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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
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--- Quote from: meanwhile on 29 Jan 2009, 20:58 ---Jóhann Jóhannsson - Virðulegu forsetar (2004)
Super minimal classical/orchestral music mostly composed of slow horns and silence. If you haven't heard this I implore you to give it a try, it's one of the most relaxing and peaceful albums I've ever heard and makes perfect background music for sleeping, studying, meditating, etc.
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Mmmmm... /me eats with a spoon.
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlandia out Nov 2008
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imm:
Hey, first post. Trying to give something back!
Accidents With Nature and Each Other, by Harris Newman
--- Quote from: allmusic ---Like his debut, Non-Sequiturs, Harris Newman's second album sparked inevitable comparisons to John Fahey. His instrumentals, largely performed on acoustic steel string, shared many of the same attributes with Fahey's work, and to lesser extents two other guitarists who were on the Takoma label, Robbie Basho and Leo Kottke. There were similar somber, moody compositions, folky but certainly not traditional folk, verging on but not quite crossing over into experimental dissonance and Indian influences. By alternating pensive, spare passages with stormier sections of anxious strumming and picking, the ambience is varied and retains tension, steering well clear of placid new age. So in many ways it's revivalistic, but certainly Newman plays with a great deal of skill and thoughtfulness, and it's not as though the Fahey school of downcast guitar instrumentals is something that's paid tribute to very often. Too, on some of the tracks, Newman departs somewhat from this format by using Bruce Cawdron for accompaniment on percussion and glockenspiel; Newman, and on one track Sandro Perri, also add some lap steel. "It's a Trap, Pt. 1" and "It's a Trap, Pt. 2" in particular achieve an unsettling ghostly, stretched-out feel quite different from the more relaxed Fahey-isms. "Driving All Night With Only My Mind" is also a highlight, Cawdron's percussion and glockenspiel giving the piece a rhythmic bounce and texture that take it into more original territory than the rest of the record.
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Gutter Tactics, by Dälek
--- Quote from: allmusic ---Coming off of the blistering beats and symphonic doom of Abandoned Language, New Jersey duo Dälek (pronounced dialect) continue swaggering down the same path that made their last album a success, and in a sense, Gutter Tactics could be considered Abandoned Language, Pt. 2. When you've found your sound, why make a departure? Previous tour dates with Ipecac labelmates -- Isis in particular -- prove to be hugely influential once again, as metallic fuzz and white-noise layers propel the agitated rhymes of dälek (the MC) in a thick swampy steam. Aptly titled, the album has a dark, disorienting, and toxic vibe. Instrumentally, Gutter Tactics shares much in common with the droning shoegaze of My Bloody Valentine and the distorted orchestration of Mono, due to live overdubs provided by various musicians ushered from dälek's Deadverse record label into his newly built studio. The funky jazz of Motiv is washed into a haze behind Destructo Swarmbots' myriad of guitar effects, resulting in a blurry ultra-compressed dreamscape wedged between the brick-breaking snaps of Oktopus' beats. It's actually quite difficult to specify what instrumentation makes up the wall of sound -- synths, strings, horns, guitar effects, or something else entirely. It all simply sounds like a sludgy cyclic hum that shifts between two moods: threatening and beautiful. On one side of the coin, there's the ominous "No Question," with factory crunch drum sequencing accented by intense Jeru the Damaja-type rhymes. On the other, there's the flashback to the sweeter days of hip-hop in the sedate and droning "We Lost Sight," a song that marks the MC and producer at the top of their game as chamber organs swell hypnotically underneath a gritty boom-bap, while dälek reminisces in a echoing vocal, "We lost sight on how to use these mikes/What scripts we write/How to choose our fights." Disenchantment with the state of rap, and society as a whole, is a major underlying theme, but the statements never feel too preachy or in your face. Instead, the vocal freestyles hover just slightly above the music, delivered in an amorphous mumble that matches the sonic abyss of the background perfectly. Headphones are highly recommended for this one.
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Mr. Tool:
Another tasty leak...
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Fruit
Couldn't find a review or anything, but the sound is electro-pop with female vocals. You may have heard this song, which was used in an iPod Touch commercial.
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triangleman:
First three studio albums from Gomez...
Gomez - Bring It On
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Gomez - Liquid Skin
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Gomez - In Our Gun
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--- Quote ---Gomez are an English indie rock band. Their first album, Bring It On, won the Mercury Music Prize in 1998.
The band played their first gig together in late 1996 in Leeds without a formal name. The band left a sign out for a friend of theirs whose surname was Gomez which read "Gomez the gig's in here" to indicate that it was the site of their first gig. People saw the sign and assumed that the band’s name was Gomez - the name stuck.
Gomez’s career trajectory has led to the band’s name taking on a new meaning. Also known as “Mercury Poisoning”, To “do a Gomez” now means to release a debut album so successful and to such unanimous praise that expectations are raised to the point where it is impossible to follow it. This is in reference to the fact that whilst Bring It On is still regarded as one of the best British albums of the late nineties, its follow-ups have met a mixed critical reception and disappointing sales. - Last.fm
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boneykingofnowhere:
--- Quote from: triangleman on 29 Jan 2009, 08:32 ---Frightened Rabbit - Liver! Lung! FR!
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I love you so much right now.
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