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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
ADRIAN WOODHOUSE:
NOAH 23 - fry cook on venus
(sounds like: indie/rap/anticonish)
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KvP:
Raspberry Bulbs - Nature Tries Again
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Black metal kind of falls into two camps – the funereal kind that sounds almost like it’s been rotting in a tomb for a few decades before we get to hear it, or the sort that’s so fast you have to check the speed on yer turntable to be certain. Both are valid and both categorized by the treble-heavy growl and Scandinavian fetishism, and US Raspberry Bulbs definitely fall into the faster category. Black metal’s roots are in hardcore punk, and the Bulbs aren’t afraid to wear this influence on their sleeves. Sure, previous US acts have done similar – Bone Awl for instance write merciless hardcore BM that some say could break the faces of children from ten miles away, but Raspberry Bulbs seem even more punk than metal at times. Sure there’s the snarl that categorizes the genre, but there are songs, there is musicianship and there’s a hardcore lilt to the music that almost wrenches you out of your seat. Somehow ‘Nature Tries Again’ doesn’t sound so internalized, so doomed by decadence; instead it is music to tear down walls, kick through windows and determinedly not drink, smoke or take drugs to. Saying this, I’ve had the record on three times now – just don’t tell the neighbors it was me OK? Highly recommended.
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Gyratory System - New Harmony
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---You’ve got to hand it to Gyratory System – their flighty, playful electronica is nothing if not unique. This, their second album, painstakingly assembled by producer/trumpeter Andrew Blick, feels in the main like a willfully cartoonish take on the steam-powered industrial cut-ups and avant-electro-funk of Cabaret Voltaire and Test Dept, but there are all kinds of unlikely and beguiling tangents to behold: opener ‘Lost On The King’s Road’ recalls Coil’s forays into rave and the title track is like the collaboration between Wax Stag and Black Dice that you never knew you wanted. Embedded with references to William Blake, 19th century socialist communes and more contemporary political unrest, there’s plenty to get your teeth into, and some of the less self-consciously potty material – ‘I Must Create A System’, ‘Hotel Curious’ – is just divine. It’s rare that albums this erratic and experimental are also such fun.
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valley_parade:
Somehow I never pictured you as a black metal guy, John.
KvP:
I'm not, generally! This just sort of sounds like a blackened Flipper, to me, which is cool.
clockwatcher:
We haven't had this up yet right?
HOW TO DRESS WELL - LOVE REMAINS 320
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For me, this is what that James Blake record should've been like (I didn't like it - though I know lots of you did)
I'm still not sure i'm in love with this but it's certainly interesting stuff
here's pitchfork.....
--- Quote ---If the contemporary R&B slow jam thrives on the tension between earthy sexuality and the spiritual concerns of gospel, How to Dress Well mostly does away with the sex part. The thin recording and distant-sounding vocals cause the physicality of the music to dissipate into a spectral fog, leaving behind music that feels intimate and devotional and ultimately lonely-- there's a song called "Can't See My Own Face" and another called "My Body", and you get the feeling that the domain of the music probably stops there. This isn't a space for probing the specifics of relationships; it's far too hermetic for that. There's a lot of rain and a lot of death-- two tracks called "Suicide Dream", another called "You Won't Need Me Where I'm Goin'". An album I keep thinking of when listening to How to Dress Well is Panda Bear's 2004 LP, Young Prayer. That was another homemade record haunted by mortality with blurred words that nonetheless managed to communicate a powerful and highly personal sense of spiritual yearning. There are also hints of Bon Iver in Krell's falsetto and in the way he transforms the signifiers of R&B into something homegrown and personal. You can sense a few different strands of music from the last few years coming together with the sounds of an earlier era to form something new.
The distortion is at places so harsh, it's hard not to wonder why Krell doesn't do away with it. But with the sex and romantic yearning removed, the tension between the ethereal and prayerful mood comes from the quality of the recording, the way the music seems to be breaking apart as you are listening to it. How to Dress Well is to my mind the biggest breakthrough in home-recorded lo-fi in years. It feels brave, like it's going places a lot of artists in this sphere are afraid to go. And since the emotions communicated are direct and palpable even if the specifics are elusive, it also has something for people who don't follow this world of music closely. I can promise you that as I type this right now, 15-year-old kids who have been freaking out over this album are in front of their computers, trying to make their own version of this music. We'll see how that goes. But the impulse makes sense. Love Remains, because of its construction, feels like music that comes from inside, as if the act of listening completes it.
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bonus - Ready for the world (original +2 remixes 320)
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