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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
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
--- Quote ---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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Disc 1:
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Disc 2:
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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
--- Quote ---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.
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Naomi - Pappelallee (2004)
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From Amazon
--- Quote ---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.
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Meet Me In St. Louis - Variations on Swing (2007)
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From sputnikmusic
--- Quote ---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.
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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:
--- Quote ---second up is...Mirah!
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--- Quote ---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.
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lastly is...Emmy the Great!
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--- Quote ---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.
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hopefully i did this all right and didn't fail miserably like an ahole... but yeah whatevah. check it :)
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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:
--- Quote from: triangleman on 05 Feb 2009, 11:31 ---A couple of good debut albums that slipped through the cracks last year...
The Grand Archives - The Grand Archives (2008)
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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!
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