The Bloody Glove is BACK! again. My top 20 LP's of 2010....

The Bloody Glove's top 20 albums of 2010... I know it's a bit late, but bare with me. Albums 20-11 will be posted this evening and the remaining 10-1 will be revealed tomorrow. Cheers from the Bloody Glove and I hope you've all had a wonderful holiday season!  ON WITH THE ROCK!!!

-Barski

It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land...

SOULSAVERS

"It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land"

Red Ink Recordings

2008

"There's gonna be a revival tonight," intones Mark Lanegan, accompanied by members of the London Community Gospel Choir, to open the second Soulsavers album from British producers Rich Machin and Ian Glover. Enveloped by a lush organ and dusty, looped beat, Lanegan sounds, if not reborn, then hopeful, which is a fresh look for the grunge-scarred meth-blues crooner. Machin and Glover see themselves as a posttrip- hop, Southern Gothic version of Portishead, with Lanegan as the weary diva, singing on eight of these ten atmospheric tracks. Frustratingly, the duo's cinematic visions simmer more than they soar, though a reimagining of the Rolling Stones' "No Expectations" as a stately Leonard Cohen–esque benediction is stunning.

Here's a Taste...

Download the LP HERE

More SOULSAVERS 

Brooklyn Pop Doomsters Heliotropes Get Bloody...

HELIOTROPES

"III"

2010

'Heliotropes' from Brooklyn NY. Here's a distinctive, hypnotizing sound with really nice structures to keep things interesting. A handful of influences, from Current 93 & Sleep to Nick Cave & Lauri Anderson. 'Poppy Doom'? 

Thanks to Rob for this gem!!

Heliotropes - True Love's Knot live @ Pianos NYC 9/18

Heliotropes | Myspace Music Videos

Download the EP III HERE

MORE HELIOTROPES on MYSPACE

Denmark's BABY WOODROSE raid the bloody glove

BABY WOODROSE

"BLOWS YOUR MIND"

BAD AFRO RECORDS

2001

My Danish brethren have done it again!  This band is pure sleaze garage goodness.

In reality a one-man operation by Lorenzo Woodrose who wrote the songs, played all the instruments, produced the record together with Riky Woodrose and put it out on his own Pan Records in 2001. More obscure, psych and lo-fi than the new stuff but the songs are every bit as cool! Presented in a daring sleeve by Malleus sure to raise an eyebrow or two.

Tracks: 

1. No Way Out
2. Baby Blows Your Mind
3. What A Burn!
4. Caught In A Whirl
5. Pandora
6. Spinning Wheels Of Fire
7. Living A Dream
8. Flaminca
9. Maya
10. D’ya Get What You Give?
11. Kara Lynn
12. Right To Get High
13. Mind And Soul
14. Nobody Spoil My Fun 

A TASTE....???

CHEERS to BLOWING YOUR MIND!!

MORE BABY WOODROSE HERE

Pirate Love slips into the Bloody Glove...

PIRATE LOVE

"BLACK VODOUN SPACE BLUES"

VOODOO RHYTHM RECORDS

2008

'Black Vodoun Space Blues', named after a Johnny Thunders song, is Pirate Love's first full-lenght, which was released on the famous Voodoo Rhythm record label. Mixing 60's garage with 70's nihilistic punk, this Oslo-sextet brings with 'Black Voodoo...' a furious, psychedelic and very solid garage (surf)rock album, which stands comfortably alongside the ranks of Black Lips, Demon’s Claws & 80's Matchbox B-Line Disaster. -pascalito

Peep the weaponry that is BLACK VODOUN SPACE BLUES...  HERE

Show them some LOVE HERE

Here's a taste...

helmet is now rocking the glove

HELMET

"SEEING EYE DOG"

REDEYE

2010

 This is the Helmet I came to love back in the 90's.  This album embodies why I still keep Helmet in heavy rotation through the years.  Opens up HEAVY AS BALLS!  Making you wanna drive your car off a cliff style HEAVY on the title track, "Seeing Eye Dog".  They're currently touring so be sure to go out and support them.  Here's a taste...

Check it the lp

HELMET on MYSPACE

a bloody glove exclusive preview of The New KYLESA LP, "Spiral Shadow"

Kylesa

"Spiral Shadow"

Season of Mist

2010

 This LP is scheduled to be released next week, but the bloody glove has exclusive access to this AMAZING new Kylesa LP!!  Savannah Georgia can do no wrong!!  Let me know what you think!

Cheers!

Check it...Spiral Shadows

Check out their Myspace

Tracklist

1. Tired Climb
2. Cheating Synergy
3. Drop Out
4. Crowded Road
5. Don't Look Back
6. Distance Closing In
7. To Forget
8. Forsaken
9. Spiral Shadow
10. Back And Forth
11. Dust

the bloody glove is proud to bring you Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan | "Hawk"

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan

"HAWK"

V2/Vanguard

2010

 Two more complementary sets of pipes have rarely been paired—and while that’s been the intention all along, the duo’s third full-length, Hawk, still banks on that delicious friction, and does it well. Campbell’s pixie-like chirp and Lanegan’s slow-burn growl entwine to do particular justice to Townes Van Zandt’s “Snake Song,” one of two covers of the late Texas country-folk legend. Throughout the song’s pulsing, loping blues, the duo’s voices don’t harmonize so much as curl around each other like perfume and pipe smoke. Great Album.

Download the lp HERE

For more Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan check out their myspace here