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The "wink wink" Thread 2010: This Time It's Personal
JD:
Metronomy - Nights Out[2008]
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--- Quote ---The breathless hype about Glasvegas may hoist their grandiose plod into the charts, but to my ears, there's no argument about which is the most entertaining and innovative of this week's young British contenders.
Fresh from his contribution to Roots Manuva's new album, Metronomy main man Joseph Mount has expanded his own project to a trio, his old Devon chums Gabriel Stebbing (bass, keys) and Oscar Cash (sax, keys) joining as full-time members to facilitate live performances.
They contribute little, however, to Nights Out, which Mount conceived as a concept-album about a night on the town. This would be fine, were one able to spend the night in question jaunting between London, New York, Louisiana and wherever else he draws his inspiration from. Because although Nights Out is yet another solo electropop album from a chap who probably spends more time than is healthy staring at a computer screen, it displays an ambition way beyond Metronomy's peers, and Mount clearly has the artistic and technical grasp to bring his plans to fruition.
"Nights Out Intro" opens the album on a bathetic electronic groan – as if the machines were waking up – further roused by a combination of bizarrely de-tuned guitar and a rasp of synth that recalls The Residents' wonky avant-rock. It's followed by "The End of You Too", an infectious blend of popcorn synth and sprung-heeled guitar which has no sooner established itself before it's shifting tempo back and forth between funereal melancholy and E-number urgency. Mount's arranging skills are at their best, though, on the single "Radio Ladio", where the various instrumental elements – the tart guitar figures, the skeletal funk bass, the endlessly syncopating drums – interlock with a zesty itch akin to New Orleans rhythm crew The Meters.
Lyrically, while few lines stand out as poetically adept or well-wrought, Mount has actually succeeded in conveying something like his intended narrative arc, with "Heartbreaker", a particularly impressive depiction of how two friends fall out over a girl – not because they both fancy her, but because her boyfriend is always complaining to his friend about her, to the point where a straight-talking response torpedoes their friendship: it's the anti-"She Loves You", a sentiment long overdue.
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fatty:
Decoder Ring - They Blind the Stars, And the Wild Team (2009)
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Here is a rave review of it on Webwombat though I don't know if they are reputable source. They are like experimental rock / electro or something.
Try it!
KvP:
That certainly is an album cover.
Downloading.
KaosPilot:
I did a search on this thread but couldn't see this, so apologies if it has already been uploaded. However, I have been coming and taking and feel only proper to give.
Because I missed the most blatantly obvious aspect of posting something first time round, here it is:
Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader
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--- Quote --- Review from Can You See The Sunset From the South?
After hearing their widely-circulated demo it has seemed like almost everyone (myself included) was chomping at the bit for a full-length from the Algernon Cadwallader. So now that these Philly boys have delivered Some Kind Of Cadwallader, we can all go to sleep a little bit happier. Their bubbly and spastic mid-90’s Midwest emo diatribes are straight out of the schmap’n schmazz playbook but anchored by enough twinkling melodies and intertwining circular guitar lines that (despite the shouty vocals) Some Kind Of Cadwallader manages to escape sounding just like an Analphabetapolothology redux.
Some Kind Of Cadwallader is angularly infectious and overflowing with youthful, buoyant energy that makes me feel about a dozen years younger than I really am. It is a wonderfully refreshing album that has been in constant rotation here at casa de Sunset and really makes you believe that you can’t look at the sky without looking right through it. Somewhere, the Kinsella brothers are smiling.
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Hopefully I've done everything properly, and if there are no problems I'll maybe upload something Scottish later.
Zingoleb:
Hey, whoever uploaded Daft Punk's "Alive 2007" - there is a weird jump between songs, was that a bad rip or is my computer being stupid?
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