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The "wink wink" Thread 2010: This Time It's Personal
scarred:
Tobacco - Maniac Meat [2010]
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medicatesleep:
Reunion show 04-16-10
1. Spoonman
2. Gun
3. Searching With My Good Eye Closed
4. Rusty Cage
5. Beyond The Wheel
6. Flower
7. Ugly Truth
8. Fell On Black Days
9. Hunted Down
10. Nothing To Say
11. Loud Love
12. Blow Up The Outside World
13. Pretty Noose
14. Outshined
15. Slaves And Bulldozers
Encore:
16. Get On The Snake
17. Big Dumb Sex
18. Waiting For The Sun (Doors cover)
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ImRonBurgundy?:
--- Quote from: Zombiedude on 24 Apr 2010, 11:50 ---Think Modest Mouse, Talking Heads, and Fugazi mixed together
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:-o downloadin'
The Cheesinator:
Chrome doesn't even ask if I want to save/open from Mediafire any more, it just automatically begins downloading when I paste the corrected link into the address bar.
KvP:
Roll the Dice - Roll the Dice
--- Quote ---I only knew of Fever Ray by reputation. Despite her debut being routinely lauded as the best electronic album of last year, I never really got around to it, mainly because I hadn't really enjoyed much of The Knife. So it was with some trepidation that I started listening to Roll The Dice, which has gained some notoriety as a Fever Ray-related project. Roll the Dice is composed of two members, Peder Mannerfelt and Malcolm Pardon. Mannerfelt callaborated on the Fever Ray project to some extent, and Pardon is a well-known producer of Swedish TV and Film music. Roll the Dice is their semi-improvised collaboration.
It's something of a trip. While the ever-present synth loops might recall acid house and techno, the album reveals itself to be more in the kosmische tradition, as there are no drum sounds to be heard. The whole of the album consists solely of piano and gurgling analog synthesizer. This gives Roll the Dice a distinct, musty 70's aesthetic - you can practically hear the wood paneling, the flourescent light, the orange-brown palettes, the shag carpeting. Opener "The New Black" slowly expands like a good Tangerine Dream song, while the understated synth strings of "Swing" give it the feel of a lost Gottsching track. "Guadeloupe" bends the rules a bit by utilizing stabs of synth string to create a percussive element - it sounds a bit like a jug instrument, and the way it ushers in the fragile melody of the piano line is really marvelous.
"Into the Ground" is as close as Into The Ground comes to acid techno, with its thick, reverberating arpeggio anchoring the song, recalling Luke Vibert's most far-flung experiments, or AFX at his most grouchy. It's a dark, angry track, flirting with dissonance at times but still maintaining coherence. "Axee" switches things around by making the piano the percussive skeleton of the song, and bringing a truly weird, thudding synth arpeggio that starts small and gets progressively messier and wider as a more melodic piano line is added. "After", on the other hand, recalls latter-day Autechre, with ethereal pads skittering about, like an indecipherable alien language breaking into song. The way it breaks into Eno-esque ambience is truly breathtaking. The album closes out with "Undertow", which starts with an arpeggiated synth line that almost sounds like a brass instrument, and slowly, dramatically adding additional synth elements - a pad, a melodic synth lead - until the piano comes in at a low octave, completing the picture.
It's a relatively "short" album at only 7 songs, but even then it's extremely impressive how Roll the Dice can make their two chosen instruments so versatile - the character of the sound never truly changes, but every track is completely distinct. This album holds up with the best of the 60's-70's kosmische classics. If Kluster, Manuel Gottsching or Tangerine Dream interest you at all, you need to hear this album. On the shortlist for best of the year. Highly recommended.
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