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The "wink wink" Thread 2010: This Time It's Personal
JD:
That's a shame because it's an awesome album.
amok:
Mind.in.a.Box - R.E.T.R.O.
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'8 Bits' (Most of the album is instrumental, this is one of the few with vocals)
Review
JD:
Anaïs Mitchell - Hadestown
--- Quote ---Singer and songwriter Anais Mitchell wrote the first draft of her “folk opera” Hadestown in 2006 with arranger Michael Chorney and director Ben T. Matchstick. After numerous drafts and performances, it is set in stone here. Hadestown retells the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in an America of hard times economically, socially, and politically. (There is a hint of the great Depression as a setting, but only a hint.) The cast includes Mitchell as Eurydice, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) as Orpheus, Ani DiFranco as Persephone, Greg Brown as Hades, Ben Knox Miller (The Low Anthem) as Hermes, and the Haden Triplets — Petra, Rachel, and Tanya) as the Fates. The large band includes Rob Burger, Jim Black, Josh Roseman, Nate Wooley, Todd Sickafoose, Marika Hughes, and Tanya Kalmanovich, to name a few.
Hadestown's narrative, like the myth, steeps itself in ambiguities more than dead certainties. It moves past dualities of good and evil, life and death, hope and despair, while examining how commonly held beliefs about class reinforce poverty, how our desire for security is complicit in giving away our freedoms, and what real generosity in love actually is. Nowhere is this more evident than a Brown showcase number, “Why We Build the Wall.” (With the cast/chorus unintentionally answering Woody Guthrie's “This Land Is Your Land” anthem that would make him weep with grief.) There isn’t a weak track here, but high points include “Our Lady of the Underground,” sung by DiFranco; the fierce, yet tender “How Long” with Brown and DiFranco; both parts of Vernon’s “Epic,” Mitchell's and Vernon’s “Doubt Comes In,” and “I Raise My Cup to Him,” by Mitchell with DiFranco. Everything here is ambitious, nothing is excessive. The music ranges with classic American folk forms: country gospel, ragtime, blues, and early jazz, to approximations of rock, swing, and avant-garde — all of it immediate, accessible, and inviting. Vernon’s vocal range — husky baritone to sweet falsetto — does justice to Orpheus. Only a singer like this could write a song beautiful enough to rescue his lover from the Underworld. Mitchell doesn’t make herself the star, but is nonetheless. She is convincing as Eurydice; her lyrics are poetic, and her melodies unpretentious, yet sophisticated thanks to Chorney’s arrangements. This 57-minute work goes by in a flash. Artfully conceived, articulated, and produced, Hadestown raises Mitchell's creative bar exponentially: there isn't anything else remotely like it.
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Way Down Hadestown
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Harun:
Jónsi - Go (2010)
i.e. sigur rós dude's solo album
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Lunchbox:
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Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard Band - 'em and I
http://www.myspace.com/jefflewisband
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--- Quote from: lastfm ---Jeffrey Lewis is an American singer/songwriter and comic-book artist, part of the Anti-folk movement. Several of his musical influences have been acknowledged in his songs such as The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song, concerning the song by Leonard Cohen, and The History of the Fall.
anti-folk, singer-songwriter, indie, lo-fi
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--- Quote from: the observer ---"Eighty per cent of success is showing up," quipped Woody Allen, to whom fellow neurotic New Yorker Jeffrey Lewis has often been compared. That would at least explain Lewis's lack of mainstream success, because more often than not he's too busy unravelling his anxieties around a battered acoustic guitar to bother showing up. If past Jeffrey Lewis albums count as showing up, then it's showing up hungover, in a crumpled suit, with bits of toast in his beard.
'Em Are I, then, is Lewis's fifth proper LP and, after years of acclaim in anti-folk circles, it's his first that has at least one eye on the mainstream. It also contains what is pretty close to a straight-ahead pop song in Broken, Broken, Broken Heart, a handclap-strewn ditty that wouldn't sound out of place on With the Beatles. Well, that's if the Fabs had ever sung about trying to break their own hearts by leaving them out in the rain.
Despite higher production values (ie it wasn't recorded in a tumble dryer), this probably isn't going to be the record that propels Jeffrey too far beyond his army of devoted followers. Truth is, he doesn't know how to do commercial. This is a guy who interrupts gigs to recite from his pictorial history of communism in North Korea, whose last album consisted of nothing but covers of anarcho-punk band Crass and who once wrote a six-minute song that told the story of the struggling artist through the eyes of someone being raped by Bonnie Prince Billy on a New York subway track. His songs may be many things - mind-boggling in scope, laugh-out-loud funny, wonderfully moving - but a threat to Lady GaGa they are not. more...
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Reposting this because I went to see these guys last night and it was the best thing, thanks for this upload man.
I had a chat to Jeff after the show and pretty much he is the sweetest nerdiest guy ever. You could just listen to him talk for hours.
I bought his comic and read it on the bus! It is laugh out loud funny which is bad for bus reading.
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