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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
ellis:
Nice! Probably my two most anticipated releases in the next couple months.
StaedlerMars:
That Washed Out album is really warm and lovely and ignorable while still letting you bob your head along to it, and proper soundtrack/summer music.
yop:
Biosphere - N-Plants
--- Quote ---Okay so this is weird – in February 2011 Gier Jenssen finished an album dedicated to the Japanese post-war reconstruction and, specifically, the country's futuristic nuclear program. After surveying numerous photos he became fascinated by the idea that nuclear power plants could be built so close to the sea in earthquake-prone areas, and this slowly became the focus for his recordings. A few months later and, alas, the album has gained considerable poignancy – we are now in the aftermath of one of Japan’s most serious disasters and Jenssen’s concepts have a strangely prophetic quality to them. The music itself is hardly melancholy, but has a damaged, cold, digital edge which mirrors the clean architectural perfection of the ominous structures, pre-earthquake of course. As Jenssen’s clipped, purposeful rhythms slowly make their way into synthetic patterns, they guide the record and imbue proceedings with a fitting Kubrickian haze. ‘N-Plants’ almost reminds of early SND (think ‘Stdio’ or ‘Makesndcassette’) but played at the wrong speed. These are slow, booming passages of sound carried out with a masterful ear, displaying the razor sharp precision of a true veteran of the field. Lazy, lackadaisical witch-house this is not, but ‘N-Plants’ shares threads with its purposeful slow-down of dance music tropes. It's a powerful record: without the context ‘N-Plants’ is an affecting, engrossing listening experience, but with the added air of melancholy, it becomes all the more haunting and memorable. Highly Recommended.
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Beautifully textured and realized! Love this release.
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Offthesky - Subtle Trees
--- Quote ---Offthesky aka Jason Corder returns to Ian Hawgood's family of labels with an atmospheric suite of plangent piano and electro-acoustic ambience. 'Enter Off Color Tear' makes an arresting entrance, sparse keys fragrance an undecided and wide open space while closer concrète textures and lustrous drones toy with our spatial perceptions. In 'Swallow Shallow' a similar blend of acousmatic sound sources texture glassy half-melody and sighing strings, while the cicadas and hushed electronics of 'Gemutcycle' suggest a more unnerving, ghostly and nocturnal scene. 'Tight Phase Of Pollen Inertia' offers looping, almost Reichian glockenspiel phrases, drifting woodwind and low, humming bass, and closer 'Symphony For Exiting Entropies' departs to struck Gamelan-like tones and mottled electro-acoustic drones. Quite lovely.
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Pretty good on the first listen. Droney and melodic - a nice combo when done right!
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The Rube:
Lia Ices- Grown Unknown
A video for Daphne, one of the album's more accessible tunes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyMTeEtctkk
This disc is straight from cd to apple lossless, and easily converted to the format of your choice; lyrics are in the tags. the two parts are independent, so you can download half of the disc and see if it suits. So far as I'm concerned this is one of my albums of the year. It's stately and elegent, ethereal and earthy, and I like that the songs often take unexpected turns. they don't radically change or jump cut, but they seldom end sounding like they did in the beginning. That and her voice is brilliant. The first two tracks are the catchiest, the rest a bit of a grower, but do give it a chance...
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TheClickOfALight:
A mix I made back in December 2009, featuring a bunch of Canadian bands, when I was about to super optimistic about what would turn out to be a year-of-hell in Canada.
25 songs, full track-listing and more info can be found at my blog.
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