Amoeba hollywood Staff
Tony B
Amoeba Hollywood
i don't like myself very much.
Bennett
Amoeba Hollywood
scalpygonzales1.bandcamp.com
Space-time Dreamtime (LP)
Lori Vambe
This is so great. Got my vote for best reissue of 2023. It's a private press from the early 80's of Zimbabwean/British genius
Zoning in out and around on a homemade instrument. Subtle and deep, exciting sweet, raw and inspired. Just great.
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A Lament For Epirus 1926-1928 (LP)
Alexis Zoumbas
I been loving this collection of 20s Greek music. Beautiful folk drones that reach places Free Jazz would stumble upon 50 40 years later.
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Death Party (LP)
Gun Club
This gets reissued every now and again but we're due for another. Slipped by me for the first many years of my Gun Club fandom but it's damn near as good as anything they got
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Skylarking (CD)
Horace Andy
Does everyone else already know about this one? I'm obsessed. A good contestant for the best reggae album i know in fact! Looping and looping in my car
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Hani Polyphonic Singing in Yunnan China (LP)
Hani from Yunnan China
This is some of the wildest music I ever heard in my life. Sounds like nothing else. Played in a group with the simplest of reeds and pipes and grasses... just unbelievable. Unbelievably avant garde unbelievably beautiful
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Khalik Hena (LP)
Warda Al-Jazairia
We got all kindsa problems in this world, all kindsa unprecedented and terrifying problems, but to live in the re-issue renaissance, the golden archive era, has some really incredible benefits. Like this LP originally recorded in 1973. I feel legitimately grateful I ever got to hear it.
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Free Repetition (CD)
Scalpy
This is my piping hot brand new album. Is this kosher? I dig it, i'm proud of it, i think it's fresh and interesting. Perhaps you'll dig it as well.
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Killian
Amoeba Hollywood
Music, Horror and the number 42. Hollywood Buyer.
Prelude to Ecstasy (LP)
The Last Dinner Party
Favorite album of the year so far. Baroque pop at its finest.
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Does You Inspire You (LP)
Chairlift
Caroline Polachek’s first foray into music still holds up 16 years later.
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A Dog A Deer A Seal (LP)
Hit Bargain
Amazing LA punk. Was lucky enough to see them open for Les Savy Fav and became an immediate fan.
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When Evil Lurks (BLU)
My favorite movie of last year. Great atmospheric horror with the right amount of shock value.
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Derich Heath
Amoeba Hollywood
dheath.bandcamp.com
letterboxd.com/derichheath
A Ghost Waits (BLU)
An immensely likable flick about a likable guy falling in love with a likable ghost, it's easy to see why this received almost unanimous praise from critics. A Ghost Waits begins as a horror-comedy, incorporates an effective romantic angle, and concludes on a sincere, poignant note. That ending might have proven fatal in the hands of lesser artists. It was a bold move, and they pulled it off. Shot in B&W on a shoestring budget, the film possesses so much heart, from a DIY-filmmaking perspective and a basic human one. Funny, entertaining, unexpectedly touching stuff. I want to hug this movie.
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The Scarlet Letter (BLU)
No one asked for it, no one wanted it, but Kino-Lorber released Roland Joffe's 90's adaptation of The Scarlet Letter. Personally, I'm grateful. Hilariously wrongheaded in every way, it offers up more laughs than your average comedy - many of them thanks to Robert Duvall, looking, sounding, and behaving exactly like Lord Farquaad. I like when Demi gives birth to a baby that's, like, at least ten months old. A "so-bad-it's-good" gem.
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