The mediaf!re Thread 2010: This Time It's Personal

[Orcusmars]

You guys are about to love me.
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Seriously.

Because you don't name this artist or album, no-one will be able to find it on a search.

What he should have said is, "Damn good post-rock by a band called Hauschka"

I'd get the album, if I were you, but satisfy your skepticism if needs be.

[the_pied_piper]

Hauschka is not a post-rock band. It is the alias of German pianist/composer Volker Bertelmann who experiments with "prepared pianos". This means he attaches a variety of materials to different parts of the piano to produce different tones and outside sounds, e.g. aluminium foil to produce a rustling sound.

However, it is a very good album and you should still get it.

[valley_parade]

HEY JENS WHERE THE FUCK IS THAT COCK SPARRER?

[Avec]

You guys are about to love me.
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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?dxyvetr3vqz

Seriously.

Because you don't name this artist or album, no-one will be able to find it on a search.

Hauschka - Ferndorf.

You're downloading free music, I think you can put a little effort into reading.

[Mr. Tool]

Just for the record, both of the White Rabbits' albums are awesome.

The Seal Cub Clubbing Club - Super Science Fiction

One thing the Northerners have definitely mastered is the art of contortion. Many times on Super Science Fiction they gradually weave shreds of dissonance into songs: taking a lo-fi threnody and twisting in convulsions of noise and other eclectic sounds. "Aurienteering" and "3ft of Air" both throw a surprising mid-game switcheroo. The former infusing its light 'n' breezy fare with deep, throbbing spy music and the latter taking a regal, cascading rhythm (akin to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) and bolstering the latter stages with eruptions of twitching noise which would make Norman Bates reel in terror.

It's not all Bates and switch though, opener "World of Fashion" sustains itself with a disco rhythm - the kind usually found in an MGMT or Calvin Harris composition - and deepens into a brooding, perilous atmosphere, always topped by that cheery, amaranthine melody line. It is the cockroach of riffs, able to survive any mood change, no matter what the severity. Even the seismic swells of the guitar-distortion-waves cannot shake it in the song's third act.

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[Zombiedude]

Gonna be uploading 2 Los Campesinos albums soon. brb

[Avec]

Am I the only one not happy about this?

[imapiratearg]

Yes.

What is wrong with you?

[scarred]

The Seal Cub Clubbing Club - Super Science Fiction

Yes. So many times over, yes.

[Zombiedude]

Here you go

Los Campesinos- Hold on Now, Youngster

Every now and then the title of an album is a perfect embodiment of the music found within. Los Campesinos! are dead right calling their album Hold on Now, Youngster..., because from the first track on, the album is a thrilling madcap whirlwind of sound, words, and voices that by the end leaves you feeling like you've been engulfed in an indie pop-driven hurricane. The members of the Welsh seven-piece are hyper-literate, hilarious, and know their way around a hook as they pile through the 11 songs on the album like they are on a breakaway heading for the goal. Words tumble out in jumbles, the lead voices (Gareth with his high-pitched whine, Aleksandra with her sweet kid tones) trade off lines and sass each other, and the instruments (guitars, bells, keys, violins) whip up a joyful mess, while the drums try mightily to pin it all down. Bands with less grasp on dynamics and timing and a less sympathetic producer than Broken Social Scene's producer Dave Newfeld might have ended up with a real mess of a record on their hands. Instead, Los Campesinos! have a ringing success here: a combination of punk rock energy, indie pop wit and emotion, indie rock experimentation, and the raw feel of classic garage bands throughout the ages. The bands they bring to mind at different points of the record are the kind of groups whose songs could tear your heart out with a sudden dynamic burst, a cutting lyric, or a singalong chorus, bands like Huggy Bear, Comet Gain, Heavenly, and the early Pastels. It's no stretch to include Los Campesinos! in this select group or to favorably rate their best songs, like the indie disco fave "You! Me! Dancing!"with its raging glockenspiels, huge chorus, and snarky lyrics; the hard-driving "Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s)," which features Aleksandra's best vocals; or the simply heart-stoppingly good "Death to Los Campesinos!," which sports the kind of hook that'll be stuck in your head for days. And you'll be thwarted if you try to find a weak spot or a duff moment on Hold on Now, Youngster.... The only possible problem is that people who need ballads to give them a breather between the squalls of noise and emotion will find them totally absent. They can go listen to a Shins album and leave the debut album of Los Campesinos! to lovers of wildness, unrestrained but thoughtful emotion, and careening songs that leave a mark when they hit you. Recommending this album seems too light a course of action; requiring it may be more apt. Consider Hold on Now, Youngster... highly required, then.

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Los Campesinos- We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

First there's the rule about not naming your band with an exclamation point, period. Then there's the one about not changing your last names so they're all the same as the band's, unless you're the Ramones (or arguably the Pastels). Referring to yourselves in a language not spoken in your country of origin? Another bad idea. Welsh boy/girl septet Los Campesinos! proved themselves an exception to all those rules this spring with Hold on Now, Youngster..., a debut album that encapsulated the best of three decades of indie's participatory culture.

There's no rule yet about not releasing a follow-up to your debut album in the same year, mostly because few bands have had the audacity to try it. Los Campesinos! are hedging their bets: they have yet to refer to We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed as their "second album," even when they announced it would come in a limited pressing with a DVD documentary, poster, and 30-page zine (including contributions from members of Xiu Xiu, Grandaddy, Tender Forever, Menomena, Parenthetical Girls, and the Beautiful South). There will be no singles (and to these ears, there are none), and some online retailers have taken to listing the 10-track, 32-minute release as a "mini-album." Forget the technicalities and call it what it is: a messy, glorious, and cohesive artistic document of internet café-era indie life that sounds best when sung by heart.

Recorded in Seattle with John Goodmanson (Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Wu-Tang Clan), We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed is a fittingly noisy release from a band who recently spent time on the "Shred Yr Face" tour with No Age and Times New Viking. The seismic instrumental "Between an Erupting Earth and an Exploding Sky" is reminiscent of a Swell Maps soundscape, and leads directly into the motorik-locked melancholia of "You'll Need Those Fingers for Crossing". Standout "Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time" is a lovelorn miniature epic, with gusting guitars and Parenthetical Girls-quoting lo-fi vocals which shift midway through to folky strums and scratchy, indecipherable mumbling. If you mistakenly dismissed the band as another set of childish twee-poppers, our special today is crow.

Los Campesinos! haven't changed drastically, though. Their self-loathing, anti-romantic bitterness, and LiveJournal detail have only intensified. Several songs sound like scuffed-up, feedback-streaked versions of the first record's shouty, strings- and glockenspiel-touched punk-pop, only the despair is now less deceptively perky, and more, um, desperate. Crashing opener "Ways to Make It Through the Wall" resigns itself to hopelessness, death, and the inevitability of becoming like our parents, even as it wonders "how you break the rules that you yourself imposed." Bleaker still, "The End of the Asterisk" rages of another person's self-deprecation, "It's spot on, and I'm better."

The precocious youngsters of the debut have become increasingly like the prematurely old man of Weezer's classic Pinkerton. Vomit is a recurring theme, on the cathartic title track and on "Miserabilia", which describes kneeling at urinals and imagines an ex masturbating. From 4 a.m. drunk dialing, "It's Never That Easy Though, Is It? (Song for the Other Kurt)" goes on to contemplate which is worse: "To see my ex-girlfriend/ Who by the way, I'm still in love with/ Sucking the face of some pretty boy"? Or to watch it happen "with my favorite band's most popular song in the background"? The finale, "All Your Kayfabe Friends", screeches to a halt after a fateful closing line: "I love the look of lust between your thighs."

Los Campesinos! know their history; they may be doomed, but not just to repeat it. We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed's ragged sound and distinctive packaging, like the band's propensity for non-album 7"s, hearken back to previous decades, but they're also an attempt to develop a new underground community in the here and now. "We want this to feel like a proper event, the sort of thing that you're going to be hyped about going to see for days or weeks before, and the sort of thing that when you leave will stick long in your memory, and that you'll be happy to have been a part of," co-lead singer Gareth Campesinos! says ramblingly of the Shred Yr Face tour, addressing us-- as rappers often do but indie rockers so far usually haven't-- via YouTube. "It is, undoubtedly, a little narcissistic," he adds. It ain't trickin' if you got it.

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[Tom]

Am I the only one not happy about this?

I just don't care, I've made my thoughts known on the band. If other people like them and want to share them, then they should be able to regardless of what some other people think.

[pulpfiction21]

I'm guessing he was unhappy because they have been posted before. I'm just guessing though.

[Zombiedude]

They aren't the only ones that have been posted before.

snobs

[Scandanavian War Machine]

everything Los Campesinos! have ever done is fucking terrible, besides the "Sticking Fingers Into Sockets EP" which is super-duper awesome for some reason. 

i don't know why

[imapiratearg]

wat

[Zombiedude]

I respectfully disagree with your opinion.

[Kyros]

everything Los Campesinos! have ever done is fucking terrible, besides the "Sticking Fingers Into Sockets EP" which is super-duper awesome for some reason. 

i don't know why

I do not respectfully disagree.

Pistols at dawn sir!

[Scandanavian War Machine]

yeah, i can't explain it. it's not like the music is different or anything (hell, some of the songs are even used again) but for some reason, i just can't listen to any of their albums without saying "fuck this" and putting on the EP instead.

[sean]

shit even i like that ep!

i mean that is just a really good ep. the rest of their stuff just isn't as good.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

exactly!

i'm glad somebody understands.

[Zombiedude]

Perhaps its just the fact that it's  shorter? Sometimes I don't wanna slog through an album even if I know it's good.

[Avec]

I'll just go ahead and say it, mediocre.


Edit: I just finished listening to the two albums, twice.

[Zombiedude]

I respectfully disagree with your opinion.

[Kyros]

You guys make me sad.

I frackin' LOVE those 7 Welsh Peasants...

In other news, I'm digging that Seal Cub Clubbing Club album.

[Sam]

avec paul was not really being too lazy to read your post! it wouldn't show up in a search because you did not type out the artist and title

[sean]

You're downloading free music, I think you can put a little effort into reading.

Your sharing something you love with a community, so put some effort into that! Just cause it's free doesn't mean you should half-ass it!

[Avec]

>:\

[DarkAvenger]

Hey guys! Actually posting here!




Okkervil River - "Pop Lie Single"

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Contains - "Pop Lie", "Millionaire" (unreleased track from the Stage Names/Stand Ins recording sessions), and "Pop Lie (One Man Band Version)".

Will plays all of the instruments on the latter two. "Millionaire" is kind of like "The Presidents Dead" except slower (in the way that it seemingly drifts from verse to verse without a seemingly related plot (yes it is one of THOSE songs (not a bad thing)). The solo version of "Pop Lie" isn't an acoustic version. Rather, it is just Will playing for a different take on the song. Think slower, and fuzzier. If you're downloading this you've already heard the first track unless you're curious about the band. In that case listen to the rest of their albums. A lot of people here disagree on which album is the best. I think "Black Sheep Boy", others recommend either "The Stage Names" or "The Stand Ins". Or "Don't Fall in Love With Everyone You See". Unfortunately "Down the River of Golden Dreams" appears to be the weakest (in a discography with no losers at all).

Sorry. I'm forgetting which forum I'm on. Everyone here pretty much is in love with Okkervil River already.

[theoryC]

Viva Voce - Rose City

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?zemnqxtgz5z

Any chance of a re-up?

[Harun]

ruuuuullllllllllllllllllles.

Orcus or one of mods maybe add them to the top? I think we've gone to far to post them all the way down here.

[Jeans]

HEY JENS WHERE THE FUCK IS THAT COCK SPARRER?

Nowhere in sight! I was gonna upload them both last night but  seem to have misplaced both albums somehow. noooo. I will see if I can find them this afternoon.

[theoryC]

ruuuuullllllllllllllllllles.

There are rules against pointing out a dead link? >_>  EDIT: Oh shit, looks like I fail X(

Well anyways just so's I'm contributing:

Hector Zazou and Katiejane Garside - Corps Electriques

1           Apostrophe (6:08)
2         Porte De Saint-Cloud (6:25)
3         Cocoon (4:56)
4         Butterfly Plaintif (5:13)
5         Vespers Of St. Katrina (3:01)
6         Loveless Sky (4:31)
7         Agony Of The Rose (5:46)
8         Ice Flower (5:43)
9         Symphony Of Ghosts (7:05)

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http://www.med!afire.com/?2ymgyttyitm

When you first think about it, the combination of Hector Zazou and Katie Jane Garside is almost unfathomable. For all of his experimentation, I have found that the Zazou recordings I have heard tend to have in common a studied calm; while Katie Jane can go from a whisper to a scream and points in between within the space of a phrase or two.

Yet, their collaboration (with Bill Rieflin, Lone Kent, and Nils Petter Molvaer) works beautifully; Corps électriques is a stunning piece of work, by turns beautiful, haunting, sweet, disturbing, and always intriguing.

Those familiar with Katie Jane's most recent music will find this to be a perfect companion to Ruby Throat's The Ventriloquist. While the Ruby Throat album is primarily acoustic, Corps électriques utilizes more electronic instrumentation. Yet, the electronics complement Katie Jane's vocals quite well; at no point does she seem to be out of place in this different setting.

There isn't much more I could say about this album that would do it justice. Suffice it to say that I find it to be utterly compelling, and recommend it highly.

Couldn't find a good review and I'm actually only halfway through it myself, but it sounds really good, and I don't think I have much that hasn't been uploaded already anyways.  First impressions suggest a hearty recommendation.

[Jeans]

Hey guys, there was some talk about Hauschka on the previous page - just thought you should know: The top blog post of Coilhouse Magazine right now is about a movie that is a collaboration between Hauschka and Jeff Desom, a young German filmmaker.

I can't link directly to their post because the Coilhouse blog software sucks, so to anyone reading this in the future: Sorry. This is a relic of the past. Search for it if you want to!

[valley_parade]

HEY JENS WHERE THE FUCK IS THAT COCK SPARRER?

Nowhere in sight! I was gonna upload them both last night but  seem to have misplaced both albums somehow. noooo. I will see if I can find them this afternoon.

I have both Shock Troops and Running Riot in '84, but my computer's being really picky right now, so I can't upload them for you. Damnable machines.

(Though seriously, Shock Troops is so much better)

[coldenginelogic]

TERRY ALLEN
Juarez
The Single Greatest Concept Album of All Time, Brecht-Style.
I am going on record here: Terry Allen's Juarez, a country-rock album recorded in 1975, is the best concept album ever recorded. That's right: better than Tommy (eesh) and Quadrophenia (which I love) and The Who Sell Out (which used to be my favorite); better than Willie's Red Headed Stranger (slightly overrated) and Marty Stuart's The Pilgrim (massively underrated); better than De La Soul Is Dead or A Prince Among Thieves or Under Construction or Imitation Real Life Gazette or Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band or anything else you can name.
I say this knowing full well you won't believe me, because you haven't heard Juarez. In fact, only about 1,050 people ever owned this record, because that's how many copies were printed.
http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/a/allenterry-juarez.shtml -the rest of above lengthy review.

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[Jace]

Totally Michael - Totally Michael

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/file/gzznyzze4ty/Totally Michael.zip

Sometimes, boredom takes us great places. At 20 a musician named Michael, who had amassed some fairly significant musical experience playing in a “crappy punk band” in high school, was living at home with his mom in Cabot, Arkansas, just a little perplexed about what to do with his life. Driven by boredom, armed with a guitar and a swift talent for using home recording software, Michael transformed himself into Totally Michael, a buoyant musician with a penchant for pop hooks and an adoration for blink-182.

Its just some really upbeat music and it makes you feel good about yourself when you listen to it.

[Zombiedude]

Hey guys, there was some talk about Hauschka on the previous page - just thought you should know: The top blog post of Coilhouse Magazine right now is about a movie that is a collaboration between Hauschka and Jeff Desom, a young German filmmaker.

I can't link directly to their post because the Coilhouse blog software sucks, so to anyone reading this in the future: Sorry. This is a relic of the past. Search for it if you want to!

You could link directly to the video

[Mr. Tool]

Viva Voce - Rose City

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?zemnqxtgz5z

Any chance of a re-up?

Why? That link is still good.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

here is sort of a strange (and admittedly, not very good) upload. the band is Dead End Grave, a psychobilly band that i spent a couple weeks singing for in highschool. this is their three song demo that they recorded after they kicked me out of the band. give it a chance to grow on you because when you first hear it you will be like "wow, this sucks" but aftter a little while you might actually find yourself enjoying it, i don't know. i do, anyway.


Dead End Grave - demo

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the first track is called "The Creature of Your Death" and the third and final track is called "Saw Is Family." i have no idea what track two is called.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

also, could somebody please please re-upload The 1900's Cold & Kind?

Google refuses to give up the goods this time.

[Avec]

The Accidental - There Were Wolves.

If you were planning to eat rock salt and fiberglass, this would be nothing like it.

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The term "supergroup" is misleading. As characteristically bloated, ego-driven juggernauts who hog precious limelight time via past glories, it is difficult to fathom many of the over-hyped efforts made by such conglomerates of talent. What the hell is so "super" about Zwan and Velvet Revolver, anyway? The Accidental — Sam Genders (Tunng), Stephen Cracknell (The Memory Band), Hannah Caughlin (The Bicycle Thieves), and Liam Bailey (Liam Bailey) — may not be coincidental parts of arena alt-rock behemoths used to demanding live emus on their backstage riders, but they are super nonetheless, and unquestionably deserve the label more than many others. Apart, they are each important cogs to their primary musical machines; together, they form a band that is increasingly garnering a lot of press for being, well, super.

Maybe "super side-project" is a more appropriate term to use for The Accidental (a perfect name for a band who came together through a series of casual acquaintances and whim recommendations). On their debut album, There Were Wolves, they tackle the oft-trampled territory of strange folk with a simple concoction of great songs and heart-warming vocal performances. Refreshingly, they sound not like bandmates who come together between holidays and rehab stints, but rather like those who share a central nervous system. Everything on There Were Wolves is catchy and well-arranged — sometimes lushly, often minimally — but what stands out primarily are the impeccable vocals.

[lauraelise204]

i can't believe no one has uploaded this yet!  it's a pretty popular leak right now.  all the searches i've done on google have come up with links that are no longer available, so i had a friend send this to me.

it's really different.  more consistently upbeat throughout the album than previous ones.  i really like it a lot!


mewithoutYou - it's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream! it's alright

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[Avec]

FUCK YEAHHHHHH@%#^I)AEJOG)_)%JG_(^%(^(%(99259-_s

[Zombiedude]

Yeah, I thought basically the same thing.

[Avec]

I see what you mean now, I'm up to the third track and Aaron Weiss isn't doing his poetry monologue thing. I'll finish listening and update my thoughts.

[iamiam]

the 1900s - cold & kind

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hxxp://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?mje0wm1jnjc

[lauraelise204]

the 1900s - cold & kind

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hxxp://www.mediaf!re.com/?sharekey=e1c4ae55d0de278c391d7d881749d3a7

mmmm..... fail.......... that link just takes you to an empty folder on mediaf!re.

[Jeans]

You could link directly to the video

Yeah, but a) I like linking to Coilhouse so I pretend I know people who read it, and b) you get Meredith Yayanos' commentary on it as well!

[iamiam]

fail..........

fixed my original post!

[Scandanavian War Machine]

thanks for that 1900's record, iamiam! i haven't had that record since all my music ran away a while back and i've been wanting to listen to it really badly lately.