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[barista.babe]

so i must admit, i'm a bit nervous...i want to make my first music post but i don't want to eff it up. i've already upped the albums i want to mediaf!re, now i just need to know how to do the linky thing to put them up here.

can i get some instruction?

[barista.babe]

okay, i'm being a nerdy babe and going through the thread so i can learn from the mistakes of others and do this properly.

So the following albums i present you all with have been playing non-stop in rotation for the past few days that i've worked at the coffee shop.these aren't really reviews, but they will have to work. it's basically what i think of them and why i like them, and maybe a suggestion as to why you might like them.

The first is...The Gay Blades!

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i've been digging the gay blades a lot lately if only for the fact that it's pretty electronic-y, yet still pretty indie rockish. it let's me shake it while i make it (i.e.- your latte) and everyone that seems to come in the shop seems to like it too. i saw these guys about a year ago and it was a pretty rad show. if you get the chance to see them, do it. in the mean time check them out.

second up is...Mirah!

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the first time i fell in love with mirah was when i saw her at the magic stick in detroit while she was on tour for c'mon miracle. i was sold from there. so i was super stoked when i found out about this year's upcoming release of (a)spera. it's pretty much like classic mirah, there are a few more horns and symphonic parts on this one. in my opinion it's really mellow (like night time at my coffee shop). so check it out and love it. and buy it when it comes out in march because...i will be.

lastly is...Emmy the Great!

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i got this from a friend of mine and it came with a ton of praises...at first i was like "ehhh" but then i was like "ahhh yes." again, it's very typical girl with a guitar but not in an overhyped (cough cough kate nash) sort of way. to me emmy the great is more like gregory and the hawk, has gregory and the hawk been from hong kong but raised in london (because that's the life story of emmy the great). needless to say, it's worth the listen.

hopefully i did this all right and didn't fail miserably like an ahole... but yeah whatevah. check it

[barista.babe]

i'm a total douschebag and didn't realize that someone had already posted the gay blades.

on a side note, check out a million brazilians. they're a lot like the gay blades. they're new ep comes out in like 2 weeks. it's my friend nick's band. i'll be posting the ep when i get it!

again. srry.

[pulpfiction21]

Bogatzke - From Years to Seconds (2008)

kick ass little band from Germany.

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Couldn't find a review that was in english, but that band is great if you dig post-rock purely instrumental stuff. I also have their first EP as well if anyone would like it.


City Breathing - Look How It's Snowing Upwards, Look How They Move Towards Heaven (2008)

Slow and fairly calm experimental post-rock shit. Good to chill out too. Very soft voice.

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From The Devil Has the Best Tuna

City Breathing's filmic rock, all astral guitars, swirling synths and nifty sampling, is deeper than a zen monk and perfect for washing away the stresses and strains of an increasingly fractious world.

Dartz! - This Is My Ship(2007)

Band from the UK doing some Post-punk kind of stuff. Voice is great. The song "laser Eyes" is just crazy sweet.

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Review from SAL

Sometimes an album just comes along and flat out knocks you on your ass! This Is My Ship is one of those albums. Dartz! combine so many awesome elements it is hard to even put a finger on what makes them so special. First, and foremost the band writes great songs that are truly infectious. I am hesitant to say the songs are dancey cause that would seem to sell them short. Whatever it is, this band will make your body move. Second, the band can flat out play. This band could go up against the best math rock bands and put them to shame. However, the band never bores with their instrumental prowess or lets it overtake the songs themselves. Third, is quite simple. This band and This Is My Ship are fun as hell.

The Late Cord - Lights From The Wheelhouse(2006)

Some really beautiful experimental/ambient music from Austin. Short 5 song mini album but a great first effort.

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Review from All Music Guide

the Late Cord may be one of the most quintessentially 4AD-sounding new artists that the label has signed in the 2000s...As melancholy as Lights from the Wheelhouse can be, it's also oddly inviting.

[Oqtober]

I hope this isn't too mainstream:

Justice - A Cross The Universe

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[MusicScribbles]

i'm a total douschebag and didn't realize that someone had already posted the gay blades.

on a side note, check out a million brazilians. they're a lot like the gay blades. they're new ep comes out in like 2 weeks. it's my friend nick's band. i'll be posting the ep when i get it!

again. srry.

Hey, don't feel bad at all, you did a great job. Honestly, your humility is slightly baffling and hard to come by on the internets.
So, no need to apologize to us all. We can tell that you just wanted to share some stuff you love. It's apparent in your concern in doing it "right".

I hope this isn't too mainstream:

Justice - A Cross The Universe

Don't ever be afraid to post something because it might be mainstream to some. All we ask for is that you share something that you enjoy.

[tigrar]

This is The Lonely Island's debut album Incredibad. I'm sure you've all seen the SNL Digital Shorts ("Jizz in My Pants," "I'm on a Boat," Dick in a Box," etc. This is those guys. It's all comedic rapping with songs featuring T-Pain, Justin Timberlake, Julian Casablancas, E-40, etc. It's low brow humor, but it's still fun music.



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The Lonely Island- Incredibad

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[greencons]

I've noticed the new Mirah up here; so while we're on the lovely and cute girl music with great lyrics and delicate arrangements, I thought I'd toss this up.
Snowblink is the musical project of Daniela Gesundheit. Originally from San Fran, but now makes her home in Toronto. I put on a show for her last night in Ottawa, and it was totally mesmerizing. Enjoy her latest disc "Long Live".


Snowblink - Long Live

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[Tom]

So, new Swan Lake.

Enemy Mine


For lack of a better word, this album is more cohesive and less a mash-up of three different styles than 2006's Beast Moans. What we, have here is instead a band with three lyricists and vocalists working together on the same thing interweaving, rather than throwing against a wall, their vocals and musical styles so we get Krug's dissonant pop with Mercer's wild despair and Bejar's warbling nonsense. On the track's opener, Mercer takes the lead and delivers what could be a straight up Frog Eyes track but without his wife's chaotic drumming. "Paper Lace" gets both Bejar's nonsense through Jackie's return and shines through the lyrics, I think, while Mercer handles the vocal duties only for Bejar to come back with a slow not-quite piano ballad that's almost entirely a Destroyer track stylistically. Arrgh, without linear notes, it's hard to know who's responsible for what and when but regardless the trio leave you with a record that is distinctly all of them individual and possessing a rawness that has been sorely lacking in some of their other projects.

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[zzeitg]

So, new Swan Lake.

Enemy Mine


For lack of a better word, this album is more cohesive and less a mash-up of three different styles than 2006's Beast Moans. What we, have here is instead a band with three lyricists and vocalists working together on the same thing interweaving, rather than throwing against a wall, their vocals and musical styles so we get Krug's dissonant pop with Mercer's wild despair and Bejar's warbling nonsense. On the track's opener, Mercer takes the lead and delivers what could be a straight up Frog Eyes track but without his wife's chaotic drumming. "Paper Lace" gets both Bejar's nonsense through Jackie's return and shines through the lyrics, I think, while Mercer handles the vocal duties only for Bejar to come back with a slow not-quite piano ballad that's almost entirely a Destroyer track stylistically. Arrgh, without linear notes, it's hard to know who's responsible for what and when but regardless the trio leave you with a record that is distinctly all of them individual and possessing a rawness that has been sorely lacking in some of their other projects.

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Thx, Tom, but could you post the direct link? I can't find Swan Lake in that archive folder.

[imagist42]

Yeah I know this is way taboo and everything, and making excuses doesn't make me less of a terrible person, but some of you will remember that I am currently a missionary in Poland and therefore far away from most of the music I wasn't able to bring along with me. I actually brought quite a lot and have been filling SD cards for my mp3 players from this site and sordo and such, so that's been good. However I have been listening to the newest Franz Ferdinand album and it has just ignited a craving to hear the S/T Franz Ferdinand debut again. The only problem is I can't find it in a quick search, I don't really have that much time to spend on a computer looking for it and my only computer access is here in a public library anyway. So if anyone could upload that and/or PM me a link to it, I would be eternally grateful. </walloftext>

Oh yeah, and cześć to you all from Poland. Wszystkiego najlepszego.

[Catacombs]

The lonely Island <snip>

Thanks for this!  Except, could you re-up it?  Mediafire tells me it's down already.

[tigrar]

The lonely Island <snip>

Thanks for this!  Except, could you re-up it?  mediaf!re tells me it's down already.

New link on the original post.

[the_pied_piper]

For imagist42 and anyone else who wants it

Franz Ferdinand - S/T



If you haven't heard of this, what rock were you living under? Indie-pop from Scotland.

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Dobre szczęście (i think thats right anyway)

[Catacombs]

The lonely Island <snip>

Thanks for this!  Except, could you re-up it?  mediaf!re tells me it's down already.

New link on the original post.

Awesome, thanks!

[Oqtober]

The Late Cord - Lights From The Wheelhouse(2006)

Some really beautiful experimental/ambient music from Austin. Short 5 song mini album but a great first effort.

Thank you, I really enjoyed this. I bought it on Amazon Mp3 as soon as I finished it.

[pulpfiction21]

I will be posting some more stuff in a little bit but I wanted to get this up real quick. The new Trail of Dead CD has leaked and so here it is for you all to enjoy.

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - The Century of Self (2009)

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[andshewas]

Justin Townes Earle - The Good Life [2008]



Let's get the obvious out of the way first: Justin Townes Earle's father is Steve Earle, and the sort of folks most likely to be interested in Justin's debut album The Good Life are the same kind of music fans who've been following his dad's work for years. Thankfully for Justin, that's not because he sounds all that much like his old man; Justin's voice is sweeter and clearer, and his clear fondness for old-school country gives The Good Life a pleasing feeling of understatement that's significantly different from Steve's tougher, more rock-oriented work. But if Justin is reaching back to the glory days of the Grand Ole Opry on numbers like "What Do You Do When You're Lonesome," "Hard Livin'," and the title tune, he also reveals a more contemplative side on thoughtful, no-frills singer/songwriter pieces such as the confessional "Who Am I to Say," the period gunman's saga of "Lone Pine Hill," and "Turn out My Lights," a plaintive meditation on loneliness and heartbreak. On the latter songs, Justin's music more closely resembles Steve's, but while the themes and approaches are similar, Justin isn't afraid to sound vulnerable, and the youthful modesty of both the songs and the performances works in their favor; this doesn't suggest the work of someone following Steve Earle's template but of a songwriter who has dealt with a set of similar demons and has a corresponding but distinct perspective on how they've impacted his life. The simple arrangements and hands-off production add to the gentle but decisive impact of The Good Life, and the result is a fine calling card for a young singer/songwriter who may not have worked out every last detail of his sound but clearly knows where he's going, and it happens to be a place worth visiting.

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[jawnbailey]

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Bavarian Fruit Bread (2001)

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First post. One of my favorites. Enjoy!


NME Review

With Hope Sandoval and former Mazzy Star collaborator David Roback presumably no longer speaking (interviewers who have dealt with either of the monosyllabic duo would ask, "How could you tell?"), the Nico of the modern age has hooked up with former My Bloody Valentine member Colm O'Ciosoig to effectively carry on where her old band left off.The two great transatlantic strands of narcoleptic pop having been dramatically united, 'Bavarian Fruit Bread' represents a towering piece of morphine-induced self-indulgence. Making no pretence at being contemporary, Sandoval has kept an uncharacteristic vice-like grip on the sleepy sound that earned her and O'Ciosoig their musical spurs. If almost every song here bears a dramatic resemblance to My Bloody Valentine's 'To Here Knows When', then it's clearly neither a surprise nor a particularly bad thing. They chug along in their happy little rut with customary accidental panache. 'Butterfly Mornings' benefits immensely from the presence of folk hero Bert Jansch, but the enigmatic 'Around My Smile', with its slightly incongruous "I've got it goin' on" refrain, might just have the edge. It's sexless beauty in excelsis, all told. The Corrs for hipsters, maybe, but sleepwalking your way through life rarely sounded a more viable option.

[DarkAvenger]

Woodpigeon - "Treasury Library Canada"


I found this today, got it from a friend... This is pretty much a terrific album. It sounds like a mix of Belle & Sebastian, Sufjan Stevens, and Shearwater at points, and... Well... How can that ever be a bad thing? No reviews, but take it from me, grab this. Grab this now.

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Again, get this if you have any interest in peaceful charming music.

[aznbigbuttboy]

today i have something special though i feel a bit guilty about this cause it's a charity album....

Dark Was The Night - Various Artist

Dark Was The Night will be released on February 17th, 2009. It’s comprised of 31 exclusive tracks and it will be available as a double cd/triple vinyl/download and will benefit the Red Hot Organization – an international charity dedicated to raising money and awareness for HIV and AIDS through popular culture. They are the people responsible for albums including No Alternative, Red Hot and Blue and many more, and this is their 20th year, and this is the 20th release!

DARK WAS THE NIGHT

THIS DISC
1 Knotty Pine – Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
2 Cello Song (Nick Drake) – The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez
3 Train Song (Vashti Bunyan recorded, written by Alasdair Clayre) – Feist + Ben Gibbard
4 Brackett, WI – Bon Iver
5 Deep Blue Sea – Grizzly Bear
6 So Far Around the Bend – The National (arrangement by Nico Muhly)
7 Tightrope – Yeasayer
8 Feeling Good (popularized by Nina Simone) – My Brightest Diamond
9 Dark Was the Night (Blind Willie Johnson) – Kronos Quartet
10 I Was Young When I Left Home (Bob Dylan) – Antony + Bryce Dessner
11 Big Red Machine – Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner
12 Sleepless – The Decemberists
13 Stolen Houses (Die) – Iron and Wine
14 Service Bell – Grizzly Bear + Feist
15 You Are The Blood – Sufjan Stevens

THAT DISC
1 Well-Alright – Spoon
2 Lenin – Arcade Fire
3 Mimizan – Beirut
4 El Caporal – My Morning Jacket
5 Inspiration Information (Shuggie Otis) – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
6 With A Girl Like You (The Troggs) – Dave Sitek
7 Blood Pt 2 (based on original song “You are the Blood” by the Castanets) – Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti)
8 Hey, Snow White (Destroyer) – The New Pornographers
9 Gentle Hour (Snapper) – Yo La Tengo
10 Another Saturday (traditional song) – Stuart Murdoch
11 Happiness – Riceboy Sleeps
12 Amazing Grace (traditional song) – Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues
13 The Giant Of Illinois (Handsome Family) – Andrew Bird
14 Lua – Conor Oberst + Gillian Welch
15 When the Road Runs Out – Blonde Redhead + Devastations
16 Love vs. Porn – Kevin Drew

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It's a pretty good album though some songs are a bit strange....
if you like it, however, please try to buy the actual album. The money goes toward charity, specifically AIDS.

[pulpfiction21]

A lot of you may have already checked out this first band if you ever went to This Town Needs Guns' myspace page but you may not have the album so here it.

Jonquil - Lions

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The title track just makes me want to be in a pub and have my pint swaying back and forth. Tell me if you don't feel the exact same.

Review from new-noise

Somewhere, spinning away in an alternate universe, Jonquil play the soundtrack to every movie ever made. ‘Lions’, the Oxford band’s second long-player, isn’t on a grand scale or particularly cinematic in scope but piles on emotion, inspiration and invention for every second that it plays.

‘Lily’ is the perfect introduction, starting as a gently sighing background, perhaps for images of some beautiful foreign landscape, before flourishing into a wonderful burst of noise, ‘Babe…’ comes with all the noise and climax of the next Hollywood blockbuster, the ghostly whisper of ‘I Don't Need Advice’ makes for an acutely affecting twist ending and the title track is a poetic group chorus that’s so good you want it to go on and on, roaring into the end credits forever.

There are plenty of other wonderful snippets worth catching. The twinkling beauty of ‘-’, the way ‘Sudden Sun’ turns from misty darkness to blue-sky harmonies and the folksy wonder of ‘Keep It In Keeping’. And, while many of them may not go on to form full songs, there are ideas constantly escaping into the air here.

It all adds up to a wonderful record, a full-involving experience and the sort of bedroom recording that some dismiss as a quaint, lo-fi endeavour while others wholeheartedly embrace. No prizes for guessing which camp New-Noise are pitching up in.

Naomi - Pappelallee (2004)

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From Amazon

On their second album 'Pappelallee' Berlin duo Naomi (Bernd Lechler & Nico Tobias) deliver 11 personal & charming songs situated somewhere between pop & sophisticated electronic music. The warm & touching sound nests pleasantly in auditory canals making the album feel familiar even at first listening. When diving deeper into Naomi's universe you soon discover a great variety of influences & contrasting elements. The songs are intense, the arrangement is compact & the sound distinctive. 'Pappelallee' is sometimes bizarre but always catchy, profound but highly accessible, melancholic but consoling. Plus, the moving electro-pop jewel 'King Kong Is Not Dead' comes as an extra feel good song.

Meet Me In St. Louis - Variations on Swing (2007)

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From sputnikmusic

Meet Me in St. Louis are the latest addition to the growing and highly dominant U.K. post-hardcore scene. Million Dead, The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg, and bands like them have been creating a lot of attention with their fast paced seemingly random blend of pop-punk, hardcore and math rock. Meet Me in St. Louis is the most successful band to attempt this sound so far in terms of sheer originality. Combining Million Dead’s pop sensibility with The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg’s technical backing, Meet Me in St. Louis’ sound is basically pop songs broken down into ten second burst of energy that are strung together into three minute explosions. Where the band merely flirted with their music’s pop backing on their debut EP, “Variations on Swing” their latest releases sees them branching out into realms of electronica and more concise post-hardcore to create a much more rewarding, eclectic and dynamic sound.

Vocalist Toby is an anomaly. While he certainly does not favor the niche carved out for terrible vocalists by the Kinsellas, he also isn’t attempting anything pristine like Jake Snider of Minus the Bear. Instead, Toby sort of evokes Gastby’s American Dream’s Nic Newsham. His voice is strong but during many moments of the album particularly the ones that are extremely varying in the instrumental portions make it clear that he is either straining or falling into the nasally realm that pop-punk is known for. Of course, while there is nothing wrong with that, some fans that might appreciate the records technical expertise will be very unforgiving towards the vocalist’s performance.

And lastly we have the second CD from Great Northern. This isn't expected out until April 28th so this is quite an advance copy. I haven't given it a careful listen yet but what i have heard is sounding pretty good already. If it goes down let me know.

Great Northern - Remind Me Where The Light Is (2009)

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[lauraelise204]

second up is...Mirah!

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the first time i fell in love with mirah was when i saw her at the magic stick in detroit while she was on tour for c'mon miracle. i was sold from there. so i was super stoked when i found out about this year's upcoming release of (a)spera. it's pretty much like classic mirah, there are a few more horns and symphonic parts on this one. in my opinion it's really mellow (like night time at my coffee shop). so check it out and love it. and buy it when it comes out in march because...i will be.

lastly is...Emmy the Great!

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i got this from a friend of mine and it came with a ton of praises...at first i was like "ehhh" but then i was like "ahhh yes." again, it's very typical girl with a guitar but not in an overhyped (cough cough kate nash) sort of way. to me emmy the great is more like gregory and the hawk, has gregory and the hawk been from hong kong but raised in london (because that's the life story of emmy the great). needless to say, it's worth the listen.

hopefully i did this all right and didn't fail miserably like an ahole... but yeah whatevah. check it

thank you for emmy the great!! i've heard really good things about her music and have been wanting to listen to her .  sadly, the mirah link is already down .  if you could do a re-up that would be wonderful. 

great post! no worries, farthest thing from failing or being an ahole.

[lauraelise204]

A couple of good debut albums that slipped through the cracks last year...

The Grand Archives - The Grand Archives (2008)

thank you soooooooooo much for this.  i've listened to it so many times over the past week and a half and haven't gone a day where "torn blue foam couch" hasn't popped into my head at some point!

[minus_the_david]

So i know i saw it somewhere on here, though i don't remember the page, and it could honestly be one any page on here, but the album is "Graffiti the World" by Rehab...does anyone know on what page it is on, or could you re-up it. i know i saw it, but didn't register it in my mind at the time.

thank you in advance!

[pat101]

So i know i saw it somewhere on here, though i don't remember the page, and it could honestly be one any page on here, but the album is "Graffiti the World" by Rehab...does anyone know on what page it is on, or could you re-up it. i know i saw it, but didn't register it in my mind at the time.

thank you in advance!

you can just use the search function at the top of the page, it's pretty basic



Lee Jones - Electronic Frank (2008)

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kind of atmospheric, glitchy, minimalist electro. Not dissimilar to Panthu Du Prince or some of Ellen Alien's stuff, A little more subtle/low-key though.

From All Music

Lee Jones has recorded, produced, and remixed before, as a solo artist under the name Hefner as well as in a variety of collaborations (MyMy, Daniel Dreier). His full-length debut under his own name is a sweetly fascinating exploration of house, electro, downtempo, and glitch elements that is deeply informed by his adopted hometown of Berlin without giving in entirely to the darker and weirder tendencies of that city's underground electronica scene. A subtle but undeniable generosity of spirit underlies tracks like the nicely bubbling "Theme for Frank" and "Every Click Matters," while "It Is, Isn't It" explores a cool, dark, and exotic ambience, and "The Secret" manages to swing nicely while sounding mysterious at the same time. There are elements of soul in the vocal sample on "Soon," and a glitchy minimalism informs the chugging "Fun Runner"." Things bog down just a bit towards the middle of the program with a trio of less uninteresting, run-of-the-mill house tracks, but most of this program is gently surprising, texturally varied, and melodically delightful.

[Elk]

Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

Grizzly Bear exhibit here a tendency that recurs throughout the record, of showing the seams in their songwriting and dividing the songs into mini-suites through jarring moments that signal a shift in emphasis. A discordant guitar tears "Lullabye" in half, separating the tuneful opening, which sounds like a lost Disney tune written to send a rosy-cheeked imp off to sleep, from the dark tower that looms behind. The second half's swirling harmonies and crashing drums evoke a Bob Ezrin-sized edifice that would leave a four-track recorder in a dozen pieces before the first brick was laid. Such attention to detail and the larger well of resources improves Grizzly Bear at both ends of their range. The quieter songs sound better laced with effects and with the guitar and voice ringing true, and the climaxes carry greater weight. Another example of the latter is "Plans", which begins with a modest shuffle, picks up a chorus of whistling dwarves and some horns on loan from Tom Waits, and finally piles on some go-go nightclub percussion and laptop dissonance as it begins to buckle under its own weight. The imagination of its arrangement is impressive, as is the perfect 30-degree slope upward to its peak.

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Cake - Comfort Eagle

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[triangleman]

The Damnwells’ last record - Air Stereo - was a favorite of 2006, and today they are giving their new record away. You can get it at Paste, although it's the ol' "free record for your email" swap, and Paste is facilitating, so there's a quick unsubscribe involved. Good indie-type, alt-country stuff.
http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/register_and_download/the_damnwells_one_last_century
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The Damnwells - One Last Century

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Thanks, Jeff.

[Orcusmars]

I'm actually really surprised this hasn't been posted yet.


Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom

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Soul Coughing - El Oso

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If you haven't heard of this band where were you during the 90's now is definitely a good time to start.

Rap & roll exploded five years ago, long enough to spawn a second generation, mongrelized by even more influences and hence more sophisticated. Beck, Bobby Sichran and G. Love and Special Sauce have already staked out this territory, but Soul Coughing – with reference points like the O'Jays' "For the Love of Money," William Burroughs records, Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing," 1991's landmark Unplugged rap show, Big Audio Dynamite and Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" – take it to another level.

Ruby Vroom, the band's brilliant debut, draws on hip-hop, spoken word, dance hall, Manhattan's avant-garde scene, Ken Nordine and straight jazz without specifically being any one of them or even a hyphenated combination. Soul Coughing aren't merely eclectic – lots of bands are that – instead, they've synthesized it all into a compelling and profoundly original sound.

It's a long review, so I cut it short, but seriously if you haven't done so already, download all three of those.

[triangleman]

Phosphorescent - To Willie

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What could be a better cred-building exercise for a young indie-folk songwriter than to cover the works of Willie Nelson? Yet Matthew Houck, aka Phosphorescent, isn't interested merely in demonstrating the depths of his scholarship and reverence for the forerunners of his craft with his all-covers tribute to the Red Headed Stranger, To Willie. He wants, as Hot Chip might put it, to half nelson full nelson Willie Nelson, to wrestle intimately with the man's songs and what they're capable of communicating. In doing so, Houck proves himself an adept interpreter of Willie's piercing Christian grace, while indirectly revealing by the limitations of his scope-- the true remarkable human breadth of Nelson's artistry. Pitchfork

Pretty good album. And showing some dignified restraint, Houck doesn't include "On the Road Again."

[haikru]

I've been following this thread for awhile and this is my first post.  Enjoy!

Artist: Blaze Foley    Album: Live at the Austin Outhouse

If you've ever pondered the identity of Lucinda Williams' "Drunken Angel," wondered who made even Townes Van Zandt feel blue, or what songwriter Merle Haggard would turn to in a moment of spiritual crisis, the answer is simple: Blaze Foley - all of the above.

 Foley, a disparate voice even in the iconoclastic circles of Austin, wasn't much known outside of the handful of artists who remember him in their songs and deeds. But before his murder in 1989 at 39, Foley was embraced in Austin for a heart as large as his frame, a soul as deep as his voice and for a self-fulfilling poverty that led him to be remembered as much for his duct-taped shoes as his songs. It's no surprise that Foley died in another losing battle: gunned down while trying to protect an elderly friend's government pension checks.

Thanks to Lost Arts Records' release,"Live at the Austin Outhouse," the world can now hear the gift of this songwriter's soul. The first published recordings of Blaze Foley, taped just four weeks before his death, it captures the simplicity and honestyand of Foley's artistry. From the achingly simple "If I Could Fly" (which Haggard performed for Tammy Wynette's memorial service), to the haunting loneliness of "Picture Cards Can't Picture You," the 12 cuts on this CD capture the forsaken beauty of Foley's music - warts and all - as Foley would only want it. Performed with a "borrowed guitar" and recorded before an audience so sparse one can hear every aside, here's thanking Lost Art Records for finally allowing that audience to swell.


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[the_pied_piper]

I've been following this thread for awhile and this is my first post.  Enjoy!

Artist: Blaze Foley    Album: Live at the Austin Outhouse

If you've ever pondered the identity of Lucinda Williams' "Drunken Angel," wondered who made even Townes Van Zandt feel blue, or what songwriter Merle Haggard would turn to in a moment of spiritual crisis, the answer is simple: Blaze Foley - all of the above.

 Foley, a disparate voice even in the iconoclastic circles of Austin, wasn't much known outside of the handful of artists who remember him in their songs and deeds. But before his murder in 1989 at 39, Foley was embraced in Austin for a heart as large as his frame, a soul as deep as his voice and for a self-fulfilling poverty that led him to be remembered as much for his duct-taped shoes as his songs. It's no surprise that Foley died in another losing battle: gunned down while trying to protect an elderly friend's government pension checks.

Thanks to Lost Arts Records' release,"Live at the Austin Outhouse," the world can now hear the gift of this songwriter's soul. The first published recordings of Blaze Foley, taped just four weeks before his death, it captures the simplicity and honestyand of Foley's artistry. From the achingly simple "If I Could Fly" (which Haggard performed for Tammy Wynette's memorial service), to the haunting loneliness of "Picture Cards Can't Picture You," the 12 cuts on this CD capture the forsaken beauty of Foley's music - warts and all - as Foley would only want it. Performed with a "borrowed guitar" and recorded before an audience so sparse one can hear every aside, here's thanking Lost Art Records for finally allowing that audience to swell.

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Fixed. When posting links use the code (#) button and put the link between. 

Sidenote: Is it a good idea to have a thread showing new posters how to do this? Many first time posters seem to come here for the music forum [i was one of them] and are unsure how to post properly [again me], maybe it would help?

[triangleman]

Sidenote: Is it a good idea to have a thread showing new posters how to do this? Many first time posters seem to come here for the music forum [i was one of them] and are unsure how to post properly [again me], maybe it would help?

Maybe, but from what I can tell pretty much everything a first-time poster needs to know is in the rules at the top of each page, right?

[pwhodges]

RULES - read this! (Newbies - you too!)

No hot-linking images or albums. You can re-host images at http://imageshack.us.

Ensure your tags are correct and that you have specified both Artist/Album in your post.

Upload your files in either a .zip or a .rar archive to mediaf!re.com, in multiple parts if the album is over 100mbs. The reason for this is that we know mediaf!re is safe and efficient and allows multiple downloads. The ads on other sites, such as Sendspace, are known to contain viruses on the page. Get yourself checked out.

Post your link using code tags. It's the # icon above the policeman emoticon. This prevents the links from being traced back to the forums, lowering the chance that the wrong people notice the thread, potentially threatening Jeph with legal action.

Also, please do NOT request albums.

Before you post in this thread, take a minute and consider the following:

Think of this as the community chest. Everyone is free and encouraged to contribute to it, with that in mind:

* This thread is for you to share  the music that you love for people who would normally not be able to access it. This is not an everything-goes-all-the-time mp3 blog.
* Think about what you are uploading. Is it easily available elsewhere and popular? If yes, is it really worth it to upload and post here?
* Have some self control. Is it really necessary to upload the entire discography of this band? Is it all really so excellent? If it is, don't worry. Whoever downloads this will surely realise this and look for more material on their own.

To return to the community chest, imagine you one day open the chest and everyone threw everything inside it. There's probably more things that you can use there now, but they are now buried in a mountain of debris and you'll likely miss the good stuff anyway! Imagine though, that you come to the chest one day and you find that everyone thought about what might best serve us all and the neatly placed it inside. This is what this thread should be.

[the_pied_piper]

Maybe, but from what I can tell pretty much everything a first-time poster needs to know is in the rules at the top of each page, right?

The idea is there but it isn't exactly crystal clear. I mean, reading it i can make sense of it now but for first-timers, i'm not so sure. It does say what to do but not really how to do it properly (like if you had car parts but didn't know what the hell to do with them). If people don't want to thats ok, it was just a suggestion.


Damn it pw, you stole my rules post while i was writing this!

[michaelicious]

Here is a mini-album by a now defunct Toronto-area band called Arcs. It is pretty amazing. Five dudes equally influenced by pop and punk (I guess maybe more 90s emo than punk) made an album, but it is not a pop-punk album.

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Here is an EP by one of my favourite bands to ever make music. They were called the Vermicious Knid. The EP is called Days That Stand Still. If the shitty shitty town of Brantford, Ontario was Washington, DC the lead singer of this band would be Ian Mackaye. Except instead of starting a label he started a music venue that puts on cheap all ages shows for local bands all the time.

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[pulpfiction21]

Okay so first up I have a band called Cursor. I bought this CD like 5 years ago and loved it, but I just recently found it again and thankfully it still plays. I cant find anything about this band or anything about this CD, I don't even remember where I bought it from. IT is a great 5 song EP that you should definitely download. To classify it would be kind of hard, has some electronica stuff, some screaming, mostly just rock stuff. Last song is an acoustic song.

Cursor - Cursor EP


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This next band is my friends band from Austin. It's funny cuz I never really gave it the listen that it deserved till recently, but the first song is absolutely amazing, I wish they had gone more post-rock, but it's still a quality CD.

The Bright Light Social Hour - Touches

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From CDbaby

The Bright Light Social Hour is defiant.  As many in contemporary music seek to continually deconstruct and subvert what it is to be a rock band in the 21st century, the Bright Light Social Hour openly resists going "gentle into that good night."   Unapologetic for its titanic sound, the Bright Light Social Hour constructs majestic works of new rock music that proudly assert the endless possibilities of honest electric guitars, acoustic drums, and dynamic songwriting. 

Aussitôt Mort - Montuenga
French emo stuff, and how could you not want it with that album cover, reminds me of a Goya painting called Saturn Devouring One of His Children.

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As evidenced by the popular split LP put out by the people's champions of French emo, Daitro and Sed Non Satiata, earlier this year, the European emo sound is both at an all-time high and an all-time low. These bands are crafting amazing songs with a distinctive style, but are doing very little to branch out past their sweet spot of groove-focused, post-rock inspired hardcore. European emo, and in particular, French emo, has gotten to the point of being too much of a good thing. Enter Aussitot Mort, a French emo band from Caen, who's more diverse style makes them a perfect stepping stone for expanding the niche sound of the region. They flew under the radar with their 2007 debut release with Level Plane, 6 Songs, but are poised to make a splash at the end of 2008 with their impressive second album Montuenga, which takes everything that characterizes the French emo sound and extends its horizons to include a wide range of genres and songwriting tactics.

To not hear French emo in Aussitot Mort's dense style is impossible. The heavier than thou opening of the album with the song "Mort Mort Mort" recalls the immediate introduction to Daitro's landmark album, Laisser Vivre Les Squelletes, which also begins on power chords and thudding drums. However, with all that's familiar, Aussitot Mort avoids contrasts from the sweet post-hardcore guitar melodies that one may expect, and continues crushing away with an introductory first minute that is essentially stoner metal with shades of post-metal. From there, the song launches into moments of interweaving guitar that rely heavily on delay effects, midtempo interludes that employ violin countermelodies, and even straight up metal riffing. In just their first 3 minutes, Aussitot Mort have crafted a song that both embraces and defies the genre's established paradigms in an accessible and exciting way.

The rest of the album fulfills the initial promise of Montuenga in a variety of ways. Beyond appending different genres and sounds to French emo's predictable core, Aussitot Mort are still in the business of writing emotionally riveting hardcore. A song like "Une Heure Plus Tard" abandons delicate guitar-work to end on a heavy and crushing climax. "Le Kid de la Plage" builds from quiet to loud, ending on an equally cathartic crescendo that fades out into static and noise by the end of the track. It sounds as if Aussitot Mort have retained just enough of emo's concern with emotional payoffs to keep that vestigial aesthetic in tact for the sake of making the tracks immediate and memorable, while leaving enough room to experiment.

Kyte - Two Sparks, Two Stars EP (2008)
Some very soft voiced, indie/ electronica stuff. So fucking chill.

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From All Gigs

The talent of Kyte is their ability to add warmth and emotion to their beautifully crafted electronic soundscapes. This makes for a compelling set of songs that are able to transport the listener into their own enchanting world.”

[Nicky Thrice]

that kyte album is AMAZING by the way, especially the song Eyes Lose their fire.

Wreckless Eric S/t

AMG Review:

Wreckless Eric's eponymous debut is a ragged, endearing collection of crude rock & roll. In a way, crude doesn't even begin to describe Eric's music. A muddle of scratchy guitars, pounding drumming, and snarled, indecipherable vocals, the record is pure, primal garage rock in the old-fashioned sense. Although Wreckless Eric has the demeanor of a punk, his music is straight-out rock & roll in the old-fashioned sense -- there's even saxophones and organs popping out of the mix. What makes Wreckless Eric such fun is its combination of catchy hooks, spirited playing, and downright rudeness. Only a handful of songs are fully formed, and those -- "Whole Wide World" and Ian Dury's "Rough Kids" -- are punk-inflected pub rock classics, pure pop songs in every sense of the term. The remainder are off-kilter, idiosyncratic pop songs -- about everything from "Personal Hygiene" and "Waxworks" to "Telephoning Home" and "Brain Thieves" -- performed with sloppy, drunken abandon. Too punk for pub rockers, too straightforward for punk, and too weird for everybody else, Wreckless Eric's debut album is one of the small gems of the punk era.

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Bat For Lashes (leak) - Two Sons

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There is no review because it's not out till 4/16, but i've listened to some of it and it's pretty good. Definitely comparable to her first album, maybe even better. It's haunting as fuck, that's for sure

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[sunexplodes]

Here is an EP by one of my favourite bands to ever make music. They were called the Vermicious Knid. The EP is called Days That Stand Still. If the shitty shitty town of Brantford, Ontario was Washington, DC the lead singer of this band would be Ian Mackaye. Except instead of starting a label he started a music venue that puts on cheap all ages shows for local bands all the time.

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Would there be any interest in their other 2 recordings? Also other Ford Plant regulars like the Sourkeys, White Star Line, Ryan Stanley/Arrows, Brigette, Woolly Leaves, et cetera?

[michaelicious]

I've never been able to get my hands on a copy of the Knid's self-released record, and no matter how much I bribe my friend he won't give me his. So that would be lovely.

[ALoveSupreme]

pulpfiction, I was pretty psyched when you posted the Aussitot Mort album, then I downloaded the Kyte album which solidified my love for you!

[Elk]

This is a musical duo from Mali. They are also blind.

Amadou & Miriam - Welcome to Mali

Somewhat improbably, Amadou & Mariam have become a musical laboratory where the two principle players, the blind couple from Mali, are willing to try nearly anything. Ivorian reggae star Tiken Jah Fakoli drops in on one track and it feels completely natural. Pianos aren't common in Africa because the weather makes it tough to keep them in tune, but there's piano all over this album, and it sounds great rubbing up against koras (17-string West African harp) and balafons (West African marimba). On the title track, Amadou's guitar accents the chorus with big, bent surf chords, and it sounds not only logical but inevitable.

"Inevitable" is a pretty good word for the stardom of Amadou & Mariam. People this amazingly talented and open to new sounds and ideas rarely remain obscure, especially after so many years honing their craft and building their catalog. On further examination, in fact, Welcome to Mali might not be such a strange title after all. This album is an affirmation of global connectivity and an emerging global culture that transcends and repurposes tradition as it sees fit-- the sound of Mali merging with the world at large.

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[pulpfiction21]

pulpfiction, I was pretty psyched when you posted the Aussitot Mort album, then I downloaded the Kyte album which solidified my love for you!

Well thank you for your much welcomed love.  And I guess since I love people who love good music, I will give you their other CD that they have in case you don't have it.

Kyte - Kyte (2008)

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[sunexplodes]

I've never been able to get my hands on a copy of the Knid's self-released record, and no matter how much I bribe my friend he won't give me his. So that would be lovely.

Here we go.

The Vermicious Knid - We're Running Out Of Places to Drive

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[michaelicious]

Thanks a lot! I have been trying to find this for so long.

[onewheelwizzard]

Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By

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Exactly what it sounds like.  Sweet as hell.  Seriously, the sex is just dripping off this album.  You know how people sometimes compliment things on the internet by saying it is "the sex?"  This actually is.

(It's trip-hop for the most part.)

[BrainToad]

This thread has given me a lot of great music and I thought it was about time I gave back to it.  After seeing Bezed'h posted up there (thanks for that, really digging it), they really reminded me of one of my favorite bands.  They are a semi-local band that has been around since the early '80s.  They are called Tempest, not to be confused with the UK metal band or Finnish demoscene artist.  They formed in Oakland, CA but their membership draws from all over the world, with the founding members being from Norway and Cuba and the current lineup drawing from California and England.



The Double-Cross is their latest album, released in 2006.  This lineup is no longer performing (different bassist and guitarist now).  I probably saw this lineup about 6 times in 2 years, as they play all over the Bay Area.  They play celtic rock with a lot of folk rock and prog rock influences.  They take a lot from Jethro Tull, but don't really sound like them.  This album has their best bassist and a killer fiddle player.  This album isn't really their best of the best, but because this album contains two of my favorite songs (Per Spelmann, a Norwegian folk song and Vision Quest a bass-heavy instrumental), I thought I'd share it.  If you liked Bezed'h that was posted earlier, definitely check this out.  And if you like, look into their older stuff.  Each album pretty much has a different lineup (save for the vocalist/mandolinist and drummer), so each sound is pretty unique.

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[ALoveSupreme]

Well thank you for your much welcomed love.  And I guess since I love people who love good music, I will give you their other CD that they have in case you don't have it.

Thanks!  The link doesn't work for me after I "click to download" which may be my computer's fault, but I will definitely check it out.  This Kyte stuff is really good.

-nevermind, it was, in fact, my computer being a bit of a heaping pile.
Thanks again!

[triangleman]

Still one of my favorite bands to come out of the grunge era - and specifically, Kansas - and get screwed by the industry. Paw were what you get when farm boys decide to start a rock band. Hard-rocking, melodic anthems with seemingly out-of-leftfield pedal steel solos here and there - rock with just enough country to separate from the grunge masses of the late '90s.

These are their first two studio albums, Dragline being one of my all-time top rock albums.

Paw - Dragline (1993)

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Paw formed in 1991 in Lawrence, Kansas, alongside Kill Creek and Stick. Their work from this era can best be characterized as aggressive rock with melodic undertones, or 'Southern rock' as Mark Hennessy explained in an MTV interview. They were hailed by many record companies as "the next Nirvana" and a bidding war erupted to sign them. The band signed a three-album deal with A&M Records during the height of the grunge wave, and released their first album, Dragline, in 1993. Their most well-known songs from this period included the singles Lolita, Jessie, Couldn't Know, The Bridge, and Sleeping Bag. wiki

There's also a collection of B-sides and rarities - Keep The Last Bullet For Yourself - and final studio EP - Home Is A Strange Place - if anyone's interested.

[casbah]

G'day everbody, I'm a music nerd from Australia. I noticed that alot of you guys were American so I was thinking that seeing as how you've been posting all this awesome music for me I'd see whether you were interested in some Australian stuff. I have Hardcore, Punk, Electronica, Rock, Pop, Rap, Hip Hop, Skip Hop and some other stuff, bands like The Presets, Pez, Bliss N Eso and more. Just tell me what you want or if you even want it and I'll see what i can do for you!