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

[Jughead5267]

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[Mr. Tool]

The Protomen is fucking tit-tacular. Thanks so much.

Also for everyone posting the new Camera Obscura album, I put it up in this thread way back when it first leaked and the link is still good.

Search function works y'know.

[scarred]

I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet. (Or maybe it has, but it just didn't show up when I searched for it.)

Cassettes Won't Listen - The Quiet Trial [2006]

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?txghyfwmd2q

Cassettes Won't Listen - Into the Hillside [2009]

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

It's completely balls-out ridiculously awesome and beautiful instrumental electronic-indie goodness. "To Have A Crush," the first track off of "The Quiet Trial," is one of my favorite songs of all-time. His new LP is just fantastic, too.

Listen to the single "Into the Hillside" here.

[Lwize]

Holy crap! 676MB.

[onewheelwizzard]

Attention QC music board: Prepare to shit yourself.



Om - God is Good (2009) - 320 kbps

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?mtmymczomui

OH FUCK

FUCK MAN

I DIDN'T KNOW

::shits self::

[Mixitup]

Massive Attack – Splitting The Atom EP (2009)

Massive Attack is back with an EP containing four new songs, two of which are remixed. If you notice on the track list, all the songs feature a guest vocalist, such as TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe. Horce Andy guest-vocals on “Splitting The Atom,” a chilly, yet intriguing track that premiered on BCC Radio 1 August 25. The track sounds like a play on the virtual band Gorillaz, a tad creepy, but not completely outlandish.

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?qyymagnmx44

[Mixitup]

Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2009)
http://www.myspace.com/califonemusic

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?mdkkmyym0zq

[Mixitup]

Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2 [REMASTERED] 2009   

Sunny Day Real Estate is a band from Seattle, Washington. While not the first band to be classified as emo, they were instrumental in establishing the genre. In 1994, the band released their debut album Diary on Sub Pop Records to critical acclaim. However, shortly after releasing their second album LP2, the band broke up with members Nate Mendel and William Goldsmith joining the Foo Fighters and Jeremy Enigk embarking on a solo career. In 1997, they regrouped long enough to record two more studio albums and a live album, but ultimately disbanded once again in 2001. The band has reunited once again in 2009. Bassist Nate Mendel, who chose to remain with the Foo Fighters during the previous reunion in 1997, is now taking part in this reunion.

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?0mjymmmwwco

[Sox]

That link is for the pink album.

[Cernunnos]

Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2009)

ohhhh shiiiiiitttt

[MennoniteDan]

Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2009)

Link is fried already

[Ben792x]

The Wild Beasts album is HIGHLY recommended. The review below is a composite, because it's really hard to get a grip on the magic of this band. Please check them out or see them live, they put on a great show.

Wild Beasts - Two Dancers

The opening trio of songs on Two Dancers is one of the best you'll hear all year, comprising a number of genuine mouth-open, fuck-me-this-is-good moments. "The Fun Powder Plot" signals the Wild Beasts' big changes right away: guitars chime over intricate percussion and keyboards, and Hayden Thorpe's falsetto, once the most divisive instrument in the band's arsenal, is smooth instead of raging In contrast to their first album's fidgety, impulsive baroque'n'roll, Two Dancers sees Wild Beasts refashioned as a steely art-funk outfit  The band's ability to shift rhythms and tempos is one of their key assets, and the way lead single 'Hooting & Howling' ebbs and flows as the arrangement is stripped down and built back up again is simply masterful. Drummer Chris Talbot's dynamic yet sensitive percussion is one of the track's - indeed, the record's - key ingredients. Desire and sensual pleasures fuel these stories about eating, dreaming, stealing, and carousing, from "All the King's Men"'s flirtations to the libertine exploits of "We Still Got the Taste Dancin' on Our Tongues," a spooky, spaghetti Western-tinged track with lyrics like "Trousers and blouses make excellent sheets." However, hedonism's violent side and its consequences aren't forgotten amidst all the romance, and the album gets darker and more brooding as it unfolds. The pace slows for the album's latter half, lending proceedings a more reflective, cerebral mood. Indeed, the two-part title track has a distinctly post-rock feel to it, with one guitar building somewhere just off-centre before reaching a rhythmic crescendo and then dropping off, the other, meanwhile, delivers twinkling arpeggios.

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

Spoon- Love Ways

Loveways served as a reintroduction to Spoon's core audience as a wiser, more confident combo. Britt Daniel and Jim Eno's unmistakable post-punk energy still anchors the band, but their infatuations with Wire and the Pixies have ceded a bit to allow blues, pop, and even doo wop influences in. While not their most cohesive set, the diverse range of the five songs is the EPs strength -- Loveways was the first indication that Spoon was chasing their own sound into exciting and unexpected territories, and in the process coming into their own as a great rock band.

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?2ttdzkmnhmk

[blacksheepboy]

Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2009)
http://www.myspace.com/califonemusic

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?mdkkmyym0zq

Please re up!

[pulpfiction21]

Do Make Say Think - Other Truths (2009)
Post-rock/Experimental

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?xk0zwjoekmn

[Koremora]

Beat me to uploading it. FUCK YES NEW DO MAKE SAY THINK YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[sean]

holy shit that file is huge

[David_Dovey]

Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2009)

Link is fried already

THEY'RE ON TO US

[look out! Ninjas!]

What's the stats on that effing huge Beatles upload? (bitrate and whatnot?)

[Jughead5267]

The Beatles Mono are 135-183 VBR mp3s.
To be honest, they still don't sound all that bad. I've preordered the box from Amazon, and when I get it (2-4 weeks!!!) I'll up everything in 320.

[Mixitup]

Monsters of Folk leaked.......

[valley_parade]

So...Witch. Witch are a hard rockin' kinda stoner rock thing from New England. J Mascis plays drums for them. Here's their latest album.

Witch - Paralyzed (2008)

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?yd3nflfjmnw

[pat101]

Massive Attack – Splitting The Atom EP (2009)

Massive Attack is back with an EP containing four new songs, two of which are remixed. If you notice on the track list, all the songs feature a guest vocalist, such as TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe. Horce Andy guest-vocals on “Splitting The Atom,” a chilly, yet intriguing track that premiered on BCC Radio 1 August 25. The track sounds like a play on the virtual band Gorillaz, a tad creepy, but not completely outlandish.

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?qyymagnmx44

OH neat, didn't know they had anything new coming out. Thanks 

[Theriandros]

Any chance of seeing music on this thread that probably wouldn't be perfectly in-character for the cast of the comic?

[sean]

...what?

[tender]

He must want some Édith Piaf.

[Theriandros]

*sigh*

[karl gambolputty...]

what comic?

[scarred]

I'm pretty sure the reason we all read this comic and visit this forum is because it started out as an "indie rock" comic and we're all mostly into that sort of thing. I mean obviously it's branched out since then, but I'm almost positive we're not going to see Lady GaGa uploaded any time soon.

[colin06]

Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk (2009)



Track Listing:

1. Dear God (sincerely M.O.F.)
2. Say Please
3. Whole Lotta Losin’
4. Temazcal
5. The Right Place
6. Baby Boomer
7. Man Named Truth
8. Goodway
9. Ahead of the Curve
10. Slow Down Jo
11. Losin Yo Head
12. Magic Marker
13. Map Of The World
14. The Sandman, the Brakeman and Me
15. His Master’s Voice

Code:

Monsters of Folk
Quality: 256kbps
Format: m4a

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?t5nmn02d5mn

[variable_star]

He must want some Édith Piaf.

He's outta luck there. But I do have some hot Enrico Caruso tracks.

[MrDorman]

Starflyer 59 - Silver [1994]
Shoegaze

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?yjdy4omqnmo

I've got their discography, if anyone is interested.

[DarkAvenger]

Any chance of seeing music on this thread that probably wouldn't be perfectly in-character for the cast of the comic?

Yeah we just host it on Google.

[MrDorman]

I'm pretty sure the reason we all read this comic and visit this forum is because it started out as an "indie rock" comic and we're all mostly into that sort of thing. I mean obviously it's branched out since then, but I'm almost positive we're not going to see Lady GaGa uploaded any time soon.

o hai

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?z1zz5zmnalw

[Scandanavian War Machine]

true story: i had never heard of Lady Gaga until a couple days ago and up until just now i didn't know she was a musician. anyway here is a conversation i had on the subject.


Stranger: "hey, did you hear? Lady Gaga is a man!"

ME: "um, okay. who is Lady Gaga?"

Stranger: "oh. uh....well she's.....a man, apparently."

ME: "....okay then. see ya later."

[Scandanavian War Machine]

it was just as idiotic and pointless then as it is now

[epoch]

I'm pretty sure the reason we all read this comic and visit this forum is because it started out as an "indie rock" comic and we're all mostly into that sort of thing. I mean obviously it's branched out since then, but I'm almost positive we're not going to see Lady GaGa uploaded any time soon.

o hai

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?z1zz5zmnalw

Thank you so much for this! O My Gawd.
I've been looking everywhere and I haven't been able to find this. Thank you!

[tender]

He must want some Édith Piaf.

He's outta luck there. But I do have some hot Enrico Caruso tracks.

Hot as Lady Gaga?



Herbie Mann & João Gilberto w/Antonio Carlos Jobim - Recorded in Rio de Janeiro



Year: 1965
Label: Atlantic
Total time: 31:20
Bitrate: 320 kbps

Personnel:
Herbie Mann (Flute and Alto Flute)
João Gilberto (Guitar and Vocals)
Antonio Carlos Jobim (Arranged, Piano and Vocals)
Baden Powell (Guitar) - 12

This album is a classic of the jazz/bossa nova golden period.  Same as Do the Bossa Nova, it was recorded in Rio de Janeiro with Brazilian artists.  It included João Gilberto - who Miles Davis said "would sound good reading a newspaper" - the guitarist Baden Powell and Tom Jobim himself, author of several songs in the album and responsible for most of the wonderful arrangements, some piano playing and the vocal in One Note Samba.  In two instrumental tracks Mann and Powell are alone in marvelous duets: listen how in Consolação the flute soars above the delicate phrasing of the guitar in a haunting effect! ~ Oto A. Maia

This is part of the "first U.S. wave" of Bossa Nova music.  It relies heavily on Antonio Carlos Jobim who wrote some of the most beautiful music and sits in on several cuts.  The music "swings so cool and sways so gentle."  Mann and Gilberto travel in separate circles, but they both understand what Bossa Nova is about and whether you are on the floor close-dancin' or kicking back with a cool one, this music should please. ~ Porterfiend

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?za3wtlj4mdh

[variable_star]

He must want some Édith Piaf.

He's outta luck there. But I do have some hot Enrico Caruso tracks.

Hot as Lady Gaga?

Oh, absolutely. . .

[scarred]

Lady GaGa Post

Touche, sir.

[Zombiedude]

BEST FWENDS-Alphabetically Arranged(2007)

Best Fwends’ music is a big attention-deficit-disordered smash-up of punk, early Beastie Boys and unrefined 8-bit sounds. It's a kindred sound to those of British bands like Gay Against You and Applicants: frantic, but rooted in pop and/or rock. It’s trashy, cheap, headachy noise, but noise that a lot of love has clearly been put into. What at first seems to be simply brash and unpleasant does reveal itself to have a certain degree of subtlety and sophistication - 'Adultnap', for example, is a punk-pop classic of sorts, albeit one viewed in the lowest possible resolution, pixelated to fuckery.

Alphabetically Arranged is supposed to act a bit like The Hive's Your New Favourite Band - a best-of-so-far aimed to launch the band in the UK market. In fittingly don’t-give-a-fuck/post-modernly-self-aware (you decide) style, they've just chosen a bunch of "the best and worst songs [they've] made over the past four years" and whacked them on the CD - you guessed it - alphabetically arranged, from 'Aaww Some' to 'ZWZZT'. This makes the record pretty much impossible to approach as a whole, to really take it in. Is it a cop out of actually putting some effort into the track listing and the complete product, or a statement about the transience of digital media? ("It's just going to end up on iPods anyway, so here you go.") Either way, the barrage of 29 short tracks tends to lean towards a tiring indistinguishability.

That said, there are certainly highlights: ‘Bump in the Night’ is almost Hot Chip-esque pop geek'n'b, whilst ‘Days Seem Shorter’ seems to evoke the purest, most un-ironic love of the group sing-along power ballad at the same time as a certain unsettling attention seeking brattishness. Tellinglly, ‘Get Cleen’ launches into a Bonde Do Role-shaming battle-hop groove before being slowed down and stopped after 35 seconds. Frustrating.

It's the type of music that journalists feel compelled to hyperbolise about, and it’s certainly hyperbolic music, but at the centre of things it’s a bunch of pretty good pop songs with a wide-eyed, excitable sense of optimism in the freedom of its production.

    * Best Fwends 7 / 10

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?2jnnymiozlt

[variable_star]

/obligatory

[Catacombs]

While kinda funny, was that really necessary?  In this thread?

[variable_star]

Absolutely not. It's a boorish, reprehensible thing to do. But I'll make it up.

DAVID GRAY - DRAW THE LINE (2009)

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

As we approach the end of the decade, expect an avalanche of lists, including those for its bestselling albums. Dido and Robbie Williams will dominate, in the UK at least, suggesting a divided nation oscillating between sedation and light entertainment. Tucked in behind should be an interloper with an acoustic guitar, David Gray, who began his career back when it was all Britpop and no one cared for earnest singer-songwriters. So Gray didn't hit pay dirt until his fourth album, 2000's multi-platinum White Ladder. After that, singer-songwriters were everywhere, although the man himself has never repeated the trick, settling down for two more albums of still lucrative MOR. Although looser, Draw the Line doesn't reinvent the Gray wheel. He can still write a melody and there's a pleasing bite to the lyrics, which allude to the state of the world post-Iraq, with Fugitive's "crouched in a hole like a mud-streaked fugitive" inspired by Saddam himself. - Some guy on The Guardian

[Zombiedude]

What is the point of cutting your hair like that kanye? I gotta know.

[scarred]

It's a boorish, reprehensible thing to do.

the internet

[mod_a]

Islands - Vapours (22 Sept 2009)

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

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[mod_a]

Sufjan Stevens - BQE (20 Oct 2009)

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?2m4laqzym2o

[scarred]

Y U TEASE ME LIEK DIS

[Zombiedude]

Cocktease

[mod_a]

sorry while i was uploading i wrote them up, my connection is killing me for some reason, you can find them on the internets if you want.

I am just uploading for this forum's sake.

If you want some more tease: Islands uses auto tune on track #8 Heartbeat