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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
OndraL:
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (D.C. Baltimore, 2001)
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--- Quote ---Sue Tompkins might be the most striking indie singer of the decade. She sounds like an internal monologue. She rattles out streams of words, repeating phrases and fragments like someone compulsively murmuring a list she's trying not to forget. She rolls and stretches words around in her mouth. She makes girlish exclamations and then whips around to chest-beating boasts, defiant dares, wounded questions. Her voice bounces and twirls acrobatically all around the music, then pulls itself up into passionate demands like lines ripped from an argument: "Look back and say that I didn't!" She does all this and yet sounds really normal and down-to-earth and awesome about it. Glasgow's Life Without Buildings backed up her gorgeous high-wire act with perfectly understated guitar work, and made just this one incredible, gem-like album-- lovable, beautiful, and moving, the kind of treasure with a mood and aesthetic entirely its own. Then they broke up. It's a good thing this one's so endlessly replayable, so worth poring over every tic, stutter, and syllable. (P4K)
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and their live album (posted before) is even better.. this band was unique
Japandroids - All Lies EP (2007)
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Japandroids - Lullaby Death Jams EP (2008)
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Their Post-Nothing is my favourite debut of this year by a mile and these two EPs are almost equally amazing. The sound is rough, production is pretty fucked up (in a good way) and there is also very good cover of mclusky's classic To Hell With Good Intentions
The Naked Souls - Two and One EP (Lost, 1993)
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--- Quote ---'Sleep' is perhaps the greatest song I've ever heard. Honestly, It's so amazingly majestic and glorious that every time I hear it I feel like I'm leaving the ground chest first; I don't know if that'll make sense to anybody.
The other two tracks don't manage to rise to the heights of the first, but they're still damn good efforts. 'White Rabbit' gets almost as beautiful once the drums kick in properly. Definitely worth the effort tracking down (probably on a p2p, as I imagine this has been out of print for years) for all the shoegazers, post-rockers and straight-up emotional music lovers out there. (rainshine87, RYM)
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This is pretty amazing EP for everyone who loves Slowdive. They are from the Czech Republic (like me), nobody knows them but this EP is one of the greatest shoegaze/dreampop releases (and I'm usually not patriotic=)
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JD:
VV Brown-Traveling Like The Light(2009)
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--- Quote from: BBC ---The debut album from VV Brown comes with the kind of albatross-round-the-neck pressure normally attached to a high-expectation sophomore effort. Already the subject of relentless tutting and tweeting from hordes of backseat A&R men, and having already been crafted her own pedestal as a style deity by the fashion press before most of them have even heard her sing a note, means there's a sizeable, cynical gaze to contend with. It's somewhat fortunate, then, that Travelling Like The Light boasts a rare kind of head-turning indie-pop magnificence more than capable of both remunerating anxious fans and silencing – if not fully converting – detractors.
The chequered-floor locale of debut track Crying Blood provides a slightly more accurate indication of Travelling Like The Light than the darker, more contemporary riffage of big-money launch single Shark In The Water. That's not to say we're talking a solid album of potato-mashing doo-wop lunacy – rather, Brown's largely-50s influence permeates each track with different approaches and to varying extents, creating an eclectic yet uniform collection of songs.
The Wurlitzer wonderment of Quick Fix and L.O.V.E. impart a refreshing demonstration of a pop simplicity lost on any number of electro-heavy buzz artists, a sentiment further echoed on the endearingly unpretentious Crazy Amazing.
And still, the surprises come thick and fast. Tales of gut-wrenching misery are camouflaged as beaming, uptempo numbers; the titular ballad is stripped back to little more than a temperate heartbeat rhythm; and the aforementioned Crying Blood drops everything for a fleeting burst of 1-up bleepery.
And yet, there's no feeling of any kind of gimmickry in this. Travelling Like The Light, with all its quirks and foibles and cheeky winks, comes over as an honest representation of Brown's form and talent. More than anything else, Travelling Like The Light tears through any hastily-assigned pigeonholes or fashion-focused stigma, and validates the authentic musician behind the gloss.
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karl gambolputty...:
Circus Lupus - Solid Brass
--- Quote ---The quartet's second and final album, Brass shows the band fully in thrall of the wound-up aggro/artpunk demons that made them create such thrilling music. 'Post-hardcore' was the term most often thrown around at them in print -- while an open-ended description, it does accurately imply the combination of sheer energy at play along with a desire to avoid the obvious strictures most hardcore and punk had long fallen into. Casebolt and Lorinczi make for a fine rhythm section, throwing in unexpected but sharp, brusque twists and turns throughout. They keep the beat going, but it's the addition of those quick changes that help make Circus Lupus really fun (inasmuch as said quartet were ever fun -- maybe 'gripping' is the better word). Casebolt in particular has some nice fills she tosses in from time to time -- not done to show off, but to increase the variety and texture. Meantime, Hamley's guitar runs from spindly, nervy feedback sheets to clench-yer-fists riffing -- the brilliantly titled "I Always Thought You Were an Asshole" captures both well. The musicians always sound like they're building up to one fierce climax after another, an approach that's less tiresome or rote than might be thought.
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Dinosaur Pile-Up - The Most Powerful EP In The World
--- Quote ---So let's lay the bare bones out: Dinosaur Pile-Up sound a lot like their forebears. Influences are sewn pretty firmly onto the sleeves of their plaid shirts an' all that. Lemonheads. Nirvana. Foo Fighters. Erm, Weezer, even. There's no running from it, there's no hiding from it, there's not really a lot of weight in discussing it (as we have spent a good couple of hundred words doing here).
So we'll talk about the fun stuff. Like the fact that the title of the tracks that show up in iTunes (hah! Didn't have that in the '90s, did we.?) are completely different to the ones on the sleeve of the promo disc (which actually seem to bear some resemblance to the song lyrics). Cheeky scamps or incompetent bastards? Oh, nevermind. So, the song that I will call 'Opposites Attract' is the kind of song that makes you fall in love with a guy when the sun's out - it's the soundtrack to a picnic when the picnic basket contains nothing but cheap beer and cheaper gin: mid-speed self deprecation, continual build-up and breakdown, screeching guitars and shuddering drums. And 'Melanin', presuming it wasn't stolen from Brody Dalle's own personal songbook, is a box of Thornton's finest confectionaries, in sonic form. I won't labour the comparison.
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pogonrudie:
1 - If I Had A Heart
2 - Triangle Walks
3 - Concrete Walls
4 - Seven
5 - I'm Not Done
6 - Now's The Only Time I Know
7 - Keep The Streets Empty
8 - Dry And Dusty
9 - Stranger Than Kindness
10 - When I Grow Up
11 - Coconut
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