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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
David_Dovey:
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Oh nice. I picked up The Fine Art of Original Sin (it might've even been from The Hardcore Thread) and really enjoyed it. Sir, you are truly a bringer of the goods.
kwintpod:
GREYMACHINE-disconnected(2009)
Industrial heaviness with members of Jesu and Isis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qaVWr7o158
ptI
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Enemite-Wuyuan (The Necrolatry)(2005)
Chinese dark ambient, pretty interesting traditional instrumentation and the occasional vocals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPr0h2VlUVU
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TheFuriousWombat:
I present to you StickLips "It is Like a Horse, it is Not Like Two Horses," the rather brilliant debut album by the seriously talented Johanna Warren. Only 20, Warren's music is incredibly mature both in composition and lyrics for someone so young. Drawing influences that shift from, at various times, Joanna Newsom's multi-movement tracks off Ys, to an almost Thom York-ian electronic solo project to name only two, Warren's debut album, just released (and available on itunes and amazon. Please consider buying it!!) sets itself apart from the pack of female driven acoustic indie pop in some substantial ways. JP Nocera backs up Warren's acoustic guitar and voice with an array of guitar driven effects, haunting blips and bleeps, subtle siren calls, thunderous fuzz, and more, often adding a certain degree of ghostly beauty, another layer of depth. Give her stuff a listen at myspace first: http://www.myspace.com/sticklips (give a few songs a try, they're all rather different) and try out the download here:
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and then buy it if you like it!
Tracklist:
1. Bedding Wells
2. Know Your Blows
3. Cattleships & Bruisers
4. Fighting a Liar
5. We'll Have all the Hags Flung Out
6. Birch Bark
7. Talking
8. To Shake a Tower
9. At Least
10. Our Shoving Leopard
11. I Must Mend the Sail
12. Longyearbyen
12 tracks, 1 hr. 1min 48 sec.
JD:
Rad
JD:
Cats on Fire-Our Temperance Movement[2009]
--- Quote ---Don't look now, but one of the best British indie bands of the decade isn't from Britain at all. At least not strictly speaking. Cats On Fire's passport pin them as Finnish nationals, but the band's sophomore set, Our Temperance Movement, pins the band as long-lost sons of The Smiths, Felt and Pulp. Scandinavian indie-pop traditions be damned: Cats On Fire are the sort of pop act any Anglophile on this side of the Atlantic should be watching.
The band doesn't change its tack on Our Temperance Movement from its approach to 2007's debut effort, The Providence Complains (review) (Marsh Marigold). Why would it? Wrapping up that wonderfully conflicting mix of jangly, sunny mornings and hints of morose, drizzly afternoons, Our Temperance Movement flirts with the same spirit as the Marr/Morrissey collaborations, and singer/guitarist Mattias Björkas' handsome, confident delivery carries the power of everyone from Morrissey to Jarvis Cocker. Swells of acoustic guitar intertwine with electrics for pure bed-sit pop bliss that recalls a million independent bands before Cats, and the band's reliance upon pop fundamentals doesn't just cut through the waves of indie-pop fashion, but grounds it as basic great music. Who but the most picky fan can complain about a return to such solid form?
With the recent demise of The Lucksmiths, Cats On Fire serve to stand as primary defenders of the old-school indie pop flame. It burns bright throughout Our Temperance Movement. It's nothing but classic pop mastery in "Letters from a Voyage to Sweden," as a steadfast acoustic guitar holds down rhythm duties as an electric sings blithely, with Björkas sings about smarmy misbehavior below decks. "Garden Lights" could easily be mistaken for a light pop number with its competing bass and guitar melodies -- like XTC with an extra guitarist on hand -- if you don't catch the subtleties of the lyrics, a story about mislaid drunken vengeance and arson. "Never Sell the House" is a maudlin number pushed forward by droning organs in its background, and "Lay Down Your Arms" and "The Borders of This Land" are a near-perfect blend of sugar melodies and restraint.
Cats On Fire cornered the market on British indie rock. It wasn't too hard: The band's blend of '80s and '90s influences that spans your record collection polished its chops, and Britain's sagging pop culture did the rest. Finland, welcome to the (musical) Empire.
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Sort of like Burning Hearts, except it sounds a bit more like Spring music.
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