Tape Hiss Orchid

Bottom/ Sound Affects (Polydor) is a 1980 album by British group The Jam. This release, their fifth album, is frequently considered the closing point of The Jam's artistic peak begun on their third LP, All Mod Cons and carried through on its follow-up, Setting Sons. The most salient influence on this album is '60s British psychedelic pop, such as The Beatles' Revolver, The Who's The Who Sell Out, and The Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society. The psychedelic overtones run throughout the album. Other obvious influences are post-punk groups such as Wire, Gang Of Four, and Joy Division and, particularly evident in Rick Buckler's drumming, Michael Jackson's Off the Wall album. Indeed, singer/guitarist/songwriter Paul Weller said at the time that he considered the album a cross between Off the Wall and Revolver. The group would later explore the "Britfunk" sound in earnest on their next and final album, The Gift. Middle/ Nouvelle Vague is a French musical collective led by musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. Their name is a play on words referring simultaneously to their "Frenchness" and "artiness" (the '60s new wave of cult French cinema), the source of their songs (all covers of punk rock, post-punk, and New Wave songs), and their use of '60s Bossa nova-style arrangements. On their first album, Nouvelle Vague, the group resurrected classics from the New Wave music era, and reinterpreted them in a bossa nova style. The songs were stripped back to acoustic arrangements with lithe shaker rhythms achieved by gathering a parade of chanteuses from all over the world to cover bands including XTC, Modern English, The Clash, Joy Division and The Undertones. Their second album, Bande à Part (Peacefrog, 2006), includes versions of tracks by Buzzcocks, New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen and Blondie. Top/ Deerhunter is a five-piece self-described "ambient punk" band from Atlanta, Georgia, consisting of lead singer Bradford Cox, Moses Archuleta, Josh Fauver, Whitney Petty, and Lockett Pundt. Cryptograms is the second album from Deerhunter, released through Kranky on January 29, 2007. The album received critical praise and was followed by an EP titled Fluorescent Grey. Cryptograms is a more "subdued and introverted" record than its predecessor. The album contains themes of death and isolation,
and has five instrumentals, all of which are ambient in sound.