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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
bedhead138:
haven't been around for a bit so sorry if any of these have already been posted.
Killah Priest - Elizabeth ~ Mp3 V2 (2009)
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--- Quote ---He's been called a prophet, an innovator, a poet; whichever you prefer, the emcee known as Killah Priest is certainly one of the most vivid lyricists in Hip Hop. Priest first entranced listeners on the classic track "B.I.B.L.E. (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)" on GZA's seminal debut LP Liquid Swords. Since then Priest has continued to enthrall devotees of true Hip Hop with his lush imagery, graphic storytelling and razor-sharp rhymes. Now the Rap veteran and Wu affiliate returns with "Elizabeth (Introduction To The Psychic)". Priest delivers a solid full length of head nodders sure to satisfy Wu-Tang fans worldwide all while staying true to his spiritual side and his firm belief in the power of Hip Hop. "Elizabeth" is the first release on Priest's own Proverb Records. Production on "Elizabeth" is handled by frequent Killah Priest collaborator DJ Woool.
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1. Intro – 3:01
2. Sword Clan – 2:15
3. To Be King – 3:18
4. The 7 Crowns Of God – 4:00
5. Drama – 4:12
6. Trapped – 3:15
7. Dead – 3:25
8. I – 4:27
9. Rise – 2:56
10. How Much – 2:06
11. Interlude – 0:18
12. Murdah Murdah At Dawn – 3:18
13. Let Us Pray – 2:42
14. Diagnose – 3:01
15. What U Want (huh) – 2:49
16. Color Of Murder 2 – 5:39
17. Jacob Never Died – 2:37
18. Confession Booth – 3:35
19. Be Careful – 3:12
20. Truth (Turn Off The Radio) – 3:27
21. Street Matrix – 3:
Spiral Stairs - The Real Feel (2009) ~ Mp3 V2
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--- Quote ---After a pair of albums under the group nom de plume Preston School Of Industry, Pavement co-founder Scott Kannberg, aka Spiral Stairs, makes his bona fide solo debut with an October 20 LP/CD/digital album release of ‘The Real Feel’ (OLE 858). Following an extended sojourn in Melbourne, Spiral returned to Seattle rejuvenated at the end of ‘08, and commenced recording with a collection of pals including members of PSOI, the Posies, guitarist Ian Moore, Gersey, and Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew. Mixed by the Posies’ Jon Auer, this album is by far the most crafted and introspective of Spiral’s post-Pavement works.
In the words of associate Parker Gibbs, ‘The Real Feel’, “has a vibe similar to classic 70’s albums by Fleetwood Mac (’Then Play On’), Captain Beefhart (’Safe As Milk’), and guitar god Richard Thompson, not to mention Aussie psych rock icons Died Pretty. Comparisons aside, this is 100% Spiral Stairs rock, the same rock that made Pavement the most influential band of the 90″s (take that Hoobastank!) and the same strange, dischordant, playful and melodic Spiral Stairs rock that your parents loved.”
“This is indie rock at its best and brightest,” continues Gibbs, “with Spiral Stairs getting back to the basics that have made him a legend in his own mind and to all of the children willing to enter his home.” And on that somewhat troubling note, we’ll add the vinyl edition of ‘The Real Feel’ features a different running order and a limited edition bonus 7″
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01. True Love 4:10
02. Call The Ceasefire 6:42
03. Cold Change 3:16
04. Subiaco Shuffle 5:20
05. Wharf Hand Blues 5:51
06. Maltese T 4:03
07. A Mighty Mighty Fall 4:55
08. Stolen Pills 2:27
09. The Real Feel 0:16
10. Blood Money 8:09
11. Ladies And Gentlemen 1:05
Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar - One Fast Move or I'm Gone (2009) ~ Mp3 V0
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--- Quote ---One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur, a new album featuring 12 original songs composed and performed by Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar of Son Volt - with lyrics based on the prose of Jack Kerouac’s landmark 1962 novel Big Sur - will be available on October 20th. One Fast Move or I'm Gone is a result of Ben and Jay having discovered a mutual appreciation for Kerouac's work while recording several songs for a feature-length documentary of the same name, also available on October 20th.
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1. California Zephyr
2. Low Life Kingdom
3. Willamine
4. All In One
5. Breathe Our Iodine
6. These Roads Don’t Move
7. Big Sur
8. One Fast Move Or I’m Gone
9. Final Horrors
10. Sea Engines
11. The Void
12. San Francisco
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Brian Harnetty- Silent City (2009) ~ Mp3 V0
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--- Quote ---Brian Harnetty is an Ohio-based musician, educator and artist, whose work involves typically overlooked elements of sound. Many of his pieces transform found materials- including field recordings, transcriptions, and historic recordings- into personal and often socio-cultural worlds. His music and installations have been performed and exhibited in the U.S. and Europe.
SILENT CITY is the follow-up album to his incredible '07 work AMERICAN WINTER (ALP181CD), which is rooted in recordings & transcriptions made available to Brian through a residency with the APPALACHIAN FOLK ARCHIVE (Berea, KY). The end-result often feels like a gently compelling collision of pure, real-deal "Holler Music" and the deftness of Morton Feldman.
Very much in the kindred-spirit, SILENT CITY features Will Oldham (Palace Brothers, Bonnie Prince Billy, Boxhead Ensemble) on vocals, and is a fascinating, compelling collaboration that mixes the last three centuries into one beautifully haunting, cryptic flow of idea-sound.
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1. Night is, and Lights Are, The
2. Top Hat, The
3. Sinclair Serenade
4. Sleeping In the Driveway
5. "Well, There Are a Lot of Stories"
6. Silent City
7. And Under the Winesap Tree
8. It's Different Now
9. Papa Made That Last Verse Up
10. Some Glad Day
11. As Old As the Stars
12. To Hear Still More
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Nellie McKay - Normal As Blueberry Pie (2009) ~ Mp3 256
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--- Quote ---Nellie McKay’s gorgeously understated new album, Normal As Blueberry Pie, is everything a tribute record should be. McKay shows a genuine love and respect for her subject, not to mention a seemingly intuitive understanding of the long-forgotten appeal of singer/actress Doris Day—who, over the years, has become synonymous with the stodgy, overly sentimental schmaltz of the irony-free era from which she came, an era that seems to lie across the chasm of history, out of our reach. Backed by some fantastically talented jazz musicians, McKay bridges this gap, breathing life into Day’s out-of-vogue material; giving old standards a new sense of purpose that transcends nostalgia and makes them feel at home in the modern world. She tackles both popular and obscure Day-delivered numbers—written by legends like George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Johnny Mercer, and Antonio Carlos Jobim—with an endearing earnestness, a hushed grace, and a blustery voice that’s like a crisp autumn wind rustling the last brightly colored leaves from the trees in Central Park. It’s the freshest these songs have sounded in years
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1. The Very Thought of You
2. Do Do Do
3. Wonderful Guy
4. Meditation
5. Mean to Me
6. Crazy Rhythm
7. Sentimental Journey
8. If I ever Had a Dream
9. Black Hills of Dakota
10. Dig It
11. Send Me No Flowers
12. Close Your Eyes
13. I Remember You
14. I'll Never Smile Again
Piano Magic - Ovations (2009) ~ Mp3 V2
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--- Quote ---Ovations comes as the tenth official album release from Glen Johnson's Piano Magic, and it finds the band considerably raising their game. Ovations feels like the fullest realisation yet of the sound Piano Magic have been persuing over recent albums, marrying classic underground indie sounds from the eighties with an orchestral level of pomp and bombast. After all these years you can finally hear something approaching genuine crossover potential in Piano Magic's music; you'd have to say it's more a case of the times having caught up with Johnson and co. rather than vice-versa. 'The Blue Hour' is like a collision between Joy DIvision and late-eighties 4AD - in fact, Brendan Perry and Peter Ulrich of Dead Can Dance make appearances on the record, providing an extra air of resonance. It's not all about retro alternative rock stylings however, and on pieces like 'March Of The Atheists' you'll hear myriad Eastern instruments sporting harmonies to match, while 'On Edge' maintains the band's engagement with electronics, launching into rapid-fire machine rhythms and searing, epic guitars.
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1. The Nightmare Goes On (4:39)
2. March Of The Atheists (4:50)
3. On Edge (3:38)
4. A Fond Farewell (4:27)
5. The Blue Hour (5:42)
6. Recovery Position (4:19)
7. La Cobardia De Los Toreros (3:15)
8. You Never Loved This City (4:08)
9. The Faint Horizon (6:27)
10. Exit (3:51)
Mae - (a)fternoon EP (2009) ~ Mp3 320
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1. Good (a)fternoon
2. Over & Over
3. The Fight Song (Crash and Burn)
4. In Pieces
5. The Cure
6. Falling Into You
7. Communication
8. (A)fternoon in Eden
Ra Ra Riot - Can You Tell (2009) ~ Mp3 V2
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1. Can You Tell (Album Version) 2:40
2. Run My Mouth (RAC Mix) 3:41
3. Dying Is Fine (Tom Campesinos! Mix) 3:50
4. A Manner To Act (Live At Daytrotter) 2:53
5. Can You Tell (2006 Demo) 3:09
Tegan & Sara - Sainthood (2009) ~ Mp3 V2
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--- Quote ---Tegan and Sara's sixth studio album - Sainthood - addresses secular themes of devotion, delusion, and exemplary behavior in the pursuit of love andrelationships. Inspired by emotional longing and the quiet actions we hope may be noticed by the objects of our affection, Sainthood is about obsession with romantic ideals.
In the service of relationships we practice being perfect. We practice our sainthood in the hope that we will be rewarded with adoration. As we are driven to become anything for someone else, we sometimes become martyrs for our cause.
Love, like faith, can never be held in an individual's hands. But the story of a great love affair - especially one that is unrequited or has ended too soon - can be woven like scripture or a bedtime story. And so the themes of Sainthood are tied together by this simple title, borrowed, with great respect, from the lyrics of the Leonard Cohen song 'Came So Far For Beauty.'
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1. Arrow 3:06
2. Don't Rush 2:44
3. Hell 3:25
4. On Directing 2:46
5. Red Belt 2:11
6. The Cure 3:22
7. Northshore 2:04
8. Night Watch 2:33
9. Alligator 2:42
10.Paperback Head 2:38
11.The Ocean 3:06
12.Sentimental Tune 3:23
13.Someday 2:57
Atlas Sound- Rough Trade EP (Logos Bonus Disc) ~ Mp3 320
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--- Quote ---Ahead of the record's release on Monday (October 19), Logos - Bradford Cox's next round of ethereal pop genius as Atlas Sound - has been revealed as Rough Trade Shops' Album of the Month for October, with the record available with a bonus disc of alternative versions of album tracks and a batch of previously unheard material.
The limited edition disc is available for free when ordered through Rough Trade and gives a further insight into the delicate ambient pop of the Atalantan's solo project away from his pursuits as part of Deerhunter.
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1. 'Ruben' (Traditional)
2. 'Criminals' (Electronic Version)
3. 'Kid Klimax' (Acoustic Version)
4. 'Reminder' (Previously Unreleased)
5. 'I Know I Will Escape' (Previously Unreleased)
6. 'Nightwork' (Previously Unreleased)
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Joss Stone - Colour Me Free (2009) ~ Mp3 V2
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--- Quote ---After several delays, Joss Stone is back with her fourth album ‘Colour Me Free’ next month, as released on Monday 2nd November. Joss wrote and recorded the follow-up to 2007’s ‘Introducing Joss Stone’ at Mama Stones (a live music venue owned by her mum), and worked with producers Jonathan Shorten and Conor Reeves.
The singer also worked with a number of guest collaborators on the 12 songs, including US rapper Nas, Jeff Beck and Raphael Saadiq (scroll down for the tracklisting). According to Stone, ‘Colour Me Free’ is a very raw sounding record, as she explains: “I kind of woke up one morning and wanted to make an album.”
“It’s very, very raw. It’s a bunch of musicians, writers and myself, and we’re just jamming, basically.” Joss added. “This time, the album was not dictated or forced, it was an organic process where each musician was given the freedom to create their sound.”
“I co-produced this record; it’s an honest and accurate representation of where I am as an artist and person right now. I am really proud of the music and excited to have people finally hear the songs.” The lead single from ‘Colour Me Free’ is ‘Free Me’, as released on 8th November.
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1. Free Me
2. Could Have Been You
3. Parallel Lines (Ft. Jeff Beck and Sheila E)
4. Lady
5. Y and 20
6. Big Ole Game (Ft. Raphael Saadiq)
7. Governmentalist (ft. Nas)
8. Incredible
9. You Got The Love
10. I Believe It To My Soul (Ft. Dave Sanborn)
11. Stalemate (Ft. Jamie Hartman)
12. Girlfriend On Demand
Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be (2009) ~ Mp3 256
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--- Quote ---Nobody comes to a Devendra Banhart record for trenchant insight into the human condition. "All my thoughts are hairs on a wild, wild boar," he muses here on "Chin Chin & Muck Muck." Instead, Banhart's albums offer ashram-appropriate guitar strums, trippy-hippie tone poetry and, if you're lucky, at least one tune where he sings from the perspective of a rodent. What Will We Be has all that (check out "Rats"), plus a wee-hours piano-bar ballad and a driving soul-rock jam with more Tom Petty than Vashti Bunyan in it. A big improvement over 2007's ho-hum Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, it's also the most consistently satisfying full-length he's made.
Fans of Banhart's outré tendencies might be surprised that this is also his first major-label disc; after all, he doesn't really seem like the compromising sort. Yet, working alongside producer Paul Butler (from the U.K.'s A Band of Bees), Banhart actually flourishes with a little direction: In the catchy campfire singalongs "Angelika" and "Goin' Back to the Place," his appealing eccentricity gains potency when it's packed into more compact forms, while "Baby" and "16th & Valencia" shimmer with a newfound professionalism. What Will We Be sags toward the end with a handful of snoozy acoustic shuffles and a wack-ass impersonation of the Doors. But mostly, it clicks. Maybe wild boars can be broken.
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1. Can't Help But Smiling
2. Angelika
3. Baby
4. Goin' Back
5. First Song For B
6. Last Song For B
7. Chin Chin And Muck Muck
8. 16th And Valencia Roxy Music
9. Rats
10. Maria Lionza
11. Brindo
12. Meet Me At Lookout Point
13. Walilamdzi
14. Foolin'
Sufjan Stevens - Enjoy Your Rabbit (2001) ~ Mp3 320
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--- Quote ---Sufjan Stevens' second release, Enjoy Your Rabbit, is a vast departure from the pan-ethnic folk of his debut. Using almost no exterior samples, Stevens crafts an electronic, all-"instrumental" song cycle based on the symbols of the Chinese zodiac. While working within these considerably narrower confines, he still maps out a wide musical territory by using each symbol as a mode, each one exploring different textures and tempos and, in the process, evoking a surprising array of moods. At times eerie and ominous like a backwoods Autechre, other times sounding like more club-oriented fare, Stevens sometimes trades in bloops and bleeps for oblique glitches and crackles, but the underlying guiding principle is wide-eyed exploration that fills nearly every track with a sense of playfulness. Enjoy Your Rabbit never gets too serious, although at times it's very intense. Many tracks even have some sort of musical pun working just under the surface; for instance, "Year of the Horse" is by far the longest, clocking in at over 13 minutes, and "Year of the Ox" has a regular, heavy thudding beat.
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01. Year of the Asthmatic Cat
02. Year of the Monkey
03. Year of the Rat
04. Year of the Ox
05. Year of the Boar
06. Year of the Tiger
07. Year of the Snake
08. Year of the Sheep
09. Year of the Rooster
10. Year of the Dragon
11. Enjoy Your Rabbit
12. Year of the Dog
13. Year of the Horse
14. Year of Our Lord
Leonard Cohen - Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (2009) ~ Mp3 V0
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--- Quote ---On August 31, 1970, Leonard Cohen was scheduled to play the third Isle of Wight Festival. The conditions were not optimal. While 100,00 tickets or so had been sold, there were nearly 600,000 in attendance. Fans overran the island to see and hear the Who, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, and many others over five days. Given the gatecrashers, things got ugly and violent. Some acts were booed from the stage while others were pelted with projectiles; fires were set — even the stage got torched during Hendrix's performance. Murray Lerner, the award-winning documentary filmmaker who had been commissioned to capture it all, packed up his gear. Thank goodness he stayed.
Leonard Cohen, was 35, had two albums under his belt with a third on the way. He was scheduled to play after Hendrix, right in the middle of the chaos. Organizers tried to find a replacement piano for the one that had been burned — he was asleep in his trailer when he was awakened at 1 a.m. An unkempt Cohen took the stage without hesitation at 2 a.m in a safari jacket and jeans over his pajamas, along with the Army — producer Bob Johnson on organ, piano, and guitar; Elkin "Bubba" Fowler on bass and banjo; fiddler Charlie Daniels; guitarist Ron Cornelius; and vocalists Corlynn Hanney, Susan Mussmano, and Donna Washburn. Cohen opened with a story about a man at a circus asking people to light a match so they could see one another; he requested that from the rowdy crowd. Some granted it early, many more later. Lerner instinctually reset a camera just before his performance and got most of Cohen's show, the vibe of which transformed the festival's last day.
It's all here on CD and DVD from Legacy. Cohen played songs from his first two albums, debuted a few — including "Suzanne," from the forthcoming Songs of Love and Hate — recited poems, and told stories. He offered personal confessions about being in a cheap hotel, trying to pick up a blonde woman in a Nazi poster while coming down from a speed run; he talked of friends who committed suicide because they had no one to talk to; and shared effortlessly, politely, and honestly without artifice or "showmanship." In other words, the qualities he has become known for throughout his career.
The CD captures the entire performance in nearly pristine sound. The hits (of the time) are here, the banter is here, and the entire performance by the band is so special it will leave the listener utterly satisfied. Whether it's "So Long Marianne," the poem "They Locked Up a Man," the stellar reading of "The Partisan," or the chilling version of "Famous Blue Raincoat," this is top-notch Cohen. The DVD is imperfect, but that's alright; it is still essential viewing artistically and historically. What Lerner captures is utterly magical, and not to be missed. His sense of timing is impeccable, his taste unassailable. Since he hastily reset his gear, there is one camera instead of three, but it hardly matters. He captures the essence of what happened, he understood instinctually what was going on on-stage and with the crowd, and he portrays that throughout the gig. The concert is interspersed with brief interviews with eyewitnesses Judy Collins and Joan Baez; but their input is unnecessary and self-serving. Kris Kristofferson's first person commentary, however, is wonderful, because it is journalistic and simple, without nostalgic interpretation. Cohen is not present as a commentator, which is unfortunate, but this is only a small complaint, really. This is one CD/DVD package that is so complementary, its pieces are inseparable.
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1. Introduction
2. Bird On The Wire
3. Intro to So Long, Marianne
4. So Long, Marianne
5. Intro: “Let’s renew ourselves now...”
6. You Know Who I Am
7. Intro to Poems
8. Lady Midnight
9. They Locked Up A Man (poem)/A Person Who Eats Meat/Intro
10. One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
11. The Stranger Song
12. Tonight Will Be Fine
13. Hey, That’s No Way To Say Good¬bye
14. Diamonds In The Mine
15. Suzanne
16. Sing Another Song, Boys
17. The Partisan
18. Famous Blue Raincoat
19. Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
Inara George - Accidental Experimental (2009) ~ Mp3 V0
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--- Quote ---Some of the songs on The Accidental Experimental have been with George for some time, including a few which would become source material for “An Invitation.” Working closely with producer and frequent collaborator Mike Andrews (Donnie Darko, Grey Boy All-Stars) they have outfitted the “Accidental Experimental” with a mixture of baroque pop, experimental folk, and romantic balladry that fans of both her solo work and band efforts will immediately find familiar and essential
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1. Surprise
2. Accidental
3. Can’t Say No
4. Bomb
5. Dirty White
6. Bottlecaps
7. Right as Wrong
8. Oh My Love
9. Where to Go
10. Captured
11. Greedy
Dirty Projectors - Temecula Sunrise EP (2009) ~ Mp3 320
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--- Quote ---The EP will feature Temecula Sunrise and Cannibal Resource, two tracks taken from their recently released and critically acclaimed album, Bitte Orca. The EP also contains two exclusive, previously unreleased tracks recorded as part of the album sessions – Ascending Melody and Emblem Of The World – featuring the band’s signature rhythms and stunning singing.
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01 – Temecula Sunrise
02 – Cannibal Resource
03 – Ascending Melody
04 – Emblem Of The World
Sufjan Stevens - A Sun Came (2004) ~ Mp3 V2
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--- Quote ---The debut disc from this former member of the folk group Marzuki and sometimes Danielson Famile contributor stakes out some wide musical and thematic territory. Although it was recorded on four-track, it transcends the confines of lo-fi and can even seem sonically overambitious at times. Exploring a terrain that can only be called pan-ethnic folk, A Sun Came begins with Celtic overtones before traveling east in a global musical study. Indian, Middle Eastern, Far Eastern, American folk, and instruments ranging from banjo and sitar to oboe and xylophone (most of which are played by Stevens) — it's all found here in some form or another, which would be a bit disorienting if not for Stevens' often personal lyrical turns and the wide-eyed indie rock vibe that permeates the songs no matter where they may roam. Also, short spoken word pieces are sprinkled across the album, snippets which on one hand sound like field recordings but are in actuality personal anecdotes and reflections from friends, blending further the multicultural music-lesson feel and the introspective, singer/songwriterly tunes — a nice effect. Highlights include "Demetrius," which takes a Sonic Youth-inspired guitar riff, rides it to the British Isles for some pan pipes, then onward to a Moroccan opium den, and "A Loverless Bed," which is a beautiful, reverb-laden ballad turned noise freak-out.
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1. We Are What You Say
2. A Winner Needs a Wand
3. Rake
4. Siamese Twins
5. Demetrius
6. Dumb I Sound
7. Wordsworth's Ridge (for Fran Fike)
8. Belly Button
9. Rice Pudding
10. A Loverless Bed (Without Remission)
11. Godzukie
12. Super Sexy Woman
13. The Oracle Said Wander
14. Happy Birthday
15. Jason
16. Kill
17. Ya Leil
18. A Sun Came
19. Satan's Saxaphones
20. Joy Joy Joy
21. You Are the Rake
Xiu Xiu & Parenthetical Girls - Morrissey / The Smiths (2009) ~ Mp3 320
Sorry, no cover art.
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--- Quote ---It doesn't get much more obvious than this, does it? Two like-minded experimental pop groups - who share a great deal of personal history and an unhealthy, often frustrating obsession with the works of one Steven Patrick Morrissey - come together to cover a couple of songs. Why hasn't this happened already? Is there an emoticon for "duh"? Because, well, duh!
But sometimes first thought really is best thought. Take, for example, this particularly choice split, right? Celebrating the first half century of our beloved Bigmouth, acclaimed Moz acolytes XIU XIU completely eviscerate one of Morrissey's most effective paeans to righteous self-loathing - the punishing, Gameboy-composed assault of solo weeper "I Am Hated For Loving".
Likewise, you've got Portland, Oregon's premiere pantywaists PARENTHETICAL GIRLS appearing here perhaps at their ballsiest — embracing the muted violence of early, under-represented Smiths masterpiece "Handsome Devil".
If only all things could be this simple.
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01 Xiu Xiu – I am hated for Loving
02 Parenthetical Girls – Handsome Devil
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Nirvana - Live at Reading 1992 (2009) ~ Mp3 V2
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--- Quote ---Nirvana's stage-annihilating performance at the UK's Reading Festival on August 30, 1992-- the one where Kurt jokingly came out in a wheelchair-- has been bootlegged to oblivion but it's getting an official, remastered release.
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01.Breed [03:12]
02.Drain You [03:38]
03.Aneurysm [04:35]
04.School [02:43]
05.Sliver [02:06]
06.In Bloom [04:36]
07.Come As You Are [03:36]
08.Lithium [04:22]
09.About A Girl [02:52]
10.Tourette's [01:51]
11.Polly [02:49]
12.Lounge Act [02:37]
13.Smells Like Teen Spirit [04:45]
14.On A Plain [03:00]
15.Negative Creep [02:52]
16.Been A Son [02:13]
17.All Apologies [03:10]
18.Blew [03:20]
19.Dumb [02:32]
20.Stay Away [03:33]
21.Spank Thru [03:07]
22.The Money Will Roll Right In [02:17]
23.D-7 [03:44]
24.Territorial Pissings [04:30]
Molina and Johnson - S/T (2009) ~ Mp3 V2
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--- Quote ---Here's a new album from Jason Molina of Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. teamed up with Will Johnson from Centro-Matic and South San Gabriel.
"Consider the collective catalogs of these two prolific masters of the new American folk songcraft: Magnolia Electric Co., Centro-matic, Songs: Ohia, South San Gabriel. Now, let's just be honest. A little bit of artistic ego and one-upsmanship can serve a greater purpose. In this collaboration between Jason Molina and Will Johnson, each seem to hold the other's talents to the fire and elevate both performance and creativity. In the friendly sharing of ideas, Molina and Johnson become two poets' poets in a workshop to craft a singular, searing elegy
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01. Twenty Cycles To The Ground ( 3:07)
02. All Falls Together ( 2:21)
03. All Gone, All Gone ( 3:53)
04. Almost Let You In ( 3:25)
05. In The Avalon / Little Killer ( 3:22)
06. Don't Take My Night From Me ( 1:49)
07. Each Star Marks A Day ( 3:41)
08. Lenore's Lullaby ( 5:23)
09. The Lily And The Brakeman ( 2:35)
10. Now, Divide ( 2:54)
11. What You Reckon, What You Breathe ( 5:49)
12. For As Long As It Will Matter ( 2:58)
13. 34 Blues ( 2:52)
14. Wooden Heart ( 3:33)
Norfolk and Western - Dinero Severo (2009) ~ Mp3 256
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--- Quote ---Norfolk & Western frontman Adam Selzer has a great pair of ears, the kind people will pay serious money to make professional use of.
Selzer's "day gig" revolves around his partnership in Type Foundry Recording studios, the small, well-regarded North Portland music emporium responsible for albums from artists ranging from Spoon and M. Ward (in whose backing band Selzer serves) to the Decemberists (Selzer's bandmate, Rachel Blumberg, was once the drummer) and Thao With the Get Down Stay Down. All have tapped into Selzer's talent to breathe new life into their music.
Selzer also has spent the past decade helming his own band, Norfolk & Western, whose trademark sound is a sepia-toned Americana that toggles between simplicity and intelligence, often pulling off the mean feat -- in a manner similar to the Band -- of embodying both characteristics simultaneously.
On Norfolk & Western's sixth full-length album, "Dinero Severo" (loose Spanish translation: "Severe Money"), Selzer sticks to what he does best: straightforward piano-based melodies spiked with guitar skronk. The tunes sometimes take the shape of a Dream Syndicate-like talking blues ("Whippoorwill Song"). Others are oddities whose melody and structure resembles radio-ready power-pop ("So That's How It Is," "This Is a Number 5"). It's a nifty trick, one that highlights the band's overflowing surplus of craft and Selzer's many gifts as bandleader, writer/arranger, and, of course, there's those golden ears.
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1. Hiding Home
2. Opinion
3. Turkish Wine
4. Every Morning
5. The Long Goodbye
6. Future Mother
7. Whippoorwill Song
8. Not For Good
9. So That’s How It Is
10. Angel Feet
11. This is a Number 5
Yeasayer - Ambling Alp (2009) ~ Mp3 320
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--- Quote ---This is the first single from Yeasayer's new album, Odd Blood, to be released February 9, 2010. The single comes out on physical media November 3, 2009 but is available for digital download from their website immediately. Visit http://www.amblingalp.com/ for more information.
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1. Ambling Alp
JD:
Good lord
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