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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
Koremora:
I LOVE YOU.
Yep, this album is fucking awesome.
onewheelwizzard:
Unfortunately I'm going to be out of town until Thursday or possibly Friday or Saturday, so I won't be able to do all the uploads I was talking about, but expect a nice fat post of heavy psych-rock (with maybe a couple other random goodies) about this time next week.
Thanks again for the Causa Sui, it didn't disappoint. Awesome stuff.
Orcusmars:
See you Thursday, wizzard.
Causa Sui - Causa Sui
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Causa Sui - Free Ride
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A lot more aggressive than Summer Sessions, still fantastic psych rock from Denmark.
gospel:
Enjoy
Get Well Soon – Vexations
MySpace
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--- Quote ---‘25-year-old German is startlingly talented. His debut album as Get Well Soon is an ambitious and omaginatively arranged mix of exultant Motown pop, electronica, soundtracks and noir-ish alt. rock. Fans of the Arcade Fire, The National and Radiohead will faint clean away.
UNCUT (4 Stars)
In other words, it’s a provocative, opaque, boldly dramatic labyrinth of an album and you’d be a fool not to dive right in’
THE FLY (4,5 Stars)
‘Rest Now..’ is a bold and beautiful collection of songs. Gropper has crafted an album on par with the ambitious sonic adventuring usually favoured by the likes of Sufjan Stevens or Patrick Wolf, fellow sonic visionaries who Get Well Soon deserve to be mentioned amongst’
CLASH MAGAZINE
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The Portland Cello Project – The Thao & Justin Power Sessions
Portland Cello Project "Tallymarks" featuring Thao (YouTube)
MySpace
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The Portland Cello Project kicks off The Thao & Justin Power Sessions with a cover of a John Tavener song, leading right into a typically Nico-esque vocal cameo by Thao Nguyen. It's a good sign. That they blend the spiritual with the dark and mysterious is fitting, since the cello is one of the few instruments that can evoke the infinite and the heartbreakingly local within the same line. The album is quite the emotional workout, but The Portland Cello Project isn't afraid to rock, nor to mix some distortion into its transcendental brew.
Thao Nguyen and Justin Power contribute vocals to songs they brought with them to the sessions, with Powers’ tracks (especially “Hungry Liars” and “Cut the Rope”) being among the more up-tempo and edgy. Nguyen breezes through several songs, with “Beat (Health, Life & Fire)” being the most remarkable. There are four other, more stricly cello-driven songs as well, including a cover of Pantera’s “Mouth for War.” Yeah, it works.
The 16 classically trained cellists that form The Portland Cello Project have performed in a variety of settings, including punk clubs. Their generous ear for music of all kinds and the ability to draw the deepest emotion (with humor) from it is helping them create a signature sound and career. The Thao & Justin Power Sessions should serve as an introduction to the ensemble, and it should only further open your own ears.
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Rodney DeCroo – Mockingbird Bible
MySpace
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--- Quote from: allgigs.co.uk ---If you've been waiting for a National Enquirer style headline in the form of 'Bob Dylan's Love Child Discovered Living In Canada Shocker', well you may just wish to contact the press room after listening to Rodney Decroo's new album! Vancouver's premier folk-rocker croons like Mr Zimmerman with a the fragrantly soaked scent of a T.B. Sheets era Van Morrison.
Mocking Bird Bible is being peddled as a 'straight ahead depression session', and 'so exhaustively bleak that you fear for it's health'. This seems to me a rather odd way to project and portray an album you are hoping to put out there with the intent of persuading people to part with their hard earned cash. There's nothing wrong with stark hard truths and uncomfortable, challenging subject matter, but as always there are at least two sides to every story. Rather like Nick Cave is perceived by many to be some sort of Earthly portal to convey and bestow upon us all things dark, Rodney has set himself up as a suicide counsellors worst nightmare. However, for me, as with most of Mr Caves outpourings, there is hope, honesty, love and above all a certain life affirming quality and character to most of this album. To quote cliché gold, 'is your glass half empty or half full?' The opening track, Scared Ground is fine example of just this paradox....
your messenger he found me, told me this tale,
he said you're dice are rattlin' like teeth in your head,
and you been singin' songs about dyin' in your bed,
but that long legged man with that no win smile,
he's been walking round beside you for many a mile,
but you know I heard that rumour that you gonna break that chain,
and when you do you gonna see me again,
when you make it to sacred ground.
The album is full of fantastic evocations and imagery, but, by trying to typecast himself as some sort of grim preacher of woe Rodney Decroo has sold himself short. The album is not a depression session, and if his publicist feels it is he or she clearly need to stay in a lot more. There are many lyrical high notes in host of well written and executed songs throughout the album. This ,from one of Mocking Bird Bibles' stand out tracks, Gasoline....
Well a needle is a lover and a lover is a liar,
L.A burns like a junkie on fire,
red crow flies, murder in the eyes,
road runs crooked as a strong mans lies,
white dove mornin', park side growin',
burn like water and the water is flowin',
fist in the glove and the glove is smokin',
joker in the alley but he aint jokin'.
Is that rain comin' down or is that gasoline?
Oh Suzanna light that match to find out where we been.
Whilst you never quite get past a gentle toe tap of a rhythm throughout the album, and whilst it could do with the odd injection of pace and immediacy it is nevertheless a fine collection of personal and memorable songs. Spinning Wheel, Long White Road & Loneliness Has The Soul Of A Spider consolidate the quality of song writing on show here. The musicianship is tempered and taut, complimenting Rodneys voice masterfully. Little, and pertinently used, banjos, fiddles, pianos and electric guitars all help to keep the albums flow and form. 'Shooting Stars' is a little anachronism in that on hearing the first few bars I defy anyone to not think you're about to here a Nirvana cover...
Rodney has just finished touring his native Canada, so whilst you may not be able to catch him live here any time too soon you may just wish to give his tunes a quick spin on his MySpace page, believe me it's not all doom and gloom!
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Woody Pines – Counting Alligators
Woody Pines "Chew Tobacco Rag" (YouTube)
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--- Quote from: scotsman.com ---This is a rollicking, engagingly idiosyncratic amalgam of old-time blues and jug band sensibilities from the North Carolina-based Woody Pines and his band, whose songs of Cajun queens, dusty highways and speakeasies are informed not only by squalling harmonica and whumping bass but a conviction that makes them sound about six decades older than they really are.
As well as Pines's nasal holler, Zack Pozebanchuk on bass and Rennie Elliot and Andy Tubb sharing credits on drums, there are tasty contributions from guest artists including producer Gill Landry on slide guitar. Stand-out tracks include the harmonica and fiddle-driven Chew Tobacco Rag and a compelling rendition of Harlem, a vintage joint-jumper swinging to sax and cornet. It's not all up-tempo stomp, and Pines' Walking Down the Road has overtones of early Dylan in its guitar fingerpicking and wistful drawl.
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Woodpigeon – Die Stadt Muzikanten
MySpace
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--- Quote ---Die Stadt Muzikanten is Woodpigeon's third full-length album and follow up to the internationally acclaimed Treasury Library Canada. Produced by Arran Fisher, the fifteen tracks on Die Stadt Muzikanten move and contort like a film soundtrack. Lush, grand moments complement Mark’s signature cinematic “pretty-pretty-pop” sound. Songwriter, Mark Andrew of the Hamiltons, breathes a glorious new life into Die Stadt Muzikanten, an album both inspired by a recent stay in Germany and of the comparative lives of his ancestors.
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Deerhoof – Custom Made ep
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--- Quote from: NR ---‘Custom Made’ has the theme of ’something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue’. I don’t know if wedding bells are in the air at camp Deerhoof but the theme gives the group a chance to showcase an alternate mix of ‘The Tears and Music of Love’ (something old..) and reworking of ‘Makka Shobu’ from single ‘Matchbook seeks maniac’ (something new….sort of…), a remix of ‘Rrrrrrright’ by Germlin (a.k.a. Joe Howe of Gay Against you and Ben Butler and the Mousepad (this is something borrowed) and finally a return visit to Apple O’s ‘Blue Cash’ (something blue…you get it) featuring new dude Ed Rodriguez (guitarist and former member of XBXRX among others). ‘The Tears..’ is fresher, livelier and generally better than the album version, Germlin’s kooky remix is totally killer and the reworking of theme to that Robinson’s cordial ad (‘Blue Cash’) really benefits from the rethink and some sweet production work.
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ALoveSupreme:
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PePe Kalé- Pon Moun Paka Bougé
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Totally rad african dance jams. This is a vinyl rip from an album I found in a thrift store, so the quality may not be perfect (sounds fine to me, though). I'm not really sure how to describe it but I'm sure it's in there with stuff Vampire Weekend ripped off when they were trying to come up with some ideas.
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