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The "wink wink" Thread 2010: This Time It's Personal
« Reply #750 on: 18 Apr 2010, 18:27 »

and i'll upload the new hold steady tomorrow morning if there's any interest?
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« Reply #751 on: 18 Apr 2010, 18:29 »

Is it better than the first? I hated the first.

It's better than the first, yes, but if you hate their sound in general, the second one won't change your mind.
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« Reply #752 on: 18 Apr 2010, 18:30 »

Horse Feathers - Thistled Spring

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« Reply #753 on: 18 Apr 2010, 20:18 »

and i'll upload the new hold steady tomorrow morning if there's any interest?

Fuck tha haters, Upload this or I'll kill you
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« Reply #754 on: 18 Apr 2010, 20:32 »

Kate Nash - My Best Friend Is You[2010]

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« Reply #755 on: 18 Apr 2010, 21:41 »

Alright, so I just finally found this record after looking for it for two years.  A friend of mine picked it up from a death metal show he'd been at and brought it over one time, and I was never able to hear it again until now. 

Dead Unicorn - Yellowstone Supervolcano

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Dead Unicorn, from what I've been able to gather, is a two-piece band out of New York consisting of a bassist and drummer who both contribute vocals.  The bassist uses a few effects and fuzzes it up a lot, in contrast to using a downtuned guitar to compensate.  It's a little bit Hella, a little bit Jawbreaker, and a little bit Grails.  Maybe a little bit of Gull, too.  Essentially this band is obsessed with the end of the world and having a good time while it lasts.  REALLY FUCKING GOOD RECORD, check it out if you like any kind of stoner rock/noise or the idea of supervolcanos.
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« Reply #756 on: 18 Apr 2010, 21:45 »

also hey jace thanks fer polysics
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« Reply #757 on: 19 Apr 2010, 01:10 »

The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever

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« Reply #758 on: 19 Apr 2010, 07:21 »

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« Reply #759 on: 19 Apr 2010, 09:11 »

Great John Cale post,

I should have the new Blitzen Trapper record up this afternoon

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« Reply #760 on: 19 Apr 2010, 10:00 »

The new National album, High Violet, has leaked as well although the quality's meant to be pretty bad.
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« Reply #761 on: 19 Apr 2010, 11:09 »

Yeah but I'm gonna listen to it anyway!
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« Reply #762 on: 19 Apr 2010, 11:29 »

I dunno whether to grab it or not, I've never really listened to the national but everyone seems to love them. How's it sounding keiffer?

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« Reply #763 on: 19 Apr 2010, 19:33 »

Dead Unicorn - Yellowstone Supervolcano

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« Reply #764 on: 20 Apr 2010, 08:02 »

Yeah, they're pretty awesome.  Totally found out yesterday that they actually opened for my friend's band, which is kind of strange, because they do like a 35-minute black metal song and this is a completely different kind of music.

Anywho, here's the myspace, they don't have a whole lot of youtube videos up.  Half-Life is pretty sweet
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« Reply #765 on: 20 Apr 2010, 09:47 »

*COUGH*




65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway



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« Reply #766 on: 20 Apr 2010, 10:37 »

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« Reply #767 on: 20 Apr 2010, 11:39 »

This is getting ridiculous.
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« Reply #768 on: 20 Apr 2010, 11:45 »

it can only mean one thing: The End Is Nigh

all the bands have sensed our impending doom and are scurrying to put out albums before the apocalypse
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« Reply #769 on: 20 Apr 2010, 12:24 »

The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang

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The Gaslight Anthem rose out of the fertile punk and hardcore scene of New Brunswick, NJ, flaunting a unique style that melded the sounds of Bruce Springsteen, Wilson Pickett, and various Motown groups with the rough, emotional grit of Hot Water Music and Jawbreaker. The band -- comprised of vocalist/guitarist Brian Fallon, bassist Alex Levine, drummer Benny Horowitz, and guitarist Alex Rosamila -- began establishing a loyal hometown crowd after forming in 2005, and their soulful punk rock melodies attracted wider attention upon the release of their full-length debut, Sink or Swim, which droped in May 2007 via the local imprint XOXO Records. Although rough around the edges, the album presented plenty of energetic, sing-along songs that garnered accolades from punk zines, blogs, and fans alike. The increasing popularity was enough to score gigs with the likes of Against Me!, the Loved Ones, and the Draft, and by the end of 2007, the Gaslight Anthem had played over 200 shows. They recorded the four-song EP Señor and the Queen in Austin, having managed to secure some down time between tour dates, and the record surfaced on Sabot Productions in early February 2008. Meanwhile, the Gaslight Anthem announced their brand-new deal with the California-based indie label SideOneDummy Records.


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« Reply #770 on: 20 Apr 2010, 12:52 »

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« Reply #771 on: 20 Apr 2010, 13:27 »

The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
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Is this the same quality as the one that was floating around on Tumblr yesterday?  I haven't listened to either but I was going to up the one I downloaded from there but it was supposed to be low quality.  I guess I'm asking if this is decent quality haha.
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« Reply #772 on: 20 Apr 2010, 15:35 »

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Is this the same quality as the one that was floating around on Tumblr yesterday?  I haven't listened to either but I was going to up the one I downloaded from there but it was supposed to be low quality.  I guess I'm asking if this is decent quality haha.

sounds pretty good to me.  MP3, VBR 250-300 kbps
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« Reply #773 on: 20 Apr 2010, 16:18 »

Annuals - Sweet Sister EP

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« Reply #774 on: 20 Apr 2010, 17:41 »

Wow...what a crazy week huh?



As the album cover so clearly states, this is the new album Brothers by The Black Keys. This is the group's second album with Danger Mouse producing. It's pretty good. You should download it.

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« Reply #775 on: 20 Apr 2010, 18:20 »

Oh shit downloading now

Anyway, Progressive Death Metal

Son Of Aurelius - The Farthest Reaches[2010]

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But then the fourth track, “Olympus is Forgotten,” comes along. There’s a gentle, soothing guitar and synths-as-strings intro. You might think that it’s just a brief respite from the killer-but-familiar melodeath songs you’ve been enjoying, but, really, it’s the overture for a whole new album. Because once the band kicks in on “Olympus is Forgotten,” The Farthest Reaches flies right off the fucking rails and shows its true colors as an album that is completely fucking fucknuts. And its fucknuttiness is what ensures its place as one of the strongest releases of the spring, and possibly the year.

The sharp edge, puzzle-pieced guitars, the nimble, limber, bass. the constantly-shifting drums; hail Satan, dude, THIS is the shit. The little jazzy break on “Facing the Gorgon” leads into some awesome dual guitar soloing, which suddenly explodes into a slam-your-friend’s-face-into-the-wall bridge; the way “Myocardial Infarction” slowly tightens its screws, like the not-so-gentle onset of anxiety; the schizophrenic structure of “Pandora’s Burden;” the FUCKING BASS on, well, pretty much the whole thing, but maybe especially at the start of “A Good Death” – that shit’ll make your balls rattle. The songs on The Farthest Reaches are, generally, pretty short – only album finale “The First, The Serpent” is over five minutes – and these creative flourishes make them play out like mini-prog masterpieces.

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« Reply #776 on: 21 Apr 2010, 00:19 »

Oh my God holy fucking shit new Gaslight Anthem album fucking fuck what a ridiculous time we are living in Lord have mercy
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« Reply #777 on: 21 Apr 2010, 07:07 »

Is that Son of Aurelius album worth getting?

I suppose if it wasn't you wouldn't have put it here a hurp a durr
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« Reply #778 on: 21 Apr 2010, 09:04 »

Wow...what a crazy week huh?



As the album cover so clearly states, this is the new album Brothers by The Black Keys. This is the group's second album with Danger Mouse producing. It's pretty good. You should download it.

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« Reply #779 on: 21 Apr 2010, 10:10 »

Yep.

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« Reply #780 on: 21 Apr 2010, 11:07 »

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« Reply #781 on: 21 Apr 2010, 12:11 »

Track seven on the Son Of Aurelius - The Farthest Reaches is corrupt.
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« Reply #782 on: 21 Apr 2010, 13:27 »

A friend just sent me a link for new National record High Violet, apparently better rip than the 128kbps that was around (plus last page's link is down)

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« Reply #784 on: 21 Apr 2010, 16:29 »

That's getting redundant.


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« Reply #785 on: 21 Apr 2010, 16:40 »

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« Reply #786 on: 21 Apr 2010, 16:50 »

more ridiculousness...


Foals - Total Life Forever (2010)



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« Reply #787 on: 21 Apr 2010, 17:14 »

The New Pornographers - Together

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« Reply #788 on: 21 Apr 2010, 17:55 »

New Seabear too...

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« Reply #789 on: 22 Apr 2010, 05:37 »




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« Reply #790 on: 22 Apr 2010, 08:19 »

That's getting redundant.


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« Reply #791 on: 22 Apr 2010, 13:41 »

My link to High Violet is down, the web sheriff asked nicely so I complied.  :angel:

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« Reply #792 on: 22 Apr 2010, 16:27 »


Starkey - Ear Drums and Black Holes

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I've gotten into the habit of making mixes of things I've been listening to for my friends on the first of every month, and sure enough over the last few months I've noticed certain patterns in my selections. I had always thought of myself as someone who had gravitated inexorably towards UK dance music, the IDM scene in particular, as though it was a concrete, distinct thing. But lately all I ever seem to be playing is abstract hip hop and UK techno. Part of the reason for that, I think, is that abstract hip hop is "in" on both sides of the Atlantic and thus I'm being met with a deluge of it. As for the techno, acts like Subeena and Actress seem to be ushering in an apparently new class of the UK variant which I am digging to some degree. But at the heart of it I'm finding out that the music that I had always loved was, for the most part, the union of those two disparate genres. Autechre's DJ sets are nothing but legitimate hip hop, despite that group's avant-garde techno leanings. Luke Vibert reportedly only listens to hip hop. Once the Plaid guys exited The Black Dog it ceased to be an IDM entity and started being relatively straightforward techno, but I didn't even notice until it was pointed out to me. A lot of what I would call IDM seems to be "acid synths + hip hop beats".

So the diversification of my taste has been a lot easier than I thought it would have been, and it's liberating, more than anything - I don't have to wait for the 2 or 3 really notable IDM albums (if that) to come down the pipeline every year. At this pace there's an average of at least one album a week that I can take a shining to. It's overwhelming at times, but it almost becomes a lifestyle - there's never a time when I don't have new things to listen to.

With the blurring of the line between legit hip hop DJs and electronic composers (pioneered in many ways by the jazz and experimental dalliances of many DJs on the Stones Throw label, namely the dearly departed J Dilla) I've been finding myself listening to acts I would normally have written off. One of these acts is Starkey, who I've written about before. Prior to this point, he was more or less exclusively an instrumental hip hop DJ, but Ear Drums And Black Holes is an album that features some pretty significant use of vox.

For the most part, this takes the form of Starkey's own (at least, I think it's his) voice subjected to the widely-praised wonders of autotune. It's pretty gaudy, as it tends to be - autotune has become a signifier of the "more is better" school of pop R&B production in the States. But it actually works when Starkey uses it, as he does on "Spacecraft", "Club Games" and "Alienstyles". His music has a size and shine that sets it apart from more abstracted DJ sensibilities. As I said last month, it makes more sense to call Starkey a hip hop artist than an electronica artist. Unlike most of the stuff I listen to it's not difficult to imagine most of the tracks on Ear Drums and Black Holes on a mainstream radio station.

The two straight-up rap tracks, "Club Games" and "Murderous Words", also happen to be the album's weakest tracks - southern-style club songs just don't sit with me. Which isn't to say that Starkey's production skills can't be served by a vocalist - Grime MC P-Money contributes his spry Grime delivery to what I believe is the album's strongest track, "Numb", and Anneka brings a lighter-than-air pop feel to "Stars", the lead single. Later on, Kiki Hitomi's singing (in Japanese) graces the almost Jamiroquai-esque ballad "New Cities".

This is the sort of music that makes me wish my car had a better sound system - especially with all the overt hip hop influences, Ear Drums and Black Holes practically demands to be played loudly and openly (they don't call it "Street Bass" for nothing). Starkey continues to display a natural affinity for infectious rave / disco melodies to go along with his wheezing / booming / skittering basslines. Tracks like "Multidial" and "Fourth Dimension" (which revisits the seemingly random bass sequencing of Ephemeral Exhibit's "Creatures") show a definite rave influence, like Raffertie, but a little less goofy. and the album as a whole is rife with dramatic bombast. A scant few tracks, such as "11th Hour", don't really go places, but Starkey's good enough at what he does to keep things interesting and at least mostly consistent.

This particular style of music - extroverted, aggressive dancefloor-oriented hip hop - seems to be the new established style for Planet Mu, with other proprietors of the style such as Slugabed and Raffertie signing on to the label. I'm not sure how I feel about it just yet, but Ear Drums and Black Holes, at the very least, shows that it might be better suited to the long-player format than other variants of dubstep.

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Among the clutch of artists at the fore of Purple Wave is Hyetal (ne David Corney), who has released a few 12"s over the last year or two and an incredible cut for Mary Anne Hobbes' latest compilation, Wild Angels.  Gold or Soul was one of those singles, and for my money it's probably the best thing he's done that isn't on Wild Angels. The thing that I notice about Hyetal's best tracks is the subtlety with which he uses his synths - on "Gold or Soul" the leads feature a heavy wobble and great use of fade and velocity - It sounds like just one synth, but it's doing enough to add a lot of texture and flavor to the track by itself. The beat's nothing to sniff at either. The second track, "Neon Speech", seems vaguely familiar to me - I'll have to check, but I think it was featured toward the mid-point of a Subeena mix I have. Booming bass and gated synth squelches propel the song along nicely below a slightly cloying arpeggiated synth chime (I just don't like that sound). In a nice turnaround, the song shifts gears around the 3 minute mark, adding a second gated synth and a great organ line.

The Purple Wave guys have all put out a lot of great work (though Joker seems to be getting all the buzz), but it's Hyetal's particular way with synths that makes him my favorite of the scene. I'm looking forward to plenty of great singles in this vein as we move farther into 2010.

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« Reply #794 on: 23 Apr 2010, 09:29 »

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« Reply #796 on: 23 Apr 2010, 21:05 »

I am told that tracks 3 and 9 on DJ Kicks are not working, you can download them below

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« Reply #797 on: 23 Apr 2010, 23:09 »

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« Reply #798 on: 24 Apr 2010, 11:50 »

I think it's time for some Ogre You Asshole
Think Modest Mouse, Talking Heads, and Fugazi mixed together

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« Reply #799 on: 24 Apr 2010, 19:45 »

Also I found Polysics' 2010 release in 320 kbps

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