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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
tricia kidd:
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Boris - Attention Please (2011)
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awesome, thanks. i'm more surprised Heavy Rocks (2?) hasn't been posted, though. i disagree with pitchfork's dismal 5.5 review.
Koremora:
Yeah, I honestly like HRII more than AP by a pretty large margin.
nippletwister:
--- Quote from: Koremora on 28 May 2011, 14:21 ---Yeah, I honestly like HRII more than AP by a pretty large margin.
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Attention Please is still a super great album. I'm loving it. Vinyl's on the way!
SuperCola:
I lurk a bit too much. Figured someone on here would enjoy this stuff. Isaac from Pomegranates introduced me to these guys two years ago, which is ironic because he's from Cincinatti and I live thirty minutes away from Denton. You don't have to believe in Jesus to enjoy this shit.
Lift To Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (2001)
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--- Quote ---How's this for a concept album: three musicians from Denton, TX, with the help of former Cocteau Twins Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde, blend My Bloody Valentine's sonic feedback with Kitchens of Distinction's swirling atmosphere and the grace of Jeff Buckley to detail the "crossroads of Texas and Jerusalem." What could have been a tiresome exploration of awkward religious theories is instead a spellbinding journey into the heart of human emotion and guitar dynamics. Josh T. Pearson's beautifully controlled croon works dark magic over arrangements that suggest and depict both the whisper of birth and the fury of Armageddon. When the band kicks things into gear, they take off into bold, thrilling musical vistas without a single fear that they'll be misinterpreted or mocked.
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Ten Years and an alcohol addiction later...
Josh T. Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen (2011)
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--- Quote ---There is absolutely nothing artificial about Last of the Country Gentlemen; nothing false. It is unflinchingly honest, sharp and unfiltered. And precisely because of this, the album’s emotional gut-punch is all the more painful and disarming to endure. Like listening to Elliot Smith, Ian Curtis or Hank Williams, you are acutely and uncomfortably aware that he means every single word: a nagging sense of guilt, even voyeurism comes upon you for eavesdropping on such personal grief. But the true beauty of the record is defined by its intimacy. And its appeal will be measured in how so many people will hear this album and recall their own tales of bitterness and lost love: each ragged string raking across your scarred memories, each lyric exploring the hieroglyphics scratched into the wrinkles around your eyes. In shedding his layers of pain, Pearson reveals his heart: broken and bloodied, but still beating, still fighting. We share and revere in his redemption, rarely has something so physically fragile sounded so mighty in its emotional resonance. A truly magnificent record.
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I ripped these off of soundcloud, so it's certainly not quality, but it's certainly listenable.
Sacred Spirits - Some Stay (2011)
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--- Quote ---The album formerly known as Just Don't Kill Yourself is a rambling, lonely but heartfelt effort; the debut of Sacred Spirits. The title change is crucial. Would the original been chosen, the message of Some Stay might have been dramatically different. Not to say that there is one message but this last-second alteration shifted the album from a moralistic tale where the singer's voice on each song is a pleading against a loved one's suicide to an answerless monologue free of admonition, concerned with ephemerality.
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This is actually the project of an old Pomegranates guitarist, Josh Kufeldt. The album was released as a free download through The Recording Label and it's pretty enjoyable.
tricia kidd:
That Lift to Experience is UNASSAILABLE and has been in heavy rotation around the house for the entire time it's been out. I didn't know he finally made a new album, downloading now and super psyched.
(the back of the CD case for Lift To Experience says "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Playing With One Guitar", just throwing that out there as a great reference tagline.)
edit: Last of the Country Gentlemen is a fucking masterpiece and is basically perfect for anyone who wishes Mark Kozelek had stayed Red House Painters instead of going Sun Kil Moon on us. godDAMN.
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