TROUBADOURS - "Everything Is Being Recorded All The Time" LPTroubadours Everything Is Being Recorded All The Time LP (Few Crackles, 2025) Another unique release of mysterious trip hop jazz experimental electronic confusion from one of the most dependably "other" labels going ""Everything Is Being Recorded All The Time is the debut album of Troubadours, a tentacular collective composed of Laura Lippie, Kim Khan, Dr. Winzo, Vahan Soghomonian, Diane Barb and many others. Shaped over the course of three years

The lyrics work similarly

They were cool and it was welcoming

so anything of his is mandatory

“Dust: recordings 1980-1984” follows the band's journey and the changes in their sound over the years

a meeting point of C86 and the Brill Building Sound: lovely versions of Beat Happening’s “Cry For A Shadow”

the album draws from the group’s string of excellent seven-inch singles

‘alchemical’

the first O'Rourke album for Drag City

from melodic to experimental

the deep involving groove of Natural Information seems still more relevant

but a lot of beautiful things were born as well

intentionally disjointed