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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
DarkAvenger:
The Gay Blades - Ghost
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I really can't describe this band, all I can say is that I've listened to this album so many times over the last few months and it terrific. No reviews but if you need something here is what Last.fm says about them:
--- Quote from: Last.fm ---“If Freddie Mercury sang for Death From Above 1979, these guys would open the show!”
The Gay Blades are a two piece from somewhere in or near New York City and play an acerbic brand of Trash Pop. What is Trash Pop, you ask? Trash Pop is what happens when two keenly observant wanna be hipsters write songs the same pair couldn’t possibly pull off live, and make up for their missing bass player with consistent TNT like performances and a heaping spoonful of swagger. The Gay Blades invented it. Trust me.
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Honestly I cannot recommend this album enough.
pulpfiction21:
Oh man I was totally gunna upload that gay blades in a little bit. Such a great band and album. I didnt even listen to them for a while cause of their name, thought it was going to be some stupid comedy band or something, but i'm really glad I did. Get that album if you don't have it.
Albatron:
Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs and Ricky Skaggs - Three Pickers
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Don't pass this up just because you hate country, this ain't country. Bluegrass is like country's cousin thats always in the same old flannel shirt with a half empty bottle of jack and has that look on his face like he been through some serious country shit but still wants to have a good time.
This is quality bluegrass by three giants of the genre. I've got more Doc and Skaggs if y'all are interested.
pulpfiction21:
Alterkicks - Do Everything I Taught You
Review from Drownedinsound
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--- Quote ---It’s a rare thing in Liverpool to see a band who out of the blue will simultaneously take your breath away and give you a new hope in music. That’s what happened to DiS when they first saw The Alterkicks play in various bedrooms across the city. Before we had time to say ‘new favourite band’ they’d been snapped up by the über respectable Fierce Panda and were wooing crowds of three thousand people on tour with Thirteen Senses. What is it though that makes the Alterkicks so intriguing? It’s not that they’re attempting anything revolutionary. Yes, these are stupidly catchy pop songs, but it’s the hauntingly intricate guitar melodies of ‘Do Everything I Taught You’ that suggest there’s something darker lying underneath. You can’t work out what it is, so you listen again. And again. It’s addictive.
The unassuming half-sung, half-whimpered vocals of ‘The Cannibal Hiking Disaster’ make more of an impact than the song’s grisly subject matter (accidentally eating your mate’s leg while stuck up a mountain). If the Coral’s game is Magic & Medicine then The Alterkicks are weaving a cunning spell that ensnares you without you even noticing. All the best music is full of contradictions, and this is delicate and subtle songsmithery that hits you like an oncoming train.
Go. Buy. Now.
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Swanton Bombs - Mammoth Skull
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Review from Gobshout
--- Quote ---Gotta be honest here; I wasn’t entirely sure about Swanton Bombs when they first dropped onto the ol’ doormat. It sounded a bit under produced, a bit weak, a bit (first album) Mystery Jets’y
Imagine my absolute surprise then when, a couple more ‘oh I might as well’ listens later this four track E.P not only grew on me, it also became my favourite thing I’ve heard this year, linking together the spikier moments of Bloc Party , (second album) Mystery Jets, The Cribs and Billy Bragg.
Each song follows a different path, but one element links all; goddam catchy melodies and lyrics. I listened to ‘Moth and Moon Song’ before work one day and proceeded to spend the next 9 hours walking around with this sweet little ballad's chorus of I’m dependant on you/ like a moth with the moon/ forgive me if this comparison is weak going round my head 5 times a minute. AND I still liked it. The same thing happened with the riff from ‘Turnstile’ earlier today. These are songs designed to lodge themselves in your very being.
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Paper Rival - Dialog
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Review from Blender
--- Quote ---Paper Rival’s winning debut arrives a full three years after the band formed—a mundane factoid that actually seems quite remarkable in the hyperspeed, doomsday-clock-eyeing maelstrom that is the music industry these days. The polished Dialog demonstrates the palpable benefits of what used to be called “development”—fully formed, mature rock songs with the confidence and chops to detour into lovely little digressions: the swirling crescendo of guitars on “Keep Us In,” the soaring falsetto harmonies on the chorus of opener, “Are We Brothers?” On the best songs, singer Jake Rolleston shifts comfortably between tasteful emo (moany standout “The Family Ghost”) and tasteful Zach Braff–isms (Shins-y single “Cassandra”). All that practice didn’t make perfect, but it does make for a welcome surprise.
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Facts About Funerals - Love Songs and Funeral Homes
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Couldnt find a review for it but it is a band made up of former and current members of New West Motels, Swell, Sera Cahoone, and Smile Brigade.
pulpfiction21:
My second favorite band of all time, Benton Falls, put out two LPs in their short existence. Both are absolute must haves though. They are a Deep Elm staple but sadly never got much fame. These CD's are kind of hard to find to DL. Get them both and thank me later cause if you like passionate lyrics, awesome vocals, and some of the catchiest guitar riffs in recent memory, then you will love these two discs. According to wikipedia "The band's music was influenced by such bands as Sunny Day Real Estate, Braid, and Jawbox." so how could you possible not like them. "No Hero" is my all-time favorite song, really will hit you if you have ever had a friend overdose on heroin.
Benton Falls - Fighting Starlight (2001)
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Benton Falls - Guilt Beats Hate (2002)
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