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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
MrSteevo:
Meat Draw - Fin Du Monophone
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--- Quote ---The sophomore release from Vancouver’s Meatdraw is one rowdy celebration of gospel-tinged pop rock that pleads high spirits, open ears and moving feet. The group, led by brothers Marco and Stefan Bozenich, toy with a big-band sound by weaving sunny melodies, a ska-inspired energy and organic fireside songwriting through each track to lead listeners by the hand from finger-snapping lulls to positively fist-pumping highs. To put it plainly, Meatdraw’s music is about as happy as they come, and often ironically so; the opening track "Are We Gonna Die?", despite its ominous title, is upbeat and decidedly non-fatalist, as the title’s query is followed by “How’s it gonna end?” Fin Du Monophone is cheeky, unpretentious and a really fun listen.
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SWOON! at My Gravitas:
More psychedelic black metal. Mind-blowingly good.
Negura Bunget- Om
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--- Quote ---Negura Bunget have always had a particularly interesting ability to capture the same sort of lugubrious drone so characteristic of the Ukranian black metal sound ala Drudkh or Hate Forest, while still maintaining a high level of harmonic compositions wrapped up in transcendental melodies that sweep up the listener and supplant them in a beautiful yet haunting soundscape of somber woe. The strong pagan tonalities of the music loosely comparable to earlier Borknagar go beyond being simply a facet of the lyrics, the entire product has an amazingly distinct sense of culture that undercuts everything, creating a tumultuous and intense backdrop to their quite distinct brand of emotionally feral black metal.
While they’ve always had a large dose of subtlety throughout their music, with past albums Negura Bunget seemed to have a fairly singular and clear cut direction, OM meanders playfully around, developing and expanding ideas, pondering its own purpose and nature, with each tumultuous passages coming and going as if a dream. "Epic" does not even begin to describe the stunning panorama this album entails. Negura Bunget’s mastery of their style of Romanian Black metal becomes increasingly apparent with each release.
The stylistic and dynamic variety present on OM is absolutely phenomenal. The versatility of the vocals from high snarls, lower sneers, and soaring clean vocals is an interesting parallel to the extremely tasteful implmentation of percussion, each musician effortlessly shifting seamlessly from raging blasts and lacerating guitar lines to more conserved moments highlighted by the implementation of unconventional instrumentation creates a lucid portrait of a band that is both capable of pernicious wrath as well as pedantic experimentation. The clear and warm production undeniably fits OM with a stripped down organic approach that gives the material room to breath and swell rather without the performance becoming clinical. In fact, the entire presentation is nothing short of breathtaking.
Albeit all of the material stands upon its own particular merits, each song plays an integral part in an infinitely greater whole, from the last moments dying echoes of the album openings lugubrious screams, “Ceasuri Rele” does a fine job of setting the atmosphere for the haunting ferocity to follow with the grandiose opening statement set by the ethereal “Tesarul De Lumini”. The progressive atmospheric cuts, “Primul Om” and “Norilor” and the large majority of “Cel Din Urmă Vis” rather than bogging down the album as simple filler or pure wastes of time, succeed at providing contemplative prologues to their subsequent tracks. The forlorn “Conoas Tăcută” and the contemplative “Hora Soarelui” prioritize the implementation of folk influences, raising the tracks to the levels of spiritual journeys unto themselves, while the direct ferocity and relative overtness of “De Piatră” are jarringly different, juxtaposed with the nearly avant-garde amalgam of tumultuous passages presented on “Inarborat” and “Dedesuptul” deftly reconcile and combine the phenomenal stylistic variety Negura Bunget wield.
I’ve always been curious as to why Negura Bunget haven’t received near the amount of widespread publicity and appreciation I believe they are quite in fact due, but for whatever reason, OM should finally cement Negura Bunget’s unconventional black metal and should place them amongst the current elites of the genre. This is an album that demands to be listened to; this is not a background album. The beauty is in the subtlety; it’s when the music has had enough time to work throughout your being that the brilliance truly hits you.
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kwintpod:
Spiritual Front-Nihilism EP(2003)
Great Italian neofolk band, label their sound"nihilist suicide pop"(Yeah, I know), with a beautiful instrumentation of acoustic guitars, piano and violin. The vocals are sometimes drowned but still sound great
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Dimmukane:
That Negura Bunget album is sick, I got that a few years back.
Chad Warner:
Just got this CD yesterday and I absolutely love it. It's a compilation CD of Guided By Voices best songs. For anyone who hasn't heard of them, they are a great Lo-Fi/Alternative/Punk band that started out in the 80's. This is my Thanksgiving present to anyone who is a fan of the band. Happy Turkey Day!
Guided By Voices - Human Amusement at Hourly Rates
Track Listings:
A Salty Salute
Things I Will Keep
Everywhere With Helicopter
I Am A Tree
My Kind Of Soldier
14 Cheerleader Coldfront
Twilight Campfighter
Echos Myron
Learning To Hunt
Bulldog Skin
Captain's Dead
Tractor Rape Chain
Game Of Pricks
To Remake The Young Flyer
Hit
Glad Girls
Drinker's Peace
Surgical Focus
Cut-Out Witch
The Best Of Jill Hives
Hot Freaks
Shocker In Gloomtown
Chasing Heather Crazy
My Valuable Hunting Knife
The Official Ironmen Rally Song
Non-Absorbing
Motor Away
Teenage FBI
Watch Me Jumpstart
Exit Flagger
Back To The Lake
I Am A Scientist
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