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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
pulpfiction21:
People could just take a bunch of songs from their music folder, zip them into a folder, and then upload it to mediafire. Then instead of album art, just put a tracklisting for the mixtape. Eh?
the_pied_piper:
Well, i've started a thread now so might as well make use of it.
screamingfool:
i posted these some time ago and was requested to put them up again, so here you are;
2 foot yard - s/t
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2 foot yard - borrowed arms
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the front woman of this band, carla kihlstedt, is amazing. She's founded the jazz group tin hat trio, a founding member of 'sleepytime gorilla museum' which is a reincarnation of the famed 'idiot flesh' - has been in a punk/funk band that covers traditional bulgarian and and jewish folk songs, has been playing with tom waits since alice and is just generally amazing. This is her personal project where she plays with pop, classical, folk and avant garde sounds to great effect. She's also a really brilliant conversationalist and hug giver.
cheers!
pulpfiction21:
So I am not a fan of the ska genre. Dont know why, just something about it doesnt do it for me. But about 5 years ago, I came across a band called A Billion Ernies. They do Screamo/Ska/ Christian music. Although they sing a lot about god, and I mean like stuff like "give yourself to god", stuff like that, and they are ska, the hardcore aspect of them is really enjoyable.
A Billion Ernies - Please Do Not Reveal The Ending (2004)
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No Review, but just read above and if you like ska then check them out. Just listen to Doomsday Robot Army and tell me its not fucking sweet for a christian ska band.
Arms and Sleepers - Black Paris 86
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Review off of amazon
--- Quote ---From the very first listen, Arms and Sleepers immediately grabbed my attention. The band's music is fast paced, catchy, and mellow -- exactly the type of music I dream about and easily fall in love with. The style they achieve on Black Paris 86 is a type of electronic/ambient fusion akin to bands like Radium88 and Lights Out Asia, though there's certainly enough individuality on the album to differentiate them from their peers. After a few listens I was completely hooked on A&S' dynamic sound, then when I got my hands on their previous CDs I gained even more appreciation for the band's newest effort. Black Paris 86 shows us a completely different band then the Arms and Sleepers we've come to know and expect. Previous releases were completely ambient driven and had very little substance and very little to hook the listener in. Thankfully enough, for me at least, the band has focused and condensed its music and reinvented themselves for the new album. What we get is a band that has morphed itself into a model for what the trip-hop ambient fusion genre has to offer. Black Paris 86 draws influences from a variety of genres and this is reflected in the stylistic changes across the album. One minute I'm convinced that I'm listening to a tighter version of Radium88, with electronic and trip hop vibes running strong. The next I am reminded of Small Sails, but in a darker, more mysterious mood. Moans/undecipherable vocals are periodically used throughout the album in tracks such as Black Paris 86 and Warm. Speaking of Warm, it isn t a new track to the band; it was released in 2006 on their EP titled Bliss Was It In That Dawn To Be Alive, however I couldn t possibly see anyone arguing over the band's choice to put the track on another release. "Warm" is as addicting as most tracks get, featuring subtle electronics coupled with deep drones and a beat which easily gets stuck in the listener's head. Butterflycatcher, my personal favorite track from the album, only has one issue: it doesn t fit in with any of the other tracks -- it s far too happy for the release, featuring bells, horns, claps, electronic beats, and a girl seemingly trying to recreate the sounds of a whale. And, in reality, when have all those things blended together ever produced something bad? After Butterflycatcher, the album goes back to its dark and mellow ways and finishes up abruptly, perfectly leading perfectly to the beginning of the album. Granted, it is still early, but I can easily see Black Paris 86 staying at the top of my favorites list through the year. From the first time my ears were graced by its presence, I was hooked, and after a countless number of listens, I find myself still intrigued with each listen. For anyone looking for a refreshing new change of pace, I have little doubt that Arms and Sleepers could be the stimulus you are looking for
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Lemuria & Kind Of Like Spitting - Your Living Room's All Over Me (2006)
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From Punknews
--- Quote ---Your Living Room’s All Over Me pairs veteran emo supergroup Kind of Like Spitting with the female-fronted pop-punk of Lemuria.
The first seven songs come from relative newcomers, Lemuria. Aside from two songs sung by drummer Alexander Kerns, guitarist Sheena Ozzella controls the vocal duties for Lemuria and does a fantastic job. With a singing style somewhat reminiscent of Cruiserweight’s Stella Maxwell, Ozzella has the ability to deliver emotions ranging from cute, like in album opener “Hours,” to absolutely jaded as in “Bristles and Whiskers.” The latter, which is credited to Kerns in the lyrics booklet, contains some of the more biting lines on the album, which says a lot since Lemuria is paired with Kind of Like Spitting; “They don’t make love, they fuck / And he assumes it’s enough / They both pretend to come with a common image of another man filling them with love.” In fact, Kerns delivers powerful lyrics on five of the seven songs, with “Rough Draft” being another exceptional instance with the lines, “Everyone I fall in love with already has fallen in love with someone I respect / So now I’m an altruist / Oh fuck, just this once can I root for the home team? I’m always the bee to kamikaze to save the precious queen.” Lemuria impresses throughout Living Room, a promising feat considering it’s both their longest release at seven songs, and their most prominent, being paired with Kind of Like Spitting.
Led by seemingly miserable and despondent frontman Ben Barnett, Kind of Like Spitting helped usher in emo’s popularity in the late `90s with stylistic and lyrical comparisons to Gainesville, Florida’s I Hate Myself. With an exasperated, slightly off-key singing voice, Barnett spends the greater part of his songs in vocal self-reflection, bouncing schizophrenically between optimism and pessimism in a futile search for clarity. Kind of Like Spitting’s half begins with the wrenching “Shallow Doses” in typical KOLS fashion: “Lay your hands on me / A tempo I can see / 24 ribs create a seam / No debate / If you’re the captain, regulate / Yes-men sway, tell me it’s OK.” While most of the songs are played in a slower, more indie-oriented fashion, the blistering “You I Seek” (actually a Thermals track, Barnett’s other band) pulls in punk elements coupled with wailing emo vocals. There are also some surprisingly positive lyrics on Living Room. On “Team Reasonable,” Barnett closes with the lines, “As history moves on / I can only hope to learn and not repeat my wrongs / I cradle it closely / Something to be proud of in the end.”
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Drive By Argument - Drive By Argument (2008)
This is starting to become one of my favorite albums of 2008. Not because it breaks any new ground but mainly because it really is such a catchy album and great to just have on at any given time. If you havent heard of this band or gotten this album, please do so now.
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From This Is Fake DIY
--- Quote ---Despite not being entirely original, either in their formation or in their style, the enthusiasm that they bring to the table manages to shine through in an unashamedly bouncy, frothy melding of influences. While their much vaunted 'four-to-the-floor happy hardcore' is hardly a brand-spanking new innovation (step forward Enter Shikari, or even The Prodigy), their splicing of electronica and punk-pop reaps rich rewards. The thrilling pulse of the synthesisers on 'Dance Like No-One's Watching You' drop-kicks the rest of the song into life, and former single 'Sex Lines are Expensive Comedy' is catchier than ebola. Meanwhile, 'The Fish Star Fish Eye' is an inverted love song that collapses in a wailing squall of electronic despair; by contrast, 'We Techno Prisoners' is the album's poppiest moment, with the kind of nagging guitar hook that would feel right at home on a Kylie album.
Despite lead singer Stoke sounding like the biologically-improbable son of Luke Pritchard from The Kooks and Brendon Urie from Panic At The Disco, the band as a whole manages to escape the constraints of flaccid indie-pop of the former and the forced eclecticism of the latter. While their debut may not have entirely escaped the received musical approach of their background, it could give a lot of other bands an education.
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ALoveSupreme:
I will finally contribute.
This is my favorite songwriter from the town I currently live in (DeKalb, IL), Andy Hearld. The project is called Icarus Syndrome. These are two of his albums.
Tremepelau Side A
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Foggy Night (unfortunately I could never acquire the track titles for this album)
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It's sort of intentionally poorly recorded stuff with occasional full band work (accompanied by various dekalb musicians who are notable in their own right). I guess I can't really describe it. Off Side A, if you listen to Continental Breakfast you will be hooked, I'm pretty sure. Off Foggy Night, "track 8" is probably one of the best pop songs I've ever heard.
oh, and thanks for posting those Arms and Sleepers and KoLS/Lemuria albums. Awesome stuff.
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