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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
pat101:
--- Quote from: minus_the_david on 10 Feb 2009, 20:17 ---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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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
--- Quote ---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.
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Elk:
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
--- Quote from: Pitchfork --- 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
Or you could...
The Damnwells - One Last Century
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The Damnwells - Air Stereo
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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 - Irresistible Bliss
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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.
--- Quote from: The Rolling Stone ---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.
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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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--- Quote ---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
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Pretty good album. And showing some dignified restraint, Houck doesn't include "On the Road Again."
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