -- has only appeared once previously at Elsewhere, a wonderful track on the collection Secret Love 4. That piece (the sample track posted with that album) was so impressive their name imprinted itself on my memory -- and then this album turns up. In the absence of hearing much else by them...
> music/2846/midlake-the-courage-of-others-inertia/

As the band most likely to be cited when the discussion turned to "post-rock", this five-piece from Chicago have been critically acclaimed for their magpie tendencies (they lift from prog-rock, free jazz, punk, post-punk, electronica, Can and other equally unconstrained Krautrock bands) but largely haven't connected with an audience...
> music/2527/tortoise-beacons-of-ancestorship-unspk/

A true story from the battleground of fun: a few fortyjust wags finishing last bottles when someone mentions an album title which reduces the gathering to choking laughter for a good two minutes. As someone observed later, “it’s some album when just the title breaks you up.” True – but the album in question...
> absoluteelsewhere/1995/king-crimson-in-retrospect-a-childs-guide-to-early-days-in-the-kingdom/