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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
Harun:
dang 100mb upload limit (it let me upload to mf!re though without saying anything though what the heck) give me a minute or ten - k should be fine now
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--- Quote from: valley_parade on 22 Oct 2009, 08:52 ---I stumbled upon an old vinyl version of this recently. Definitely worth a good high-volume play (especially "The Creeper"). And come on, why don't you have it already?
The Ventures - Walk, Don't Run Vol. 2
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Love this, excellent post!
gospel:
Ramona Falls - Intuit (2009)
MySpace
"I Say Fever" (YouTube)
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--- Quote from: Pitchfork ---Ramona Falls is beautiful. Seriously, check it out on Google Earth some time. A multi-tiered waterfall in a dark glen on the slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon, it's one of those endlessly photographable landforms that makes you want to be there any time you see a shot of it. As a sort of shorthand for the natural majesty of the Pacific Northwest, the name works well for Portland's Ramona Falls, aka Brent Knopf of Menomena and a huge cast of his friends. In fact, of the various Menomena side projects, this is the one that most matches that band in terms of both sound and quality, paying meticulous attention to sonic and compositional details to emerge with a record full of memorable surprises.
Sometimes it's just an unexpected element that mails a song all the way home, like the impromptu choir that suddenly emerges from the acoustic guitar and spaciously recorded drums of "Bellyfulla" or the unbelievably gorgeous violin part that shines like a vibrant light from the center of "Russia". The violin melody interacts with the chord sequence to grow more aching by the second and turns a decent song into one you can't forget. Knopf is piano player and programmer for Menomena, and he comes up with some wild stuff here, especially on "Always Right", where he sticks you with these bizarre, stuttering phrases for the odd-metered verses. It's offset by big choruses and a strange Eastern European-ish bridge with a carnivalesque atmosphere. More simple is "Boy Ant", a short piano instrumental with a sense of melody derived more from traditional European songs like "Edelweiss" than anything in contemporary pop sphere.
Any Menomena fan will recognize Knopf's voice, which is a delicate instrument-- it's not rangy, but he knows his capabilities and uses them. He gives himself a bit of electronic assistance on "I Say Fever", falling down a processing rabbit hole on the title refrain, which precipitates a sudden downpour of heavy guitar. Sleater-Kinney's Janet Weiss provides the song's pounding rhythmic floor, but Knopf's own piano gives it its funky stride. Knopf's solo songs share with Menomena an ear for contrast--"Going Once, Going Twice" swings between easy-flowing passages and lurching sections that build tension for the next rhythmic release.
Intuit, a word that nicely serves as a homophone for "Into It", works as a title for the album because it so neatly seems to describe the writing process-- very few of the odd shifts and unexpected turns in the songs sound contrived or forced. Down to the cover art, it feels like a strong echo of everything great about Knopf's primary band. There are no cut-outs or flipbooks, but Theo Ellsworth's elaborate, grotesque illustrations are worth taking in-- they're like a combination of Where the Wild Things Are, a fever dream, a pagan woodland ceremony, and a notebook doodle. The music is worth taking in, too, over and over again.
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Old Canes
--- Quote from: allmusic ---When a European record shop asked Appleseed Cast to give an acoustic in-store performance, frontman Christopher Crisci wrote a series of new songs for the occasion. Such material formed the basis of Old Canes, a lo-fi project spearheaded by Crisci and performed by a loose group of backing musicians. The band's debut album, Early Morning Hymns, appeared in 2004, and Crisci issued two albums with Appleseed Cast (2006's Peregrine and 2009's Sagarmatha) before putting the finishing touches on Old Canes' second release, Feral Harmonic.
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Old Canes - Feral Harmonic (2009)
Feral Harmonic Assembly (YouTube)
"Both Falling Bright" (YouTube)
MySpace
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Xiu Xiu/Parenthetical Girls – Morrissey/The Smiths Split EP (2009)
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kwintpod:
In Gowan Ring-Hazel Steps Through a Weathered Home(2002)
--- Quote ---In Gowan Ring is the musical endeavour of American composer and multi-instrumentalist B’eirth. Started in the early 1990’s, In Gowan Ring plays acoustic songs with strong roots in folk, medieval, and psychedelic music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F_xG9OjrD0
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Godspeed you!black emperor/fly pan am-aMAZEzine! #4 split(1998)
--- Quote ---A split from the well known gy!be and the also Montreal based experimental rock project Fly Pan Am, only for fans of this kind of stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivXq2IWxRiU
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