This week, we discuss the notion of bad music. Can music be bad? Can art be bad? And what is it like to fall out of love with an artist due to (perceived) bad music?

Albums of the Week:

Scott: Flying Lotus—Cosmogramma

Elaine: Derek Bailey/Evan Parker/Hugh Davies/Jamie Muir/Christine Jeffrey—The Music Improvisation Company

This week we take a slight turn off the traditional Caesura path and talk about about a few albums we found all within the indigenous/folk music traditions of East Asia! And, yes, we don't know how to pronounce most of anything, so sorry ahead of time.

Albums of the Week:

Scott: X—Alphabetland

Elaine: Tetema—Necroscape

It just so happens that today is that funny number day where everybody smokes up, and that we also talked about an album with the number 69 in the title...so we got both funny numbers! And therefore the episode should be titled as such. Enjoy our juvenile humor—and if you can get beyond that, we talk about some interesting stuff including: THEEsatisfaction's EarthEE, Ministry's Psalm 69, and dream recordings/rerecordings/covers of classic albums. Enjoy!

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This week we talk about a number of ambient albums we've listened to. Enjoy, and RELAX.

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This week we talk for an extra-long amount of time (really about half an hour more) about film music: what makes a good film score, the interesting relationship between film and music, and some of our favorite scores.

Albums of the Week:

Scott: Johnny Cash—Live At Folsom Prison

Elaine: Nine Inch Nails—Ghosts V: Together

This week we really knuckle down and talk about six—yes, SIX—albums that all have a special anniversary this year.

Albums of the Week:

Scott: Circa Survive—On Letting Go

Elaine: Steve Reich—Music For 18 Musicians

This week we take things super simple, and talk about two newly released albums: After Hours by The Weeknd, and Who Sent You? by Irreversible Entanglements.

Albums of the Week:

Scott: Fange—Pudeur

Elaine: Danny Brown—XXX

We get silly this week and attempt to make up subgenres, some cool, some just plain stupid (example: blackened reggae, SK/RL, respectively), but also get sidetracked and talk about Harry Potter and some other "serious" music topics.

Albums of the Week:

Scott: Vaisseau—Horrors Waiting In Line

Elaine: Fantomas—The Director's Cut

Among the things we talk about today are: the recent passing of McCoy Tyner, the music of Fela Kuti, and our dream picks for albums we wish we could afford to buy.

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Every listener has some sort of pitfall in their experience with music, whether it be an album or a genre they can't get into, or perhaps a bias toward a certain aspect of music. Today we discuss our own musical blindspots, and try to look at them from every angle we can.

Albums of the Week:

Scott: Taylor Ashton—The Romantic

Elaine: Andy Stott—Faith In Strangers