Futurism Restated #62: Tropical Ambient, Balearic Jazz, and the Death of an Icon

New music from Jan Jelinek, Ezmeralda, Shabason/Gunning, and more

Steve Albini—what’s to say? I grew up on Big Black; they never felt like my band in the way that some groups of a similar vintage (Sonic Youth, Rites of Spring) did, but I loved Songs About Fucking, which I must have taped off a friend in high school. It conveyed a defiant, don’t-give-a-fuck thrill that none of the other (plenty defiant) punk rock I lis…