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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
medicatesleep:
No offense to poster but that Them Crooked Vultures album is boring as fuck. Doesn't come close to being as cool as the sum of it's members.
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FREE ENERGY EP (2009)
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1 - Free Energy
2 - Dark Trance
3 - Something in Common
4 - Dream City
--- Quote ---If James Murphy wants us to believe that he's an old man trapped in a young man's game, he's going to have to stop picking from the tree of life at some point. Signing Philly livewires Free Energy to DFA is not that step towards graceful maturity, and for that your coming summer months owe the codger a debt of gratitude. After hearing only "Dream City", a cut from the band's forthcoming debut, Stuck on Nothin', it would be unwise to ignore Murphy's commendation of something this unbridled and, in the spirit of things, totally rad. "Dream City" is a good-time 1970s rock rip of epic proportions, as promises of dancing downtown, cruising around, and getting "lost in the endless sound" weave in and out like the attention span of a drunk in the backseat. It's perfect mood music for a night that looses itself in the afterglow of the inevitable busting of the moontower kegger, leaving everyone a little high, a little bored, and completely enraptured with the endless possibility of youth. The handclaps, the na-na-nas, the maddening twinkle in the eyes-- they're all here, playing like subtle reminders to take note of these things before they pass, or at least until we get to hear the rest of Stuck on Nothin'. - Pitchfork on "Dream City"
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--- Quote ---If any band deserves the chance to play a concert beneath Dazed and Confused's moon tower, it's Free Energy. The Philadelphia-based quintet's music-- full of glam-rock guitar leads, teenage boy-girl romance, and new-wave Moog bloops-- is a composite of all things groovy and 1970s. There's a strong chance that, one day, they'll write some kid's all-time slow-dance prom song. But "Something in Common", from the group's new digital EP, isn't it. "Come on/ We can find there's something in common between our lives/ I want to hold on all night when I look in your eyes," sings frontman Paul Sprangers. But the commonality he seeks is not immediately forthcoming. Thus, "Something in Common" lumbers onward at mild-tempo for four-and-a-half minutes. The EP's other tracks-- "Dark Trance" and "Free Energy"-- are just as guilty of wanderlust, but meatier hooks make the time breeze by. "Something in Common", on the other hand, finds Free Energy jamming out the timeless classic-rock clichés but failing to deliver a classic. - Pitchfork on "Something in Common"
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TheFuriousWombat:
--- Quote from: medicatesleep on 14 Nov 2009, 18:39 ---No offense to poster but that Them Crooked Vultures album is boring as fuck. Doesn't come close to being as cool as the sum of it's members.
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Supergroups almost never come close the being as cool as one would hope. Sad truth. Really, name a an awesome supergroup, one you'd rather listen to than any of the individual members. It can't be done!
valley_parade:
I'd rather listen to The Falcon than Alkaline Trio or Smoking Popes.
But I'd rather listen to the Lawrence Arms over The Falcon.
SWOON! at My Gravitas:
Broken Social Scene.
Edit: That reminds me, has anyone listened to Shrinebuilder? Is it worth getting?
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