In 2023, the Seattle region's musicians generated a lot of interesting music, as is their wont. Below, I discuss 10 releases that really stood out in my gluttonous listening diet. Not to come over all chamber of commerce on ya, but these recordings represent but a tiny fraction of cool sounds from our portion of the world. Here we go. 01 N Chambers, Seaside Resonance (Soft Profile). One of two posthumous albums from the late.
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Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, “Fried Soul” (Colemine). The encouraging rise of Seattle's Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio proves that even at this late date, old-school instrumental funk can move asses in masses large enough to make major waves in the retail and radio realms. The success of 2021's I Told You So and the new Cold as Weiss albums testifies to the enduring appeal of the greasy grooves and disciplined virtuosity of Booker T. & the.
punk’s first generation,
grunge most certainly earned its place on rock’s historical timeline, the perfect antidote to the cliche-ridden joke
hardcore became fairly quickly: Everyone attempting to run the 100-yard dash in two seconds? Why not take a nice, leisurely stroll, instead? Most know that meat turns out better when you cook it low ‘n’ slow, anyway. Why not give Fender Jazzmasters the same treatment?
The roots of grunge are fairly easily traceable. San Francisco’s
Flipper ran the opposite direction from hardcore’s ascendant “
Faster! Louder!” ethos in 1979. How can one listen to such Flipper classics as “Sex Bomb” or “Ha Ha Ha” traveling at a funereal pace, coated with Ted Falconi’s sludge-o-matic guitar and not hear proto-grunge?